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no agreement. nor is there an agreement on a house republican push for a much smaller plan made up of spending cuts alone. if all else fails, we may end up with an idea floated by the top senate republican, mitch mcconnell. we laid it out for you. three separate votes between now and the next elections to raise the nation's debt by $2.5 trillion, and there would be $1 trillion in spending cuts and a special congressional panel to shore up entitlements, and the up side supposedly for republicans is keeping the issue alive for another year and blaming the president, who, by the way, is...

Debris you'll see all kinds of things and one thing you'll see is clothing everywhere that people no longer have. missing a shirt, pants, jeans, they've got to find a place to answer some of the questions, they've got to find solutions. this is terri heburn. maybe you ought to come over here. there you go. let's see. tell me about this place. when someone comes in, this is not for sale. it's donated. >> this is all donations, brought in from other churches and family members come and brought the items, just the public, peeping coming in off the streets, college kids, and some have gone in, pur...

Deacon. she believes it was that devotion that got their family through tough times. >> the lord will make a way somehow. my mother used to sing it around the house all the time. ♪ the lord will make a way you'd hear her singing that, i think i know why now, times were so hard. and she would always sing that song. "the lord will make a way somehow." >> reporter: the farming was hard. being black, even harder. the 1960s, jim crowe laws divided the south and the races. >> growing up in a segregated south for people that don't know about it, what was that like? >> we would always get the hand-m...

The 1960s, jim crowe laws divided the south and the races. >> growing up in a segregated south for people that don't know about it, what was that like? >> we would always get the hand-me-downs from the white schools. they got the new buses. we got the used buses. they would get new books. we would get their books that had pages torn out of them. they couldn't even go drink water at the water fountain. they had to go to the colored side, and they had to go to the bathroom where it was filthy. if they went to the restaurant to get a sandwich, you had to go to the back window and they would hand ...

>> growing up in a segregated south for people that don't know about it, what was that like? >> we would always get the hand-me-downs from the white schools. they got the new buses. we got the used buses. they would get new books. we would get their books that had pages torn out of them. >> they couldn't even drink water at the water fountain. they had to go to the colored side and they had to go to the bathroom where it was filthy. if they went to the restroom to get a sandwich, you had to go to the back window, and they would hand you a sandwich out of the back window. it was rough. >> repor...