first japan, now ecuador, shaken by strong earthquakes. tonight, hundreds are dead. and the full scope of the damage is still emerging. ahead of tuesday's new york state primary, a new cbs news poll shows front-runners back on track. an army of officers is deployed in boston to make sure tomorrow's marathon security is stronger than ever. >> there really is an advantage to having this eye in the sky over the marathon route. a crackdown begins on dangerous street racing in southern california. welcome to the overnight news, i'm jeff glor. the toll is rising after an earthquake on the coast of

ecuador. the president of ecuador says 2500 are injured. hundreds of buildings destroyed. it hit saturday night, magnitude 7.8. strongest to jolt ecuador since 1979. more than 135 aftershocks followed. we begin with manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: with the day light residents saw for the first time the full extent of the damage. near the epicenter in the pacific town rescuers dug through crumbled concrete to find lifeless bodies. the quake also claimed lives about 85 miles south in the coastal city of manta where shaken residents surveyed the widespread damage. this desperate worker fried d e with his bare hands to find survivors. three alive, a girl its dead he said. last night onlookers cheered as this teenager was pulled from a crushed hotel in the city.

this appears to be the moment the quake hit. customers in this store in quito panicked as shock waves knocked items off the shelves and took out electricity saturday night. people took refuge on the streets of the country's capital. quito resident, said he and his family escaped after the quake destroyed their house. >> translator: in a minute it all came crashing down, he said. >> reporter: as far as 150 miles south of the epicenter, the powerful quake caused buildings and roads in the city to collapse. first responders search for survivors after a highway overpass buckled flattening cars. ecuador deployed thousands of soldiers to help people like vanessa santos. >> translator: she says her sister, sister-in-law and nephew were killed. >> it looks apocalyptic. >> reporter: american brian bare is a freelance journalist in ecuador, his apartment building was badly damaged when the quake

hit. >> terror was my first emotion. i switched from a very casual mood to being in complete shock. very quickly within seconds. >> reporter: tonight the state department says so far there are no reports of u.s. citizens killed in ecuador. officials are working to confirm reports that americans were injured. jeff, two canadians are among the dead. >> thank you very much. in southern japan still people missing after two powerful earthquakes killed 41 people late last week. the u.s. military is joining relief efforts. toyota and sony are shutting down factories in japan this week as recovery continues. the road to the presidential nomination runs through new york on tuesday. a cbs news battleground tracker poll out today shows donald trump with a wide lead in his home state. if it holds, trump would net the bulk of delegates and add to his overall lead. on the democratic side. our poll shows hillary clinton

ten points ahead of bernie sanders. despite a recent losing streak, clinton holds a commanding lead in the delegate count. juliana goldman has more on this. >> reporter: hillary clinton and bernie sanders kicked their campaigns into high gear ahead of tuesday. >> good morning, how are you? >> reporter: even though he is trailing in new york, sanders isn't letting up. he is still hammering clinton for accepting lucrative speaking fees from wall street. >> man if you make $225 in an hour, you maybe don't know what it is look to live on $10 an hour. >> the vermont senator wants clinton to release transcripts from the speeches. she says she will if every other candidate does the same. >> i'm just concerned about it constantly changing set of standards for everybody else but me. >> the democratic race getting nastier by the day. >> last night, sanders supporters protested outside clinton's fund raiser with george clooney. but with her eye on the general

election, clinton says she and donald trump can unite her party. >> looking at this great diverse crowd that represents brooklyn and new york. every one of us has been attacked by trump. >> it's crooked hillary. she's as crooked as they come. >> reporter: in addition to stepping up his attacks on clinton, trump continued his assault on the republican nominating process. >> the fact that you are taking all these people out and wining them and dining them. nobody does that stuff better than me. i just don't want to do it. because the it's not the tliengt to do. we have a bad system and the system has to change. >> reporter: sunday, rnc chairman said he went be bullied by trump. >> i think i have done more tv in the last two weeks than i have in two years. it's because i'm not going to allow anyone to rewrite the rules of our party. >> reporter: the republican national committee will meet next week in florida. several members say they don't want to consider any changes to the rule making process before the july convention to avoid it

