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Its just good. its healing. >> reporter: they came here to see these volunteers, offering help to other families who have been affected. and to ask simple but now complicated questions. nicoles aunt wants to know how to close her brothers affairs. >> what do i do now? what if they dont recover my brothers body? what do i do? >> reporter: amongst all the uncertainty, the decisions and wondering, they reflect on a bit of solace. >> it would be great to get a body. but i understand. if we cant we c...

System. they only have about 50 children remaining as of this morning. we have been in contact with the offices of the school superintendents of each system i have just enumerated. in addition to thanking the teachers and the staff and the national guard and the state troopers who had been working to make those children a priority, i want to simply say, thank you to the citizens of our community here in the atlanta area particularly. it has happened not only here but in other parts of the state ...

Estimate the volume of deliv deliveridelivery this time of year? >> weve seen delays in the past but this seems different. a u.p.s. spokesperson said some of the factors in addition to the weather was the time period between thanksgiving and christmas was shorter and also that more people are shopping online. >> those online retailers they have to be upset, too, because it means customers women takewi take it out on them. >> and also small business owners. were hearing that they are complaining,...

Pentagon, they cannot pay during the shutdown. behind the scenes there are efforts to find other ways to do it within the military. some, shall we say, creative bookkeeping. but this is not a solution. so the groups have stepped forward, like the fisher house, which helps the wounded. the army and navy relief society. major wall street firm that does not wand to be named offering help. but the real solution according to the pent is that congress needed to step in and have a vote. >> one of those...

One day he overheard her crying. she had been diagnosed with cancer and the finances were hit hard. she said she felt like she was failing her 12-year-old son. >> devon goes to craigslist, to the free section, and asks for donations so that he can have a garage sale to help his mom. >> seeing her go through everything, at first, creeped me out. i kind of had to grow to the fact that this is how its going to be. and i wanted to make sure that at least im helping out. >> as you can guess, devons s...

The expansive area here, i would guess the situation, the problem is two-fold. one, youve got to to a certain level secure the area and to a certain extent, youve got to be in a widespread, you know, search and rescue operation. so our first responders are stretched, especially in the city of moore, which has a lot fewer resources than we have, and more damage than weve had. so the state and national guard are going to be involved and of course, ive been in contact with the white house a couple ...

Experienced. but we will also have the resources available to be able to begin clearing at some point in time in the future. og and e is working hard to restore power we have had 38,000 residents at this point in time that are without power. 20,000 in moore and oklahoma city. and so were working to get that power back up. one of the other challenges we have faced throughout this time period has been the problems with communications. with cell service. and with telephone lines that have been down...

And were covering so much of this, its a weird thing to say but youre one of the lucky ones. >> yes. yes. and nobody was injured. all of our animals survived so were doing g were -- weve had many, many people stop by, offering help. churches have offered help. >> greta: where were you when the tornado struck? >> down in the cellar. we saw it coming. were on 40 acres so we can see it coming for quite a ways away. my husband has video of it coming. just as it was get rgd to come, hit the house.

>> merry christmas! [applause] >> ahaanti. wonderful job. isnt that amazing? >> a very special audience and we have been talking throughout the show about the victims of hurricane sandy. your family grew up in glen cove, long island. how has your community changed when you think about the community on this christmas? >> i would say that the community has come together because this was such a horrendous thing to happen, and no one expected it to be that bad. so i feel like the community has come ...

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