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>> axelrod: good evening, i'm jim axelrod. seven months after superstorm sandy ripped up board walks and washed a roller coast interthe ocean summer is getting its unofficial kickoff this weekend on the jersey shore. the next three months are the time most businesses make most of their money in beach towns along a 127 mile stretch of the new jersey coast. but as terrell brown reports, they're still not catching many breaks from the weather there. >> reporter: in seaside heights, new jersey, summer's sun official start was windy, chilly and slow. 80% of the businesses are back open and a new board walk remains under construction along the casino pier, an amusement park andar al qaeda. lou cirgliano is the marketing manager. >> people are probably coming back because they want to see what's happening and support the town but it's going to be stretched to get things going. >> construction crews have been working to rebuild the peer that
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was swept into the ocean, along with its most popular attacks, the jet star. so we're just over 50% ready to go and within the next coming weeks we'll specifically get the decking back on the board walk, we'll put the rides up and they'll be ready as well. >> reporter: sandy nearly wiped out the jersey shore, causing $37 billion in damage. some towns like mant low king are a long way from recovery while seaside heights is hoping for a full recovery by midsummer. it hasn't been a year since sandy made landfall here and already there are warn this is upcoming hurricane season could be extremely active. the national hurricane center is projecting up to 20 named storms possibly impacting coastlines from the gulf of mexico to the jersey shore. wayne cimarelli owns the spicy canteen that bar and grill along the board walk. his early season revenues have already taken a hit as local customers are still rebuilding. >> thousands of people have been acted by losing their homes and i think that's going to impact
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the type of sumpter entire jersey shore is going to have. >> reporter: how do you think you'll do this summer? >> if we can pay our bills i'll be the happiest guy there the world. >> reporter: will you be able to pay the bills here? >> we're way off because we just really only opened eight weekends ago. >> reporter: the jersey shore brings in about half of the state's $40 billion tourism industry. where businesses are ready, the question becomes whether vacationers >> axelrod: cold and wet was the order of the day in the northeast this memorial day weekend. forget the cookouts in vermont, where it's a complete washout. up to three more inches of rain is forecast to fall, and snow is even predicted in some areas. a series of storms have already triggered flash floods. there are major flooding problems as well in texas tonight. emergency crews in san antonio have been making dozens of lowings following torrential rains there. gary cooper of our cbs affiliate, kens, gives us a our.
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>> reporter: in a few hours, almost ten inches of rain fell antoniontonio. streets, freeways underwater, rlosed for hours. drivers tried to make it across crossed roads and were stranded. ded ss transit bus trapped in masswaters. ere hane made it out safely. there had been a 50% chance of rain in the forecast, but no one cted aed a downpour like this. this man was trapped on a roof. he made it, but one woman owned d from the flooding. alexander garza and his family live near the san antonio river. al they were told to leave home as soon as the river started to rise. >> we went outside. ut was, like, up to my neck. >> reporter: up to your next? >> yes, up to my neck. ourwas up to my neck, and i tried going to the truck and my sister was on my shoulders. >> reporter: now, south texas is rep to seeing this type of exasding, just not so much in metropolitan san antonio. the rains have tapered off and eredthe worry heads down river, where some towns have already started evacuating. tm? >> axelrod: gary cooper of our affiliate, kens, in san antonio. thank you.
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they have an idea of how to get traffic moving again on a busy highway north of seattle. gtemporary pre-fabricated syidge is being considered to replace a 160-foot section that nsidapsed into the skagit river thursday. it could still be months before et's in place. this surveillance video shows the bridge just as a truck hit a brid beam sending vehicles into nding ver below. a fiery crash of two freight trains in missouri is drawing trvestigators to the scene. it happened near the town of ofkview, 115 miles southeast of es. louis. chip reid has the details on the iluntry's second major train laident in the last eight days. >> reporter: the two freight trains collided at about 2:30 this morning. more than a dozen train cars derailed. some plowed into the base of a highway overpass, which came ghwaying down. wayne woods lives nearby. e woodeard the crash, and we stepped outside and my son said the overpass was down.
