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>> it's hard but you have to do it. >> search crews are going from what would have been door-to-door but now is just lot after lot of ash and debris and fire officials say the camp fire isn't even halfway done burning. kaylee hartung joins us from chico, california. you've been surrounded by people who don't know what the future holds. has any official there given you an explanation as to why there are still so many hundreds who remain missing? >> reporter: well, jim, tens of thousands of people were displaced. authorities estimate 50,000 people evacuated from the fire zone. and so with that c...

>> reporter: this disaster recovery center at the chico mall has been buzzing with activity. this is a one stop shop where survivors of the wildfire can apply forked from aid -- federal aid and get insurance and replace their driver's license. they can also provide a dna sadge to help speed up the identification process for burned remains. fire officials say the number of people unaccounted for has dropped to 993. down from almost 1300. officials say those numbers will fluctuate as they remove duplicate names. in the burned out neighborhood nearly 500 volunteers and search crews as well as cad...

993 people remain unaccounted for. 77 deaths have been attributed to the so-called campfire which started on the morning of november 8th. by sunset that day "the new york times" reports the fire had swept over an entire mountain, surprising, trapping, and killing many of the residents of paradise and nearby towns. msnbc was there. this morning we go to the front lines in paradise with an eye-opening look at the recovery effort there. >> reporter: the search and rescue crews are literally going house by house. they've zoned out the community. >> and they want to search every single parcel to lo...

National correspondent peter alexander. so the tweet got him in trouble yesterday. you heard them trying to make an explanation for what the president said. and then today a lot of people have noted that the president's tweeting already. the first thing he tweeted was not, by the way, about 9/11. talk about what the president's thinking is this morning. >> yes, chris, you make a series of important points. it is 9/11. we will hear from the president a short time from now as he dedicated a memorial at the shanksville, pennsylvania site, where flight 993 crashed 17 years ago. so we will wait for...

Turning around? >> it was spectacular. december 2007, he says there's not going to be any recession. he's buying in. it's going to be a goldilocks, just-right economy. even though it was clear the economy was leaking, was declining, he was talking about bubble heads talking about the housing bubble. and then literally in july, before it was the september crash, he said you know, nothing to see here. he's really beginning to see the signs of recovery in housing. it wasn't just, i mean, that's the most spectacular, because that was the most spectacular economic failure of our time, but if you lo...