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We knew we were going to pushed by the river beds but it looked like there was a way out to the syrian border so i said to john -- >> about time to head back. set out what we went to do. >> he was acting strange. >> we're going to take it forward. >> we said 15 kilometers was the point. >> we're going a little bit further out. >> i began to wonder why was john asking us to go a little bit more. i know we had accomplish what had we set out to do. i felt i wasn't having my proper say in this. i think i understood better than he did the implications. i was watching the fuel gauge very, very close...

>> the southern third of the runway. a photographer sitting here with a camera out that window. they would take thousands of pictures of those river beds and send them down to the team in austin from the university of texas. >> i can tell you, there's more water than i have seen in the whole 25 years i have lived here. >> reporter: for every member some 60,000 nationwide this job is personal. >> we have members who live in that area that were impacted by the flooding disaster. >> reporter: this is how texans stretch a hand to texans from 5,000 feet above. >> proud to be able to serve. >> repor...

Brothers to join him on the gold rush. >> i think there's probably more up this way. >> charles and his brothers, they had been barn raisers in none of them liked farming life. and they couldn't wait to get out to the gold field in california. >> can i get some help? help, anybody! >> narrator: for many like the bold brothers, the hope of striking it rich moves them to endure incredible hardships and sacrifices. they camp along the river beds in bad conditions, giving rise tos dids which often results in death. >> johnny boy -- >> are you kidding me. >> narrator: some strike it rich, but he is...

5.5 million home owners. >> when she said that it was 19 billion in the red now it is 30 billion in the red. people say but i didn't plan the hurricane. i didn't know the river was going to flood. we need to help these people. what's wrong with that? >> first of all who are the people? people like you, there are people richer than you are. people who are building beach front properties $10 million homes in miami beach. >> movie star homes derek jeter's mansion in florida, the kennedy family. >> the question is why should taxpayers pay to rebuild their homes. this is a moral hazard problem. we ...

Looking rough conditions get better on sunday, shep? >> shepard: rick reichmuth, thank you, sir. and on this day in 1971, the u.s. launched the space probe mariner 9 to explore mars from high above. it took more than five months for that space craft to enter the martian orbit becoming the first to circle the planet. at first heavy dust storms blocked the shot of the surface. once the brrr broke mariner nine got quite a viewvment the craft sent back more than 7,000 pictures. capturing the entirety of the martian landscape. it revealed images of volcanos, a massive canyon and what' ad to be drie...