NYSE American

All New York City public schools are closed tomorrow.

In case you missed it, New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and American Stock Exchange also close tomorrow.

Now, before we get to our reporters, we've had these CNN is reporting by way of correspondent Nick Robertson that there has been some kind of explosions going off in Kabul in Afghanistan.

We just heard an impact perhaps a few miles away.

All New York City public schools are closed tomorrow.

The markets are closed tomorrow.

New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

And just the confusion for a lot of buildings too.

And today we are introducing a new energy company to the crew here, Ring Energy.

Ring Energy is traded on the NYSE American under the ticker REI.

And we are joined today with the chairman and CEO, Paul McKinney.

and the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sonu Jol.

AZTRA is 18 cents right now.

It's traded on the American Stock Exchange.

So here's the interesting thing about AZTRA.

AZTRA was supposed to have a reverse split.

But recently, about a week and a half ago, the American Stock Exchange said, hey, you've met all the compliance with regard to your stock.

So, you know, we're going to come back and talk to you and see.

Well, you know, they met compliance.

Well, that's very interesting because this is another thing I remember very vividly.

I was assigned to clear explosives from the American Stock Exchange, which is literally at the foot of Ground Zero.

It was at Ground Zero.

And the president, the government, wanted to open up the stock exchanges on Monday morning, the following Monday, which I thought was actually impossible.

I didn't think it was personally going to happen.

But that was my task.

And every morning, my dog Bo and I would go up and down, search every inch of the American Stock Exchange.

That was our mission.

Just billowing day after day, angle after angle.

I remember how to go over to the American Stock Exchange, which was about the closest building you could get to ground zero.

And I remember going into the men's room there and there was a tiny little, like New York's got these weird buildings, a little window and you could slide it open and Ground Zero was like right there.

And you could just see the fire, like the actual fire.

This was before there was remote work.

When the New York Stock Exchange was closed, the American Stock Exchange goals, trading was essentially suspended for the largest financial markets in the world.

And, you know, we looked at it as something that was critically important to bring that back.

So Our folks worked around the clock to basically bypass the two damaged substations that were in Trade Center 7 and then reach out to three other substations that we had in the immediately surrounding area and run bypass cables across the streets and through neighborhoods to get power from those substations that were undamaged to the load centers at Lower Manhattan, places like the the financial centers to get power back on, ran hundreds of miles, about 800 miles of bypass cable over the streets of New York City.