looking like the rnc is trying to sway the process. jeff, latest cbs news battleground poll shows the that more than half of republican voters in new york say their party's nominating process is unfair. >> juliana, thank you. we'll bring in cbs news election director, anthony for republican tuesday in new york what's the key? >> well the poll find new yorkers see donald trump as authentic and as electable in november. the biggest key is whether or not he can get over 50%. the size of win matters here. if heave get the bulk of the delegates in new york it would put him back on path to eventually get the nomination. >> that path leads out to california. >> yes, where he is up in our current polls. but california will probably be decisive. even with a win in new york and win in subsequent states. he still won't get that majority of delegates until we get to california. >> so then how do things look for the democrats in new york tuesday? >> hillary clinton keeps her lead in new york.

bernie sanders leads her on attributes like authenticity. but she leads him big on things like specificity about her policies and plans. that's propelling her. either way, jeff, the delegate math probably won't change much out of new york. because both the winner and loser are going to get delegates. >> anthony, thank you very much. >> thank you, jeff. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ♪ ♪ ,,,,,,,,,,,,

severe storms in southern plains followed heavy snow in the rockies this weekend. barry peterson is in denver. >> reporter: across the region, sunday was not a day of rest. it was a day of working to clean up and shovel out. mike hillham is a fifth grade school teacher. were you surprised how much snow you got? >> very surprised it was a lot. this is probably 18 inches or so. >> very, very heavy. very, very wet. >> reporter: the worst of the storm now over, this was the chance to get the last of the cars out of ditches. and the storm continued its swath of destruction elsewhere. flooding the streets of altus,

oklahoma saturday night, spawning a number of tornados like this one saturday in kent county, texas. a mall in kansas remains closed after heavy rains cause aid partial collapse of the roof. it was a good news day for air travelers. denver international airport is pretty much back to normal. after hundreds were stranded saturday when more than 850 flights, 70% of daily operations, were canceled. this is wet, heavy snow. it's really good for making snowballs. and as for that storm, it is on its way to west texas. >> barry peterson. thank you. for more, wvz chief meteorologist eric fisher tracking the storms. eric, what's next? >> jeff, a lot of rain is the focus over the next 48 hours. really looking at texas and oklahoma in particular. we have moisture rich air feeding in off the gulf of mexico, banging up against the

stalled front. what that means we will see prodigious rain totals over the next couple days. already seen the heavy downpours today, through tonight, into monday. moving towards houston. more showers and storms will dic develop into the day tuesday. 4 to 8 inches of rain here from central texas into southern oklahoma. could see some isolated totals up to a foot. be prepared to take it action. road closures certainly. flooded rivers. pretty dangerous as we head into tonight. few severe storms likely to pop up around san antonio with large hail. of a different note. tomorrow its the boston marathon. 120th. going to be a warm race for all the runners out there. all told, a beautiful day. high temperatures near 70 degrees, cooler at the finish in boston. jeff there will be thousand of people waiting. >> eric fisher, thank you very much. security will be tight at tomorrow ale running of the boston marathon. some of it invisible to those running or watching. here's jeff pegues.

>> reporter: on the eve of the marathon the boston police department believes it is ready for anything and everything. officials say there is no credible or specific threat against the event. still commissioner william evans is unwilling to let his guard down. >> you never can, to think, what happened three years ago, who would ever think boston would be a target in the marathon. >> reporter: in 2013, the detonation of two pressure cooker bombs killing three and injuring 260 people. >> a memory i will always have in mine mind. i had run that race. finished the race an hour before the bombs went off. to go back there, in my official capacity to see the damage done by the two individual s is something i will never forget. >> reporter: boston police acknowledge it is a soft target to protect 20,000 runners and 1 million spectators there will be 5,000 police officers, lining the 26.2 route. surveillance cameras and sensors

