a power substation has caught fire. we have pictures just coming into the newsroom and it shows a huge plume of black smoke that is rising from the area. you see it right there, as well as the flames. now, the fire broke out around 10:30 at the substation, which provides power to a massive safeway distribution center. firefighters tell us that they will just let the fire burn itself out. we'll bring you more information as we get it. again, this fire at a substation out of tracy. >>> and today, there are more people looking for work here in california. >> that is according to the state jobless rate, which grew in august to 12.1%, up a tenth of a point from july. california is the second highest unemployment rate in the country, and it's right behind nevada. that means a huge rush for any open jobs, and the competition is scary out there right now. stephanie? >> reporter: good afternoon, frank and grace. it's really clear when you see how many people are applying for temporary jobs here at the halloween store, just how b

the substation will be completed by early winter and we will have a substation that will have patrols of officers to make sure. we are going to work with the community and supervisor kim to recreate the ambassador program there and make sure we have additional eyes and ears holon market to fifth to 11th, to make sure that people feel safe, particularly during the hours in which people work. these days, when you have tech companies there, they are working at 10:00, 11:00 at night. they are not really paying attention to anyone else. the programming of the arts. we will continue working on the un plaza. off the grid, the arts festival coming up at the end of the month into early october, on u.n. plaza, that will reflect our commitment to working closely with our program to revitalize middle-market. finally, as you know, can we said this at a time when we introduced the payroll tax exemption, that is just the beginning. i want to continue working with all the business groups in the city to make sure that we redo the tax system not lose the revenue that we have had but also not the job pu

now, that should have just been localized at that specific substation but more mistakes were made. it spread like wildfire into southern california. what that means is that the main source of electricity into a huge swat of southern california went away. nuclear plant on the coast is not connected to the system right now and it appears to have shut down automatically because of the change in the power grid as its designed to do, like a circuit breaker. southern california power officials have managed to restore some electricity and say they're doing everything they can but already warning people this could last into tomorrow. officials say most people will be out of power well into tomorrow and the only good news, at least for kids around here, school will be closed tomorrow. terry? >> thanks, abbie. >>> now to the east coast where hundreds of miles of the susquehanna river and the tributaries are having unprecedented flooding. some places measured at nearly 20 feet above flood level. here's weather editor sam champion. >> reporter: the remnants of tropical storm lee has brought a

earned "that" witness was an on duty police officer who was inside the royal farms working at a substation witnessed the hit and run told the victim the driver was an off duty police sergeant by the name of carlos vila. stand up 11:05:57 department insiders tell me the sgt works where at the southeastern following the hit and run he's been pulled off the stree and reassigned to desk durty this as an internal affairs investigation is cooducted.12:29:50 i know were not going to tolerate any behavior that undermines the integrity of this agency and if there is an officer convicted or accused of wrongdoing were going to investigate it to our best ability. sources say police caught up with vila at his home. a female told officer's he had been home the whole night. at this point, internal affairs investigators are trying to determine if vila was drinking at the time of the hit and run. in highlandtown joy lepola fox 45 news at ten. straight ahead... in the market for a new home? mortgage rates have never been cheeper.the going rate.. for a 30 year fixed mortgage.. right now. ((break 3)) beth! hi

the fire took out electrical substation at safeway's distribution warehouse in tracy meaning a totale. that warehouse feeds all stores in northern california as well as northern nevada. officials say it will take a few days to get stores stocked fully again. >> net flix announced yet another egg round of changes. and they're asking the governor to stop the sale of out of date products. >> this is interesting stuff. advocates for seniors and parents joined together today. to push the governor to sign a bill banning sale of expired infant food, baby formula and over the counter medication. and among those was a father from woodland california saying his 1-year-old son became ill after eating out dated baby foochld i went back to the store and said he found eight other jars of the expired products. >> this is a frightening experience for us. and this could have been prevented. no parent should have to worry like we did z no baby should have to suffer. >> advocates say most people believe this law already exists and shows they're selling expire prod ducts z net flix smaiking more changes

