collar families here rely on work from nantucket's wealthy summer residents.ut his one-man operation is down 2/3, from 21 calls a week to 7 calls a week. >> just trying to keep things going, supporting a family, making hurt the bills are paid. it's been a challenge. >> reporter: they've cut $300 from monthly spending, dining out four times a month is over. and on the home menu, less fresh fish. it's too expensive. >> instead of having fish say four times a month we may have it just a couple times a moment. >> reporter: that means fewer trips to fish markets like sayles seafoods, a wholesale and retail business charlie sayle started in 1968. >> here's a native. >> reporter: a 2-pound lobster, / price one more sign of the times. so this would sell for now? >> probably 6.50. >> reporter: and last year? >> 8.50. >> reporter: sayle says conk and other seafood to fancy restaurants across america, but sayle -- sales al sayles's are off 140 a month and employees have felt it. >> we cut their hours back. >> reporter: by how much? >> 30%. >> reporter: and because the fi

. >> reporter: for now, spencer is banking on the sand, opening a shop on nantucket hoping the wealthyland will offer shelter in an economic storm. seth doane, cbs news, west palm beach, florida. >> couric: next week, we'll continue the story on nantucket where an electrician is going through a kind of financial shock. and if you'd like to see more on this stories, including segments you may have missed, go to cbsnews.com. and now to a rare birthday celebration for the rarest of beasts. tai shan, the giant panda, turned four today and his caretakers at the national zoo in washington thought it worthy of a treat. a birthday cake made of bamboo and beets. tai shan is the only panda born at the national zoo to survive more than a few weeks. and now he's a teenager-- at least in bear years. and coming up next, they are the hottest thing on wheelss-- on the web. discover a light yogurt like no other. activia light! delicious, fat free, and above all... the only one that has bifidus regularis and is clinically proven to help regulate your digestive system. activia light. ♪ activiaaa! a torna

. >> the people up there in nantucket and the langland did not think it was such a nice idea when the wind farm -- in new england did not think it was such a nice a dear -- >> i think it was the view. >> that is the point, wind farms are ugly. tens of millions -- you have killed a lot of birds and bats and yet something not very pretty to look at. >> get down to the idea of demand. we've got more computers, more electronics. if we go to electric cars, we will need more power. how do we do this? >> if we do not find a new source, a concentrated source of energy -- they talk about energy density, with this thing how much energy can you get, not much how you can get out of this thing where there is no density. you here, for example, people who did extraordinarily excited about hydrogen. well, there is a lot of hydrogen accepted as always combined with something else. it is not hydrogen itself. >> pure. >> it is and what her, coal, natural gas, in oil. the easiest way is to get it out of natural gas. why do that when natural gas would do most of the work? and there are other problems. but

look at the line that is finally moving off nantucket, outer cape cod.gh parts of connecticut, massachusetts, another line, now finally moving through the -- hudson valley. that one is clearing, new england. there is the other line. moving towards waterbury, connecticut, on into bridgeport. and, with those two lines that have been moving through. look at all the reports of either hail -- that is the grown area -- 3/4 inch hail, albany. wind damage reports too. a wild day for parts of the northeast. framingham, massachusetts. over 5 inches of rain. many of the suburbs. localized flooding too. moving off tonight. finally they will get a break. will once again have general area of high pressure. nice, nice weather. low humidity with reasonable dew point. we get later into the week. upper level wind begin to turn a little bit more to the southwest. we will see some humidity coming back. we get into the weekend. not tomorrow. not when you get up tomorrow morning. it will be a delightful morning. really refreshing air for now the hottest time of the year as we

are struggling businesses in the cayman islands creating hardships for residents all the way to nantucket? our financial family tree series continues tonight. >>> all of the rooms at a motel in eastern kansas have a view of the sky after powerful storms ripped the roof off yesterday. those storms packed quite a punch with high winds and heavy rain and hail. a hangar at an airport in ottawa, kansas, was all but flattened, and at least two tractor-trailer trucks were blown on their sides. there were no reported injuries. rough weather near boston yesterday toppled trees and battered the area with hail. and just over 4 inches of rain soaked charleston, south carolina, a record for the date. >>> there is a report that michael jackson's family tried to save the singer. cnn says that two years ago members of the jackson family tried to stage an intervention, but jackson ordered his bodyguards not to let his relatives in to see him. meantime, now that the memorial service is over for jackson, the question is where will he be buried? ben tracy reports. >> reporter: in the surreal saga that is mic

