jean laurie accepted the offer. kensinger has documented that while some new yorkers who live by the shore have moved away from the water that did them such harm, not everyone has. >> geographically they are all right there on the water, the and they're going to flood again. and so some of them have chosen to come back and face that, and some of them, you know, the decision was like, you know, we can't live here anymore. we know we're going to flood soon and we don't want to face that again. >> some more news before we leave you tonight. two days. the mid term elections polls show republicans leading in most of the heavily contested elections that will control the u.s. senate. and bernard mays has died. quote, what was needed was really a compassionate ear, someone to talk to. mays the founder of national public radio was 85. i'm hari sreenivasan, good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided