High Speed Rail Hits Speed Bumps

This week, the High Speed Rail Authority rescinded its approval of an environmental study for the section that would run between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Valley. It's another speed bump for boosters of a proposed high-speed electric train line that would whisk riders from San Francisco to L.A. in two and a half hours. About a year after California voters approved a $10 billion bond measure to jump start the project, we report on the backlash.