vanita nair is there. a weekend of record rains in san antonio with widespread flooding and hundreds rescued. the emotional scene in london as the family of a slain soldier visits the site of the attack. charlie d'agata has new information on one of the suspects. >> america, can't you see... ♪ >> jeff: and on the march, a vietnam veteran who walks with a purpose. carter evans explained. >> i'll be walking until the day they bury me. i got to do this. this is my life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. there is no doubt they're going to bounce back but they need help. the words of president obama today as he toured the devastation in oklahoma following last week's tornado. he promised that help is on the way. we begin with vanita nair who is in moore. >> reporter: his first look at the devastation was from high above. but this amount of destruction looks different on the ground. >> obviously the damage here is pretty

vanita nair is there.kend of record rains in san antonio with widespread flooding and hundreds rescued. the emotional scene in london as the family of a slain soldier visits the site of the attack. charlie d'agata has new information on one of the suspects. >> america, can't you see... ♪ >> jeff: and on the march, a vietnam veteran who walks with a purpose. carter evans explained. >> i'll be walking until the day they bury me. i got to do this. this is my life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> jeff: good evening, everyone,

vanita nair has her story. >> reporter: three days ago, the storm bore down, jennifer doan covered her third grade students with her body. we spoke to her in her hospital bed the next morning. do you remember what happened after that? >> it came, and we couldn't move. i couldn't move, and they were crying, and i... i couldn't do anything. >> jennifer has a fractured sternum and spine. doctors at oklahoma university trauma center feared she would never walk again. she's proving them wrong. yesterday, she took her first steps. >> i was scared. i mean, to take that first step was just... >> reporter: from her tiny hospital room now filled with flowers, jennifer is starting to move forward. >> some of my students from this year and from before come to visit and... it made me feel so good. >> reporter: what did they say when they saw you? >> they were in shock. they've never seen me like this before. >> reporter: jennifer's family has visited, and her fiance is always by her side, but three- year-old kiley and five-year-old kairi bring her the most joy. how have your girls responded to this