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Covid. it has relatively low vaccination rates and relatively high rates of hospitalization, and most hospitals, we hope, have enough backup generation capability, but remember one thing specifically about covid, joshua. if you are on a ventilator, ventilators require power, and so this becomes an issue as well in hospitals in the area, and as you said, entergy is trying to redirect the energy towards the sewers and the water department in the city, and they have made it clear that nobody else is getting any power in the city overnight if you don't operate with a generator. you can see, for in...

5:00 p.m., or 1700, we successfully executed that plan and those sectios of the sierra foothills and the north bay are now deenergized and will remain that way until the all-clear, which we believe will be at noon tomorrow to bill's point. in terms of the scope and how we reduced it, we were able to continue to further sectionalize our system and perform switching operations to limit customer impacts. we were also able to secure backup generation for a few communities, specifically anguin, placerville, calistoga and grass valley. all together slightly above 5,000 customers are able to be resto...

The neonatal children's healthcare in the hospital where young children are born. >> new york university hospital, yes. >> they have had to be evacuated. how do you get power back on-line in the hospital even when their generator has been affected? >> there is obviously the backup generation at the hospital that failed. that needs to be addressed it's an emergency situation. all of the resources that can be dedicated to get that back on-line receives the kinds of attention it deserves. bob from con ed this is a snapshot of how many people have been affected by the power outages through out t...

Right now and, you know, the power crews can't get out until we get below that 35 mile an hour sustained wind to start doing some of the restorations that we need to get done and we're concerned about some of our critical infrastructure as well. some of the backup generation has come down. so we're pretty concerned about some of those areas as well. so we're hoping those winds die down and we can get the crews out there to start doing some restoration. >> i don't know if you had a chance to hear dawn zimmer, the mayor of hoboken who was just on talking about the difficulty of getting help to p...

That we are seeing is a the power is being restored in various portions of the country. still it is a big blow. the reason, a big one, a lot of demand and not enough supply during these hot summer months, various states in that country, overdrawing, overusing, government sources adding to that. a booming economy, a soaring population and aging infrastructure and you got real big trouble. no real consolation for the people in india but we are told that they have a lot of blackouts, smaller ones with but they're a bit used to this. also very much a lot of backup generation. a lot of generators s...