was so, in their words, destroyed by these storms that rolled through last friday night with these 91 mile per hour winds. really an unbelievable scene of destruction here in the greater d.c. area and throughout many other states, with huge trees down, power lines down. when the trees come down, of course they fall on cars, on houses, and the destruction here is really quite remarkable. we continue to hear from the utilities that they expect that almost everybody will be reconnected by friday night at about 11:00 or so, but that's still a long time for folks to have to wait if they are sitting here on a tuesday and maybe have two, three, four more days to go until power is restored. some nursing homes in the maryland area still don't have power. that's a major concern for health authorities, although we are told all hospitals have now had power restored and 911 centers should be operating normally now. but it is, as you mention, a huge rebuilding effort of this infrastructure. back to you.