the boys cleared a forest of downed trees. 18-year-old colton corey earned the nickname dominator. >> this is kind of a once in a lifetime chance. >> reporter: for these teens, it is a chance to live their faith. why would you want to come to a hurricane-ravaged area across the country? >> you know you go home to like a perfect house and nothing ever happens, kind of makes you want to come out here and see what they're going through and help them. >> reporter: has anybody ever knocked down a wall before today? >> that is -- >> reporter: and intimidating. >> it matters to the people. it is their home. like it is what they have lived in for so long. that it is hard to watch it come down. >> reporter: they earn community service credits, what the school calls heart and soul hours. >> this is not what i expected. >> reporter: 14-year-old ally chambers worked here in ocean gate. >> when the water was pouring out of the kitchen. >> reporter: now teenagers are restoring the house she raised her kids in. >> they're my daughter's age, and i'm looking at them and i'm like i love you guys. like

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last year 2011 alone, global colton's bunch increased by almost 4 billion. that is equal to all glow worse global solar, wind, and biomass combined. alone the idea that the u.s. is not try to solve this co2 issue isec fundamentally flawed. i don't know where he isthat dreaming he will be able to of solve this issue. gerri: we have a long way to go. i know we will hear from you again soon.robay o thank you for coming on.ro have great weekend. >> thanks a million. gerri: the clock ticks down for washington to come up with a solution to the fiscal cliff, another group of folks expected to meet -- expecting to get hit hard. i'm talking about college savers. my next guest sa many families will be worse off next year compared to this year. here to explain, founder an publisher of stayed. welcome back to the show. always great to have you. let's start with this idea. what is the fisc cliff? what is it going to do if we take the budget cuts to college studts aids? >> well, in two ways. the sequestration will cut all student aid but the pell grant by percent across t

it has colton used in cell phones. it has tin. it has copper. it has timber.ultural resources but can't be harnessed because what isn't being stolen by soldiers, business men and wo warlords, is being stolen by government officials. they don't have roads, they don't have education, virtually no health care. >> will the u.s. get involved here? >> i don't think so. it already has the largest u.n. peacekeeping operation anywhere in the world today. and it is simply not being effective. rightly so. they didn't get involved in a fire fight with this rebel group if we want to call them that. they're disaffected soldiers, whatever we want to call them. but it is not going to solve the problem. this is going to go on. we have seen one thing after another like this. i think the u.s. senses that. it wants the u.n. in there. wants to try to do something constructive. but u.s. is going to put its own forces on the ground inside the democratic republic of congo. >> okay. jim clancy, thank you so much. coming up next, ambassador susan rice comes face to face with some prett

. >> steve: colton?d things, if jaden is doing like bigger first aid. >> steve: tristan? >> i'm the handyman. got to fix things. >> ex fix anything. >> steve: we've got stuff around the studio. what do you make of two weeks ago hurricane sandy hit and the new york city area was immobilized. in fact, there is still people who don't have electricity. this thank is kind of what you have been talking about, be ready. >> absolutely. we looked at sandy, we watched it on tv and were mesmerized. it looked like a movie scene. the first thing i talked, and i told tar a, how many preppers are involved in this and i want to see their lives and see how well they waited out the storm. for us, it would have been something smaller than we planned for and we'd have been ready for it. >> steve: at our house, my wife is good for preparing for stuff. we had the water, plenty of food. whoever thought that eventually you'd run out of gas? all the cars ran out of gas. >> that's a big deal and i don't think people realize how i