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We talk about all kinds of infrastructure problems. bridges collapsing. today we talk about education. what's next? >> well, that's exactly right. maybe this will finally get people's attention. this, of course, is the home of the 82nd airborne historic fighting force. and those five days that kids are going to be out of school is just between now and october. in fact, it's when the school year starts in late august and in october. if the sequester remains in place which is what republican colleagues are calling for, you're going to see a lot more days when the children of our servicemen and w...

The problem with the deficit is that we need to bring it down over the next ten years to 15 years. what's imperative at the moment is to get the economy out of the recession, and the reason it is still in recession is that we don't have enough spending. as we talked about before, the investors won't spend on investment. they've already got more capacity than they need. consumers are still worried, they're not spending. government is the only actor on the scene with capacity to spend. and it has so many essential things it should be doing. roads are worn out, bridges collapsing, dikes about to ...

That we need to bring it down over the next ten years to 15 years. what's imperative at the moment is to get the economy out of the recession, and the reason it is still in recession is that we don't have enough spending. as we talked about before, the investors won't spend on investment. they've already got more capacity than they need. consumers are still worried, they're not spending. government is the only actor on the scene with capacity to spend. and it has so many essential things it should be doing. roads are worn out, bridges collapsing, dikes about to collapse that will in undate cit...

South. chile is extremely modern and narrow country but has one artery that holds it all together and with all these bridges collapsing, getting down to places like concepcion and other areas where the damage is horrible, basically cut off right now. there is still no phone service there, no internet. so in a lot of ways, the people don't know the extent of the damage yet and unfortunately, i think it's going to get a lot worse in terms of the death toll as it climbs. this is going to get ugly. >> when we started our show an hour and six minutes ago, the death toll was 147. already it's climbe...