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All right. checking our top stories right now, two people are reported dead and another two are missing as raging floodwaters sweep through texas. this video shows the san marcos river overflooding with tree trunks and shutting down highways. they rescued more than 90 people from rising waters overnight. investigators are looking into pyrotechnics as a cause for that deadly blaze inside a nightclub in bucharest, romania last night. at least 27 people are confirmed dead. more than 160 were hurt, ...

Dangerous place to be working. >> conservationist michael fishbach is the codirector of the great whale conservancy. he travels to mexico sea of cortez for two months every winter to photograph and observe some of the largest animals in the world, blue, fin, and humpback whales. on february 14th, 2011, hes out on the water with his wife heather watrous, 5-year-old son galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. theyre headed for a beach when he sees something in the distance. >> it looked...

A man risks his own life when he dives into the water to free a whale trapped in a fishing net. >> that was an extremely intimidating and potentially dangerous place to be working. >> conservationist michael fishbach is the codirector of the great whale conservancy. he travels to mexico sea of cortez for two months every winter to photograph and observe some of the largest animals in the world, blue, fin, and humpback whales. on february 14th, 2011, hes out on the water with his wife, heather wa...

On february 14th, 2011, hes out on the water with his wife heather watrous, 5-year-old son galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. theyre headed for a beach when he sees something in the distance. >> it looked to me sort of like part of a tree trunk floating in the desert where there are no large tree trunks ever floating in the water. and as we approached very, very slowly at that point, i could start to see floats on the water that were part of a net. >> the group discovered that ta...

Us. just to give an idea of the structure of the mud. it has mud that is turning into concrete with just reinforced with tree trunks and building materials. bits of broken cars. and possibly human remains. they are slogging through it very, very gingerly, but also very carefully, just in case there are any survivors. now, that list of 90 missing, when asked about it yesterday in the afternoon press briefing, executive director of snohomish county, gary hackenson, kind of gave us the most grim lo...

The great whale conservancy. he travels to mexico sea of cortez for two months every winter to photograph and observe some of the largest animals in the world, blue, fin, and humpback whales. on february 14th, 2011, hes out on the water with his wife heather watrous, 5-year-old son galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. theyre headed for a beach when he sees something in the distance. >> it looked to me sort of like part of a tree trunk floating in the desert where there are no large...

He travels to mexico sea of cortez for two months every winter to photograph and observe some of the largest animals in the world, blue, fin, and humpback whales. on february 14th, 2011, hes out on the water with his wife heather watrous, 5-year-old son galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. theyre headed for a beach when he sees something in the distance. >> it looked to me sort of like part of a tree trunk floating in the desert where there are no large tree trunks ever floating in...

Figure out a way to ask you about tree branches. were there any big tree branches that you knew in the vicinity of where this happened that were on the ground that could have been used as a club? >> no. you have tree trunks but there are no tree branches that i could see. that is why when i first answered the question i said there were no tree branches. >> for mr. zimmerman to have received those lacerations on the back of his head because of impact with a tree trunk what would have had to have ...

>> and is it -- im trying to figure out a way to ask you about tree branches. were there any big tree branches that you knew in the vicinity of where this happened that were on the ground that could have been used as a club? >> no. what you have is tree trunks, to be quite strictly speaking. but theres no tree branches that i could see. thats why when i first answered the question i said there were no tree branches. because there arent. >> so for mr. zimmerman to have received those lacerations ...

Cortez for two months every winter to photograph and observe some of the largest animals in the world, blue, fin, and humpback whales. on february 14th, 2011, hes out on the water with his wife heather watrous, 5-year-old son galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. theyre headed for a beach when he sees something in the distance. >> it looked to me sort of like part of a tree trunk floating in the desert where there are no large tree trunks ever floating in the water. and as we approa...