efficiency because it pumps its water uphill at night using cheap electricity it buys from the national gridr the energy it generates during the day. if we were to move completely away from fossil fuel power stations, would that mean this sort of power station would not be able to run? in reality, if we need to pump that water up the hill, we have got to go and buy the electricity from the market somewhere, whether that is a thermal power station, a set of windmills, gas power station, whatever it might be. why are there not more of these around? i suppose the greatest challenge is finding a suitable place in the uk to build them. you have seen yourself that you have got to have them in a specific area, it has got to have two lakes, ideally, reasonably close together, good vertical separation. they are not the kind of things that you can easily build on the back of a wagon and wheel in somewhere. the lakes need to exist or you need to create them so it comes at a cost. i think it's just a limited amount of options for locations. does it get a bit lonely down here? sometimes! hello, and welco

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how do we deter other nations from hitting us in our grid system which is vulnerable and harmful to our country. retaliation, what should we do when we know these perpetrators are trying to do all the damage they can. what deterrence should we take against these perpetrators? should we head back at their critical infrastructure or give them a warning? what is the recommendation? >> as was mentioned earlier, we can't have something that has no meaning but from our standpoint the technology that is out there, we have to continue to fight this. it is not a matter of nice to have our needs to have, this is needs to have interchanges daily. as far as deterrence, we don't look at that from siemens energy's viewpoint but there is something we have to do to make it crucial for people who want to attack our grid system. >> we would like your input to try to make sure we are not out of sync with rules of engagement but we've used retaliation along with our nuclear response to let them know we would hit and hit hard. in order to stop this attack we've got to make sure they understand we will use w

. >> 's national security the pandemic people are out of work. the electric gridwas put in the hands of folks who may be their loyalty is not to this great country and that bothers me. >> you know with tda more so than most companies are trying but controlling all the energy and power, you are right. you are right about that. to very statement, anything else? >> again, it's an honor to be here. [laughter] so it's my honor. [laughter] so he's making up his own mind. he's done a fantastic job on the border, unbelievable job on the border. i'm sure they will report it very accurately how well we're doing on the border. and then get on to make a statement i know you have been working with jean and everybody very hard. >> asked secretary scalia really covered the partnership between dhs and labored to solve this problem for you are solving forcefully today for these folks. certainly putting the ball in motion to do that. our two agencies that you are directing from june are going to do is solve this permanently so we never have to see this happen again. on the border,

grid. we can't deploy a whole nation of -- >> isn't enough to stotop flying and force the industry to change? david: there is a way it could bring about some of these large-scale changes. it is only important as a steppingstone to those changes. there are other reasons why it is valuable. first of all it is good to live with your own values. living in accordance with the way you see the world and want to see the world. it is good to signal to those around you that you care. climatepeople carry exciting around privately. eveven discucussing it with ther loved ones, family, friends means it is the political --- beginnnning of a political acti. even more than that it is good to support people who prioritize climate action, to hold those in action -- an office accountable and ideally to put extra political pressure in the form of protest on the powers that be. the politics we have now in almost every country in the worlrld, even when leaders are committed to the principle of climate action -- those politics are moving too slowly. >> a pleasure to have you here in the "france 24" studios. stay tu

grid. we can't deploy a whole nation of solar rays. >> is it enough to signal change?> there's a way that individual action can bring about large-scale changes but it is only important as a stepping stone. there are other reasons. first of all, it is good to live in euro and values and living in accordance with the way you want to see the world. it is also good to signal to those around you that you care abouout this issue. some carry anxiety privately and even discussing with family and friends means it is the beginning of a political action. persrsonally, even more e than , it is good to vote to support people who prioritize climate action, to all those who are in action accountable to the promises they made, and ideally to put extra political pressure in the form of protests on the powers that be because the politics that we have now in almost every country in the world, even when leaders are committed to the principle of climate action, most politics are moving far too slowly. >> a pleasure to have you here, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. because w

