the transmission system was perfected empower was disrupted to a substation. would also be out of power. >> mr. spence or whoever. it was a newspaper article yesterday that indicated that the fbi and department of homeland security have been warning that our industry over the last month about a potential cyber attack. what role as electricity information sharing and analysis center, what role might they play and distribute this kind of information? >> thank you, congressman. that is exactly really what the information sharing and analysis center does. in fact, i'm not aware of that particular one. we do dozens of these a day. we get information posted industry. we have thousand participants and industry who received those notices every day. >> i yield back, mr. chairman. thank you. >> the chair recognizes mr. meadows. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. cauley, did i hear you correctly, you said that in in e event of a cyber attack, the longest period of time that people would be without power, and our? is that what you said? >> thank you for allowing me to follow

>>reporter: officials say a fire connected to some kind of equipment failure forced the substation to shut down. >> a small fire to face at elsa brito -- el cerrito, there were no injuries.>>reporter: the power was disrupted, traffic signals around san pablo avenue. treated the intersection as if there were stop signs. el cerrito police were waiting for those who drove dangerously through the intersection. he outage happened around 9:30 am. just before 1 pm power was restored. >> we are looking to see what caused it and how it impacted the outage.>>reporter: haaziq madyun.>>> maureen kelly talk to people dealing with the impact.>>reporter: in front of the downtown police station that was shut down for a chunk of the morning directing riders to get on at the next stop. trains were not affected, the entrances were taped off because it was too dark to let writers on or off the train.>> now i'm going to be late.>>reporter: that changed around noon time when a generator on wheels showed up and was hooked up. it got most of the power inside up, not all. the escalators needed to be reset. th

more discerning was the attack on ukraine that affected 4,000 substations and left a quarter of a million people without power. call centers were hit with the telephone denial of the service attack as customers were trying to report the outages. if anyone thought this was a glitch, think again. the electrical grid is under attack and then the power sector is all too familiar with the devastation storms like hurricane sandy can leave behind and the physical attacks like the 2013 incident and the sub cap station in california. -- 2013 incident in the substation in california. thankfully in the cases of storms and physical attacks, the -- sector has strong plans in place and the systems to restore the power quickly and to avoid the loss of life and property. i am concerned about a cyber attack. are there similar plans in place for the industry and for the state and local government? will those provide the same types of protection? most recently i have been discussing this topic with those in my district asking what they will do in their communities if the power is out for a long period of ti

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now, the outage happened about 9:30 this morning and it is due to a fire at that pg&e substation. people were without power in berkeley, richmond, san pablo and el cerrito. with no lights at the downtown berkeley ymca, some people who showed up for dance class this morning, well, they had to improvise. >> everybody was standing outside when i got there. power was out. our dance teacher was right there. we always love to dance. so we just went down to the park. somebody went to their car and got a speaker, their ipod, and we did our dance class. >> reporter: and again a pg&e representative confirmed minutes ago they had some sort of an equipment failure at a pg&e substation in el cerrito this morning. and that in turn, led to a fire at the substation and knocked out power to initially what was 43,000 customers through the east bay from berkeley all the way up to san pablo and parts of richmond as well. initially, they had 43,000 people without power. they are trying to restore power to everyone. pg&e spokesperson just told me they got the lights back on to about 1,500 or so customer

the transmission system was affected empower was disrupted to our substations, we would also be out of power. >> mr. spence or, or whoever, there was a newspaper article yesterday that indicated that the fbi and the department of homeland security have been warning the power industry over the last month about a potential cyber attack. what role as the electricity information sharing and analysis center, what role might deploy industry-leading this kind of information? >> thank you, congressman. that is exactly really want the information sharing analysis center does. in fact not aware of that particular one because we do dozens of these today. we get information, posted industry, have several thousand participants in industry who receive those notices every day. >> i yield back, mr. chairman. thank you. >> the chair recognizes mr. meadows. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. cauley, did i do correctly? use it in the event of a cyber attack, the longest period of time that people would be without power is at our? is that what you said? >> thank you for allowing me to follow up on whatever i

