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Messy progress that is democracy. we learned about wiv whisk gumptd, and the u.s. government and how amazing it was that they came together. we also realized it was bloody and we had to fight for it and make it hard to do deliberate things. you're supposed to be transparent because the public matters in all of this. then when we keep the meetings going and look at the bill, 144 pages, we found out there's $147 million of federal aid cut, and they said, we'll have to close the bus system, and when i have an honest amendment to carve that out, we show up here, and you're going to vote without us...

Hotbed of transportation issues. why did you guys accept the money? >> well, mass transit is important. as much in winter haven, florida, as it is in new york city and i lived in new york city at one time. i lived down in the village. mass transit is the way to get around there. winter haven being part of rural florida getting from one town to another is not particularly easy. so mass transit does matter and it will exist in the future. the reason i questioned this in all honesty, clayton, is we don't need to buy the biggest, most modern buses we can possibly find. we're trying to build a syst...

Traffic. what they're doing is they arranged a bus system on the one bridge that was open during this event so you can go back and forth making u-turns. a lot of mexicans come here to buy their groceries. as you can see, the sun is out, still the chance of locally heavy rain, but remember, tamron, this river on sunday, back on july 4th, was where it should be, three feet deep, not more than 40 feet deep. and it was only 50 yards wide. now it's a quarter of a mile wide. usually not more than a little trickle, now it's taken over property on both sides of the border. it will slowly go down but n...

D.c. plans may seem like a step back in time, but d.c. officials say it's not backward, it's the next generation in mass transit. >> the streetcar today is not the streetcar of your great, great grandparents. >> reporter: d.c. council member tommy wells is an ardent supporter of the plan. he says it will not only alleviate the growing congestion on public transportation in the district, but also help spur economic development in some of d.c.'s struggling neighborhoods. >> street cars really is the next generation of mass transit in that we have a world class subway system, but it's really for ...

With a sense of fear. a sense of caution. i would not feel, as if i have the liberty to be there because i'm vulnerable. i am vulnerable because of the way i look. >> councilman, critics of the boycott say, among many things, say light is going to hurt latinos in the state of airs involved in the hospitality industry if tourists stop coming? >> you know boycotts have worked in history. during the 60s. civil rights movement, boycott of the bus system of alabama we, had freedom riders go in and try to look at what was discriminatory and racist, in the south. and it took that type of participatio...