grid. we can't deploy- you know a whole nation of. so there is nothing to stop flying that would force the industry to change. i think that there is a there's a way that individual action can bring about some of these large scale changes. but it's only important as a stepping stone. to those changes and i think there are other reasons why it's valuable to take action as an individual to. first of all it's good to live with on your own within your own values and believe the- living in accordance with the way the you see the world and want to see the world- it's also good to signal to those around you that you care about this issue because so many people. carry climbing anxiety around privately. and i think even discussing it with. their loved ones in ththe f family and friends. means it's the beginning of a political action- but personally i think. even more than that it's good to vote to support people who prioritize connection. to hold those who are in office accountable to the promises they made before. and ideally also to put extra

grid, it's usually for about two hours . >>> and speaking at the democratic national convention, we will also hear from joe biden and former president bill clinton. the first night of the convention featured pleas for change. >>> and abnormal first night with former first lady michelle obama pleading. >> donald trump is the wrong president for our country. he has had more than enough time to prove he can do the job but he is clearly in over his head. >> reporter: she pleaded with voters to turn out en masse, pleading particularly for those who stayed home and 2016. >> if you things that cannot get worse, trust me they can and will if we don't make a change in this election. >> reporter: the president preemptively took aim at the president obama and joe biden. >> joe biden has no clue what is happening and they are making speeches that are taped. who wants to listen to michelle obama do a taped speech? >> reporter: there were speakers from across the spectrum including senator bernie sanders making a plea to his progressive followers. >> to everyone who supported other at primary and for those who may have voted for donald

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tap into backup energy sources to relieve pressure on the state's power grid during peak usage hours. >>> the democratic national convention kick off tonight with a full line of speeches, but no crowded ball rooms or balloon droops. the keynote speech is from michelle obama. miss obama said that presumptive democratic nominee joe biden know thousand rescue an economy some lied our country. >>> you are watching ktvu fox 2 news at 6:30. >> cal iso which manages much of california's power grid on friday and saturday ordered the utilities in its vast area to cut off power to a quarter million customers on a rolling basis. at a board meeting, grid operators blamed high temperatures compounded by high demand for air-conditioning, but they also admitted they have fewer resources available to them than even a decade ago. a shortage made worse from the loss of solar farms that essentially die in the dark. >> unfortunately, it is near certain that we'll be forced to ask the utilities cut off power to millions today to balance supply and demand. today and tomorrow and perhaps beyond. >> reporter: even as california was pro

grid. the six position openings or offset orifices giving stabilizing. one short and seven long sticks of dark brown powder. each stick has a lodge tud nationalration. unscrewing the motor body from the warhead. the rocket's aerial burst fuse is in effect a powder delay train allowing the projectile to travel 2,000 to 3,000 yards before detonation of the main charge, which is housed in this warhead motor adapter. the warhead body is a one-piece steel cylinder with welded nose and contains a metal canister filled with 62 metal encased incendiary pellets. runing the length of the cylinder and centrally located is a small burster tube containing five acid pellets. testing one of the sticks of propellant by igniting the smokeless powder. demonstrating the assembly of the incendiary canister, a label contained in the rocket motor of a captured projectile refers to the incendiary power as special compound. the pellets are easily ignited. rockets are test fired by the 95th ordinance bomb disposal squad using a specially constructed launcher. since no primers were recovered with the rockets, electric blasting caps are affixed to set off the projectil

grid. the other big difference from katrina with louisiana is the louisiana national guard is home.hey have made a big difference. they've been -- when katrina hit the louisiana national guard was in iraq or on patrol. they're here and you can see the difference. they are all over that disaster zone and they're saving people's lives. so that is a big difference from what we had with katrina to now. >> we are glad to hear it. lieutenant general russell honore quickly before i let you go how is your home? was your area affected? >> we had some threats of tornadoes. and i feel for the people who have lost their homes and my heart goes out to the first responders. many coming in, volunteers from all over the country to try to help our people here in louisiana. i want to thank them and the ngos coming in to help. thank you. >> thank you so much for your time today, sir. we appreciate it. >>> still ahead, what is next for kenosha? the police shooting of jacob blake has sparked vigils and protests across the country. we'll take a closer look at the legal side of this and the possible fate

