and tribulations. this is a kid who s basically putting his money from his tattoo is. i like that. how do you get more athletes to do this? and the truth is, though, it s a stereotype that athletes behave badly. while there are a lot of others who do this kind of thing. there are. let s put this in perspective. a tlot of them give money becaue their publicist and/or tax accountant is telling them to do so. this is a guy, kevin durant, not only is he giving his money, gut giving his time. that s impressive. you look at these videos and clips. he s enjoying it out there, too, trying to help people. all right. phil jackson. nba coaching legend. and he s writing another book. those books are always controversial. right? so, in this one he s talking about which player, if any, he would use to start a brand new team. and you d think he d say something like kobe or michael jordan. right. but no, he says bill russell. this is phil being phil.
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protracted bat. caller: her insurance carrier. seven months later this is what s going on. not just for me, for everybody else. it s been nothing but frustration. nobody ever expected that it would take this long. nobody ever expected. you figure, okay, a couple of months but then time goes on and time goes on and you just the money coming too late. it s coming too late for a lot of people. reporter: super storm sandy didn t claim any lives here in long beach, but it affected nearnear ly every one of the 35,000 residents. as memorial day marks the beginning of the summer tourist season. the city has been famous for its boardwalk and its surfing. the iconic boardwalk is being rebuilt and the waves are still breaking. but luke hamlet who s run the long beach surf shop for 32 years says the town still feels empty. there s still a little weird
array of extra security measures and strengths. each one of the anchor bolts has a 10,000 pound sheer strength so by putting one every foot around here it can more than withstand any storm. the challenge has always been economics, even simple storm shelters can cost several thousand dollars and as bad as these storms can be, even in the most tornado-prone areas, odds are most homes will never be hit. it s about the money and the statistics, an ef5 tornado is very rare, 1% to 2% of the tornadoes. they don t happen very often. reporter: still proponents look at the plaza towers elementary school in oklahoma, the decimated houses and they stand firm. nobody can talk to me and talk me out of the shelters being worth it because i know they are. we re saving lives. reporter: tom foreman, cnn.
process on these foundations of rebuilding these homes and they decide if they can even rebuild, will the federal money be there. the president saying it absolutely will. he spent time today he went to the school that was so hard hit. he also talked to first responders, those people who went door to door looking for survivors. take a listen to what one first responder said after meeting the president of the united states. what was going through my mind was that he was so personal. it wasn t like what i expected. i expected a script, don t ask him this, do ask him this. none of that, it was just straight ahead. no different than me meeting you, you know. just how are you doing? did you get everything you needed? what can we do to help, blah, blah, blah. so he s a very personal, down-to-earth experience way different than what i was experiencing. reporter: joe that s really the theme out here the president saying that he s got your back, he s got the back of people here who are strug
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