i'm really excited about the substation coming up to 63. i think we need to continue to provide social services in our district. it has to be a partnership with sfpd. >> what about community courts? supervisor kim: i visited the court it was modeled after, which is the red hook court in brooklyn. the judge will visit the apartments or the locations talked about in the case and he has evolved this relationship of trust with the neighborhood that think is really positive. i think we are not there yet, here in san francisco. i am not sure if that is a time issue or the tenderloin is a different type of neighborhood then -- than red hook. i think we need alternatives to our criminal justice system. i do not think our criminal justice actually works. many of the offenders to come through our system of flood started as victims of urea the community courts is a way of addressing those offenders, which is important and what i hope to see from the community court here. i do not think we are there yet. it does not mean we cannot get there. it took se

utility worker near yuma, arizona, accidentally moved a key piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation. no big deal, do you think? that knocked out power in southern california, arizona, and parts of mexico. the country of mexico, not the state of mexico. it caused gridlock on the roads, grounded planes and left people trapped in elevators and on amusement park rides. several schools even had to cancel classes. >> the power was out, they didn't know if it would come back on and if it did come back on, would it go out again. >> the power outage lasted about 12 hours. >> boy. so many weird things going on. now, we have the storm. >> we do have the storm and a lot of people have been asking me how is this going to affect the 49ers game on sunday? it's their home opener against the seahawks. game time temperature, 68 degrees, partly cloudy skies and yes, there is a slight chance of a thunderstorm. boy, this was the evening sky and this is according to michael from brentwood. when the clouds rolled in, they squeezed out some precipitation, anywhere from the east bay all the way into the cen

worker near yuma, arizona, accidentally removed the key piece of monitoring equipment at a power substation and that knocked out power in southern california, arizona, and parts of mexico. it caused gridlock on the roads, grounded planes, and left people trapped in elevators and on amusement rides. >>> last night, he unveiled it. today he took it on the road. how president obama is selling his jobs plan and how voters are responding. >> astronomers haven't seen it this close, how a bay area astronomer discovered a supernova. ,,,, [ female announcer ] this is the story of sam, who made an unexpected arrival. [ woman ] he was 4 months early, weighing 1 pound, 12 ounces. [ female announcer ] fortunately, sam was born at sutter health's alta bates summit medical center. [ woman ] the staff was remarkable. they made me feel safe, trusting, cared for. [ giggles ] they saved his life. i owe all of them my son. [ female announcer ] alta bates summit medical center and sutter health -- our story is you. pitch last night. but most of those who did watch it, >>> the most americans skipped the presiden

worker near yuma, arizona, accidentally removed the key piece of monitoring equipment at a power substationt knocked out power in southern california, arizona, and parts of mexico. it caused gridlock on the roads, grounded planes, and left people trapped in elevators and on amusement rides. >>> last night, he unveiled it. today he took it on the road. how president obama is selling his jobs plan and how voters are responding. >> astronomers haven't seen it this close, how a bay ,,,,,,,,,, pitch last night. but most of those who did watch it, >>> the most americans skipped the president's jobs pitch last night, but most of those who did watch it seemed to support it. a survey u.s.a. today poll of 900 people showed only 46% of the people watched the speech. of those who did watch, 61% said that the president set just the right tone and 73% said they want congress to pass this bill. with those numbers behind him, president obama took his message on the road today. daniel nottingham explains. >> president obama is wasting no time rallying support for his jobs plan. >> nothing radical in this bi

nuclear power plant is on stream after being officially launched the russian built facility only substation in the my middle east is currently running at forty percent capacity of both reach full power until december russia will continue to provide help and fuel for the plant and around it will send spent fuel to russia's east tension in the west over any uranium enrichment program the u.s. and the e.u. have long been concerned the country is building a nuclear bomb but around insists its ambitions are strictly peaceful and if at all unusual research at least school of oriental and african studies at the university of london leads around has the right to peaceful nuclear energy just like any other developed nation we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the worst. over the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped up over the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic san

many sheriff's substations are without power and cannot take 911 emergency calls. folks at the utility are trying to determine what happened. >>> the president lays out his plan to put the country back to work. coming up, a closer look at his proposals and what those unemployed here in the bay area have to say about it. >> another one just hit the building. >> wow. >> 10 years later chilling new traffic tapes reveal the horrors of 9/11. just how unprepared the u.s. was for the attack. >>> and why a flight from sfo was diverted shortly after take- off. ,,,, when your eyes are smiling... ,,,, you're smiling. and when they're laughing... you're laughing. be kind to your eyes... with transitions lenses. transitions adapt to changing light so you see your whole day comfortably... and conveniently while protecting your eyes from the sun. ask your eyecare professional which transitions lenses are right for you. president obama has rolled out his highly anticipated jobs proposal. here's a quick glance esident just >>> and just a sport time ago, the president rolled out --

