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Rebuilding process yet again, martha. martha: unbelievable that fire swept in there in september, not quite a year after the storm first hit a year ago today. where do they go from here, rick? how are things going to really go now for that area? >> reporter: well i want to bring in the mayor of seaside heights, william acres. thanks for being with us, mr. mayor. we see a lot of devastation yet again here. you're faced with another rebuilding project. where do you go from here? >> fortunately we're in much better shape this time. the first time around nobody had any idea what to do. this was th...

And maybe not recover as quickly as some of the other people. >> you know, it's incremental in terms of progress. and we're seeing amazing progress with the boardwalk. just talk about the timetable with that. and also, how important it is to have this thing completed by memorial day. >> without a doubt, it's what we need to do. you need to have this in place. just as we rebalance our budget, it's through tourism dollars. 65% of our budget is through tourism dollars, 35% is through property taxes. so we asked people to come down here. you need to provide the amenities that they're used to havin...

This is our centennial. a hundred years this year. and we're doing the same thing they did back a hundred years ago. we're rebuilding to live here. >> william acres, mayor seaside heights, we appreciate the time. coming up on "morning joe," governor chris christie joins the set in asbury park. we'll get an update on the recovery efforts there and across the state and we'll check out with willie geist live in the rockaways. "way too early" is coming right back. ♪ playtime is so much more with a superhero by your side. because even superheroes need superheroes. that's why purina dog chow is ma...

Welcome back to "way too early," live on the jersey shore. six months after superstorm sandy made landfall, and joining us now, the mayor of seaside heights, mayor acres. thanks for joining us this morning. our national audience wants to know quite a bit about what's going on. give us a sense of what the last six months have been like for you and your constituents. >> it's nice to be past all the initial shock of everything, you know, we're recovering emotionally, with and of course, physically, getting everything back in place. we're on a project that would normally take two years to get done...