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State suffered $37 billion in damage from sandy. they are going to get somewhere between $20 and $25 billion from the $60 billion that was approved by congress in federal aid. were going to come to you live on monday starting early monday morning from seaside heights with the latest on businesses and people there are doing over this critical holiday weekend. that will do it for me. cnn newsroom continues with fredricka whitfield. >> well see you tomorrow morning. people in moore, oklahoma, are...

You know, that was when the panic hit. it was kind of like am i going to make it. >> he did, everyone did. the bridge though needs major repairs. a federal data base lists it as functionally obsolete. functionally obsolete. officials say it was safe. state and federal investigators are now looking into it. dan simon is on the scene for us in northern washington state. dan, whats the latest? >> reporter: hi, wolf. first of all, we should point out given what we saw in oklahoma, the folks in this ...

Investment. when our roads work well, when we get clean water and our quality of life is good, this is good for our economy. its also good for our security. whats crazy is that we had generations from the very start of this country thinking about infrastructure as an investment for the future, and we view it now as a cost that we cant afford. we have it all wrong. >> how often are these bridges inspected? is there a way, for example, that citizens can easily check out the health of a bridge befo...

>> reporter: the family says at one point, they werent sure if e.h. pittman would ever walk again. they now say hes regained some feeling on and off in his legs and despite a long and difficult period of rehabilitation ahead, theyre optimistic. brian todd, cnn, moore, oklahoma. >> we wish him a complete recovery. quick reminder, heres how you can help the people of moore. just go to cnn.com/impact. youll find links to aid organizations that are doing very, very good work. again, the web addres...

A gentleman that lives in moore that his house has collapsed on his kids. >> the tornado damaged or destroyed around 12,000 homes. insurance claims are expected to top $2 billion. british police are investigating the death of a female zooworker after she was mauled by a tiger. you are looking at older footage of tigers at the southland park. the 24-year-old woman was inside the big cats enclosure yesterday when the mauling happened. she was rushed to the hospital by a helicopter but unfortunat...

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Of -- to self-starve themselves there in protest, we need to respond. im certainly not going to applaud those efforts. but i think we need to be very careful before we change course in the midst of the very large, real threats we see today. i mean, just a few weeks ago this nation endured a terrible tragedy in boston. >> we certainly did. republican congressman luke messer of the foreign affairs committee. have a great weekend. appreciate your time. >> thank you. new video of a major interstat...

To look at those records and determine what was this bridges rating and what gave it that rating? >> deborah hersman of the national transportation safety board i still like those warning signs. i dont know if theyll get anywhere. if our viewers like them send me a tweet at wolf blitzer. happy to see what you guys think as well. good luck with this investigation. lets hope we get this situation under control, this infrastructure situation here in the united states because it is a major, major pr...

Saw the home depot parking lot. we immediately went down there. and got up on the levee, and as soon as we got there, is when we started seeing the sheriff be ging to show up, and the rescue starting. thats where all the photographs, the video you have is where i took about 105 photos of the rescue scenario. it was amazing. we watched the gentleman being removed from the pickup truck and being put in the sheriffs boat. outstanding job on all the ems, the way they did it, the way they approached ...

But not by much. why? >> were investing $12 million a year on maintaining our bridges. if we can up that to $20 million a year, we can close the backlog of deficient bridges by the year -- its a question of resources. >> there you hear it. its a question of resources. that is what they always say. the problem is when you talk about infrastructure many political leaders at all levels of government say it is very important but one of those things that is easy to push down to the next year or the n...