LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: The California energy crunch rolls into another day -- that state trying to recover from that -- predictions now of high temperatures and low supplies of electric power today. CNN's James Hattori takes a look at the situation up and down the Golden State.</s>JAMES HATTORI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The lights went dark for the second day in a row in California, rolling blackouts affecting random pockets scattered across the state, including San Francisco's Castro District, where traffic officers stepped in when traffic lights failed. And the outage put this cafe's business on ice.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The power went out and just -- everything's down, so we're here with no business. And our food might get spoiled. Our freezer is going to -- all our -- I don't know what we're going to do.</s>HATTORI: Similar scenes played out in Southern California, from West Hollywood all the way down to San Diego, but not the city of Los Angeles, which has its own utility. The outages lasted about two hours, affecting hundreds of thousands of customers. Unseasonably high temperatures, with some areas into the 90s, sent demand for electricity beyond the state's capacity, already constricted by power plants shut down for maintenance. For the most part, Californians wiped their brows and coped.</s>JOSH FROST, CALIFORNIA RESIDENT: We live up in Corte Madera now, but we just sit there and sweat. We're just doing our little bit to try and save energy for California.</s>HATTORI: As the week goes on, California's hot spell is expected to ease some, but the threat of outages is not.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to ask everybody in California to start or continue their conservation efforts, and hope that's enough.</s>HATTORI: James Hattori, CNN, San Francisco.
California Energy Crunch Rolls Into Another Day