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100,000 customers that are out. our total customer base is about 120,000, and so we've been significantly impacted by this storm event. we did pre-stage over 100 linemen in our community prior to this storm's impact. those folks will be getting to work as early as 6:00 a.m. in the morning. they've already been out g surveying, getting an assessment of what they're working into tomorrow morning, making sure they have supplies. we did have a portion of our sewer system fail but we were able to get it back on so not too much of an incident there. but we've got a grid system to put back together t...

>> well, in our current city, we, as i mentioned, have about 100,000 customers that are out. our total customer base is about 120,000, and so we've been significantly impacted by this storm event. we did pre-stage over 100 linemen in our community prior to this storm's impact. those folks will be getting to work as early as 6:00 a.m. in the morning. they've already been out surveying, getting an assessment of what they're working into tomorrow morning, making sure they have supplies. we did have a portion of our sewer system fail but we were able to get it back on so not too much of an inciden...

Today, folks woke up to crews really saturating my city. we had prestaged over 100 utility line men, 6:00 this morning, they were out working on these polls. i went around and visited a couple today and throughout the day. the truth is, though, that because the impact to our grid system over 60% of the transmission lines were impacted. because of the damage south of us, our energy line to southern energy was cut off. it is important that we get that re-established because as you know, you can't have too much energy on a grid system or else more harm is caused, so we got to get that reconnectio...

What do you think in terms of the time before people can get power back, and how much are pressure is on you, because you are a candidate for the statewide office and the mayor of a major city, a thnd this is test for you, and the e emergency responders under your command. >> yeah, i will say that first of all, we have some of the best and the hardest working and most dedicated staff that you could ask for. the building behind me has been littered with staff and over 30 age agencies working together over the last several days, and since sunday to get the community ready. and today, andrea, we ...

To address this was already several months ago, that it is on-going. there was a report in "new york times" that russian hacker and election issues have been probing around with u.s. power grids. it shows that despite what we heard from the president about how he doesn't necessarily believe russia was behind election hacking is that they still, russian hackers are still targeting the u.s. and will continue to do so. >> sam, i wanted to ask you about a story on the front page of "new york times," really interesting, about russian hackers that are more interested they say in disrupting the ameri...