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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, many of them critically. and at least 300 people were inside that club when the fire broke out. roma...

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, he's out on the water with his wife heather watrous, 5-year-old son galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. they're 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 trun...

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, he's out on the water with his wife, heather watrous, 5-year-old son, galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. they're headed for a beac...

On february 14th, 2011, he's out on the water with his wife heather watrous, 5-year-old son galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. they're 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 tangled in that net is a young humpback whale. >> i was pretty convinced that it was dead because we...

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 look yet. where he said, you know, you want to hold out hope as long as you can. but there comes a poi...