its school system, its infrastructure, its resources into this kind of chaos and that that chaos can last for days. in terms of these random actors, again, we have no idea who did this, we have no idea of motivation. do we know anything further, anything beyond what we learned in the immediate aftermath of the attack about how this was carried out? i know they have said it was two substations. it s my understanding these are substations that were about ten miles apart. i ve seen some reporting that it wasn t a simultaneous attack, it was a subsequent attack, although the sheriff is refusing to comment on that detail tonight. we also know authorities have described those substations being knocked out by gunfire and then there being a cascading effect down the line that knocked out power so much more widely. is that still our understanding? do we know anything further about how the attack was carried out? reporter: yeah, you know, part of what s been frustrating for reporters here on
yes, understandably people locally immediately started asking the sheriff if that was the reason why, if there was a connection. the sheriff has said repeatedly that he has no idea if the attack on the power stations is linked to those anti gay anti trans protests. there really is no indication either way. the sheriff says he has no idea about a motive of any kind, no suspects, nobody claiming responsibility. no one in custody. we ve got a u.s. senate runoff tomorrow in georgia which will determine a lot about who s [inaudible] in washington over the next two years. we re awaiting an imminent jury verdict in a criminal trial of the business of the former president who says he s running for president again and was that this weekend we should get rid of the united states constitution. in his where it s he said we should, terminate the constitution and reinstall him in power without.
substations and, quote, an article regarding the sabotage of a power substation in california. so the california attack on that power substation was in 2013. still unsolved. this year we get neo-nazis trying to set off a race war planning what appears to have been a copy-cat attack, copying what happened in california. also to the extent that they re also planning on using high-powered rifles to shoot up electrical substations and try to knock out the power. the guilty pleas to the plot that was uncovered by federal prosecutors, those guilty pleas were earlier this year in federal court in ohio. and now this weekend, here we are again. moore county, north carolina. i promise you, we re going to get through this and we re going to get through it together. moore county is very strong. we re very united here in moore
having an emergency and needed to call 911, they should try to do that from a cell phone. if didn t that work, they should try to do it from a land line. if that didn t work, police advised people in the area that you re going to have to drive to the nearest fire station and ask for help in person because we have no other way for you to reach us. but cutting the fiber optic cables in those two places, that was only part of the attack. because less than 25 minutes after the second batch of fiber optic cables were cut, the shooting started, right near the place where they had cut the cables was an electrical power substation. now, electrical power, you know this, it travels long distance on really, really high voltage, high power lines. but then when the electrical
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.