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Path of superstorm sandy is looking at ways to not just repair but rebuild the is systems to be mor resistant to high winds and flooding. >> we look at superstorm sandia half of the customers would not the have been impacted if the controls were higher. we would have provided better service and that would have been better for the customers. >> reporter: but there is the issue of cost. $4 billion. the new jersey utility bills are already among the highest in the nation and they were set to come down significantly over the next decade. this rebuilding plan would change that. >> saying that our b...

Macafee right now in that detention center and he's being detained inside guatemala with his girlfriend for illegal entry into that country. jenna: nor twists and turns ahead, thank you. jon: brand-new questions about the solar industry has big solar companies reap huge profits while the countries hosting the equipment saying they are getting little in return. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with more on that. >> reporter: california utilities must get 20% of their power from ooh newables. state and federal handouts made that happen. most environmentalists are happy for rate payers ...

Renewable energy plan. it's not just the cost of the electrons but the cost of the plan. if it's competing against the legacy coal plant, the rate payers paid for that. so the competition is really unfair. then there are these aspects to the utility market, something called a capacity market. what's that? it's a new market invented where to keep power plants online, there is an extra price we pay for plants already paid for just to keep them around. we need that from a reliability point of view. what if we said, okay. capacity payment, but now we have performance standards and we want clean, n...

There is lost in the hearts of republicans to beat this issue. they want to do it, but there's no passion to provide any alternative. one of the challenges they face aside from doing these pointless exercises is that what they're trying to repeal is what governor romney passed in massachusetts. and you know what, it's very popular in massachusetts. so you've gault this upside down situation where what governor romney could trumpet as a contribution to health care and a success in his administration, he's running from, even as americans are starting to say, you know, this is pretty good. we kee...

They are getting more than 20% of your premium dollar going into fat ceo salaries, that has to be rebated to the rate payers. that has been a tremendous success in arresting costs in health care. so i think this is time for democrats to stand their ground and every time republicans do this pointless thing, they hit number 34, they're going to maybe hit 50 before we're out of it, that's going to be something we can use and ask the american people whether this is a serious problem or a run for political cover. >> it was the senate campaign arm of the democratic party today that floated this idea...