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Atlantic these days. >> reporter: neither would the most famous survivor of all, molly brown. according to her great granddaughter, she would be first in line for a ticket. >> probably because she never finished the voyage. and she always loved to finish what she started. >> reporter: at least molly brown would recognize the place. although maybe not the ticket price. some of which may go for as much as $1 million for the best cabins on the first voyage of the second "titanic." john donvan, abc ...

Cabbie why he jumped the line. >> reporter: they attracted drivers from across the region. >> im actually waiting to get gas to bring it to people in coney island, because theyre devastated. and destroyed. >> reporter: look how close that is to the refinery, that is the gas everybody wants. some refineries are still out of commission but there are still signs of progress, fuel tankers came to bring millions of barrels of fuel. after state and federal authorities cut red tape to get them into por...

Gulfs refinery row, this is exposed to the northeast quadrant of isaac-- the most powerful and dangerous part of the storm. just the threat of this storm has already shut down 40% of u.s. crude. gulf coast refineries process 44% of u.s. crude. six of them have temporarily shut down due to isaac, cutting production by almost half-- a drop of 1.million barrels per day. offshore, oil companies including chevron and b.p. have voluntarily evacuated employees from 346 of 596 platforms. together they p...

The second world war and the great sacrifice it took to defeat the nazis and defend this nation. they decided, nonetheless, to host the world just as they are doing tonight. >> as the boat pulled out of that dock i can still hear those words. now is the hour. and were just floating away on our way to england. >> the american team arrived here to find a nation still getting back on its feet after the war. ray lump played forward for team usa basketball. >> all over town there was rubble. as far a...

Never felt so close to my ancestry in my life as at this very moment. >> reporter: when she set out on her maiden and only voyage the titanic was considered a mar vefl luxury and technology, practically unsinkable, her owners said. instead she has become a monument to human arrogance and folly and the name of a tragedy that seems almost as real today as it did on that night to remember a hundred years ago. mark phillips, cbs news, addergoole, ireland. >> that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. l...

♪ [ male announcer ] take action. take advil®. >> axelrod: it was an emotional home opener for the san francisco giants yesterday. brian stowe, who was nearly beaten to death at dodger stadium last year, appeared on a tv screen at the ballpark. the still-recuperating giants fan motioned as if he was handing the ball to his son who was out on the field, who then threw out the symbolic first pitch. the giants won the s had been lost, an event that has gripped imaginations ever since. compiling ...

>> we realized we have both had ancestors on the titanic. >> jack fare, bobs grandfather, just 17, was sailing home in first class with his parents after a european vacation. and emma bucknell, katherines great, great grandmother was also in first. at 60, a veteran of dozens of trans-atlantic crossings. both survived when more than 1500 perished and both left accounts of harrowing hours in the freezing north atlantic after titanics collision with an iceberg three times its size. from their house...

Director james cameron has even explored the wreck and produced a national geographic special, just one of many now crowding the airwaves. titanic artifacts from the ocean floor are being auctioned off for the first time. jewelry, a chandelier, third class dish ware, expected to bring in millions. theres even a cruise that set out this week to retrace the titanics route. >> we wanted to honor and respect the people who were on the titanic before us. >> reporter: for those who couldnt get a ticke...

Fallibility was on full display. and it has captured the worlds imagination for a century. in the end, the titanic may have proven unsinkable after all. stephanie gosk, nbc news, south hampton, england. thats our broadcast on a tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. im brian williams, and we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. good evening, everyone. thanks for squoing us. im janelle wang in for jessica aguirre. >> and im raj mathai. it is cold, it is wind...

That the titanic set off from england. among the 1,500 who died when it sank were folks from a small town in ireland, hoping for a new life in america. mark phillips has their story. >> reporter: everything about the titanic was big. biggest ship. biggest disaster. biggest story. but this tragedy also came in small packages. no where was it felt more deeply than here in the remote ireland parish of addergoole, so deeply it was hardly spoken of for almost 100 years. ♪ now though, theyre rehears...