kpix5's wilson walker shows us high speed rail is already happening in the central valley. hen you're launching the la tructure project in >> what i would say, you've got to start somewhere and the central valley is a good place to start. >> reporter: this is true when you're launching the largest public infrastructure project in the united states, you have to start somewhere and somewhere is the edge of downtown fresno. >> in the fresno area there's about eight to 10 overcrossings that are being constructed to reroute roads over or under the high speed rail alignment. >> reporter: about 4 miles away highway 99 is getting moved 100 feet to the west to make room for future tracks. to build infrastruc something about half an hour to the north just east of madeira you'll see something that really does look like the makings of a train project. >> there's this really cool infrastructure going on where you've got the columns and the pilings in the ground and now this guideway the train will run over. >> reporter: there are now about a half dozen work sites in this stretch in the valley, the

wilson walker is showing us the high speed rail is already happening in the central valley. >> what i would say, you to start somewhere and the central valley is is a good place to start. >> reporter: that's true. when you're launching the largest public infrastructure project in the unite, you have to start somewhere. >> in the fresno area, there's 8 to 10 older crossings that are being constructed to reroute the roads over or under the high speed rail alignment. >> reporter: 4 miles away, highway 99 is getting moved 100 feet to the west to make room for future tracks and about half an hour to the north, you will see something that really does look like the makings of a train project. >> it's looking like this cool infrastructure going on out there. you have the pilings in the ground, and now you're building the guideway that the train will run over. >> there's half a dozen work sites on this stretch of the valley, the first in a long line of so-called construction packages that could be stitched together between san francisco and los angeles. >> we will have about 120 miles of const

wilson walker shows us the high speed rail is already happening in the central valley. >> you've got to start somewhere and the central valley is a good place to start. >> when you're launching the largest public infrastructure project in the united states, you have to start somewhere. somewhere is the edge of downtown fresno. >> in the fresno area, there are eight to ten overcrossings being constructed to reroute roads over or under the high speed rail. >> highway 99 is getting moved 100 feet to the west to make room for future tracks. about half an hour to the north you'll see something that really does look like the makings of a train project, it's looking like this pretty cool infrastructure going on where you've got the columns and you've got the piles in the ground and now you're building this guide way that the train is going to run over, there are half a dozen work sites over this stretch of the valley construction packages that will eventually be stitched together between san francisco and los angeles. >> so we'll have about twoe 0 120 -- 120 miles of construction underway t

in fact, our very own wilson walker spent the day there talking to neighbors who say their neighborhood is under soon. -- is under siege. >> it's going to be crazy. it's going to be a lot of people and we are going to get busy. i'm ready. you know? fresno. came from fresno. yeah. >> i came from stockton california from the valley. >> i'm from sacramento. >> you know some people come out here to get the free samples. >> like these guys. >> everybody, man. if they're here at 420 you in this parking lot now what's going on man. [ beep beep ] >> we come from redwood city california. >> did you find out where to park yet? >> no, i haven't thought about the it yet. i'm thinking about going to mcdonald's to grab a hamburger before i get up in there. >> i got the groceries. i'm taking the hose out of the garage and i i'm bringing the hose to the house so i can flush the pee off. >> i got off powell station and they were completely packed the whole way. >> reporter: it's not officially under way yet and it's mass chaos already? >> i live east and west streets, they are all blocked. >> you're not

they go -- they know to go see mary wilson, knock on the door, have you voted, it's 4:00. come on i'll drive you to the polls. walkeray have one of better operations in the country because -- >> sure. you go back to south carolina. and you had nikki haley who is a sitting governor of that state. she endorsed marco rubio. then trump wound up winning. >> but she doesn't have the machine that walker has. i mean, she hasn't run in three -- >> right. >> in a way it's remarkable. >> it's a well oiled machine by now. >> remarkable that he wasn't either the candidate or a stronger candidate because -- >> walker. >> yeah. great politician. i mean, i have campaigned with him. i consider him one of the really best. >> so talking about what steve was mentioning south carolina why did trump do well in that state with evangelicals, but yet, people are saying like you were talking about he's not doing well in wisconsin with the evangelicals or with the protestants. >> because i think the walker factor makes a difference. i think wisconsin's hard to read because of scott walker's big impact on the state. i think the fact that trump