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One-time mining town become a sex-change mecca? it all starts back in 1969, when a beloved family practitioner in trinidad performs the procedure on a colleague. soon, others come for sexual reassignment surgery. and before long, it's a cottage industry. 5,000 patients later, at age 80, the doctor hand picks a successor, an obgyn from seattle, marci bowers. >> marci, godsend. we're standing in front of a church. and god is taking care of us. he sent us marci after dr. biber died. >> hello? hi there. >> reporter: dr. bowers is an appropriate choice to take over, considering her own story. until...

Where men are men and women are, too. >> reporter: how did this one-time mining town become a sex-change mecca? it all starts back in 1969, when a beloved family practitioner in trinidad performs the procedure on a colleague. soon, others come for sexual reassignment surgery. and before long, it's a cottage industry. 5,000 patients later, at age 80, the doctor hand picks a successor, an obgyn from seattle, marci bowers. he died in 2006. >> marci, godsend. we're standing in front of a church. and god is taking care of us. he sent us marci after dr. biber died. >> hello? hi there. >> reporter: d...

Different names, operating everywhere from alaska to maine. >> and even harder to figure out. >> i don't know that i could say that i understand anything that motivates these two. >> an uneasy mix of fact and fiction confounded people wherever they went. >> their jaws were floored. nobody seemed ready for this. nobody seemed ready for it. >> i'm just trying not to wind up dead somewhere. >> the story of good intentions, and a scam no one saw coming. in this hour, the kindness of strangers. [ train horn ] >> it happened at a church social in the old mining town of galena, kansas, on an old stre...

written. 116 people are dead with that toll expected to rise. now i want to show you two different perspectives of a tornado. first, through the eyes of a storm chaser and then from the inside, 20 people huddled in a refrigeration unit in a convenience store. >> the tornado is trying to come down right here. the winds are out of the north and it's coming right back around. tornado is here. coming on the ground right here. get sirens going. get the sirens going. i'm telling you. i got debris on the ground over here. i got debris on the ground. it's coming up north. it's debris. tornad...

Tonight, a nation in mourning. as investigators search for answers. also tonight -- >> we did not receive the miracle we prayed for. >> hope turns to heartache at west virginia mining town. crews discover the bodies of four missing workers, ending a desperate nearly week-long search for survivors. and deadliest u.s. mining disaster in decades. >> lot of times you don't think about it. we're part of one big family pretty much. >> first to the tragic plane crash, polish president lech kaczynski and his wife both dead as well as many of the country's top military and civilian leaders. officials h...