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Matt, let me start with you here. they are about it is also proud of the work that they're doing. tell us more about what you're hearing. >> we're hearing time and time again the u.s. military and how demoralized they are. this is the largest community of americans that are living outside of america. and when push came to shove here everybody in this community of 54,000 people got together, pitched in, and really did their best to help the afghan public who were coming here huge numbers.

Further down you call it far rockaway there's also rockaway beach. that's why they call it the rockaways and not just rockaway sometimes. >> anthony: right. >> josmar: there's a lot of different parts to it. >> anthony: josmar trujillo, a writer and local activist. >> anthony: you from queens originally? >> josmar: i was raised in the city but i lived in queens for most of my adult life now. >> anthony: and rockaway now? >> josmar: no i so i left here a little, about a year after hurricane sandy, 'cause the way sandy hit and the way that it kind of you know shook people out of where. you didn'...

Further down you call it far rockaway there's also rockaway beach. that's why they call it the rockaways and not just rockaway sometimes. >> anthony: right. >> josmar: there's a lot of different parts to it. >> anthony: josmar trujillo, a writer and local activist. >> anthony: you from queens originally? >> josmar: i was raised in the city but i lived in queens for most of my adult life now. >> anthony: and rockaway now? >> josmar: no i so i left here a little, about a year after hurricane sandy, 'cause the way sandy hit and the way that it kind of you know shook people out of where. you didn'...

Afterwards is the way people came together who lived here but also came in, pitched in, brought food, generators, but officially, it was like, government, the governmental groups. they dropped the ball. >> what was the problem? >> weren't ready for it. the rockaways, by design, never a place for a lot of good investment or infrastructure anyway to begin with. >> why? look, this is what you would call prime ocean front property not far from new york city, what's going on? >> this is a place historically where the city and robert moses in particular really used as a dumping ground for the undesi...

Different parts to it. >> anthony: josmar trujillo, a writer and local activist. >> anthony: you from queens originally? >> josmar: i was raised in the city but i lived in queens for most of my adult life now. >> anthony: and rockaway now? >> josmar: no i so i left here a little, about a year after hurricane sandy, 'cause the way sandy hit and the way that it kind of you know shook people out of where. you didn't want to put your family through that again, the risk of that. >> anthony: how bad did it get hit out here? >> josmar: this was like something out of a movie. >> anthony: hurricane san...