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Of course as you reported a main part of the country's power equation what's behind the drive for more ever more electricity in india. well quite simply development you know india's energy needs are simply staggering the country's economy is expanding rapidly industrializing ever more people are moving from rural areas to urban areas they need new roads buildings cause so i think the demand for energy is growing substantially and on the other hand india faces a massive shortfall when it comes to providing electricity to its one point two five billion people an estimated two hundred fifty mil...

It's extremely unforgiving. this is a little more unforgiving than that. >> despite this constant maintenance, the aging grid still fails. august 14th, 2003. a cascade of failures plunge some 55 million on the eastern seaboard into the dark. the blackout shuts offices and strands commuters. but within 24 hours, it's over. >> if we don't improve our transmission grid, we're probably looking at more potential blackouts in the future. certainly if we have a growing population, which we do, and growing electric demand. >> the grid of the future must cope with a 30% increase in demand in the next d...

on his feet. this prisoner has the face of the syrian regime tattooed on his chest. portraits of of the family that has ruled syria for more than 40 years. former president haffaz assad, and on the back, a tribute to hezbollah, the shiite movement in syria, and then someone has put tattoos showing assad's face, and allah is great is all that the prisoner says. this prisoner is a member of the group that is a former member of the agricultural industry who does not want to be identified. >> it looked to me that somebody deliberately cut on the tattoos of the assad family. >>. this man ...

Live lines. >> you might do it every day. can't get complacent with it. got to think about what you're doing all the time. >> the secret of working on energized cables is to attach yourself to the live lines so that you are grounded. >> put the wand on the wire, the whole helicopter, the people, everything, gets energized to the same potential. >> the team know ifs they make a mistake, it will be fatal. >> aviation in and of itself is not inherently dangerous. it's extremely unforgiving. this is a little more unforgiving than that. >> despite this constant maintenance, the aging grid still fai...

Brought in. >> we'll definitely be following this. nbc's andrea mitchell. thank you very much. be sure to catch "andrea mitchell reports" at noon weekdays. to detroit where a massive power outage. employees of the courthouse have been told not to return until work tomorrow. detroit public schools dismissed students midday because of the blackout. detroit's public lighting department says a major cable failure caused the city's aging grid to lose power. a war of words broke out between st. louis county police and the hometown football team, the st. louis rams. at issue, whether the rams' ex...