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Disturbing billboard. it shows what looks like a person hanging from the sign with the words, dying for work, that is painted on the sign. trace gallagher has details from the west coast newsroom, very bizarre, trace. >> reporter: you can imagine driving to work down i-15 in vegas which is the main interstate looking up and seeing that billboard and seeing what appears to be someone hanging from it. this was right off the fle freeway of interstate 15. it was part of an impromptu campaign with mu...

About 80 minutes. >> there is one problem, the closer you get to southern, californias major population centers the harder it is to build a train. >> would this be cost prohibitive to get the right-of-way they need to cut through so many cities and simply be too expensive. >> so instead the train will start outside victorville california, a desert city of 120,000 people more than 90 miles from the hoped for starting point of los angeles or anaheim. >> the why is the question that is a common one...

About 80 minutes. >> there is one problem, the closer you get to southern, californias major population centers the harder it is to build a train. >> would this be cost prohibitive to get the right-of-way they need to cut through so many cities and simply be too expensive. >> so instead the train will start outside victorville california, a desert city of 120,000 people more than 90 miles from the hoped for starting point of los angeles or anaheim. >> the why is the question that is a common one...

Affiliate kttv, lauren is long in fon tan kwrarbgs california. ill glad you were able to stick with us through that commercial break, lauren! >> >> reporter: me too! me too. had a few chances to blow away this morning. yeah, as you mentioned, there are about 30,000 people in southern california still in the dark today after those fierce santa ana winds have whipped through and they are kicking up again today. take a look. were sear outside interstate 15. now, this is a popular route for folks he...

Hour per mile wind gust, 400,000 customers without power. as crews continue to clean up that mess, and try to get the juice turned back on for folks across this area, these winds are kicking up again. if you take a look here out back with me, these trees over here, right off the interstate, well, theyre permanently tilted in a southwest direction, because those off shore winds are coming from the northeast at such a rapid clip, bending those trees. so as cleanup continues throughout southern cal...

The west. we have rain and snow. in fact, some places could see several feet of snow, especially into the sierra nevada and back to the central rockies. this will be phenomenal for skier, but people trying to drive along interstate 15 or through salt lake city to reno, it had be very treacherous. it wont be just the heavy snowfall. another big factor will be the strong wind. some wind gusts that may top 60 miles per hour. snow in the coming days expected to move into parts of the northern plains...

As we go across america. texas, a single engine flight making a crash landing in a back yard in houston a few people from this familys home. >> we were just lucky to be here today. >> the home owner saying he heard a loud banning before the crash and the pilot losing control after takeoff, taking out power lines, before smashing into a fence. the plane going up in flames. miraculously, the pilot escaping with a few minor injuries. the federal aviation administration is investigating. utah. >> iv...

As we go across america. texas, a single engine flight making a crash landing in a back yard in houston a few people from this familys home. >> we were just lucky to be here today. >> the home owner saying he heard a loud banning before the crash and the pilot losing control after takeoff, taking out power lines, before smashing into a fence. the plane going up in flames. miraculously, the pilot escaping with a few minor injuries. the federal aviation administration is investigating. utah. >> iv...

Conditions up along "the grapevine" on interstate 5, jon. >> jon: i hear the freeway to vegas is also a mess. >> the trip from las vegas to los angeles is four, four and a half hours. some drivers said it took them 10 or 11 hours because interstate 15, had its own snow and ice problems. its not often when you wake up living near las vegas that you get a snow day from school. thats what happened in pahrump about 50 miles outside of las vegas. they got 6 to 7 inches today. even along the las vegas...

>> lets go back out west. you know the ski enthusiasts, the traveling conditions can be crazy. you have travel that is crazy. the time of the year people are trying to see their relatives for christmas. >> areas like i-5, interstate 15 all of those areas, watch out for delays. it will be tricky driving. most of snow, worst of it is going to stay higher up, 7,000 feet or 8,000 feet. if you know the elevations, lower down, problems with the rain. >> and to think we havent hit the official start of...