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So rare to see so many people happy about a storm, but we are gleeful. Rainfall is covering virtually all of the bay area at the moment and most of it is light rain and some areas becoming more in excess, down around half moon bay, pockets of moderate rainfall, perhaps pockets of heavy rainfall there and moving towards fremont, it was between palo alto and fremont, pockets of steadier, heavier rain. As we give you the big picture, its wet everywhere. Lets start our forecast animation at 11 00 to...

Around the house, i was losing my appetite, and this is very cheney i wasnt fearful or anxious about my situation, id lived a wonderful life and now it was ending. How do you feel now . [laughter] wrong again. [laughter] no, i it was, i wrote that very seriously. It was a very serious moment. It obviously comes up from time to time. I did believe id reached the end of the line, and it was, as i said in the book, it was not frightening. I was at peace, and it was more difficult for my family to c...

FERC has become too politicized and should use its independent authority to move the electricity industry forward, two former commission chairs said.

When the lights go out, most people assume it’s due to a storm. Not necessarily. This year, Americans suffered from an uptick in malicious attacks on all 16 sectors of critical infrastructure (CI). Recent nationwide attacks highlighted severe vulnerabilities within the energy sector. We must act to protect our power substations so we won’t have to stay in the dark. What’s a Substation?

Nationwide of vandalism, sabotage, or physical attack at electric facilities this year alone. are you concerned that something like this could happen again? >> oh, im very concerned. >> reporter: john wellinghoff is former chair of the federal energy regulatory commission. how vulnerable are these stations? >> to the extent they have chain-link fences around them, that theyre not secured, theyre extremely vulnerable. we need to get more serious about this from the standpoint of having prescripti...

News and update from power official in moore county, north carolina. i just spoke to the mayor of one of the cities affected, she said power could be restored by the end of the day tonight. that could allow schools, stores, restaurants to finally reopen. its been days after the weekend shooting attack that knocked out power. john wellinghoff joins us. thank you for taking the time this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> first, lets speak about the sophistication of this attack. in the break...

The grid infrastructure. >> i guess that is what saved them. it took them 20 days to get back on line and they kept them powered up by drawing power from different substations and talk with me a bit. the wall street journal did an article and at the time, federal energy regulatory commission had this to say, it was the most significant incident and we want to go back and put that up of domestic terrorism involving the grid that ever occurred in the u.s. and this was john wellinghoff. they found ...

back, some have been deadly and now an urgent need nationwide for blood donations. and also, an alleged arsonist accidentally lights himself on fire. karma, caught on camera. >> and i am harris faulkner. and is america ready for an attack on our power grid that leaves millions of us on the dark. we are learning new details about a sniper attack in northern california. the fbi said it could not find evidence that it was terrorism. but there was a lot of damage to the silicon valley elec...

eastern connecticut and my electrical rates, when i asked is, they at the bill are pretty reasonable. cl and p and we constantly get calls from people wanting us to switch but i dont switch because i already know that game. who areif we had people in charge of overlooking these are cular industries who reign to rein in these individuals who are trying americans constantly. if we had people like john with demeanor, the country would be a lot better off. thank you. very kind of you, russ...