cost of the disaster could be $2 billion, 38 of alabama's 67 counties declared disaster areas. what do the people of alabama need most? >> what folks need most right now is sustained commitment from this country to ensure that all people are made whole down there. if you take the map and you lay on top a map of the areas of poverty, even in the city of tuscaloosa, but for the state as a whole, what you'll see is these tornadoes seem to zero in on the poorest areas. it is the strangest thing. when you're in tuscaloosa, only one poor neighborhood wasn't hit. and so there is a real crisis when it comes to housing, just basic affordable housing. one thing we saw in the state of mississippi after katrina was that the resources for the poorest people, people who don't own home, people who rent their homes, were diverted, were not used to actually help those people come home and