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story about a man who was battling a rare form of cancer. he had to make a very difficult choice, in the process he lost most of his face to the disease. his wife standing by his side the whole time. theyll be here to share their touching story exclusively just ahead. >> true love story, absolutely. also if youre planning on spending the holiday weekend on your patio were going to be showing you thank you get the most out of your backyard space and also show you how we transformed one ...

its wjz,marylands news station. >> hello. im don scott. >> and heres what people are talking about today. >> alex has weakened to a tropical storm and its sparing texas from a direct hit. whit johnson has a look at the damage down on south padre island, texas. >> reporter: alex left plenty of debris scattered across the beach on south padre island. but the storm spared the resort town major damage. torrential rain pounded south padre island. winds knocked downpour lines, temporarily cl...

fox 5s will thomas has been following this investigation from the very beginning. he joins us now with the very latest details. will? >> reporter: brian, as you know, at this time last night, we were showing you hundreds of people gathered at the high school vanessa pham attended for a candlelight vigil. tonight police have a way you could help find her killer and vanessas family is giving us all more insight into the promising young woman. >> im angry, you know. im really sad and im h...

here will remain sunny. all right, mostly sunny skies, cool and comfortable. 80 for the afternoon high. winds out of the north at 5-10 miles per hour. ill have more details on the weekend forecast and well look at the beaches, that kind of thing, coming up in a couple of minutes. allison, gurvir, back to you. our top story this morning, remembering senator robert byrd. we are just under an hour away now from the body of senator byrd arriving at the capital. the public can pay respect...

did the town. we are live at the scene with the late breaking details. >> this fire does not look like it is letting up anytime soon. i want you to take a look behind me. the top left corner, there are still flames. this is by there being more than 100 firefighters on the scene and more than 25 fire companies produce >> residents watch this fire in disbelief. >> i can hardly believe the devastation. >> this building was what and engineering facility but has recently been used for offic...

baltimore sun released the name of city workers earning the most overtime. some even making more than the mayor. abc 2news has reaction from key city leaders on these latest numbers. >> reporter: the baltimore sun reported it. there are some city employees making upwards of 60% of their base salaries in pure overtime. the post e child for this is a city homicide detective who made just over $100,000 more than his base salary last fiscal year. this is no surprise to his boss, who talked...

virginia when their tugboat started to sink. without life jackets they tried to swim the mile and a half length across but only one made it. meyers, who owned his own electric company, also worked on marine construction projects on the side, its a tragedy and hopefully they find him soon. im delia gonsalves outside of union stations where marc officials are saying the problems are due to neck and cal failures but the passengers say the biggest problem is a failure in communication. a...

was a tragedy and hopefully they find him soon. >> reporter: and meanwhile the tugboat is still at the bottom of the river and search teams havent been able to find meyers or the boat. they say they will be hear around the clock until they locate them. >> this is the time of the year we see a rise in boating accidents in general. >> reporter: thats right. search teams and authorities say that july is their peak time and last year there was 17 fatal boating accidents and 16 were not wea...

as we come back live is an aerial ladder and ground equipment that is spraying water on the propane tanks that are burning in the center of the shed. they have called it a hazardous materials spill. there were no reports of injuries, nor any word on the cause of the fire. well stay on the scene. >> thank you. the other story were following, hurricane alex is bearing down on texas and mexico. right now a category one storm is heave -- with heavy winds and rain impacting texas. we have...

jackie benson, news 4 today. many of the suspects live in the new york area, they nongovernmental jobs. one defendant has been a reporter for the spanish language newspaper and her husband was also arrested in the case. neighbors were shocked when they heard about the charges against them. >> its crazy. unbelievable. a couple of nice south-americans living in the neighborhood, friendly, couple of dogs that bark loudly, but good neighbors. >> can you log on to our website, nbcwashingt...