carmageddon in southern california is over. the traffic in l.a., not as bad as aechted. the billion dollar freeway expansion project shut down ten miles of the 405 ended 17 hours early after all the heim. carmageddon it wasn t. jetblue offered $4 flights for the weekend prompting others to bike ride from burbank to trying to see ifhe bike or plane would get there first. the bike ride took an hour and 34 minutes. the flight took, yes, three hour. you ve been to the airport. unfortunately this new-found love of public transportation did not mean much at monday morning rush, but hopefully this will pave nor shoutdown in four
and the mayor praising citizens for staying off the road. a lot is said about the fact this is the car capital of the united states of america and the congestion capital. and, the city most addicted to the single-passenger automobile. and, yet, not enough is said about the people of los angeles, when they come together, when they decide that we all have to work together to make something work. jamie: and they did, mr. mayor. the 405 shut down, to fix a bridge and, widen part of the road and locals predicted the end of the world was coming and that is why they said carmageddon but everyone seemed to get through it, just fine. bill: go to the beach! jamie: a nice break. bill: beautiful day in l.a. over the weekend and republicans, now, taking to the airwaves, over the weekend, blasting president obama over his handling of the talks on the debt. $14 trillion and counting and
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two people were killed and 35 injured when the bus veered off the road and into the woods. the bus was headed from washington, d.c., to niagara falls. the band cheap trick was on stage when a severe thunderstorm caused what you see right there, the collapse of a main stage at a canadian music festival on sunday. that send thousands of concert goers running for cover. at least four people were injured, one seriously, when the scaffolding buckled and collapsed last night. wow. and millions of children around south africa are singing happy birthday to former president nelson mandela who is turning 93 today. more than 12 million students sang a special version of the song written for the antiapartheid leader before classes start. mandela will spend the day with his family in his home village. happy birthday. back to normal rush hour traffic for los angeles commuters. after a weekend shutdown of 405, carmageddon never came to be as people decided to heed warnings
panic at a rock concert, the dramatic video as a violent storm contributes to the collapse of the main stage. let s go to patti ann at the web wall for today s must-see moment. reporter: we have three hot videos today for you to choose which one you would like to hear more about. if you go to foxnews.com and click on the happening now tab you ll get our page and here is the three stories, the first one is called br u.n. ning. it means backwards running. you can see them backing up from the starting line. it s pretty funny. some of you interested in our second choice, which is the red bull flood tag this also in the united kingdom. thousands of people creating homemade flying machines and they held this big contest over the weekend to see whose homemade aircraft could fly the furthest. so far your number one choice is our last story, it s called carmageddon. it was a contest to see who could make it from los angeles, california, to long beach, california, faster, a bunch of cyclists