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What a week it has been in the United States. The transition of | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
power from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, who is now the 45th president | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
of America. So we've spent the last few days heading down Route 45, | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
stopping at high schools and sports grounds, factories, talking to | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
ordinary voters about their hopes and fears, expectations for the next | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
four years. What you think of your new president, Trump? Give him a | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
chance. To do what he said he was going to do. We will just have to | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
see how it plays out. We do know what he will do! This is a man who | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
has not got a political record. Trump exodus each in and get it | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
done. I am concerned what he will think about us, especially Mexicans. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
I think he can make America great again. We just have to believe in | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
him. I will never respect him as my president. Never. We are nearly at | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
the end of the road here in Alabama, but we started 1000 miles further | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
north in freezing cold mill walkie, in the state of Wisconsin. Mill | :01:23. | :01:38. | |
walkie. Known for its harsh winters, for making cheese and beer, and now | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
for its role in America's fragile new politics. This is no place for | :01:45. | :01:56. | |
fragile. Junior ice hockey. Jonathan is coaching the under nines. He | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
likes Donald Trump because he is different, a nonpolitician, and | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
outside. It just goes back to an alternative that is outside of the | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
box. A different viewpoint. He is a billionaire though, he isn't every | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
man. He certainly is not, what I think there's something to be said | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
for him being able to relate to a plumber, a welder, a teacher. The | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
state of Wisconsin switched sides in this election. It is largely white, | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
working-class electorate normally votes Democrat, but this time they | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
chose Trump. A little grassy, but I will give him a try. They like | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
giving you things a try here, like soccer on ice. But might a Trump | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
presidency and up feeling like this? Your gloves are nearly as big as my | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
hands. Engineered Jason is confident. After nine redundancy | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
threat in six years he says it is time for a businessmen in the Oval | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Office. It would be nice to have a bit more stability in the job front, | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
so I'm hoping that from an economic standpoint Trump reflects giving | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
that stability back to the country. Are you more optimistic for your own | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
family and household economy? Absolutely. Take about four steps. | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
Confidence on the ice is another matter, for me at least. Some of | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
America's top ice athletes practice on this rig. I understand you like | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
to do this? You are not doing that as much. Nancy was an Olympian and | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
is now a coach. It is time to be a little risky. She told me Donald | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
Trump can bring a winner's mindset to the White House. He makes a | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
decision and get it done. Do you have any reservations about his | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
personality, the things he has said about women, for example? I think | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
everybody who is behind him has some reservations are closely really | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
don't know the truth behind that and they are just hoping at this point | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
in his life he has put that behind him. Wisconsin may have voted Trump, | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
it only by 1%. And some are still struggling with the result. This is | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
one of the most important jobs in the world and I am not certain that | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
he is prepared for it. But hockey mum Leila is willing to give him a | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
chance, even though as a Muslim she is worried by some of his comments. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
I try to look at the bright side. I think we have to just wait and see | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
what happens. You sound to me like you are maybe a little nervous? I | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
might be. Are you prepared to support him? Not quite prepared to | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
support him, but iambic head to initiate change to support him. What | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
does that mean? How do you initiate change to support him? Change my way | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
of thinking, try to find the good. Here in Milwaukee many people told | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
us they want to put the country first now and move on. It is that | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
the feeling elsewhere? And howl easy will it be to unite? We hit Route 45 | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
as the nation prepares for its 45th president. Right through the middle | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
of Donald Trump's America. To get a sense of the country | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
he is taking over. But our next stop is | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
not Trump territory. This is Barack Obama's | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
favourite diner. He lived around the corner | :05:31. | :05:43. | |
before he was President, Normally he is a breakfast person, | :05:44. | :06:00. | |
egg whites come an omelette. I hope you are hungry? Very! | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
As a nurse, she likes the changes he made to healthcare, | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
She worries Donald Trump will overturn the reforms, | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
They will not have adequate care, they will not have access | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
they have to come through emergency services. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Many of them will be very sick, can't get medicine, some | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Her son Daniel thought having a black President would mean a more | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
inclusive America, but he fears Donald Trump's form of populism | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
I do feel my safety might be in danger. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Really - you feel more vulnerable now? | :06:50. | :06:50. | |
Post-Trump, yes, because it is something that you can see | :06:51. | :07:02. | |
from the energy that Trump built, and the way people | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
express themselves, who support Trump. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
A lot of them have certain beliefs and things like that that do not | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Some here do question the Obama legacy, and think change is overdue. | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
Aspiring businesswoman Erica hopes Donald Trump will help | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
