Evacuees Find New Home In Houston

It's one thing to talk about helping the hurricane victims. For Tracy Cox, talking wasn't enough.
When she heard about the evacuees at the Astrodome, she headed straight there.

CBS News Correspondent Trish Regan reports on how a Houston woman decided to help evacuees at the Astrodome.

"There were hundreds of people in the parking lot just digging through bags and taking just anything you wanted to give them," Cox said. "They just wanted something to have, because they had nothing."

It was in the Astrodome parking lot that she met Ann, Kyana and Stephanie.

"They all had small children and one of them was pregnant and I just couldn't send them back in there," Cox said as she starts to cry. "Me and my husband just looked at each other and said, 'Come home with us — all of you."

Cox ended up bring home all 10 of them.

"We're just blending in like one big family," said Ann Williams, one of the evacuees.

Overnight, this family of six became a family of 16, which is just fine by Tracy's youngest daughter Everest.

"It's really fun 'cause I have someone to play with," Everest Cox said.

At church services Sunday, images from New Orleans were too painful to watch.

Williams hasn't seen her husband since she and her granddaughter left the Superdome, but she believes that he is doing fine.

"I know he's OK," Williams said. "I just feel it — I just feel that he's OK."

Her granddaughter Zaria starts school in her new home of Houston tomorrow, but Williams doesn't know what her own future holds.

"I might just stay here with Tracy forever," Williams said.

Tracy Cox said they can all stay as long as they want.

"They want to be here with me and I want them here with me," Cox said. "They are my family."