that can warn of drones which have been banned. massachusetts state police helicopters will be on patrol with infrared cameras which can detect a heat signature. it can zoom in on potential trouble spots. even 600 feet up. in an underground emergency command bunker the national guard, state police and federal agents share information. and monitor online chatter. in the weak of the isis attacks in brussels, commissioner evans says there is more coordination with federal investigators than ever before. so brussels changed things here? >> yeah, it did. it just -- sort of brought back a lot of -- emotions over what happened here. almost three years ago now. but i think, obviously, we got to stay focused on the race and make sure it goes off safely. >> reporter: the crowds typically get bigger the last two miles of the race. on top of that. 40,000 fans are expected to take in a red sox game tomorrow

afternoon. jeff, complicating the task at hand for police. they expect many of the fans to head here to the finish line as well. >> jeff pegues, thank you. up next, a new crack down on street racing in southern california. and refugees who escaped war and poverty fiend new careers in the kitchen. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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tonight police in los angeles are rolling out a new task force aimed at stopping a decade's old problem. street racing. officers say in recent months they have seen a rise in crashes some of them deadly. here's chris martinez. >> reporter: it is an every weekend sight in southern california. streets and highways transformed into tracks for dangerous, high-speed, illegal street racing. a crime a new los angeles police task force is working to wipe out. >> the goal is to essentially discourage the behavior and ensure there is an understanding that this behavior is not welcome in the city. >> reporter: sergeant jesse garcia and his team are working with state and local agencies targeting areas where racers typically gather. the lapd is dedicating a dozen officers with the sole task of stopping races before they start. this is one of their hot spots. the task force did a test run last september.

gar see ye it worked. while the lapd saw a drop in races during that time they noticed racers taking more risks some times with deadly consequences. in february, street racing led to this fiery crash on interstate 5 that killed three people including 19-year-old michelle littlefield. william littlefield is her father. >> i never dreamed it in 1,000 years that this would happen. not this way. >> reporter: nationally, stats on street racing deaths are not easy to tally because different agencies don't always report racing crashes the same way. but sergeant garcia says he has seen a sharp increase over the past several years. >> is social media egging this on? >> social media is fueling this. provides an jut loutlet to bragt what they're doing. >> reporter: garcia, points to movies like "the fast and furious" series and racers in real life are becoming more violent. this video shows a street racing group attacking a police suv in

l.a. earlier this month. as officers attempted to barack -- break up a race. >> we have been finding weapons, loaded pistols. these events are not just for show either. they've involve money. >> reporter: why do this now? >> we have been able to come up with a strategy that works. we have an obligation to pro tkt their quality of life and safety. that tea what we are here for. >> reporter: he hopes this new initiative will do exactly that. chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. the search resumes tomorrow for the data recorder of the sunken cargo ship, it went down last october off bat ha mathe h. up next, five major banks have their living wills declared dead on arrival.

the irs has processed 105 million tax returns. the deadline to file its end of monday. except in maine and massachusetts where tomorrow is patriot's day. this past week bank regulators gave failing grade to five of

the country's biggest financial institutions saying their plans to got through potential bankruptcy were not credible. here to explain, cbs news business analyst, jill schlessinger, out of the great recession and the dodd frank act. what are plans and what they say? >> they're referred to as living wills like a living will we would have, a directive, if we were approaching failure what would happen? the banks are submitting plans to their two main regulators, fed and fdic. what they're trying to say is if we were approaching failure, how we would get through it without crashing the financial system or needing taxpayer assistance like we saw when lehman brothers failed in 2008. >> scary when you hear it. bernie sanders has been talking about this a lot trying to barack up the banks, taking the criticism for not explaining it maybe in parts. did any company pass this test? >> not exactly. we have three other companies, big companies, goldman sachs, morgan stanley, citigroup, all had some sort of deficiencies

they have to address. that said. a lot of experts are looking at this saying this is a plan about failure. the banks are actually in much better shape than they were eight years ago. they have more capital. using less borrowed money. liquidity, ability to access money is much better the weave shouldn't be so scared. that is falling on deaf ears with the public. when we look at the public's trust in financial institutions at an all time low of 8% right now. >> what do the banks have to do now? >> all are going to have to resubmit or plug the holes that were identified in the plans by this october. next summer they resubmit altogether. very weird thing though, we had weak bank earnings, this report, bank stocks were up 7% last week. >> jill, thank you very much. >> thank you. a plan to cap oil production may have fallen apart when iran skipped a meeting in qatar. 18 opec and nonopec nations discussed a temporary freeze on drilling to increase global oil prices. iran wants to keep ramping up

