The Department of Public Utilities last week approved utility company investments totaling more than $470 million to modernize the electric distribution system in an attempt to improve reliability and accommodate what is expected to be a growing reliance on clean energy.
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the country can do it too. that s a lot of potential there. tons of potential. and really i think one of the things that we like to do is in chicago is we like to experiment and pilot things and then figure out how does that become a systemic change. reporter: los angeles has installed about half of the amount of lights as chicago, and some smaller cities like tucson have already made the switch. other cities like philadelphia, boston and pittsburgh are currently developing their streetlight modernization plans. with chicago now signing in a new light, the energy cost of industry lights has already been cut in half from last year, charting a greener future for america s third largest city. it compels us to look at what other parts of our infrastructure can we think about in this way. are there other public/private partnerships that can deliver on this? these are the kinds of futures i think that a project like this provokes. that was nbc s mara barrett reporting. next, an u
city expects the project to pay for itself. i think what we ve shown for a city of this size, that we can pull it off. and that means cities all over the country can do it too. that s a lot of potential there. tons of potential. and really i think one of the things that we like to do is in chicago is we like to experiment and pilot things and then figure out how does that become a systemic change. reporter: los angeles has installed about half of the amount of lights as chicago, and some smaller cities like tucson have already made the switch. other cities like philadelphia, boston and pittsburgh are currently developing their streetlight modernization plans. with chicago now signing in a new light, the energy cost of industry lights has already been cut in half from last year, charting a greener future for america s third largest city. it compels us to look at what other parts of our infrastructure can we think about in this way. are there other public/private partnerships t
concrete efforts to even r illustrate to vladimir putin there will be real consequences and what these consequences mean to russia. we have seen joint military training between russia and china. i know iran has been brought into the fold. talk to us about this partnership of china/russia/iran heard what is it mean to america after we know president obama cut defense spending through that frustration years ago but also tells about the readiness of the military right now particular in the navy as it compares to the china navy? your absolute right. during the obama administration their deep cuts to our defensed spending we have modernization plans in place that would have kept us at pace with what china and russia were planning. now we are trying to playry catch-up. if we do not have reinvestment we will be behind for the first time in my lifetime in a situation where china and russia have military capabilities that are greater than ourre own. but obviously is of grave