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That's why the weigh ways and means committee and financial committee are working ing to e the current highway program for another six to 12 months. i believe that the house ways and means committee is acting as we speak and i expect next week this issue to be on the floor of the house. >> you said that you wanted to hear from the committee on what they're going to do on the [ inaudible ]. i wondered what the chairman may have told you about his plans. >> we had a nice discussion about that and other issues yesterday. nothing to report as of yet. >> you said whether he has a plan to -- >> you'...

What we would be doing is looking at the fact we have bridges literally collapsing. we have roads impassable. we have an infrastructure problem that in the eisenhower era would have been addressed by building a massive highway program that would give people jobs. >> i want to tie this into our next topic because here in the city of new orleans, unemployment is higher than expect. more than half of working age african-american men in this city were unemployed according to the most recent census. now, this is a dramatic increase in unemployment over the past 30 years. but we should point out ove...

The ku klux klan has found a new ally to help t join the adopt a highway program in north georgia. state officials say no way the aclu is jumping to the kkk's defense claiming a denial would be a violation of the first amendment. as you may have heard by now, the clan is one of the nation's influential white supremist group. anti-immigration, anti-gay, anti-anti. only a few members these days. a chapter called the keystone knights of the k.k.k. filed application to adopt a highway along route 515 in the north georgia mountains. the chief fox report correspondent jonathan hunt is with us tonigh...

Brian robinson the deputy chief of staff in the governor's office told us today, quote this is not a program to promote the visibility of groups that have been associated with discrimination and violence. this is a poor and accurate reflection on our state. this is not the image we want to project. prepare yourselves for quite the court fight. >> shepard: tough to beat the first amendment? what's the plan here? >> very tough to beat. what officials are likely to do is refer to the criteria for the adopt a highway program that have placed quite publicly on the department of transports web site....

what else is happening? >> reporter: absolutely. this is day one of this two-day election. people are lining up despite the awfully hot egyptian summer heat. they're here to cast their ballots. people tell us that they're still excited they have a choice in who will be the next president. it is not a right they had after decades of dictatorship in this country. there are two candidates they can pick from. one is a former air force general and the former prime minister are appointed by the former dictator. another is a candidate from the muslim brotherhood. and earlier today, we got a...