Panico says in most of the hard hit communities, life is largely back to normal.

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In American Samoa, life is returning to normal and most schools and businesses have reopened.

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And,most are back to work. "But,I hesitate to say that things are back to normal because for those people that lost family members, it is really a life that will never return to normal,"

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