your class was an act of character. >> dubois: steve hartman will tell later in the show. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> dubois: good evening. scott is off tonight. i'm maurice dubois. the holiday weekend is beginning in the east with a deadly storm. hermine made landfall this morning in northern florida as a hurricane, first to hit that state since 2005. a man was killed by a fallen tree. tonight, hermine is a tropical storm, churning up the coast with torrential rain, damaging wind, and dangerous seas. we have a team on hermine's trail beginning with omar villafranca in port richey, florida. >> reporter: hurricane hermine barreled into the sunshine state around 2:00 a.m. this morning. the deadly storm flooded entire neighborhoods. wind gusts of up to 80 miles per hour snapped trees, one of which fell on top of a homeless man, killing him. nearly 300,000 people lost power, with power lines down in most of the state. >> i don't know the condition of my house. i don't know if it's flooded or if it isn't. it's really, really, really bad. like, i've never seen it th

: we end tonight from a friendship, spun out of gold. here's steve hartman "on the road." >> one, two, three. >> reporter: this week, two good friends, 46-year-old joe jacobi and seven-year-old chloe smith, got together for a little paddle down the chattahoochee river near atlanta, and anyone watch had gone to wonder-- what brought these two together? >> you couldn't have made this up. ( laughing ) >> reporter: it all began a couple of months earlier on dry land. chloe was out for a stroll with her dad, wayne, and as usual, she was everything. >> i had been telling her all day, "keep your hands off things." show him what you was doing. >> reporter: that's when chloe saw something shiny and picked it up. her dad was mad. >> but when i flipped it over, i noticed that it said, "barcelona, 1992." and i had just a strong feeling that this was that olympic gold medal. >> new at 6:00, the theft of an olympic gold medal caught on video. >> reporter: like everyone else in atlanta, wayne had heard the news about the 1992 olympic canoeist who had his gold medal stolen from his car. that canoeist

>> whabrought me here today to >>ub steve hartman will tell later in th show. this is the "cbs evening n with scoel >> dubois: good evening. scott is off tight. i'urice . the east with a deadly storm. hermine made landfalth morning in northern florida as a hurricane, first to hit that state since 2005. a man was killed by a fallen tree. tonight, hermi is a tropical with torrential rain, damaging wind, and dangerous seas. we have a team onmine's trail beginning with omar villafranca in port richey, florida. >> rorter: hurricane hermine barreled into the sunshine state around 2:00 a.m. this morning. the deadly storm floodednte neighborhoods. wind gusts of up to 80 miles per hour snapped trees, onf which fell on top of a homes, nearly 30000 people lost power, with power lines down in most of the state. >> i don't know the condition of my house. i t ow if it's flooded or if it isn't. it'seay, really, really bad. like, i've nevereen it this bad before. >> reporter: here in bo paske, 18 people hado be rescued from the rising waters which barely receded in some places. emergency management crews hav

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the gold. they usually know where they steve hartman found this story on the road. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: this week, two good friend. 46-year-old joe jacoby, and 7-year-old chloe smith got together for a paddle down the chatahoochie river. any one watching had to wonder what brought these two together. >> you couldn't have made this up. >> it all began a couple months her dad, wayne. and as usual, she was getting into everything. >> i had been telling her all day. keep your hand off of things. >> kicking the dirt. >> show them what you was doing? >> that's when chloe saw something shiny and pick it up. her dad was mad. >> when i flipped it over. i noticed it said, barcelona, 1992. i had just a strong feeling that, this was that olympic gold medal. >> new at 6:00. the theft of an olympic gold medaug >> like everyone else in atlanta, wayne had heard the news. >> the 1992 olympic canoeist who had his gold medal stolen from his car. that canoeist -- joe jacoby. >> first what are you doing carrying this thing around? >> i had taken the medal everywhere the i am very casual

story turned foul. steve hartman found it "on the road." i heard of lakes where the fish jump right into your boat. but this was ridiculous. that is a 10-pound canadian goose. >> little disconcerting. her name is kyle. she has a huge crush on the owner of this boat. a guy named mike givanci. mike and his stalker goose friend live on lake oswego outside portland oregon. where every day, mike tries to tell her it is over. and every day, kyle says, oh, no it's not. kyle first fell for mike two years o as a gosling after abandoned by her mother. >> one of my friend noticed her desperate a loan. at any minute she would have been run over by a boat. >> reporter: so mike took her in and took her everywhere. >> i just figured i would keep it alive. long enough to be an adult and to fend. >> reporter: it would go on its way. didn't work out that way? >> no, she never left. i tried to get rid of her. driven her miles away. left her in the middle of nowhere. when i come back, she is home before me. not a lot we can do. >> imprinted on mike. >> you can't get away from her? >> she is everywhere.

know where they put th steve hartman found this story on the road. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: this week, two good friend. 46-year-old joe jacoby, and 7-year-old chloe smith got together for a paddle down the chatahoochie river. any one watching had to wonder what brought these two together. >> you couldn't have made this up. >> it all began a couple months earlier on dry land. her dad, wayne. and as usual, she was getting into everything. >> i had been telling her all day. keep your hand off of things. >> kicking the dirt. >> show them what you was doing? >> that's when chloe saw something shiny and pick it up. her dad was mad. >> when i flipped it over. i noticed it said, barcelona, 1992. i had just a strong feeling that, this was that olympic gold medal. >> new at 6:00. the theft of an olympic gold medal caught on vide atlanta, wayne had heard the news. >> the 1992 olympic canoeist who had his gold medal stolen from his car. that canoeist -- joe jacoby. >> first what are you doing carrying this thing around? >> i had taken the medal everywhere the i am very casual with it.

without its oldest resident. steve hartman found the story on the road. >> reporter: at the ridge presbyterian church in new jersey, they dent need stained glass to make their windows breathtaking. parishioner john klippel says for the 300 year history of this church one of the most mag nif tent oak trees known to man has the church was intentionally built beside the tree and the town grew around the church. any body who ever lived here has recognized that tree as sort of a symbol of home. >> reporter: george washington walked past it. some of the soldiers are buried under it. the tree predates america, columbus, pretty much everything we know came after this 600-year-old oak. but now, our matriarch is fading. after decade of leaning on the oldest white oak tree in north america is on its last limbs. local residents can't believe it. >> it just kind feels like a part unfortunate the town is dying wit it. >> nobody thought about the tree dying. one of the things that was going to go on forever. >> that's what a lot of people thought it is always going to be here. but apparently it

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