officials say an employee at a power substation in southwest arizona likely caused the outage when moving equipment. >> it's affecting flights in the bay area. the arrival and departure screens were pep period with cancellations last night. almost all southwest flights to san diego were cancelled. southwest says it will evaluate the situation this morning and determine if more cancellations are needed. united, you night expression and virgin american airlines have temporarily stopped flights to san diego. to check on your status, go to abc7news.com and click on the flight tracker on our front page. >> it was one year ago today when disaster struck the city of san bruno with the deadliest gas explosion in a decade. at exactly 6:11 p.m. a pg&e exploded isn't flames throughout a neighborhood. it killed 8 people, injured dozens of others and destroyed 38 homes. it took pg&e an hour and a half before it could turn off the gas. they say the litany of failures from the utility including sub standard welds led to the explosion. the families will hold a memorial service tonight at skyline college

the outage was traced to a substation in yuma, arizona, where a worker accidentally tripped the main power line that supplies parts of arizona, southern california and mexico. parts of the east are dealing with record flooding caused by the remnants of tropical storm lee. the floods are blamed for at least ten deaths from virginia to pennsylvania. elaine quijano reports from the flood zone. >> it's probably eight feet in my building. >> reporter: tony and his business partner john costello built their dental practice near the susquehanna river in pennsylvania. now they'll have to build again. is this the first time you're seeing it? >> this is the first time we're seeing it. it's devastating, complete destruction. >> reporter: they were among the destruction. >> reporter: they were among the 75,000 people evacuated from northeastern pennsylvania. they returned to survey the damage, getting to the second floor of the building by boat. >> we need to go in and recover some computer equipment. we need to get that out of there in case something else happens. >> reporter: the susquehanna i

to the best of our knowledge, what happened, a worker working on a substation near yuma, arizona. something went wrong when he was working on some equipment and it knocked out power to several thousand residents in that area. other workers tried to restore power. something else went wrong there as they restored power to the small group of people and the power outage spread on one of the two transmission lines that connects the san diego area to the wider grid. that is coming from arizona to the east. now, to the north of here is another power plant. the power plant from the east somehow spread to that plant as well. as a precautionary measure, it shut down and knocked out power to this entire region. what is incredible is the fact that san diego gas and electric now says they have restored power to everyone in their service area that lost power in just 12 hours, they were able to restore more than 100 substations and more than a thousand different distribution points. so the picture is going to be a lot different for san diego area residents this morning than it was yesterday when

plant is now on stream off of being officially launched the russian built facility is the only substation in the entire middle east bush says currently running at forty percent capacity will reach full power on top of some washable continue to provide help and fuel for the flaws underground will send a spent fuel back to russia to ease the tension in the west over any uranium enrichment program the u.s. and the have long been concerned the country is building a nuclear bomb but to run insistence on a strictly peaceful i felt that in the reset the school of oriental and african saudis at the university of london police around has the rights to peaceful nuclear energy just like any other developed nation. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west and over the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped of. the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions econ

started when one very unlucky electrical worker removed a piece of faulty monitoring equipment at a substation outside yuma. that set off a series of outages, surges and short circuits that quickly knocked out one of two major transmission lines, connecting san diego to the power grid for the western u.s. the second line, north of the city, was then jolted by the failure of the first and shut down, too. should it have made this huge of an impact? >> at the end of the day, one person making a mistake shouldn't have had this big of an impact. >> reporter: but it has happened before. the northeast blackout of 2003, the biggest ever in the u.s. 55 million people out of power in eight states. at first, the thought was terrorists had struck again. but it turned out to be a tree branch that hadn't been trimmed, shorted out a sagging power line. an hour later, it was mayhem in manhattan. we may never know who that poor power company employee was who left millions in the dark last night. but we can only imagine he's wishing there was a tree to blble this time. abbie boudreau, abc news, san diego, calif