where physical attacks like the 2013 incident at the metcalf substation in california. thankfully in the cases of storms and physical attacks, the power sector has strong plans in place and redundant systems to restore power quickly and to avoid the loss of life and property. but i am concerned about a cyberattack. are there similar plans in place for industry and for state and local government? will those redundancies provide the same types of protection? most recently i have been discussing this topic with constituents in my district, asking what they will do in their communities if the power is out for a prolonged period of time. honestly, most of them don't know because we don't know what to plan for. we have brought together the right people here to tell us today. we are also going to discuss what preparedness looks like, best practices, and how we can achieve a greater level of readiness all the way down to the local mayors and township supervisors. i'm encouraged to hear all the industry talk about an all-hazards approach and focusing on mitigating the greatest ri

storms like hurricane sandy can leave behind, or physical attacks like the 2013 incident at the metcalf substation in california. thankfully, in the cases of storms and physical attacks, the power sector has strong plans in place and redundant systems to restore power quickly and avoid the loss of life and property. but i am concerned about a cyberattack. are their similar plans in place for industry and state and local government? will those redundancies provide the same types of protections .. best practiceticses, how we can achieve a greater level of readiness all the way down to the local mayors and township supervisors. i'm encouraged to hear all industry talk about all hazards approach and focusing on mitigating the greatest risks. but i think there are some unique characteristics of the cyber threat that requires specific planning guidelines. i know we can not gold plate the system but given the indepencesy of electricity with our daily lives it is crucial we understand the risks and be prepared for likely consequences possible from the failure of that system. i look forward to this convers

substation. which is also the location of the ongoing hunger strike -- calling for the police chief's resignation. mark? substation which is also the location of that ongoing hunger strike calling for the police chief's resignation, mark. >> reporter: the protest is over the officer involved shootings in san francisco. i can tell you the racist messages found on the cell phonphone s of the handful of officers is like gasoline on that fire. the text messages revealed by public defender this morning go way beyond the bound of broadcast stan darps. the officer frequently used the n word along with similar slurs of mexicans americans and gays. >> continues, you know, some n going to pull that [ bleep ] too. >> reporter: read a number of texts. one of them sent after a shootout between african-americans. >> look what the he says here on june 8, too bad none of them died. too bad none of them died. >> reporter: and he feels there's a correlation between what jason li and three other officers were saying in their texts and what is happening on the street. >> is it a coincidence that we've had a number o

even more discerning was the attack on ukraine that affected 4 dozen substations and left a quarter of a million people without power. call centers were hit with the telephone denial of service attack as customers were trying to report the outages. if anyone thought this was a glitch, think again. the electrical grid is under attack and the power sector is all too familiar with the devastation storms like hurricane sandy can leave behind and the physical attacks like the 2013 incident at the sub cap station in california. thankfully in the cases of storms and physical attacks, the power sector has strong plans in place and redundant systems to restore the power quickly and to avoid the loss of life and property. but i am concerned about a cyber attack. are there similar plans in place for industry and for the state and local government? will those redundancies provide the same types of protection? most recently i have been discussing this topic with those in my district asking what they will do in their communities if the power is out for a long period of time. honestly, most of them d

storms like hurricane sandy can leave behind, where physical attacks like the 2013 incident at the substationfornia. thankfully in the cases of storms and physical attacks, the power sector has strong plans in place and redundant systems to restore power quickly and to avoid the loss of life and property. but i'm concerned about a cyber attack. are there similar plans in place for industry and for state and local government? will those redone dan sunday provide the same types of protection? most renally i have been discussing this topic with cot city opportunities in the district, asking what they'll do anywhere communities if the power is out for a prolong evidence period of time. honestly, most of them don't know. because we don't know what to plan for. we have brought together the right people here to tell us today. we are also going to discuss what preparedness looks like, best practices, and how we can achieve a greater level of readiness all the way down to the local mayors and township supervisors. i'm encouraged to hear all the industry talk about an all-hazards approach and focusing

