temperature, but it is still very tense. dan de luce, thank you very much appreciate it. there are new details about that major highway collapse on interstate 595 and when authorities think the road will finally reopen we re in philadelphia next you re watching jose diaz-balart reports on msnbc. we carry that spirit with us. because you can take alfa romeo out of italy. but you best believe, you can t take the italy out of an alfa romeo. voltaren. the joy of movement.
when it s in a key swing state. have a look. while in pennsylvania, biden got a firsthand look at the damage, as well as the temporary structure workers are building at the site of that highway collapse in philadelphia. the president mentioned the highway s importance to transportation and commerce throughout the region. i know how important this stretch of highway is not just to philly, but to the entire northeast corridor. over 150,000 vehicles travel on it every day, including 14,000, 14,000 trucks. it s critical. it s critical to our economy and critical to our quality of life. we ll continue to do everything that we can within our power to get this back open as quickly and as easily as possible. the state hired a contractor to backfill the gap in the highway. this will get construction going again until a permanent reconstruction is finished. polo sandoval has the story. reporter: per the governor of
temporary structure workers are building at the site of that highway collapse in philadelphia. the demolition phase was completed on thursday. pennsylvania s governor echoed the president s praise for unions. i can tell you now, i can state with confidence that we will have i-95 reopened within the next two weeks. we are going to get traffic moving again, thanks to the extraordinary work that is going on here by these union trades workers. florida governor ron desantis took his campaign to nevada on saturday. another key state that any serious candidate has to try to win. speaking in a republican event near lake tahoe, desantis told voters among other things that he wants term limits for congress and to restore the line item veto. that presidential power was ruled unconstitutional some 25 years ago. in making his pitch for the presidency, he offered his grim view of the country under democrats. here he is.
rally in the next couple of hours. what else are we likely to hear from him today? well alex, it s interesting because this rally was already on the books, it had already been scheduled before we saw that highway collapse here in this very city. what it actually has served to do in a way is help underscore and highlight one of the issues, one of the accomplishments that has brought this president coalition of different labor unions that don t always play nicely with one another together to host this first big rally for the presidents reelection campaign. the president calls himself middle class joe, he also says that it is unions that built the middle class. this is really a perfect setting to get that message out about a key issue in the 2024 election which is going to be about the economy. we actually heard president biden this morning talk a little bit about the importance of this message. let s listen to that. i m excited about today. it s just like what we did last week in the