Company not affiliated with the utility. We will bring in tom baker to get us up to speed. Reporter it was not pg es fault. It was an independent Third Party Contractor working on a construction project. I want to go right to the video tape so you can see the pictures. The company is called anvil builders and they dug into three lines that constitute a 12,000volt line and took out all three of those cables to connect two substations together causing this big outage. This is fairly rare. Unlike gas lines that are always buried into the ground, these are underground. At the peak, there were 22,000 people out. The actually number of people actually affected was much higher than that. The i280 ramp and freeway into the city was jammed because traffic lights were not working near oracle park. Pg e originally estimated a repair. Now they estimate one at 3 30. Pg e has been working as safely and quickly as possible. Anvil builders will surely be responsible to pay for the prepares and face cl
St test test test. This is a test. This sophomore a captioning test. California are looking at Carbon Pricing. Many as you heard over 30 have their own gas taxes. Some are going to tolling. So there are a lot of different ways we can raise revenues without focusing only on eds, which states are thinking about right now. I like to say there are no silver bullet, we need to learn from the states and see which work. We now have our chair and Ranking Member from our transportation infrastructure subcommittee. I want to salute them and their stats and leadership they are providing as we go through this process. Thank you. Senator boseman. Thank you, senator braun. Mr. Braceras, arkansas, it was significant, record breaking floods both in height and just the force of the water. Tremendous damage, lots of damage to the infrastructure, the good news is, like utah, arkansas is working very hard, theyre going to recover, great leadership in our state and all of those kind of things. I guess what
Stay with us for that. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Conservative mps have been warned that, if they fail to support the government during this crucial week for brexit, they may face being barred as candidates at the next election. It comes as opponents of a no deal brexit prepare to try and push through a law that would prevent it. But a cabinet minister has refused to say if the government would be bound by the will of mps and any new laws they pass. Heres our Political Correspondent iain watson. Chanting Boris Johnsons got to go a week of protests on the streets, and a week of rebellion at westminster lies ahead. Save our democracy these protesters want the suspension of Parliament Later this month lifted. But mps will still meet this week and opposition parties plan to seize control of the parliamentary agenda and pass a law effectively ruling out a no deal brexit. But if that happens, this cabinet minister refused repeatedly to say that the government would accept the will
Police conduct beatings in a subway system vandalised by protestors. Well be asking, are there any steps now that could bring both sides back from the brink . Stay away from auckland unless youve had yourjabs. Thats from new zealands Prime Minister, as her country tackles its worst outbreak of measles this century. And asjapan ramps up its commercial whaling industry, younger generations say they want to watch whales not eat them. Its11pm here in london, 6am in hong kong, its 12pm here in london, 7am in hong kong, and 7pm in the bahamas, where Hurricane Dorian has made landfall in the north west of the country, with winds of up to 260 kilometers an hour. The storm is the strongest hurricane in modern records to hit the region and residents of grand bahama, which is on its predicted path, have been evacuated. Parts of the florida coast are also forecast to be in the path of the storm. Aleem maqbool reports from there. These were the last pictures out of the abaco islands of the bahamas
Greenland tells President Trump he cant buy the worlds biggest island. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Jeffrey epstein died from suicide by hanging, thats the reported conclusion of the autopsy into the death of the disgraced american financier. He was found dead in his cell last saturday while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Investigations have been taking place into why epstein was taken off suicide watch a few days before his death. I asked our north america correspondent peter bowes whether the findings of the autopsy settle the questions about how he died once and for all. There had been a considerable amount of speculation over the past week about what happened. He was found dead in his prison cell Early Saturday Morning and there had been some speculation, in fact, there was a newspaper report here a few days ago that suggested he may well have some injuries to his neck that was typical of someone who had died through strangling. Well, we know that now not to be the ca