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Nationwide of vandalism, sabotage, or physical attack at electric facilities this year alone. are you concerned that something like this could happen again? >> oh, i'm very concerned. >> reporter: john wellinghoff is former chair of the federal energy regulatory commission. how vulnerable are these stations? >> to the extent they have chain-link fences around them, that they're not secured, they're extremely vulnerable. we need to get more serious about this from the standpoint of having prescriptive requirements. >> reporter: in north carolina, duke energy would not say whether their stations...

News and update from power official in moore county, north carolina. i just spoke to the mayor of one of the cities affected, she said power could be restored by the end of the day tonight. that could allow schools, stores, restaurants to finally reopen. it's been days after the weekend shooting attack that knocked out power. john wellinghoff joins us. thank you for taking the time this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> first, let's speak about the sophistication of this attack. in the break you were mentioning about how the target was a specific line. ably hitting that line, had a broad...

The grid infrastructure. >> i guess that is what saved them. it took them 20 days to get back on line and they kept them powered up by drawing power from different substations and talk with me a bit. the wall street journal did an article and at the time, federal energy regulatory commission had this to say, it was the most significant incident and we want to go back and put that up of domestic terrorism involving the grid that ever occurred in the u.s. and this was john wellinghoff. they found no evidence of terrorism. is this a wake- up call? >> i think it is a wake- up call. in fact whether...

back, some have been deadly and now an urgent need nationwide for blood donations. and also, an alleged arsonist accidentally lights himself on fire. karma, caught on camera. >> and i am harris faulkner. and is america ready for an attack on our power grid that leaves millions of us on the dark. we are learning new details about a sniper attack in northern california. the fbi said it could not find evidence that it was terrorism. but there was a lot of damage to the silicon valley electrical grid. it happen last spring and didn't get much attention then until a now report came out. w...

eastern connecticut and my electrical rates, when i asked is, they at the bill are pretty reasonable. cl and p and we constantly get calls from people wanting us to switch but i don't switch because i already know that game. who areif we had people in charge of overlooking these are cular industries who reign to rein in these individuals who are trying americans constantly. if we had people like john with demeanor, the country would be a lot better off. thank you. very kind of you, russ. thank you. there are a lot of dedicated employees and i think it is important that we do have rol...