army members of the hidden had earned enough for the ferc coat they coveted -- fur coat they covetedeturned. the compulsion to work had dissipated when work is around the corner. transportation was a problem. it was distressingly difficult to be both a housekeeper and a riveter. the kids needed looking after, and the house somehow refused to run itself when eight hours a day was spent at the plant. but by far the most common reason was that women were not accustomed to the long hours of hard work. shortages appeared. american airplanes found themselves lacking assembly. electronicrts where parts were low. and american wounded became american dead. all of a sudden, the war was rising. ♪ the government regrets to inform -- [crying] >> what is the matter? >> for every american cross driven into the foreign earth, a gold star hung in an american home. bitter tears and heartache, that in war, there is no such thing as a slight falling off in production. because there is no such thing as a slight death. early 1944, the draft soldiers were falling behind. the demand of four men for the new

then ferc oversees an environmental assessment consistent with the national environmental policy act or nepa, and other environmental reviews as required. only after receiving the necessary ferc permits and clearing environmental reviews does the application reach the department of energy's desk. d.o.e. then performs a public interest review and accepts or rejects the application. i want to be really clear about what this amendment is and what it does. my amendment only deals with the very last step of this process, the final d.o.e. review. my amendment does nothing, nothing to shorten or modify in any way existing full environmental review processes. my amendment codifies into law a 30-day limit for d.o.e. to make a final decision on an export application. it also clears the backlog of pending projects which have cleared the environmental review process. it's necessary to codify the 30-day limit because d.o.e. is dragging out final approvals well past 30 days, defying its own guidelines. in fact, morehan half of the 30-plus applications awaiting approval today were sent to d.o.e. be

. >> don't ferc -- forget about earnings. personal-- here's are some charts we've been looking at going into this earnings season. so called earnings recession. this is a trailing 12 month average change in earnings for the s&p 500. this is turned negative. it's forecast earnings for s&p 500 companies will fall by 10% in the season for the 1st quarter. speaking of alcoa, those shares are strong going into that report. up by more than 4%. we have a seen a lift in commodity or rebound in commodities if the 1st quarter. that is contributing to some of the gains we're seeing and commodity producers set to report. then there are the banks. we did have some analyst commentary today. outlook of the banks too negative. we always talk about the caveat companies do beat a margin of three quarters here. typically, get anywhere from 2/3 to 3/4 of companies beating analyst estimates. here are the banks rising. you have to look at the idea these banks have done poorly. j.p. morgan and goldman sachs two the worst performers in the dow today

as well as nerc and ferc to understand the most critical aspects of the electric grid. we have a number of programs that we leverage to help assess the vulnerabilities of these particular assets and to work with owners s and operators to help enhance the security and provide recommendations. equally important as you'll hear later from jerry colley, the president and ceo of nerc, we have a series of standards that are intended to guide the security of some of these most critical assets. increasingly within my office, we are working to better understand the dependencies and inner detendency on critical energy assets to be able to visualize what an outage is, the impacts it's going to have to other key lifeline sectors and to be able to provide that information as leaders to include administrator fugate as they are working to get power restored. >> thank you, ma'am. chairman, i yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. meadows for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for this important topic. i think this is one of the interesting aspects that's i get asked about more t

as well as nerc and ferc to understand the most critical aspects of the electric grid. we have a number of programs that we leverage to help assess the vulnerabilities of these particular assets and to work with owners and operators to help enhance the security and resilience to provide recommendations. equally important as you'll hear later from jerry cauley, the president and ceo of nerc, we have a series of standards that are intended to guide the security of some of these most critical assets. increasingly within my office, we are working to better understand the dependencies and interdependency on critical energy assets to be able to visualize what an outage is, the impacts it's going to have to other key lifeline sectors and to be able to provide that information as leaders to include administrator fugate as those utilities are working to get power restored. thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. chairman, i yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. meadows for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for this important topic. i think this is one of the interesting aspect

as well as nerc and ferc to understand the most critical aspects of the electric grid. we have a number of programs that we leverage to help assess the vulnerabilities of these particular assets and to work with owners and operators to help enhance the security and provide recommendations. equally important as you'll hear later from jerry colley, the president and ceo of nerc, we have a series of standards that are intended to guide the security of some of these most critical assets. increasingly within my office, we are working to better understand the dependencies and interdependency on critical energy assets to be able to visualize what an outage is, the impacts it's going to have to other key lifeline sectors and to be able to provide that information as leaders to include administrator fugate as they are working to get power restored. >> thank you, ma'am. chairman, i yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. meadows for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for this important topic. i think this is one of the interesting aspects that's i get asked about more than

ferc and nerc complete a study of the restoration and recovery capability plans and doesn't exercises of nine major companies in industry and that report is available publicly and is posted on the nerc website but it demonstrated the preparation is there and that the plans have been exercised. as you heard before on november this past year nerc led by whati believe is the largest grid security exercise in the world. called great ex-three. over 400 entities in north america anticipated, over 4400 registered users an and in my estimation it was probably closer to 10,000 actual participants. a distributed play portion, this is where we are an essential component place and we inject the attacks outward into the power companies are actually engaged in the exercise locally in the own control centers come in the own substations and power plants. they received information from us. that portion of the exercise, i apologize for my voice. just getting over a cold. that portion of the exercise lasted two days. on the second day there was an executive tabletop which but altogether for senior execu

withdrawal per 35.15: notice of termination of the 1987 ccsf interconnection agreement pg&e rate schedule ferc no. 114 to be effective june 30, 2015.case no.: er15-702-000/date filed: december 23, 2014 30. conference with >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in s

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withdrawal per 35.15: notice of termination of the 1987 ccsf interconnection agreement pg&e rate schedule ferc no. 114 to be effective june 30, 2015.case no.: er15-702-000/date filed: december 23, 2014 30. conference with - >> welcome to the epic center did you know you may be eligible for a 3 thousand redefeat beating he'll learn about the stay safe program hi, everybody i'm patrick chief resigns director for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe i'm here with jennelle for the california earthquake authority she'll talk about brace and bolt good to see you. >> earthquake brace and bolt the first incentive program of california mitigation program as jointly managed by the earthquake authority and the california gvrnz of department of emergency services. >> and what is the mission. >> brace and bolt is $3,000 up to a homeowner that retrofits the equivalent in a single-family. >> we're down owe epic center the public demonstrates we've built a mock house so i don't in the take a look at it and and show you what we're talking about we're in a model house in