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an iphone like you can now for $29. >> okay, is it that simple? >> not quite because insurance doesn't pay for the boob job jobs. that's the real problem, is insurance is in the health care market -- >> that's what i'm saying. >> if they covered plastic surgery, you would see all kinds of problems. although i'm not saying the government is helping the problem. so insurance creates a demand and creates use. getting back to the government. the government -- look, i'm more tired of the government than most of the panelists. they're not good at operating a business. the president is not a good computer programmer. the president is best at shifting money around. whether it's social security or whatever. setting the rules. basically doing what the free market's not going to do. once they have to operate something, once there is a government website, now you're going to have a problem. because in america, the government doesn't do stuff. the chinese government can build train systems around the country. we would have a dangerous train system if we tried to do that in
>> $4 trillion in public works projects right now just in bridges and tunnels that every other country in the world would love to be able to put people to work. why not propose it? why not propose $4 trillion? interest rates are real low. the government can borrow the lowest on earth. our country is the most solid country on earth. you're right. why don't we try it? back to my problem. the french which george w. with his limited i.q. made fun of the french all the time because they wouldn't back his stupid war. go to france. if you only get one vacation a month go watch the train systems. look at the channel. you're under the english channel for about 20 minutes. we got amtrak. it's the rickety old train. i love it because you get to relax for a couple hours but it is an old system. why can't we compete? >> we can compete. it was in the book bold endeavors every economic crisis this country ever faced was solved with one thing, building things. america needs to get back into the business of repairing and
to be able to put people to work. why not propose it? why not propose $4 trillion? interest rates are real low. the government can borrow the lowest on earth. our country is the most solvent country on earth. you're right. >> congressman israel, i'm going to go back to my problem. the french which george w. with his limited i.q. made fun of the french all the time because they wouldn't back him on his stupid war. go to france, if you only get one vacation a month, go watch the train systems over there. you're under the english channel about 20 minutes. what do we got? amtrak. it's like a buckboard. i said it last night. the rickyiest old trains in the world. i like it because you get to relax for a couple hours. but it is an old system. why can't we compete? >> we can. we can compete. reid felix wrote in "bold endeavors" every economic crisis this country has ever faced has been solved with one thing. building things. america needs to get back into the business of repairing and recovering. look, when the president of the united states tried to take us out of this new depression with the american recovery act, what did republicans do? they voted against it and did
across a bridge or tunnel. the city still figuring out how to fix the subway and train systems. many of the tunnels that carry the trains are still flooded. in fact, the one that goes for the path train over to new jersey, five miles long, completely filled, they tell us. but here in the city, fortunately mayor bloomberg says some relief is on the way. >> bus service will continue and to increased limited subway service may actually return tomorrow this certainly will not be service below 34th street in manhattan where there is no power and the mta workers are working extremely hard to get the water out of the tunnels and stations. >> it is a herculean task across the river in hoboken, new jersey things are not much better 20,000 people are still reportedly stranded there. some residents say they are furious with the mayor because of a lack of food and water. in fact, one guy told the associated press that he floated to city hall on an air mattress so he could give her a piece of his mind. "the fox report's" jonathan hunt is live for us across the
information on where he could be located and he is moving but that could be the biggest thing, altogether the information that we got from that compound. >>juliet: and a lot of folks including ambassador bolton concerned about all the information getting out from the papers and the computer disks, from the raid, and a lot of information getting out, and is this the information we want out there? one of the things we hear is there was an attack planned, in the works, how details, we dent know. but for 9/11, the 10th anniversary on trains. train systems in the city. do we want that information to get out? if we kept it back, would we have tailed some of the people and grab them? now they will change their tactics. >>clayton: good question. the train stations in the united states are wide open and he has
the enemies." this is confirmation that bin laden is dead from al qaeda itself and we expect a thorough readout of some of the initial intelligence coming off of the usama bin laden hard drive, later today, and some of that initial intelligence has shown that bin laden played a more direct operational role up until the end, with plans as we reported, to target washington and new york train systems, to mark the anniversary of 9/11, this year. and security is now tightened on those systems and we'll get an explanation about the means they used to identify bin laden at the scene. there were photographs taken, sent back to headquarters, for facial recognition, and we'll get explanation how that worked and there is also the dna, taken from his mother, and, we're told, three of his sons, the dna they have on him, they were able to do a very quick analysis and compared it and from what we are told had a 99.9% corroboration that the dna was his and that is dna, we don't know how they got
>>guest: yes, the highways and train systems went down and i have been toll the highways are opening up again. and and of the supplies are finally starting to get in but it is a slow trickle. >> and the other is because of the fears that this nuclear thing, they still do not have uncontrol, and you know better than i, tokyo electric says power could be returned soon and it will be under control but the folks are leery about returning, those that have evacuated; that true? >>guest: definitely. when you say "nuclear," western is really, really worried. from where my home is in fukushima a lot of people have left the area and gotten out of the area to go to tokyo or any other area outside of the effected area. >>neil: all right, be well, thank you for your insight in answering the rumors. when we come back, the japanese
i want to give you an idea of some of the infrastructure trouble that tokyo is going through. 12 hours after the quake, traffic remains at a standstill. it is very, very difficult to travel through tokyo. at 2:00 a.m., people are still trying to get home. this is a local road that i'm on. the highways are elevated up above, and i want to tilt, and i apologize for the picture quali quality, but it is difficult to see, but what you are looking at up there is an elevated highway. the highways here are elevated, so that the concern is that if you have a bunch of people up above these local roads, and then there is an aftershock, then those roads could then collapse on the roads below, and you create further problems. so because the highways are shutdown, the roads and the local roads are clogged. the train systems are still not
we appreciate the update from you. live picture we're looking at here at some of the chaos happening there, like he was mentioning. people are just trapped right now. they can't get anywhere. a lot of the train systems are shut down. but, again, he said the city itself is in pretty good shape. again, a live picture we're looking at here. for our viewers, we're at the bottom of the hour here. got an early start on this "american morning," but the story this morning is an 8.9 magnitude quake hitting off the coast of japan, shaking throughout the country, felt as far away as tokyo, some 230 miles away. now the danger is tsunami. tsunamis, waves of water starting to sweep through parts of that country and taking everything with it. you're seeing some of the pictures here. when an earthquake shakes the water like that, shakes on the sea floor, it's kind of like you're throwing a rock, a pebble into the water there, and it sends out a ripple effect. so these waves are shooted out
we were talking earlier about the subway system which is, if not the busiest in the world, one of the busiest subway systems in the world. have those been completely shut down? >> caller: as far as we know, most of the train systems are still shut down. they are checking the tracks as a precaution that there are no cracks in the tracks. people are stuck at the train station right now. >> they are stuck in the train stations. what about the subway stations? have you heard reports either through the local or the domestic network news system of reports of people stuck in the subway systems? >> caller: we haven't heard anyone being stuck inside a train so far. there's a train service. hopefully they were let out