26: Pacific Palisades Housing Dispute and West Coast Infrastructure Challenges. Jeff Bliss covers West Coast issues, including traffic disruption from new high-speed rail construction between Southern California and Las Vegas. Pacific Palisades residents are

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🗓️ 25 October 2025

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Pacific Palisades Housing Dispute and West Coast Infrastructure Challenges. Jeff Bliss covers West Coast issues, including traffic disruption from new high-speed rail construction between Southern California and Las Vegas. Pacific Palisades residents are protesting state and local plans to use burned-out lots for high-density, multistory affordable housing, fearing the change in community character and increased traffic. Additionally, copper theft from EV charging stations is undermining Los Angeles's zero emissions goals. Homeless encampments are also sparking major brush fire concerns in areas like Malibu and the Sepulveda Basin.

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0:30.1	This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.
0:39.4	This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch and Vegas report. We go to Las Vegas for good news. Very good news. Jeff, a very good evening to you. I understand the drive to
0:45.2	Las Vegas from Southern California just got more challenging because of lane closing or signs
0:51.1	going up. What's happening? Good evening to you.
0:53.7	Good evening, John. As they work to bring this new high-speed rail, the privately funded one,
0:59.5	online from the Los Angeles area to Las Vegas, they're having to do work on various parts of the
1:06.4	freeway between the two areas. Mostly right now we're talking about in the Las Vegas and state line areas.
1:13.3	So that's going to be causing some traffic issues in a city, in a metro area that's already
1:19.1	plagued by traffic issues being Las Vegas. But the idea is by bringing this train in, you'll
1:24.8	cut down on some of the traffic, certainly some of the big weekend traffic that makes a mess when you get to Vegas.
1:30.0	And a lot of people in Vegas are hoping that this kind of heralds the change in the way they
1:34.9	look at transit there with other rapid transit means around the city, whether it's monorails
1:40.7	or the boring company tubes under the city or such. But they're hoping this is just
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