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Rebuilding process. >> i had no clue what goes into, like, this whole process. i actually had to say to a couple of the guys, what exactly takes place? break it down for me and tell me how this works because it was, like, very foreign for me. >> there were people who just experienced so much worse than we did. you know, my insurance company didnt pay for everything, but in the final analysis, i was satisfied with the dollar amount. >> they spent most of the past seven months displaced but were a...

Advises all homeowners to know whats in their insurance policies before disaster his. >> theres a lot of disasters that are covered under standard policies. youre covered for wind damage, fire, falling objects. but two big disasters that are not covered, one is flood and the other is earthquake. you need to get separate insurance for those types of disasters. >> reporter: the walls home is covered for flood damage and they contacted their insurance company immediately after the storm. but they w...

Both briarwood and plaza towers, in the rebuilding process, there will be additional dollars from fema to help us with that. fortunately, on the may 3, 99 tornado, we sustained severe damage at west more high school, lost another elementary, kelly elementary, and when we rebuilt those, fema attached money to put in safe rooms. >> older schools not knocked out in the storm room, would you support going through older schools and making sure there are older shelters there. >> we currently do that y...

Been a shelter at that school, there needs to be a shelter at that school. going forward, would it be something you would support to have storm shelters placed in every school in this community? >> absolutely would support that endeavor. our hopes is on these two sites, both briarwood and plaza towers, that in the rebuilding process that there will be additional dollars there from fema to help us with that. fortunately, im in the may 3rd 99 tornado we sustained severe damage and lost another ele...

A direct hit in briarwood and plaza towers. both reduced to rubble. neither buildings had safe rooms or basements. joining us to talk about this is briarwood fourth grade teacher teresa mosier. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> as the reality of this starts to set in a little bit, how are you and the community doing? is. >> were better with each passing day. we get better and stronger. and our spirit, you know, just is more resilient with every day. were starting to see hope now and thi...

Through in our rebuilding process. >> how did it happen? how is it everyone was able to get together, get their resources together in order to make this kind of transformation? >> it takes a lot of partners. were a very strong community, asbury park over the years has been through quite a lot of evolution, change, challenge and we certainly proved in this point that we are stronger than the storm but our community really pulled together. from a municipal level with a lot of leadership and guidan...

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...

Process and plug in, see how they can -- when the time is right, volunteer, but also donate and support that rebuilding process. >> jonathan reckford, thank you for being with us this morning. really appreciate it. >> thank you, john. developing this morning, the first congressional hearing on the irs scandal getting under way in a half an hour. the star witness? the fired ifrp rs interim chief, steve miller. he will be grilled by how and why the targeting of political conservative groups happ...

>> i am not convinced it will happen on the 15th. we have to get the senate to pass the total package and the vote on the 15th is being divided into two different amendments. we have major hurdles here and the result is more delay. more delay means that the shore doesnt get rebuilt fast enough. >> what do you think is happening? >> i think it is the right wing. we call them tea party republicans and speaker boehner said you are voting for me for speaker the next day so we are not bringing it up ...

Inside of his home again. all of these folks have to shell out their own money to pay for repairs. theyd really like the federal government to step in and do a lot more here outside of st. francis church across from the recovery center, fema is here. theyre set up on the local level and doing all they can.ouh the red tape and make things a lot easier because folks want to speed up this rebuilding process. greta? >> greta: alice, thank you. immediately after sandy politicians making big promise...