governor chris christie was on the today show this morning, cutting a five-mile long ribbon on the beach. officially starting the summer tourism season but not all the beaches will be ready for summer unfortunately. the reporter is at the stretch of the jersey shore still on the rebound. what is behind the delay in the recovery where you are standing right now? reporter: milissa, would you believe we are only just about a mile north of where that ribbon cutting took place in seaside heights. still 300 home are waiting to be torn down from hurricane sandy. they needed an order approving that action from fema and that only came on saturday. so where property is municipally opened, where that funding is coming from, where that approval is coming from to rebuild and tear down, that effort is a little more straightforward. where you re concerning private and personal property, homes like the ones you see behind me, a lot more red tape is required to actually get that underway.
the concert this morning definitely brightened up what was a bleary morning. good as new. you walk down it, you smell funnel cakes, french fries, the shops are filling up their shelves and a lot of the sign say standing strong through the storm. a lot of it branding in terms of restoring the brand of the shore to withstand something like sandy. the beaches are thinner. there are no rides on the shore and of course, it is unclear how safe some people would feel getting into that water. governor christie at another ceremony on monday of this week said all the jersey shore should be restored by next summer. but the priority here is to get the businesses and some of those central hubs reopened so people feel like the shore, at least part of it, has returned to normal. i swear you gain like five pounds just down the boardwalk. just walking. you smell the funnel cakes. you smell it and gain weight. thank you so much. a tractor-trailer involved crash in atlanta top our look at