i think that is part of the substation upgrades of existing munimobile substations. and the traction power is sort of what is connected in and out of the substations. >> is this still part of the budget or not? >> it is. >> the 75 million for the power system is still a critical component a better market street >> correct. they will not build a new substation, but they will still upgrade the existing substations , and there is two of those. >> now of these private infrastructure improvements, which are really the bigger cost , but probably more critical for our users, even though they are not visible, how much of this is going to get prioritized in phase one class. >> there will be components of all of this in phase one. it is a full scope for two blocks. we are looking at extending into fifth street, so we are hoping to get three blocks of complete project. you will see all the state of good repair, all of the infrastructure improvements within 8-6 of the fifth. >> the stage of good repair that is not being included in phase one because they are not on fifth-8th str

interactions data centers have their own transformer substation. it converts high voltage electric power that comes in from the grid into low voltage power that can be distributed throughout the facility. the substations are outfitted with backup systems to ensure consistency supply of electricity during emergencies like power outages or surgeons. the data centers in frankfurt consume twenty percent of all the electricity used in the city that's more than frankfurt huge international airport. we were outside berlin near the small town of guns a. ten months on top of us author university professor and expert on sustainable digitise zation lives here with his family in a few friends and some animals. on top of us studies the impact that digital technology has on the environment the economy and society in general. some taleo says a hobby farmer it's definitely a low tech existence. but try as he might he can't completely avoid using digital technology. and he should also pose a long line of smartphones also i'm trying to stay off my smartphone but the

local time after a brief electrical fire at a substation.he unusual sky prompting a wave of commentary on social media. bill de blasio tweeted to reassure residents that the lights were not aliens. global news 24 hours a day and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. francine? francine: thank you so much. volatility continues. it looks like it was going to be a bad day for u.s. stocks after a blockbuster session on wednesday, but equities rebounded late yesterday, finishing the session in the green. it was the biggest reversal in the s&p since 2010. aocks have still had punishing december, the biggest we have fallen in a month and a decade -- in a decade. joining us now for the hour is luca paolini, chief strategist at pictet asset management. i'm not sure what is going on in the markets. what is the market psychology right now? luca: i think investors are very worried, they are concerned. obviously liquidity is very thin during this. so you see this kind of big

we need to pay for app at the substation where there is real transmission coming in. so this bill will switch those charges up to the substation and that will make it cheaper to get local renewables built because we will no longer have to locally pay for transmission charges that aren't used. >> thank you, very much. >> public comment is now closed. >> my doctor's school -- i had to pick it up. i'm so sorry about that. i wanted to echo commissioner pollock and asked that we keep any bills related to the pg and e. bailout on our watch list as well. >> can you please call item number 8. >> item number 8 would be future agenda items. >> are there any future agenda items,? >> this is restating what we've already stated in the meeting. i just wanted to be clear that i wanted it as a future agenda item and i will defer to the chair on scheduling which meeting it goes to. but just to make sure that they are adding, as an agenda item a special study that will builds on the report that will model the sydney plan. we can think of a better name for this agenda item at a later ti

a substation experienced a brief electrical fire after a couple of transformers tripped offline. it did not seem routine to folks seeing it. >> holy [ bleep ]. oh, my god. >> this was the view miles away in manhattan. the light visible as far as new jersey. the unearthly effect enhanced by the low cloud ceiling. the explosion is powerful enough to shake buildings and windows. there were power outages which shutdown laguardia in quinoneen. the airport switched to a back-up generator and resumed operation at 10:20 p.m. >>> the storm system we have been tracking all week. a messy day in store for the great lakes. two deaths have been reported in louisiana. a 58-year-old woman died after a tree fell on her camper trailer. another person died in kansas in a crash on i-70 in blizzard conditions. >> this system stretches the u.s. from north to south and south dakota has sleet and know snow across the state. the nebraska state patrol closed i-80 due to snow and ice and high winds. and in kansas, an electrical explosion with pyrotechnics that you have never seen. meteorologist ivan cabrer

