it was easy. reporter: hazlett s bright idea was to bank on the sun and her 36 solar powers along with a battery storage unit tucked under her porch. to access her own energy, even as the grid was offline. once it s up there, it just works. it i don t have to think about chasing gasoline. i don t have to think about running extension cords. reporter: it s a process the lifetime new orleansian started after hurricane katrina and isaac, and a valuable lesson for anyone living in areas vulnerable to storms, or cold snaps like the one that blindsided texas last winter. though the investment isn t cheap. batteries and panels can cost upwards of $20,000. this is where congress comes in and the hotly debated bills on investment and infrastructure. one of the important things we can do to grow rooftop solar and in-home energy store is for congress to extend tax credits for those technologies, which will just make it in reach for
the friday after thanksgiving to me tells you somebody s trying to hide something. burying it? and so on. i am optimistic about this. there are tremendous opportunities for news renewable energy. we have tremendous problems with saudi arabia. wouldn t it be better if we didn t have to buy oil from overseas. bill, the trump administration is going to say, hey, we re making great progress in renewable energy, we re trying to invest in that. do you find that not to be true? the investment isn t near live enougnearly enough. having the leader deny climate change isn t enough. people that watch this cable news station are like minded in general, and people that watch the other one are not. but i ll just say to people that watch the other one, the man is duping you.
inconsistency in tax policy, it s not fair, it s a loophole. i think it s really encouraging though because you have the right wing, the republicans saying we re going to do something about it, we re going to close a tax loophole and we ll raise taxes on very rich people because we do have a significant deficit and we re printing money and it s time to act responsibly. michael far, we appreciate that. still to come, we re watching arizona where the governor is expected to make a major announcement at this hour about the religious freedom bill that we ve been talking about. we ll be there live. paula deen with a significant new investment. an announcement to make. is it a sign that america has forgiven her from using the n word. what prompted spike lee to go on this profanity ridden rant? get the [ bleep ] out of here. no, i can t do that. get the [ bleep ] out of here. i can t do that. nvestment