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Thing? nebraska new tourism ad features a unique new slogan. said a series of ads featuring the tag line, honesty, its not for everyone. you know about that. >> i went to school there. theyre 100% right. listen, nebraska is famous for the smell of money. you would know what that is. its long cold winters, lots of corn fields, car tripping is probably a big thing. cow tipping. but other than that, if youre not made for it, its definitely not for you. but great people, hardworking people. they kno...

Describe mollie tibbetts. sadly, we can now add the word missing. >> its just small town. smalltown, iowa, and this doest happen here. >> reporter: here is brooklyn, iowa, a small, sleepy town enveloped by rows of corn fields and stocked with people who all know each other and have become the foundation of a family -- >> its a missing person. my sister, actually, is trying to spread the word as much as we can. >> reporter: -- just trying to hold it together as they fight to bring mollie home. >>...

Like you hear back from her? >> yeah. i did this morning, but i dont want to talk about it. >> reporter: on july 18th, mollie was dropped off at a boyfriends house to dogsit while he was out of town, and then was later seen jogging. no one has seen her since, but neighbors dave and mary jo kallum say they used to see her all the time. >> shed come down the road, and if i was over there working, you know, in my flowers, id, you know, shed just wave and say hi, and off shed go, because thats the h...

Talking on her phone. >> the color of her shoes the, the top the shorts. before we never would pay any attention. you just glance and wave. >> reporter: they were some of the first volunteers who searched for mollie. >> we went to corn fields, searching and we didnt turn up anything. >> we wanted to find her so bad. then we were afraid to find her. i mean, you know. >> well, if we found her, we was praying she was just tied up. we wasnt thinking of the worst? her boyfriend dalton had a hard time...

Through my brain thing what happened, what happened. just driving myself insane. i know everybody else around here is. you have to lead by example. i love you and i miss you and i want you to come home. >> its heart breaking to go through what he and the family has been going through. >> shepard: tell us more about the search. >> the search is continuing and going on ever since she first vanished. friends and neighbors and others have gathered. theyve been going through corn fields and big farms...

They are there and we cannot do -- we cannot work fast in order to get them out. reporter: consuela told first respondersieveshes the only one of her family that made it out itime. >> no, not everyone escaped. i think they were buried. >> how did you get out? >> because we saw the lava was pouring through the corn fields and we ran towards the hill. >> reporter: this afternoon teams are hoping to pull more like this infant alive from their homes. any and all survivors are being carried out with ...

A winning approach to community activism for the past twelve years the uns food and agriculture organization has supported local discussion groups known as dimitra clubs the idea was to give rule communities a forum to talk about their everyday problems a program was especially aimed at empowering young people and women to promote change the w. went to senegal to find out more. its a big day for these young residents of sata booboo village theyre going on air for the first time at the community ...

Dried up corn fields. a mother of four explains how the rain swept garbage into their homes and how they had to clean everything in the village. she hopes the local radio stations will help spread their ideas and efforts to other villages. and with us and. our discussion groups have carried out a lot of important projects most of them concerning climate change that what were doing affects the whole community but one person on their own cant solve the problems of these clubs have become a vital p...

Infecting at least haul off the countrys corn fields stated let measures like pheromone traps and pesticides are having little effect but by bramble i remember about before with this local concoction the farm on the worms are dying instantly as side struggle if all the farming families were to adopt this local pesticide we can rescue the remaining crop and five yolks are right and in doing so for them the farmers would have some harvest. will. fall on the worm spiral into the plant and are often...

Traveling through the corn fields of iowa. my father fell asleep at the wheel, and the car went off the roadnto a culvert, sheered off the side of the car where my mother and sister were sitting, and killed my mother and sister. i was on the other side behind the driver. so i got a concussion and a broken knee, and i was in a coma for 36 hours. and then in the hospital for about 3 1/2 months. so i think it did probably leave an impression on me, that someone you love, like my father, i respected...