Is the west coast, known for having the most solar panels. so what happens when the moon blocks the sun to all of that solar energy that s created? well, it actually takes a huge hit. and according to the california folks who govern solar energy, they re saying they re going to see a 6 gigawatt hit on solar energy. so this affects 6 million families. and you end up having to pump up your wind energy. use that stored up hydropower. in order to make sure those homes don t experience blackouts. and all of that is going to happen all the way across the country, all the way to north carolina. duke energy saying the exact same thing. but this is a really interesting thing too, for companies, because we re seeing 7$700 million lost in productivity because we re watching the eclipse, putting on glasses, stepping outside, and that s at least $700 million in productivity loss. like march madness times a few. yeah. this is casper, wyoming. this is the next point of
Christmas day, but they ll probably have to ship those costs over to marketing annie, which is the other big holiday release. looking at a loss of about $90 million on the movie itself. then there are the other costs associated with hacking, which has been estimated to be in the ballpark of $100 million. right now, there are two class action lawsuits. there s the cost of rebuilding sony s network. there s all the productivity loss of the past several weeks, whenever sony has had to make due for several weeks, at least, not as much access to e-mail or voice mail and the cost of protecting their employee and former employee s personal data and helping them deal with everything like having their social security numbers published online. all right. cnbc s julia boorstin in los angeles. thanks very much. and now to the continuing reaction to president obama s decision to restore ties with cuba after more than 50 years. and on that, we have two reports. the first, from cnbc s chief