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Out what a mass they are going to be doing. i track what a pain. give us a sense of how unusual this is. you said total digital system failure. how common is that? we see this every five or ten years. it is very rare. there are of course back—up systems and back—up systems which are designed to make sure that there are designed to make sure that there are fail—safe. well, you should not have a shutdown like this. and of course, already, the speculation online, that this is happening becaus...

That is, they were in communication with the ship on the surface, but they couldnt find the titanic. there is no gps underwater. regular radio waves dont travel underwater. so those customers who paid a quarter of million dollars spent three hours in pitch darkness and never found anything. titan sitting at 3,742 - metres, reports on bottom. i was terrified about getting stuck at the bottom of the sea, losing power. and i saw that there are not two back—up systems, not four — there are seven...

May have had their own back—up systems but clearly the overall systems but clearly the overall system failed the airlines and the travelling public here in the travelling public here in the us. it should not take too long for this investigation to be completed. i hope it would be completed. i hope it would be more —— no more than four weeks and possibly sooner. it seems they know what the culprit is. what they also need to determine is how to make sure this never happens again. i suppose s...

Were really doing well. so based on that, we should do pretty well and i hope so. but you have to be very vigilant. one of the things paper back-up voting. called paper. not highly complex computers. paper. and a lot of states are doing that. theyre going to a paper back-up. and i think thats a great idea. were studying it very closely. various agencies including homeland security are studying it very carefully. >> are you worried about russia trying to meddle in the mid-term elections? >> no. w...

Back to you. >> the water is dangerous. thank you. there is another new hazard. the fire at a chemical plant after a series of explosions on thursday. electricity was knocked out when hurricane harvey hit last week. back up systems since failed and there is no power for the refrigerators used to stabilize a chemical known as organic pe rocks id. when its not kept cool, it overheats and explodes and catches fire. they own the plant and there will be no more explosions. heres the thing the company...

Diesel generators to begin operating to supply back-up power if it was needed. we do have that 161 kv line still in if service, so the plant is shut down but in a safe condition. everything worked as designed. when the plant did shut down, there were no concerns. and we keep those diesel generators running to insure that we will have back-up power if for any reason we needed it. jon: right. we know what happened in japan, the back-up power generators were, basically, swept out to sea or at least...

Was built in united states, woud have had to have had a lot stronger vessel and back-up systems. this thing happened because they had catastrophic loss of power systems, and in the united states we have much higher standards. but youre right, the designs of reactors were talking about bringing on today are not the so-called boiling water design that was used 40 years ago. these plants are a little more vulnerable than others because theyre at the end of their life. and at the end of a nuclear po...

Two people were injured when two gondola cars fell off a cable. actually, everyday the lives are inspected each morning by the ski patrol and the lift maintenance department that. includes looking at every single one of these shift trains as they are called. the wheels that the cable rolls over, if you will, those are looked at very closely. thats the fail point in this situation. the cable can slip off that. it can happen a number of ways. but there are also three back-up systems on the lift th...