businesses look at this underwater and completely destroyed. rescue crews are still looking for people who are trapped in their homes. survivors now trying to figure out their next steps. this is crazy. yeah. i ain t never seen it in all my years live anything trenton, i ain t never seen anything like this. this is, it s as bad as i ve ever seen it, i ve been around here for 25 years. we didn t have time to get anything. this is my only outfit i got. it was that quick? it was that quick. people can t get to work, can t get back from where they re at. it s too much for me. i can t believe it. my house for 22 years is gone. megyn: can you imagine? rick leventhal is live in little falls, new jersey. rick, your heart goes out to those folks. it s easy, you know, to just talk about it in the abstract, but when you actually see the people who are suffering, it s far from easy. reporter: yeah. and conditions have deteriorated rapidly over the last 24 hours, m
are airlifting food, water and supplies to towns in vermont that are cut off by flooding at this hour. small communities in new york s cat skill mountains are now seeing some of the worst of irene s aftermath. take a look at this video from the town of fleischmann, new york. look at this. folks left with very little. entire communities have literally been washed out. main bridges and roads have been wiped out as well, and further south in little falls, new jersey, not much better. look at this. hold on. thousands of homes and businesses look at this underwater and completely destroyed. rescue crews are still looking for people who are trapped in their homes. survivors now trying to figure out their next steps. this is crazy. yeah. i ain t never seen it in all my years live anything trenton, i ain t never seen anything like this. this is, it s as bad as i ve ever seen it, i ve been around here for 25 years. we didn t have time to get anything. this is my only out
just didn t get there. but there are very powerful special interests working morning, noon and night, full page ads, intimidation, contributions, all kinds of stuff going on. this is the realm of everyone likes service, no one wants to pay for it. this was specifically for education. it was not for our city budget. so we either want to have a good education system or we don t and i don t think that the industry was going to fall apart becaused on this particular proposal. the city, the state and the country will fall apart if we don t invest in education. so that s what i m concerned about at this point in time. is there a lesson in that effort? i suspect once we start moving here in washington on closing the mortgage interest deduction, cadillac health plans, etc., you re going to see the same kind of thing on a bigger, broader scale. every program has an interest and every program has a special interest. people like change as long as it doesn t affect them. the moment y
we are looking at a fort bliss military construction project that has been completed this year that would take one of the bct s that was designated to come back from germany. it is prepared and ready for taking that bct from germany. the department changed the previous decision that we would fromg back two bct s germany to say we re not sure yeah. you have the milcom to take one bct back and on the five-year plan for military construction, there is $1 billion to be done in germany. germany contributed 7% of the cost of our milcon as compared with japan that contributes 40%. i would just ask you as you are leaving in your last two weeks if you can give serious consideration to the fact that we do not get an effort from germany. $1 billion of military construction for changing army headquarters and bases, couldn t that money be saved rather than sitting duck out of personnel or health care or save rather than out of personnel or health care or systems that were modernized for
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