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Pork. if you go back and look at line-items, you saw that what it did was address the path of the storm. from the caribbean, up the coast, and the final, you know, landing in new jersey, new york. so all of those areas that were affected, parts of d.c., saint thomas, elsewhere, they all got a little piece to help to get back on their feet and recover, that was not pork for those people who needed that aid. it may not have gone necessarily to humanitarian effort, putting food on the ground or water on the ground, but it did go to restore some infrastructure and things like that. there was a lot...

Can't even think of the dollar figure that is going to be involved with this whole storm from corpus christi all the way to texas/louisiana border and further. >> absolutely. >> the spirit, people's spirit is good. we were fortunate in corpus christi that we had no fatalities. no serious injuries. and we're just now, like i said, we got a good spirit. but, you know, people are going to start getting tired if they're not already and having to just deal with the long recovery. right now, things are moving like they're supposed to be and like we got a plan, and then for me, personally, i've got a...

Driving factors for me, and the decisions we made in corpus christi, i wasn't -- you can replace your carpet, rebuild your house, repair your car, but you can't replace life. so my focus was we just want to be able to get through this, with no loss of life. and fortunately we were successful in that, and to my knowledge, in this area, we only had one casualty and that was a result -- i think that was over in rock port, that was a house fire. and i'm not sure what the cause of the fire was. but we have been extremely lucky here. and -- but it is going to be a long haul and the cleanup and recov...

Storm drags its feet, images of animals are tugging at the country's heart. flood proof love for our loyal friends who need us now more than ever. and joe fryer joins me now. as i watch the pictures of those animals, you say they're coming up to new jersey. i think a lot of our viewer may be wondering what can they do to help pets stranded by this. are these dogs and cats that are going to need adoptive homes or what is next for all the animals that these people are working so hard to help? >> reporter: well, really depends on the animal. keep in mind, a lot of the pets were already in shelt...

Region and the lower brazos river region where there to be extensive flooding for about a week if not longer. in the lower colorado region, there should be flooding for the rest of the week. over in victoria and quarro flooding for a few days. it's important for all of these regions, as well as in every county that's affected by storms that you continue to listen to and heed local warnings about evacuation. so listen to, heat and follow evacuation notices. and then, of course, on top of that always please remember, and that is if there is flooding around your area, do not drive into that flood...