national guard is mobilizing to help local agencies with emergency operations. >>> happening today, we are all being asked to conserve electricity to avoid more rolling blackouts. cal iso, which runs the state power grid issued a flex alert because we expect more extremely hot weather for a big chunk of the state. everyone, including businesses, should cut back on power. doing that yesterday helped to prevent blackouts. several places are in the dark and without power, including neighborhoods in livermore who have had several outages lasting for hours at a time since the weekend. >> some people are frustrated. they aren't getting work done. they aren't getting schoolwork done. >> is it some kind of lack of upgrades? this is not normal for the city of livermore. >> a spokesman says they understand how hard it is when customers lose power. that is especially true during a heat wave. >>> door book -- joe biden is going to deliver pretaped remarks to the hispanic caucus and black caucus meetings. he will join a virtual meeting with the delegation from wisconsin. tonight, democrats are gearing up to hear from kamala harris who will formally accept the nomination for vice president. and, barack obama will b

the national guard is also mobilizing to help local agencies with emergency operations. >>> happening today, the states power grid operator wants everyone, all of us to conserve electricity again in order to avoid rolling blackouts. they issued a flex alert, that extremely high temperatures are in the forecast for a big part of the state today. people and businesses should cut back on power, they did that enough yesterday to avoid a blackout. there are still several places that are in the dark, without power including neighborhoods in livermore that have had several power outages. some of them lasted four hours since the weekend. >> there are some frustrated people, people that are not getting work done, schoolwork done. >> is it maintenance or a lack of upgrades? 100 degrees is normal for the city of livermore. >> pg&e utilites says he has caused women to fail, they say they understand how hard it is when customers lose power and that is especially true during a heat wave. pg&e utilites set up a website to see if you would lose power if rolling blackouts takes place today. you can check it out, just go to our we

national-wide movement. one of the top questions we got, you know, is the grid, the grid capacity there?nd pg & e was also a stakeholder in this process. they have publicly supported this new ordinance, and they have expressed that they do not want to continue to invest in gas infrastructure. in addition to pg & e, we have probably close to 30 cities around california that have already passed ordinances that either restrict or eliminate the use of natural gas in buildings. and lastly, we have the state as a partner. both the california public utility commission and california energy commission is starting to plan for a fossil fuel-free future. next slide. so the next portion of this presentation i'm going to dive in to kind of the meat of the actual legislation and the ordinance. next slide. so, again, just to reiterate, this amendment is not an energy code. we have the local authority under the california health and safety code. and so we'll be amending both section 106 a and 202 of the building code. there are key sections to note: one, the project will apply -- the ordinance will appl

grid from starting any fires 2019 shot off inconvenienced and infuriated more than 2 million northern californians wildfires growing tonight in southern california, the lake fire it is burning in the angeles national forest between santa clarita and palmdale of that is just north of los angeles. more than 5,000 deaths structures are being threatened. 3 have been destroyed. evacuation orders and road closures are in effect in the lake hughes area that fire was reported yesterday afternoon it spread rapidly. angeles national chief robert garcia told reporters this morning this will be a major fire for several days. and you can stay connected on weather alerts for your neighborhood at kron 4 dot com there you can find interactive radar and the latest weather headlines. cautious optimism tonight that the coronavirus transmission may be on a downward trend here in california. governor newsome says that the state is reporting a lower number of new confirmed coronavirus cases and a downward trend in hospitalization rate. this comes as the state begins to clear backlog cases from a day to failure. newsom says that the state's hospitalization rates are down 21% and icu admissions are down 15% over the past

of pilgrims, pirates, engineers, nations,, and explorers and trail blazers who refuse to be tied back or in any way reined in. americans have steel in their spines, grid and their souls, and fire in their hearts. there is no one like us on earth. i want every child in america to know that you are part of the most exciting and incredible adventure in human history. no matter where your family comes from, no matter your background in america, anyone can rise. with hard work, devotion and drive, you can reach any goal and achieve every ambition. our american ancestors sailed across the perilous ocean to build a new life on a new continent. they braved the freezing winters, crossed the raging winters, scaled the rocky peaks, tracked the dangerous forests, -- trekked the dangerous forests, and worked from dawn to dusk. these pioneers didn't have money. they didn't have fame. but they had each other. they loved their families. they love their country. and they loved their god. when opportunity beckoned, they picked up their bibles, packed up their belongings, climbed into their covered wagons, and set out west for the next adventure. ers, cowboys min and sh

