four families are trying to recover after a devastating fire made their homes unlivable. flames engulfed several houses yesterday forcing the residents to find temporary shelter. for one large family losing their house is not the worst part. brittany morehouse has their story. >> his whole life spent in a house now torched. >> i lost everything. my clothes, underwear, shoes. the only thing i have right now is my shorts and shirt on. and these boots. >> kevin says to return today, the remains of a devastating fire is almost too much for his family bare. >> valuables like photographs. his mom, a single parent who works as a housekeeper shows us one picture of her mom and dad. it's among the handful they manage to save, but there is no saving the antiques from al salvador his aunt keeps upstairs. >> don't worry, we're going to help you. >> fire started in the back of one of these houses and you can tell because the damage is extensive. four families were displaced total, including nine people who lived with kevin. >> all family. >> most of them were home when the fire starte

four families in dc's neighborhood are trying to recover after a devastating fire made their homes unlivable. flames engulfed several houses yesterday forcing the residents to find temporary shelter. for one large family, losing their house isn't the worst part. brittany manufacture morehouse has their story. >> i lost everything. my clothes, underwear, shoes. the only thing i have right now is my shorts and shirt on and these boots. >> 16-year-old kevin campos says returning was almost too much for his family to bare. valuables like photographs. >> his mom, a single parent who works as a housekeeper shows us one picture of her mom and dad. it's among the handful they managed to save. but there is no saving the antiques from el salvador. >> she cries. >> the fire started in the back of these houses. the damage is extensive. four families were displaced total including nine people who lived with kevin. >> we are all family. >> most of them were home when the fire started friday evening. >> we heard fire crackers outside. fire almost hit her face. >> it took almost 100 firefighters to battle t

the stipulations given to us while you are taking our money are sometimes unliveable. no toilet paper? no hand soap. these are unsanitary. these are things that must be given. salt and pepper can be understandable and covered by our food stamps, but all of the basic needs we are told we would be given are not being looked at. if that would be looked at, please continue to take our money. you are giving us housing and your caseworkers are helping us. if you are going to take our money can we please have toilet paper and hand soap. >> thank you. >> i am also a resident of next door. i am a recipient of your care not cash. i understand that the money goes towards my shelter. that is ok. but there are things that we are restricted to. we are treated like juveniles to where we can't do this and we are not allowed to do that. monitors can't decide in our 15-minute break where we stand. stand in front of the building. no. across the street, no. neighbors are complaining. we are being shuffled for 15 minutes three times a night and in the day when we are not allowed around the

thousands are still home its while many returning this weekend found conditions unlivable, flooding forsewage into their homes with. >> we're just start now to get home, people are moving in and i'm moving out. >> reporter: a huge wild fire continues burning in northern new mexico but it no longer threatens the los alamos nuclear land it scarred a mountain on a nearby reservation and now endangers site sacred to the pueblo indians. >> we see their focus was saving los alamos. what about us? >> reporter: much of the west continues sweltering under relentless heat. you could fry a steak on the pavement in phoenix. >> 183182. >> saturday's -- saturday's official record 118 degrees. prisoners were moved from jail cells to outdoor tents where temperatures reached 145. sheriff joe arpaio supplied inmates with ice but that was the limit of his sympathy. >> in baghdad it's about 115 degrees. >> reporter: some phoenix residents turned philosophical. >> better than shoveling snow in the winter. >> reporter: fourth of july skiers would disagree. tony guidea, cbs news, new york. >> mitchell: later

the house is a total loss and unlivable. the community responded and the donations poured in. >> it made me smile to the point where i almost cried because i just, you just forget how many good people are out there. >> reporter: now the fraternity is giving back. they don't need all the donations they received so today they donated their cars with clothing donations and toiletries. >> just giving them a bag of food brought tears to their eyes, and i want to see that again just to know that we're helping out. >> reporter: sacred heart serving 300 to 350 homeless families a day and their biggest need is mens clothing and shoes. >> they experience tragedy and their response is to give back to the community, i think that's a really amazing thing to see. >> reporter: the director here at sacred heart says the clothing items will definitely go to good use and they're expected to go quickly. as you heard, they have hundreds of people coming in here a day, and in fact, in the last year they've seen a 10% increase in the number of pe

so, you've essentially made a whole section of your house unusable and unlivable. >> yep.lay the piano. but he can only play one half. >> reporter: kay says she is what is known as a hidden hoarder. >> be careful. there are things all over the floor here. >> reporter: while most people imagine houses that lookokike landfills, as seen on the bizarre tlc hit "hoarding: buried alive," there is another side, people who guard their hoarding behind a seemingly normal facade. >> renee moved in with her friend, eileen, and her roommate, raquel, after her home was declared unlivable by the city. >> renee and i met 33 years ago teaching. at the same job. i found out renee was a hoarder accidentally. one time, trying to find out if she was home. and i was trying to yell through her mail slot. and i looked inside. i was devastated. >> reporter: kay, too, lives a life that looks no different from everyone else on the outside. and parts of her home are spotless. while other parts, including a garage and certain rooms, don't have an inch to spare. >> this is my briefcase right here. >> r

lawyers are looking for the ways to force the envelopes that the fec prohibited them from asking for unlived, but they allow the candidates to appear at fund-raisers for these groups at which these unlimited contributions are raised, as long as they are not explicitly asking for the unlimited money. nancy pelosi could go to a fund- raiser at which corporations are giving million dollars checks to an outside group, and she could shake hands, she could give a little speech, but she could not make the ask. give this group by seven-figure checks. checks. that is a huge gaping loophole and the candidates will take advantage of it. it is a decision that just came down last week. host: we're talking about fund- raising and the 2012 campaign. salt lake, utah, you are on the "washington journal." go-ahead, connie. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was listening to the presentation and it is money, money, money. until we take money out of the campaigns and to public financing, i feel my one vote does not count at all. the frustration is how do we attack this? the people who are going to vote, wh

the opportunity is that we are buying tons and tons of oil that will make this planet unlivable from countries that do not like us. we're going to war and sacrifice american lives for oil. i am convinced that if we stay on this trajectory that it will continue to set us back economically because we cannot make money fast enough to pay for the rising cost of oil. if you look at how fast the chinese, the indians and others are building cars and sucking up oil, you look at the simple fact that we are now, for the first time in human history, burning as much money -- as much oil as we extract from the ground. it does not take an economist to tell you this is a crisis. we should decide for me to stick with the current power system and let that bankrupt us. we can decide that we're going to make this an economic opportunity. i am convinced that america can produce six, seven, or 8 cents solar power. president obama is committed to do that. the energy sector is committed. we have to do it. we have to find ways to harness the wind and sun. then we need to find green, renewable ways the power

the opportunity is that we are buying tons and tons of oil that will make this planet unlivable from countes that do not like us. we're going to war and sacrifice american lives for oil. i am convinced that if we stay on this trajectory that it will continue to set us back economically because we caot make money fast enough to pay for the rising cost of oil. if you look at how fast the chinese, the indians and others are building cars and sucking up oil, you look at the simple fact that we are nowfor the first time in human history, burning as much money -- as much oil as we extract from the ground. it does not take an economist to tell you this is a crisis. we should decide for me to stick with the current power system and let that bankrupt us. we can decide that we're going to make this an economic opportunity. i am convinced that america can produce six, seven, or 8 cents solar power. president obama is committed to do that. the energy sector is committed. we have to do it. we have to find ways to harness the wind and sun. then we need to find green, renewable ways the power. in v