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Destruction firsthand from the air, vowing the federal government will continue to give families the aid and relief they need. >> once all of these cameras are gone, fema and the red cross are still going to be here until we make you whole. >> reporter: volunteers from across the country and the world are now helping complete strangers get their lives back on track. >> it is not about who you are helping. it's about the fact they need help. >> reporter: and the damage is widespread. at least eight people have been killed with 18,000 homes damaged or destroyed across 2,000 square miles. 200 mil...

Ribbon cuttings than the kinds of repair projects like this. >> the american society of civil engineers gave a c plus to the 600,000 bridges in the u.s., 11% of them considered structurally deficient. ho worried should americans be when they drive across bridges? >> well, the worry is not so much that they'll collapse like this with a lot of frequency but the problem is the system is aging and it's aging pretty rapidly. the typical bridge out there was designed to last 50 years and the average age is 44. if you look at the bridges structurally deficient the one in ten bridges rated as structur...

blamed on hurricane/tropical storm irene. more than three million homes and businesses still don't have power. flood warnings still are in effect in five states from vermont to new jersey. all this brings me to my colleague, mary snow, in patterson, new jersey. mary, what is going on there around you right now? >> reporter: well, evacuations have been going on for the past 48 hours and they are only intensifying because you just mentioned, there are some rivers that have yet to crest. here in patterson, new jersey, which is about three blocks away from the passaic river, that has not...