I believe that it's going to open up doors for small | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
..that's trying to create big businesses. | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
Maybe you'll be as rich as Donald Trump in a few years. | :07:41. | :07:50. | |
Elgin, where nearly half the population is Hispanic. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Donald Trump's plans to build a giant wall along the Mexican | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
border mean many here cannot support him. | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
I am concerned, what does he think about us, especially Mexicans? | :08:01. | :08:14. | |
But some views here may surprise you. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Rosa hopes a wall would stop illegal immigrants. | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
We have our own problems here in America. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
So, you know, to add more of them coming over here, | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
I think - that, I don't think it's a good thing. | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
And in the choir, Margarita hopes Donald Trump will safeguard her | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
I'm so excited and I'm so happy for him. | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
And we should not be afraid of anything, not even | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
Elisa confirmed to me that the Hispanic community is split | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
It's a scary time because we don't know what will happen and how things | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
will roll out. There is the unforeseen, | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
with our future, Hispanics, and a lot of people are scared | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
about what is going to happen. If you want to understand | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Donald Trump's election win, Next to Route 45, the Ohio River | :09:13. | :09:26. | |
meets the Mississippi. It's an essential artery for the US | :09:27. | :09:39. | |
economy, carrying 18 million tons But things aren't | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
what they used to be. The locks which boats pass | :09:44. | :09:53. | |
through here have seen better days. Nearly 100 years old, | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
they regularly break down, A boat could be waiting out for 52 | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
hours before coming through? Mark, the lock keeper, | :10:01. | :10:14. | |
says it's a struggle The concrete is starting | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
to break up and crumble. Every time it gets hit by a boat | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
and it lands on it it puts pressure on it and causes more | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
cracks and stress on it, we patch it together | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
and try and keep it going, Donald Trump has pledged $1 trillion | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
to rebuild America's rivers, A promise that's won him plenty | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
of support round here. But he hasn't said where | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
the money will come from. We head back on Route 45 | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
to see the kind of project the new president | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
wants to encourage. A huge dam and lock system to | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
replace the failing one downriver. It's nearly 20 years behind schedule | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
and $2 billion over budget. Many here believe Donald Trump's | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
life in business will mean I think he if he really wants | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
to put his mind with it and really wants to work with the people, | :11:12. | :11:20. | |
for sure, why not? One person can't do it | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
but if you take a group of people and you've got good conversation | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
communication skills, good listening skills, you can | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
pretty much accomplish anything. Trump's critics say his pledges | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
are unrealistic and unaffordable. But in an area where jobs can be | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
scarce, they're prepared Once you start pulling people and | :11:36. | :11:51. | |
government assistance is go down in these communities, and people start | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
making good, well paying jobs brought in, it will pick up, and in | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
my opinion I think it will outweigh it, yes, it will be expensive but in | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
a business cost analysis it will make a good return back on the | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
investment. We drive on into | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
America's rural South. There are 2 million | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
farms in this country. Will a property developer president | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
understand this business? At the University of Tennessee, | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
students are learning how to weigh Stick it in, press it | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
forward, pull it out. Some are gonna be more willing to go | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
forward and some are wanting Donald Trump won nearly 80% | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
of the vote in the Martin area. They like his confidence and in turn | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
they have confidence in him. He might have a few mess-ups | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
on the way but eventually he'll We're always going to need | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
agriculture, that's what feeds us. So we're going to need | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
it to keep going. But is farming compatible | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
with Trump's plans for building? What about the land, | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
the environment? Donald Trump is a man you associate | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
with skyscrapers and New York City, not with farming | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
and places like this. Do you think he understands | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
you and what you want to do? I think he's going to help | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
small town people out. I'd don't think he's | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
going to be the big city man What about farming, does | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
he understand farming? Not as well as some | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
agriculture people. Whether it's agriculture | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
or infrastructure, in these communities away from Washington, | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
many feel Trump will be a president Someone not just following | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
the political herd. Halfway through our journey down | :13:49. | :14:11. | |
Route 45, and as the 45th president prepares to take over, we've reached | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
the Deep South. One last practice before heading to Washington. | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
Tonight, the Tupelo High School band will be travelling 900 miles | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
from Mississippi to the capital to play at President Trump's | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
Just to march in the parade and go to Washington for the first time. | :14:35. | :14:53. | |
What do you think of your new president? | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
Donald Trump got 60% of the votes in this state. | :14:56. | :15:05. | |
The students might be playing for him, but that doesn't mean | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
they are all fans of the new man in the White House. | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
If you had been able to vote, put your hands up if you would have | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
I think some of his ideas are pretty great and I think he can make | :15:20. | :15:31. | |
