and northern philippines, especially after officials opened dams to prevent greater damage from overspilling. provinces like pulla kahn, just two hours drive from manila, have been deep in water for almost a week now. canoes, bamboo beds, and other improvised floatation devices are used to transport people and supplies to stranded relatives. >> we don't have water anymore. that's why we had to go out and buy food because help has not come to our place. there are still many people in our village who badly need help. >> reporter: a rubber boat brought by cbn is a great help. lucille talucent was with the team. >> these are rice fields, and this is now emerged and more than 15 feet of water. we are rescuing some of the villagers who are still in theirs houses and have not been rescued yet. >> reporter: the team found this family after a volunteer received a text message asking for help. >> i was growing desperate and getting nervous because i was afraid the water might continue to rise. >> my brother was textsing us to evacuate, but there was no way to do it. it was him hoop sen -- who sent the

one with a young girl who you couldn't quite be sure if she was a girl or a boy, and he got a real overspill of letters on not so much on that he should have been clear about the gender, but what was he doing making a girl look so sloppy? or what was he doing making a boy look so connected to girlish things, which i--i find fascinating. c-span: how many biographies have been written about norman rockwell? >> guest: in the conventional sense of a kind of soup-to-nuts biography, this is the first one. there are several partial stories, and he wrote an autobiography in 1959. c-span: how did you go about doing this? >> guest: well, when i became very serious about it and realized i was determined this was a life i wanted to pursue wrote his middle son, tom rockwell, and said, 'could we meet?' and expecting that this would be a drawn-out, yearlong process because often it is when you're trying to get the family's cooperation. and to my shock, i got an immediate response , 'come up and see me in poughkeepsie, new york.' so... c-span: what--what's he doing? >> guest: he's a writer of children's boo