Power system in the northeast and mid atlantic due to increasing Winter Weather events, including the bomb cyclone. I would like to start by calling on the Ranking Member to give her opening statement. Thank you, chair, and good morning to everyone. Im sure that senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people may know, a 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska, impacting co kodiak and parts of the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings that were issued for activities that were expected, and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. So, impa want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker, for being here and many of the staffs that people have here that were glad were back in operation. So we look forward to hearing from all our witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid. And its performance. Last year, secretary perry
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
Frontal boundary at the moment some moisture already starting to fire up. Mostly not hitting the ground, at least within the range of the local view here but it is a sign that the moisture contend continues to build if that is possible, continues to get more saturated in our atmosphere. What that is allowing for is a very very, steamy start to the morning here. We are at 79 degrees, already this is barely up at philly international. We should make an easy run toward 90. We will flirt witt. 69 degrees in mount pocono but eventually there will be showers and storms that come in. Than though we will start with sunshine dont get too used to it. Cloud will rebuild and we will end up with showers or gusty heavy thunderstorm but this is not anywhere near the Severe Weather threat we have seen in the past two tuesday. It is a much nicer forecast down the road here but both today and tomorrow still tracking some storms, for two separate regions and i can promise a decent weekend forecast for no
Suspects bank robber. The suspect fled and was shot after allegedly robbing a td bank around 10 00 this morning on york road. Eyewitness News Reporter alexandria hoff is live at Hatboro Police department with more on what happened, alexandria. Reporter first question we had was did this person have a right to be carrying that weapon. We now know that they did. What the shooting justified that parties still under investigation. There is a municipal official who witnessed a bank robbery at td bank on south york road here in hat wrote township. They persued that person and then ended up shooting that person and hopefully we can show you this story, right now. No audio. All right. So i guess we are having an issue with that but the municipal official here in hatboro, ended up shooting this suspect in the hand, arms and nonlife threatening injuries. Police are investigating if the shooting was justified but the only injury was to that suspect who is now in Police Custody and recovering at a
Possibly because wu know now spires the suspect was arrested a day or 2 before the fatal stabbing occurred, a brutal one we lurjed in charge learned in charging documents. 3040 stab wounds, that is how many times 24yearold Kevin Sutherland was stuck on a metro train in the middle of a day july 4 3inch wound striking his heart and jasper spires wearing a white jump suit and chain around his belt cracked his smirk before turning his face to a wall. At least 4 witnesses saw the brutal stabbing, one describing a suspect with red colored bandanna ray ban sunglasses. It started when the suspect tried to take an item from Kevin Sutherlands waste believed to be a cell phone. He punched him to the floor hitting him with a black object and walking back to stomp on him were descriptions given to police. It was a dropped bag with spiress id and surveilliance yido of him running that helped video that helped match him to the crime. A Family Member doesnt believe spires is responsible. Decent kind o