event. >> or the other thing is a physical attack, which is shooting and explosive devices at the substation, those are the two things that can get into that one to two-week and beyond. >> but those are a lot easier to anticipate and plan for. >> it's very complicated to do 20 sites at one with a physical attack. that risk is mitigated as well, but that's the one i worry about the most. >> that's very helpful. i'll follow up with all of you. i want to say thank you as a member of my local r.e.a., i have a great affinity for my r.e.a.s. >> thank you very much. >> i yield back. >> thank you. i have one more question, mr. spence. my colleague from pennsylvania highlighted that too many coal power plants have closed. are you concerned that having fewer generation facilities online makes the grid as a whole more vulnerable? >> i am not. in fact, mr. cauley and his team are also responsible as part of their doodies to evaluate with detailing modeling region by region the impact of retirements of any sort on the grid of major power stations. they have evaluated this multiple times and have found th

nbc bay area michelle roberts is at the pg&e substation in nearby cerrito. what triggered this? >> reporter: fire officials were called at about 9 this morning to the site of a new transformer that had been installed over the weekend. they were able to put out the fire in less than an hour. thousands of people were inconvenienced for a good portion of the day. >> the station's closed going to ashley and north berkeley. >> thousands turned away at the downtown bart station today due to a power outage that affected 43,000 pg & e customers. they say an equipment fire sparked it this morning. >> we're looking into what caused the fire and how that fire may have been related to the outage. >> reporter: outage lasted several hours. many were forced to find another way to get to work. >> i didn't expect this to happen. >> reporter: restaurants along this avenue that typically draw huge lunch crowds. had to turn people away. >> i couldn't even eat, there's no restaurants open. >> reporter: for some, the outage was more than an inconvenience. >> we will lose basically all morning and will

protesters gathering at a san francisco police department last night, it happened outside the mission district substation. protesters are demanding the police chief step down and here's why, racist text messages written allegedly by police officers makes up the police department. the public defender put up a picture and the text messages to three other officers last summer. they include disparageing words. the relationship between these paper am messages and what's happening on the votes. >> that's the kind of mentally that says, it's okay to shoot, it's okay to kill it's okay to arrest. i want the public to make no mistake about it. we have 11 officers engaged in behavior, worn sent swiftly to the commission for termination. >> in part of his response, the chief says the department is instituting bias training for the entire department. >>> several buildings have caught fire in san francisco over the last couple of months. today the fire department will talk about their investigation. we expect to learn more about the i would beithis building ine mission. it was determined uninhabitable more than a year

they weren't relied on to fulfill leadership position with the delayed entry program at the substationevel the way the males were and they were not required to make significant gains in their physical fitness level before going to recruit training the way the males were. and so having seen that on recruiting and made changes twice in my two tours on recruiting as a commander and as an operations officer and executive officer, to mitigate those risks and change how we recruited and trained and prepared women to go to boot camp, what i found was that there are success stories that can easily be replicated and can easily mitigate a lot of the concerns that jude has discussed. but we haven't evolved to the point that we need to and we haven't looked to those units and those commands that do have success stories to tell. and instead what we tend to do is we tend to look at the negative statistics and that's exactly what we saw with the marine corps's combat integration task force. the women who participated in that study were all exemplary women. they volunteered to serve in a capacity that

of supervisors' approval of a supplemental appropriation in the amount of $5,937,594 for the warnerville substation upgrades project, if required. the project is necessary to mitigate the impacts to the city's electric system caused by the interconnection of electric generating projects to the electric grid. (ritchie) >>any comments on this question? any public comment? hearing none. >>i move. >> i second. >>all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> [chorus of ayes]. next item please.20. adopt findings pursuant to the california environmental quality act; approve the partial quitclaim of a public utility easement encumbering san francisco block 8709, lot 020; approve the terms and conditions; and authorize the general manager to execute the easement quitclaim deed, transferring the city and county of san francisco's interests in a portion of the easement to kaiser foundation health plan, inc. (carlin) 21. authorize the general manager to negotiate to extend the water system improvement program project labor agreement (pla) to the sewer system improvement program and auxiliary water supply syste

