Reporter why . Theres more to life than this. Mary carillo shows the meaning of devotion. This was never supposed to happen. Hardworking families falling into homelessness. Reporter what made you not want to tell anybody else . I didnt want people to know about me. People who now tuck their children in at Homeless Centers and cant get out of there. They didnt do anything to sde deserve this. They didnt do anything. And a hard look at what america is ordering at amazon these days, and he still cant stop talking about the b. B. Gun he wanted as a boy. Plus, look at what just turned 40. And you and me are free to be you and me a cultural touchstone hits a birthday and are probably feeling pretty good about it right now. That and more as rock center gets under way. Good evening to rock center. The tree is lit up tonight. We keep hearing the holiday is roaring back this year. Everybody is hoping its a sign of a morro bust economy, but way too many families got caught and are still trapped in the downturn. Ann curry spent time with families who were supposed to have the american dream, educated, hardworking with all the trappings of middle class life in america. But in kind of a slowmotion way, they have watched themselves become part of a new class of working homeless, something we last saw in the depression 80 years ago. And as ann curry shows us tonight, these families are trying mightily to turn their lives back around. Reporter its an ordinary school day for nineyearold jillian kenard and her sisters in jackson, tennessee. Band class, a math class. But life for the kenard sisters are anything but ordinary. Guys, its time to get up. Reporter every sunday, their parents, patrick and cindy, wake them before the sunrises. They fold cots. We till have some more packing to do. Reporter and pack up their lives. Jillian makes sure the birdhouse she built out of popsicle sticks, glitter and glue isnt left behind. And as evening approaches, for the 11th time in four months, they make their way to a sunday school classroom. In another church for another week. It might not seem like much, but for the next seven days, this is where theyll sleep. For the first time in their lives, the kenard family is homeless. They are the new face of american homelessness. In the wake of the recession, experts say the u. S. Stands at a historic juncture. The latest Government Data show the number of people in homeless families living in suburban and Rural America rose nearly 60 during the depth of the great recession, an unprecedented surge. More than 1 Million School children are now homeless, the most ever recorded. Children like the kenard sisters, living a life of uncertainty and sometimes shame. The hardest part is people finding out. Sometimes when were on our way to school, we have to ride over in a church van and people can probably see that. Reporter what made you not want to tell everybody else . I dont want everybody to laugh at me. Reporter no one knew. You went to school every day, you played with your friends. Uhhuh. Reporter then when they went home, what were you thinking . I was all happy for them because they had a house and i didnt. Reporter but she does have her precious birdhouse. Why do you love it so much . Because it reminds me of the old house. Reporter the kenards were typical of many families across country. Working class people pursuing the american dream. They worked hard and built savings accounts. Both have college degrees. But perhaps the most surprising thing about the kenards is that even now, they are a working family, for the last seven years, patrick has worked a fulltime job at a Bank Call Center with benefits, and until recently, cindy worked fulltime as a director at a daycare center. Despite the recession, they were getting by. Were not big spenders, we never have been. We just made the necessities of life. Reporter but then came the unexpected. Patrick developed serious kidney problems. Even with health insurance, medical bills went into the thousands. Their car broke down repeatedly. Then cindy quit her job because she couldnt afford child care for her own kids. It was just like a domino. When we fell, we fell hard and we fell fast. Reporter they downsized from a spacious apartment to a smaller apartment here but then couldnt afford the rent and were evicted. Reporter describe the moment. I wanted to dig a hole and let somebody cover me up. Reporter jillian took the eviction notice especially hard. I was scared because we lost the house and i didnt want to leave it. Reporter they didnt have relatives to stay with in the area, and they wanted to keep the family together. We considered going to a campground. Reporter but even camping supplies cost too much. Then we decided we would just live out of the van. Then it got repossessed. We didnt know where to go to then. Were living paycheck to paycheck. Paycheck to paycheck. There was nothing for savings, there was nothing for reporter food . Food. There was nothing for nothing. Reporter and they were forced to make heartbreaking decisions. One of the hardest things i ever had to do was sell my wedding band. That ring on my