national correspondent william la jeunesse is in santa monica tonight. good evening. >> this heat wave is a challenge to firefighters but also the grid, peak demand about twom now and does not expect any blackouts because of conservation, cooler weather, and more capacity but critics this week expose the flawed strategy, and aggressive green energy mandate that forced utilities to drop coal, nuclear, natural gas in favor of renewables. a falling short of megawatts of wind the most. >> you can't run a 21st century economy that is the fifth-largest on the planet with wind and solar. >> in the name of climate change, the state has new plants when they don't. nor consumer groups stated at buyer develop enough batteries to store clean power. >> when we are thinking of the backups, they were two ways to go. the other is the emerging battery shortage, and we are going to need both for a while. >> governor gavin newsom blame the blackouts on what he calls a gap as utilities transition from gas to wind and solar but refused to say the state wow state went too far too fast. >> we are going to radically change the way produce and consume energy for one reason, we bel

vastness of navaho nation would have spared these people have that suffered so much, but the coronavirus did not pass them by. like many year, crystal and her family live far off the grid. >> it hit people that we knew and love and respected. >> reporter: her fears centered on her nine-year-old who has a rare condition so they have been on lockdown since march. >> it has forced me as a mother to think about how do i protect my children. >> reporter: it's a question many ask but especially here where the coronavirus killed more people per capita than any u.s. state. systemic poverty and the lack of access to running water created a perfect storm for the deadly virus. but against those odds, something incredible happened. navaho nation flattened the curve. >> early on we were seeing positivity rates in the 30% to 40% rate, so incredibly high, which really just told us we needed to be doing much more testing. >> reporter: and they did. leaders also set up strict curfews every night at 8:00 p.m. and often for entire weekends. a steep fine for disobeying. you had lockdowns much tougher than the rest of the country. >> exactly. you see people here wearing masks with 100% com

the company national guard is being mobilized to assist local agencies with emergency operations. >> happening today, the power grid operator wants all of us to conserve electricity again so that they don't have to have rolling blackouts. cal iso issued a flex alert after extremely hot weather is e and businesses cut back on power used yesterday enoughprevent blackouts. but there are still plenty of places that are still in the dark with no power including some neighborhoods in livermore that have had several power outages, some of them lasting four hours since the weekend. >> some frustrated people and people that are not getting work done and not getting schoolwork done. is a poor design or poor maintenance or a lack of upgrades? 100+ degrees are normal for livermore. >>> pg&e said the heat wave caused equipment to fail. a spokesman said they understand how our hard it is when customers lose power and that is especially true during a heatwave. pg&e has set up a website to find out if you will be losing power if there is a rolling blackout today. go to our website, ktvu.com, look for web links. >>> let's talk tues

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grid foreign policy apparatus, reinvigorate state department, aid and development, and congress in a bipartisan way reestablishing itself is necessary for that u.s. global engagementnt components. i do think in terms of russian nationalism, i think of it in the sense that vladimir putin is reestablishing a sense of russian r pride. but the truth is, he's playing a relatively weak hand very well and i think we're facilitating his ability to play that we can very well why a lack of direct engagement, a lack of pushback and, whether it's direct competition with diplomatic confrontation on many of these issues. the trump administration chose not to engage in a way that congress would like to engage. not enough republican members of congress while privately i know they share a real concern about russia that we haven't pushed back so i will bring you the tools that we could. the chinese nationalism is real concern. when we were watching what's happening in hong kong, when we're watching what's happening with the uighurs or the south china sea. i don't think we have been strong enough as a global coalition of like-minded countries pushing back on whether it's the human rights issues in china, the freedom of democracy issues in

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national-wide movement. one of the top questions we got, you know, is the grid, the grid capacity there?nd pg & e was also a stakeholder in this process. they have publicly supported this new ordinance, and they have expressed that they do not want to continue to invest in gas infrastructure. in addition to pg & e, we have probably close to 30 cities around california that have already passed ordinances that either restrict or eliminate the use of natural gas in buildings. and lastly, we have the state as a partner. both the california public utility commission and california energy commission is starting to plan for a fossil fuel-free future. next slide. so the next portion of this presentation i'm going to dive in to kind of the meat of the actual legislation and the ordinance. next slide. so, again, just to reiterate, this amendment is not an energy code. we have the local authority under the california health and safety code. and so we'll be amending both section 106 a and 202 of the building code. there are key sections to note: one, the project will apply -- the ordinance will appl

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