the victim was shot several times but managed to drive himself to a police substation. he is hospitalized in stable condition. >> a developer is objected to the plan to get the city out of bankruptcy. triad tiled a challenge to the exit plan announced last month on top of an existing lawsuit it has against the city. they claim they broke a long standing contract in 2009 and that it's entitled to money damages for the illegal termination. it's a precautionary move in case they don't win the lawsuit. >>> the fbi is displaying evidence on the war on terror as part of the 9/11 attacks. it covers attacks before and after 9/11 including jet liners from the jets that hit the towers. >> it's shocking to see and to see the cell phone exits there and to hear that the phones range for days as people searched for their loved ones. >> it also includes the shoes of richard reed who tried to destroy a jet liner in 2001. it will be on permanent display. on sunday, ktvu news will have live reports from new york, washington d.c. and pennsylvania and we'll examine the many changes we've s

. >> we had an employee carrying out what's called a switching procedure in a you ma area substation. to take a little bit of time over the next day or two to figure out exactly what the relationship is, if any, between that procedure and the outages in yuma. >>reporter: take a look at these pictures. all flights grounded yesterday. that translates into thousands of passengers that were left stranded. the airport is back up and running this morning as is all public transportation in the region. even the nuclear power plant had to go off line. that is what it's supposed to do when there's an interruption in power. officials say there's no danger to the public, but could take upwards of two days before the generators there are up and running and fully recharged. this has caused a certainly big problem. >>> a local hospital with a worldwide reputation for cutting ed? : medicine is now dealing with a privacy controversy. pam cook is in the newsroom to tell us what happened. we're talking about stanford hospital. this morning administrators are apologizing to patients after completing a

. >> reporter: i am standing at the county sheriff's substation in fort bragg. it's the command senter for the hunt of the killer. this is the eight day that 50 law enforcement officials from local, county state and federal agencies have been searching the woods around fort bragg but they still haven't been able to find this man. suspected of killing killing a city councilman. . >> i am looking for the apprehension. last thing we want is anymore violence. we want safe apprehension. anyone who has contact with him, get the word out there. we want this to come to a safe conclusion. >> we consider him very dangerous. he is in the woods. we are sending our police officers out there every day and this guy, in our mind, he has one thing to accomplish, and that's to escape apprehension. >> reporter: now, showing the priority hof man hunt, they are here right now, a task force of local, state, county officers are helping with the search. and yesterday two deputies spotted him, started chasing him but he disappeared into the woods, and that's where we are right now. ther

. >> this started yesterday when a worker in a substation switched out what is called capacitor.al regulators are investigating why no save guards kicked into place. >> still head, revise r visiting the san bruno pipeline disaster with an eye toward neighborhood safety. >> and beginning our september 11th coverage with a report from ground zero. and a man thankful for missing his train that day oo. homeowners will be seeing changes to property tax bill. i'll have seven on your i've got nothing against these do-it-yourself steam-cleaning enthusiasts. it's good for the cuomzeroq get to know their own carpet. and spending the day moving furniture and lugging around a hot water extraction unit can be a rush! i know. that's why i'm carpet for life. but look, if things get out of hand, and the place starts smelling like wet gym sock, there's no shame in calling a professional. i respect you for trying. ♪call 1-800-steemer. >>> at this time, one year ago a massive fire raged in san bruno. a fireball visible across the bay. the cause wasn't immediately clear. the blame landed on pg&e and

officials in arizona that one arizona power service employee was doing repairs at the north gila substationalized in yuma, however, system protocols were apparently not followed, and that meant it spread like wildfire across southern california. san diego gas and electric company officials say they are working to restore power. they even already managed to restore power to some of their customers. they say it could last well into friday and we're in the middle of a heat wave in southern california. that means a lot of folks not only missed the football game, they're going to be missing their air conditioners. rob and tanya. >> never say one man can't make a difference. >> apparently the high temperaturesesn yuma, arizona, yesterday -- 113 degrees. no power. kl you imagine that? >> no ac. 200 campuses in the san diego area, they're closed. reopen maybe on monday. just can't operate without the power. >> there are reports from officials in orange county and yuma that some power has been restored. so there is a glimmer of hope. >> it will get back, but not the way you want to end your week and