finger meant the world to me. Reporter do you still have yours . No. We needed food, though, and gas. So we pawned them. Reporter they got 100 for both rings. Soon the reality of failing to provide for his children sent patrick into despair. They didnt do anything to deserve this. They didnt do anything. Theyre totally innocent. Reporter its almost too much to bear. It was. Im sorry. Reporter then they finally caught a break, getting shelter in those sunday school classrooms, a program run by the interfaith hospitality network. The familys struggle to keep the family together is a fight Darlene Gaines knows well. She attributes hers to divorce, another reason for homelessness. Now when i see homelessness, i see my reflection. Reporter darlene thought she had done everything right, even taking classes for her masters degree. And shes held a good job with the Veterans Administration for the last 15 years. She had savings, college and retirement accounts and a comfortable suburban home for her three sons. They had never worried about anything. They never had to go into the kitchen and look into an empty cupboard. I lived a middle class life all my life. Thats all i knew. I dropped from middle class to no class. Reporter as she struggled to cover her bills by herself, including her student loans, darlene couldnt keep up with rising food and gas prices. I just knew that i was drowning and i was doing Everything Possible to prevent from drowning. My greatest fear for my children was to take them out of an environment that they knew all their life. Reporter you tried to prolong the life they knew, as expensive as it was becoming, because you didnt want to hurt them. You hit the nail on the head. Reporter after using her savings, she couldnt pay her mortgage, and a foreclosure letter soon arrived. I opened up the letter and i began to read it. And the whole while, im in total disbelief. Reporter with her three sons, 15, 16 and 17, darlene faced the prospect of breaking apart her family, because most shelters separate men and women for security reasons. And, advocates say, there are not enough shelters for the new wave of homeless families. We had families that were coming in Shawn Donovan is secretary of housing and urban development, or hud, which funds homeless programs across the country. What do you say to the families who are living in cars, living in trailers, who have to separate their family to live in a shelter . What i would say is they shouldnt have to do that. Its wrong. Reporter they must now use their funding differently to accommodate the rise in homeless families. And if they say the funding, and a large amount of funding comes from hud, that the funding is not there to support families, what do you say . I absolutely believe, and the president has fought for, greater investment in homelessness. Reporter is there enough money being allocated for homeless families . No. Im not satisfied that we have the full amount of resources that we need. And we will continue to fight for more. Reporter hud did spend 1. 5 billion in stimulus money on homeless prevention. Now, secretary donovan says, he has an ambitious new plan to reach families before they become homeless, like the kenard family and darlenes family. And on this side here, you see this bed, yours truly. Reporter this is yours . Yes. Reporter after months of sleeping on her parents floor, darlene got lucky. She found a rare familyfriendly shelter for the working homeless called our house where her boys could stay with her. Reporter if they had made them stay on the other side, would you have . No. I would have tried something else. I didnt want to divide it because emotionally, you know, you have those moments where no one can fix it but mom. Reporter the shelter is also helping darlene get back her financial footing while her boys learn that no matter what their circumstances, they can never give up. Im constantly talking about grades. This is not the end for you, were just passing through. So let us stay focused. Reporter the kenard sisters are also learning a lesson about homelessness, to overcome their shame. For the first time theyre speaking publicly. Its going to reach people, even people i dont know, who may be in this situation or going into it. Maybe ill be humiliated because of the kids in school, but ill get over that because we wont be there much longer. Reporter not there much longer because the kenard family just got an unexpected slice of good fortune. They just got help for rent for up to five years. They expect to move into this fourbedroom apartment here before christmas. For jillian, that will mean no more dark mornings in parking lots. And at last, she may be able to put down her birdhouse. Tough story, but its part of the story playing out across the country, and ann plans to keep us updated on the families we just met. Still ahead for us tonight, two brothers who have reached the pinnacle of success. Two young men youll want to meet, and you can hear why they chose to walk away. Next, harry smiths big amazon expedition, straight into the heart of online granddaddy retailers. Hell tell us why such an