noble beast being called a rodent. punxsutawney phil is no rodent. >> you stand corrected. >> to answer your question, the american infrastructure ten years ago was ranked first in the world, best in the world by the world economic forum. we're now 16th. our air transport infrastructure is 22nd best in the world. our ports our rails, our roads are in terrible condition. and it's for a simple reason. we're not willing to invest in revitalizing our infrastructure and bringing it up to even satisfactory levels. and weather like we've been having, especially in the cold weather state, wreaks havoc on the capital budget of states because the more snow, the more ice, the more salt, it just beats the living daylights out of roads and emphasizes the facts that we have a crumbling infrastructure. >> would weather have less of an impact on this infrastructure if it was modernized? and what would the impact of