Im sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people noah 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska with northwest warnings issuesed for activities that were expected the warning for the tsunami waves have been recalled and no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things related to that. I want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and the staff people that are here and blade we are back in operation. So we look forward from hearing all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. Last year, secretary perry and the staff viewed the liability of the fuel mix and i was relieved when i saw the staff report in august which i thought was balanced. It carefully distinguished between reliability and resilience and introducing Renewable Resources rgs synthetic i inertia and frequency response and resilience metrics needed to be developed. Unfortunately, secretary perifiled the report as a
Here shortly, and obvious knows that 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off of the coast of alaska and the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings for activities that were expect and warnings for the tsunami waves were recalled but i am sure that the sen or the is dealing with items related to and that other h issues. I want to thank the chairman mr. Mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here, and many of the staffs that are going to be hearing that we are back in operation. So we look forward to hearing about the sun jek the subjec reliability. And last year we looked at the reliability of the electric grid in light of the mixing fuel change. We have carefully distinguished on the issues of new items to have renewable renewals and also frequent response and also to adopt resilient metrics that needed to be developed. Fortunately when the secretary perry filed the report as a proposal to furk, i was more alarmed. It was the conclusion of the departments own staff, and it was a transparent attem
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Market site in times square im kelly evans along with joe kernen and melissa lee we have the dow looking at a tiny gain, same for the nasdaq the dow closed at a record high yesterday. Overnight in asia, lets scan the landscape. I think the kospi was at a record high yesterday as well. Some green kind of following on from our semi strong day yesterday. Gains of about a tenth of 1 as for europe which is still trading of course, you can see some differentiation ftse 100 and dax lower ftse down more than a quarter of 1 and finally a look at crude which has been holding levels of 45 and 46. Its up about and a halfhalf a t in washington, Senate Republicans are battling for votes within their own party after he releasing their latest Health Care Bill two gop senators will not vote for the bill, that means Mitch Mcconnell has to convince every one of the 50 remaining republicans to vote yes or the legislation fails. The new bill keeps some of obamacares taxes on the wealthy and includes 45 bil
An inside look at what happened when the news broke. Reporter George Lombardi is a real estatate investor whose friendship with the u. S. President goes back more than three decades. Lombardi was near the dinner table of donald trump and japans Prime Minister when news broke that north korea had tested a missile. Lombardi says the cheerful mood suddenly changed. And at one point in the middle of the dinner, we saw a lot of aides, both americans and japanese, going to the table and coming back, and sometime actually almost running. Some of our friends that were with us Say Something is going on. Some of the aides brought some papers, and you saw President Trump and Prime Minister abe actually reading the paper, and they had a little flashlight, you know, so that they could see. And right after that when the dinner was finished, they went into another room where they made a official communique. And when they came back, they werent smiling as much. Reporter the leaders then appeared for a