even when we get to the stub stations substations, we find there is structural damage and it is frozen. those are the biggest challenges. what is happening on treacherous roads, trying to clear them, getting people that are stranded in vehicles, we recovered many of them. also what is happening inside the homes, we have vulnerable senior citizens we re trying to get to. we restored power to 300,000 people. i do want to point to the successes. ho however, there are still 23,000 people in buffalo. we ve been trying to plow the way to the stations, help them manage the restoration of power. so we don t have an estimate. we did have power back on in a large part of the city. it went out again because the infrastructure was not able to withstand the storms around it. so that has been the challenge. so i am hoping in the next day, but we can make no guarantees because just when you think the day is getting brighter, mother nature comes back and hits us once again. we have enough
time today. the president then tomorrow heads to the u.s. virgin islands for the rest of the year for a family vacation. but while he is there, we re expecting president biden to have some of those dlings e. delibe deliberations with his family whether he ll seek re-election. he said it is his intention to run for re-election. does he need to have that final conversation with his family to make sure all systems are go. let s turn to the migrant crisis. last might nor buses filled with migrants who crossed the u.s. at the southern border. they arurived outside of vice president kamala harris house here in d.c. who sent snem. and it was cold here last night, paula. 18 degrees when these migrants arrived by the bus loads. the residents of the vice presidentst unit of the united . this is a bus load that is