Year. The last longterm bill we passed with safetealu in 2005. That was 10 years ago and that bill was underfunded because of the resistance of raising the gasoline tax or identifying new revenue sources. For over a decade we have failed to address the funding challenges necessary to break the cycle of underinvestment and put this country back on a competitive path with the rest of the world. Today we spend about 1. 7 of g. D. P. On infrastructure while china spends 9 , europe 4. 5 to 5 . We used to spend 4. 5 to 5 also. There is a 800 million backlog. Public transit has an 6 billion backlog of critical maintenance and repair needs which increased by 2. 5 billion each year as bus and Rail Infrastructure ages. While infrastructure crumbles around us, we dont fill the gap in the Highway Trust Fund just to do a longterm bill at current levels. But this week they will put on the floor a tax extenders that will cost 182 billion over 10 years completely unpaid for. Im concerned that we will
And for independencets 202 6280205. Lots of issues in the news to talk about including the unrest in ferguson. The fallout from the fraternity at the university of oklahoma. Hillary clintons personal email use. The letters sent by republican senators to the leaders of iran. What are you interested in this week . On the ferguson issue the front page of the usa today, how to fix ferguson is the headline. The Washington Times has the same photo. This is what the st. Louis postdispatch is writing about. Here is their headline. The ambush is still fresh. In a spot yards from where two Police Officers were shot hours earlier, the shootings escalated and already jittery city. It was an issue that the president addressed. This is what the president had to say. What has been happening in ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and was worthy of protest. There was no excuse for criminal acts. Whoever fired though shots that should not detract from the issue, they should be arrested. What we ne
Do any members of this fab five have the potential to break out of this top 10 . Al im tempted to say marco rubio, but six months ago, i declared he was dead. Im not sure i want to make a prediction now. This is the most wideopen unpredictable race we have ever seen. Tread very lightly on any predictions. A mistake and an intervening event will all determine who might break out, and it may take a while. Mark we all had the same reaction to this poll. Theres a geewhiz quality to a fiveway tie for first, but its not just a tie, but the front runners are at 10, a level of support where one bad day could put one guy down to five, and a good day could put them in the lead. Al yeah, it could, and this is not the kind of poll that discourages George Pataki or anyone else from getting in this race. No one they all barely break double figures. You not going to say you do not want to get in this race because youre not going to win. If you start at one, you only have to get 10 more. Mark most of
Reporter gretchen this is the slow and steady storm. Not a very dramatic one. It did make landfall in the coast of texas over an hour ago. The gust of wind more than 50 Miles Per Hour and thats still in the Tropical Storm range. The real threat here is going to be from the range. Its slow and steady and regular rain in a region really which has gotten a ton of rain over the last month. More than 30 people were killed last month in the riejegion from flash flooding. They even posted high water rescue teams around the city to try and make sure that tstory doesnt repeat itself this time around gretchen. Okay. So a lot of people are told sometimes to evacuate to get out of the way of the storms. Have there been evacuations with this storm . Reporter in the really predawn hours, especially in the coast, there have been voluntary evacuations but most people here trying to stay put. And 87 were flooded over. Here in this major city people were really staying off the highways and getting more
Fugitives left piles of evidence outside of the cabin hideout. We are live from new york with more on the killers includes. Good clues. This is a rural rusted community that this time of year would be preparing for summer vacationers now it is a community under siege. You can see some of the Corrections Officers with a checkpoint in owls head. In the last 24hours it has been inundated with police after it is reported they were in a hunting cabin. This cabin owned by Corrections Officers. Authorities used dna to link the fugitives to the site inside the cabin. They found underwear and socks as well as partially eaten Peanut Butter and a jug of water. There are now more than 1,000 searchers on the ground including forest rangers, department of corrections fbi, u. S. Marshals u. S. Border protection and county sheriff. The police are asking residents to supportreport any suspicious activity. Law enforcement is maintaining a strong and physical presence in this region and that will continu