la corresponsal estrella de la cadena nbc, lilia luciano, fue hasta estos lugares y se nos une con una estos trabajadores y muchos de ellos, la mayorÍa, el 90%, son indocumentados y por temor a alzar la voz, a ser deportados, suelen aceptar condiciones como dijiste, infrahumanas. no tan sÓlo de vivienda, tambiÉn, peligros en el campo al ser expuestos alos excesos de nicotina. yo quiero que tengan una idea, que vean este reportaje, de cÓmo viven ellos mÁs o menos, aunque nunca vamos a poder sentirlo realmente en primera persona. >>lo golpeaba con martillo y caÍan lapuÑadas de los tubos. >>su habitaciÓn estaba infectada de chinches. ahora, duerme en Ástica en el suelo. >>agacharme es duro, pero mejor a que me estÉn comiendo los animales. >>estas son las condiciones del campamento en carolina del norte, que seldÍn comparte con docenas de trabajadores. >>los baÑos, no tenemos agua caliente... reportera: un estudio del comiÉe de trabajadores agrÍcolas o floc, por sus siglas en inglÉs, y la organizaciÓn humanitaria us farm america concluye que los trabajadores en los cultivos de tabaco de es

nbc's lilia luciano reports. >> reporter: the 5.6 earthquake struck central oklahoma at 10:53 saturday night, catching many off guard. >> all of a sudden it just shook and it just -- it was unbearable the stuff that was falling. >> reporter: the tremors left behind buckled roads, cracked buildings, and collapsed chimneys. but fortunately no injuries or deaths. hardest hit was plague, a town of just over 2,000. >> it knocked everything off the walls. >> reporter: some 25 miles away at st. gregory university in shawnee, oklahoma, students were rattled. >> everything started shaking. i was really scared. >> reporter: the university spent the day surveying the damage where a campus building, nearly a century old, partially collapsed. >> people think of st. gregory's, they think of this building. and so we need to remind ourselves of the importance of that and do everything we can to restore it. >> reporter: the earthquake was the second in less than a day after a 4.8 was recorded early saturday morning. it has been quite a year for oklahoma. in may, a series of powerful tornadoes, includin

lilia luciano is here with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.om in the hopes they'll hope someone remembers something that can bring her home safely. >> are you helping clean that out? >> reporter: michelle parker just being a mom. these videos taken just weeks before the 33-year-old disappeared. >> this is like a morgue now. there's no life here anymore. >> reporter: inside michelle's home her mother tells us real sit starting to kick in. >> i hope we get to see her again, you know, as the days go by, i just don't know. >> reporter: it's been 11 days since the popular bartender and mother of three went missing, on the same day she and the father of her 3-year-old twins appeared in a taped episode of "the people's court." >> he gets pretty malicious and vin vindictive. >> reporter: dale smith is not a suspect, police say but over the weekend the investigation took an unexpected turn. in the cell phone video caught by a neighbor, a suite team raiding the house dale smith shares with his parents. the same house where michelle's twins are staying w

>> lilia luciano, thank you so much.e are joined by michelle parker's mother and brother, yvonne stewart and dustin ericson. >> good morning. >> yvonne it was so hard to watch you on the tape, it's heartbreaking. what do you think has happened to your girl? >> i know in my heart of heart that she's been carjacked, the people saw an expensive car and girl who looks like she has money and i know they've made a mistake and i know that they want to fix this, and i forgive them. it's thanksgiving. she wants to come home to her babies. we want her home. just drop her off near a hospital, near a church, near a fire station. feed her, oh, god, please feed her and give her water, and bring her home. and i think that every woman in america needs to take a self-defense class, get a concealed weapon if you're able to. you know? this is so important. >> do you think that her appearance, michelle's appearance on "the people's court" has anything to do with this disappearance? >> absolutely. >> in what way? >> i think it has the abilit

for today, lilia luciano, nbc news, orlando. >>> s.w.a.t.assed a home where dale smith lives. they are searching for "a piece of the puzzle" on where they might find her. >>> it remains an unsolved hijacking on the fbi's books. on the 40th anniversary of his disappearance, dozens of amateur sleuths have made it their personal crusade to find out what happened to d.b. cooper. >> could have landed anywhere in there. see the kind of terrain he to come down? >> jerry thomas has been hunting for cooper 25 years, deep in the woods in washington state. >> you get a general idea in here what he has to negotiate. >> the army veteran believes the thick, rugged terrain could have played a role in the hijacker's fate. >> bottom line, not experienced enough or prepared for the terrain in which he jumped in. >> thomas doesn't think cooper survived. >> very good reasons to believe he lived, because we've never found a body in 40 years. >> i feel he -- he very much survived it. >> over the years, dozens who have tried to crack the case and now on the 40th a