outage occurred when a single electrical worker, one guy moved a piece of monitoring equipment in a substation in arizona. the outage cut power to water pumps in san diego county causing two million gallons of sewage to spill on to beach autos we're taking you live now to ground zero in new york city. there sunday marks 10 years since the september 11th attacks. and despite another new terror threat there are no plans to call off sunday's memorial. we are live at ground zero with the story. tj? >> good afternoon. the president has no plans to change his scheduled trip here to ground zero as well as washington and shanksville to commemorate the anniversary of september 11th. homeland security's message if you see something, say something. police guarding mass transit hubs, stopping cargo. a reminder of how much the world changed on september 11th, 2001. >> the public is likely to see and may be somewhat inconvenienced by the vehicle check points at various locations throughout the city. >> u.s. counter terrorism officials are chasing a credible threat that al qaeda plans to set up around the 10

. >> reporter: it's looking more and more like operator end on an employees end at an arizona substation that caused this whole mess. this is the far northern part of the impact area the lights are back on at this gas station behind me. we had reports all over the place yesterday of people stranded at gas stations because their tanks were empty and there was no power to run the pumps, and a lot of people were certainly scared initially because it's safe to say many americans are sort of on edge as we are on the edge of the 10th anniversary of september 11th, and the terror alert level has been raised in many places as a precaution. nearly aufrl the power ha all of the power has been restored. it was out for 13 hours or so, shutting down schools and snarl link traffic as you can see from the pictures. thousands of traffic lights in the region were out. reports of minor accidents, even people stuck in elevators. officials are stressing that there was no sabotage here. >> we had an employee carrying out what is called a switching procedure in a yuma area substation, but we will need to take

this happened at a substation in yuma, arizona. the cause -- look at this.it caused a traffic mess. but it caused the cancellation of flights, commuter trains and the traffic was a mess. from what we're being told, everything is good right now. power has been restored. don't know when we'll find out exactly what happened. >>> flooding from tropical storm lee breaking records in pennsylvania and new york. thousands of people had to grab what they could and hightail it out of there. at least three people are dead, those deaths blamed on the floods. president obama declared the region a federal disaster area. >>> also in texas, state there has appealed the president to declare a major disaster there. they're trying to get federal assistance for the wildfires. the lieutenant governor says we need help yesterday. the biggest fire which is burning near austin killed at least two people, destroyed nearly 1400 homes. it's partially contained. firefighters have stopped the forward progress, however. officials say another big fire north of san antonio has more than 50

they believe an employee at a power substation in southwest arizona likely caused the outage. >> it's flights here. arrivals and departures were peppered with cancellations last night. almost all southwest flights to san diego were cancelled. they will evaluate the situation this morning and determine if more cancellations are necessary. united, you night express and virgin has temporarily stopped flights to san diego. to check on flight status go to abc7news.com and click on flight tracker on our home page. >> it was one year ago today that disaster struck the city of san bruno with the nation's deadly gas explosion in a decade at exactly 6:11 p.m., a pg&e exploded and spread flames around the neighborhood. the blast and fire killed 8 people and injured dozens of others and destroyed 38 homes. it took pg&e an hour and a half before it could furnish off the gas. federal safety officials said the utility's litany of failures includes substandard welds that led to the explosion. families and neighbors of the people killed in the explosion and fire will hold a memorial service at skyline

one person, an utility work accidentally removed a key piece of monitoring equipment at a power substationyuma, arizona. >> row better that gave me -- roberta gave me the look of oops! >> that's when you have that moment, you feel like you want to get away? what does this button do? [ laughter ] >> i got some business to talk about. we have some rain in the vicinity of the bay area. firing up the doppler radar to show you. we have some thunderstorm activity blossoming around the stockton area. we fired up all the radar sites all the way into eureka, also -- that is a ferocious thunderstorm that is going into the vice president of stockton, that wants to -- into the invest independent of stockton -- into the vicinity of stockton. this is developing around decide, and look how close it is to the bay area. that's why there's a 20% chance of storms in the bay area forecast for saturday through sunday, primarily the areas, alameda and santa layer clair counties -- santa clara counties. red glad warning is in in effect for the north bay hills for gusty winds until tomorrow, 11:00 a.m. yep, that'

