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Forecast to slam into florida's east coast over the holiday weekend as a major category 4 storm. let's dig deeper with our experts and our analysts. fema is warning it could wreak, david, all sorts of havoc on roads, power, all sorts of infrastructu infrastructure. i assume it was the right call to postpone the visit to poland. >> it was the right call. good for president trump to postpone this disaster. it's an opportunity, as he's had many of them, wolf, to demonstrate that he can make a situation, especially an emergency, about other people, americans in distress, and not in himself. that's...

1$100 million a day in lost productivity. chaos. people are tired of it and they want to see action. >> raising the gas tax triggers fear on both sides of the aisle. even it protects the bridge in cincinnati. this republican has been representing cincinnati for more than two decades. >> what is your perception of the bridge? >> well, it needs to be replaced. it is probably our most critical infrastructure need. but the local communities have to come together. that means the state of kentucky, the state of ohio and other local folks involved have to come to an agreement on a specialty funding. ...

>> we caught up with republican senator chuck grassley for his take on the partisan impasse. >> so often we hear so many of your colleagues pointing a finger at impeachment in particular saying this is whydo. democrats are obsessed with impeaching the president, they're obsessed with his connections to russia -- >> i think it's obvious. >> senator, infrastructure is something even president obama could not get done, so why infrastructure in particular has stymied both parties for so long? >> it's a much bigger issue now than it's ever been throughout the history, mostly highways and transporta...

Shoulder a hefty chunk of the cost, but that's not all. los angeles voters also agreed to fund infrastructure projects all across the county. we were at a transportation hearing, and you were there, and you guys were advocating going to the voters and saying, we want to give you a tax, we want to propose a tax to fund infrastructure. >> this isn't a tax. this is an investment. this will be 40 years and 787,000 jobs. >> permanent sales tax? -- a permanent sales tax. the funny thing about this when we polled it, the longer we said it lasted, the more people were willing to vote for it. which is ...

>> and that is the maddening cycle of congress. next to nothing gets done, even though everyone agrees our infrastructure is crumbling. >> but while we were reporting on this story, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope. on april 30th, democratic leaders emerged from a closed door meeting with the president and announced a $2 trillion infrastructure agreement. >> it's clear that both the white house and all of us want to get something done on infrastructure in a big and bold way. and there was good will in this meeting. >> the news seemed promising, but there were red flags. >> thank you very m...