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Ships sticking off of long beach and los angeles here. they cannot get into port because of the backlog. the backlog is very obvious when you look at the aerial pictures at anchor outside the port and the marine traffic map which shows the location of each one of them waiting to get in to port. what does that mean in terms of cargo? around 15,000 containers on each of those ships. and each of those ships, therefore, could carry something like 120 million pairs of sneakers or 700 million cans of beans. this is a huge amount of cargo stuck out there. the port director here says it's a bottle nec...

Ports of los angeles and long beach. but, right now, billions of dollars worth of that cargo be it electronic goods, sneakerrers or canned food are floating outside the port aboard some 60 vast container ships being forced to wait an unprecedented 10 days to dock. >> it's like bringing 10 leans of freeway traffic into five right here at the port. >> supply and demand is not the problem. americans are buying things in record numbers. china and other asian nations are making things in record numbers. >> it's more cargo than we have ever seen in our lifetime. but there simply aren't enough truck ...

Half of all the container ships that deliver goods to the u.s. at the moment off of long beach and the port of l.a. we have some 60 of those container ships that can't get into dock as yet being forced to wait. each of those carry 15,000, 20 foot containers and each ships could carry something like 120 million pairs of shoes, 250 million ipads or 700 million canned food and multiply it by 60 ships shows sitting off these ports you can see what the problem is. the executive director of the port here saying it is simply a question of how many ships are being brought here to the u.s. to deliver g...

Skyline. take a look at the map from marine traffic, all those ships mapped out just sitting offshore waiting to get in. what does that mean in terms of cargo? each of the ships hold something like 15,000 of those vast containers, sandra. that means on one ship you could have as many as 120 million pairs of sneakers, 250 million ipads or 700, million cans of beans. port director tells us it is simply case of real supply and demand bottleneck right now. listen here. >> it is like bringing 10 lanes of freeway traffic into five right here at the port. our american importers are struggling to inge...

$30,000 for information leading to an arrest. meanwhile, you thought freeway traffic in los angeles was bad already. a small passenger plane made an emergency land on an l.a. highway yesterday. video captured shows the plane flying overhead before toufrping down in the southbound lanes of 101. according to california highway patrol, a student and instructor pilot were onboard at the time. no injuries reported and the plane was, later, pushed off the highway. the pilot had notified local air-traffic control that the plane was in trouble, and needed to make an emergency landing but it wasn't i...