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we close tonight with a story of good taste. a catering company giving a chance to some in dire need of a fresh start. here is jamie yukas. >> reporter: the chopping, slicing, dicing all precise. a gourmet preparation with no former culinary training. these chefs are refugees, this

lebanese immigrant cooked up the idea when she couldn't find humus as good as her grandmothers. >> we are not cooking food you can get in any other restaurant. >> reporter: the kitchen partnered with international rescue committee to give the seven refugees and asylum seekers training, employment and chance to connect. the business caters to large parties in new york. looking for international flare. >> as a refugee you are always trying to adapt to the country. they're cooking what they used to cook at home. we are adapting to what they're making. >> reporter: she is preparing potatoes, she fled iraq two years ago bringing little with her but her memories and her recipes. >> translator: she says her husband was injured in an explosion and she feared for her son. >> reporter: when you have to leave everything in your home country is it comforting to be able to come here and cook?

>> translator: she says, yes, of course. arabic food makes me feel like i'm home. little english is spoken in the kitchen in queens, new york. cramped quarters for the head chef, juan suarez deleso. >> is food a universal language? >> it is a universal language. we are connected some how in a way. >> reporter: a made from scratch business that hopes to have all right right ingredients. jamie yukas, cbs news, new york. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning" and from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor. ♪ ♪

welcome to the "cbs overnight news," i'm jeff glor. new york holds its primary. the latest cbs news poll, donald trump holds a wide lead over republican rivals. ted cruz and john kasich in a tight race for second. on the democratic side, hillary clinton has a ten-point lead over bernie sanders. and their race for the nomination has gotten nastier. john dickerson spoke to sanders on "face the nation." >> what happened to the democratic race? "the new york times" described you as having a ferocious performance in the debate this week. >> ferocious, not sure what the word means. i think what happened is i have become a little bit tired of being beaten up by the negativity of the clinton campaign and we are responding in kind. look, the difference is that we have, and how we raise money,

she has super pacs and raises a whole lot of money from wall street and other powerful special interests. she is for a $12 minimum wage. not good enough. i am for a $15 an hour minimum wage. her views on foreign policy, war in iraq, libya, syria are different than mine. her views on fracking whether or not we have clean water in the united states of america and around the world are different than mine. i think what we are doing, i am doing is making it very clear my views are out there, representing the needs of working families, middle clalgs. and i am prepared to take on powerful special interests. >> what negativity has got you so irritated from hillary clinton? >> oh, you name it. she came in, after we have within eight out of nine caucuses and primaries they made it very clearly that what their goal was and i think i quote appropriately here, disqualified, defeat, and then, reunite the party later on. they have gone after us in every single area.

in a way that just misrepresentatives my views. the idea that they have said in the past that i attack planned parenthood. when i regard planned parenthood as one of the great organizations in this country. i want to expand funding for planned parenthood. on and on it goes. i think what you are seeing now there are real differences of opinion between secretary clinton and myself. most significantly we raised $7 million individual campaign contributions more than any candidate in american history at this point. averaging $27. she is out there raising money from the wealthy and powerful. i think you can judge ate candidate based on how you raised money and who you ultimately become dependent upon. >> let me ask you about that. in the debate, you were asked to name an example the money she raised from wall street influenced her. you didn't offer an example. she said that proved the attack was phony. >> first of all, i did offer an example. let me offer another one now. she voted for a bad bankruptcy