efficient place looks so completely disorganized in spots. So it makes sense that the one pack of golf balls is here next to the grape jelly. Its perfect for that. This is crazy. Start with the gifts that last. Enjoy Free Shipping and great values on your Holiday Shopping from l. L. Bean. Time for citi price rewind. Because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. And you really dont want to pay more than you have to. Only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. And if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. Just use your citi card and register your purchase online. Have a super sparkly day ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. Citi price rewind. Buy now. Save later. Citi price rewind. Get a stocking full of savings. 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Harry smith figured if he could get inside amazon, he could see what americans are buying right now. Reporter dont tell the little ones, but santa is doing some outsourcing. Christmas has gotten so big, what with the polar ice caps melting and all, lo and behold, much of his work is now done in arizona. While the people you see scurrying about look suspiciously like people, they are elves. Elves not with tiny hammers and saws, but with bar codes and carts. This is just one of 40 places like this amazon has across the country. Its not a distribution center, its not a warehouse. In the language of amazon, it is a fulfillment center. Reporter this is where people get what they want, or if you prefer, have their dreams fulfilled. All these products you see back here are future christmas presents. Dave clark is amazons manager of global fulfillment. He showed us around to a place the size of 28 football fields. This is mind boggling, just the amount. This is half the building and theres three floors of this. Reporter miles of ooiaisles stuff. 2. 3 million square feet in no certain order. The stuff is on the shelf it sits on for one reason alone because it fits. Humans are really good at taking this and deciding what space it fits in. So it makes sense that the one box of golf balls is over here by the grape jelly. Yes, because it fits perfectly there. This is crazy. Reporter made all the more complicated by the fact that amazon tries to stock everything they can get their hands on, a variety bordering on the infant, the boast of the christmas present. Is the goal of amazon to carry at least one of everything . Our goal is definitely to have the biggest selection and to carry everything anyone wants any time. Reporter thats a far cry from the old sears catalog, the wish book. Maybe it just seemed like it had everything. We would ogle and wonder just how good a kid would you have to be to get a j. C. Higgins bike. Does amazon really have everything . As a kid i used to dream that santa would bring me a daisy air rifle. And guess what . They have them. I dont know. Youll shoot your eye out. Youll shoot your eye out, kid. You know what, santa has nothing on you. We like to think we help santa as much as possible. Reporter and you do. Kindles of every kind. Dr. Seuss the lorax dvd. And an actual book, dyeiary of wimp i kid number 7. A needle can be picked from a haystack if you have amanda borchin as your guide. Amanda hunts and gathers, and all the while, the bar codes tell the machines where everything will end up, even what size box the orders will go in. But in order to finish the job, it takes real human beings to wrap the Christmas Gifts . It does. The holidays is about gifts. This is something they wrap with care for another person. You know a machinewrapped gift from a humanwrapped gift, and its not the same. So this is how amazon loads its sleighs, so to speak. The boxes come in here, the bar code reads the box, the box gets put in the right chute which will take it to the right airplane, which will bring the package to an airport near you. Reporter that is, if you order on time. Do you have reindeer . Not that we publicly announce. Those are for those lastminute shipments for people who really need the help. Thats when we pull the reins. Reporter but dont press your luck. So other than getting me one of those vests, i have two thoughts. I am a customer, like seemingly everybody. You order jelly, its been great for ups, but a jet basically has to get it to your house. And number two, a lot more second party providers. Its weird to order from amazon. A box shows up from herb shendrik from ohio. The place is filled with that sort of stuff, but as to your earlier question, theyve done some studies on that, and they say by the time you fill up the car with gas, and go to the mall and go from point a to point b to point c to point d, its probably just a mash. Up 42 on cyber sunday again. Reporter in a moment, what you dont know about the most famous tree in america, the one we keep out back. But just ahead, mary carillo brings us the story of a remarkable pair of brothers who left fame and millions of dollars on the table for a leap of faith. Baked instore. The kfc festive feast. All for just 19. 