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Six "Intrusion Events," Including Zephyrhills and Clearwater

Look at what is happening here. the threat model, you know, what the electricity companies have been concerned about from a physical security threat is burglary, crime, people getting into those facilities and stealing copper and other metals. i think when you want to protect against something like this, long-range rifle shots, building walls and putting additional security people in the facility that is simply not the answer. we're going to see a lot more probably coordination between the federal government, law enforcement, the fbi, and in the private sector in this case duke energy. >> so y...

Without warning. >> got no way to heat because we don't have a fire place. and then we don't have no gas grill or anything like that so we're just stranded. >> there are so many people that are hurting. the revenue stream has been stopped. if you have health issues it is critical. it is just a horrible, horrible, terrorist in my opinion act. cowardly to do that: are authorities any closer to identifying any suspects? >> reporter: sort of the work going on behind us at one of these sub stations here, what is remarkable when you look at this is how big it is and the number of workers. it is an a...

These are the, down from the transmission to the distribution network so they're everywhere. it is just not feasible, not practical to harden the individual site. so now we have to get into a prevention sort of situation and hopefully we can identify who did this and then arrest, convict, and put them away and that is a deterrence measure in and of itself. >> the fact the local sheriff says the person or people who damaged the sub stations, quote, knew exactly what they were doing, what does that tell you about the perpetrator, the kind of knowledge they had in order to do this? it seems like ...

Austin custom built equipment. they're big, they're complex, they're expensive. this is not a quick fix. it may be days in more county north carolina before there's power. and we have nobody in custody, nobody claiming responsibility. no word on any potential motive. apparently no suspects. and more county in north carolina this weekend, it was two different electrical substations reportedly about ten miles apart. the two of them reportedly shot at and disabled by gunfire within about 45 minutes of each other on saturday night. now, the sheriff tonight was asked if those attacks were simultane...