out. several countries are rushing aid to tonga, including desperately needed water. while international phone service knocked out by the eruption slowly coming back online. blake essex is monitoring he joins me from tokimyo. blake, it's day six since the eruption. talk us through where things stand in that recovery effort. >> reporter: well, you know, isa, one of the big things to develop today is the main communication lines for the island nation, which are still a few weeks away from being restored, there is some good news on that front. international call service has been restored for tonga's main island. this service is very limited and can support 400 calls at the same time. again, great news, but tonga is made up of more than 170 islands and roughly 100,000 people living there, in habit about 36 of those islands. while a majority of the population live on the islands