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Is to take care of the injured by completing a thorough search and rescue effort. in corporation with many of the area's emergency medical service personnel. we have continued this through the night and anticipate this effort will be going on for the next couple days. other cities and communities have stepped forward to help joplin during our time of distress. we have approximately 40 agencies helping with our public safety issues as well as our infrastructure needs. many public works crews have traveled to joplin to provide assistance with road clearance and other major needs. there are appro...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> that's right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state of emergency this morning. >> to make matters worse the city's main hospital st. john's medical cent...

About? >> i think it's a great idea. we ought to be using our bonding power. you know, dylan, it's interesting. only the federal government doesn't have a capital budget. every state, every county, every city has a capital budget where we go out and bond for our infrastructure needs. but the federal government doesn't. and to develop those bonds and use as an income stream for those bonds, bringing that money back from abroad, it's a great idea. even the little thing that the obama administration did in stimulus, the building america bonds, which paid for about 33% of a state's debt service, t...

Infrastructure needs. >> but we have to borrow it to spend the money that creates the jobs and gets money coming in you have to borrow it before you can spend it, right? >>guest: the government has to invest money to create jobs but we have the wrong part of the equation we are talking only cutting not that there is a drag on the economy. we should be investing but with this promise, that is a good place to invest so we can create jobs and purpose the economy and get it moving. >>shepard: why didn't it work with the surplus program, $800 million or $900 million. >>guest: only a protection was ...

Hill. congressman, good to see you today. tell me a little bit, specifically the issues you're hoping to tackle. >> well, we've got a tremendous amount of interest in this year's border conference. the conference was started 14 years ago so that we could bring information to capitol hill about the needs of border communities like the one i represent. this year in particular, we want to focus on, of course, the progress that has been made in helping mexico take on the cartels. we want to focus on infrastructure needs. we also want to focus on the odds for comprehensive immigration reform. >> i ...