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Money to support their families. they almost lost it all in hurricane sandy. see how a little help from our makeover team and very generous others turned their luck around. ♪ >> a couple of years ago, scott edwards and tim keenan, two new york city firemen with a hankering to be entrepreneurs, risked everything they had to open a bagel shop in rockaway beach, new york. >> we felt it would be a good spot to have a breakfast-type place. and tim being from this neighborhood, he really felt that i...

Ive worked with women all over the world and sometimes in places that are quite dangerous. and we do sometimes approach things differently. and when i was there last time, the women got together and crossed party lines. thats what has to happen down there all the time. >> okay. good luck over there with the cops and the firemen and the 66 ward "a" and "b." i think thats in your ticket. >> theyre great. >> the 58th where the teachers are. that area. i know that whole area. >> im impressed. >> you...

Therefore, you could get the women vote and a lot of the male vote. theyre splitting the non-woman vote. this is obvious. youre giving away your strategy here, arent you? just guessing. >> the demography of this district. i feel that way. ive worked with women all over the world and sometimes in places that are quite dangerous. and we do sometimes approach things differently. and when i was there last time, the women got together and crossed party lines. thats what has to happen down there all t...

Argument here that youre pushing the fact youre a woman which is certainly appropriate, especially i understand youre running against two men. therefore, you could get the women vote and a lot of the male vote. theyre splitting the non-woman vote. this is obvious. youre giving away your strategy here, arent you? just guessing. >> the demography of this district. i feel that way. ive worked with women all over the world and sometimes in places that are quite dangerous. and we do sometimes approac...

From, you know, arms and legs blown off to internal injuries, they just ran the gamut. >> on the edge of death, viamoran found hope inside his train car. >> translator: i heard someone say come over here. someones alive here. then this person stuck their hand inside. they held my hand and i heard them say dont worry. well get you out. i dont know if it was firemen, if it was a policeman, or if it was one of the volunteers who were around the site. you realize that each second that went by, your ...

Why wouldnt you take the time? >> eric: the other part of the question, you actually reducing tax revenue if you give time instead of payment of time. also, economically as a business i would rather give people time off. you have three people and 30% of the time off instead of time and a half. >> firemen, police officers, so many people budget, if they can get a certain amount of overtime they can support their families. >> bob: they need overtime to make a living. by the way, eric, you dont nee...

Thats an amazing video for you. look at this rescue in china. a 13-year-old fell down a river dike while he was out swimming. >> so he actually became stranded. and as you can see, the water just raging, just all around him. it took local firemen about 30 minutes to pull him out of the water. and he was taken to a hospital treated just for minor injuries. >> lucky young man. and in japan this has been a bit of a round going on. the mayor of osaka trying to explain comics that set off an internat...

Why wouldnt you take the time? >> eric: the other part of the question, you actually reducing tax revenue if you give time instead of payment of time. also, economically as a business i would rather give people time off. you have three people and 30% of the time off instead of time and a half. >> firemen, police officers, so many people budget, if they can get a certain amount of overtime they can support their families. >> bob: they need overtime to make a living. by the way, eric, you dont nee...

Money to support their families. they almost lost it all in hurricane sandy. see how a little help from our makeover team and some very generous others turned their luck around. a couple of years ago scott edwards and tim keen, two new york city firemen with a hankering to be entrepreneurs, risked everything they had to open a bagel shop in rock system away beach, new york. >> we felt it would be a good spot to have a breakfast type place. and tim being from this this neighborhood, he really fel...

Other men were beginning to come in from the neighborhood. so we started clearing the other rooms, banging on doors. they were working frantically. we were forming lines out to -- if they had debris or they had people they found, and eventually they did. they found a little boy. they hauled him out. and then there was a little girl they found. four or five children. >> the little boy were seeing in this video being raised out, those walls right there, tragically, are the seven children that died...