you couldn t ask for better weather. this is great. this is the golden goose. we knew it was going to be slow, but just the idea that we re here, that s the remarkable thing. reporter: what is way to ring in 100 years. i guess we re doing the same thing they did back 100 years a ago. reporter: they absolutely are working around the clock here. a lot of grit and perseverance here. just to give you some perspective of how important it is that people come here, tourism on the jersey shore makes up about $19 billion in total revenue every summer. and most of that comes in the 14 weeks between memorial day and labor day. last year they had about $7.5 million visitors. of course they re hoping to reach that or get anywhere close to this year. and on a typical memorial day weekend, you ll have about 65,000 people here. but because of things like that you just saw behind me, the big tractor, a lot of repairs here, they don t expect to see that
record 29.3 feet. floodwaters pouring into businesses in peoria. as abc s wendy gillette reports, the flood threat covers a wide area. [ sirens blaring ] reporter: sandbags to the rescue in fargo, north dakota. and the tiny community of dutchtown, missouri, population 94. all to save homes and businesses from ravaging floodwaters. flowing across parts of the midwest. you couldn t ask for a more appropriate name than grand rapids, michigan, these past few days. never seen anything like this before in my life. and just was intrigued at how high the water was. and just how bad everything got flooded. reporter: a familiar refrain across the region. we lived here 50 years. we come downtown to walk a lot at least a couple times every week. and never have seen anything like this. reporter: the flooding is the worst in recorded history in some areas. came in like a water fall. reporter: that was before
new level. record 29.3 feet. floodwaters pouring into businesses in peoria. as abc s wendy gillette reports, the flood threat covers a wide area. [ sirens blaring ] reporter: sandbags to the rescue in fargo, north dakota. and the tiny community of dutchtown, missouri, population 94. all to save homes and businesses from ravaging floodwaters. flowing across parts of the midwest. you couldn t ask for a more appropriate name than grand rapids, michigan, these past few days. never seen anything like this before in my life. and just was intrigued at how high the water was. and just how bad everything got flooded. reporter: a familiar refrain across the region. we lived here 50 years. we come downtown to walk a lot at least a couple times every week. and never have seen anything like this. reporter: the flooding is the worst in recorded history in some areas. came in like a water fall.
finds only two bombs were used in the attacks. nearly identical devices that were homemade, assembled inside pressure cookers filled with metals designed to inflict damage. we have been removing various things from people in the sense of, it s not necessarily identified, just pieces of plastic, metal, just various random things. reporter: as the day goes on, we learn that 29-year-old medford, massachusetts resident krystle campbell was another victim of the attack. her mother patty tried to hold back emotions. she was always smiling. you couldn t ask for a better daughter. the third victim is revealed by boston university to be a 23-year-old graduate student. chinese national lingzi lu. her adviser and professor remembers a kind woman with a bright future. it s such a waste of all the time and energy and dreams that she had and we ll never know what she could have done. reporter: day three, still no
she was the best. you couldn t ask for a better daughter. reporter: carol costello, cnn, atlanta. krystle campbell, 29 years old. we will remember her. a memorial for 23-year-old grad student lingzi lu is set for tonight at 7:00. friends and family say lu had a sweet smile, bubbly personality, always eager to help others. she was just one class away from graduating with a masters from boston university when she was killed watching the race with friends. she moved from china to study here in boston. her professor says she had big dreams to take her american education back to china and become a businesswoman. we will remember her as well. and of course we re remembering 8-year-old martin richard who died a week ago today in the bombings. the third grader lived in the dorchester section of boston. he was standing near the finish line with his mom and sister when the bombs went off. both his mom and sister were