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Of them? a backup sources for them within our own country? >> we have a small number of replacement transformers, less than 1% in reserve, and in part that's because it's so difficult to replace them. they weigh so much and they're so big, there's only three railway cars in the country that can move the ehv transformer. bridges have to be reinforced, roads widened, that's assuming society is intact and you haven't lost other parts of the infrastructure. would be the case in the case of catastrophic emp, only 200 a year. the whole world can make 200 a year. mark: how many there are worldwide, d...

As i said, there's three power tiers, but each of those power tiers have three redundant sources. they have the power source itself. it comes from two different counties. the fact that it all went down, it's truly inexcusable. not only that, you have generators, backup sources, there's so many redundancies in each one of the power trunks, that i can't imagine why it would have shut down other than if it was a fire that was expected to propagate to certain areas and other areas and they may have shut them down ahead of time to make sure there wasn't electricity that would carry those fires to a...

Hospital. they were complaining of heavy and dizziness after apparently breathing in fumes closer to the plant where we are. flooding from hurricane harvey knocked out the power to this plant, the power and two backup sources as well. you can only reach the plant by boat because of the floodings that still there. plant officials saying they can't stop this from happening. people who live within a mile and a half from this plant have been evacuated for days. it's now a wait-and-watch situation and we'll see more of what happens as the sun comes up. >> thank you very much. we're going to go to b...