Valley Boulevard

A tow truck is on the way.

We're seeing heavy delays on the map here with all that red Valley Boulevard is a good alternate.

Work gets underway today to take down the iconic sign of the Santa Monica Pier.

Crews are removing the top piece of the 85-year-old sign today before shrink wrapping it and hauling it away to be refurbished.

Only the slow lane is blocked due to a three-car crash right now.

One of the cars was facing the wrong way.

We're seeing heavy delays here on the map, and you could take Valley Boulevard as an alternate.

Your next vacation could come with some serious sticker shock.

initially, not really because those were just one-off types of things.

But then more in the last 10 years and really in the last five years, it's reached a point where you don't know if that new Chinese restaurant on Valley Boulevard is locally owned or owned by a Chinese chain.

Yeah.

One of the things that must drive diners to these restaurants is also tourists from China.

So to go back to trends for a minute, are people still obsessed with Boba? The question is not are they obsessed with

Boba, it's that how crazy it's become.

I remember five years ago, one block of Valley Boulevard in Arhambra, on one side of the street, there were two Boba parlors and there was a third one across the street.

And I call that the Boba capital of the United States.

No shots have been fired.

This is on Rhonda Drive near Valley Boulevard.

The standoff has been going on for nearly nine hours.

Some houses nearby have been evacuated.