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you know i can remember when it would flood one time in the fall and then one time in the spring you know a break up and now i mean already 3 times this year they've had you know when people get nervous about the flooding of their houses and needing to stay in school or even getting out of new top because they're worried about that kind of stuff and just these last 2 storms have taken so much away you know he went and measured the last couple storms and they're like knocked off 1020 feet in 11 day yeah and so there's a better margin and also i have to do you know the students in iraq and the kids right now journals about their worries about the floods i don't think are as catch on fire but a fire house flat it has a very next thing they all wrote on their own was our outlet it we would grab and they got some of the box of pictures over and. so. they've obviously been stressing about it my lack of. things hard.
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what are you. a burglar. was. my 1st year here which was 15 years ago. i thought. you see these commercials you know and helping other countries and i'm thinking look at this place. and why isn't there commercial to help the people here like there's not running water in the houses and and there's you know the so they still have this when you look at system they have to haul their water like this is not america anymore you know not the america i grew up in this is like wow. newtok is a very rural. community with their language and their culture and their subsistence it's really strong here still and that's a good thing. but worst case scenario my fear is that a couple houses are lost families or are displaced and have to move to other communities or bethel with other family members and that yeah this that that new
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village doesn't get built quick enough for new talk to move there and then it the community ends up every time outs. ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah now this is the river the truck. for folks who believe that sense of belonging still is taken away so then you have to try to reestablish that failing that belong. to you not thinking every day that i got a whole lot of alcohol than if i could hear you get those conveniences but what you
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lose is the access to food and the access to community and when you're part of a tribe it's very difficult to leave and not kill a sense of loss. to see this gas station or. some guy they were some guy was shot here last summer got killed right there the gas station up warehouse somebody got shot and killed just last week to reconfigure another gator shot. there was a couple gunshots at night time. or something like 44 in a blog. comparing. us. to the city you heard. keep your kids 247. just let them out of village like they do. take some adjusting.
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from my perspective it isn't just a it's become a. for the present state is in c's where they say hey let's let's do a study. let's do this and will fulfill our budget here in anchorage and fairbanks and somewhere else nor make a living for us at the expense of new talk people. well i'm optimistic though but if. the only way to go forward to 21st century is to have a healing process. it's going to take time. i believe in the future everything will settle down and forget about the old. b. c.
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it gets dark and gloomy you know here we are and bring in. lots of summary. this girl who committed suicide was being bullied other. students and the. bullies were saying. it's going good. you're working this. we won't miss you. and sue course and facebook isn't that illegal so there's a computer. cyber bullying. or trouble. how efficient it all are all know that 1st they come back it's coming back next
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my name is anger john and i am the new travel administrator. i am the nephew of the. i was a former administrator john i believe that he now calls. the ocean is our home. we now have. someone to watch over us when we're out there hunting. and providing for our family. to carry out his mission i am here to carry on is where i am here to see that his vision. is accomplished.
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day or thinks. we dare to ask. has changed american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs the people who are chronic pain patients and believe that their opioid prescription is working for them and the remedy be said to. price that they pay closer dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically justified and all study actually suggests that the long term effects might not just be absence of benefit but actually that they might be causing long term.
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we're going to work on building things across to the sun. and that's for me it was . oh it's actually happening i mean these crews are serious. people who are just in the nick of time 2. hours is some of the has a lot of danger broader. you can breathe it's a. poor person who are. going to be knocked. down i don't want to. know what. they're going kind of at the new site must pick was basically orchestrated and celebrate this 2017 construction season and the celebration was not only to how.
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congratulate the tribe and the community for perseverance through the process and getting to this point but to also help them recognize that things are happening and there is hope for their future and that they're not just before but. they're shoot. better as. a stage in this. you know to start building. her and to support not losing home to us this coming fall. during. this is what people are afraid of. and there's actually a family. moving pitching
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a tent over at discovery because they're afraid. albertine she is afraid of me going to cool their marriage for a crime then it won't 10 i'm not going to stay where. i'm scared for my cute. i am scared won't make it. that highly and. for kate. anything i ate did next week. think that. and i had a when. they need help now. i know. that. if i'm going to. check each and. counting down.
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a crush of crew with up at the pit right now we've got here and. they're driving the truck and they're coming down the hall with no one to help them down here by october 3rd she's going to kind of thing and then through the phone we're going to be working on the design for the community and streets and then next year we'll be finishing the 4 houses that are currently getting started and then building one other house and hopefully more if we secure funding for housing for future house of . people works like the board company or through when we started. they. were. at the new.
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and as you can see they turned. to lay down in a base and which will be the for the next several years for us as we roll in every summer no other questions i get asked all the time is moving in alaska native village how can you guys do what you guys do now is that you can't find a thing better to do the truth of the matter is the marine corps has no business in relocating an alaska native village that's not what we do but what we do we do is train our brains and sailors of the other service personnel involved in expeditionary engineering projects and to do something so far away from home if you will in the remote alaskan tundra in a difficult place to get to by boat by air every kind of way this is exactly the type of challenge training opportunity i think it's a good thing for the region it's a good thing for. the residents to really see the start of this.
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is going to take a while it's not happening fast enough for me but you know to have all the assets the united states government involved in this project is pretty amazing. i'm glad it's here. is. the most favorable conditions i think. food water shelter got the food there 95 percent subsistence lifestyle if they didn't have access to a store they still let water they have cleaner water their water has been
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a challenge in newtok. boil water notice for over 10 years and so having access to clean drinking water is huge. and that shelter you know the homes and you talk it's all i can we were not built for the arctic they were not built for that and vironment. and they're aging that. because they weren't designed for that place. on. this one. you know to see. some of the nation's 1st. truck with props i want to have another. i don't mind paying down the.
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24 years we have to with there's just water. and i'm going to move across there. soon. pioneer. who can run no way from locked in cage there's a lot my clothes my stuff i still gotta go pick my stocks i'm almost ready for force and utilities. in part. but. we were told we'd movie houses 2016 and i was so excited i told him i make each day go to move there's next year 2016 came. and. then they should i guarantee you they would move their houses 2007 t.
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. think. their store and their ocean won't say their toy to enter the 2018. mohawk so today there's one in. our people have been waiting for over 20 years for this opportunity to. they've been waiting patiently to work is. here. and i have to. i have to ask them please be patient. please be patient. you know waiting 22 years. which another month or 2.
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and then think about it if another country threaten to wipe out an american town we do everything in our power to protect it. climate change poses the same threat right now. and that's why i care so deeply about this if we do nothing temperatures in alaska are projected to rise between 6 and 12 degrees by the end of the century . and that's runs all of us with hardships not just. people up north. there are many other places in america that have to deal with those questions right now but there will be. what's happening here. is america's wake up call it should be the world's wakeup call.
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just to britain finally quit the already people and businesses report being tangled up in red tape in. the u.k. has given the. very little in return the biggest impact for me it's just going to be traveling really not feeling like i am a european anymore. even suicides a french restaurant owner tells us about the appalling plight of people in this sector as the economy collapses amid fresh curfews unlocked. it was my neighbor who lived right in front of my house had a restaurant for 2 generations during the 2nd lockdown everyone had to close again . restaurant.
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