America great again, we just have to believe in him | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
But you're about to go and play for him. | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
I like Washington, but I don't like him. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Lots of celebrities said no to performing, didn't they, | :15:46. | :15:55. | |
I'm not a fan of Trump, but I'm going for the experience | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
I'm not going for him, I'm going for me. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Music matters in this small southern town. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Just off Route 45 is the tiny house where Elvis Presley was born. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
But we're not here to talk about The King, we're here to talk | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Because as well as producing rock 'n' roll stars, | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
I wish we had hired one of these for our road trip. | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
Donald Trump has promised a return to the heyday | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
He says he will create jobs and improve trade deals. | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
This local steel company supplies the car industry. | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
They believe the new president will cut red tape, cut taxes | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
The boss here hopes Donald Trump will fill his government | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
And if they don't do it he will fire them! | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Politics is more complicated and more nuanced. | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
Will he be able to cope with the political diplomatic challenges? | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
I think he is introducing something into the political landscape that | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
Elvis stood right here on the cross and asked for his first guitar. | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
This hardware store is where the young Presley's | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
As well as guitars they sell tools to local businesses | :17:30. | :17:41. | |
and they are waiting to see what Trump really means | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
This is a man who has not got a political record. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
He has gone on record sometimes supporting things, | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
Does it worry you that he hasn't given much detail about | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
He has made big promises but not explained how. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
It does worry us and I think it worries everybody, | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
Anything you take to the parade is subject to being searched. | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Tomorrow they will perform outside the White House. | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
And this nation will have to march to a very different beat. | :18:11. | :18:30. | |
We have arrived. But this is Washington County, Alabama, one of | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
America's poorest states. And on a wet mornings are busiest spot we | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
find... We are open, ladies, open for business. Is the local food | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
bank. These volunteers hand out hundreds of parcels every week. | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
Well, here you go. To people like Roosevelt, a President's name but he | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
is out of work anti-trust Donald Trump to make life better. I hope he | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
is right about getting jobs. You just want a job? If he doesn't get | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
it going, I went like him. Will he? I hope so, I believe so. Catherine | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
and Willeen run the front desk and say some of the poverty here is | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
heartbreaking. Some of them come in and they don't have toilets in their | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
houses. They believe Donald Trump will invest in this community. He | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
spent a lot of time campaigning here and it worked. He has been out in | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
the community, out in the countryside, and he has seen how | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
people need help and he has been there with the community to help, | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
and he does. He is not afraid to go into poverty areas and talk to the | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
people, where most politicians you don't see around unless you have | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
$1000. It is very tough for a lot of people, especially in rural areas. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Larry will watch the inauguration later, once finished helping here. | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
He hopes Donald Trump will use his speech today to inspire the nation. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
I hope he says enough good things that people will give him a chance | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
at to do what he said he will do. We will just have to see how it all | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
plays out. Along this section of Route 45, one quarter of the people | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
live in poverty. Many believe Donald Trump can make America great again. | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
I can't believe that do to won. But not Tyrone. We join him and his | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
family as the inauguration began and this former soldier believes Donald | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Trump will only make the country more divided. He is doing everything | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
he can really to try to make us feel like this is not our and America. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
This hat will show you are and an American and I fought for this | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
country. And I would never respect him as my president, never. Are you | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
going to be watching the big moment? No. Tyrone's mum says the new | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
president is a bully and she hates his Thai raids on Twitter. I don't | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
like him, I don't trust him, -- tirades. He is talking about making | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
America great. I don't like the way he downeds women. We have met so | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
many pro and against Trump, but there are also voters like Jeff. It | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
is tough, real tough. Unemployed and unimpressed. On his porch he told me | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
it doesn't matter who is sitting in the other White House. Do you feel | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
forgotten? Yeah, I do. These small counties do. Bad roads, that | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
bridges, you know. They don't look at us. Do you think Donald Trump | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
will change that? Is he going to look after the likes of you? No. You | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
don't things are? No, no I do not. Why not? Because the politicians, | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
the governors, they all have their hands like crabs in a bucket, you | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
know, they are looking out for themselves. After 1000 miles | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
crossing the United States, we reached the end of Route 45. And | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
this divided nation will try to move on and begin its new journey. | :22:25. | :22:44. | |
Many of us have enjoyed quite a settled spell of weather in recent | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
days, but that's not to say that we're all enjoying the same | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
The Weather Watcher pictures again tell the tale. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Cold, frosty starts across the southern half of Britain. | :22:55. | :22:57. |