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Community support. any kind of basic needs that they might need. we are working through a process of establishing what we're talking about, how many structures, what kind of damage we're looking at. i'm sure that will play into a part of the federal program. >> you told me earlier that the governor said yesterday this was the worst firestorm here, worst fires in 100 years. he's 42 years old. he's saying he and his family have never seen anything like this. so, mayor, thank you very much for joining us. the real question now is, okay, the fires are mostly under control. not out. you can see tha...

Eight-foot mangrove trees on the island, so thick you couldn't get on to the island. you could only drive around the islands, couldn't actually get on the islands. it was covered with birds. >> cat island was one of the barrier islands off the coast of louisiana that saw the most damage from the oil spill. >> cat island was ground zero to the oil spill. there's a series of barrier islands that run along the louisiana coast. what happened was the oil came along the west side of the mississippi river, came through what they call quatro bayou pass and as they came through the little islands were ...

>> it is really interesting. my family is full of adopted kids. my parents, doug and ainsley thompson adopted five little girls in the '70s. it has been a big part. there we are. horrible picture but there we are. you can look at us and know that we obviously knew that we were different. i always sensed that growing up. i decided to look into my family in my 20s. i realized we were much like a tree. while the tree outside of the ground may be very healthful and strong and growing upwards. the root system beneath the ground if it is not stable and strong, it threatens the integrity of the tree....

Land and that's we're talking about a mountain, that land has no more root system. the trees, the grasses and everything that used to allow the water to run off is all gone. just dirt there. when the dirt becomes so saturated, it just begins to run off as a mudslide. here's what happened yesterday. thunderstorms and will happen again today. thunderstorms developed along the ridges of the mountain here and that thunderstorm activity caused rain to come down. as the rain fell in the same place for a very long time, it got into the canyons and, eventually, down through and eventually down into th...

>> reporter: a last resort if you can't get indoors when thunder roars. alex perez, abc news, chicago. >> learned a lot in that report. very interesting. most of the strikes aren't direct hits on people. they say the boy scouts, probably 100 foot pine tree that got struck nearby, and the root system literally wept under their feet. that's why they were getting zapped from that though it was ain't direct hit. >> you know you hear what alex said. you get low to the ground. make yourself as small as possible. these kids were taking cover under the pine tree apparently raining because of lightning...