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China's economy? >> reporter: that's right, christine. but it's also attracting zbgrowg attention here because it is affecting life and traffic lights in some cities, skyrocketing sales of candles in many places. this is the results of a perfect storm. on one hand you have soaring demand because of the country's, you know, economic recovery driven by export and industries. so a lot of power hungry manufacturing in construction. on the power side you have power plants generating less power than usual because of a coal shortage thanks to soaring prices now helped by the government's import ban o...

They should have been evacuated early. because, you know, customer safety is on their minds and they should have evacuated the passengers. it would have taken a minor event to turn it into turmoil. >> that's a huge concern. i hear the fire was so intense it caused problems with the b k backup system in place. so what failed here, not just with the fire itself, but with the passengers inside the terminals themselves? >> well, from what is available publicly, it appears the entire emergency plan failed. so not only failing on the power side, but failed on all the other elements required to keep ...

Services and longer plan. so you mentioned the communication numbers, that's probably closer to 64% of the island with cell coverage. not a great number. it can get better. but the carriers are surging cap bills like cell on wheels and trucks, in fact over the weekend you may have seen google is using technology to increase that. that's a way to increase some services that will help the puerto ricans get back up and running. longer term, 300 cell towers off line. so you have to rebuild. so, again, short term plan, interim measures, and long-term plan. and in the meantime we are making pros res...

On russia and what they decided to do. >> let me jump in. the reason i laughed when i saw that statement from the member of the russian parliament is it's a classic example of what was initially soviet m misinformation technique. calling back to iraq as a fal-- remove any validity to the situation we're dealing with now. to add to rebake can's point, the president-elect taking a foreign power side is unprecedented in american history. for all the common sense reasons you can imagine. this is uncharted territory. >> let's get to that point. listen to former cia director when he talks about ques...

Way. i think what you really find when you look at these candidates is that typically the more talented candidate wins unless the other guy in the race has a lot more money or a lot more backing in terms of the power side of things. you see the real talent sort of emerge within these situations and that's true whether you're looking at nebraska or looking at georgia in the current sh showdown that you see there. i think within the context of mcconnell, though, it's really interesting to me the way it this race played out. going forward from here, and you were talking earlier about the role gri...