joseph, missouri, to sacramento accident california, in 10 days. pony express lasted only a little over a year, and that was due to economic reasons. it was very expensive to operate the pony express. it was a dangerous job. this is an advertisement from the st. joseph newspaper. pony express riders young, skinny, wire are you fellows, not over 18, must expert riders, willing to risk death daily, wages $25 a week, which is a very large sum of money for the time period, but, of course, risking death daily is kind of the key to this type of occupation. the impact of the telegraph, of course, is -- has spelled the death knell for the pony express. the telegraph comes across, and oftentimes lines were spread out just across the brush because there were very few trees even to this day across much of the expanse of the plains. with the telegraph laid out just basically across the prairie on the brush to keep it up off the ground, animals would run through it. the native americans soon learned that the talking wire meant more white people coming down the

sacramento, ann notarangelo, kpix-5. >>> the california highway patrol is conducting its own investigation on the bridge construction. it will not comment until it is completed. >> it is unclear what exactly caused a deadly freeway accident on the pens insure la. the driver of a car veered off highway 101 in redwood city and slammed into a work crew. a woman in a black mercedes crashed in a group of nine young men picking up trash. they were part of a job training program. one died and another was injured along with the driver. the chp says she was going fast enough to hit the workers and slam into four cars in a nearby parking lot. >> she actually barely missed, there is concrete and some atteniators right before that. >> we don't know if drugs or alcohol was the cause. >> the state law requires drivers to get out of the slow lane if there are workers in the shoulder. if you cannot change lanes, you are required to slow down. >>> a quick stop at the atm leaves a couple fighting for their lives after they were robbed and shot. it happened just after midnight sunday in campbell. the couple wanted to get some cash at the first bank building on campbell avenue. a man and his girlfriend were shot by a gunman. both are expect