Floyd Relief Riding on Congress; Planned Pork Barrel Spending Has Some in Disbelief

Money for Floyd relief is riding on this budget. But some eastern North Carolina flood victims say Washington can do a lot more.

Many flood victims understand that in spite of all the devastation, there are other things the federal government has to spend money on, but when they hear about what gets a higher priority, they get angry.

Sidney Scott's family lost more than a half million dollars thanks to Floyd's flooding. The hurricane destroyed his family farm's tobacco, his peanuts and his cotton.

"All these should have cotton fluffed out," says Scott as he points to his ruined cotton crops.

"It's disheartening. [I] never have depended on the government for anything. Didn't need to. Now I think they need to help us," says Scott.

Urban flood victims, like Wilbert Stephens, agree.

"I mean we need all we can get," the Princeville resident says. He says the pork barrel spending can wait.

"For the next two or three years, I think, [for a ] a human being, whether they have somewhere to eat, somewhere to sleep, have clothes on their back, is far more important than research on a sea lion," says Stephens.

The bill now goes on to the White House.