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Will dry up unless congress acts quickly. >> reporter: this summer millions of americans hitting the roads will cross bridges and roadways in dire need of improvements and repairs. getting to your destination likely won't be easy. expect traffic jams because decades old bridges and roads weren't built to handle today's traffic. >> if congress doesn't act by the end of the summer, the highway trust fund will run out. >> reporter: the transportation fiscal cliff. a federal fund used to repair america's crumbling infrastructures just weeks away from going bankrupt. a potential crisis for commuter...

Likely won't be easy. expect traffic jams because decades-old bridges and roads weren't built to handle today's traffic. >> if this congress does not act by the end of the summer, the highway trust fund will run out. >> reporter: dubbed the transportation fiscal cliff, a federal fund used to repair america's crumbling infrastructures weeks away from going bankrupt. a potential crisis for commuters, considering the american society of civil engineers gives u.s. naufr a d plus, and one in nine of the nation's bridges are structurally deficient. look no further than delaware, for what the impact ...

Deficient. look no further than delaware for what the impact could look like. an emergency shutdown of the critical i-495 bridge. the problem? cracks and leaning support columns. old underground pipes breaking in cities across the country causing major flooding. the president and transportation secretary anthony fox say failure to fund repairs and improvements will cost americans in more ways than one. how many jobs potentially at stake here? >> so we're estimated 700,000 jobs at risk. >> reporter: in 2011, commuters wasted $ 2.9 billion gallons of gas just sitting in traffic, costing the aver...