they have aeautiful home there in nantucket. >> there's cody and his beautiful girlfriend.> we really h fun. >> look at that. can you imagine that's your dinner. that's how it came out. >> it was unbelievable. >> we had so much fun. >> the next day they have a new little boat that we wreentd ten the harbor. you didn't want to leave. >> it was incredible. thank you. >> you went along main street which is just like trying to refined that moment in americana where life used to be like that everywhere. >> yeah. >> they haven't changed the island a great deal. they're trying to keep it the same. >> we saw david gregory who is seven feet tall walking with his wife and three kids. it's homey in the middle of that. i didn't expect all of those kids and all of that stuff happening at 9:00 in the morning. >> it was fun. our daughter didn't enter into the pie eating contest. we were grateful for that. she did enter the watermelon but she lost. the reign is over. she lost her mojo. >> a guy next to her was six feet i don't know what big as a house. >> with a piece of watermelon half he

. >> all i can say, there are a lot of hungry kids in nantucket. lot, their stomachs a bit more full last night. >> oh, it's good to have you back, joe. good to have you back. let's get back to jim. alarming study earlier this week about the impact obesity is having on the health care crisis. something like 9% of all health care costs are obesity related. what are the politics of this? putting a tax on foods that are bad for people. tell me about the politic behind this? >> ate of politics here. now considered the number one driver of the increase in health care costs because people are getting fatter faster than ever before. politicians don't want to deal with this for several reasons. one is, there is a politics of fat. a lot of heavy people happen to live in swing states. people don't want to offend their voters. different reasons why people tend to be obese. some because they eat bad and don't exercise. some genetics, some geographical. lawmakers are wrestling whether to do anything about this. they've rejected the idea of taxes things that mak

. >>> hardship for residents all wait to nantucket. our series continues tonight only on the cbs evening news. >>> and here's a look at tonight's closing numbers from wall street. we'll be right back. >>> it is a terrific thursday evening. how much longer will this continue? eyewitness news is live with first warning weather complete coverage. bob is updating the five-day forecast. but first, meteorologist tim williams is manning the smoker in the outback right now. what's it going to be like if you're headed down the ocean? tim? >> the smoker is definitely in full force. we're waiting and the steam crabs are already on the table. come on out and enjoy it. we're looking at a very nice forecast. if you're planning to do the same thing on the boardwalk. 84 degrees. friday, chance of showers. and we're looking at 85 on sunday. water temperatures in the low 70s. but a gorgeous weekend to be down on the shore. for the rest of us, well, we'll start off with our overnight low. good bit of sunshine. another day of low humidity. temperatures in

>>> creating hardship for residents to nantucket. our financial series continues tonight, only on the cbs evening news. >>> 0 tolerance. the mta is cracking down on its operators and what they can do behind the controls. >>> a house heavily damaged by fire. but a restaurant says they plan to rebuild. you'll hear their story when eyewitness news continues. >>> thanks, ron. the swine flu has returned. will vaccines be ready when and >>> it is 4:29. 80 degrees and mostly sunny. i'm vic carter. >> and i'm denise koch. here's what people are talking about. >>> the h1n1 virus is still a top priority for maryland health officials. they are gathering to discuss the swine flu for winter, when it is expected to come back with a vengeance. >> reporter: for the fall, some americans might get two flu shots. one for the regular flu. the other to prevent the h1n1 strain or swine flu. scientists are about to start testing a new vaccine. if all goes well -- >> best case scenario, it will be available by mid-october. >>> the announcement came at a flu

we are told that peggy cooper cafritz has been up in nantucket. officials will not know the cause of the fire for several days, but we are told that many residents want the water pressure issue resolved. greta kreuz, abc 7 news. >>> one dozen local teenagers who were quarantined in china are returning home. chinese officials enudhost s atsarrtnely students shortly after ariving in beijing when one of the boys showed symptomsof the swine flu. some of the parents said nine of the students tested positive for h1n1. the students are part of a culture and the language program at the university of maryland. we'll have more at 6:00. >>> investigators are trying to figure out by a truck crashed into a building in southeast d.c. one person suffered minor injury when the truck plowed into the building at martin luther king avenue and good luck road in southeast. there's no word on why the driver lost control. >>> workers are repairing a water main break in nohwest. the eight-inch main ruptured on belmont street nw. belmont street is closed between 13th and

