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Declare and keep responsibility. we will leave it there but please stay touch on the story. those of you watching in the uk will know all about rail services grinding to a halt today. around a0 thousand rail workers walked out in the first of a series of 48 hour strikes. around half of all rail lines were closed all day, with many places having no service at all, including most of scotland and wales. where trains have been running, they've generally finished for the day within the past hour or so. some people took to the roads instead. figures from the satnav firm tom tom indicate traffic cong...

The benefits that they tied to privatisation, sandwiches, etc, i think that's changed a little, but that's super fresh. the amount of money that has been taken out of rail ultimately hurts customers and workers. if you look at poll numbers, poll after poll, 85% of the public don't believe that rail services should be privatised, so i think it would want to come back, the erosion of rail services across the erosion of rail services across the country, i think we have to tackle the issue of profit and a natural monopoly. these corporations aren't putting anything into this, they are extracting f...

Well. but a car goes back and forth between these two countries, where different parts are made. that is the ambassador bridge, where there was that trucker strike protest thing last year which was just weird, that all took place on the ambassador bridge. it was this year, actually, it took place on the ambassador bridge. but it's one of the busiest border crossings on the entire continent, both in terms of volume and in terms of dollar value. so that is windsor, ontario you are looking at. lots of ships here to, this is one of the most interesting places in america, geographically the center ...

>> steve: the agreement could prevent a strike that would cost an estimated $2 billion per day. driving inflation even higher. our sister network fox business is live inside a rail yard in philadelphia where they have discontinued some of the long distance amtrak trains, because a lot of those rails behind you are owned by the companies that might have gone on strike tomorrow. >> they didn't want to get stranded, steve. a lot of the rail lines have been shut down for amtrak, particularly the long haul ones. but that is not the only preparations that have been taken place. you see behind me a h...

Involved in the last several days. there was a call into that room where they'd been facing off where the president called in at 9:00 and was pushing one of his big issues, what you raised, over the leave that individuals were asking for where they wouldn't be punished if they needed to take time off for some form of medical leave. that was something that had frustrated the president. he said these folks -- the rail lines are the backbone of america but so are these tens of thousands of employees who keep them going. the white house recognized this would have been in their lap had there been a...