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half of those who died in the storm system were. doug mcelway is in springfield tonight and i understand power companies are reaching far and wide for help? >> reporter: they are reaching far and wide for help and they really need to. one company in particular, the local power company, pepco, potomac electric power company and they have come under an avalanche of criticism in years past where slow response to restoration of power in the aftermath of several storms. to and the it has announced it will get help from power companies from 12 states and canada and some of the crews cannot...

powerful thunderstorms, winds more than 80 miles per hour. heavy rain, ripping through several states, causing a path of destruction, at least 12 people dead. at this point, we know at least one person is missing. a survivor describes the chaotic scene in her town, in west virginia. >> there was wind and debris swirling everywhere and flying around and hitting every car in sight. >> next thing you know a dust cloud came and everything ripped off this buildings and smashed cars and road was covered and pretty much tore everything up. >> and that is playing out in many locations and yo...

Maybe to have some sort of nationwide curriculum, or should we let the districts figure out how to do it? >> well, i don't think we should or can mandate curriculum from the federal spot, but you have a number of states stepping up in this area, and that's very, very encouraging. and again, these are skills that are going to last the student for a lifetime. what we don't want them is leaving high school and going to college, and you know, find themselves in debt that they can't begin to handle and they're going to be saddled with that for a long, long time. if students can't balance a checkboo...

40-question online exam taken by 76,000 students nationwide. aaron moore had the top score, a perfect one. >> we learned math, how to add, subtract, multiply and divide, and we learned english, to write and speak well. but what everyone does not learn is finance, the missing piece to our future. >> reporter: unfortunately, aaron and the other top scorers, who earned a trip to the treasury in washington, are the exceptions. >> the average score across the country was just 70%. too many students failed to answer basic questions about credit cards, car insurance and compound interest. making the ...

Secretary duncan, you know, in high school, you kind of have to graduate with a couple of years of a financial -- of a foreign language. you know, you're moving toward a currency in a foreign language, a fluency in a foreign language. what about finance? why aren't more schools teaching about finance and money? this is -- this is what ties every part of your daily life together. >> right. well, i think there's absolutely an increasing awareness, and phenomenal teachers like terri are really instilling these lessons, these values, these lifelong habits in students. when you see someone like aar...