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On Saturday morning, the coastal town of San Clemente became ground zero in the battle between California and the Trump administration over a pre-planned live-fire artillery round shot over the freeway during a military event at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

A 17-miles stretch of Interstate 5 was periodically closed through Camp Pendleton, and the northern side of the closure was just outside San Clemente’s city limits.

Mid-morning on Saturday the southbound 5 Freeway grounded to a halt about half a mile ahead of the El Camino Real exit, the second-to-last exit before the closure during the previously announced interstate closure.

The previous three freeway exits — Avenida Pal

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