99. Yes you did, yes you did. No i didnt, no i didnt. Yes you did, yes you did. No i didnt, no i didnt. Yes you did. Did not. [ male announcer ] today tastes so good. Get to sears 48 hour sale this friday and saturday. Whatever it takes, save 50 off sweaters, or more with pass. And get this toshiba 32 lcd for 249. 99. Plus, members can get 10 in points. This is how to gift. 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But there is a way to celebrate all these days with pillsbury holiday funfetti. [ giggles ] a perfectly sweet way to celebrate more every day. [ male announcer ] handcrafted toys. The softest bear on the web. A new bedtime story added to cart. Watching her play with the box instead priceless. Your mastercard makes sure you dont pay for unauthorized purchases, not online, not anywhere. Thats credit or debit mastercard. Thats priceless. Welcome back. Story tonight about two american brothers who did something that runs counter to just about every and i wore a kufu, and everybody was like, what kind of hat is that . Im like, my mom made it. Im a muslim, this is what we wear. Reporter few would confuse this kind of headwear with the head wear that hes been wearing in the Minnesota Vikings or mistake the cardinal on the arizona cardinals. Their mom chose home schooling, and her husband yusef encouraged the boys to play football, in part so they would keep in touch with the larger world. I didnt want to watch because of the context. But then one day when i did turn around, and they were like, look at him, hes running, and i saw that it was more strategy, and i would watch hamza when he would watch, they would give him the ball, he would run from one field to the next. And i was like, okay, i like strategy. Im okay with strategy. But i dont like anyone to get hurt. Reporter with moms blessing, her rising stars went to play at pomona high. Teachers hinton and barbara remember the brothers as student arriu studious, respectful and athletic. They were respectful with the minority. I think even that showed a lot of strength, a lot of conviction. So good to see you. Reporter when we asked the brothers back to pomona, the reunion was sweet. Hows it going . Thanks so much for everything you do. Reporter after the coach delivered goodies to these devoted alumni, the brothers recalled days when wearing any primary color might get you mistaken for a gang member. Tell me about pomona. This isnt friday night lights high school, is it . No, this is in one of the worst neighborhoods. At least, it used to be when we were growing up. Im proud to be from pomona, but this color right here . I didnt wear this color to school. It was really that serious. Reporter gushing with talent, the abdullahs would each be recruited by the countrys elite division i colleges to pac 12 washington state. How did you get a scholarship . The first was prayer and my mother. After i came from high school, i had two years. She said, ill let you go to high school if you earn a division i championship. What hes leaving out is when he left for college, he was only 16. Reporter yeah, you could have gotten that up a little higher in the story. You were only 16 . Yes, maam. I have one shot to play one year of varsity football, and i have one shot to make it, and due to the grace and mercy of god, we made that happen. Reporter on defense, hamza was an electric ifying player. He was awakened by a teammate at 6 00 in the morning. My brother was a boxer in the navy at the time, and i thought about if someone is attacking america, if someone is attacking my country, my brother is going to be there. Reporter and it must have changed everything for you. How long before people were asking you about your faith, about terrorism, about what you believe . Im sitting in the dorm room watching a television as a muslim, as an american. And for someone to say that you did it, thats what it was, it was you did it. I just wanted to ask someone, how did i do it . How am i responsible for this . Reporter like the rest of the nation, the abdullah family of Southern California was profounding shocked a inly shocy the distorted view of the 9 11 attackers. My mother raised me you want for your brother what you want for yourself, and put yourself in that other persons shoes. Reporter muslims in america are a tiny minority. 1 of the population. But constantly find an association with their violent extremist fringe. A lot of times that kind of gets lost in translation that islam is our religion, yes, but our country is the United States of america. Youre patriots. Yes, maam. Reporter she met her husband after college and he converted to islam after their marriage. Reporter do people treat you differently now . I get a lot of people dont think i speak english. But other than that, its not too bad. Do they try to speak loudly to you, and slowly . Yes, and im like im american. Are they talking to me. Reporter during the whole month of rahmadon, muslims rise from sunrise to sunset. The brothers have kept fast their football careers. Ive been fasting since age 7, so i have a little bit of experience. Ive been fasting and playing football since high school, which was 2002. Every year is a new challenge, and with