And it starts with copper, the mineral copper. Theres copper in brass. Theres copper in bronze. The Statue Of Liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. Thats about the thickness of two pennies. Pennies themselves used to be copper, but now theyre just coppercovered zinc, which sort of seems sad. It makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. We use copper for wiring. There is a massive global appetite for copper. And the Worlds Largest producer of copper is an american company. Its a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the Mining Company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. And the freeport Mining Company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and
they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. But they are a gigantic firm. And theyre a global operation. In south america, they mine copper in chile, peru. In indonesi
i think that computers have complicated lives very greatly. the whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what s going on. we have speed. we have a lot of other things. but i m not sure you have the kind of security you need. to borrow a phrase from our president-elect, what i can show you here tonight is the age of computer. when the computer is not working. this is tonight. the computer system for u.s. customs and border patrol apparently crashed tonight at airports all around the country. the agency says it s a temporary outage. they say they re working to fix it. customs officials say they re using alternative procedures for clearing passengers for their flights but meanwhile thousands of people using u.s. airports tonight, think of all the people coming home from the holiday weekend, lots of people need to be back at work tomorrow morning, thousands of people have been stalled at airport counters around the country tonight. people have posted pictures of epic
outage. they say they re working to fix it. customs officials say they re using alternative procedures for clearing passengers for their flights but meanwhile thousands of people using u.s. airports tonight, think of all the people coming home from the holiday weekend, lots of people need to be back at work tomorrow morning, thousands of people have been stalled at airport counters around the country tonight. people have posted pictures of epic lines in atlanta and boston and fort lauderdale. two people reportedly fainted tonight while they were trying to wait out a giant line in miami. more than 30 international flights were affected at miami. if you re wondering whether this computer outage is some sort of cyber attack on u.s. customs, so far we are not getting any word of that. we don t yet know what caused the customs computer system to crash. but whatever caused it, this is turning out to be an especially not-nice night at the airport all over the country. we ll let you know as we
the agency says it s a temporary outage. they say they re working to fix it. customs officials say they re using alternative procedures for clearing passengers for their flights but meanwhile thousands of people using u.s. airports tonight, think of all the people coming home from the holiday weekend, lots of people need to be back at work tomorrow morning, thousands of people have been stalled at airport counters around the country tonight. people have posted pictures of epic lines in atlanta and boston and fort lauderdale. two people reportedly fainted tonight while they were trying to wait out a giant line in miami. more than 30 international flights were affected at miami. if you re wondering whether this computer outage is some sort of cyber attack on u.s. customs, so far we are not getting any word of that. we don t yet know what caused the customs computer system to crash. but whatever caused it, this is turning out to be an especially not-nice night at the airport all over the