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Well, of course, the big news is we're going to meet the moment.

We don't have to demo the freeway.

We can repair the freeway, and it may only take weeks, not once.

To reopen the 10 freeway near downtown Los Angeles,

Newsom again appeared today to make this announcement after they did all their studies

and all their inspections.

Let's bring on Steve Gregory for the full report on this. Steve. Hey, guys. It's just like one of my colleagues texted me this morning after the press conference and said, I think the only good thing to come out of this is that we don't have to listen to these press conferences every day for six months. It's been cut short. Yeah. Yeah. They're only going to get five weeks now, and not six months of this.

Kind of like COVID updates.

So they think this can be done.

Three to five weeks.

Three to five weeks before the end of the year.

And Mayor Bass made a big deal about saying that they're using the same contracting firm

that did the recovery efforts

and rebuilding from the Northridge Quake of 94.

So they have the experience.

Except all those people are dead now.

Exactly.

But 30 years later.

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