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But now less than two months after harvey, houston has recovered to the point where they can host these big national sporting events and have that not be the main thing to talk about the whole time and that's real progress and at least some of that progress is thanks to the robustness of the respaums from the federal government when it came to texas. 338,000 texans were without power after the storm. and the days after harvey, 5,300 power workers from outside the region all converged on coastal texas to get electricity back on for almost everyone within two weeks. and that's awesome. and when ...

They can host these big national sporting events and have that not be the main thing they have to talk about the whole time. but that's real progress and at least some of that progress is thanks to the robustness of the response from the federal government when it came to texas. 338,000 texans were without power after the storm. in the days after harvey 5,300 power workers from outside the region all converged on coastal texas to get electricity back on for almost everyone within two weeks. and that's awesome. and when you compare that to what we have seen in puerto rico, it is not a subtle di...

Major league baseball did have to move a series of games because of houston's ballpark not being in play. but now less than two months after harvey, houston has recovered to the point where they can host these big national sporting events and have that not be the main thing to talk about the whole time and that's real progress and at least thanks to robustness of the response from the federal government when it came to texas. 338,000 texans without power after the storm. and the days after harvey, 5,300 power workers from outside the region all converged on coastal texas the to get electricity...

Power. this is an island completely devastated. there is no response that's going to be good enough, just in logistics, to deal with the devastation. you do the best you can and i think so far, we're doing a pretty good job. but ultimately, optics matter and i think having more people down there on the ground, bringing in as many flights as we can get in there, if you look at the flight manifold and logs they've been putting up there, they're running these planes in and out on a consistent basis. >> i hear that. >> and the safest way possible. >> i hear that. quickly, mark, we just had the ceo...

We believe we will need additional beyond the october 1 increments. >> let me tell you what we have taken action to this point. you know, puerto rico has power on the island. i spoke to the diminished capacity to get that back. when i say "diminished capacity", the power workers, the first responders are disaster survivors. they may have lost everything. we recognize that we have asked the army corps of engineers to basically take oversight and management of not only the emergency power restoration and the initial part of rebuilding the entire grid. the entire rebuild of the grid, that's a lon...