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Been a long—term concern of some of the grassroots supporters of the conservative party and formally the uk independence party. this is seen as a key issue and the images and reports of what has been happening in the channel have been key. deploying the armed forces in that effort have been something they have really tried to grab attention with and that has all been part of this communications grid, this technical approach that the spin doctors in number 10 take to trying to win across the me...

We really need to look at not necessarily trying to control mother nature but trying to look at the communications grid and the new building codes. theres no reason, for example, that someone who has 100 employees or more doesnt have adequate shelters within 100 yards to get to within the event of an ef 4 or 5 tornado. same thing in illinois with amazon. the tragic thing about amazon is they actually sell on their website the types of shelters that their employees needed to stay safe. so we need...

So the destruction actually could have been a lot worse. but what we have behind here is a catastrophic failure of the electrical grid. there is no power anywhere within the city limits of new orleans, other than that thats being generated by outside generators. and its a real mess. the communications grid has been knocked down, cellular service. at&t completely knocked out. t-mobile has been crippled. verizon seems to be holding on okay. but its been a real tough time. weve been driving around....

8:34 AM MYT A vehicle on fire after the Christmas Day explosion. Buildings shook in the immediate area and beyond after a loud boom was heard. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP) NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP): A recreational vehicle parked in the deserted streets of downtown Nashville exploded early Christmas morning, causing widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems and grounded holiday travel at the citys airport. Authorities said they believe the blast was inte...

This sort of telecommunications infrastructure that exists in a place that we dont have a lot of control. so if its not the asteroid it could be a superstorm -- >> a flare like that one. >> power surges. >> a far greater danger. >> thats not a matter of, hey, that might happen. that will happen, likely within the next 50 years, and that is going to cause major disruptions in our communications grid. power surges, anything that could wipe out all your pictures, all the family photos that exist on...

good morning to you. it is thursday, august 11 now. this is "american morning." lot going on today. lets get right to it, folks. >> good morning, good morning. so much for comeback. havent seen these kind of wild swings on wall street since the darkest days of the financial meltdown. the dow diving 520 points yesterday. this time fueled by fears or at least triggered by fears. that france is on a verge of a credit downgrade. every day it seems to be something new trying terg sell-off o...

Happening in our city, i couldnt do that. there was no service. and the cell service routinely fails. it turns out that a growing number of americans rely on this for communication. >> they dont have land lines, right. >> but the phone industry, the mobile phone industry has pushed very hard to make sure theyre regulated as an entertainment industry, not as a lifeline industry that provides public services. so they routinely fail. look, we are now in a situation where people in cities throughout...