in anchorage, we went to talk to sally cox, who's been working with newtok to secure funding for new homes through a federal grant. >> floor 50, going down. >> the community had to have had damages during presidentially declared disasters between 2011 and 2013. >> newtok is part of that, but not kivalina isn't. >> exactly. so even though they were a communitty that could certainly have benefitted from this funding, we couldn't get them to qualify. >> a disaster has to happen before any help kicks in. what the community is trying to do is prevent a disaster. >> well that's another policy issue i think that we're contending with is that all of our funding right now goes to communities for these types of issues is really based on response and it's not proactive. you go out for grants to trigger those funding streams that take place and that's basically what we've done with newtok. >> so you're finding pots of money here and there, through grants, it's very piecemeal. >> right, it's very piecemeal and you have to be very opportunistic about it. >> in an effort to streamline things, the w