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    One Worker's Mistake Causes Massive Power Outage

    Power has been restored to 90 percent of the five million people who were blacked out for 12 hours yesterday and this morning in San Diego, Palm Desert and Orange County in California as well as in Arizona and Baja California.  The outage is being attributed to a single utility employ in Yuma, Arizona.  Tony Perry is San Diego Bureau Chief for…

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Power has been restored to 90 percent of the five million people who were blacked out for 12 hours yesterday and this morning in San Diego, Palm Desert and Orange County in California as well as in Arizona and Baja California. The outage is being attributed to a single utility employ in Yuma, Arizona. Tony Perry is San Diego Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.

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      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Christian Bordal

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      KCRW

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      Tony Perry

      Los Angeles Times

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    2 of 3
    The American Jobs Act: The Economy and the Presidency
    1. 0:00President Obama and the American Jobs Act
    2. 0:00One Worker's Mistake Causes Massive Power OutageYou’re reading this
    3. 0:00Ground Zero, Ten Years On
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