we are doing presently assessments in the area for dewatering. we're helping restore electricity.e have over 500 people currently deployed in an assessment row of things that's got to be accomplished on that. it is going to take years, not months. but things will be better every day. as electricity comes back on, the gasoline will suddenly appear, traffic will begin to move, people's tempers kind of calm down a little bit when they have heat. and food at home. it will get better. that's what you can look forward to. not worse. but it is going to cost billions of dollars. not only did we do the dewatering in new orleans, we built the surge barrier, largest project ever done by the corp of engineers by a private company. i'm sure new york city and jersey will be looking at efforts to do that in the future as well. >> absolutely. look at prevention for the next natural disaster and its damage. thank you for joining us today, jim bernhard. >>> the new york city mayor auth th -- marathon is still on. opponents say the resources we've got to use are much better served somewhere else. so

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then at the request of the state and fema we took three quarter masters teams dewatering capability, water out of their basements with the storm water and they can restore the electricity still without power. >> mike: how many people are we talking about? >> only about 82 to 83. three quarter master teams. they have six, 600 gallon per minute pumps and dewater quickly and we have emergency preparedness officers. >> alisyn: specialist neely, now you yourself lost power during the storm and you're part of the time to help someone else. and you said it's easier because of the 2012 defense authorization act. how does that helped. >> it's helped a lot. along with my unit we were able to go out there and provide the support that the victims needed and that, that helped to speed up the process in terms of getting food and getting water and helping to clear up the wreckage that was out there. >> mike: you know, it might be important to talking about the epo. explain what it is. >> to get back to your question, national defense october of 2012 said we don't care what forces are out there, fol

for example, the dewatering of the tunnels and the subways.r 475 million gallons of water were removed. i don't think anybody predicted it would be done this fast, given the sheer scale of it. the fema assistance that we've gotten on the ground, we have over half a billion dollars in the hands of survivors. and new york alone. but that's not enough. we know we've got to do more. there's a huge challenge for housing, because of the -- just the lack of available rental and hotel space. >> yeah. mr. burn, our deborah ferric talked to residents on staten island on thursday. let's listen. >> no government agency has shown up here to do anything to help us. so these people from the goodness of their heart have come here to help me. >> reporter: if you ask people who is helping, who is it? is it the official people? >> no. it's the everyday people that are coming out. but it's not the government. let me tell you. >> we've heard that over and over and over from people. there are six fema disaster recovery centers on staten island, mr. burn. yet you he

xylem is one of the big companies focusing on dewatering infrastructure in areas hit by sandy.tchen, great to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> there is a lot of pumping going on in lower manhattan. i see it every single day. i don't know where the water goes from the holes it is coming out of, but it's going out of the places it doesn't belong. in how many pumps have you got downtown, and how long do you expect this effort to last? >> we actually spent a lot of time prepositioning pumps in place well before the storm got here. but we have over 200 pumps already out deployed, another 100 on their way, working with customers, trying to move the water as quick as we can so people can get back up and rung. >> what is your fastest pumps? i read something like 16,500 gallons a minute. >> this that is correct. >> wow. >> think of that. take a backyard pool. you could probably fill or unfill it in about two minutes. so it's a significant amount of water, moving it very quickly. >> a couple of questions. so these pumps that you're bringing in, are these rented? these are

so the fundamental point here is while we're still assessing, dewatering, we don't know for sure how many units will need to be evacuated. and our hope is to make progress and partner with fema that we can get power up in these buildings and heat up and be able to make sure we minimize the number of families that need to be moved. at this point, the total number -- and we can follow up with you with more detail, is relatively small in terms of those that have had to be relocated already. we primarily -- that's in the thousands. we've focus ond seniors and people with disabilities. and where there is an immediate environmental has saturday. but we will not know those numbers until we complete assessment and they are dewatered and once we've exhausted our efforts to get those up and running with again rate tors and temporary boilers. we don't have a final total on that yet. >> i've been talking with some people who have already been told they don't qualify for rebuilding assistance with no explanation as to why that is so i'm wondering if you can give us a little bit of the cite i can'

affected area it didn't feel very good but they positioned themselves so that they could quickly dewaterhe equipment would be as protected as possible. you dry it out and get it back up as soon as you can, so i think what we saw was very strategic prepositioning by the utilities to get back up. >> if we had competition in the area would the outcome be different in. >> you know, i don't think so, because there's so much invasive about the nature of bringing distribution lines to people that i think you really need a public utility to get that done. competition is incredibly effective when it comes to power generation supply and i think that we have shown that in different markets in the u.s., but for bringing the lines to the house, i think the distribution utility is the way to go. when it comes to transmission, which is a whole different sector, that's, you know, that is something that's open to discussion. >> christine, let's go through some of the names again. i want to get the stock charts on the screen. you ticked off a couple of companies, didn't tick them off or hopefully not, giv