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The conditions were facing this year. >> reporter: the governor declared state of emergency just days after the fire broke out and exploded in size. cal fire officials say the mountain terrain is making it difficult for fire crews to control it. >> if you have a fire thats established at the bottom of the hill, that fire will race to the top. >> reporter: fire personnel say the national guard was activated and bringing in more support. thousands are left without power and hundreds of power pole ...

Across california. but will you get a say on where they kpix 5 news at 6:00 begins with up to 50,000 cell phone towers coming to cities across california but will you get a say where they pop up? good evening, im allen martin. >> im veronica de la cruz. new at 6:00, california cities fighting back at a proposed law thats moving quickly through the legislature. they say it would allow phone companies to put up new antennae in your neighborhood whether you like it or not. kpix 5s phil matier in ...

Even if we just lose a portion, right, if we have new york city or washington, d.c., go down for a day, two days, a week, how does life look like at that a int? >> reporter: rob lee is a former cyber warfare operations officer in the u.s. military and investigated the ukraine attack. he told us some u.s. electric utilities have weaker security than ukraine, and the malicious software the hackers used has already been detected in the u.s. >> its very concerning that these same actors using simila...

The wind is spectacular. >> the ceo, jeff garbowsky blocking us through this event. it will send electricity to the island and the mainland without producing emissions that fuel climate change. >> we need to make investments in new project like this in order to tap into what will be our future as a clean energy nation. >> what if this project fails? >> it is not going to fail, it is beautiful and spectacular. >> the farms changed the sea scape. during the day and night as they enjoy it. >> we ha...

Power, we found these workers from kentucky. just one of many states moving in to help florida. 15,000 crews from across the country. >> 15,000 restoration workers. >> reporter: right here. >> right here in florida. >> reporter: coming from as far away as massachusetts and california, vowing to turn the lights on. tonight, the question, when will the power be back? officials tell me theyre working as hard as they can, but theyre limited by the storm. theyre not going to work in unsafe conditions...

Government test facility in idaho falls with a team of cyber experts is busy identifying hackers and trying to stop them. >> is it difficult for some sort of a cyberattacker to take down a power grid? >> its much more simple than we would like it to be. >> to show us just how simple it is, the cyber team recreated the ukraine attack. a hacker using a common e-mail phishing scam steals a an employees credentials, takes full control of the computer operating the power grid and shuts it down. >> in...

Thousands of u.s. computer systems that control critical infrastructure. the code known as black energy has been linked to russia. >> there are companies across the country, this is not just with respect to electricity companies, that dont fully appreciate the nature of the threat. >> 75 to 80% of the nations critical infrastructure is owned and operated by private sector companies, despite many warnings, dhs says some companies have failed to take even basic cybersecurity measures. >> it comes ...

Happened. a recent study found that 94% of americans fear a cyberattack second only to an attack by isis. >> so what happened is one of these large breakers, several of the large braerks, operated remotely by the attacker. >> it was the fist known cyberattack of its kind, three attacks, 30 minutes apart against three electrical substations serving ukraines power grid. >> this is not theoretical, this has happened. weve now had a cyberattack on critical infrastructure was that destructive. >> des...

Run by the underground systems. >> reporter: the malicious code identified as having played a role in ukraines attack is the same code dhs recently admit is in hundreds if not thousands of u.s. computer systems that control critical infrastructure. the code known as black energy has been linked to russia. >> there are companies across the country and this is not just with respect to electricity companies, that dont fully appreciate the nature of the threat. >> reporter: 75% to 80% of the nations...

They strike. >> reporter: russian malware is in hundreds if not thousands of computer that hold information, and americans fear cyberattack second only to an attack by isis. >> what happened is one of the large breakers or several of the large breakers were operated remotely by the attacker. >> reporter: it was the first-known cyberattack of its kind. three attacks 3 minutes apart -- 30 minutes apart, against three electrical substations serving ukraines power grid. >> this has happened. weve ha...