joining us now to talk about this is sandy roth, a reporter for the los angeles times.ense of just how massive and intense this heatwave really is. ask i do not remember anything like it, i have lived in l.a. most of my life. i have been sitting in my apartment with no air conditioning sweating badly every day. when you look at what is going on on the power grid, california set a record on tuesday on its main electrical grid for energy demand, and that speaks to the intensity of the heatwave. everyone has been blasting their air conditioners, electric demand record on tuesday we shattered. on wednesday we had the second-highest electric demand compared only to tuesday. it has been 10 straight days of the grid operator warning that we are going to run out of power and have rolling blackouts. it speaks to how hot it has been. geoff: how are states and the federal government responding to all of this? california has tak the unprecedented step to stop the heatwave from causing rling blackouts. tell us more about that. >> on the black outside governor newsom has been pulling