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relocating? >> no. this is what i always wanted. i m going to stick with it. >> reporter: they have flood insurance, but don t know how much they ll get back. lisa retired last year. now she says she may have to go back to work. >> to put out that kind of money would be very tough on me right now. >> reporter: the storm displaced thousands of floridians. few had flood insurance. rebuilding isn t an option for everyone. >> i m going to be stuck here for a while, if not forever. >> reporter: 77-year-old tobey freeman is in buffalo, new york, where his daughter krista lives, after he says seven feet of water wrecked his home. his wife karen is still recovering in a rehab center in florida. >> the only thing i got out of that house is the clothing on my back and i had to throw it away. >> reporter: they say they have little savings and no insurance so they re moving to buffalo. krista is dipping into their funds to find a home. >> i have to take care of my
my house is the clothing on my back. >> reporter: they say they have little savings and no insurance so they re moving to buffalo. krista is dipping into her retirement funds to find them a home. >> i have to take care of my family. wouldn t have it any other way. >> reporter: alice and richard johnson aren t leaving florida but they re moving into their rv full-time. they didn t have flood insurance and a lot of retirement funds are tied up in this house. >> was that a difficult decision? >> probably one of the most difficult decisions i made in my life. >> alice turns 85 next week and they want to focus on enjoying life together. >> how many good years do i have left to live? i don t want to spend the next two years rebuilding a house, dealing with contractors, doing work ourselves, going -- even picking out furniture, for what? for who? for me? i think that we would rath sell it and live for the next couple of years.
>> reporter: 77-year-old toby freeman is in buffalo, new york, where his daughter krista lives after he said 7 feet of water wrecked his home. his wife karen is still recovering in a rehab center in florida. >> the only thing i got out of the house was the clothing on my back and hi to throw it away. >> reporter: they have little insurance and no savings so they re moving to buffalo. krista is dipping into her funds to help her family. and alice and richard are moving into their rv full time. they didn t have flood insurance, they say. and a lot of their retirement funds are tied up in this house. >> was that a difficult decision? >> probably one of the most difficult decisions i ve ever made in my life. >> reporter: alice turns 85 next week and they want to focus on enjoying life together. >> how many good years do i have left to live? i don t wan to spend the next two years rebuilding a house,
provide for my family. that includes driving an hour and a half one way to and from work and literally working all day. i get to see my daughter twice a week. >> that s heartbreaking. i also read in the notes you sent that you are surviving right now on two cups of ramen per day. you look like an adult male. you need more than two cups of ramen. but you are sacrificing so your wife and daughter can eat. did you ever imagine that you would ever have to make such sacrifices so your family could survive? >> i had imagined it, but i never thought it would actually happen, i m going to be honest. >> unbelievable. krista, how are you finding ways to save money? >> i only eat a maximum of one meal and two snacks through the day so i can make sure my daughter has enough food to, as well, to eat at home without
to. >> todd: why is this happening, krista? >> i can only assume may be it s just a lack of milk production due to staff shortages. that would be my assumption. that s why we are seeing the increased prices. >> todd: going to look at some numbers here. american families we know that they cannot afford the price of groceries they see. eggs have gone up 39%. increasing every time we put up this graphic. specifically for you i want to focus on this, the price hikes are even worse. the price of wholesale eggs which you need a lot of up a a 104%. a lot more of the cost than the regular folk. the cost of other dairy products up, almost 25%. how much more are you forced to charge as a result of those increases? >> gosh. i ve been forced to increase my
butter, you have my attention. how are you changing recipes to deal with the increase in butter price which is ultimately caused by a shortage in butter? >> obviously with butter and everything we make, not being able to find the same butter or the same amounts of butter has really affected what we are doing. for me specifically one of the things is in the frosting i made, i had to change the amounts of liquids to fats to sugars. also the amounts of salt, just a lot of different things that have gone into our recipes. >> todd: the most important question i will ask, what does that due to the taste, krista? >> hopefully not a lot. we try to adjust to make sure sure it stays tasting good and tasting consistent. it s the year that things may not taste the same or be the same quality that we are used
>> i ve never seen anything like this in the judicial system. this is an absolute embarrassment and it s an absolute shame that a victim can be drawn through a court system for 10 years and be raped all over again by her abuser. >> krista, explain to me what it s been like in court to see the person that raped you in the courtand the fact that he has your child .are you concerned about the safety of your child ? >> yes, it has been grueling. every time i go to court i just leave the courtroom in tears because i can t believe this is happening. i am very scared for her safety at the moment. i don t know what s going on over there at his house when she s in his custody. >> i want to put this up because this is a picture from the daily mail of the suspected rapist and we know, i don t even know why we use
>> i ve never seen anything like this in the judicial system. this is an absolute embarrassment and it s an absolute shame that a victim can be drawn through a court system for 10 years and be raped all over again by her abuser. >> krista, explain to me what it s been like in court to see the person that raped you in the courtand the fact that he has your child .are you concerned about the safety of your child ? >> yes, it has been grueling. every time i go to court i just leave the courtroom in tears because i can t believe this is happening. i am very scared for her safety at the moment. i don t know what s going on over there at his house when she s in his custody. >> i want to put this up because this is a picture from the daily mail of the suspected rapist and we know, i don t even know why we use
krista joins me along with stacytrish from save lives foundation . krista, i m sorry. i ve been followingthis story all week . did the judge notknow that is statutory rape when your abuser was in the courtroom ? >> well, i did announce it in open court i had pressed charges and what the charges were for so i assumed that he knows what that is and could discern that. >> have you seen anything like this before in court where the victim has to pay the rapist and the court feels like to it likeit s acceptable for a rapist to have custody of the child .