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Information on when you, your patterns. what about cost? what if it saves you money. >> actually, the only way anyone can save money is by changing your personal behavior patterns. if i choose to use my electricity less then i can conserve energy. the city was -- the city is trying to say this will conserve energy by giving them more information so they can try and decide whether they will use electricity. >> let me read a statement, we contacted the electric company. they said, our utility has ...

And how cities weather storms. >> the most important thing in the aftermath of the storm was to get people electricity back. once you have electricity you begin the recovery process. people would say were ready to begin rebuilding. wed like to get to work but we cant do anything until we have electricity. getting electricity back to homeowners to buildings, residents was the most important task. most of coned restored power in its area. lipa which handles rockaways and long island is lagging beh...

Fast much of the faufr infrastructures up and running. >> there are significant portions of the city and the president will see them today on staten island that have not recovered somewhere people were cleaning out basements and throwing waterlogged furniture to get carted away, people lost home, in some cases friends, relatives, neighbors, their lives. manhattan, things are relatively back to normal. bronx never hard hit. there are certainly parts of brooklyn and queens and staten island still ...

And the devastation here there is not enough words to describe it i myself, as a u.s. congressman, i feel like i should be doing more and putting pressure on the mayors office and con ed, you name it. it is a lengthy process and i feel it should have gone smoother and more coordination, but what elsey can i say? >> there is a lot of finger pointing and fireworks are -- many folks dont have answers when they feel so vulnerable. >> communication is lacking tremendously and as of a day or two ago, ...

Discouraged that they cant get through on phone lines. no one has shine on their streets. it is cold. they dont have power or water. whats the frustration level like? >> people are somewhat moving from the deconstruction phase to the desire for a reconstruction phase. they want to put their lives back together. the help is not forthcoming. the biggest disappointment for me has been through con-ed. i have 10,000 people in the beachfront communities that were hit the hardest and they had 100 inspe...

Literally, ive never once seen this guy falter. ive never -- hes never once in my presence said joe, what do you think the politics of this are? he makes a judgment, he listens. he cuts through all the mularkey. and now that hes mastered the bureaucracy, now hes talking with homeland security and the rest and one of the principals says, do you want us working with con ed? we usually dont do this? he says to leon, the secretary of defense, can you get generators in to con ed? lets get this up and...

Says, do you want us working with con ed? we usually dont do this? he says to leon, the secretary of defense, can you get generators in to con ed? lets get this up and running. he just cuts through. he makes a decision and he stands by what he does. in contrast to governor romney, you never know where he is. this guy makes a decision, chris. as i said it before, he has a backbone like a ramrod. he stands by what he says, and he lives by it. >> the way he chose to go after bin laden, the decision...

Was being funny and clever by tweeting fake things. he would tweet something that what blatantly wrong and then gurn ad sh sh -- journalists would retweet him. to me thats trolling. >> and i wasnt listening to these guys, buts did we explain he was tweeting serious sounding tweets? i thought it was a gilbert god freed thing. people were making joke expiz said, forget it. these were serious tweets about the shutdown all power in manhattan. there was nothing funny about it. if he was doing it to s...

Working aggressively. in fact con ed informs me that they are making very good progress better than anticipated. >> most of the city will be back in line and back having power by saturday. but con ed says some people wont have juice until at least next weekend. 10 days from now. david lee miller is down in lower manhattan for us tonight. david lee, lots of delays. indeed, shepard. folks who get their power from overheadlines are simply going to have to wait. there are some 100,000 downed wires. ...

But low pressure prevented them from being able to put the flames out. well get a story from that scene in breezy point. well bring you that. meantime a new york city electrical substation explosion was caught on camera. look at that. that was the scene on the east side of manhattan in the middle of this storm. con-ed says it does not know if flooding or flying debris caused the blast. it clearly started everybody in the area. >> what is that? [bleep]. i dont know what is going on. it is hurrica...