the overall condition of the 52-year-old structure was listed as poor during its last inspection in september. i walked under it all the time and saw the rust and decay, and that s pretty typical in pittsburgh. the collapse came just hours before president biden visited $1.2 trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure law. the president, seeing the destruction firsthand, vowing to fix all the bridges, promising gigantic change. we got to move. the next time, we don t need headlines saying that someone was killed when the next bridge collapses. reporter: david, federal investigators with the ntsb just arrived on the scene to help pinpoint the cause of the collapse, and david, officials have also run heavy equipment to remove the wreckage, that process could take several days. david? we re just glad everyone survived this. elwyn lopez in pittsburgh. thank you, elwyn. as we reported at the top, there s news coming in involving
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transportation, pete buttigieg. nice to see you again, mr. secretary. good evening, reverend. thank you for having me on. good to see you. i know that you want to get into what your department is doing on equity and we will. but i have to begin by looking into what happened in pittsburgh just two days ago. a bridge collapsing, injuring ten people, literally hours ahead of president biden s visit to the city to tout the infrastructure framework. as you know, a scene the president talked about with the administration plans to do about our deteriorated public works in pittsburgh. and elsewhere, for our audience who missed it, take listen. they re going to fix them all. not a joke. this will be a gigantic change. 43,000 nationwide. now, i appreciate the president for always being so succinct, but that last part
eight-year high. reliance on oil at a 16-year low. it sounds good. this has an impact on everything from how we fill up at the pump to foreign policy questions. how we interact with the entire middle east. this is a gigantic change, isn t it? it is a gigantic change. look. there are a lot of form of energy out there but we re still relying on oil more domestically, not where most americans would like to be in terms of that ratio. you re right. it has implications for foreign policy. so i don t think we re going to see the end of american reliance on oil any time soon. you know, one of the energy issues, jonathan, that president obama has really done his best not to deal with head on because of the political sensitivities is this key stone pipeline. i know he got an earful from republicans this week who have been urging all along for him to approve this and get it going. he has seen maybe this week to
1934, whenever it was, it passed the senate about 75 votes to five or six. we only had 96 senators then. if you re going to make an enormous change that is so gigantic as this one, that they re proposing in this government-run health care system, it needs to have the kind of support that the social security system had. it can t be driven down the country s throat on a narrow, partisan party line vote, if enduring gigantic change, and this certainly would be gigantic has to be done on a bipartisan basis, otherwise the american people will rebel against it. it would be peculiar for the country but it would be great for the republicans. jane: thank you, governor of mississippi, haley barbour, thank you. jon: as jane just mentioned
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