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Wind generators for 28 days. that's lost income for the wind farms. green groups hate because it sends a message that when push comes to shove hydro power will always trump wind power. that will kill future wind development. conservatives don't like it because it's driving up the cost of energy. hydro doesn't emit any carbon. >> we require the taxpayers to subsidize renewable energy and we want rate payers to pay them when they lose money. that system is unsustainable. >> reporter: bonneville submitted its plan yesterday. now they have to decide whether it's fair to the energy companies and ta...

Renewable energy, we require taxpayers to subsidize them and now we want rate payers pay them when they lose money. >> reporter: it mr. fluctuate between $50 and $100 million a year. martha: breaking news. mitt romney pick up an endorsement from former new york governor george pataki. reaction from the romney camp is coming up next. and first more rick santorum from last night. >> tonight it's clear, it's clear. we won races all over this country against the odds. when they thought, okay, he's finally finished. we keep coming back. [cheers and applause]

Explain what's going on, dan. >> reporter: a lot of regions around the country might like to have this problem. in late spring and early sum they are is too much renewable energy in the pacific northwest. you have snow melt sending tons of water count rivers. at the same time the wind is howling in the columbia river gorge. so the wind farms are cranking out maximum energy. as it turns out too much energy for the demand. so last year the federal agency shut down the wind mills for 38 days. to compensate the wind generators for their losses they will be paid up to $50 million a year, a fee that...

>> wind farms in the northwest built with government subsidiaries and maintained with tax credit for every megawatt are getting paid to shut down. the volatile power administration, federal agency that manages 31 hydro electric dam and delivers power to eight western states says the problem in early summer there is too much wind and hydropower for the demand. >> it's one system in the world where in realtime, moment to moment you have to produce as much energy is consumed. >> last summer, during the snow melt and hydroproduction peak, bpa cut off wind farms for 38 days. nearly 200 hours in the...

jerry sandusky who is charged with child molestation. >> effective immediately, joe paterno is no longer the head football coach. effective immediately. >> that means paterno won't coach the final home game against nebraska. paterno accepts the board's decision but adds, quote, it is going to take some time to get used to. overnig we are going live to penn state. when tom bradley speaks. take a look at those live pictures. greece has a new interm prime minister to avoid an economic collapse. lucas pkcas papademos. . in eastern turkey, rescuers are digging through piles of rubble ...