that's closer but it's a survival guide substation just like most of the stars simply. resurfaced. he should come to get him back. oh heck no. repatriations forget the rest of seven years. until of the separate cars kaiser report. president trump indeed has has he's way of communicating but you have to hand it to him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on you know fate news and junk news because one of the following days of a democracy has to be the trust in news facts and information and if that trust is fundamentally shaken and the independent media all criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. there's a saying. i think they're on the cheap. and then you went through all the countries . but the idea is they're right to scold us come he said if we give them everything they do to us. be. in this country. this is what we don't understand how we are in such a country. but there are certain elements of the same time. the

it was at a power substation in queens. >> the light, everything is different. >> i saw just yellow sparks in the sky. it looked like blue fire. it was a really weird blue color too. i was like aliens are here. >> causing disruption for some arriving flights yesterday. the power has been restored but the blue sky had social media buzzing last night. >> tommy lee jones show up? will smith? >> no word on that. >>> mrs. claus is hanging around the area. you can make >>> all right. mike joins me once again. >> this week's pet is from the spca. meet mrs. claus. she is an american pit bull mix that is guaranteed to make you laugh. they have really enjoyed having her around. she is jolly and has a gentle soul. she is also very energetic. call the number on your 510-569-0702. the adoption fee is waived. >> that's perfect. i hope she finds her forever home. >> me too. >>> we want to remind you we will be breaking into programming at noon today. we are going live far press conference. there has been a major dwobment. an arrest made >> julia novakovic is just four questions away from $1 million. she

mayor bill de blasio's office said the blue light was caused by an electrical surge at the substation) the power outage affected operations at laguardia airport as all flights were grounded for about an hour and a half. (grant) officials say there are no indications of local air quality issues but they are continuing to montior the situation. (grant) tonight we are learning about another instance of a tesla vehicle catching fire following a crash. three teens in new hampshire were hospitalized after a crash that happened last night. one of them has life-threatening injuries. the teens were in a tesla model x when it crashed into a tree... slicing it in half just before it bursted into flames on perry road in rindge, new hampshire. the 19-year-old has taken to the hospital with serious injuries and the two other teens are expected to be ok. the crash remains under investigation but police say it appears speed was a factor. (grant) a 3-year-old is recovering after being thrown from a three-wheeled motorcycle in florida. this is the chilling surveillance video -- showing the toddler just

the reason was a transformer explosion at a substation in queens. fortunately, no one hurt in the fire, which is under investigation but look at that sky in shades of blue, visible as far as manhattan and new jersey. people flooded the streets to try to figure out the source of the blue-green glow. >> it's a crazy blue light out of nowhere. after that blue turned into red, blue, and after five minutes it went away. >> it went from nighttime to instant through sun's up. >> it closed la guardia airport in queens. terminals were impacted by the closu closure. the airport has since resumed to normal operations. the bright light had people dploking to social media last night. it was a meteor. nothing like tonight except it had people trying to figure out what it was. >> new video of a swawater arre being made. the man is being pulled out of the lake via helicopter. he wasn't hurt. he just got stuck. the man chargesds with murdering 18-year-old leah wilson in a b.a.r.t. station is delusional according to his attorney. today a judge in oakland said there i

the fire at a substation in queens delayed subway service and briefly shut down laguardia airport. no one was hurt and everything is back up and running. >>> and the ball that rings in the new year is all dressed up for the big night. the 6-ton device will be sporting some sparkling new waterford crystals as 2018 ends and 2019 begins. those are some of our top stories for this friday, this last friday, december 28th. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> thank you for joining us. the end of this holiday week as we get ready to roll into another one. >>> we begin this half hour with the government shutdown dragging on now for seven days and counting with neither side ready to blink. >> president trump now says the standoff is not about the border wall, claiming it's really about democrats denying him a win. as the funding fight rages on, hundreds of thousands of workers are caught in the crossfire. abc's kenneth moton has more. >> reporter: capitol hill a ghost town with 800,000 federal workers in limbo. department of justice worker tanya via says with two kids in college

