North american infrastructure debt at black rock, susan gray and david nassan. [applause] thank you, kevin we have hard act to follow. The administration has really prioritized a big boost to Infrastructure Spending on the order of a trillion dollars, clearly thats a very big sum but also very much warranted. Public construction in this country has been declining for years and is now 1. 5 of gdp annually. Just to put that into context, western europe on average spends 2. 5 of gdp annually and china, closer to 8 of gdp. Any of you who have spent time on the roads and airports wont be surprised the u. S. Infrastructure report card from the American Society of civil engineerings and i think they gave them a great of a dplus. Over the past your years with over 4. 5 trillion. So we have two big questions. First, funding a trillion dollars in spending is a daunting task. So even if direct federal spending is only a fraction of that. Some suggest it could be on the order of 150 billion to 250
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A controversial arrest. And a field trip ends before it begins when a packed School Bus Crashes on the schuylkill expressway. And a spring data feels more like fall. We have rain moving in including delaware and the jersey shore sky 6 hd is looking live in delaware and cape may right now. Its a damp cool day with temperatures well below what they should be. For more on that, david murphy is live at the big board. We have showers creeping into the west and affecting south jersey, this current view is similar to future tracker 6, right now everything just below the pennsylvania turnpike and break away showers to the north of turnpike, from philadelphia south, this is scattered fairly light precipitation and nuisance stuff for the most part and cells affecting south jersey and parts of delaware for now light nuisance stuff slowing you down on the roadways we have a lot to get lieu before we are at the other side of this mtd iter erthere is an area of low pressure guiding this over the reg
Safety. His dramatic rescue and the fight to save him this morning. As you can imagine a lot of prayers going out to that firefighter. Good morning, america. Great to have george and lara back from their vacations. It was a good break. Great too be back. Passengers cannot say the same thing. This major outage at jetblue causing headaches. Abc is at Reagan National airport. Jetblue is saying the situation resolved. Take a look at twitter and a lot of unhappy passengers. Reporter very unhappy. Angry passengers. It is spring break this week. Theyre trying to get out of town. This is a system wide computer went down for jetblue. They have 825 flights across the countries. Passengers showing up to check in this morning could only do it manually. Can you imagine how much longer thats taking and the angergenger for them. Theyre saying the system is back up. The cause for this is a systemwide outage that is now been resolved. This is on social media. Our system is coming back up. But its going