Break is because there is so much water and ice now all over the road. Just a skating rink here now. D. C. Water says its an 8inch main and they did get the water turned off it appears. We dont know when theyre going to be able to come and start actually working to repair this main. They also say that there may be some customers in the area affected without water, too, so definitely causing a number of problems here. Not only for residents but also for commuters. And its its just the kind of thing that they know they have to deal with. They have wssc and d. C. Water have extra crews on hand. D. C. Water says theyve been dealing with some 200 water emergencies a day since this cold snap began and we know that theres going to be more of these to come. They really are just kind of bringing in those extra crews, having everyone else on standby and were going to be here this morning. Hopefully this is not the the beginning of many, many that were going to be covering today but to stay here
Last week the independent federal Energy Regulatory commission, even one stuffed with trump appointees, rejected secretary perrys proposed power grid reliability rule to subsidize coal and nuclear plants. The ferc commissioners found that the commission failed to meet clear and legal requirements like that the result will be just and reasonable under the federal power act. As an aside here, the theory of the coal industry was that their units provide more reliability than renewables. Well, tell that to iowas electric grid operators who have baked iowas abundant wind energy not just into their flow but into their reliability modeling. Tell that to new englands i. S. O. Which has allowed renewables into its capacity auctions to be paid for meeting base Load Capacity requirements. And of course tell that to anyone who has had to deal with scheduled and unscheduled outages at coal plants. When i went on one of my climate visits to, in this case, tennessee, i heard about a coal plant that h
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Leadership has been looking at that to setup a climate where retaliation is not acceptable i will put a question for the record about the unused building record in afghanistan. I know there was an investigation that you were not found to be a problem in this but it is a problem the investigation found no problem and in reality there was a huge problem that someone signed off on a building for 36 million that is never going to go used. My final question if you dont have time to do it now, i want to make sure we get your take on isis in afghanistan. With your experience in afghanistan, are you comfortable you have a handle on what isis is trying to do in afghanistan . Senator, what i know from general campbells reports and intelligence is we have seen a number of taliban rebrand themselves as isis but beyond that i dont have a good feel for the depth of the problem but it would be one of the issues i look into if confirmed thank you very much. General dunford, i think you are just the ma
Coordinator and making sure that people are aware and have the resources. Thats certainly not the time to be coming into the Government Office and working with us to make sure we have appropriate remedies. Another topic i raised seeing trade secrets as a form of intellectual property like copyright and trademark. We are beginning to get it. They have been actively advocating and working with european nations and they are very interested in whats happening here in the United States. You mentioned moving from first inventor to file with the systems we have now. Theres a number of changes i pr was created out of that whole process. We just need to see the implications. Just now, three or four years later, what it means. Later, what it means. Will it have positive implications or something that we may see there are issues with that. That is why, if we are going to legislate again in this area we need to be very careful about how we go about it because we are just now seeing the output of w