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How do the united states marines keep up their spirit, how do you connect with your families at home? >> in a lot of different ways through e-mail, phone call. it is nice to be with your fellow marines in combat at christmas time but also very special to have your families near and dear to your heart and there is a tremendous amount of support to them and that means a tremendous amount geraldo there cannot be a more remote piece of property on this god's planet than helmud province, afghanistan. you can't be further away. one thing i found of interest at the forward operating bases is there wa...

Endless war. how do the united states marines keep up their spirit, how do you connect with your families at home? >> in a lot of different ways through e-mail, phone call. it is nice to be with your fellow marines in combat at christmas time but also very special to have your families near and dear to your heart and there is a tremendous amount of support to them and that means a tremendous amount geraldo there cannot be a more remote piece of property on this god's planet than helmud province, afghanistan. you can't be further away. one thing i found of interest at the forward operating base...

Is that the most recent information you have as well, sir in. >> yeah. we've had about 400 people treated for relatively serious injuries at freeman hospital, that doesn't count the other hospitals in the area. we have about 40 different agencies, called up the highway patrol last night. also because of the lack of communication ability there, because the wires are down and towers, we put the highway patrol command vehicle in there so we have pretty good communication among first responders, just not great communication, external to that. about 2,000 buildings with very significant damage incl...

many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> that's right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state of emergency this morning. >> to make matters worse the city's main hospital st. john's medical cent...