we met some of them when they landed at a manila airbase, many like missionary john winn -- safe now, but still shaken. >> i just sat there and watched the water level, praying that it would not go any higher. >> reporter: among anxious americans watching stateside, steve and vicki kurzban of boulder, colorado saw their 18-year-old son simon on "world news." >> apparently 50 little kids got sucked away. >> reporter: a happy ending for one american family but for so many here who need so much and who are still five days in seeing so little aid get here, there is no end in sight. diane? >> thank you, terry. as you said need so much and there are so many ways to help these families in the philippines. we have listed many of the ways to help on our website. just go to abcnews.com. >>> and important news now for airline travelers, a major merger is a step closer. the justice department gave the green light to usairways and american to join forces to become the largest airline in the world. it could happen by the end of the year. >>> and tonight a rough new poll number for the president. fo

we met some of them when they landed at a manila airbase, many like missionary john winn -- safe now, but still shaken. >> i just sat there and watched the water level, praying that it would not go any higher. >> reporter: among anxious americans watching stateside, steve and vicki kurzban of colorado saw their 18-year-old son simon on "world news." >> apparently 50 little kids got sucked away. >> reporter: a happy ending for one american family but for so many here who need so much and who are still five days in seeing so little aid get here, there is no end in sight. diane? >> thank you, terry. as you said need so much and there are so many ways to help these families in the philippines. we have listed many of the ways to help on our website. just go to abcnews.com. >>> and important news now for airline travelers, a major merger is a step closer. the justice department gave the green light to usairways and american to join forces to become the largest airline in the world. it could happen by the end of the year. >>> and tonight a rough new poll number for the president. for the fir

here's john winn. >> john, explain what happened to you during the storm. >> the short of it is, we were in our house expecting of course strong wind and rain. but just a short time after the typhoon started we watched a couple of trees fall in the yard. then i noticed under the front door this black water began to come in rather strong current. then i looked out the window sill. by the time i comprehended what i saw, the water had almost risen to the level of the window sill. it was quite high, coming in the door quite fast. at that time i realized that we were in some serious trouble. >> how fast was the water rising? >> i wish i could rate it. i would say we were on the entertainment ceiling -- i'm sorry, entertainment center. we were in the ceiling, i would say, in less than -- i'm going to -- of course i could be wrong, but it seemed to me to be about maximum two or three minutes. maximum. and that's about the level of water in our house was around eight feet probably. >> you finally got out of tacloban. when did you finally leave? >> we finally left -- we landed here yesterday abou

here's john winn. >> john, explain what happened to you during the storm. >> the short of it is, we weree expecting of course strong wind and rain. but just a short time after the typhoon started we watched a couple of trees fall in the yard. then i noticed under the front door this blackwater began to come in, rather strong current. then i looked out the window sill. by the time i comprehended what i saw, the water had almost risen to the level of the window sill. it was quite high, coming in the door quite fast. at that time i realized that we were in some serious trouble. >> how fast was the water rising? >> i wish i could rate it. i would say we were on the entertainment ceiling -- i'm sorry, entertainment center. we were in the ceiling, i would say, in less than -- i'm going to -- of course i could be wrong, but it seemed to me to be about maximum two or three minutes. maximum. and that's about the level of water in our house was around eight feet probably. >> you finally got out of tacloban. when did you finally leave? >> we finally left -- we landed here yesterday about 12:30 or s

winn free. the award was created by john f kennedy. "consider this" is next. i'll be back later. and you can get the latest on aljazeera.com. >> al qaeda in kentucky. explosive details of bomb makers that made their way to the u.s. consider this - how could the american government let them resettle in america? and paul ryan predict an end to the theatrical budget. will they produce one? >> a rod storms out of an appeals hearing. was it a stunt? welcome to "consider this". we begin with an f.b.i. investigation into the possibility reported by a.b.c. news that several dozen iraqi or african bomb -- iraqi or afghanistan bomb makers could be living in the u.s. f.b.i. agents are working through a warehouse stacked with remains of 100,000. >> -- 100,000. >> eds that could connect the bomb makers with homes in the u.s. it was sparked by the 2009 arrests and convictions of two men living in bowling green, both admitting they had attacked u.s. soldiers as members of al-qaeda and pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism as they shipped various arms to iraqi inurge ents. they vi have been a t