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What's happened to the sales? >> well, the books themselves have skyrocketed. just recently, just in the last week, probably 2 1/2 thousand of just this title, probably 5,000 of our constitution coloring books, just yesterday, right up the hudson river a community called clarkston, a councilman wants 2500 constitution books on patriotism, freedom, freedom much speech, liberty, justice, patriotic book to hand out at his fourth of july parade. >> gretchen: you build for all audiences because you were showing me the occupy coloring book. how is that doing in sales? >> this one was probably i woul...

In new south wales it is feared a levee in the city of grafton could collapse now. the mayor of the town ordered that 2 1/2 thousand people living there are being told to evacuate. police are urging people to move to higher ground. listen to announcements from the emergency services. the australian military has also been brought into the worst affected areas to help with relief work. and it's been a really tough couple of weeks as i said. and as you understand it has been a very poor start to the new year for australia. back to you, jon. jon: just an awful situation. david piper, reporting liv...

Because it was a huge deal for to you cancel it, wasn't it? >> it was. this is our major annual fundraising ehave not. typically attended by about 600 people. we typically net 2 or $300,000 and as the date approached and as we began to understand devastation to long beach, we decided we weren't comfortable having a party while people were in the cold and hungry. so we canceled it. >> so you decided in place to do what? >> we called up the caterer, tell him use the $75,000 check as a deposit. said we're changing the menu and venue. you're going to serve a traditional hot thanksgiving dinner to ...