They told her the government shutdown meant they weren't getting paid. That’s when she decided to “do something good today.” Then Ellen Degeneres did something even BETTER!
“These are our people. It's our tribe," Brian Welch says. “Jesus…he didn’t tell people to go into tribes and say ‘hey, don’t use your tribal language anymore, because we’ve gotta do it this way…’”
The dad put his children on a wooden board to keep them from drowning as the tsunami’s waves crashed across the island. Despite his efforts, his son and daughter were swept out to sea.