PREVIEW: LAS VEGAS: FONTAINEBLEAU HOTEL Colleague Jeff Bliss attends for planned implosions to bring down the Fontainebleau Hotel and Casino to make way for the new Major League Baseball stadium for the incoming Oakland A's. More details tonight.
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🗓️ 20 September 2024
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Colleague Jeff Bliss attends for planned implosions to bring down the Fontainebleau Hotel and Casino to make way for the new Major League Baseball stadium for the incoming Oakland A's. More details tonight.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batcher. |
| 0:02.0 | Comment by my good colleague Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, on the Vegas Report. |
| 0:07.0 | The Fontenblow Hotel and Casino, very famous, is coming down, the last two towers and Jeff plans to attend and here he |
| 0:15.2 | describes what he expects to see the experience and the huge huge interest in |
| 0:20.6 | Las Vegas history. Two towers coming down. This is where the baseball stadium |
| 0:26.2 | will rise when the Oakland A show up, maybe there will be called the Las Vegas A's. |
| 0:30.3 | In any event, Las Vegas is celebrating the end of the fountain blow, October 9 to 10. |
| 0:36.6 | Here's Jeff to describe what he expects and the excitement. |
| 0:40.7 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:42.4 | There are a couple towers there that remain to be brought down, but from what I've heard is there |
| 0:48.3 | going to be fireworks and drones and lasers and smoke, smoke and actually you know when the building comes down it's sort of anticlimactic you hear the boom there's a lot of dust and it just kind of settles in on itself so it's like it's not like a bunch of dominoes all over each other. But it's still kind of one of those things. |
| 1:07.5 | Something to see, a bit of Vegas history. Now they've done this before with other structures in Vegas and they've even incorporated them into movies like the movie Casino or the movie Con Air. |
| 1:21.0 | They've done this before and they've always had a huge turnout from people |
| 1:24.8 | coming to see these things. And if you've seen these explosions or implosions on |
| 1:29.3 | film, they're pretty spectacular. So I'm expecting it'll be a fun experience. I just don't know how close to let us get even with a press pass because the number of people will be there. |
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