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Stay in russia for as long as a year while he figures out where else he can go. snowden of course facing espionage charges in the united states. hes been holed up in moscows international airport for three weeks now actually trying to make it to latin america eventually. phil black on the story for us in moscow. some mixed signals from the russians. i mean, they wont extradite him back to the united states and have sort of suggested theyd love it if hed move on, but what chance hell get this tem...

Blown away. you have peoples homes elect c electrical systems are blown away, where the houses are declared basically unlivable and you have to deal with almost a rock bottom situation where whole communities have to be rebuilt, especially the electrical systems, sewer systems, water systems. how do you do the triage in the next couple months, in fact, the next couple of days? >> its the assessment process. you hit the nail on the head, chris. its one thing to go through the rescue efforts were ...

Emergencies such as this. >> ive gotten an education on what you do in these situations and how devastating it can be. up around the new york city area in breezy point, places like staten island and the rockaways where all the electricity is blown away. you have peoples homes electrical systems are blown away, where the houses are declared basically unlivable and you have to deal with almost a rock bottom situation where whole communities have to be rebuilt, especially the electrical systems, se...

Have been wiped out as well. so one of the toughest things, you have an instant result. a long process of rebuilding weve seen in the many disasters weve helped recover from. >> disaster response is a big part of what habitat for humanity does. walk us through some of the process here. what will people in north texas be seeing from your organization over the coming days and weeks? >> initially our disaster response professionals on the ground, supporting the assessment process and well have oppo...

Habitat for humanity. members of the group are on the ground trying to help. jonathan reckford from our atlanta bureau, thank you for being here. have you had a chance to talk to representatives on the ground in north texas? >> we have. we are still doing early damage assessments. our hearts go out to all of those who are affected by this terrible storm. we want to first support the assessment process and help as many families as we can with cleanup, repair, and permanent rebuilding. >> how soon...

Comes back. you deal with police stations hospitals fire departments. they were you move on to things that bring largest number of customers back to service at one time. jenna: when you talk about the assessment and some people taken off the grid as just for cautionary reasons, is there any way for residents to know, hey, i lost power because there is a big problem in my neighborhood? or i lost power because this is preventative measure from my company? >> from time to time if we have an opportu...

Well do an assessment and kind of figure out where the hardest-hit area was. we also have agreements with utilities from other parts of the country to have restoration workers come in and assist us, so we have the manpower. its a matter of waiting for the storm to move through. so can you give us any idea of when power may be restored to the more than 300,000 people in the dark right now? are you just still waiting for the storm to pass? >> were basically still just waiting for the to you rememb...

Weve learned hes an unemployed native to the dominican republic, a convert to islam, a u.s. citizen. made his friends and family nervous over the last year or so that they have been watching him with talk about want to go change his name to osama husein in honor of what he called his hero, osama bin laden and saddam hussein. as our coverage continues and we wrap up, we will return to huckabee already in progress. but for now the breaking news. lets watch and listen. >> we know that he was going ...

>> well, its very short to your point, candy. its very short. absolutely. but thats good news. if you can make zawahiri and al awlaki focus all of their energy on staying alive, that means theyve got less bandwidth plotting and planning against the united states and communicating with others. youre going to make them more res sent to communicate with those who may pull off the operations and that buys you time to try to capture or kill them. >> if you were moving forward, fran, and expecting mor...

There. meet with people while the competition is on holiday. theyre going to the beach. and youre out there interviewing with people. meeting people, networking and developing connections. >> what if your job does not exist anymore? either its been replapsed by robots and computers. its been outsourced, or you decide you dont want to destroy america by your job because it pays well on wall street. >> if your job doesnt exist anymore, then its really up to you to go through an assessment process ...