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>> reporter: two cars were on we overpass at the time. >> we heard a car's tires dquealing like it was coming to a stop, then a crash and a horn en ainuously blowing. >> reporter: seven people received minor injuries, five were passengers in cars, the other two were on a train. ain.accident comes about a week after a commuter crash in connecticut injured 70 people during the evening rush hour and disrupted service for days for tens of thousands of commuters north of new york city. the national transportation nsport board has ruled out foul play in that crash, but on onday the n.t.s.b. said the .s.bn's engineer had observed an nginual condition on the track but they did not say what the yondition was. hat n.t.s.b. also said the as.cks in that area had been repaired just last month. the n.t.s.b. has its hands full. it's already investigating thursday's collapse of that bridge across washington's skagit river and the connecticut ashin crash. andy, the agency deployed yet crash.r team to missouri to look
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into the cause of this latest accident. jim? >> axelrod: thank you, chip. now to great britain, where tonight three more people have been arrested in the wake of wednesday's savage and deadly to savck on a british soldier. this comes after another arrest late last night. charlie d'agata joins us from london. charlie, what do we know? o> reporter: well, british police said three men have been arrested on suspicion of threpiracy to commit murder. they had to use a taser on two u the men and in this developing investigation the new arrests come as more details stigat about the two main suspects in the killing. what was a murder scene has become a shrine. mourners by the hundreds have laid flowers at the barracks where soldier lee rigby once lived and around a corner from where he was killed. >> we must fight them as they wast us. t reporter: his suspected killers were on the radar of kitelligence agents years before lligattack. the younger man, michael adebowale, seen here at an
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islamic protest outside the u.s. embassy last year, was detained olicelice just two months ago. the older suspect, michael adebolajo, is seen here aattending the rally of a radical muslim cleric in britain. and his childhood friend, abu nusaybah, told the bbc british ildhooigence agents tried to recruit michael adebolajo six toths ago. >> initially, they wanted to ask him whether he knew certain individuals, basically. >> i that was an initial issue. but after him saying he didn't know these individuals and so forth, what he said is they idued him about him being enterested in working for them. im reporter: but right after that interview, police arrested thatybah himself outside the cbs studios for what they say are de tected terrorism offenses. the murder of the 25-year-old stud soldier and father of two-year- old boy has prompted an angry backlash. calls to a help line report a ten-fold increase in attacks against muslims.
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the head of britain's national intelligence agency, the mi-5, is expected to deliver a preliminary report to lawmakers dxt week, jim, spelling out toctly what the agency knew ng ut both main suspects, what klp if any they got in planning oth attack, and if anything more could have been done prevent the d haer. >> axelrod: charlie d'agata reporting from london. thank you. french police are hunting a rlie gt in a stabbing of a rench p there. ct happened at a commuter train ttation west of paris. the soldier in uniform was diebbed in the throat with a box cutter. the soldier, 23 years old, is ld,ected to recover. the newest officers of the u.s. army took their oaths at their west point graduation today. >> ...that i take this obligation freely... >> ...that i take this obligation freely... >> reporter: defense secretary tionk hagel delivered the commencement speech. he told graduates sexual assault menthe military is a betrayal of sacred oaths and sacred trusts. >> this scourge must be stamped out.
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we're all accountable and responsible for ensuring this happens. >> axelrod: hagel's speech came three days after the army confirmed an instructor at west point has been charged with videotaping female cadets in the shower. the self-described toughest sheriff in america is dealing toughe legal defeat tonight. a federal judge in phoenix ruled friday that sheriff joe arpaio a ed maricopa county, arizona, systematically targeted latinos with his immigration patrols. tdge murray snow ordered arpaio and his 800 deputies to stop the practice. arpaio says he will appeal. the f.d.a. is investigating seven new cases of people titting sick after taking injectable steroids produced by a compounding pharmacy in newbern, tennessee. a it's the same type of steroid methylprednisolone acetate produced last year that killed fre people.
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>> see this black, black piece up there? right behind it is the front door. >> reporter: his family has been through this before when a tornado hit moore 14 years ago. you guys went through '99. >> yes, ma'am. after the first tornado, you know, we kind of actually thought about moving but you know moore is where we raised our kids, my wife grew up here. it's just home. >> reporter: phillips used the insurance money from his first demolished them buy this one-- now a pile of rubble. a storm shelter built 18 months ago saved his family. which tornado was worse? >> this. this. this one hovered. it just hovered. it just stayed on top of them. >> reporter: what takes this story from unlikely to unbelievable is that he plans to rebuild again in the exact same location. you've got an amazingly positive outlook. >> i've got to. i've got to. >> reporter: most of his family agrees, except his stepson jason who says he will never move back to moore. >> my first words were "why?"
