moore, oklahoma. this is a chance to get away from the rubble and focus on something other than the storm. renee marsh is live in moore. these graduations offer a short break but there is so much to deal with with. how are the people there coping otherwise? reporter: we talk so much about recovery. when you look around and see the destruction you have to wonder how does one begin that process. i spoke with one tornado survivor who says that she has asked herself that question over and over again. she lost everything. her house is gone. right now all she wants to find is family photos. this is what recovery looks like for her. brick after brick ardella digs through a mountain of wood
took the day off of work to help. this is what recovery looks like in moore, oklahoma. we just want to do the best we can so that these people can recover and stay oklahoma strong. reporter: after hours of digging this was taken at my mom s funeral. reporter: is this one of the pictures a photo. she hopes to find more. this is all i can do. i m going to take her smile with me home and feel really good about it. i don t know her name. i don t know what address we are at. i don t know where i am at. i just know we are in the eye of the storm and we are in the eye of the recovery. the eye of the recovery. and the impact is more than the crumpled homes that you see around us. now whenever she hears a loud sound like a truck passing by it
they say the political atmosphere is unstable it drives down our rating and puts us in an economically treacherous position and the recession, and suddenly, the recovery looks like it is in danger by a problem and that is a problem the politicians are creating. shepard: the problem that exists in the republican party, the republicans will not deny this exists. and they are demanding a plan, a sell it plan, smog from the president, and the reason they have not gotten the plan because they want him on paper so the left can come after him so we have the left in the democrats fighting with the middle. the right with the republicans fighting and what is at stake is the future of the nation at stake. association let s talk about this. it is not that you have left versus right on the extreme, talking to each other saying if you differ and you talk about
they say the political atmosphere is unstable it drives down our rating and puts us in an economically treacherous position and the recession, and suddenly, the recovery looks like it is in danger by a problem and that is a problem the politicians are creating. shepard: the problem that exists in the republican party, the republicans will not deny this exists. and they are demanding a plan, a sell it plan, smog from the president, and the reason they have not gotten the plan because they want him on paper so the left can come after him so we have the left in the democrats fighting with the middle. the right with the republicans fighting and what is at stake is the future of the nation at stake. association let s talk about this. it is not that you have left versus right on the extreme, talking to each other saying if
bottom of the hour, time for the stop top of the news. americans are spending more money on goods and services but not as much as hoped. retail sales rose .4% last month came in shy of expectations and mostly due to a jump in car sales. if he they didn t count purchases of sales and gasoline sales would have fallen in july. rich edson fox business network in d.c. latest sign still in recovery or slowing down or what do we make about this. the more the economic numbers come, in shep, the slower this recovery looks. that sales report most retail categories saw declines. clothing, furniture, department stores just to name a few. these numbers are out the same week the government reported new applications for unemployment benefits hematocrit hit the highest level in almost six months and the federal reserve downgraded its economic outlook, shep. shepard: rich, as you know, the federal reserve this week decided to hold its target for