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These attacks. >> reporter: among the targets of china's hackers, america's very infrastructure. >> now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems. >> reporter: other targets of chinese hackers, familiar brand names like coca-cola, facebook, "the new york times," "washington post" and "wall street journal," and only today, apple. the hackers have user names like ugly gorilla and doda. according to this instructional manual from mandia, the computer security firm that did the study. >> here we see doda logging...

Commission's command center, a ripple of uncertainty about how vulnerable this country is. can something like india happen here? >> it can't spread to california because the grid is divided in the middle of the nation here. >> reporter: the main difference, say engineers, is america's grid is now monitored more closely than ever, checking for line surges 30 times a second. and since the northeast's 2003 blackout, 16,000 miles of new transmission lines have been added to the grid. still, some in the northeast are more than 70 years old. >> a lot of it is old. there is no question about it. >> r...

Trains and subways, all grinding to a halt. that's the kind of chaos that people in india, as many as 670 million of them, faced over the past two days, as half of the national power grid shut down. so did an electric elevator in a mine shaft in west bengal trapping some 200 coal minors for hours. and air conditioning, even fans stopped in many hospitals. i paid for an x-ray, says this patient, but because of the blackout, i can't get it now. monday's outage was bad enough, but as switches tripped across the country, a 2,000 mile swath from the border with china to pakistan, was plunged into d...

Conservationists used breeding programs to keep them wild in captivity and to keep them from growing reliant on humans, they used puppets to feed the chicks. the program is working-- by next year, the population is set to soar past the 400 mark. >> we have saved the species genetically and demographically. >> reporter: michael mace has given most of his career to protect the california condor. he has released more than 1,000 into the wild. he is proud of the bird's progress but... >> the environment still has problems. it has put pressures on the species. >> reporter: pressures like these powe...

A heads up here tonight about something coming tomorrow. if you're around any media like tv or radio at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, you will hear one of those tests of the emergency alert system. this one will be different, it's the first across the board national test of the new fema system, designed to give the president or the government the ability to alert the population to a national disaster or event. they even have a slogan for tomorrow, don't stress, it's only a test. that sound you may hear tonight is anger from the normally reserved people in the state of connecticut. tonight 11,000 h...