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It has been slow to arrive, but high speed rail could be coming North Atlantic Rail The North Atlantic Rail project will include a tunnel under Long Island Sound through New Haven to Hartford, create a new line from Hartford to Providence, RI (½ hour travel time), and connect multiple mid-sized cities, including new service from Springfield, MA to Brattleboro, VT & Keene, NH. It would also include extended new service from Danbury, CT to Pittsfield, MA. In 2016, federal officials unveiled a plan for high-speed rail along the Northeast Corridor that included a 50-mile passage from Old Saybroo...

Survive. >> they want to get all these environment projects done in ten years and it's impossible. you lose jobs and lose wages. >> reporter: more concerns about the party from voters like paul. >> they're more liberal. they're attempting to be socialists. >> reporter: there are plenty of countries across the country like lucern that went from blue to red during the last presidential election. trump won michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania by less than 80,000 votes. former pennsylvania governor and national democratic chairman ed rendel says that his party hopes to win back white working class...

Under control, sure we do, but that's an issue for another day and an important issue. >> governor ed rendel, thanks for joining us on this labor day, we appreciate it. thinking about the residents of your city right now, search a lot of people having to sort of take stock of everything they have lost and rebuild their lives really, how are recovery efforts going so far in your area? >> you get into some of the smaller towns that were harder hit, like port aransass, rock port, there's still a lot of brush and debris, everybody's belongings whose house has been destroyed are piled up on the str...

Rendel. the congressman wants to vote on raising the nation's debt limit. do you think that's a good move here? >> my complaint with some disaster relief bills in the past, is they tack other stuff on. let's have the disaster bill go through, i think it will overwhelmingly pass on a bipartisan basis, then we can deal with the political issues later in the week or next week. >> let's talk about some of the other things that are on congress's plate right now that they need to do or get done next month. keeping federal agencies open. is there a possibility that the government could shut down afte...