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They're gone. what's the next thing you s remember? >> so reading, kind of hanging around. i think the first time i kind of noticed that it was getting a little late, it had gotten dark and, you know, nobody should be kind of hiking or walking around when it's dark. >> reporter: alex had no inkling of the tragedy unfolding at cottonwood creek. it started right after his dad took this picture of his mother, leslie. leslie and gracie posed here. you can see it's a stunning setting. but just about an arm's length behind me is a cliff. a steep dropoff to the granite below. and the icy cold waters ...

Meaning most of those inspections are not being done. critics say, that's a problem. >> these inspectors are going in to any kind of establishment that's making food throughout all of the food that fda regulates, that includes milk, cheese, it includes eggs in the shell, fresh fruit and produce, a lot of our can and packaged and frozen foods. it ends up being about 80% of the food supply. >> inspectors look for bugs, rodents, workers with open sores, high risk locations, seafood processing plants and produce from potentially contaminated fields like the romaine that recently sickened 62 consum...

In a normal recession you would pump incredible amounts of federal money at that because what you have to do, you see the demand in the private sector is withdrawn, something has to fill it. if the consumer doesn't fill it, typically that's what the government does, and that's what you saw t.a.r.p., et cetera, do. we started to withdraw that stimulus as soon as republicans overtook the house and halt the stimulus, so you've seen this steep dropoff. the first recession in the history of this country where public sector employment declined -- >> in federal jobs. >> in federal jobs. what we initi...