California to Phoenix highway cut off by floods

LOS ANGELES, California: In the latest in a series of heavy summer rains, a flash flood damaged the main highway from Los Angeles to Phoenix this week, washing out part of the road through the Southern California desert.

The flooding, which damaged part of a detour past a repair project along eastbound Interstate 10 near the small community of Desert Center, some 165 miles east of Los Angeles, halted traffic in