sure fewer people do you i if terrorist attacks that we know come is having an infrastructure that knows how to withstand that withstand even you know nature like from sandy and other katrina. there are lots of things you can t prevent. it turns out resilience the ability to absorb and bounce back is one of the more characteristics of a successful society. i don t care whether you talk about the tornadoes earlier this week or terrorism. it s everything from your electricity grid or your travel infrastructure medical, what have you. that is something again we are not modernizing and not investing. steve radner brings charts you bring report cards? who are you grading and why? we set off a global think tanks. a council of councils we have graded the world on dealing with the global challenges of the day, stopping internal conflicts, dealing with climate,
foreign reels, adds some meat to those bones on the embarrassment, united states pays 2% every year on infrastructure. china %. india 8%. we were ranked fifth ten years ago in infrastructure. now we are ranked 24th behind countries like barbados malaysia and oman and of course this morning we are talking about safety. we are talking about people who lost their lives because of our third world infrastructure but there also has a lot to do with money. $4 billion wasted with people stuck in traffic. and we just saw a report from richard haase that in the next few years, we will lose up to 1% of america s gross domestic product based on our shortcomeings and infrastructure. this is aest safety issue. this is a money issue, too. it s a safety issue. it s economic competitiveness issue. there is no question joe, we re
didn t know actually where we were from our trip. and that s when i shot that video of passengers trying to get the door opened which they finally did. janell we know you are in between lots of different live shots. we d love tough back in with us with this story. stay with us for a minute. we want to thank the general. general thank you so much for being with us. thank you sir. we greatly appreciate it. what s next? well first thing is us worrying about the victims in this train crash in philadelphia. our hearts go out to them. it s unbelievable. so many of us ride this train. willie and i were talking about infrastructure earlier, felt like these trains are not up to par to an extent. looking into the cause of this and what happened and why will be fascinating, especially in terms of the big picture and our infrastructure. we appreciate you coming in. it s a great honor. coming up other lawmakers are weighing in the war of
so i bet there is a large percentage of people watching our show who has been on this track. as you said this is not asela. this is the original train for the northeast corridor. they do feel when you get on the regional one they feel old. inside and outside they look old. i mean. i remember watching a requested mad men episode three, four years ago. they are all getting on this train. it s supposed to be ret. reporter: my god, it looks regional. they didn t have but at the same time though it s everything combined in our infrastructure. america s infrastructure. it is. everything combined to avoid accidents. we don t do trains well in this country and we need to. meanwhile, they re still figuring out how many people are injured. home people died. there are people in critical condition. let s go to the scene. rehema ellis is live in philadelphia in the latest investigation that caused a
pig headed and not whethering to invest. we should be investing in our infrastructure. it s also a great use of the middle class jobs the politicians talk about all the time t. bottom line is how many tragedies do we have to go to. what will happen for two weeks people will say we have to do something about our infrastructure and move on. so what happened with the stimulus bill did we spend money? we spent a lot of money on the stimulus package him did that go towards infrastructure any of it? not enough. barbara boxer who don t agree today is wednesday, both agree that more of the stimulus bill should have been dedicated to infrastructure. it was about $70 billion. there were $350 billion of tax cuts as far as i can tell cut almost no republican votes. it was put into a track republican votes. it didn t do a whole lot of.