a blue light filling the sky, workers blaming a fault at a substation. the eerie scene had everyone wondering what happened. here's erielle reshef. >> reporter: the supernatural looking glow lighting up the night sky over new york. >> it's not supposed to look like that. >> reporter: that mysterious blue green haze sparking chaos and confusion across the city. >> you looked in the sky and it was bright blue. >> reporter: all of it triggered by this explosion at a power plant in queens. >> that's the power plant. >> you felt it in your chest, these explosions. >> reporter: the fire knocking out power, and temporarily shutting down part of laguardia airport at the height of the holiday rush. >> the lights went out and they were, like, everyone run. >> reporter: air traffic control running on emergency backup, runway lights blown. >> be advised, the approach lights are out of service at this time. >> reporter: more than a dozen flights diverted, another 100 delayed. no one was hurt in the explosion. tonight, the thick blue haze replaced by fog. officials ca

the substation where it all under folded. >> we did find one piece of evidence that is a little peculiarthis was on the site which raised some questions. i'm told it is a piece of safety equipment for workers. >> a spokesman for the county saysn a electrical issue sparked the flickering blue light that people witnessed the sight from miles away. we're told flights are back to normal in and out of laguardia. >>> can we say we're over the weather? >> we've been over it. >> i'm sti tracking some fog and drizzle. if you're seeing fog where you live, let me know on facebook, t r, love to hear exactly what's happening in your neighborhood. the reporting sites not reporting a lot of fog out ther whatou're telling me is that you're seeing so many places. i can believe it just because of where the temperature is. down in culpeper the hagerstown area and some mist and drizzle. is all comes to an end by 8:00 p.m. and then some clearing overnight. check out our temperatures. 56 degrees right now in washington. our high so far today, 57 down the patuxent river. 52, 45 inmartinsburg. i'll hav tthepera

we do not have permanent relations with substate entities. supporting and super bowlthat is not the ps administration and has not been the policy of other administrations if you talk about long-term support in a military sense and bring partner and long-term governments. that is not what we do. in the long run, the solution for all the gurus is. isn't performed syrian government and internationally supported cease-fire and process that gives everybody the chance to live in peace. william: sir? >> thank you. about 100 crossed the border in syria with no corporation from the americas. will you be with his was the role that america sees for this? in the fall: friday between president erdogan and president trump, president erdogan claimed ansident trump had understanding of the plan of eastern syrian given erdogan said that something like that would not be acceptable. my question to you is, is either a lack of consistency in washington on the response to the turkish plant offensive in syria? ambassador jeffrey: we think any offensive into northea

shom the other side of the hudson rive 16 hours after the bizarre blast, governor cuomo toured the substation where it all unfolded. a spokesman said an electrical fault on a section of 138,000 volt equipment caused a transmission disturbance and sustained an electrical arc flash. that sparked the blue lighthat people witnessed from miles away. >> thercing of that electricity was basically a man de lightning bolt. >> dark know, ,darkne fire. >> reporter: thousands of people in astoria could see the arc flash with their own eyes. it went viraln social media with some trying to make sense and others makingfun. one person wrote, these gender reveal parties are out of hand. another said, somebody call ghost busters. >> we did find one piece of evidence that was peculiar. this was on the site which has raised some questions. i'm told it is a piece of safety equipment for workers. >> reporter: that's governor andrew cuomo having some fun with the situation. one utility worker did suffer some eyeit iion after looking at that bright flash. >> closer to home, a tough firefight in the heart of alexandr

an electrical substation lit up sky in queens.ef electrical fire produced a bright blue light across the sky and cut off power to the airport. delta and american airlines flights had to be diverted before power was restored. u.s. cannabis retailer green growth brands is planning to launch a hostile takeover bid. it would value a canadian marijuana grower at more than $2 billion, 46% premium over closing price on monday. global news 24 hours a day on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. alix: thanks. bid, saying ithe undervalues the company. hria says the proposal undervalues the company. joining me now, is peter, green growth brands ceo. good to see you. what do you do? peter: we let the shareholders decide. there has been interest in combining businesses in this industry across the border. last february, when the memo was rescinded by the attorney general, canadian licensed producers were unable to acquire u.s. companies. there was interestin

