other things end up getting more complicated. unless you can break the cycle by getting power into place, it's a pretty tall order. >> the united states military has the best heavy lift capacity in the world. you should be ideally hearing a plane land every five minutes. i imagine that is not the tempo as of yet? >> reporter: it's not the case yet. early today we were speaking to people from the military who were telling us about one a hour was landing. gives you a sense of the gap they need to close before that amount of supplies is reaching the country in the way that it needs. so really still a long way to go. i think they're looking forward to the end of the week as perhaps the next bench mark