learned "that" witness was an on duty police officer who was inside the royal farms working at a substationas an off duty police sergeant by the name of carlos vila. stand up 11:05:57 department insiders tell me the sgt works where at the southeastern following the hit and run he's been pulled off the stree and reassigned to desk durty this as an internal affairs investigation is conducted.12:29:50 i know were not going to tolerate any behavior that undermines the integrity of this agency and if there is an officer convicted or accused of wrongdoing were going to investigate it to our best ability. sources say police caught up with vila at his home. a female told officer's he had been home the whole night. at this point, internal affairs investigators are trying to determine if vila was drinking at the time of the hit and run. in highlandtown joy lepola fox 45 news at ten. 3 sergeant vila is listed as a police union chairman and head of the department's latino's association. day three.../ of... the trial.../ against.../ doctor ...conrad murray.... /// ááchargedáá.../ with... manslaughter...

. >> reporter: a single employee of an arizona power company whose repairs to his substation northeast of yuma went so badly wrong he managed to knock out the region's main high-voltage extension cords. there's not just one guy to blame. america's aging infrastructure has something to do with it too. not to mention the deregulation of power. so that comes want to sell you company but precious few want to shoulder the cost of maintaining means of delivery. is it even conceivable we've done everything to defend against osama bin laden, only to leave ourselves vulnerable to homer simpson? you be the judge. david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> one guy. >> i know, homer simpson look out, you've got some competition. >> luckily, apparently boil water orders have been lifted there, a nuclear station is back online. so crisis averted, everything is returning to normal. >> that 2 million gallons of sewage that got pumped into the beaches there, that's not going to be removed from people's minds for a long time to come. >> don't take a dip just yet. >>> coming up, from music to movies the las

it begin in a yuma, arizona substation.ployee removed a voltage regulatory somehow creating the largest power, regulator. >> it shouldn't have such a big impact. >> the nuclear plant is expected to be back on line this morning. many people are doing things they couldn't do when the power was out like buying gas and going to the grocery store. >> the woman accused of killing michelle le is due back in court after making her first appearance yesterday. giselle esteban was dressed in an orange jump cell suit. she is charged with the murder of le. she appeared with no attorney the court may need to appoint one for her. >> lisa argen joins us now taking a look at the forecast. >> sunny city. looking at mild temperatures. here is a look from our roof cam. our numbers in the 50s, mid-60s, east bay, thunderstorms not too far away and talk about the rest of the weekend. >> and tens of thousands of people evacuated some of the worst flooding in pennsylvania as some return prepare to return home and for one person, that is their homem

arizona power officials say there was an employee who was working on a substation near yuma, arizona.tried to bring power back into that area. something else happened and that caused the more widespread disruption. they are not clear how this all unfolded. they will be investigating the next several weeks. ten years ago you may remember the state of california had these rolling blackouts and brownouts. the electricity distribution system here needs an update. it has been modified. it has been improved. but it is very fragile. we have seen the blackouts in the northeast happened a few years ago affecting 50 million country. this is only one tenth the size of that but one of the infrastructure needs that remains critical in this country the distribution of systems in electricity that when something goes wrong, it affects an awful lot of people. >> it just affected that one wire that brings in california's imported electricity. casey wian, many thanks to you. >>> near record flooding in the northeast. five people are now dead and thousands forced to leave their homes. >> officials say th

utility employee performing maintenance caused the outage, by removing monitoring equipment from a substationk to "on the record." for your latest headlines, go to foxnews.com. you are watching the most powerful name in news, fox newschannel. >> greta: if you watched the speech you heard president obama tell congress to pass his jobs ab. in fact he said it 17 times. is that going to happen? any republicans likely to jump onboard? joining us former senator santorum. you have a jobs plan. >> i do. >> greta: give me three bullet points how yours is different from the president's? >> mine while create jobs number one in the private sector. >> greta: how? >> as nikki haley was just talking about, permanent tax re , permanent changes so businesses have certainty going forward. -- the big permanent change nikki talked about this, getting boeing back to work and getting manufacring back. we need to have a manufacturing economy grow in this country. that has the greatest multiplier of any sector of the economy. it fills the middle economic of america. if you want to replace that middle income that has

