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The u.s. at altitude ideal for an emp attack. for years congress has struggled with many bills designed to harden the nation's electric grid against an emp attack but none of them made it out of committee. special interests often intervene fearful of the cost of upgrades when the effects of an emp attack are still being disputed. bret? >> bret: doug, thank you. the man in charge of homeland security says the terror threat is much worse than most people realize. secretary john kelly told steve doocy and the "fox & friends" crew this morning there is a lot going on. >> i was telling steve on the...

What is striking is the degree to which the russians were willing to undertake an audacious and risky action against the most powerful nation on earth. that ought to be a warning to us, that if we thought the russians would not dare to so blatantly interfere in our affairs, we were wrong. and if we don't do or best to understand how the russians accomplished this unpress did p attack on our democracy, we will only have ourselves to blame. we know a lot about the russian operation, about the way they amplified the damage their hacking and dumping of stolen documents was causing through the use ...

Committee. oh, wait here he was here at the iernl deal quizzing nuclear physicist the energy secretary on some let's just say charitably pretty fringe theories of the electromagnetic pulse weapons or emps. >> emp attack like somebody like north korea or iran it can be conducted from a ship off our coast using a scud missile. >> i'm highly concerned. as you secretary of energy not even aware of these recommendations made public in 2008. >> joining me now wisconsin native and editor-in-chief of "progressive" magazine this nuclear physicist basically has to indulge the frankly really fringy paran...

Telecommunications. that means no transportation. that means no medical supplies. >> start pushing and the cops came. >> this clip from a recent national geographic special gives us a sense of what life might be like after an emp attack. if it sounds far-fetched, consider last july, a steamer owned by iran's ally was found in panama hiding nuclear capable missiles under sugar. experts believe russia has given emp technology to north korea. our sun also produced emps. a big one called the carrington event occurred in 1859. telephone offices and lines caught fire. experts say our electric grids ...

Sweltering temperatures across the country, with triple digits expected in the midwest and mid 90s in washington, d.c. nearly two million people are still without power in our nation's capital and several midatlantic states after storms ripped through the area over the weekend, killing nearly two dozen and leaving a path of destruction. meanwhile, crews in colorado are finally gaining control of the most destructive wildfires the state has ever seen. the a.p. reports that climate change appears to be at the root of this wild weather, but newt gingrich says the d.c. power outages may just be a ...