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In america right now and it is right at our fingertips. it is the fracking technology. all of the rich people should come out and say president obama, governors, state and local governments, we are for this. environmental do gooders, we are out of here and provide people the opportunity to have a job. >> if you go upstate there is the no fracking signs on the manicured lawns and the beautiful homes and the cars with cinder blocks, they dont have the signs. >> but the people more rich than they a...

Is not a great shock. what we should be concerned about is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula launching attacks on the u.s. homeland, something they have done in the past, something they would still like to do, but something that for now they seem to be unable to do. its hard to say whether thats simply weakness on their part, success on our part, but we want to keep it that way. >> all right. thank you very much, evan. i want to bring in now nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel, whos l...

Fighters moving in egypt and across the saini, moving into sudan through libya into syria. and where you have really no control. what that has resulted in is not only the attack on benghazi, on the consulate there, but an increasing tendency for the u.s. diplomatic community to create small compounds, to make fortresses for themselves in this chaotic environment that they are now operating in. when you have to fortress yourself in behind barricades and giant cinder blocks like they have barricad...

Whos counting. >> i got to tell you, i hope were not supplying them with these books, are we? are we? >> how would i know? >> how else are they getting it? >> the guards are like theres nothing else going on, it keeps them calm. >> they get harry potter. >> he took terrorists and turned them into lonely, middle aged soccer moms. he should be saint for this. >> who? >> dick cheney, the idea of gitmo, now the terrorists are like -- >> make the books away, soccer field away. let them go in a concre...

Money. >> reporter: of course, most devices have parental controls. and in the worst cases parents told us they got out of having to pay. the stouts had that chance too. but decided the old austin healy might not be so bad. price tag, $225. theyre keeping it for little cerelas 16th birthday. an ageless reminder of daddys little girl. neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. >> how cute. >> handed her the wrench right away. better get started on that little girl, if you want it in 15 years. it will onl...

You. as soon as you put the feet in the cinder blocks and you go like that, you push the memory away and move on. and then you start sexting someone. >> and you forgive them. it is great. >> dont let it burn you. kaploosh out of my soul. >> bill, you ever sext your imaginary girlfriend with yorl imaginary phone? >> yes. turns out i have yet to get caught. if the phone doesnt exist, no evidence. at this point i cant get the image of gavin shoving his wife off a bridge and then immediately taking ...

>> row row your boat and they wanted to sing god bhless america. they were practicing for a show we were today. >> so you were singing god bless america when the storm hit. >> uh-huh. >> wow. >> yeah. >> did you think you might not make it out? >> i definitely thought -- yeah. totally. >> especially after everything fell, and we couldnt move. and had a very hard time breathing. i -- i really didnt think that we would last long oh enough to be dug out. >> you had a hard time breathing. you had so...

10 freight trains. and as it approached, you know, i just put my arms over the children. i told them everything is going to be okay. keep your head down, you know, because you are so concerned about their safety. there is not a one of us in that building that would not have laid down our lives for those kids. and they were scared. they are crying, they are upset. but those are the bravest little children in the world. >> i think they would say you are the bravest teacher in the world. well, when...

>> at what point did you realize it was over? well, for one thing when i turned around and looked up, you could see the whole entire sky. there was nothing left of the roof. and just the fact that a lot of debris flying around, the cinder blocks, you know, they -- you know, everything had just kind of settled down, and it got really, really quiet as far as the weather went. the children were still very, very upset. but it just got very calm after it passed. >> how long have you been a teacher, t...

Approaching just minutes or seconds, whatever, before it even actually hit the building. it was that loud. so you could hear it approaching. and yes, at that point they were crying. they were upset. you know, they were -- they were scared. they were very scared. but we just, you know, all knelt together, and i put myself over their bodies, put my arms around them, and just held them as tight as i could and just told them, you know, its going to be okay. i said, i promise. its going to be okay. a...