come back on including the neighborhood surrounding this here in carthage, north carolina. the american red cross has set up shelters where people can get out of the cold, take warm showers. what are people you ve spoke to saying? reporter: this has been a very long few days here in moore county, north carolina. here s what two people told us who were receiving services at one of the local shelters. i have a 1-year-old so it s very hectic. no lights. no power. can t really do nothing. the kid s scared of the dark. we got home, no power, anything. we chose to come here because we feel like it s safer. it s different. it s kind of hard to sleep, you know, but at the end of the day i would rather be somewhere where it s warm, where we have food, where we re taken care of than to be somewhere where it s freezing cold and not knowing or
county. we re not going to let this hold us back. i can promise you to the perpetrators out there, we will find you. shortly after 7:00 p.m., power outages began here in the carthage area. shortly thereafter, the outages would spread to the greater majority of central and southern moore county. upon the arrival of the power crews and our deputies, extensive damage was found at their substations. the evidence at the scene indicated that the showed that the firearm had been used to disable the equipment. we have formed a plan for the night and the next few nights that this may that we may be out of power. it s a very serious situation. so we ve come to the agreement the best to protect our citizens and to protect the businesses of
california. also to the extent that they re also planning on using high powered rifles to shoot up electrical substations and try to knock out the power. the guilty pleas to the plot that was uncovered by federal prosecutors, the guilty pleas for earlier this year in federal court in ohio. and now this weekend, here we are again. moore county, north carolina. i promise, you we will get through this and we will get through it together. moore county is very strong. we are very united here in more county. and we re not gonna let this hold us back. we re not i will promise you, to the perpetrators out there. we will find. you shortly after 7 pm, power outage began here in the carthage area. shortly thereafter, the outages would spread through the greater majority of central and southern north county.
buying bomb components and starting to test explosives to suit that part of their plan. they also obtained multiple so-called ghost guns. guns with no serial number so they couldn t be traced. they built what the government describes as multiple ar-47 style semiautomatic rifles. they built the rifles, they were building more and they started training with them at firing ranges. when the fbi searched their homes, they found multiple firearms, including firearms with no serial number, multiple silencers, milling tools, weapons modification manuals, explosives production diagrams and manuals, chemicals and components that an fbi lab determined could be used to create an explosive device. prosecutors found a large amount of nazi-related materials such as videos, books and images. detailed u.s. power infrastructure information, a list of specific power substations and, quote, an article regarding the sabotage of a power substation in california. so the california attack on that power substa