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Meanwhile, the death toll continues to climb in South America, where Venezuela is stilling digging out of an incredible mudslide. Pastor Samuel Olson lives there and is working with Feeding Starving Children International. Olson says more than 50-thousand are dead and 250-thousand are homeless. He says the need for food is incredible. "We're talking about 160,000 children that have to be attended to on a daily basis. The crops of the nation have been destroyed in five of the states. The ports can hardly bring in things from the outside because of the recession that we're in." Olson says Feeding Starving children wants to help 10-thousand children at a cost of 90-thousand dollars. He says as they help, many are open to the Gospel. "They're so open to having people pray with them, give them counsel, helping them to come to grips spiritually with their own lives. And, they want people to come, whether to pray, whether to receive a word, to show movies like the Jesus Film, it's an open field."