they weren't relied on to fulfill leadership position with the delayed entry program at the recruit substation level the way the males were. and they were not required to make significant gains in their physical fitness level before going to recruit training the way the males were. and so having seen that on recruiting and made changes twice in my two tours on recruiting as a commander and as an operations officer and executive officer, to mitigate those risks and change how we recruited and trained and prepared women to go to boot camp, what i found was that there are success stories that can easily be replicated and can easily mitigate a lot of the concerns that jude has discussed. but we haven't evolved to the >> that do have success stories to tell and instead what we tend to do is we tend to look at the negative statistics and that's exactly what we saw with the marine force combat integration task force. they were all women that volunteered to serve in a capacity that wasn't popular because of our culture and they were successful throughout a lot of the training that they participated in

said the measure will only provide $1 billion of the $2.5 billion cost of replacing hundred of miles deteriorating high voltage power cables in substations. the need is critical. >> these high voltage cables are one of our biggest vulnerabilities. >> reporter: all though b.a.r.t. is half of the $10 million maintenance tab it needs, he said even with the bond money, there will be a $1.5 billion shortfall. n nbc bay area news. >>> turning to the presidential race now. the attention on new york where many candidates are trying to woo voters. the primary there is a week from tuesday. meanwhile donald trump is taking a short break from the campaign trail to support the september 11th memorial and museum in new york city. today in the bay has more. >> news bulletin, we just won wyoming! >> reporter: fresh off a proeffect whied victory over hillary clinton in the wyoming caucus, his second win of the week. bernie sanders is campaigning in new york. pundits say the delegate mass isn't in sanders' favor he insists new york could turn it around. >> if we can win here, absolutely opens the door to a path toward victory to the white house. >> report

it happened just outside the mission district's substation. protesters demanding police chief greg suhr step down. the chief is dealing with another scandal as well. police officers have once again been caught sending racist text messages to each other. after a months of hearing about the messages, we finally saw them. the public defender jeff adachi put up a picture of jason lye and his text messages to three other officers last summer including dispassengering words to describe african-americans, gays, and native americans. adachi says he sees a relationship between the hateful messages and the what's happening on the streets. >> that's the kind of mentality that says, it's okay to shoot. it's okay to kill. it's okay to arrest. i want to public to make no mistake about it. y we now have 11 officers who have engaged in such behavior. 11 officers who were sent swiftly to the commission for termination. >> chief suhr says the department is instituting bias training for the entire department. >> several buildings have caught fire in san francisco

. >> a vocal group of protesters gathered at the police department last night outside the mission district substation. protesters demanding police chief to step down. racist text messages allegedly written by police officers is the latest scandal to engulf the police department. we finally saw them. the public defender put up pictures and the text messages of three other officer, they include disparaging words to describe african-american, gays and american indians. he sees a relationship between hateful messages and what's happening on the streets. >> that's the kind of mentality that says, it's okay to shoot. it's okay to kill. it's okay to arrest. i want to public to make no mistake about it. we now have 11 officers that have been having 11 officers who were sent swiftly to the commission for termination. >> the chief says the department is instituting bias training for the entire department. >>> cryptic new details in a homicide case in l.a. police do not believe this was a randoming a of violence. they say they knew the family. they were found dead inside their home on sunday. along with their b

