had the fire. they had explosions. we heard from the executive that said yes, there are chemicals housed there. when they get to the level they are in cooling stations. the cooling stations are down, when they get heated to a level, they are combustible. there was a fire, but the smoke was not a chemical fire but there was carbon in the air. the irritants got in the throats of more than a dozen fire officials. so, what are you being apprised of from that chemical plant and how concerned are you about the people who live and work or are stranded in that area? caller: the plant has been evacuated for a mile and a half to two mile radius from the center of the plant. the that s a mandatory evacuation. there are people that live beyond that, the texas commissional environmental policy, is the one monitoring this issue.
yes. he should write a letter about tin investigation. we want their oil, right? uh-huh. just like your brother wants to invade can nathat for the oil. let s go to the l.a. times. runners face an up hill battle as a record breaking heat pounded the city for the third straight day. sent at least 36 participants to the hospital. paramedics attended to 185 people along the route due to the unseasonably warm temperature. it was reaching over 90 degrees yesterday. it s going to be a high there today. that s 20 degrees higher than average for this time of year. marathon organizers say a special cooling stations including air-conditioned buses and hoses spraying water to assist more than 22,000 runners. they had that right outside the studio at 30 rock for me when i go up between steps. the race start was also moved up by 30 minutes in favor of cooler temperatures. smart. the chicago tribune. new poll shows mayor emanuel
jenna: snipers using ak-47s attacking a california power station in the dead of night. an attack some are calling a terror attack run that went virtually unnoticed until now. the front-page wall street journal investigation retired federal regulator described the assault at a transmission substation last year as the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involved in the grid that has ever occurred. the substation near san jose funnels power to san jose valley. a timeline shows his salt last t last year when the attackers cut telephone wires near the plant. at 1:30 1:00 a.m., snipers opened fire, apparently targeting transformers cooling stations.
tell if if a spacewalk is necessary. one of the cooling stations went out yesterday. they had to shut down noncritical systems. the spags station and the crew, nasa says, is not in danger. still, it s worrisome. john zarrella joins me now from miami. reporter: the mission management team is meeting this morning and will have to come up with some contingenciecontingen. they have a con contingency for a spacewalk. they did one back in may to fix a cooling loop. back in 2010 they had to replace one of the two pumps out there on the outside of the space station. in fact, the one that failed yesterday is the one that was used as a replacement back in 2010. now, of course, any time you have to go outside of the space station to do any kind of work, it can be a dangerous situation. but what happened yesterday, of course, was the pump failed. they managed to get it restarted
if you work indoors, that s a good thing. an equipment failure knocking out electricity in providence, rhode island, yesterday. that brought the work day to a screeching halt just after it started. it took about three hours to restore service there. utility crews expect the heat did have something to do with the outage. backup generators are powering the courthouse at milwaukee, wisconsin, after a fire there more than a week ago, but the generators not keeping up with the temperature now approaching 90 degrees. cooling stations were set up for workers and visitors, ambulances as well on standby. more than 2,000 homes have been evacuated ahead of the wildfire raging in the mountains near palm springs, california. temperatures in the triple digits and low humidity have been major challenges for fire crews. seven homes have already been destroyed or damaged by these flames. the fire has been burning since monday and now only 15% contained. the jury in the michael jackson wrongful de