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Of that water is coming and pouring down to the coastal towns. and right now we are working with search and rescue attempts to get these families off their rooftops and communications i just overheard is a challenge. and certainly we're looking forward for aid. principally we're in need of support for all these families that need to build a new home. in some communities 80% of their homes were simply devastated. i'm talking about homes, mobile home, wood structures with tin roofs that there's nothing to be found now where they used to live. so these are homeless families. at this point in time...

Challenge. and certainly we're looking forward for aid. principally we're in need of support for all these families that need to build a new home. in some communities 80% of the homes were simply devastated. i'm talking about homes, mobile homes, wood structures with tin roofs that there's nothing to be found now where they used to lie. so these are homeless families at this point in time. we're working closely with habitat for humanity to make them -- rebuild their lives. and right now we are still in the process of saving lives. winds out, now we have lots of water to deal with, lots of floo...

Sides of cores during the restoration. the west side, we expect to have the vast majority of customers essentially all restored by friday the 22nd. we are seeing some encouraging things. i will tell you straight up that much of our investments in the system seems to be paying benefits on behalf of customers. we are not seeing a lot of poles down, not saying the transmission structures down. these are wood structures we changed to concrete and steel. they are standing strong. we are seeing a lot of damage that's not in place. that's a good sign for us. it's encouraging, but we are not letting o...

Lives here is one thing we can never replace. >> so many place as you are finding concrete foundation left over, meteorologist rick reichmuth is in the eastern part of north carolina and, rick, how does it look from there? i'm sure it is devastating. >> reporter: it is, the woman who was just talking there, gene burkett lives a half mile from here and saw the tornado and one of the neighbors homes lifted off the foundation and the three people inside the home died and this gives you an idea of what is left after the tornado. probably an ef-3 tornado, and they are estimating around a half mile ...

Technologies and upgrade their seismic design code. they didn't do it as much with wood structures but they certainly did that with large scale infrastructure like you see in tokyo. a lot of buildings, they weren't damaged. >> jamie: the earthquake was in 1995. what percentage of the buildings really benefit from the additional support that went into new construction? >> a tremendous amount because not just buildings that fell, that come off their piers but they actually went in and retrofitted buildings that suffered a little damage. they didn't expect a kobe earthquake and this earthquake wa...