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Welcome back to "morning joe". i have no idea what the time is. that was a very long -- i think you might have been a tad bit long winded. >> you're putting that on me. >> i am. you went -- >> really? >> yeah. it was just like whoa we just went ten minutes over. but that's okay. about a we're at the tuck school of business at dart mouth here in hanover great to be here. thank you for having us. >> great to have you guys here. [ applause ] >> we're actually here because about six months ago, acceptseven months ago, kurt welling asked mika to come up and talked about the challenges women face in...

The shirt the red sun incorporated into the word al a aloha. it made 600 shirts and received 10,000 orders so far. the shirts are selling for $20. with thousands missing, millions without power or clean drinking water and food rationings dwindling, search and rescue teams in japan, the hard road ahead of them. success or failure of the aide workers determine who survives in the coming days. joining me, kurt welling, president and ceo of americares, an expert on 0 responding to international disasters. you have a team of three on the ground in japan? >> yeah, we have -- we sent a team over on...

Humanitarian assistance teams immediately after the disaster, an effort that the japanese are calling operation friendship. joining me now is the president and ceo of americare's kurt welling. americare is one of these organizations with the disaster response team on the ground in japan. kurt, i want to get a sense of the scope of this. you know, you guys have been involved in helping through a lot of these natural disasters. haiti, et cetera. how big is this compared to the others? >> well, the problem here is the magnitude of the destruction. it's spread over a very large area, and what that...

Displaced, are going to be in crisis, thousands, perhaps 10,000 will lose their lives. so it brings you back to the reason why organizations like ours exist which is to try to find as many people in the path of this thing that need help and get them the medicines and medical supplies they need to survive. >> curt welling with americares. several organizations were raising money for the earthquake tsunami victims. if you'd like to help, text redcross to 90999 to donate $10. also text japan or quake to 80888 to donate $10 to the salvation army. the tsunami that followed what japan says was a 9...