one or two days is one thing. weeks is something else. let s bring in robert gould from florida power and light. we re here with the task force in florida doing that initial assessment for you. many of the cement mansions remain here in big pine key and marathon. even most of the wooden ones. the lines are down but the bricks and mortar, that level of infrastructure seems to be relatively intact, mr. gould. yeah. that s a huge, huge fact. i heard you earlier talking about that. i saw your shot a second ago and that cement pole standing. that, to us, is a gorgeous thing to see. we ve invested about $3 billion in our network over the past ten years in that very type of thing, replacing wood poles, putting in concrete poles, shortening spans of wire between concrete poles so that if a tree or palm frond hits it, it slides off rather than bring the entire
30% performance better than non-hardened features. where we have concrete poles and in place of wood poles. they held. we are not seeing any transmission structures. that s the backbone of our infrastructure. the interstate highway of energy. we have not seen any of those structures come down. that is very good news for the customers. would you say next friday, i want to be specific. you mean a week from this friday, 10 or 11 days, is that right? that s correct. we are talking about a 10-day restoration in total. it s a long slug. i don t want to suggest that my words of encouragement are going to make this any easier. we know a lot of our customers and many of our employees and families are without power. we want to get that power on as quickly as possible. again, i want to emphasize what we are seeing is encouraging in the sense that the investments
was burned. more than a dozen protesters, many wearing all black who had their faces covered were arrested. the seattle police department tweeted pictures of some of the weapons that they found on one man they found a hammer, wood poles, a battery rocks a knife, and a wrench, all on his person. on another they found a wrench, knife that had the word death written on to the blade. may day protests also grew violent in oakland. 3 to 400 people broke windows and dozens of cars and several banks, while screaming quote baltimore, we got your back, and cursing at police. organizers though, said that behavior detracts from their overall message. we stand in solidarity, then we should emulate what baltimore is doing and the community is doing with the leadership of baltimore and the state is doing. we should not be breaking windows and causing harm to our law enforcement.
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