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More than 50,000 trees were recycled last year, according to the city's parks department.

Aftermath. >> the home of 50,000 people, plant workers and their families is nowei deserted. helicopters pass overhead to measure the radio activity which is several hundred times more than normalun but millions of times less than it was in the days after the accident. also deserted is the town of chernobyl, and farm villages in the surrounding area several hundred square miles. two years ago, this was a thick forest of pine trees. now, only one tree stands. but this tree too is dying. >> now, t...

Just a couple years after the disaster, nbc science correspondent got to take a brief trip inside to see the aftermath. >> which had been the home of 50,000 people, workers and families, is not deserted. helicopters pass overhead to measure the radioactive activity. there are still several hundred times more than normal but millions of times less than what it was the day of the accident. also deserted is the town of chernobyl. and villages surrounding the area. two years ago, this was a thick fo...

>> who wouldve thought that a day after a fire claimed our christmas tree, we are lighting a new one. it 24 hours later. >> it is not exactly miracle on 48th street, but boy, oh, boy. just hours after the original tree was set on fire there was a massive cleanup and now a new tree stands in its place. the homeless man who allegedly set the blaze has been released from custody and he has a court date next month. none of the multiple misdemeanor charges. as a fire that made headlines around the wo...

Just build and build. >> how much more difficult is it this year to make this all happen? >> a lot more. like a lot more difficult this year. we went to four different states. we called 200 farmers just to find the trees that we needed to find for this year. >> reporter: thanks to these challenges, you may be paying 25% to 50% more for your tree this year compared to five years ago. thats according to the national christmas tree association. and thats not the only holiday price hike. everything ...

Still cutting them down by hand. >> today we are shipping approximately 1 million trees per year. >> reporter: 1 million trees, 7,500 acres, up to 900 employees. and helicopters, too, to carry some of those trees to the trucks. then to the warehouse in l.a. and then to tree stands and stores everywhere. >> it takes a lot of people that are very committed, working 24/7. >> reporter: elias lopez here for 28 years. >> once you do it, for the first year, its in your blood. the scent of the christmas...

By the time we get towards tomorrow evening and monday, big snow storm across parts of interior sections of the northeast. the first of the year. all right. ed and nicole. send it over to you. ed: today is small business saturday. nicole: what better way to celebrate mom and pop entrepreneurs shopping on fox square. ed: gregory walsh owner and founder of gregs trees. nicole: big greg and little greg. ed: looks like a family enterprise. talk about mom and pop shops like yourself and how important...

Considerably over the past twenty years there are many new buildings such as the palace of farmers which houses the ministry of agriculture. the bronze tree stands for tele tea and prosperity. in. the black canal once divided the center into russian and tart our district. in the former tartar district with its colorful wooden houses it seems as if time has stood still. in the historian rooster miller gallia of thinks that its important to keep the tart our culture and language alive. we will sta...

Locking at and im sure they are. >> thats one thing to mention to get out of here on this. you have a lot of vacation homes. you have a lot of these boats that have tarps on top of them. this areas so vast in terms of marshland and the waterways and easy as we saw with the prison escape in new york state, they can shack up in a va koigs home and people go by, an unoccupied vacation home and not out of place. >> they have to go through that, try to get access to the ones they cant and also learne...

They thought it could be within the general area. its a marshy area. maybe they couldnt have gotten so far. >> it pak does make you wonder the officer was found 17 minutes after. its enough time to get out of the radius. it has been nearly 36 hours since the shooting. now that the first crucial day is over, how much harder from here on out will it be to capture the suspect ss? >> the long ter er it goes, the ter will be. theyre not going to stop until they find something. hopefully, they can fin...