pg&e said the fire started in a substation. >>> san francisco is going after short-term rentals. tomorrow supervisors are expected to propose an amendment to a current law that would fine the companies $1,000 a day for each unregistered listing. we are live with more. >> reporter: supervisors introduced this resolution and they will do it tomorrow here at city hall at the board meeting. they say they're closing a loop hope that the current ordnance has to power to enforce. >> at least 75% of hosts are unregistered. >> reporter: that in a nut shell is what supervisors david and air inwant to fix. city law requires all hosts to register they're listing with the city, but the supervisors say it's not happening and that some 6,000 air b and b listings remain unregistered. many have been taken off the market to the debtriment to the city's shrinking housing stock. >> the only way to bring those units back to the market is by holding the platforms accountab accountable. >> reporter: they would have to verify that their hosts are registering. if not they will face penalties up to $1,000

that although there is a lot of great intentions i have an amazing project in my district, the muni substation which is a bright on the filmore. i would like $2.5 million to rehabilitate the station and make what has been promised to the community for so many years, but i realize there are so many projects in in the city and so much to do and challenges to getting everything that we want done in a timely manner. it's not to say that i wouldn't support this project through the process in the process. i have supported funding for this project in the past, but with our budget process coming up i do think it's more appropriate to include a project of this nature in the budget process and not as a supplemental at this time. so unfortunately, i can't support the supplemental. thank you. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you. when we had this discussion at the budget committee, we actually continued this item for a week, in the hope that supervisor avalos would be able to have a discussion with the mayor's office to see a clear pathway in funding this project. yes, this project is in district 11 and border

the police leave, they come out here and start shooting. don't make no sense. >> residents say they would like to see a police substation open in their neighborhood to help with the gun violence problem there. investigators still searching for that gunman. >>> the hunt for the third brussels terror suspect known as the man in the hat is over. and local officials say that he has confessed to being at the airport before the suicide bombs went off. bill neely is in brussels with more. >> reporter: mystery solved. the man in the hat seen wheeling explosives with two suicide bombers at brussels airport has confessed. it's this man, mohamed abrini, he's admitted being the man seen fleeing the bombings telling investigators he threw his jacket in the garbage can and but they can't rule out the possibility that he's alive to cover for someone else. he was one of six men arrested, four have now been charged with mass murder. abrini is one. photographed before the paris attacks linked to safe houses. and a car used in the massacres. he's a key suspect who may know more than his friend salah abdeslam who also fled paris. >> abrini will probably know a lot m

that although there is a lot of great intentions i have an amazing project in my district, the muni substation, which is a bright on the filmore. i would like $2.5 million to rehabilitate the station and make what has been promised to the community for so many years, but i realize there are so many projects in in the city and so much to do and challenges to getting everything that we want done in a timely manner. it's not to say that i wouldn't support this project through the process in the process. i have supported funding for this project in the past, but with our budget process coming up i do think it's more appropriate to include a project of this nature in the budget process and not as a supplemental at this time. so unfortunately, i can't support the supplemental. thank you. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you. when we had this discussion at the budget committee, we actually continued this item for a week, in the hope that supervisor avalos would be able to have a discussion with the mayor's office to see a clear pathway in funding this project. yes, this project is in district 11 and borde

the city are said to be unregistered. >>> 43,000 customers in berkeley,lee is le -- el cerito and san pablo had a blackout today. it turns out there was a small fire at a substation where a new transformer was just installed over the weekend. >>> other bay area headlines, the trial of the man accused of killing sierra lamar was postponed until next month. it was scheduled to start today but the judge gave the defense more time to submit evidence. the suspect could face the death penalty if convicted. >>> grief counselors were at alhamabra high school in martinez after a freshman student, andrew parilla, was found dead after a drowning. the circumstances of his death are unclear. >>> and the popular bike sharing program is expanding into berkeley and oakland and emeryville town hall by the end of the year. cyclists can buy annual permits or short-term passes. the program is in place in san francisco, san jose, and along the peninsulament. >>> president obama is trying to put more pressure on isis before he leaves avs with a plan for sending 250 more special operations forces to syria. and he stresses they will not be leading the fight on the ground but will be sup

