traveling around the city of Oneida. So speaking of power out, let's bring in National Grid's Jared Pavant. He joined us at 5:00. Jared. Thanks for staying with us and and being with us again at 6:00. When we talk to you at five, I think the number was somewhere in that 46,000 range. Give us the latest of of how you're doing trying to bring that number down. >> Sure. And thanks for having me back, Jeff. We're down to about, um, 440 1500. Um, I know I say down it, you know, it's still a relatively large number, but we have made progress in the greater Syracuse area. Um, the Syracuse Metro area, we have about 5500 customers who are still out. Um, we're looking at a number of. About 35,600 in the Mohawk Valley with about a third of that in the city of Rome. So, um, we know that there is a lot of work ahead of our crews tonight, um, who are out on or are out in the field, um, assessing damage so that way they can start making repairs as quickly and as safely as possible. >> Yeah. Jared, I know we talked at 5:00 for for everybody out there. And we were looking pictures from the city of Rome right there. Um, for everybody out there, that's not part of National Grid. If you see a downed wire, consider it being live. I'm curious, though, as you kind of talk to us about assessing damage than than getting to it. Everybody wants their power back on immediately. I know it, we've all been there. Right. But what is that process to make sure all of your people are safe, especially in a situation like this where the where the damage is kind of widespread all over the place. >> So our crews work in concert with, um, with public safety officials to make sure that the areas where we're going are, are safe. Um, we want to make sure that the, the buildings are sound, um, that there aren't any hazards in the, in the way whether it's, uh, flooding, uh, whether it's, you know, potential of trees that may need to be safeguarded. Um, you know, we'll bring in tree crews to assist with that because, you know, the last thing we want is to have a crew member in a bucket. Um, working on a pole and have debris falling around them. So we need to make s that the scene is safe, and then, you know, we start, we start with our restoration process, which starts on transmission lines. Those those large lines that you often see off the sides of roads that are carrying large amounts of electricity to our to our substations. And we move to the substations and then for any repairs and then to distribution lines, uh, the lines that carry power to our, to our neighborhoods and then to our homes, um, along the way, we're also paying attention to, uh, critical facilities like hospitals and schools. Um, they are priorities for us when it comes to restoration. But in a situation like some of the situations that we're seeing, you know, the first thing we got to do is, is make sure that the scenes that we're working at are safe. Uh, so that way when we we do get in, we do get crews in there and get trucks into those areas. Uh, that, that they're going to be able to work safely. Jared. >> The National Grid, I know you have a lot of work to do there, trying