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Distribution lines, 300 power substations, a huge job by any measure. it got our attention when a small company with two full-time employees at the time of the storm got a federal contract for $300 million to help rebuild. white fish energy is because white fish, montana, notable because that's the hometown of our interior secretary, ryan zinke who knows the ceo of the energy company back in montana. both the company and the secretary are denying the fix was in, but congress is now interested nonetheless. the company uses a lot of contract workers and now has close to 300 people in puerto rico...

To make sure that all those lines are cleared before their energized. because we will be energizing transmission lines before the distribution lains and some of those distribution lines are down. and water and electricity don't mix. so we've got that issue. we want to get a lot of this debris out of the way before people come back. so just be patient, understand that we've got additional law enforcement patrolling. we are doing everything we can to clean up, to get back on our feet, and to open this. because, look, i'm not in key west right now. i have small kids, i left. i am dying to get bac...

Tanks. by filling them, they become solid so the winds can't breach the tanks and break them apart. obviously, when the power goes, that water becomes -- rapidly used fed off the hills and dissipates and the water plant is up and running so now beginning to replenish those plants and folks, you know, they don't need electricity to get water off the pipes so as we funnel pressure into the distribution lines on the ground, then folks are getting access to warm water. we even got water into the tanks in st. john because they are fed on the sea to st. thomas, i mean, to st. john and being able to ...

To breach the tanks and break them apart. obviously, when the power goes, that water becomes -- rapidly used, it's rapidly fed off the hills and then it dissipates. and the water plant is up and running. so now they're beginning to replenish those plants and folks, you know, they don't need electricity to get water out of the pipes. so as we funnel pressure into the distribution lines on the ground, then folks are getting access to more and more water. we've even got water into the tan tanks in st. john because they're fed under sea to st. thomas -- i mean to st. john, and being able to fill u...

Concerns here? >> number one, some of those grids could have been taken down out of caution to prevent the continuous blowing of the tmplers. the more they blow, the longer it's going to take to get the grid back up. it doesn't look like we lost any distribution lines yet. where you're standing there just a few miles away if you lock to the east, you'll see a power plant. that's tampa electric company. you go a few miles to the north and you'll see the river nuclear power plant. so you have a good base to switch power back and forth. if the distribution lines stay up, we're going to be in good...