tonight with this really weird moment that happened last week at a house hearing. transportation secretary pete buttigieg was testifying before a house committee and as you woulde expect, for several hou, theyfo discussed infrastructure roads, railway, electric vehicles, energy prices, all of the usual stuff until one republican congressman on the committee suddenly took the transportation hearing off the rails. and that joke was for you, transport nerd, you re welcome. have a watch. now have president biden in office for 18 months and just recentlyfi we see the mainstrea media questioning president biden s mental state and for good reason. sadly he shakes hands with ghosts and imaginary people and falls offeo bicycles and even a the white house easter celebration, easter bunny had to guide him back intonn his safe place. end of speech, where he actually states, that is, if he sta stays
like this in america with federal and local funding. and there s no way we could have done it on our own. the federal government has already ponied up about a quarter money of the purple line extension, more than 2 billion and has promised even more. the reason? l.a. has skin in the game. local leaders promised to shoulder a hefty chunk of the cost, but that s not all. los angeles voters also agreed to fund infrastructure projects all across the county. we were at a transportation hearing, and you were there, and you guys were advocating going to the voters and saying we want to give you a tax. we want to propose a tax to fund infrastructure. this isn t a tax. this is an investment. this will be 40 years and 787,000 jobs. permanent sales tax? a permanent sales tax. the funny thing about this is when we pulled it, the longer we said the lasted, more people
shoulder a hefty chunk of the cost, but that s not all. los angeles voters also agreed to fund infrastructure projects all across the county. we were at a transportation hearing, and you were there, and you guys were advocating going to the voters and saying, we want to give you a tax, we want to propose a tax to fund infrastructure. this isn t a tax. this is an investment. this will be 40 years and 787,000 jobs. permanent sales tax? a permanent sales tax. the funny thing about this when we polled it, the longer we said it lasted, the more people were willing to vote for it. which is the opposite of anything i ve ever seen before. l.a. voters agreed to help fund not just the purple line extension, they voted to overhaul the entire l.a. metro system. you re saying that the residents of los angeles want to pay for this? absolutely. 71% of the residents of l.a. county, to build not just this line, but 15 rapid transit lines in a single city.
los angeles voters also agreed to fund infrastructure projects all across the county. we were at a transportation hearing, and you were there, and you guys were advocating going to the voters saying we want to give you a tax. we want to propose a tax to fund infrastructure. this isn t a tax. this is an investment. this is 40 years and 787 million jobs. when we pulled it, the longer we said it lasted, the more people were willing to vote for it. that s the opposite of everything i ve ever seen before. l.a. voters agreed to help fund not just the purple line extension. they voted to overhaul the entire l.a. metro system. you re saying that the residents of lank wanted to pay for this? absolutely. 71% of the residents of l.a. county to build not just this line but 15 rapid transit lines in a single city. that s never been done in american history in one place. people know this is not about
dangerous winds. a gust of wind hit me and raised tandem tires on the trailer off the ground. i have a co-driver with me and it is not worth our lives. reporter: much of d.c. was shut down. even a national transportation hearing was cancelled. many are staying home but lisa made her way in the snow. parts of the northeast have been insulated but no more. we are slipping in the 20s. four below is a high for wednesday in minneapolis. the number next to it, the departure from average, 32. so we are looking at those numbers from dallas to seattle and here in the east coast. ginger zee, abc news, new york. we were complaining too much in the northeast because that s crazy cold stuff. really looks bad out west. those poor people. let s take a look at the nation s weather now. lake effect snow will dump several inches over western new york and pennsylvania. the rest of the east can expect or rather, south of