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At all. and everybody agrees in their district that there is a drastic need for us to invest in infrastructure. we know that from the president s address when he was citing bridges. bill shuster, who is taking the committee on transportation has talked about the importance and need for this. and i think there is a great opportunity for congress to come together. in my own district, it s not only roads and bridges, but dike systems that we have identified since katrina that need to be addressed. and as you know, ed, and so eloquently say, this is what can put america back to work immediately. and addresses these very important and critical issues of infrastructure right away. you know, we ve got the firearms issues. we ve got immigration reform. i mean, these are big issues. but the big elephant in the room right now is the economy. terri, what could be done in alabama? well, i think that the president was absolutely right. ....
President s address when he was citing bridges. bill shuster, who is taking the committee on transportation has talked about the importance and need for this. and i think there is a great opportunity for congress to come together. in my own district, it s not only roads and bridges, but dike systems that we have identified since katrina that need to be addressed. and as you know, ed, and so eloquently say, this is what can put america back to work immediately. and addresses these very important and critical issues of infrastructure right away. you know, we ve got the firearms issues. we ve got immigration reform. i mean, these are big issues. but the big elephant in the room right now is the economy. terri, what could be done in alabama? well, i think that the president was absolutely right. you know, when you do infrastructure improvements, you create jobs today that actually create the roads and bridges for future economic growth and development. i know in alabama we could use ....
We know that from the president s address when he was citing bridges. bill shuster, who is taking the committee on transportation has talked about the importance and need for this. and i think there is a great opportunity for congress to come together. in my own district, it s not only roads and bridges, but dike systems that we have identified since katrina that need to be addressed. and as you know, ed, and so eloquently say, this is what can put america back to work immediately. and addresses these very important and critical issues of infrastructure right away. you know, we ve got the firearms issues. we ve got immigration reform. i mean, these are big issues. but the big elephant in the room right now is the economy. terri, what could be done in alabama? well, i think that the president was absolutely right. you know, when you do infrastructure improvements, you create jobs today that actually create the roads and bridges for future economic growth and ....
yeah. and you know what? i covered connecticut for quite some time many years ago. and there are neighborhoods on the coastline that get flooded during a thunderstorm. yeah. how are you going to keep homes from getting decimated up and down the connecticut coastline if. listen, we ve ordered evacuations or suggested ev evacuations that affect 362,000 people, one out of every ten residents of the state of connecticut. but it s the small towns and it s the big cities. it s new haven, bridge fort, stamford, norwalk, fairfield, they re all going to be adversely impacted. we re waiting to see. if this hits 11 feet with waves on top of 11 feet, we re talking about dike systems being overrun. that s the severity if we get to 11 feet. so you ve actually, as governor, this is going to be the second hurricane really. it s the second hurricane, joe, but remember, don t leave out that snowstorm in october that knocked us out for 11 days. i was going to say, the second no, i won ....
Be into the neighborhoods and help distributing the sand bags. this is one such neighborhood. you can see here that the sand bags are up. behind me though this is already spillage from the red river so this is all yard you see back there and then beyond that is the river, itself. it is rising. it s expected to crest by sunday morning about 7:00. we re looking at 38 feet. right now it s at 31 so still a few feet to go but the fight is not letting up. in fact, thousands of volunteers pouring in from area colleges, high schools out today, and those kids are out, about 1600 of them rolling up their sleeves and helping out, and the government here as well. we have the national guard on hand building some pretty sophisticated dike systems as well. so they re really doing everything they can. you know they had very good practice last year. in fact, last year the historic flood, over 41 feet, probably not going to reach quite that high yet but when you get up around those 38 to 41 numbers it d ....