opening phase one, just the first phase of this project cost $4.5 billion. very expensive. this line will some day serviceman hat tan s entire east side. right now phase one just covering the upper east side. this is critical infrastructure, interesting time for the first phase completion as president-elect donald trump won the white house in part by selling a vision of american infrastructure first. mr. trump critical of billions of dollars going overseas, money that could be used to rebuild our failing roads and bridges, airports and trains. this is an area that the president-elect and some democrats appear to have a common goal as well. but the devil will be in the details here as to where money for this kind of spending would come from and how to prioritize which projects come first. new york city and much of the northeast needs a lot of attention with bridges deteriorating, antiquated highway systems, aging airports. not too long ago joe biden compared newark s laguardia
subway line days away from hoping phase one to the public. just the first phase of a project that cost $4.5 billion. this phase did. this line will someday service manhattan s entire east side. now phase one covers the upper east side. it s critical infrastructure. such an interesting time for this first phase completion as president-elect trump won the white house by selling the vision of american infrastructure first. mr. trump critical of billions of dollars going overseas. american dollars that could be usesed to rebuild our failing roads, bridges, airports, and trains. this is an area that the president-elect and some democrats appear to have a common goal. the devil will be in the details as to where money for this kind of spending, a lot of money, could come from and how to prioritize which projects would come first. new york city and much of the northeast needs a lot of attention with bridges deteriorating, antiquated highway systems, aging airports. mr. trump has an early ally
vision of american infrastructure first, critical of billions going overseas, money that could be used to rebuild our failing roads, bridges, airports and trains. this is an area where democrats and republicans seem to have a common goal. the devil is in the detail as to where the spending will come from and how to prioritize which projects would come first. new york city, much of the northeast as well, needs a lot of attention with bridges deteriorating, antiquated highway systems, aging airports. not long a ago, joe biden compared lagaraguardia airport being in a third world country. as a result it s being ripped down and rebuilt in phases. mr. trump has one ally, new york senator chuck schumer. it appears the two will have a good working relationship and schumer praised mr. trump for wanting to rebuild infrastructure and said his
i m standing on what is, really, a bed of ice. you find it on the side streets. you also find it on the highway systems. so officials are telling people to stay indoors until the ice melts and we should see some clearing today. all right. hoping for that for you, and for the folks there. thanks so much, george. right now, north and south carolina are under a state of emergency. tens of thousands of people there, not only without power, they are also now trying to figure out how exactly to retrieve the cars they were forced to abandon on the ice-covered roads. bianca spanosa. how are you doing there, bianca? reporter: may, michaela, good morning. we re actually here in raleigh, in north raleigh. this is a major road behind meep this is six forks road here, and it has only really been plowed once, but it is extremely icy. if you look over here, it had rained earlier this morning, but it s only 30 degrees. so all of this has kind of iced
of these more targeted, smaller funding initiatives for transit? that s an important question, s.e. and needs looking at what kind of projects to funding and wrong to suggest we don t need to fund fixing the bridges or even the highway systems. the american society of civil engineers said we need to invest $157 billion a year in our infrastructure or lose 3.1 trillion in the economy over the next few years. that s obviously something to pay attention to so i don t want to suggest it s wrong to have big projects but what we don t have in transportation spending that we should have to make government smarter is actual long-term planning so where are our investments best made in order to ensure that we are making the smart investments? public transit is one of those and really been one grossly underfunded and let s remember that literally, literally 75% of