football players from pitt stranded in dallas. you have to be 25 to rent a car. so we re in line at the car rental place, scrambling, trying to reserve a car. reporter: that s when basketball coach joel golding from a completely different school jumped in to offer the players a ride down to el paso, driving nine hours overnight so they could practice for the upcoming sun bowl. by the time the trip was over, i felt like we had become really a family, man. reporter: back in new york, corey and carla made it out of the target store and on their way home kept helping, just like those target workers helped them. the situation definitely just really showed that when we re going through it, the community will be there. they will be there. in everywhere that they possibly can. and that s nightly news for this tuesday. thank you so much for watching. i m tom llamas. for all of us here at nbc news, good night.