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Because of its implications. vladimir putin and the destabilization of the russian economy. who knows what putin is going to do next to try to get things right with oil prices. that will continue into 2015. number 4, another biggy. cyber terrorism. i fear that what we're seeing currently with sony, not only isn't going to be the last. i'm pretty sure of that, but may wind up being trivial compared to what else some foreign power may decide to to do. if they can do this with sony and cause this much havoc what could they do with the grid system, our power system. >> this is emerging as one of m...

Fast on that because of issues perhaps, potentially reliability, especially if we have severe weather like we had with the polar vortex this year and extreme heat that could potentially happen in the future. back to you. jenna: just a quick question on that, rich. because of course we talked a lot about the threats to the grid because of terrorism. is it terror that it seems the government is really worried about hitting the grid, or is it just the infrastructure of the grid and whether or not it can survive, if you will, some of the natural forces that are out there? >> reporter: it is potent...

Shots too that you might be able to see in the video. and that gives you a sense of the area, and you do see those ribb ribbons. some of those ribbons are marking a grid system of sorts that we've set up to help them say we've checked this area and we can move on to the next area. and we also were told that a lot of what you're seeing in some of the video is under wear, until the past 24 hours, which made it difficult to get in and search those zones. they've been using pumps to get all that water out and they've also had dogs, dogs with incredibly sensitive sense of smell that can even detect...

Do you guys get images -- satellite immachblgs and then look for something in the water that matches it? >> well, what it is is the air crews from, for example, our p.a., we're working with australian authorities that have the lead for this will be assigned a search area. so based on whatever information the australian authorities have that are leading the search, they will assign, for example, our unit where to go and search. >> but are you looking -- like let's say tomorrow you get images, these new satellite images of this debris field, will not you in particular because you may be searchin...

We set up a grid system that will ensure that we're covering all the areas. and we will cover it more than once. we usually do it once, twice, or three times as needed to make sure that we're covering all the areas that we need to go into. on the east side, on the darington side, we have the washington task force 1 integrated in, which they're providing a lot of expertise in that usar type mode over there. it's really similar to the national guard, their capabilities. and we also have other plans in place to open up access for us to get into the site, because we have the water infiltration iss...