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why?" i love this town. i love the people in this town. but this is the second time in 14 years i've seen my family lose everything. >> reporter: when he rebuilds phillip says he wants a bigger storm shelter. he doesn't think he's jinx ord curse bud fears he might not be a neighborhood favorite. >> every time i move it seems like one follows me. >> reporter: the neighbors must love you. >> i don't know if they do or not but -- i'm just trying to take some of the stuff i've learned and apply it. >> reporter: so two tornados isn't enough? >> no, no, no, a fourth generat. this is just part of it, unfortunately. >> reporter: paul phillips tells me he has always paid the highest premium on his insurance which is why he's done so well with reimbursements. jim, some of the other families might not fair some well. >> axelrod: that's some kind of resilience, vinita. thank you. next, order up. a family restaurant on the jersey shore hit hard by sandy
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labor day. we sat down with the owners of the harvey cedars shellfish company on new jersey's leech island to hear firsthand about the challenge now under way. >>. >> reporter: this is summer number what for you? >> 39. i'll gol with that. 39. >> we thought we'd have a real job right now, it just never worked out. (laughter) >> reporter: brothers john and mike garafalo have worked everyday since superstorm sandy to get ready. >> the whole island is geared up and ready to go and this is crunch time. we have 12 weeks to do it. >> reporter: you have 12 weeks and each week is a month and that's year year. so between memorial day and labor day your year, the story of year year, will be told. >> absolutely. >> everybody's ready. >> we have to be, we want to be. we are. >> reporter: from looking at those pictures from when the storm hit, it's a little hard to believe.
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>> people were resilient. >> people worked hard. >> we want to be first to come into the clam bar. >> reporter: it's not just the customers greeting the start of the season with a smile. >> if we don't open memorial day weekend and we're not ready to go for the summer it's going to impact our suppliers, the scalp, the clammers in the southern part of the bay. >> reporter: are you laying off any employees? >> no. >> no, we're geared up and we're anticipating -- i'm anticipating what we've done for the past 39 years. we'll have busy nights and we're going to employ people. >> reporter: that's good because you know, you can make a good buck here. >> i've heard, yeah. >> reporter: i can report firsthand what jobs at the shellfish mean. that's me with a little more hair. i think i made more here when i was 15 than i did my first three jobs in broadcasting.
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>> we told you to always come back. we've got a table for you, baby. >> reporter: but for every coastal community devastated by sandy there's been nothing more serious than the calendar to get ready for this weekend. what does the way that the jersey shore has come back in such a short period of time tell us about the people here? >> we're resilient. we're -- we love the island. we might not belong living on a barrier island but this is where we live. this is where we want to live. this is where we raise our children. this is where we are. we're islanders and we're going to fix it because that's where we want to be. >> reporter: john and mike garafalo, the harvey cedars shellfish company. best fried shrimp in the business. still ahead: reclaiming the last smile of the boston marathon. tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain bayer back & body's dual action formula
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in oklahoma we saw-- as we almost always do-- how tragedy often brings out the very best in people. and, as magalie lag gar will can i be son shows us, that seems to be true for some special dogs as well. >> reporter: finn and emma are a mixed breed of poodle and wheat op terrier, yet when it comes to helping people in distress, their pedigree is pure. they're therapy dogs. >> belly rubs! >> reporter: they were in boston to help those grieving for the bombing victims. >> he knows how to work it. (laughter) >> reporter: and they were there in the aftermath of superstorm sandy. >> dogs have been prove on the lower blood pressure and stress and decrease anxiety by offering unconditional love and support. >> reporter: finn and emma are part of the good dog foundation of new york. they live with their owners in greenwich village. >> they love the work. they get so excited to comfort people and have attention from people. >> reporter: it's not just
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disaster victims they're there for, it's also the sick. >> i didn't really notice anything until i got a swelling here, a lump here. >> reporter: act actor darren kelly has been receiving chemotherapy for a cancerous growth. >> i've lost my taste buds and it's -- some of my pal lat is, like, fried. right now the dogs are -- that's medicine. >> that is medicine. is that how you see it? >> ed's medicine, therapy, distraction, something that you want. you want that energy. it helps you get through. >> reporter: do dogs lower stress for cancer victims? the results of a three-year study are expected to be published later this year. nurse practitioner catherine concert was part of that study. what do you think it's going to reveal? >> i think it will show positive results. the patients come in, they're anxious. a dog walks in, their anxiety level goes down. >> these dogs are working dogs
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but it's not -- it doesn't seem to be a chore to them, you know? they're -- they're proud of what they're doing. >> reporter: and many cancer patients and disaster victims are grateful for that sense of pride. magalie legere wilkinson, cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. later on cbs, 48 hours. for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york. for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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