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Released along the storm ravaged territories? you are getting a huge amount of evacuees. >> you know, its hard for me to evaluate the federal aid that has gone into the island of puerto rico. since we own a utility, i do know a little bit about the utility infrastructure. and at the beginning of this segment, you talked about i guess still 90% of the population is without power. and its a total rebuild of the utility system. we had a hurricane hardened system that we just had to take trees off o...

Of course, downed poles. our utility system is down. weve had some damage at the airport, and that island was used as the hub to do transportation and relief to the island of st. thomas and st. john. st. thomas is flooding. most of the downtown area is flooded out. this is going to be a lot of work. >> and by the way, so st. croix was a staging area for some of the stuff going on in the u.s. virgin islands and san juan, puerto rico also a staging area for water going out to the rest of the carib...

Of our utility system, 100%, is knocked out, is gone. our power authority is working feverishly to bring that up on line. in st. thomas, 70%. so we are really grateful that st. croix did not have the kind of devastation that the other islands did to ensure that thats kept up. >> yeah. >> and we are moving from there. but there is coordination. but you can see it from three tiers from the federal government providing support to local, and then the private sector connecting with local as well so t...

Economy. here is my favorite thing on the attack from the fossil fuel industry and conservatives. they say well, all of this is subsidiaries, we need to let the free market decide. there is more ridiculous than the current utility system. you have no choice, you dont get to pick where your power comes from. the entire thing is the most planned thing we have in our empi entire economy. >> that is absolutely true, chris. you know, we really have to sit and think what are we talking about? what is ...

On building a green economy that lifts people out of power. heres the most interesting thing. they say, well, all of this is sub dis and we need to let the free market decide. theres nothing more redickously socialistic command and control than the current utility system. you have no choice. you dont get to pick where you power comes from the entire thing is the most command and control centrally planned thing we have in our entire economy. >> that is absolutely true, chris, and we really have t...

The requirements and the advancements in technology to prevent us from a cyberattack a? >> well, judge, basically what they are doing is they are holding hearings and taking a look at the way they are implementing regulations. they have crafted regulations and they have done a lot of work through 2012. but none of the stuff has been promulgated in a way that makes sense and in a way that can be used by the utilities in a coherent fashion from a through z that you can be assured that they will pr...

Assembled and deployed. we saw literally hundreds and hundreds of trucks, possibly a thousand of these trucks from all over the united states trying to get the power on, and this is just in new jersey. the situation in new york and westchester, 43,000 without power there. 100,000 without power on long island. the governor says the states utility system is archaic and obsolete. he lashed out at the long island power authority. he questioned the fact that the state gave them a franchise, and in hi...

nfl season after four-month labor lockout between players and owners, well, a key vote could break the stalemate. and were also learning this. tiger woods fires his long time caddie steve williams and guess what? he speaks out about the abrupt move. we will hear from the caddie in just five minutes. millions of pro football fans are hoping today, well, that it will be the day the nfls labor lockout will end. players and owners expected to vote on a deal that will hopefully say the 20...

>> a while. it will take months. our utility system currently is in shambles with hundreds of polls snapped like tooth picks especially on st. croix where im at. the same thing happened during hurricane irma on saint. thomasd st. john. and if you think about it, were dealing with two category 5 hurricanes in a matter of 12 days. and when irma hit our sister islands, everyone on saint destroy mobilized and sent water, jen rat generators, whaty could, and then here comes maria and now were in the ...

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