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Will be back on. bret? >> bret: that's a big deal, mike. the power obviously and having covered hurricane katrina 16 years ago it's a much different deal with the levees right now so the big issue town there right now is power? >> the big issue is power. one of the things to look for, the pumps that drain the city of new orleans, those function storm pumps those function but the sewage pumps are dependent on the power grid. you can start to have a health emergency here if they don't get those things online and pumping soon. >> bret: we will follow that closely microphone bin in new orleans, th...

Off in the future, 5 tuesday a gallon. >> microphone bin there in chicago. >> to the congressman who wants to ease your pain at the pump by slashing the federal gas tax. but how would roads and bridges be paid for them? tom graves joinings now. sir, the current gas tax is 18.4 crepts a gallon and you want to cut that down. how would you fund highways and bridges at the federal level if you cut that tax back in. >> well, really, this is all about -- we're reauthorizing the transportation funding model so we need to rethink it. we need a 21st century solution to a 20th century problem. 1956 is w...