this afternoon from making funeral arrangements for olga arotinco gaspar and her daughter emily escalante arotinco. the husband and father of the paris said through an interpreter that police notified him police said it through they found the body. we do not know yet. it was found near the south end of the island. earlier today, the team found a second body in the potomac river and issued a warning about the river. this is a swift moving river and it can take you under and keep you under and move you under for many miles. for the family, it happened monday when they tried to retrieve a ball from the river. the gorge is something fishermen say they fear. i was raised on water but i respect water. i do not want something that i think it can never happen to meet happened to me because i disrespect of the water. for the family, it is the case of not understanding a river that looks so calm. a wife and daughter. again, no official word about the second body dis
of roles is accused of violating that trust. a besh shop is out on bail as a woman claims he attacked her as show was seeking spiritual help. gigi? reporter: the victim turned to him. tonight she is accusing him of sexual assault and baltimore county detectives believe her. 62-year-old bishop roan samuel faulkner, sr. faces a slew of charges, this after police arrested him for allegedly assaulting a female parishioner. this was her spiritual adviser, spiritual counselor for years. she confided in her. reporter: the alleged assault occurred in february in the woman s office. faulkner agreed to counsel the woman on family matters. he attacked her forcing her to perform a sexual act. she s been going to this church for years, around all the parishioners. who s going to believe her. reporter: now police are searching for other victims. we re hoping there are no other victims, but we could never be sure. detectives feel there may be a possibility this could be. repor
panhandle s famous sugar white beaches. nbc s kristen dahlgren is live in pensacola beach with the very latest. good morning. reporter: good morning, lynn. word continues on that cut and cap after yesterday s snag. the diamond tip blade got stuck as it was cutting the riser pipe. it took 12 hours to free it. later on they haven t said when they will get back to it. they only said if they don t get a clean edge now in & that top cap doesn t fit they ll have to go back to top hat which would be a bit of a bigger containment dome which means more oil would be leaking into the gulf. they have laid boom on some of the inland areas. there s not much they can do along the beaches, though four coast guard helicopters and a skimmer are now patrolling the area. meantime they have now closed more federal fishing waters. about 37% of the gulf is closed. we talked about him yesterday. director james cameron says bp has turned down his request to help out with this. he is an underwater p
to cap. the one that s now spewing even more oil into the gulf. well, tonight we thought we would show what you we are talking about. this is how big it is. roughly the size of a new york city water main. picture this pipe pumping out all the oil the earth can muster from that well, moving up under immense pressure fed by natural gas to the surface. to the tune of at least 500,000 gallons a day, maybe 46 million gallons in all so far. no one s really sure. again today we watched the underwater drama via those remote cameras. again tonight officials are voicing optimism about this latest fix. here is where this spill was a week ago. here now is its position as of tonight. notice more states to the east in its sights. we begin our coverage tonight with our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson in louisiana. anne, good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. tonight bp is promising to be on the gulf coast for a very long time, to clean up all the oil and to m
of the immigration debate after passing a law that instructs police to question anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. let s look at our traffic and weather together on the ones. tom kierein joins us in the studio. another steamy day. already hot and humid out there. we had a brief break yesterday from the high humidity it has returned overnight. partly cloudy at this hour. no travel problems on this thursday morning. a steamy 75 in washington, low 70s in prince george s county. arlington, fairfax, montgomery counties, also low 70s. northern neck of virginia, low 70s there. near 70 in the shenandoah valley, the blue ridge, the eastern shore. out at the mountains, it s cool, 60 degrees. over the last 12 hours, that cluster of thundershowers rolling out of the midwest but dissipating as they hit the mountains. we have a weak front that s hanging around. that yellow zone under risk for severe storms, including virginia, all of maryland, district of columbia in