piece of legislation. which benefited wall street at the expense of hard-pressed consumers in the country. that is an example. you never can say, john, just because you vote for something, you know that that was caused by something else. >> than the that the imply kags of what you are offering in your critique. isn't that what you are saying? >> well the broader critique is after wall street amy greed and illegal behavior, destroyed our economy and droech ve us into a major recession. in my view, the proper response. its look, these people are running a fraudulent operation. we can't trust them the they have too much wealth too. much power, too much concentration of ownership. the proper response, my view then, my view today is break them up. that noitds hiis not hillary cl response. bankruptcy legislation is another piece of legislation where she was on the wrong side of the issue. >> you have also tied her, money she takes to her position on minimum wage with a tough ad in

which you mention the $200,000 speech fees that she gets. and then, she doesn't support the $15 national minimum wage. aren't you kind of fuzzing up an economic policy dispute you have with her and making it seem like she is just being stingy? >> it is not being stingy. if you can go before goldman sachs, morgan stanley and end up after an hour's work, $225,000 check. and that's your life. then refuse to support the fight for $15. need to have a $15 an hour national minimum wage, well i think you are living in a world far removed from where working people are. the truth is the minimum wage today is a starvation wage. $12, it is not enough. the american people in state after state, now are moving to $15 an hour. she is behind the curve. >> you are suggesting. >> maybe if you make $225 in an hour, you maybe don't know what it is look to give on $10 of

minimum wage. >> on the crime bill a lot of discussion of the 1994 crime bill which you voted for. she supported. do you regret your support for that crime bill now in retrospect. >> that bill whenever you have a piece of legislation, a big bill. a lot of stuff in it. it had the violence against women act. during my tenure as mayor of burlington, worked hard against domestic violence. ban on assault weapons. something i believe infer vently. believe in 1988 when i ran for office. there is no debate that that legislation has resulted in -- massive incarceration that we today have more people in jail, broken criminal justice system. donald trump says the democratic nomination is stacked against you because of the superdelegates. do you agree? >> well not only that. i will fell you, the answer is yes.

we, hillary clinton is the candidate of the establishment. she mhas many more superdelegates. something also of concern to me. we are going into tuesday. fighting hard. we have hey real shlt ot to win there is large voter turnout. here in new york state you have a voter system makes it impossible for independents to par participate. makes it impossible to register on the day of the election. which will result in a leper voter turnout than i would look to see. at the end of the day, because we are defeating trump by much larger numbers than is secretary clinton. in poll after poll. national polls and in state polls. a lot of the superer delegates are going to conclude bernie sanders is the candidate to prevent what must not be allowed to happen. that its, donald trump becoming president of the united states. win in new york would pat donald trump's delegate lead but will not secure the nomination. trump says gop rules for picking

a nominee are stacked against him. john dickerson discussed this with the republican chairman, reince priebus. >> do you take that as a threat? >> not particularly, hyperbole or positioning. the truth is there are facts. and the rnc doesn't have the power to change the rules between now and the convention. the rules were set years ago. each state's delegate system was set in october of 2015. and it's up to the delegates at the convention to decide what they're going to do about rules and up to each individual state over the next four years to decide how they're going toal -- allocate delegates. i don't take it personally,

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today, the 120th running of the boston marathon. more than 30,000 are taking part. plus many more watching and cheering along the route. and as always security is a huge concern. jeff pe guchgues spoke with the cop. >> the isis attack in brussels have given williams a lot to talk about. >> brought back a lot of emotions over what happened here. stay focused on the race. >> reporter: 5,000 uniformed officers from eight cities will join the national guard. state police and scores of federal agents from the secret service and fbi to secure monday's marathon route. and they will be directed from this underground emergency command bunker.

in this intelligence sharing room, agents monitor online chatter. do you have people on your radar right now that you are checking up on making sure you know where they are before the marathon? >> yeah, we are working with the fbi we work with all of our partners to make sure we pay attention to who might be a threat to the marathon. so we have our eyes on certain people. as far as what their travels might be. >> reporter: there will be 30,000 people running the 26.2 mile route. and 1 million spectators along the way. backpacks have been banned and so have drones. there are drone detectors to alert authorities. also, four massachusetts state police helicopters will be in the sky providing surveillance help. >> actually on the infrared camera, jeff. >> it can scan for people on roof stops and zoom in on suspicious objects like unattended bags. but no amount of preparation will be enough for commissioner evans to let down his guard.

