i'm brian sullivan here at the foundry in langenfeld, germany we're here at this particular place to talk about what happens to the pipeline matters to germany, all the global supply chains, and the u.s. economy and stockmarket as well. it's a very complicated story, a fluid story, i guess, pun intended, and a lot of possible outcomes what we did is take all the known research and aggregate it into four possible scenarios and their likely outcomes when the nord stream is expected to be turned on tomorrow number one, best case, it is turned on, and the flow is above the 40% level it was before it shut off managements probably rally, the euro strengthens i think that was a big part of what happened to the market yesterday. scenario two, we see the flow, but the flow started reduced, either 40% or less than where it was before you get a little bit of gas, but not really enough to fill the tanks. that's kind of a still let's wait and see, putin continues to play games with us, world on a string, markets may be flat. scenario three the nord stream does not start tomorrow, but there is a t

what they call an action alert, so that states could force companies, like this where we are in langenfeldirst off, let's get the sound directly from the head of the european union >> overall, the floe of russian gas is now less than one third to what it used to be for example at the same time last year russia is blackmailing us. russia is using energy as a weapon and therefore, in any event, whether it's partial, major cut-off of russian gas or total cut-off of russian gas, europe needs to be ready. >> reporter: okay, so put the pieces together, guys. if we see cuts of 15%, 15% is a huge amount of energy. companies like this, thousands, tens of thousands of others around germany and europe, may be forced to scale back or shut off. how does that impact global markets? well, this is a steel company. they use a lot of compressed air. linde, a company based in the uk what about this? that's $100 billion french company. you see the trickle effects, guys sort of the knock-on chain cut the gas, companies like this, thousands of them scale back, shut down, order liis, corporate earn beings get hi