welcome to the program ramana many of these airports in danger are regional ones tell us about the particular challenges these airports and season. good morning well the main challenge for regional airports 1st is a quite small in terms of their traffic bowling and really. push to survive they've got to be really humbling lots of passengers and the breakeven for airports as well as run about a 1000000 passengers a year so if you're hunting less. and you're a risk of losing money it of course the fact that they drive a truck at bolton for not makes more more airports commercially and. below 'd that $1000000.00 breakeven threshold now so they go bankrupt what would such a wave of insolvencies mean for the european aviation sector. well huge i mean you need the airport infrastructure for 'd trunk air traffic movement social suspension the air transport system the other fics of course will believe that those airports and also for regional economies and for cities to lose connectivity the ability to connect themselves with less of the world so the partly question and if many airports actually do g

if people think that there is a radioactive problem at this plant and ramana are vermont brand is done. to drink our milk who's going to want to who's going to want to use our syrup who's going to want to come here and drive past that. and. not. have a. job. no. no no. i'm saying we know. there is no source of energy in this world that doesn't have risk associated with it in nuclear it is very very so i feel it's a very safe technology our job is to protect public health and safety and never have an accident that jeopardizes public health or safety so that's with us every day people like me come in here in the $650.00 men and women that work here that is our focus the safe operation of this plant. i live right across the street from vermont yankee and they've always been a good neighbor i had children that go to the school which is also right across the street from my yankee. you don't move to vernon and live in vernon if you're worried about the point both our girls live in town or 6 grandchildren live in town in fact my my youngest daughter lives down the road here well as the crow f

but we spoke with one of nehls' supporters, small business owner ramana reddy. a native of hyderabad, india, reddy is also planning to vote for president trump. >> the democratic party, what i felt and i still strongly feel about it is, they want to appease the minorities rather than create jobs and help the minorities to go up the ladder. >> reporter: most demographers believit's only a matter of decades before most of texas looks like fort bend. the question is how long before the state's politics follo if and when the state does turn blue, it's likely to be because of places like fort bend county. for the pbs newshouri'm andrew schneider inugar land, texas. >> woodruff: we turn to our potics monday duo. that's amy walter of the "cook political report" and host of public radio's "politics with amy walter," and tamara keith of npr. she also co-hosts the "npr politics podcast." >> woodruff: hello to both of you. a lot to talk about. let's start, tam, with the esident. he has been saying he is free of covid, and late this afternoon his physician put out a stateme