Residents Of An Eroded Alaskan Village Are Pioneering A New One, In Phases

It's finally moving day in Newtok, Alaska, the village where erosion has already claimed several homes and the river is banging on more doors. Newtok is sending a third of its residents across the Ninglick River this year, to its replacement village, Mertarvik. Decades of planning have built up to this moment.
"It felt like it was never going to happen," says resident Lisa Charles.
Charles' grandparents told her about the plans to move when she was 16. That was in 1994.
"I remember being really excited, thinking it was gonna happen in one year, but every year there would be a delay," she remembers. "Is it 30 years later, no 25 years later, we're finally gonna move."