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Whereas, now there's less than 1% of the population that is serving. some of the skills aren't necessarily understood. the moss, military jobs don't necessarily make sense to hiring managers or people in the business community. that's something we've been working to address with our corporate partners and legislation trying to bridge that gap. people in the military are really well trained, well experienced and do a lot of the staying jobs in the military. mechanics, network engineers and making that understood. they've been trained at taxpayer expense and have a ton of experience. >> they're ...

>> you know number two, phone company in the nation, obviously. and the data network has been exploding this in a good way. they need thousands right now. technicians, that's a really good job for veterans because of the technical skills they have. project managers, network engineers, people that can do sales, people that can do analysis. they actually have their own military recruiting team at at & t. they have their own department that is looking for veterans. >> brian: wells fargo bank, a bank that's still doing well? >> a lot of the banks. say what you will about the banks, but they've bee...

Those areas where substations are -- and facilities are under water cannot be re-energized until the waters recede and the equipment dries out. that's liable to take a long time in some instances to get some of those folks back. but there is great redundancy in the manhattan network obviously because of the heavy concentration of businesses and so there's some additional things that our network engineers are able to do as opposed to some other areas where there's single overhead networks in outlying residential areas. >> mr. mcgee, what about injuries in that explosion or what was the effect o...

Will some people be back up and have power again first thing after daylight or what's your expectations about how quickly you can start to see some turnaround in that direction? >> well, those numbers actually have fluctuated somewhat. they've dropped a little bit. they had gone under 2,000. they went back up a little bit. so this is one of those situations where our network engineers will probably be able to restore power to some of those folks sooner rather than later. those who are in the areas, though, where the substations were have been affected by floods will take a longer time to bring...

The thing that always amazed me is there is always a physical path. following the ground somewhere to get from me to you. >> you spent three years writing this book. what was the most surprising thing you discovered about the internet in a that time. >> the thing i never got over is how human a construction it was. you would think there were millions of people who made it every day. but in fact there were a small number of network engineers involved with the heart of it negotiating the connection of networks with each other. it doesn't happen automatically. trust each other. >> the book has ju...