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Two men have been charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities for a series of attacks on substations in Washington state that took place on Christmas Day.

Ten days after two electrical substations in central North Carolina were knocked out by gunfire, there are still more questions than answers about the incident. The outage left about 45,000 customers without power, some for as long as five days

Backup power grid was able to take over. in this case, what were seeing in north carolina was a vulnerability, a strategic vulnerability in our infrastructure, one that comes up quite often in domestic extremist discussions online. i can tell you that for sure. now it comes down to what the fbi and local law enforcement conversion collapse on the actual suspect. once we get there, we will be able to know if there really is that tie between these two things. it is possible, but i think at this po...

Handsome states, and there is no central database. it is a very different country. >> so we just laid out how law enforcement, their reaction versus, here but lets talk about the motives. these extremist in germany were apparently planning to take out the electrical infrastructure there. that sounds disturbingly familiar to what we just saw here. now we dont yet know the motive in those substation attacks in north carolina, but as the power theyre gets restored, are you concerned that that could...

Them, maybe the entire democratic party as a domestic terror group. so weve got to do this carefully. the germans tied to violence. serious violence against the state. if you are preparing for, planning fort. they move in quickly and say you are a domestic terrorist, we are naming you. the other thing they can do in germany that we cant do here. they take your weapons from you if you are domestic terrorist or associated with a group. do you know how they do that? they have a database of people w...

Casings from a high-powered rifle have been recovered from the scene of the attack on a north carolina power station. well speak to an expert who has investigated similar substation attacks before. the supreme court case were watching closely, arguments underway as we speak, in a voting case that could fundamentally change election law going forward. there is some concern that it could have an impact on public safety, too. what it all means? well take a look. and signals from chinesing its c...