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To fill our dams so that we can irrigate the orchards and vineyards and everything through the summer, so now weve become even more dependent on underground water. as i listen to you, im thinking this sounds like a nightmare scenario. youve got a long—term water shortage problem, which is being massively exacerbated by this immediate power problem. we only had this level of load—shedding from about january, february, so we have managed to survive this season, but if this happens next year, w...

Rain and then a relatively short winter when it is supposed to rain, but for the past seven years weve had way lower than average rainfall so we havent been getting the winter rain that we need to fill our dams so that we can irrigate the orchards and vineyards and everything through the summer, so now weve become even more dependent on underground water. as i listen to you, im thinking this sounds like a nightmare scenario. youve got a long—term water shortage problem, which is being massivel...

Overnight in a big fire broke out in a residential building and it densely populated refugee camp. it is not the first time we have seen people dying from a fire. tens of thousands of people attended the mass funeral in gaza, it started at the hospital where people were gathering overnight to pay respect to those victims, then the march was walking towards the cemetery where 21 graves were there. gaza is suffering from a severe power shortage, so people normally store large amounts of fuel to ru...

More election news just ahead. lets turn to the critical energy shortages in ukraine brought about by russian attacks on infrastructure there. nick roberts is on the ground for us in eastern ukraine right now. nick, how dire is the power problem? >> its dire. its critical in kyiv. the concern is that just one or two more russian strikes could hit that critical part of the infrastructure that will take the city down and black it out. it can cause heating and a number of things it to go down. here...

Reliable and doesnt change when it comes to what we should be doing, and reassurances about the economy and inflation. this seems like if they can sustain it, its probably a good idea in a midterm election year. >> i mean, its the only idea, nicole. their problems here go back months when the president and his party set expectations sky high on voting rights and build back better, but they didnt have the votes on day one of his presidency, and they havent got them now. and so the messaging probl...

Shuttle buses are replacing sections of the Blue and Green Lines Friday morning due to power problems, according to the MBTA.

More per hour. >> reporter: china is trying to cut carbon emissions, but cuts in coal production have led to record prices. utility companies are not allowed to raise their fees to match. since they cant make money, they stop making electricity. by the time speakers finally leave the factory and head to a chinese port, theres a different power problem-- man power. for every two weeks on the job, dock workers spend three weeks off, in quarantine. >> they can be exposed to the covid virus coming i...

Is in louisiana tonight with the latest. good evening, mike. >> good evening, bret. and behind me is one of the eight transmission towers that are at the heart of the power problem here in new orleans. losing this tower is essentially losing a main power source and then you lose the seven backups but that twisted rusted wreckage is a visual example of why governor john bel edwards said recovery will be long. >> the misery caused by hurricane ida has only begun. >> debris everywhere. poles are do...

On, ironically, this is the 42nd anniversary of the 1977 blackout, when caused a lot of problems the night of july 13th into 14th i remember well at that point lootings widespread looting throughout city a thousand stores hit more than one thousand fires scene a sense of mayhem chaos, true out of control, and some of new yorks worst days, that not at all the situation here tonight was very calm, basically people although there was anxiety people taking it in stride. i saw people out, in restaura...

Response in midtown manhattan. the governor said it, everybody in the city has ptsd about what happened with 9/11. so this is always first concern. was it deliberate or an accident? >> it seems from the reporting were getting and the fact that its bad weather outside and very low visibility and that somebody put a helicopter squarely down on the top of a tall manhattan building, this was a deliberate attempt to force-land a helicopter in a situation in which the helicopter had probably failed in...