Thank you. Thank you for inviting me to testify. My name is tom, the chairman, president and ceo of southwark company. The immediate past chairman of the institute, the association that represents all u. S. Companies. Im addressing is a cochair of the subsector courtney and counsel. We collaborate with their colleagues from public power utilities on the sec. Please to address sapling to make infrastructure more smarter and resilient. 2017 Hurricane Season highlights the critical importance of cooperation and coordination among utility companies, government and other key infrastructure to ensure fast, efficient recovery to customers. The electric sector faces threats to the energy grid. The Risk Mitigation strategies emphasizes approach. While this hearing is focused on storm response recovery, some parts in our companies do not build the energy grid or security responses to meet only one type of threat. We have to prepare for them all. Whether manmade or natural. Relating to the cyber
Coming up, we have Live Team Coverage of Hurricane Sandy keeping millions of people home on this monday. Good morning washington at 5 00 a. M. Starts now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning, washington. 5 01 is the time on this october 29. I am cynne simpson. I am steve chenevey. We have a full list of closures at the top of your screen, so keep an eye on that. We will have you coverage throughout the morning. Jacqui jeras as an update on the storm. From the National Hurricane center sandy has intensified a little, still a category one but the maximum winds are 85 miles an hour. The wind is huge. The Tropical Storm force winds between 39 and 73 miles an hour, extend out more and 500 miles from the center of the storm. So they are feeling that along the coastal areas already. The storm is 400 miles away from d. C. It will impact us all day. We will be going downhill. Anything you still have to do to prepare for the storm, that needs to be done no
All of the flights here at the local airports at reagan national, dulles, and bwi are cancelled. Be sure to check your airline as you head out the door. Breedsy and light rain already falling and getting heavier across parts of our immediate area right now. Some of the places that are more to the east are being hit particularly hard already at this hour. Now weve got storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein to break it down. You can see the extent of this storm. Its huge. Its about 1,000 miles wide. Its continuing on a track that is now taking aim at our atlantic seaboard. And way out ahead of it hundreds of miles, we already have very heavy rain bands that are moving in. Heres the latest track. This came out about an hour ago. Its going to be updated about 8 00 this morning. Well get that to you immediately. And the latest track is taking it ashore somewhere from the Central Jersey shore to just south of ocean city. Anywhere in this landfall zone. By then, a very small post tropical low
All of the flights here at the local airports at reagan national, dulles, and bwi are cancelled. Be sure to check your airline as you head out the door. Breedsy and light rain already falling and getting heavier across parts of our immediate area right now. Some of the places that are more to the east are being hit particularly hard already at this hour. Now weve got storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein to break it down. You can see the extent of this storm. Its huge. Its about 1,000 miles wide. Its continuing on a track that is now taking aim at our atlantic seaboard. And way out ahead of it hundreds of miles, we already have very heavy rain bands that are moving in. Heres the latest track. This came out about an hour ago. Its going to be updated about 8 00 this morning. Well get that to you immediately. And the latest track is taking it ashore somewhere from the Central Jersey shore to just south of ocean city. Anywhere in this landfall zone. By then, a very small post tropical low
All of the flights here at the local airports at reagan national, dulles, and bwi are cancelled. Be sure to check your airline as you head out the door. Breedsy and light rain already falling and getting heavier across parts of our immediate area right now. Some of the places that are more to the east are being hit particularly hard already at this hour. Now weve got storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein to break it down. You can see the extent of this storm. Its huge. Its about 1,000 miles wide. Its continuing on a track that is now taking aim at our atlantic seaboard. And way out ahead of it hundreds of miles, we already have very heavy rain bands that are moving in. Heres the latest track. This came out about an hour ago. Its going to be updated about 8 00 this morning. Well get that to you immediately. And the latest track is taking it ashore somewhere from the Central Jersey shore to just south of ocean city. Anywhere in this landfall zone. By then, a very small post tropical low