rahmadon traveling into summer, i would have lost the career before he began. Fasting, he made a horrible First Impression on the vikings, inexplicably shaking. We said, whats going on, man . We see your play going the other way. He explained the situation to us and im like, whoa, we had no idea. Reporter to compensate for datelong fasting, the saints would supercharge the breakfast and dinner. We wanted to put our players in the best possible positions we could, so we looked at it the other way. We thought, what can we do to reach this guy . Hamza, an established sevenyear veteran, and then they did something unheard of. Nfl players with salaries in the range of 1 million leaving the game at their athletic peak. Instead 2012 would be devoted to the glory of god, joining an annual concentration of humanity unequalled on the planet. The pilgrimage to mecca. Remarkable decision by these two brothers. Theyll explain their position to mary and our cameras will follow them on their journey when we come back. So i never missed a beat. 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[ male announcer ] now uverse high Speed Internet has more speed options, reliability and ways to connect. Rethink possible. Welcome back. There isnt a Football Player alive, and that includes all those of us who played it in high school who didnt somewhere, in the back of our minds, see ourselves in the pros, maybe hear our name being called as we came out of the tunnel during player introductions. It only works out, of course, for a very talented and gifted few, and then there is a smaller subset than that. Athletes who are also called upon in life to demonstrate an inner principle at a critical time. Mary carillo continues her reporting on these two brothers we met tonight. Reporter remarkably, at the peak of their playing careers, 27yearold Husain Abdullah and 29yearold Hamza Abdullah took a voluntary leave of absence from pro football for a leap of faith, a dramatic decision that unfolded both over many years and all at once. The first question, hamza, is why did you do it . Why . Reporter why . Its kind of a long story. Reporter why did you do it now . Last year there was a tugofwar inside in my heart and my soul. There was a tugofwar and something was just drastically missing. I was coming home from a workout and he called me and he said, hamza, you know, is working out a little different to you this year . I said, yeah. It almost feels like im wasting time a little bit. Reporter and your brother was feeling the same things at the same time . Its amazing, isnt it . Weve been playing football since we were eight years old to high school, to college to the nfl. People told us youre too small to break this barrier. All of a sudden there was more to life. Theres more. And we had to go for it. Reporter the brothers rechanneled their perpetual enemy, and in july they went on a 30day teaching tour. In Lower Manhattan located just north of ground zero, very controversial. Its about two blocks away, and its tucked into a little corner, and its just a small, Peaceful Place to pray. There were people who were inside the tower who were muslim. Reporter plus, of the nearly 3,000 who died at ground zero, about 60 were muslims, their name in bronze at the new 9 11 memorial. A flight 111 passenger was 15 at the time of her death. The teaching during raamadhon. The treatment with my wife when we were in denver, she had just become muslim. But when we got there, my brothers had this 15course meal and my sisters had one piece of pizza to share. So today they were talking about taking hold and taking care of romodon and not letting the months pass you by. How can we even get to that part if we cant survive the basic structure of islam . This is upon us. Finally they jet across an ocean for the most sacred journey a muslim can undertake, flying 18 hours and 8,000 miles from l. A. To saudi arabia for the hauj, the pilgrimage to mecca. Reporter our camera team tracked the progress. Husain tightly wrapped his clothes, an efficiency he learned from his navy brother. I thought it was weird, but you actually can fit more in your bag without adding it up. Mom and days, knew he couldnt count on his and there were important financial to his fiveyearold daughter, layla. Reporter did anything about the mecca surprise you . I was getting ready for a crowd of people. Ive been where stadiums let out and you sit in traffic and youre mad. Oh, man, i have to wait a half hour to get out of the parking lot. I have to wait an hour. We sat at one bus stop, which muslims are directed to do once in their lifetime, attracts an oud stand, and specified rituals include walking seven times. All men wear the ephrom. Where the four of us sleep. For an ice the conditions were extreme. Whats crazy is you may look to your left and you see someone that looks like Peyton Manning praying right next to you. You look to the other side and you see someone like me, and then you look and you see someone from bangladesh. Im glad to see somebody who plays in the nfl. My parents are not wealthy. Theyre a teacher and a carpenter, and they worked their whole