49 towers needed to be replaced entirely. The journal says a 2017 internal presentation by pg e, estimated their transmission towers were 68 years old with the oldest towers being 108 years old. The Life Expectancy was 65 years. Pg e neglected and failed to make up grades. Since the campfire in the past year, pg e worked to intensify the inspections on transmission lines in the last year, pg e inspected 222 substations, 50,000 transmission structures, 30,500 miles of power lines and 700,000 distribution poles. We brought in more than 2000 qualified linemen outside of california to help us with all of the inspection work in terms of doing the inspection as well as being able to do the repair. The journal says detailed inspections include workers physically climbing the towers to inspect them. It hasnt been done in decades. We are waiting on a response, we reached out to them this morning as of air time, nothing has come in to our newsroom. We will keep you posted when it does. To san pa
Is now trapped in the west african nation of niger in the wake of a military coup. I really thought the United States would help us leave with their diplomats so weve all been ready, hoping to get that call. 11 people from the Cornerstone Christian center in antioch pleading for help to get home. Good evening, everyone. Im mike maybach. And im julie julie haener. Niger is democratically, democratically elected president. Was overthrown a week ago and political unrest is only intensifying. New at ten tonight, ktvu zac sos spoke with a couple today on a video call who are stuck in that country. Zach, any word whether they will be evacuated . Yeah, unfortunately, no. The border is still all but shut down to commercial air traffic. The us evacuating nonessential Embassy Staff and some of their family members. But so far other americans who are there, including those 11 members of an Antioch Church left in a state of limbo. Theres a roller coaster of emotion. Steve miner and his wife maria,
within, it s more questions he has to find answers for. confusion and uncertainty in russia this morning after a failed revolt by the head of the wagner mercenary group. this was the most significant challenge to vladimir putin s authority in decades. we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the ongoing war in ukraine. plus, despite mounting legal challenges, new polling shows donald trump expanding his lead in the 2024 republican primary. we re breaking down the new numbers straight ahead. and special counsel jack smith asks a federal judge to delay trump s upcoming classified documents trial. what we re learning about the possible new timing for that. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with this weekend s developing news out of russia where the head of the mercenary wagner group launched the most
a hearing in the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government to investigate abuses by the fbi. the whistleblowers testifying at the hearing to suspended fbi agents and one former agent all claim the fbi retaliated on them for speaking out on the practices at the bureau . now, if i may, maybe just as a reminder, a couple of stories on those practices. in 2020 one , the fbi counterterror division raided the home of a red cross volunteer named joseph bolaños . bolaños is sixty nine years old, anonymous hipster s claimed bolaños was at the capitol on january 6th. there s no evidence, though, that bluenose was there, much less that he did anything violent, regardless of the fbi. regardless, they showed up at bolaños house. they were armed. they seized his electronics, and the raid was so traumatizing. the bolano suffered two strokes. then there were the pro-life raids on christians. mark and paul von again. no evidence that either of these men were threats
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