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I go into the hug and he's left in between, because he's not a hugger. >>brian: i high fived him when we had a really good day. let me just tell you something. all weekend long -- you've got to get the mud out. >>steve: there's some of the hugging there. really ruined my shirt. we should reveal how did you get clean after the show on friday? >>elisabeth: maria brought a weather storm in of increased rain so we drenched ourselves right there. >>steve: didn't you go to the health club and shower with your clothes on? >>elisabeth: okay, fine, yes. i guess nothing is sacred here. we were in the sh...

They go in when people's homes are destroy water is in and we mud out and take the wet dry wall out . then we'll go back and we'll paint the house and put the carpet on down. we have hundreds of thousands of volunteers that work with sarmaitans and purse and responding to hurricane sandy. people in the northeast are hurt we need more volunteers and need them in february, january and march and beginning of the summer. they need our help. >> let me ask you quickly. in the challenging times with the economy and military conflicts and poverty. what do you tell people in terms of holding on to thei...

There's no other way you can do it. just buckets and shovels, and just some strong backs, and that's what these volunteers will do. we'll go into a home and help them actually -- we call it a mud out. you mud out the home. if you take places like atlantic city where you have these casinos and people think of those casinos, there are a lot of middle class and poorer homes in that community, and these people are just devastated. they've got to have help. if volunteers don't come and help them clean up, they're going to be sitting there for months to come, and what happens is mold begins to grow ...

But0 hundreds will be available in the next few days. >> greta: the trucks have chain saws, but tell me what's in the trucks. >> it's chain saws, pumps, generators, all types of hand tools, especially when you have a flood like this, greta, it takes -- there's a lot of silt that is left when the water recedes. you'll have sometimes several feet of mud in the basement of a home. that has to be taken out by hand. there's no other way you can do it. just buckets and shovels, and just some strong backs, and that's what these volunteers will do. we'll go into a home and help them actually -- we cal...

Inundating the cities with several feet of water. at one point every single road in the state was inpacted. here's the headline in the again itch paper "water world." have the rivers crested yet? >> reporter: a lot of shop owners are shoveling mud out of their showrooms. we pan out to the river here, you see an awful lot of debris floating down the river, we've seen refrigerators, propane tanks, some people said they saw livestock earlier. they are some bands and tributaries a little higher. officials are releasing major amounts of water from that. we do expect the connecticut to continue on t...