Restoring power could take until Thursday

Duke Energy says crews are making progress on restoring power to a county where one or more vandals shot up substations, but the repairs won’t be complete until later in the week. Gov. Roy Cooper told reporters Tuesday that power should be restored throughout Moore County by Thursday morning, in line with previous estimates. He also called for a thorough assessment of the state’s critical infrastructure. Nearly 36,000 customers were without power in the county, down from a peak of around 45,000, according to poweroutage.us. Authorities have said the outages began shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday night after one or more people drove up to two substations and opened fire on them.