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These attacks. >> reporter: among the targets of chinas hackers, americas very infrastructure. >> now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems. >> reporter: other targets of chinese hackers, familiar brand names like coca-cola, facebook, "the new york times," "washington post" and "wall street journal," and only today, apple. the hackers have user names like ugly gorilla and doda. according to this instructio...

Commissions command center, a ripple of uncertainty about how vulnerable this country is. can something like india happen here? >> it cant spread to california because the grid is divided in the middle of the nation here. >> reporter: the main difference, say engineers, is americas grid is now monitored more closely than ever, checking for line surges 30 times a second. and since the northeasts 2003 blackout, 16,000 miles of new transmission lines have been added to the grid. still, some in the ...

Trains and subways, all grinding to a halt. thats the kind of chaos that people in india, as many as 670 million of them, faced over the past two days, as half of the national power grid shut down. so did an electric elevator in a mine shaft in west bengal trapping some 200 coal minors for hours. and air conditioning, even fans stopped in many hospitals. i paid for an x-ray, says this patient, but because of the blackout, i cant get it now. mondays outage was bad enough, but as switches tripped ...

Conservationists used breeding programs to keep them wild in captivity and to keep them from growing reliant on humans, they used puppets to feed the chicks. the program is working-- by next year, the population is set to soar past the 400 mark. >> we have saved the species genetically and demographically. >> reporter: michael mace has given most of his career to protect the california condor. he has released more than 1,000 into the wild. he is proud of the birds progress but... >> the environm...

A heads up here tonight about something coming tomorrow. if youre around any media like tv or radio at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, you will hear one of those tests of the emergency alert system. this one will be different, its the first across the board national test of the new fema system, designed to give the president or the government the ability to alert the population to a national disaster or event. they even have a slogan for tomorrow, dont stress, its only a test. that sound you may hear ...

Hour, and everywhere you look are reminders of what happens if you try to go faster. what awaits us in texas isnt much better. with the super bowl just days away, dallas is encased in ice. texas power companies are warning customers to conserve. one day after rolling blackouts across the state shut off power for 10 to 45 minutes at a time, even at many hospitals. notoriously prideful texas had to go so far as to buy electricity from mexico, just to keep the lights and the heat on. >> they should...

Something extreme. >> and profits and pensions. how your bill helps balance the retirement funds of californias big power companies. and a call to action demanding immediate protection against violent inmates. >> here you can see the car pulled from a central valley canal just less than 45 minutes ago part of a statewide search for a missing little boy. it turned out to be a stolen vehicle but not the car theyve been looking for. >> so its back to square one in the search for a 4-year-old. diver...

Weapons program. the "new york times" says scientists at a facility in israel perfected the computer virus that sabotaged crucial machinery in iran. national security correspondent david martin has more. >> reporter: iran took ambassadors from the international atomic energy agency on a tour today of the uranium enrichment plant believed to be at the center of its nuclear weapons program. but the iranian guides made no mention of the technical projects which have afflicted the plant, delaying it...

With little more than the ghoe of a cell phone to light their way. the moment the earthquake hit safeguards shut down the power grid. teams from the state electric company are trying to repair the damage. the earthquake destroyed 20% of the infrastructure at this distribution center all of port-au-prince gets electric from here. the team is trying to salvage some equipment. he hopes within a week the station may start working again. but no one seems to know when the diesel generations will go ba...

Efforts to get electricity turned back in the capital. >> reporter: it has been two weeks stins lights went out in port-au-prince. the pastor is looking for a candle. night after night, this is what families face. in a city that has no power. >> this is the way we live now in haiti. >> reporter: after sunset it is pitch black. darkness, residents get ready to sleep out in the street. with little more than a globe of a cell phone to light their way. the moment the earthquake hit, safeguards shut ...