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Power, water, hospitals, and retail fuel distribution. you are right. in terms of the power grid we are looking at about 10% off line. that's coming up on a daily basis. the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> when do you think it will be 9 90%? >> weeks or months? >> in a couple of weeks that 10% will bump up 10 to 15%. >> public schools are closed in much of the island right now. these kids from kindergarten from high school are not going to school. >> two sides of this. getting the grid up and the hospitals and the airport are all on grid power. in the meantime, we have other critical faciliti...

Competitive with grid power at the plug. but you don't get support from the local utilities in many cases for net metering so that your flow back to the grid credits you. and they can make it did i have wult cult with the installation. so if you have an electric utility fighting you, you have a problem on your hands. i drove down the atlantic coast from north carolina, south carolina, georgia, north florida. you go down those coastal highways and you see the relatively flat-roofed houses baking in the sun and you don't see a solar panel for miles. you're a lot better off with solar in south ca...

Power to try to cool the reactors and the core. is power now linked up in at least one of those? >> well, very quickly after both the access to grid power was taken off line due to the earthquake and tsunami and the local power taken off line, emergency diesel generators were in place. and so what you're talking about are the mainline power from the place. and power has been restored and they're beginning to start to hook up the main equipment, the pumps and things of that nature. >> do you feel comfortable now with the honesty and the knowledge that you are getting from japanese authorities a...

>> well, very quickly after both the access to grid power was taken off line due to the earthquake and tsunami and the local power taken off line, emergency diesel generators were in place. and so what you're talking about are the mainline power from the place. and power has been restored and they're beginning to start to hook up the main equipment, the pumps and things of that nature. >> do you feel comfortable now with the honesty and the knowledge that you are getting from japanese authorities about what's going on at these plants? >> well, there's no evidence that i've ever heard that the ...