of supervisors' approval of a supplemental appropriation in the amount of $5,937,594 for the warnerville substation upgrades project, if required. the project is necessary to mitigate the impacts to the city's electric system caused by the interconnection of electric generating projects to the electric grid. (ritchie) >>any comments on this question? any public comment? hearing none. >>i move. >> i second. >>all those in favor say, aye. opposed, nay. >> [chorus of ayes]. next item please.20. adopt findings pursuant to the california environmental quality act; approve the partial quitclaim of a public utility easement encumbering san francisco block 8709, lot 020; approve the terms and conditions; and authorize the general manager to execute the easement quitclaim deed, transferring the city and county of san francisco's interests in a portion of the easement to kaiser foundation health plan, inc. (carlin) 21. authorize the general manager to negotiate to extend the water system improvement program project labor agreement (pla) to the sewer system improvement program and auxiliary water supply syste

the escalators not working and being able to disable right now. >> reporter: firefighters rescued one person stuck in a hotel elevator. four cities were impacted. a small fire at this substation was likely to blame. there were no injuries. the fire department did respond and we are looking to what caused that fire and how it may have impacted this outage. >> reporter: back in berkeley businesses serving ice cream were in a bind. >> the busineloss to business ce over the thousands. >> this is starting to melt and when it starts to melt it's not safe to sell anymore. >> reporter: schools stayed open. hundreds of kids powered out of berkeley high for lunch with the challenge of findings a spot not closed. as of this afternoon pg&e the restored power to all customers. >>> we now know what sparked a large fire at a popular restaurant in the south bay. we were at double d's sports grill as fire crews watched for hot spots. the fire was blamed on flamable materials including paper towels and cleaning supplies stored inside a water heating closet. >>> fire damaged this two story apartment complex today. the fire consumed two of the six apartment units on park street. the other six su

at the facts, rooftop solar strengthens the grid because it is produced on-site, so you don't have to invest in as many transmission distribution lines substations that cost money. those are the things that utilities make money off of, and they don't like it. what these battles are coming down to is competition. when consumers can choose cleaner, cheaper energy, they will drive the change. emily: the battle is far from over on the regulatory side. what do you think are the next flashpoints in the debate? lynn: we had big wins this year that set us up for long-term success. first, the federal government extended our tax credit and gave us a five year run rate. second, california established their longterm support for the market. that is a huge and important market. i think two places where we are really showing that we will lead in this country to switch electricity from dirty fossil to renewable, so what i can see continuing to happen is there will be battles, and utilities will try to protect their monopoly. when we look at the facts, we will see that rooftop solar is a benefit in society and we will win nine out of 10 times. there will be a fe

the community's involvement, i'm asking for prayer. when is enough enough. >> you say you've been pushing for better street lights, you want more of a police presence, you've even asked for a substation here, even though 7-d is only a couple of blocks down. why? what are you hearing from parents? >> what i'm hearing from the parents is they're sick and tired. young ladies coming up to me saying can you help get us out of this area. we're sick and tire. >> reporter: you say parents say they're afraid to let their children go outside. >> i was told some parents say i don't even let my child come outside because of the violence out here. and i think that's a sickening to me because you shouldn't have to be in prison in your own home. this stuff must stop. i'm pleading with chief lanier to find resolutions to resolve the issues over here in ward 8, especially right here in this area. >> reporter: thank you, paul. i think you can tell how passionate he we're hearing the same thing from a lot of neighbors coming up here, especially when they learn the victim was just 7 years old. again, we don't know a lot about her condition at this point other than police tell us she was conscious and br

more discerning was the attack on ukraine that affected 4,000 substations and left a quarter of a millionple without power. call centers were hit with the telephone denial of the service attack as customers were trying to report the outages. if anyone thought this was a glitch, think again.

