Amrit Singh speaks with Severin Borenstein, faculty director at the Energy Institute at Berkeley Haas School of Business, about the state’s power grid. 

Dr. Anne Rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, discusses the rise in COVID-19 cases linked to the EG.5 variant. 

And later, KQED labor correspondent Farida Jhabvala Romero explains the hiring issues at the California Department of Industrial Relations.