Company not affiliated with the utility. We will bring in tom baker to get us up to speed. Reporter it was not pg es fault. It was an independent Third Party Contractor working on a construction project. I want to go right to the video tape so you can see the pictures. The company is called anvil builders and they dug into three lines that constitute a 12,000volt line and took out all three of those cables to connect two substations together causing this big outage. This is fairly rare. Unlike gas lines that are always buried into the ground, these are underground. At the peak, there were 22,000 people out. The actually number of people actually affected was much higher than that. The i280 ramp and freeway into the city was jammed because traffic lights were not working near oracle park. Pg e originally estimated a repair. Now they estimate one at 3 30. Pg e has been working as safely and quickly as possible. Anvil builders will surely be responsible to pay for the prepares and face cl
This is the cbs morning news for friday, august 8th, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Three years after the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from iraq, military aircraft are making a return. American cargo planes escorted by fighter jets dropped humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of iraqi religious minorities. The president says its an effort to prevent a genocide. Its happening in the sinjar mountains in the northwestern area of iraq. They were forced into the area as the takeover of iraqi resources continues to expand. Tara mergener reports from washington. Reporter president obama authorized the targeted air strikes on iraq but he was quick to say they that does not mean war. Reporter the militant group known as isis is said to be advancing toward the city of erbil where american diplomats and civilians are serving. We are prepared to take action if they threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq. Reporter the president also confirmed humanitarian
2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Three years after t withdrawal of u. S. Troops from iraq, military aircraft are making a return. American cargo planes escorted by fighter jets dropped humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of iraqi religious minorities. The president says its an effort to prevent a genocide. Its happening in the sinjar mountains in the northwestern area of iraq. They were foed aa as the takeover of iraqi resources continues to expand. Tara mergener reports from washington. Reporter president obama authorized the targeted air strikes on iraq but he was quick to say they that does not mean war. Reporter the militant group known as isis is said to be advancing toward the city of erbil where american diplomats and civilians are serving. We are prepared to take action if they threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq. Reporter the president also confirmed humanitarian air drops of food and water near sinjar mountain where thousands of
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