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Whereas, now theres less than 1% of the population that is serving. some of the skills arent necessarily understood. the moss, military jobs dont necessarily make sense to hiring managers or people in the business community. thats something weve been working to address with our corporate partners and legislation trying to bridge that gap. people in the military are really well trained, well experienced and do a lot of the staying jobs in the military. mechanics, network engineers and making that...

>> you know number two, phone company in the nation, obviously. and the data network has been exploding this in a good way. they need thousands right now. technicians, thats a really good job for veterans because of the technical skills they have. project managers, network engineers, people that can do sales, people that can do analysis. they actually have their own military recruiting team at at & t. they have their own department that is looking for veterans. >> brian: wells fargo bank, a bank...

Those areas where substations are -- and facilities are under water cannot be re-energized until the waters recede and the equipment dries out. thats liable to take a long time in some instances to get some of those folks back. but there is great redundancy in the manhattan network obviously because of the heavy concentration of businesses and so theres some additional things that our network engineers are able to do as opposed to some other areas where theres single overhead networks in outlyin...

Will some people be back up and have power again first thing after daylight or whats your expectations about how quickly you can start to see some turnaround in that direction? >> well, those numbers actually have fluctuated somewhat. theyve dropped a little bit. they had gone under 2,000. they went back up a little bit. so this is one of those situations where our network engineers will probably be able to restore power to some of those folks sooner rather than later. those who are in the areas...

The thing that always amazed me is there is always a physical path. following the ground somewhere to get from me to you. >> you spent three years writing this book. what was the most surprising thing you discovered about the internet in a that time. >> the thing i never got over is how human a construction it was. you would think there were millions of people who made it every day. but in fact there were a small number of network engineers involved with the heart of it negotiating the connectio...