i have the privilege of going to very similar highly classified briefings as well. i also have 35 years of experience working in substations with equipment, and i understand the threats of black energy or aurora or those things. it is very difficult to transform an action. the predominant behavior we're seeing today is surveillance time behavior. but to transform that into an action that destroys a piece of equipment is very complex. >> that's comforting to know. that's real comforting because what i'm going to do is i'll follow up with both you and mr. spence as it relates to this because, you know, again, it's one of the number-one questions that i get is just a real concern. you know, it's about hitting the grid, and most people don't understand the interconnectivity between utilities. so a lot of that gets blown way out of proportion. but then at the same time, your confidence level if there were a cyberattack on an investor-owned utility, you know, somewhere in the midwest, the damage they could cause in your opinion would be minimal? >> the damage on the -- >> physical damage? >> and information systems, that would b

conrad, the local utility, business as usual would have been is that over $1 billion on thew substationwth, and it probably would have had an average capacity utilization of 54%. so instead of doing that come which would have been business as usual, they went to market participants with the problem of low growth and some information , and elicitedem from market participants theynative solutions, and were really surprised by what came back from the market, which is a range of solutions that included demand response, energy efficiency, solar, storage, combined heat and power. oft new solution, instead costing well over $1 billion, is going to cost $200 million, so all customers will benefit because there is less capital being spent. it will also save all customers money because it will be less peak power purchase and the power is always the most extensive, and it will be cleaner. itknow this will work and will be replicated more broadly whenever utilities are going to commit capital. , ity: on a larger scale looks like we have lost the signal. nope? we have you. ok, richard, for a moment

the massive power outage. tens of thousands of people affected. >> a fire started at a substation in el sir rita and it spread to richmond. 43 customers in all affected and el sir rita fire captain says a fire started when cables failed inside a new 115,000- volt transformer installed over the weekend. it set some hay on fire and tree lights went out causing traffic backups and a couple people stuck inside an elevator. and one of the biggest problems what the berkeley bart station. trains did not stop there for two hours causing a lot of frustration for bart passengers. service restored and fire across the area was completely back after one p.m. >>> four days after the one and only new bart car car that did not stay on the path. we have new information from tom vacar. >> reporter: consider this, 770 more cars to go. 774 to be exact and they have to know at bart, they have to figure out whether or not this was a mistake on the part of them or design or manufacturing flaw. last friday the first two million dollar next generation bart car going ten miles per hour on a test track failed to stop and ran into a lar

the commander and different local meetings, we all as leaders and community have asked for -- i've asked specifically for brighter lights on this block, in this area. i've even asked for them to put in a substation, even though we have a police station one block away, i asked that they could they just put police cars sitting in areas and that way it would deter some of these individuals that are so bold to come out into our community and shoot and here we are again. >> reporter: how violent is this stretch? right here. knox place, hartford street, and 24th place has become one of the hottest spots in southeast. it makes no sense. you have seven churches in less than a three-block radius from one another and a police station and yet this is one of the hottest spots in southeast. that makes no sense. it's a can slap in the face to the seven district police stations and the churches and it needs to stop. >> reporter: we have seen a lot of people from the churches and neighbors and when they hear it's a 7-year-old that's shot everyone gets a pained look on their face. this is certainly terrible news and something that is upsetting the neighborhood and certainly the anc commissioner as well. we'll ke

. >> or the other thing is a physical attack, which is shooting and explosive devices at the substation, those are the two things that can get into that one to two-week and beyond. >> but those are a lot easier to anticipate and plan for. >> it's very complicated to do 20 sites at one with a physical attack. that risk is mitigated as well, but that's the one i worry about the most. >> that's very helpful. i'll follow up with all of you. i want to say thank you as a member of my local r.e.a., i have a great affinity for my r.e.a.s. >> thank you very much. >> i yield back. >> thank you. i have one more question, mr. spence. my colleague from pennsylvania highlighted that too many coal power plants have closed. are you concerned that having fewer generation facilities online makes the grid as a whole more vulnerable? >> i am not. in fact, mr. cauley and his team are also responsible as part of their doodies to evaluate with detailing modeling region by region the impact of retirements of any sort on the grid of major power stations. they have evaluated this multiple times and have found th