"Our country has never seen a fiscal disaster of this magnitude," says California congressman Kevin Kiley.

An ambitious state-run high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco has gone off track.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom walked into friendly territory — and still got hammered. During a Friday night appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, the Democrat was supposed to plug his memoir and trade political jabs.

"Given our incredible schedule, which is going to be very hard to make ... I don't want the board to be an obstruction in that process," one board member said.

In a new step forward for the Texas High-Speed Rail line project which will connect Houston and Dallas, a spokesperson confirms demolition work has begun on Houston’s Northwest Mall to make way for the Houston station of the rail line.