California’s high speed rail is an ambitious infrastructure project that is behind schedule, billions of dollars over budget, and struggling to maintain support as the political energy behind it is murky at best. Plenty of work is being done right now, but it doesn’t completely match what was originally sold. Jill Cowan, California reporter at the NY Times, joins us for a look at where the biggest infrastructure project of them all is currently standing.

Next, the war in Ukraine is threatening the economic recovery here at home. Supply chains haven’t fully recovered from the pandemic and inflation is at record highs. Sanctions on Russia are crippling their economy, but also hurting us when it comes to energy, cars and food. Emily Peck, markets correspondent at Axios, joins us for more.

Finally, the CDC wants to monitor everyone’s poop, but states are not all on board. During the pandemic, state and local health officials were able to detect Covid in their communities before residents developed symptoms and the CDC wants to expand those programs to stay ahead of variants and other viruses too. States would need a widespread buy-in for this to be successful, but may logistical challenges remain. Katherine Foley, healthcare reporter at Politico, joins us for the plan to monitor the nation’s sewage.

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