Mark Dinger, a spokesman with the state Department of Transportation, said Tuesday that the assessment to state highways is preliminary. California authorities say they will wait for a stretch of Highway 1 to stabilize again before going in to assess damage from a massive new landslide along the iconic coast road. Department of Transportation spokesman Colin Jones said late Monday that a massive weekend landslide buried a one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) stretch of Highway 1 in up to 40 feet of new rock and dirt.