>> we have a lot of undercover officers working the crowd. we have bomb sniffing dogs. pretty confident we will have a great race. any marathon when you cover that amount of distance, unfortunately, you can never say the whole route is secure. >> reporter: evans says there is no specific or credible threat against the marathon. still it will be all hands on deck staffing until the last runner crosses the finish line and the crowd here disperse. >> if you watch the boston marathon today, thousand of daffodils are lining the course. michelle miller got a firsthand look and explains. >> reporter: the daffodils in bloom throughout boston mark more than the change of seasons. >> the daffodils symbolize hope and rebirth. they're incredibly cheerful. they're also very tough. diane valley started the marathon daffodils project after the bombings in 2013. >> i hope people will see it as a beautification that can continue and that people will plant their own daffodils along

the route. >> reporter: more than 100 volunteers from the eight towns along the marathon route pitched in to plant as many of the resilient perennials as they could. >> reporter: the idea grew from a few to 100,000. 26.2 miles. >> reporter: potted daffodils grown and kept cool at a green house south of the city, timed to bloom just before the race. >> once they get out in the warm air they will burst forth and be in full flower for the day of the marathon. >> reporter: more than 2,000 will go to business as long the route. like marathon sports, the finish line storefront where the first of the two explosions took place. >> is it hard for you? >> it's gotten easier. >> reporter: shane o'hara was there three years ago sheltering survivors and tending to the wounded. >> reporter: how did you know what to do? >> i don't think i did know what i was doing. more reactions. >> reporter: o'haira fielded question as but what happened in front of his store since the

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happiness. barry peterson reports. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it has been called the forbidden kingdom, but it could be shangri-la. hidden away for centuries amid the majesty of the himalayas, surrounded by industrial giants china and india, bhutan has always gone it own way. the economy is based on agriculture. and it has a constitution. that mandates 60% of the land must be forest. the actual total is 72%. no overdevelopment here. >> your tray tables are stowed. >> reporter: coming off the plane, you breathe in some of

the freshest air on the planet. as you drift into a past that is always present. you will encounter buddhist monks and landscapes strewn with prayer flags. by royal decree, even new buildings must be decorated with traditional carved wood and mythical creatures. and there is something else mandated by royal decree, happiness. that's right. in the 1970s. bhutan instead of an emphasis on gross national product, embraced an official policy of gross national happiness. your royal highness. when we met american and oxford educated prince dasha jiggio, brother of the king, we asked him how does the monarchy defined. >> gross national happiness is

finding the right balance between economic and well being. family, friend, the culture, traditions you share, the values that you hold. >> reporter: rush hour weary americans can marvel that in the largest city, tempu, population, 100,000, a traffic jam is about a dozen cars. bhutan once had a stoplight. it was right here. the only stoplight in the whole country. they decided it was too modern so they took it out. they also decided they didn't want those icons of america's global reach, fast food restaurants. so in bhutan there are no mcdonald's, no burger king, not even a starbuck's. but change is coming. a high tech invasion, crossing bhutan's lofty peaks. and this invasion of modern times was invited in. television with american reruns

and, bolliwood soap operas from india came in 1999. followed by the in the net. -- followed by the internet. and computer games that fascinate this 14-year-old. what do you look better, computer games or archery? >> computer games. >> reporter: computer games. >> buzz i have a passion for it. >> reporter: have you tried archery? >> no. >> reporter: that is worrisome for a kingdom whose national sport is archery. [ cheers and applause ] >> yes! yes! school teacher, his father taught him archery at age 10. now today, do children want to do archery? or do they want to play on the internet? >> most of the children they don't like to play this one. >> reporter: does that mean that in bhutan archery might go away? >> maybe.

