austin custom built equipment. they re big, they re complex, they re expensive. this is not a quick fix. it may be days in more county north carolina before there s power. and we have nobody in custody, nobody claiming responsibility. no word on any potential motive. apparently no suspects. and more county in north carolina this weekend, it was two different electrical substations reportedly about ten miles apart. the two of them reportedly shot at and disabled by gunfire within about 45 minutes of each other on saturday night. now, the sheriff tonight was asked if those attacks were simultaneous or if they re sequential. he wouldn t say either way. if the attacks on the sub stations were not simultaneous, if they were sequential, one than the other, it would leave open the possibility that it could ve been a single perpetrator who carried out both attacks. driving between the two sites hitting one and then hitting the other. but we just don t. no that s a position on my part based on
that would cause the government millions of dollars to recover. in addition, the defendants believe that time associated with replacing the substations but cause confusion and unrest for americans in the region. they were also conversations about how the possibility of the power being out for many months could cause a race war. additionally, without power across the country, they hoped it could cause the next great depression. people would show up to work, the economy would crash, and there would be a ripe opportunity for potential white leaders to rise up. that plea agreement until by the government earlier this year explains how these young men decided they would need to cause a pretty good a great explosion as a distraction. set off some kind of pick explosion that would distract police from what they were going to do to the power substations which is something again that they hoped would cause millions of dollars of damage, something that would take months to be able to repair. t
style outfits with assault rifles. that was columbus, ohio, this weekend. lakeland, florida, had neo-nazis outside a queer event flying a big swastika flag. neo-nazi holocaust survivors showed up this weekend as well. so when moore county, north carolina, was host this saturday to another one of these far right anti-gay, anti-trans protests and then just as a local drag show that they were protesting started up, someone shot up the power stations and cut power to the whole county. yes, understandably people locally immediately started asking the sheriff if that was the reason why, if there was a connection. now, the sheriff has said repeatedly that he has no idea if the attack on the power stations is linked to those anti-gay, anti-transprotests. there really is no indication either way. the sheriff says he has no idea about a motive of any kind. no suspects, nobody claiming any
style outfits with assault rifles. that was columbus, ohio, this weekend. lakeland, florida, had neo-nazis outside a queer event flying a big swastika flag. neo-nazi holocaust survivors showed up this weekend as well. so when moore county, north carolina, was host this saturday to another one of these far right anti-gay, anti-trans protests and then just as a local drag show that they were protesting started up, someone shot up the power stations and cut power to the whole county. yes, understandably people locally immediately started asking the sheriff if that was the reason why, if there was a connection. now, the sheriff has said repeatedly that he has no idea if the attack on the power stations is linked to those anti-gay, anti-transprotests. there really is no indication either way. the sheriff says he has no idea
our county, we re going to implement a curfew tonight starting at 9:00 p.m. and that s countywide, from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. a countywide curfew, a county state of emergency. all schools closed, first for one day, now tomorrow for a second day. emergency shelters opened up for people to try to keep warm all powered by generators. the whole county trying to get by on generator power. power out for what they call 45,000 customers. customers in this case means 45,000 homes and businesses. altogether we re talking about over 100,000 people. well, it was initially 45,000 customers, 45,000 homes and businesses. it s now down to 33,000 homes and businesses. but that s still tens of thousands of americans tonight with zero power, zero. and this isn t like lines down in a storm that you go out and rewire the lines and put them back up.