the other side of the river. 16 hours after the bizarre blast, governor cuomo toured the astoria substationre it all unfolded. a spokesman said an electrical fault on a section of 138,000 volt equipment caused a transmission disturbance and a sustained electrical arc flash. that sparked the blue light that people witnessed from miles away. >> the arcing of that electricity was basically a man ma lightning bolt. >> darkness, darkness, fire. t >> reporteusands of people in astoria could see the arc flash with their own eyes. it went on social media with people trying to make sense and others making light of the eerie showve a the new york sky. one person wrote, these gender revealav parties gotten out of happened. anotosr said, busters? >> we did find one thing in peculiar. this was on site but i'm told it was a piece ofafety equipment for workers. >> no one was hurt in the n. explos laguardia opened up a ground stop when they lost power. the airport is operational today and no aliens were found at the scene. news4 at 00 starts now. >> it is senseless to s these murders happen in our city. >>

it was not aliens in fact but an electrical surge in a queens substation. the blue light eventually faded and at last check no one was seen being taken away by a spaceship. we will be right back. ...can hat prices? that's why tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites to find the lowest price on the hotel you want. your perfect hotel room for the perfect price! what a year. your home improvement "to-do list" still isn't "to-done". but hey, at least you still have time to get the ford vehicle you've always wanted. just get to the final days of our holiday sales event. see you sometime between now and january 2nd. so you can end your year on a high note. ford. built for the holidays. it's time to get our best offers of the season. ♪ >> bret: a powerful winter storm continue to wreak havoc across the u.s. today. blizzard conditions across the upper midwest are being blamed for at least three deadly car crashes while flash flooding in the south swept away cars and forced dozens of water rescues. the risk of flooding will persist in parts of the south into next

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new york, an explosion and electrical substation in queens lit up the night at and caused delays laguardia airport. the brief electrical fire produced a bright blue light skyline and cut-off tower at the airport. a number of dealtsa and american flights had to be diverted before power was restored. pretty crazy. global news. powered by 2700 journalists and 121 countries.ary i'm courtney, this is bloomberg, guy. courtney.k you, let's check in on the markets as europeannto the end of trading week. europe is trading positive at this point in time. single sector on the stocks trading higher. oninstruction, insurance, technology, banks, leading the charge. all sectors up over 2%. is done, done for the year. it was the worst performing market this year and it was brought up on the down down 56%.utsche bank, 24 of the 30 members of the dax in negative territory. 100 close down 2%, over in has been the big outperformer this year, is up by 1.55%. u.s. markets again, like european markets, trading on volume at the moment, which is worth bearing in mind. they have turned around a bit seeing the s&p j

we do not have permanent relationships with substate entities. the policy of this administration and basically has not been the policy of other administrations if you talk about long-term support in the andtical military sense, being their partner in long-term governance. it is simply not what we do. run, the solution for all of the groups in syria is a reform syrian government, and internationally supported a cease-fire, and an international process i gives everyone the chance to live in peace. william: sir? >> thank you. about 100 people crossed into syria with knowledge from americans. can you tell us what the role america sees for this group of people and on the phone call on friday between president erdogan and president trump, president erdogan claims president trump had an understanding of the plan offense into northeastern syria. given not long ago said to something like that would not be acceptable. my question is, is there a lack of consensus in washington to the response of turkish defenses into syria? mr. jeffrey: once again, we of no

