The fire-damaged section of the Santa Monica (10) Freeway in downtown Los Angeles will reopen in three to five weeks, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday, saying additional testing on concrete and rebar showed better-than-anticipated structural integrity of the freeway deck. "This will not be a demolition, we will not need to demolish and replace the I-10," Newsom said during a Tuesday morning news conference. Instead, crews will work around the clock to continue shoring up and repairing the freeway deck and the roughly 100 support columns affected by the fire that erupted early Saturday morning and forced the closure of a roadway that handles 300,000 vehicles per day. MORE: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/fire-damaged-freeway-in-la-will-not-need-to-be-demolished/509-717fbb07-c3f7-48e5-b8b1-2a7524e2c3cb