strongly these issues. that s why he does seem to be a better voice for this period where basically people are making a sense with all the money they are creating. how we make that into a better world. giving tuesday is in that spirit. we want to make a turn now. we ll be joined by governor andrew cuomo of new york. he s here with an update on yesterday s deadly train derailment. governor cuomo can you give us the latest on the situation there and big picture state of metro north, the state of the tracks going in and out of new york city, what are your thoughts this morning and what needs to be done? good morning, mika. well, we re putting the trains back on track literally, the trains that were off track are being put on track. the ntsb has started an investigation last night. they recovered what s called the black boxes from the trains, the way there s a black box in an airplane, the train will have a black box which gives data on
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transportation in the world. we got off-ramps to nowhere within west virginia. we have bridges to nowhere in alaska. this has nothing to do with more money. this has something to do with the federal government not being able to handle this any more than they can hand all website. i think it has to do with both. you re completely right. there are bridges to nowhere, off-ramps to nowhere. but the overarching picture is we ve cut spending on infrastructure roughly in half. cut spending, cut the increase on spending. let s not play with words. let me finish my sentence. we cut spending on infrastructure as a percent of gdp which in my view is the right way to measure. how much of your resource do you spend on infrastructure. you cut it in half. if you look at the budget proposals frankly coming from the republicans they would cut
the shovel ready thing was questionable because i saw parts of the northeast just a lot of repaved roads not new project, not transformational projects. it got people to work but it didn t change any of the elemental stuff that we need fixed. look, brian, i don t disagree with that. we followed the law. the law said spend the money in two years. get the money out the door. put people to work. so we used our good partnerships with governors and others to fix up some roads and fix up some bridges, and, you know, really do what we could and people were put to work over that two year period. should it have been more money? of course. rather than 48 billion it should have been 480 billion. every member of congress said that later on when they figured it out that it just wasn t enough money. but if you look at states that have made the commitment and passed referendums, the people are way ahead of the politicians
turned violent in the capital city of santiago. blocked roads and threw rocks. riot police fought back with tear gas. one officer died while trying to stop looting. that s a rap on this talks trip around the world in 80 around the world in 80 seconds. that teacher strike that might last a couple days in chicago finished up day three. left 400,000 kids with no place to go. according to official with teacher s union there. there is still a ton of work, and that s a quote to be done at the negotiating table. teachers on the picket line say that their biggest concerns are new performance valuation system. and the process used to decide which laid off teachers can be re-hired. they say this isn t about money. not anymore. we should note chicago public school teachers are among the highest in the country with average salaries $70,000,