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Though work is underway to improve and expand the concourse tunnel, the rail tunnel between new york and new jersey is in desperate shape. it was completed in 1910. and while crews have been patching it for years, it really needs a major overhaul. approximately 200,000 passengers travel through this tunnel every day. if there is a catastrophic failure, the death toll could be significant. >> we're going from new jersey to new york. >> these engineers at amtrak are taking me on a guided tour of what's considered to be one of the most pressing infrastructure problems in the u.s. >> if you look u...

Watch this real quick, chris. >> so, right now we're going from new jersey into new york city. that's the direction we're going. >> correct, yes. >> reporter: sal rendino and mike are engineers at amtrak, taking me on a guided tour of what's considered to be one of the most pressing infrastructure problems in the u.s. >> if you look up, you see all the ice? that's all the water. >> all the water leaks. >> so, all that ice is coming down from the road? >> yeah, that's from the road because we're not under the river yet, but that's kind of what happens, when you have water infiltrating. >> how d...

Great example of that. so yes. but the problem is we have infrastructure problems, human infrastructure problems in this country right now and uncertainty and uncertain times breed extremism. >> stephanie, you know, this used to look easy. it used to be a burning cross, a white hood. it's not that simple anymore. it's people who look like us who go to work every day. these attitudes aren't as easy to pick out. it's the casual racism, frankly, that we hear the president speak of on his twitter feed every day that we're experiencing. >> then counter it with more love, more compassion, and caring...

So we produced the democratic task force report that talked about the critical infrastructure problems we were having. we produced our report. generated legislation. and many of the recommendations that we put in that report ultimately came out in our legislation. we have to put investment in our election system. we have to coordinate with secretaries of state to make sure that their systems are as best we can have in terms of he can tamperproof. we came up with legislation and passed it. now it's up to the senate to do its work. at some point the white house had to get beyond its denial that ...

Search of the infrastructure, both from the air and on the ground, and they say that they see no major infrastructure problems. that is according to the los angeles fire department. also if you are headed towards ridgecrest, there are about 30,000 people who live here. let's zoom in a little bit closer. there's a state road that runs east and west through ridgecrest. there is currently a rock slide that has occurred on route 78. so they have closed that down. so if you've got relatives, friends, extended family that live in this vicinity, one, everybody is trying to do their job here, it's pro...