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Sure fewer people do you i if terrorist attacks that we know come is having an infrastructure that knows how to withstand that withstand even you know nature like from sandy and other katrina. >> there are lots of things you can't prevent. it turns out resilience the ability to absorb and bounce back is one of the more characteristics of a successful society. i don't care whether you talk about the tornadoes earlier this week or terrorism. it's everything from your electricity grid or your travel infrastructure medical, what have you. >> that is something again we are not modernizing and not i...

Foreign reels, adds some meat to those bones on the embarrassment, united states pays 2% every year on infrastructure. china %. india 8%. we were ranked fifth ten years ago in infrastructure. now we are ranked 24th behind countries like barbados malaysia and oman and of course this morning we are talking about safety. we are talking about people who lost their lives because of our third world infrastructure but there also has a lot to do with money. $4 billion wasted with people stuck in traffic. and we just saw a report from richard haase that in the next few years, we will lose up to 1% of a...

Didn't know actually where we were from our trip. and that's when i shot that video of passengers trying to get the door opened which they finally did. >> janell we know you are in between lots of different live shots. we'd love tough back in with us with this story. >> stay with us for a minute. we want to thank the general. general thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you sir. >> we greatly appreciate it. what's next? >> well first thing is us worrying about the victims in this train crash in philadelphia. our hearts go out to them. >> it's unbelievable. so many of us ride this trai...

So i bet there is a large percentage of people watching our show who has been on this track. as you said this is not asela. this is the original train for the northeast corridor. they do feel when you get on the regional one they feel old. inside and outside they look old. >> i mean. >> i remember watching a requested mad men" episode three, four years ago. they are all getting on this train. it's supposed to be ret. >> reporter: my god, it looks regional. >> they didn't have -- but at the same time though it's everything combined in our infrastructure. america's infrastructure. it is. everyth...

To talk to you ability. i want to first talk about infrastructure, infrastructure investment. we talked about it on the show for five seven years, we shine and other competitors are doubling down, tripling down on theirs. it is i said it was the arteries of our economy and they are corroding and what do you see if terms of lost revenue, lost opportunity, because we failed to make the investment? >> 100% right. it's billions of lost revenue every year our competitiveness suffers. and this is if there ever was a no-brainer this ought to be it. you can do it with very little public money. most of...