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You get sick you cant breathe through your nose suddenly, youre a mouth breather. a mouth breather! well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth.

Full feeling you get sometimes is just awful but it turns out the bad health effects dont go away when you wake up the next morning. well tell you why.

Who better to tell this story than steve hartman "on the road"? >> reporter: in the heart of one of the poorest cities in america, we found one of the saddest christmas trees of all time. looming 50 feet above downtown reading, pennsylvania, the tree seemed, to most observers, to be more suited for mulch than merriment. >> i think charlie brown has a better tree than we do. >> everybody that took part in bringing this tree here should get fired. >> reporter: for what its worth, this wasnt the ci...

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Back to the news. and now, the global search for someone who can identify this boy. a teenager theyre calling "forest boy." he wandered into berlin, germany, but he speaks mostly english. he claims he lived in the woods for five years before his father died. he says he buried his father in the woods. he tells everyone his first name is ray, but hes unable or unwilling to give his last name, so, police have released these photos, appealing for information, identifying this young man. and talk...

Texas was declared the worst in a century, across nearly the whole state the drought ranges from severe to exceptional. its expected to last into next summer and anna werner says the damage could go on for years. >> reporter: at the main stay farm south of fort worth, owner anna wilson takes kids on hay rides. they can run a maze or cook marshmallows. what they cant do this year is watch someone cut down a fresh christmas tree. how did that compare to last year? >> well, youre going to lose tree...

That demand to have had his blackberry still. he is more media savvy than previous presidents. >> somebody pointed this out. this is somebody who used the media so much in his campaign and used blackberry and twitter. someone poichnted that out. as far as the student perspective, i have a comment from rodney. rodney feels that, you know, you can use this extra technology. it is a good thing. it keeps kids away from things like drugs and gangs, stuff like that. then, he argues with gaming, it giv...

Tradition. growing a christmas tree fit for a president. >> youre helping make it christmas for the whole country. >> reporter: the west virginia couple have grown four presidential christmas trees. one for jimmy carter, two for ronald reagan, and now this 18.5-foot douglas fir destined for the obama white house. >> what we like this year is its going to a family. the children are there. the family is well knit. >> reporter: to provide the white house tree, a farmer has to be crowned by the nati...

A president. >> youre helping make a christmas for the whole country. >> reporter: the west virginia couple, both in their 80s, have grown four presidential christmas trees. one for jimmy carter, two for ronald reagan, and now this 18 1/2-foot douglas fir destined for the obama white house. >> what we really like this year is that its going to a family. the children are there, the family is well-knit. >> reporter: the provide the white house tree, a farmer has to be crowned by the national chris...

That have good form and for trees that have stronger branchs because they use a lot of decorations. >> reporter: and it takes a lot of hard work to grow that perfect presidential tree. careful pruning, experimenting to get the right mix of characteristics, and a little tough love. >> she had a word with it. when shed get up in the morning, get out, things are going -- well, fellows, you want to be a christmas tree now or are you going to wait until later and be toilet paper? and that gets the tr...