efforts to get electricity turned back in the capital. >> reporter: it has been two weeks stins lights went out in port-au-prince. the pastor is looking for a candle. night after night, this is what families face. in a city that has no power. >> this is the way we live now in haiti. >> reporter: after sunset it is pitch black. darkness, residents get ready to sleep out in the street. with little more than a globe of a cell phone to light their way. the moment the earthquake hit, safeguards shut down the city's electric power grid. now teams from the state electric company are trying to repair the damage an engineer says the earthquake destroyed 30% of the infrastructure at this distribution center. all of port-au-prince gets electricity from here. >> all of port-au-prince. >> reporter: his team is trying to salvage some equipment.