morgan radford with the race to deliver. >> reporter: for this furniture maker, the supply chain crisis is nowhere to be seen. >> i can just jump out and go there, pick up what i need and work on my pieces. >> reporter: like 95% of small business owners selling on the website etsy, the north carolina craftsman gets his material locally. so everything you are using, trees, lumber, you are using locally. and you're building locally? >> that's right. >> reporter: and it's paid off. >> from 2019 to 2021, the percentage change is over 1,400% >> reporter: i'm sorry. i just want to run that back. you have increased your business 1,400% >> yeah. during the pandemic. >> reporter: it is a surprising trend playing out nationwide with more small businesses seeing increased revenues over the past month than in 2020 and customer spending surging by 18% over last year on small business saturday alone. but others here are still feeling the pinch. just down the street, at this jewelers, they say they have seen the supply chain slowdown firsthand. >> we had one customer who ordered a beautiful pair of go

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morgan radford joins us with a truly incredible story of survival from a form of cancer to just a decadeancer more than a decade ago, elizabeth o'connor is not just beating the odds, she's defying them entirely. i was lucky enough to speak with her about her journey and learn how she's sharing her story in hopes of giving hope and strength to others >> all right >> reporter: elizabeth o'connor, moments like these with her kids were never a given after an especially difficult pregnancy in 2010, she got news that no one wants to hear. a diagnosis of stage 4 pancreatic cancer. >> i just felt numb. i just had a baby two weeks prior. >> reporter: pancreatic cancer is a disease with a five-year survival rate of just 10%. the average age of those diagnosed is 70. and elizabeth was just 31. when you thought of your kids, what did you think of? >> i had struggled for so long to get pregnant with my second child. and here i had a disease that was most likely going to take me out. it's just a sadness that i was going to miss out on major milestones in their lives. at first, doctors told her there w

number two, i can't believe how much work i'm getting done >> reporter: for "today," morgan radford,t up >> i like the idea of the night before you come up with a plan for the next day so you can sleep without the stress of thinking ahead of the next day that does make me anxious, that stress to try to get it done >> the break is critical give yourself breaks during the day. >> i like the color coding >> it's nice jeff ranieri joins us with the forecast it all works until you have a canceled flight and call the airline. your hold time is three hours. >> yeah, not good. you know, the colorblocking stresses me out a little bit i do the to-do list, too something for everyone >>> let's get you into that forecast here. what we're going to see is more active weather out here to the west from the rockies up towards the pacific northwest down into southern california. 26 million impacted. and check this out some low and unusual snow up through seattle. we could see another inch as we roll through today down in los angeles, again, very heavy rainfall where we will have the threat of potential