we ve allowed it to happen. we ve gone backwards. we re apparently okay with it. many trains used to crack 100 miles an hour with regularity back in the 1930s. well, today our high-speed line on the east coast, the acela, averages 87 miles an hour. much of the world from spain to france to china is zooming down the rails while we regress. we travel back in time. then there s hartsfield airport in atlanta, the world s busiest, when they have electric power. they did not yesterday, thanks to an underground fire that also toasted the backup line. and as a result over 1500 flights were canceled along with all the holiday hopes and dreams of tens of thousands of air passengers idled. there s speculation tonight a power line was gnawed on by a rat. and if that s true, if something with whiskers and a stale can take down hartsfield, imagine what a determined hacker from
france to china is zooming down the rails while we regress. we travel back in time. then there s hartsfield airport in atlanta, the world s busiest, when they have electric power. they did not yesterday, thanks to an underground fire that also toasted the backup line. and as a result over 1500 flights were canceled along with all the holiday hopes and dreams of tens of thousands of air passengers idled. there s speculation tonight a power line was gnawed on by a rat. and if that s true, if something with whiskers and a stale can take down hartsfield, imagine what a determined hacker from north korea can do. all of this goes by the decidedly unsexy and clunky washington label of infrastructure spending. put another way, we get to spend our money on new stuff if we decide we want it. we then leave to washington to decide how to spend it and what could go wrong there.
transportation in this country. we ve allowed it to happen. we ve gone backwards. we re apparently okay with it. many trains used to crack 100 miles an hour with regularity back in the 1930s. well, today our high-speed line on the east coast, the acela, averages 87 miles an hour. much of the world from spain to france to china is zooming down the rails while we regress. we travel back in time. then there s hartsfield airport in atlanta, the world s busiest, when they have electric power. they did not yesterday, thanks to an underground fire that also toasted the backup line. and as a result over 1500 flights were canceled along with all the holiday hopes and dreams of tens of thousands of air passengers idled. there s speculation tonight a power line was gnawed on by a rat. and if that s true, if something with whiskers and a stale can take down hartsfield, imagine what a determined hacker from
well, georgia power has released photographs that show us the kind of tunnels and saying here s the very tight space where the fire occurred and it s where the backup line runs so you have the primary and backup line running very close together and the work space there, it took a long time to ventilate it to make it safe for the workers to get down there and make the repairs that were necessarily. all of this is apparently a way to try to explain why the world s busiest airport became the biggest waiting room for 11 hours. that s what most people can t understand. 11 hours. no backup generators. right now people are having a positive attitude do the best they can. they re even spreading doughnuts amidst the delays to try to cheer people up. they ve got a good spirit. doughnut or a flight that you need to get on to get home. i would take both. i know you would. doughnuts make everything better as does martin savidge. thanks. so is an unresignation in
people were delayed. there was a lot of fear yesterday and that s what people talk about. the light gos go out for hours, great deal of confusion, no clear understanding as to why, people are stranded on aircraft for hours, others are trapped in various parts of the airport. smelling smoke and don t have a means of communication. that fire apparently started as a result of the some kind of problem with the electrical system and appears it was so intense in a confined space, utility crawl space, that it essentially took out the backup line. experts say when you have your primary and backup line that close together you really didn t have a backup line to begin with. the city has a lot of explaining to do on this. they re trying. they released photos. by now the biggest thing is to make sure they can get to where they need to be safely and securely and that is being done. but trying to iron this out, it s going to take days. because airplanes are out of place. crews need rest. i could g