this morning, a local power company blamed the light on an electrical arc flash at a power substation queens. >> the night loads like the day. at night everything is different, you know? >> i saw just yellow sparks in the sky. it looked like blue fire. >> it was insane. it was a real weird color of blue too. i thought, the aliens are here. >> the explosion knocked out power of part of laguardia airport causing disruption for arriving flights yesterday. the power has since been restored. but the blue sky had social media buzzing last night. and a lot of people were, yeah, a little skeptical about the explanation there. they thought we were being invaded. this is a week after we had the weird thing here. >> absolutely. >> yeah. what's going on? >> i think it is a conspiracy. we should look deeper into it. i can't believe we're the most intelligent species out there. mid to upper 40s. that's what we have along the east bay shore. alameda, 50. same thing in fremont. mid to upper 40s everywhere. lowe's tkps gatos, 41. san mateo bridge, breezy out in the middle span. gusts 21 miles per hour

nielsen toured multiple stations and substations in el paso.nd looked at medical screening processes. nielsen has ordered changes in screenings at border crossings nationwide. for instance-- all children in u-s border patrol custody will now be given a thorough medical screening. (ken) an act of terror. that's what the egyptian foreign ministry spokesperson is calling an attack that left at least four dead. a roadside bomb detonated near the giza pyramids. the blast hit a tourist bu three vietnamese tourists were killed along with an egyptian tour guide. 10 others were hurt. egypt has battled islamic militants for years. however this is the first attack to target foreign tourists in almost two years. (vicki) the number of children dying from opioid poisonings has nearly tripled in the last decade. a new study from the medical urnal jama showed 9-thousand pediatric deaths between 1999 and 2016 due to opioids. a majority of them were accidents, and many of them happened at home. the authors of the study say the epidemic will not get better until

board was detained before dying in custody after two hospital visits. 20 multiple stations and substations operated by customs and border protection and meeting with the mps and other first responders, scheduled to move on to yuma, arizona tomorrow. judging from his tweets donald trump is keeping a close eye on the border as he stays in dc this weekend, lawmakers are out of town amidst this partial government shutdown. richardson joins us with the latest. >> too bad i'm not going live from hawaii. supposed to be here. there is no indication this arsenal government shutdown and this year. congress is mostly out of town, donald trump is still your tweeting we will be forced to close the southern border entirely if the obstructionist democrats do not give us money to finish the wall and change the ridiculous immigration laws that our country is settled with. i do believe there was a congress and president who would approve. the president is threatening again to cut aid to honduras, guatemala and el salvador for failing to prevent their citizens from traveling illegally to the us border. the w

blue light, the source of it was actually a malfunctioning piece of electrical equipment in this substation behind me. that piece of equipment had 138,000 volts attached to it, so when the malfunction happened it created a huge ark of lightening that was described to us as a lightening strike, if you will. it created temporary power outages, including at la guardia. so it was definitely impacted. but most of the attention was on this blue light emanating, really illuminating the new york city skyline and also sparking speculation of an alien invasion, which the nypd had to quickly dispel on twitter. but luckily no one was hurt in all of this and the power company is still investigating. they don't know what actually caused the spark or the ark of light to begin with, but what they're saying, what authorities are saying, is that it is nonsuspicious or unsuspicious, which suggests that there is no foul play here, jim. >> when the new york fire department has to say, no, it is not an alien invasion, that is quite a night during the holidays. thanks very much. >>> moments from now wall treat wi

i pulled up to one of our substations and the call went out., we get traffic accidents all the time, and i was going to relieve myself and then head to the accident. i heard them say that the vehicle was fully involved and there was a passenger trapped inside the vehicle, so i decided to forego my pit stop and go ahead and go to the accident. i honestly believe that if i would have made that two-minute delay that the outcome possibly could have been a little different. >> i think that's right. i think that brings it home for all of us. you take an emergency call even when nature is calling and you saved a life. and we really appreciate you guys showing us the video and your heroism. it's just astonishing. thank you very much, deputies. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> oh, my gosh! >> what a powerful, great story. great, guys. >>> the president defending his plan to pull american troops out of syria. "cnn newsroom" picks up our coverage after this very quick break. >>> a very good thursday morning to you. i'm jim sciutto. poppy is off today. he ha