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Power Failure

- Daniel talks with Robert Dintleman, an electrical power executive in Salt Lake City, about the massive power outage early Sunday that disrupted electricity to at least eighty western states. Dintleman says the exact cause of the outage is not clear, but it appears it was a case of too much demand because of soaring temperatures.

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