>> reporter: as more of the outside world comes into bhutan, how does that affect your country? your culture? the things you cherish? >> it has brought a plus and a minus. with the globalization and us opening up our doors. but, it is how we man aage it a balance things. we can't really swim against the tide. ♪ ♪ the traditional and the modern. met this past thursday. when the bhutanese royals opened their doors to british royals william and kate. she dressed in a blouse and skirt combination that is bhutan's age old style for women. for men, the traditional wear is called a gho, as i discovered. it is a complicated belted robe.

putting it on is a two-person job. >> it is a gho. but to go to bhutan not that easy. it limits international tourists. there were 57,000 last year. just slightly more people than visit disney world in one day. ♪ ♪ of the lucky few who make it here, most head for this monastery high up a mountain. this is the tiger's nest, bhutan's number one tourist attraction. and when they say the journey is half the fun, that's not the half of it for the journey to get here. >> it is a trek up 3,000 feet of elevation. first on what you dearly hope are sure footed horses. and when it gets deeper by your own sure feet. and if you are very lucky, you

might catch sight of a golden langer monkey having a leva lea munch for lunch. it is enough off to make anyone happy. what makes you happy? >> hmm, happiness is a very relative term. but for me, having positive energies. and being content with myself. >> reporter: how important is making time for your family for happiness do you think? >> extremely important. i think i would put it on top of list. >> reporter: he ought to know. the former head of bhutan's gross national happiness commission. >> there are important things for, in one's life that contribute to one's happiness which requires the investment of time. more than money. >> reporter: to boost happiness, his commission ordered contemplation. two minutes of daily meditation

and each school each day. and there are happiness helpful reminders along the roads and on the hill sides. here people take happiness seriously. for him, it's living in a peaceful country. she says, it is being where nature and the mountains are preserved. >> in bhutan we still have our culture very intact. it is our day-to-day life here in bhutan. that is the most special thing. we are culture. ♪ ♪ perhaps that is the one lesson from this small and gentle buddhist country. happiness is not about hurrying through life or a trip to the mall or the next new car. [ bell tolls ] >> happiness they will tell you

here is being content with what every day life offers you every day.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

it is an extraordinary scene on cape cod. a surge in seals. thousand packing the beach. and bringing problems as well. don dahler has the story. >> reporter: the season for them, they spend a lot more time on dry ground. they might be cute to look at, but with their growing numbers, they're also bringing with them a lot of frustration as well as some unwanted guests. footage taken from a small plane shows thousand of seals on this cape cod beach, stretched out for miles. experts say the increasing number of seals in the waters is the result of the marine mammal protection act. the 1972 law made it illegal to hunt the creatures without a

permit. now decades later, the marine biologist says the seal population is rebounding. >> rekexperts say that's drawin the attention of sharks looking for food. >> sharks eat seals, warming walter temperatures may be a factor. usually, in the ocean there is never one thing that drives something. >> reporter: sharks are no strangers to these parts. the 1975 film "jaws" took place in a fictional new england resort town. last year multiple cape cod beaches were shut down. researchers counted 140 white sharks in this area in 2015. up from 68 the year before. but the spiking shark operation isn't the only issue. local businesses are also being disrupted by the seal's arrival. >> they're eating your fish as you are hauling gear. tempers flare.

>> reporter: fisherman douglas feeney ares you the seals are taking a bite out of his business. >> it makes things a little more scarce on shore. >> they're competing for fish. according to fish and wildlife service this crowded shoreline will begin to disperse next month at the end of molting season. feeney says the fishing and science communities are working together to figure out a better way to co-exist. >> we are learning a lot from each other. hopefully we can come up with a solution to this. which is, which is well needed. it really is. >> reporter: that island where those aerials were taken has restricted access. but that hasn't stopped enterprising individuals around here from starting boat tours, taking people out to watch the seals offshore. like the whale watching tours you have around here. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for monday. for some the news continues. for others check back later for "the morning news" and "cbs this

morning." morning." from the broadcast cenenr captioning funded by cbs it's monday, april 18th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." a massive earthquake levels parts of ecuador. this morning, hundreds are dead, and thousands injured while rescue crews search for signs of life. [ applause ] we're one day away from the new york primary. democrats battle for every vote, packing massive parks and showing off their dance moves, while the republican front-runner is still slamming his party's process. and it's patriots day in boston. three years after the deadly attack, bombing surv