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But now less than two months after harvey, houston has recovered to the point where they can host these big national sporting events and have that not be the main thing to talk about the whole time and thats real progress and at least some of that progress is thanks to the robustness of the respaums from the federal government when it came to texas. 338,000 texans were without power after the storm. and the days after harvey, 5,300 power workers from outside the region all converged on coastal t...

They can host these big national sporting events and have that not be the main thing they have to talk about the whole time. but thats real progress and at least some of that progress is thanks to the robustness of the response from the federal government when it came to texas. 338,000 texans were without power after the storm. in the days after harvey 5,300 power workers from outside the region all converged on coastal texas to get electricity back on for almost everyone within two weeks. and t...

Major league baseball did have to move a series of games because of houstons ballpark not being in play. but now less than two months after harvey, houston has recovered to the point where they can host these big national sporting events and have that not be the main thing to talk about the whole time and thats real progress and at least thanks to robustness of the response from the federal government when it came to texas. 338,000 texans without power after the storm. and the days after harvey,...

Power. this is an island completely devastated. there is no response thats going to be good enough, just in logistics, to deal with the devastation. you do the best you can and i think so far, were doing a pretty good job. but ultimately, optics matter and i think having more people down there on the ground, bringing in as many flights as we can get in there, if you look at the flight manifold and logs theyve been putting up there, theyre running these planes in and out on a consistent basis. >>...

We believe we will need additional beyond the october 1 increments. >> let me tell you what we have taken action to this point. you know, puerto rico has power on the island. i spoke to the diminished capacity to get that back. when i say "diminished capacity", the power workers, the first responders are disaster survivors. they may have lost everything. we recognize that we have asked the army corps of engineers to basically take oversight and management of not only the emergency power restorat...

Figure. we are working with congress on estimates of the needs. and we do believe we will need additional, beyond the october 1 increment. >> let me tell you what weve taken action on to this point. puerto rico has power authority on the island. obviously, .to the diminished capacity. the power workers, the first responders, are also disaster survivors. they may have lost everything. so we recognize that. so what weve done is pro actively asked, they asked the army corps of engineers to take ove...

Figure, we are working with congress on the estimates of the needs. and we do believe we will need additional beyond the october 1st increment. >> returning electricity? >> let me tell you what weve taken action to this point. puerto rico has a power authority on the island. obviously, i spoke to the diminished capacity to be able to get that back because you have got to remember when i say diminished capacity, the power workers, the first responders are also disaster survivors at this point and...

So we order our people, our personnel to try try to help in any way they could as soon as they could make it to their work. the next couple of days, the roads will be clear. they will get their instructions. we will start rebuilding the power system. >> so you have power workers helping with search and rescue until power plants could be a place to go and start their job. everybody is chipping in. we understand that. what do you say to the people there? because time breeds desperation. no power m...

Back out on assignments. to show you how they are working, back there are a bunch of sleeping trailers that fit around 1800 people. the ceo saying they are working 24-7. the white house said it deployed the biggest army of power workers ever, drawing in people from across the country and even canada. the focus has been on florida for the past few days. we cant forget that as that storm swept upwards, it knocked out power in alabama and the carolinas and georgia to the tune of 1.4 million custome...

200,000 people without electric power in collier county. across the state of florida six million people without power. more than 50,000 power workers from across the u.s. and canada are on their way to florida to try and help get power up. it will be tough in the heat here with no air conditioning running. as far as the damage goes, you can get a good look across the naples area. a lot of huge trees pulled up from the roots. wind gusts got over 140 miles an hour. downed power lines as well. toug...