airport open. they can t get rid of it, even in time of so-called crisis. they are not trying to cut spending because the president is still trying to talk us into tax increases, once we convince them not raising taxes and then we focus on spending. we should focus on the stupid stuff but the big savings is making small changes over the next 30 years make significant savings in the entitlement program. john: and you have been an optimist about this. i m a pessimist. i m a long term optimist. i would say i m a long term optimist because i believe one of the ways out of this is by restraining spending to get the economy going again. eventually we will grow our way out of this and not spend our way out of this we hope. john: we certainly need growth to do it.
cheap flights to keep the airport open. they can t get rid of it, even in time of so-called crisis. they are not trying to cut spending because the president is still trying to talk us into tax increases, once we convince them not raising taxes and then we focus on spending. we should focus on the stupid stuff but the big savings is making small changes over the next 30 years make significant savings in the entitlement program. john: and you have been an optimist about this. i m a pessimist. i m a long term optimist. i would say i m a long term optimist because i believe one of the ways out of this is by restraining spending to get the economy going again. eventually we will grow our way out of this and not spend our way out of this we hope.
and backhoes but also with shovels. we have photos of some of our military personnel doing that. what is the biggest challenge remaining? now that you ve got that airport open, you can fly in a lot of heavy-lift capability, fly in a lot of other food and supplies, but what s the biggest challenge? they were able to indeed open that airport and we ve been able to fly in several tons of relief supplies. the challenge now is to get it back to where we can get commerce after flights in. that requires more of the radar the normal navigation aids and precision approach equipment and just clearing off the enormous amount of debris from cars to boats to trees that are still left on the airport proper before we can get that completely back up. but it will be much sooner than we ever imagined. jon: lieutenant general burton field, the u.s. commander of our forces there in japan, great work, congratulations to all your
rain. then another 40 miles to our west some locations up to 20 inches of snowfall. so st. louis very fortunate. it could have been worse. roadways, including parts of i-70 were closed from st. louis to kansas city. that is now open. the airport open also but 120 flights canceled so far and winds picking up later this a h afternoon, there would be more cancellations. we saw the front page of the st. louis post dispatch. that kind of says it all. the salt truck even on its side. did you see that this morning? i saw it. i ve heard people talking about it. they have been talking about it in the coffee shop. it s been a wild ride and still a long way to go for winter. just wondering what is maybe right around the corner. what is funny the brunt of this moving through chicago and next on the line is going to be parts of the northeast. boston especially may get hammered pretty hard. interesting to see the story how it unfolds up there. reynolds, thanks.
so details a little sketchy at the moment. this is clearly a major incident and moscow s main international airport. what is the situation if you can tell us, at the airport right now? is the airport open, closed? reporter: i m not clear, randi. i just came out of a meeting when this news broke. we are trying to gather what information we can. you can imagine the scenes of chaos taking place right now in an airport like domodedovo. it is moscow s international airport. it is very busy. people coming into russia, people leaving russia, this is the main gateway that opens russia to the rest of the world. a very high-profile target if, indeed, somebody did carry out what appears a bomb attack. if this was a suicide bomber, the interfax agency is reporting