. >>> we'll show you how a struggling electrician on nantucket is having an impact on an ice sculptures whose sales have gone cold. it's a ripple effect on the >>> over the hump we go. wednesday, of course, our hump day. bob has a live look outside. changes may finally be coming because we need some change. bob is updating the five-day forecast. but first, meteorologist bernadette woods is in the outback with a look at the ocean city forecast. >> if you are lucky enough, this is what you're going to encounter. there are more chances for thunderstorms than we had over the past couple of weekends here. tomorrow are could be a few around. then there seems to be a break the first part of friday before friday night into saturday. another round could move our way. and at this point, sunday looks to be on the dryer side. it gets warm and muggy the next two days. then starts to cool down for the weekend. now, for our forecast here in the city. and most of the area for tomorrow, warm to start out the day. not like the last couple of mornings. we'll be in the 60s. that's going to lead to a much

i decided to dust off the old cannon in you a nantucket, rhode island. >> catcher mark wagner gave meome tips. >> reporter: what about wagging the tongue or anything? yeah, g the tongue out there. >> reporter: now we're talking. >> that's intimidating, too. >> reporter: but would it be enough to travel 60 feet, 6 inches, enough to avoid near certain humiliation? the moment of truth. the pitch. maybe not a strike but, come on, it could have been worse, much worse. trust me. trust mariah carey. john berman, abc news, pawtucket, rhode island. >> he's got a pretty good arm. let's see yours. you got your own little makeshift ball. we have our own baseball. this is a bad idea. >> watch your idea. be careful. >> nice catch approximately well done, kristin. i was afraid she was going to break something. >> i was sort of hoping i was. >> charlie gibson was going to get mad because this is his set and we'll be in trouble. thankfully that didn't happen. >> because of my skilled arm. >> when we return, a real estate agent's secret weapon. >> the writer and marketing whiz who can sell just about a

in his first vacation he goes to nantucket for this large abolition convention, space in front of the largest crowd of whites he has ever spoken to before and essentially is discovered by william lloyd garrison who hires him on the spot to become a paid a lecturer for the american antislavery society, traveling all over the north in the midwest converting audiences to the cause of abolition. douglass eventually moved to rochester, new york concerns his own newspaper. he was the 19th century longest running black newspaper man in the country and he first mentions lincoln in his newspaper in 1847 and that appears as kind of a rose gallery of those congressmen, lincoln was a freshman congressman and house from illinois, lincoln appears on the list of other proslavery southerners who oppose a bill to abolish slavery in the district of columbia. in the douglass mentions lincoln's name along with people like alexander stephens, the future vice president of the confederacy. why would lincoln have opposed a bill to abolish slavery in washington d.c. in 1847? lincoln hated slavery, he said tha

cape cod, martha's vinyard, nantucket. look to the west of boston. the greens, the yellows, heavy rain. the blues, light scattered stuff. but the center, the low, is right around boston itself. low pressure right now and that is stretching the rain in toward northern parts of maine at this time. heaviest rain is around new hampshire, vermont. we had flash flood watches. two inches of rain all the way through boston today. that stretches all the way up toward a the north and more rain in the carolinas. we'll get to that in the next half hour. >> all right, bob. awesome. talk to you soon. >>> there could soon be an unwelcome surprise in your mailbox. 'tis the season for tax assessments. >>> well, 11 minutes past the hour. more now on our top story. five rabbis from new jersey and brooklyn are among the 44 people arrested in a massive corruption sting and correspondent richard lui is joining us. let's talk about the alleged role in all of this. what are the accused of doing? >> they're accused of setting up charitable organizations used to launder milli