. >> reporter: a single employee of an arizona power company whose repairs to a substation northeastf yuma went so badly wrong that he managed to knock out the region's main high-volt attach extension cord. of course, there's not one guy to blame, america's aging infrastructure had something to do with it, too. not to mention the deregulation of power, there's plenty of companies who want to sell you plenty of cheap electricity. precious few want to shoulder the cost of maintaining the means of delivery. is it even conceivable we've done everything possible to defend against osama bin laden only to leave ourselves vulnerable to homer simpson? ♪ >> reporter: you be the judge. for "good morning america," david wright, abc news, los angeles. >>> and coming up on "good morning america," poignant portraits. meet the artist who is giving a special gift to families of the heroes of the world trade center. >>> and the way we were. everybody remembers whwhe we were on september 11th but what about september 10th. our john berman with slices of life from the day before the disaster. [ male ann

get the financial markets up and running again, christine, you needed power and coned lost its substationade center. you needed voice and data switching, which verizon lost when number seven world came out and took out 140 west. and i must tell you a tribute to those technical workers at both of those organizations, verizon and con ed, they worked around the clock so that the financial community was in a position to reopen that following monday. and unlike any period in the financial market's history, those of us in the business took off the jerseys we wore of our respective organizations and put on a team u.s.a. jersey, and one blood sport competitor became another one's helper. and we all locked arms to do one very simple thing, christine. to send the message to the terrorists, you've killed thousands, you've destroyed billions in property, but you've failed. you've failed because the american spirit can never be broken. we will rise, we will rebuild, and we will never forget. and we did that, i'm very proud of what we did as a collective partnership. >> i would give anything for a litt

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say the outage was accidentally triggered with a utility worker replacing faulty equipment at a substationid something wrong. it's unclear why this caused such a widespread outage there. interpol issued its top most wanted alert for the arrest of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi and his son saif. the move follows a request by the international criminal court which is seeking the men for alleged crimes against humanity. gadhafi has not been seen in public for months and went underground after rebels swept into tripoli and stormed his compound. >>> former wrestling executive linda mcmahon is on the verge of announcing another run for the u.s. senate in connecticut. the republican party chairman tells the new haven register mcmahon's announcement is imminent. she spent more than $50 million of her own money in an unsuccessful campaign last year against democrat richard blumenthal. >> the president is about to deliver his first live remarks out of richmond, virginia. have i got a surprise for you! a mouthwatering combination of ingredients... i know you're gonna love. [ barks ] yes, it's n

. >>> the lights are back on today after a short circuit at the substation in arizona caused this, a massive blackout in parts of california, arizona, and mexico. millions were without power. federal investigators are look at why the short circuit has such a major ripple effect. back to you. >> thanks very much. that's it for "360." see you again at 10:00 p.m. thanks for watching. "piers morgan tonight" starts now. >>> on september 10, 2011, he was a hard charging, high-living ceo. september 12, he was the only family of the families of 658 people, cantor fitzgerald made it out alive. >> i thought everyone i ever imagined working with ever had been killed. >> he attempted his own life. he tells us how he rebuild his business and his life over the dust of ground zero. >>> and a woman whose life went up in flames on that terrible day. >> out of the elevator shaft blew a wall of fire that enveloped me. >> she had an 8% chance of living through it. this is a special edition of "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening, tonight new york city is a city on edge. we hear more about the terror

people lost power yesterday after an electrical worker removed a piece of monitoring equipment at a substationsed a sewage spill that closed several beaches near san diego and the schools there are also closed. >>> stanford hospital in palo alto, california, confirms to the new york times that information on 20,000 emergency room patients were posted on a commercial website. the information included names as well as diagnosis codes, and it stayed online for nearly a year until it was discovered last month. >>> firefighters are tamping down the hot spots and holding back the flames from what is beingb÷ called the most devastating wildfire ever in texas. it has burned since sunday and killing two people and destroying nearly 1,400 homes near austin. because of the progress in controlling the fire, officials called off the plans to use a dc-10 jetliner to drop fire retardant on the flames. i'm alex witt in for tamron hall, and join me this weekend for the live anniversary coverage of 9/11. and my colleague will be in for martin bashir next. gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to