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Early this morning they lifted up heavy manhole covers and lifted up the at&t fiberoptic cables. someone fired a highpowered rifle into pg&e's substation. >> we believe that the perpetrator or perpetrators were familiar with systems. they knew where to go for the fiberoptics, where to cut, they were able to take out some very very critical parts of the pg&e substation. >> is this sabotage? >> it's too early to tell. we believe it was an intentional act. >> someone got underground and they cut the cables that hook up 911 service, some cell phone service and internet access. a few minutes later ...

Development. i know in alabama we could use rural broadband. it's a real issue. being able to lay fiberoptics as well as to improve our roads and bridges there are lots and lots of projects that i could name that could benefit from the president's vision last night. >> gerry, can speaker boehner get his party on board with this? >> i hope so. i hope so for the benefit of the country. it was really a wise one, because it's about pooling public capital and private capital together to improve the infrastructure of america. >> gerry connolly, congressman, can boehner get anybody on board? why not ...

>> people were investing in fiberoptics or dotcoms and here warren buffett comes up and says i'm going to invest in railroads. and guess what? it was a massive, massive success. >> people listen to him as if he's handing down the 10 commandments. and sometimes it feels like that's what he's doing. >> a lot of people don't know steve jobs, believe it or not. >> he's irreplaceable. he drives apple. he represents apple. he's the great marketer at apple. he's not the world's nicest guy. but he's making products like the iphone and the ipad that are game changers. there's no question about it. >> e...

With the initial attention it got allowed all the other networks to say, let's do something different. >> what was interesting about "northern exposure" it was an odd sort of universe that this guy was dropped into. >> the day's coming. it ain't going to be long when you ain't going to have to leave your living room. no more schools, no more bodega or tabernacles or no more cineplexes, all right? you're going to snuggle up to your fiberoptics and bliss out. >> you also had experimentation that set the stage for a lot of what came later. >> it's kind of hard to pin down what exactly "the x file...

Many places in germany outside the big cities suffer from slow connections germany is virtually a developing country when it comes to super fast fiber optic cables. in japan over three quarters of all broadband connections are over fiber optic cables. latvia leads europe though with over sixty percent via fiber optics by comparison the average for all always nations is slightly over twenty two percent but here in germany only about two percent of broadband is delivered via fiberoptics. many businesses are frustrated with berlin because there has been little progress over the last few years the...