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Giving assurances to american companies that if they work in a state, disaster recovery, like puerto rico, they will get paid. this is how you end up with the organization in puerto rico being desperate to sign a contract and get anybody in to the state to be able to get electricity back, and we should be expecting far more as a mayor of puerto rico said, we should be expecting far more from the federal government when it comes to disaster response. >> i first want to play the ceo of whitefish's interview, and he defends the way he land the the contract. >> i found them on linkedin. >> you fou...

Dual commandership, so that north com now, military assets are helping, so there's a rescue effort going on, that you can see. there's also a lot of folks that are in shelters. i think there are 146 shelters that are open, upwards of 22,000 people. the last statistic i heard was that 100,000 homes were hurt. so what's got to happen is people have got the get back to normal as quickly as possible, but they may not be able to go as quickly as they want. so those shelters have to stay in front of the storm. unfortunately, there are a lot of electrical outages. if they can get electricity back, ge...

However planning to attend the new york marathon this sunday, exactly how is that going to work? trace gallagher looks at the challenges coming up. >> the marathon is not going to redirect any focus, keep in mind by sunday we'll have electricity back downtown, that will free up an enormous number of police, but also we have the city -- a city where we have to go on. there are an enormous number of people here.

30 homes suffered severe damage. 12 of the homes determined to be now unlivable. >> shep: how much damage have, have they put a price tag on it? >> definitely in the millions of dollars. you have all the homes destroyed and such a huge area, an area that under alert and a lot of power outages, 12,000 people had no power. everybody has electricity back tonight but instead of snowplows dealing with all of this damage from the super cell like the northeast is about to to experience, there was dump trucks and bulldozers and backhoes cleaning up the debris. >> shep: phil, thank you. now to a stor...

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