Ponchos and umbrellas added to the atmosphere at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as a steady rain-soaked Midtown Manhattan. But for the three million people estimated to have lined the two-and-a-half mile route, the wet weather didn't dampen spirits. Tom Hanson reports.
The fast rail project was first approved by voters in 2008 and billed as a train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco as a cost of about $30 billion to $35......