life to try to provide for 12 children. Here they are, you know. My dad has Health Problems and my mother has secret Health Problems. She wont tell anybody what they are. Its an honor for us. Not do you get to keep your plant. You know, you call and say, i love you, but i know its good thing. Were still on that journey. Now its like, what do i do with it . Do you use it just to pat yourself on the back and say, hey, youre so cool. No, its not that. Now lets see if we can help someone else go, if we can spread this message of true islam, what it is and what it isnt. I love when he says were expecting crowds. And i guess for. Will we see them back in the other habitat. In fact, theyre availing. Consider what they went tli. First and foremost, theyre men. Think about practicing twice a day in full football pads. Mary carillo, so nice to see you outside the olympic game venues. Thanks for working on that story. It was great stuff. Were back to collect in a moment all the news we we. Looking for a job can be frustrating. So with university of phoenix, i wi will. Were using this to shape our sales are at an alltime low but kissing is at an alltime high i want answers oh. Right. Kay. [ female announcer ] its true, every kiss does begin with kay. Where you can save 25 on any bulova watch. Bulova. Designed to be noticed. At kay, the numberone Jewelry Store in america. Ohhhh. Right. Every kiss begins with kay we were off on thanksgiving night for the holiday and football and because most of our viewers were either too relaxed or stressed out by family to fully concentrate on our reporting. Tonight we catch up on the web, on the biebs, on the jersey shore, and on the anniversary of something that just might have changed something in its own way. It debutted 40 years ago this week, first the album, then the book, then the tv special hosted by marlo thomas featuring celebrities of the day, and in its own way, it changed everything. It was called free to be you and me and it was the beginning of the you are special movement of gender neutrality, individualality, tolerance and the belief that you can achieve anything. And say what you will about the effect that its had. How is your relationship with your parents . Oh, its great. Theyre my two best friends, and, you know, they always tell me im great at everythi. Is that why youe so sucky and u dont realize it . Like we said, the show was a game changer in 1972. Free to be you and me actually replaced the previous mindset about, hey, lets go fight in world war ii. Speaking of which, this is lindsay stone in cape cod. She did not fight in world war ii, but she did get famous on the web for making an obscene gesture at Arlington National cemetary that got posted on the web. Her own father called it disgrace ful. They started a movement on facebook to get her fired from her job, and she was. In iran, they unveiled their new submarine. They might consider another paint scheme if theyre going to use this to sneak up on other vessels. Our guys have had Great Success with a darkercolored palette. Another storm on the web last week, the faux toe of Justin Bieber receiving an award from the Prime Minister of canada while dressed like the orphan child of railroad workers. But in biebers defense, the Prime Minister showed up with his canadian flag getup, and the biebs didnt have anything to wear. The hubbub caused lots of drama and emotion among his fans, but something always comes along just in time, and here she is. Johnny football, how we love you this is what can happen when you combine a woman in texas with a lot of School Spirit and a webcam and a hangering for the aggies quarterback. Hes had an insane season including 43. They call him johnny poob, and this is submitted without comment. Johnny football, your name is who you are first we discovered that the matching sisters in the Florida Branch of the petraeus email scandal have the same head tilt in every photo. That matched thing around your belt was called a. Symbols for curse occur first it was the pre historic thing. Finally, tonight in the skies over new york, there is this thing. Courtesy of new yorks art production fund. A your eyes are going to all the places where its dark and has been since the storm, one month and three days ago. If you havent seen the doctors, and then the rockaways that got wiped out. These are beach houses. Every one of them hosted families or decades of. We now just feel sad. They thought about keeping it the there. If not exactly the way we remember it. 3 f2 bueno, yo he estado alli we have gotten to know the police officer, lawrence deprimo, and hes why theyre called new yorks finest. Hell be on line on today tomorrow from the studio. Today ann curry reports from new zealand, where she has traveled to film the hobbit, one of the yearss most anticipated films. It turns out there is enough intrigue and drama behind the scenes to rival what unfolds a the screen. So thats next week on rock center. From all the folks who worked so hard to bring you tonights broadcast, thanks for joining us. I hope youll join us tomorrow night for nbc nightly news. Your local news begins now