. >> josmar: this is rockaway park further down you call it far rockaway there's also rockaway beach.a lot of different parts to it. >> anthony: josmar trujillo, a writer and local activist. >> anthony: you from queens originally? >> josmar: i was raised in the city but i lived in queens for most of my adult life now. >> anthony: and rockaway now? >> josmar: no i so i left here a little, about a year after hurricane sandy, 'cause the way sandy hit and the way that it kind of you know shook people out of where. you didn't want to put your family through that again, the risk of that. >> anthony: how bad did it get hit out here? >> josmar: this was like something out of a movie. >> anthony: hurricane sandy pounded the east coast in 2012 and many communities suffered, but the rockaways were hit with a particular ferocity. >> anthony: how was the response? >> josmar: you know, the response from everyday people was good, like one of the best things about what happened right afterwards was the way a lot of people came together who lived here, but also how a lot of people kind of came in, pit

it would have benefited rockaway brewing company across the street from where the headquarters was planned. what was positive about amazon coming here? >> i think the attention the city was going to give us in terms of new sewers, infrastructure for trains, you know, schools. dit thchanf amazon says it's more than 5,000 employees in new york and promises to add more. wendy gillette, cbs news, long island city, new york. >>> two people are being questioned as persons of interest in the investigation into the alleged attack against actor jussie smollett. chicago police raided the home of two brothers last night. cbs chicago station wbbm reports police took bleach, shoes, electronics, receipts, and other items from the home. a source tells wbbm police are looking into whether the men helped smollett stage the attack. this comes amid reports smollett was being dropped from the show "empire" which writers of the series dispute. chicago police say allegations about the attack being a hoax on unconfirmed. smollett told "good morning america" in an interview that aired yesterday that he's angry so