these are the vehicles, the rails, signals, switches, overheadlines.t's not the buildings, it's not these other systems that are outside -- >> supervisor elsbernd: so the big thing is how do you define mission critical? does mission critical mean, okay we're going to have 20% of our buses break down every day or we'll still have 80%. you can have definition of mission critical in your eyes -- that's a very amorphous definition. what the at what point are we okay with things falling apart? >> we're never okay with things falling apart. >> supervisor wienerapart. >> supervisor elsbernd: at what point can things still break down? >> what is mission critical or not isn't the level of breakdown but the asset class that we're defining in our capital plan. so you see here, transit fixed guideway, which are the rails, the overheadlines, the things that the vehicles run along. that entire asset class is in the mission critical category. transit fleet, that entire asset class is in here. so what we're saying is that we need to main this level of investment to ge

folks who get their power from overheadlines are simply going to have to wait.ome 100,000 downed wires. and they say those crews are going to have to fight not just downed trees and blocked roads but the flooding as well. but as for lower manhattan, where the lines are buried underground, they do expect just a few more days this weekend, the juice will be back on. but tonight, once again, darkness in lower manhattan. shepard? >> shepard: david lee miller down along the tunnel for us. david lee, thanks a lot. the mayor of new york is defending his decision not to cancel the new york city marathon on sunday. electricity should downtown manhattan. they are telling us your power is back by saturday night at 11:00. marathon day they are good. there was a little damage along the marathon route which cuts through all five burrows of new york city. the president of the burrows of staten island reportedly said it's asinine to hold what he describes as a parade at a time like this. with the storm knocking out power and displacing so many people, getting hotel rooms in the

of heavy equipment, utility trucks that are trying to repair some of the electrical lines, the overheadlines. this is long beach boulevard. this is where all of the major traffic flows, all of the power lines flow. as you can see, there goes a major flatbed truck, probably to take in or out some of the heavy earth moving equipment. this is one of the check points they have set up here, fredricka. a check point to insure that no one can get on this island. no one can pass into these areas that isn't authorized to do it. that's created a lot of, well, resentme resentment, let's be honest, about people not on the island who have properties here. they want desperately to get out and see what is going on with their properties. to repair them, if it's at all possible. they're not going to be able to do that. meantime, according to mayor joseph mencini who told me there may be as many as 1,000 people who have refused to leave the island. they sat out the storm cand the say they're not going away. we wondered why. we talked to one, james. listen to how he describes his reasoning. >> i can't leave, g