make a choice for yourself. make a choice and commit yourself to saying i m going to try to believe. i m not going to quit and try to be as positive as i can can be and if you implement those things into your life you can do the two things i learned how to do adapt and overcome. all right. craig, j.r. was inspiring. also disappointed. you ve been here, though, enough about the marathon. everybody agrees i was tremendously relieved. i was very angry when it was scheduled. i was tremendously relieved as these ladies were. what of all the vignette you have seen, what touched you the most? the area in tottenville, one family was completely wiped out. they decided to ride out the storm because during hurricane irene they left their home and their home was looted when they came back. so decided to ride it out. a 13-year-old girl was washed away with her dad and her mom,
how the 43rd running of the marathon would still go on. found our dad s wallet. you dad passed away? yeah, he perished in the home with my sister. that s pretty devastating. new york city councilman. i appreciate the resiliency and new york city, but people can run 26 miles on another day. right now we re on bended knee. the decision was not easy. with 330 million viewers, the race brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to new york city. after the 9/11 attack in 2001, then new york city mayor rudy giuliani went ahead with the race, despite criticism. for the first anytime 43 years, runners will not be making their way through new york s five boroughs. wounded warrior j.r. martinez would have been one of the runners. i looked at new york city are. this is a city that picks it up and says we have to move forward
some neighborhoods, residents could not begin to understand how the 43rd running of the marathon would still go on. found our dad s wallet. you dad passed away? yeah, he perished in the home with my sister. that s pretty devastating. new york city councilman. i appreciate the resiliency and new york city, but people can run 26 miles on another day. right now we re on bended knee. the decision was not easy. with 330 million viewers, the race brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to new york city. after the 9/11 attack in 2001, then new york city mayor rudy giuliani went ahead with the race, despite criticism. for the first anytime 43 years, runners will not be making their way through new york s five boroughs. wounded warrior j.r. martinez would have been one of the
and we have to continue to remind people that this is one of the greatest cities on the earth. but having gone through hell and high water, residents near staten island are thinking survival rather than triumph of spirit. i know there s a lot of plans and a lot of things involved, but there s people here that lost their lives. we are in desperate need. these are people s lives. everything we re picking up here, it s not debris. it s remnants of people s lives. you think those 47,000 people who came for the marathon can turn it around or come here to help you? that would be the ideal. not only me but so many people in need. while some runners pledged to help. j.r. martinez feels new yorkers will also come out stronger as they overcome yet another difficult challenge. is there a parallel between you have your obvious scars, your personality shines through. you re an incredible person and an inspiration. how does that transfer into this situation?
won dancing with the stars last year. well, he was going to run in that marathon, and he talked now to j.-martinez, and about the mayor who marrily makes a misstep. mayor bloomberg but got plenty of heat. here s craig. some people said you shouldn t run the marathon. there s an awful lot of small businesses that depend on these people. as thousands suffered without heat and electricity, new york city mayor michael bloomberg defied criticism to allow the 434th new york city marathon to go on, despite a backdrop of devastation. bloomberg is pulling the cops off for the marathon which the rest of us don t understand why. we have communities in need, and to turn around and show disrespect, like running a marathon, this is the reality of what s going on in new york city right now. the mayor finally releapt but