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On the heels of a power outage that struck key government buildings in Washington D.C. and surrounding areas in the Maryland suburbs on Tuesday, NBC Nightly News seized on the story to advocate for the increased infrastructure funding and the need to defend against “cyber attacks.”
In a tease at the top of the broadcast, interim anchor Lester Holt told viewers that the incident has raised “questions about our nation’s power grids” which senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing expanded upon in her report.