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Vaccine mandates by clogging international bridges. >> i just kind of want everybody there to just hear what we're saying. >> reporter: it's the latest choke point in the nation's supply chain crisis. nbc's cal perry in michigan. >> because of the protests, commercial traffic is being rerouted here to port huron. even though it's only 65 miles from detroit, the reality is once drivers reach this point, they're faced with at times up to a five-hour wait just to cross the border. >> what they're doing here with the bridges isn't right. they're hurting their own people, which is the truck drivers...

B about half off what l.a. does. this couow important it is. so this could send the economy spinning. so i mean, can it always wasa' america's biggest trade partner. of coursewe b we are their biggt trade partner. i mean, the economic consequences for the government at some point are going to show up really obviously are they not? really quickly, you see plantsla shutting down. i mean, canada gets a lot ofa its meatlo and dairy and its perishables from the united states. so when you're talkingited three hundred and fifty million dollars a day going over one bridge, these guys up in canada figu...

About half of what l.a. does. that's how important it is. this could send the economy spinning. >> tucker: so -- i mean, canada always was america's biggest trade partner, of course we are their biggest trade partner. i mean, the economic consequences for the government at some point are going to show up really obviously, are they not? >> really quickly. you see plants shutting down. canada gets a lot of its meat and its dairy and its perishables from the united states, so when you're talking $350 million a day going over one bridge, these guys up in canada figured out where the choke point is...

Risk to the united states, if we should not advice them on how to deal with it, what is the risk to the united states in having this happen and the threat to have it happen here at home as well? >> i think there are two main risks. the first risk is economic right now. with the ambassador bridge being completely blocked or partially blocked, everybody should know canada is our largest trading partner in the world, and 25% or more of merchandise that goes between the two countries goes on that bridge right there, and just a few people can block that bridge with the trucks, and that's a choke po...

Unethical because it was fired into the civilian population. all we know right now from the people on the ground is that there are dozens and dozens of casualties and that includes people who are dead again because the rocket fire came right into the civilian population. you mention the convoy coming down from the belarus border heading in the direction of the capital city of kyiv. 40 miles long. complete with every tree, complete with weapons. on the other side of the border, satellite imagery shows there's new units with attack helicopters, additional infantry that's been brought in to suppo...