why are struggling businesses in the cayman islands creating hardship for residents all the way to nantucketeries continues tonight only on the "cbs evening news." now back to "the early show." >> dave is out on the plaza. i think by this time he's got himself strapped into that -- oh, of course he does. >> i'm not strapped in yet. i'm just trying to see if i have the guts to do this. i don't think i n do it. i don't think i can do it. it's pretty cool, though. but i don't have the harnett on. let's bounce across the country and see what's going on all throughout the usa. wow, that's cool. let's pull up the maps. you have some flooding downpours which are going to occur during the afternoon in the upper midwest. a couple of inches possible from madison to des moines, pushing eastward towards the great lakes. you're going to want to make sure you watch the roads, standing water especially. we'll widen out. watch the hail too, by the way. more rain stretching into georgia and south carolina. charleston, you got walloped yesterday. high heat in the southern plains. looks like the rockies to the

get this, nine bucks, one way to nantucket from new york. with jetblue. >> are you kids?>> nine bucks. >> nine bucks? >> yeah, jetblue is doing this every monday. they're putting up some deal. this is inventory they really can't get rid of, so they're marking it down, twittering about it, tweeting. right. >> so, those are -- what about fees? are fees attached to? >> wait, wait, wait. i have to tell you more about this. >> you got more? >> it's interesting. you can get real-time tweets on your cell phone so you don't have to go to the computer to get information or your blackberry from a specified airport if twitter isn't your style. you can sign up at sites like airfarewatch.com so there are all sorts of electronic ways to help you act quickly in the marketplace. >> i got a blackberry, so i'm taking one step into this brave new world here. fees, should we talk about fees? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> they're not going anywhere. you're going to continue paying them. here are ways to avoid them, though, we'll help you cut your costs. go paperless, don't pay online. pay for luggage

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. >>> a lot of people shipping up to boston, at least to cape cod and nantucket this week.at boston thanks to the friends. it's 58, 58 in the middle of july, going up to 75. lots of sun in the forecast, though. >>> it's 45 minutes past the hour. time to fast forward through the stories making news later today. the g-8 summit wraps up in l'aquila, italy. at 8:00 a.m. eastern time, president obama will hold a news conference. live here on cnn and cnn.com/live. at 10:00 a.m., hillary clinton presides over a town hall meeting at the state department expected to focus on the department's approach to diplomacy and development around the world. >> and after weeks of repair work to fix a hydrogen leak on the space shuttle "endeavour," nasa will give an update, saturday's planned launch for the spacecraft. they had problems with the repair work and the weather so hopefully things get off of the ground as they get ready for saturday. >> ask the guy you know. are you out there? what's going to happen? >> that's a great question. it's about a 50-50 proposition. a good chance of showers

nyc to nantucket 74 bucks. the trick is check out the book by date. sales the better get advertised sales. brian: their goal is to say it's unfortunate we're sold out on them. we like to charge you $4,000 instead and. union nighted. let's talk about last minute domestic sales. right now we saw our staff $44 between denver and salt lake city. 54 between vegas and san francisco. and between new york city and d.c. now, tell me about these. got to travel bye bye july 14th. that's next week. >> well, that's the thing. this is an example of these very last-minute sales. this was released a couple days ago specifically for travel this weekend. today or tomorrow and have you got to return by monday or tuesday of next week. so, very short lived. very immediate type of sale but they are becoming indegreesingly more important. really tells just what the consumer -- these days consumers are waiting longer and longer and waiting for that very, you know, aggressive best price deals to actually jump on booking these flights. we are north seeing these long-term booki

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this is for short-term travel and 9 bucks one way to nantucket from new york. you can get real-time tweets on your cell phone or blackberry with deals from a specific airport. if twitter isn't your style, you can sign up at airfare like travelzoom.com to get alerts sent to your e-mail. airline fees aren't going anywhere, so avoid them. go paperless. pay for your baggage fees online and don't request seat preferences. what could be the wave of the future, standing only flights. being considered in europe. we'll keep you posted on developments. i'm gerri willis in new york. >>> child obesity rates in the u.s. have tripled since 1980. this week's cnn hero is on the front lines of the crisis in georgia battling to keep the kids in her community from early graves. meet pamela green jackson. >> life was not that great. it was not easy to carry around this weight. i wanted to be healthy and fit. >> where did we go wrong as a country where pe is no longer a priority or children's health is no longer a priority? something had to be done and i just decided to be the one