"Now I can move on." Said as a demolition crew picked up what was left of his home. One 

year after Hurricane Sandy Staten Island waterfront neighborhood know as Ocean Breeze, 

residents begin to pick up their lives and put them back together- with the help of an angel. 

CNN's Evelio Contreras first met Carol Mittelsdorf shortly after the storm and chronicles her 

story. CNN interviewed many different stories of how they survived. On woman, Diane 

EFfler, has lived in Ocean Breeze all her life. They took bungalos and made them as homes 

to survive. She says "I don't have any relatives left here anymore. I'm going to take the 

buyout. I'm 70 years old. I have two houses still standing and the one house, which is totally 

gone. I'm starting over again. It's like the storm wiped out my entire previous history and it's 

like being reborn." They are unknown on the timing of rebuilding the area. Not many people 

live their now, a woman rented a place next to her destroyed home, one man lives in a 

trailer. Other families live in taller, rebuilt homes. The rest of the buildings have either been 

demolished or are completely empty. Most families are trying to do the most for their 

communities by helping out neighbors, friends, and families. They say that building the 

home is easy compared to losing all the amazing memories that were destroyed. People are 

saying that they won't rebuild in a different location but that they will stay and show that they 

aren't leaving until someone begins to care and help. Many families feel as though no one is 

caring enough. Jean Laurie says "We need attention. We need to get everybody around 

here to see what's really going on. This is true life. This is real stuff that's going on. They p


have to walk a mile in our shoes. They're not." The residents are feeling ignored, 

unappreciated, and forgotten. In this situation people just need someone to be there for 

them and help them through their time of loss. 

Ocean breeze needs an angel

                "Now I can move on." Said as a demolition crew picked up what was left of his home. One year after Hurricane Sandy Staten Island waterfront neighborhood know as Ocean Breeze, residents begin to pick up their lives and put them back together- with the help of an angel.  CNN's Evelio Contreras first met Carol Mittelsdorf shortly after the storm and chronicles her story. CNN interviewed many different stories of how they survived.
        One woman, Diane EFfler, has lived in Ocean Breeze all her life. They took bungalos and made them as homes to survive. She says "I don't have any relatives left here anymore. I'm going to take the buyout. I'm 70 years old. I have two houses still standing and the one house, which is totally gone. I'm starting over again. It's like the storm wiped out my entire previous history and it's like being reborn." They are unknown on the timing of rebuilding the area. Not many people live their now, a woman rented a place next to her destroyed home, one man lives in a trailer. Other families live in taller, rebuilt homes. The rest of the buildings have either been demolished or are completely empty. Most families are trying to do the most for their communities by helping out neighbors, friends, and families. They say that building the home is easy compared to losing all the amazing memories that were destroyed. People are saying that they won't rebuild in a different location but that they will stay and show that they aren't leaving until someone begins to care and help. Many families feel as though no one is caring enough. Jean Laurie says  "We need attention. We need to get everybody around here to see what's really going on. This is true life. This is real stuff that's going on. They have to walk a mile in our shoes. They're not." The residents are feeling ignored,  unappreciated, and forgotten. In this situation people just need someone to be there for them and help them through their time of loss.

Government insane shutdown fund

The economy may have gotten away with the economic catastrophe by raising debt and opening the government, but it didn’t hide the political debacle. The main question of the situation is how much the government shutdown will cost the economy?

According to an estimate from Standard & Poor’s, it will cost about $24 billion dollars. The financial services company said the shutdown, which ended with a deal late Wednesday night after 16 days, took $24 billion out of the U.S. economy, and reduced projected fourth-quarter GDP growth from 3 percent to 2.4 percent. The following are some of the economic costs:

About $3.1 billion in lost government services, according to the research firm HIS, $152 million per day in lost travel spending, according to the U.S. Travel Association, $76 million per day lost because of National Parks being shut down, according to the National Park Service, $217 million per day in lost federal and contractor wages in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area alone. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers bore the economic brunt of the shutdown. Federal workers will receive back-pay under the deal, but contractors will probably not get their lost wages. The stall in cash-flow could affect spending during the holiday shopping season. But small businesses also suffered from frozen government contracts and stalled business loans. Tourism suffered from closed national parks, and military families had to cope without childcare and other services.

Luckily, the government is beginning to figure this entire thing out. Across the country, the work and play of daily life, stalled for more than two weeks, resumed at federal offices, public parks, research projects and community programs. Museums opened their doors. Federal money for preschool programs started flowing again. Scientists at the South Pole began ramping up their work.

The government is now trying out how to solve the tragedy across America, for now they are enjoying the fact that businesses are able to make money again, “We had a lot of vandalism of infrastructure,” Bonnie Clarfield, a supervisory park ranger says. “People were frustrated, and they were taking it out on the rangers. We were doing our jobs, and they were taking it out on the messengers. I feel great today. No one’s been mad at me.”

            Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou has taken over the presidential duties while President Fernandez, 60, recovers from surgery. President Fernandez was diagnosed with a brain hematoma after hitting her head back in August. Fernandez was released from the hospital on Sunday, October 13, just five days after the surgery, but is on strict rest for thirty days. She will be monitored closely during her recovery at the Olivos presidential house. The surgery comes at an important time with the midterm election on October 27^th being so close and the court battle with Argentina’s holdout creditors. President Fernandez was campaigning when she became ill. The midterm election will determine whether her alliance will keep control of Congress during her last two years in power.  Argentine spokesman, Alfredo Scoccimarro says the president” is in an excellent mood. ”A subdural hematoma is a blood clot on the brain’s surface located beneath its outer covering of the dura. In people over 60, a brain injury can cause blood vessels to tear and blood to clot. Fernandez had her thyroid glands removed last year after being diagnosed with cancer.