. >> reporter: jake murphy is from wellesley. he's so happy to be home. in july 2011 his entire life changed while on patrol in afghanistan. >> the ied went off, took both my legs and consequently was also in a comb ha for about six weeks -- coma for about six weeks so i suffer add traumatic brain injury also. >> reporter: but today he's doing better and proud not only to serve his country but take part in the boston marathon. >> after years of walking down the street and watching them go through wellesley this is my first. >> reporter: he was greeted by local authorities. >> welcome is absolutely amazing. i've been to a lot of cities and this is probably the first city you get off the plane and firefighters and police are outside just there to welcome us. >> reporter: it's certainly inspiring to watch these heroes step off the plane one by one on their own power. >> it's breathtaking. they're so inspiring and part of our family now. >> reporter: each one knows they have a long road to recovery and while getting through the marathon will be challenging, i

. >> reporter: her decks and land destroyed this winter by two storms that pounded the wellesley coast. in just 15 years her property has gone from a one-acre rectangle to a sliver, making her house uninhabitable. >> i knew as soon as i saw it like this that whole part of my life was over. >> reporter: all along america's coast people are discovering beach living may not be sustainable. holly beach, louisiana, was flattened by hurricane rita in 2005. here even the weakest hurricane can cause erosion along the most of the gulf coast, the strongest wiped out the town and eric's vacation rental business. instead of rebuilding homes, he invested in trailers. >> after the storm passed i could bring them back and set them up. maybe a few days' time and i'm back in business. >> reporter: in california, pacifica fought a losing battle against the ocean for decades. now it is pulling back in a $4 million managed retreat. moving homes and parking lots away from the water's edge and replacing them with nature's defense system -- dunes and beach. >> can you imagine california without beaches? it's

. >> she went to wellesley. >> do you still think it's pointless? >> she went to wellesley.he got a degree. >> i have another pointless story for you guys. you know, yesterday, you thought of easter, i'm sure. as 78% of americans. but you know who didn't was google. they thought of it as cesar chavez day. which is why they put him at the top of the google doodles that they didn't. -- did. rather than the obvious easter egg we all think of. it's outrageous. it's outrageous. >> yeah, she's not asking for an image of the vacated tomb. she's just saying have an easter bunny. >> who cares? who cares? who cares? what difference does it make? i mean, it's such lunacy to be of concern because google didn't put an image -- it's like, guys, let's get a life. she said it's pointless. >> but here's another one. why wouldn't you acknowledge easter. you're google doodles. they acknowledge april fools' day. >> so google features easter. points for trying. >> okay. one more piece of information of this, they have never featured easter. >> google is anti-easter, that's what it means. it's po

they know when you run past wellesley college, for example, the chairs can be so loud you cannot evenout of your own ears. they know the boston marathon actually mean something. it is very communitarian. when you take something that is so communitarian and you turn it into something that now going for it is going to feel insecure, dangerous, something you don't want to bring your family too, it really is an attack on collective space with global dimensions. >> talk to us about the history of the boston marathon. you wrote about katherine switzer iran in 1967. >> i'm glad you asked that. i have a friend from vietnam who always reminds me that vietnam is a country, not a war. i hope we remember the boston marathon as a place of history that goes back to 1897 and not just the sight of the national and international tragedy. katherine switzer is part of that history, part of what speaks to the best angels of our nature in the world we would like to live in. the boston marathon was all men through 1966. in 1967, katherine switzer decided she was gone to enter the race. she filled out her f

i was out there with my two kids in wellesley. you look along down the route. this is an event for families at the boston marathon. so they're lined up. the highest concentration of these people are ride there by the finish line. they want to see people coming toward the end. you just can't imagine these children who are seeing this and hearing two bombs and watching people get injured and their families and their parents having to protect them. >> we are being told, grim news obviously. two people dead. that has been confirmed. 22 injured. we also have a, reports of the types of injuries that have taken place today. many of them were gruesome variety. some people are missing limbs from two bombs. the boston at let tick association -- athletic association putting that there were two bombs that went off seconds apart down there at boylston street. 671 marathon sports. you're familiar with it. public library is there as well. it is the finish line and tents for triage and runners coming through for exhaustion and for cramps like anything else. there is incredible

but i was just out with the fact, my first job after college was teaching at wellesley college, edited that for a summer program, and after that i thought i wanted to go into investment banking. i went in for about six months and realized it was not a thing for me. and i started a newspaper in boston, and i sold my car, sold my mountain bike and bought a 650 computer from apple. i learned pagemaker and pagemaker pro. i learned how to program my own set of designs on the newspaper. we did all the editorials and all the printing. i did all of the ad sales, and that was an incredible experience. over all, that was kind my introduction to content and journalism and those things, and i was really, editorial wasn't great but it was a really good learning experience. i think when you fast-forward fd today, where the internet i is n mobile and things, i stupidly fundamentally that journalism as a whole is very, very, very important concept of the future. aol has really invested very heavily in our team. we have a really good group of people at aol who are passionate about content and brand. i

and what we have invested overall but i will start that my first job after college was teaching at wellesley college and i did that for a summer program. after that i thought i would go into investment banking and did that six months and realize that was informed me that i started a newspaper in boston and i sold my car, my mountain bike and bought a computer from apple and learned page maker and i program to my own designs and we did all the editorial, printing, ad sales and that was an incredible experience. that was my introduction to content of journalism and the editorial was in great and not a great product but a great learning experience but today were the internet is with things are mobilize still believe fundamentally journalism as whole is very, very very important concept of the future. a zero paul has invested very heavily has said good group of people who are passionate about content and brands and i would say at the top level we have proxy battle we had to go through a dissident shareholder that is content a good investment at the high level is journalism a good investment? fun