this is wjz tv. wjz hd, and wjz.com. baltimore. from the city, to the counties, to your neighborhood, now, it s complete coverage. it s wjz. maryland s niewgz station. newsstation. remembering william donald schaefer, a beloved politician gone. tonight, the funeral plans and how they reflect his life. and the final moments before his passing. hi. i m kai jackson. i m mary bubala. here s what people are talking about. a funeral fit for a king. tonight, more information about the services for former governor and mayor william donald schaefer. wjz is live with complete coverage. mary has details of schaefer s final moments. mike hellgren is following developing details on the funeral service. wjz is live at city hall, where the former governor will lie in state. we go now to mike hellgren, with more on the service. good evening, mike. good evening, kai. you can pay your respects here at city hall monday night and all day tuesday. and planning this is just a huge un
gallons of crude oil, gushed into the gulf, after the violent oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers. the victim s relatives took a helicopter to the site to mark the first anniversary. my brother is at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. he shouldn t be there. none of them should be there. reporter: pensacola s beach a year ago, was a disaster, covered in globs of black oil, washing in from the gulf. today, the sugar white sand is back. but business owners need the tourists to come back, too. reporter: gulf coast tourism is a $2 billion industry and is still hit hard. the biggest problem now is convincing tourists to eat local seafood. there s no reason why people shouldn t come back. it s perfect. reporter: but cameron holman is afraid to go in the water. you don t know what kind of long-term effect it s going to have. lingering effects on the oil as the environment tries to rebound from an environmental disaster. reporter: joel brown, wjz eyewitness news.
good morning to you. we are going to see a nice day. it s chilly to start you out. we wednesday up in the 70s. 70 in san jose, 70 in gilroy. we have fog, low cloud cover overhead. you want to take it easy especially near the large bodies of water. the closer you are, the more fog we notice. 65 by friday. easter sunday looks good. have a great day. and that s your latest weather. meredith? al, thank you. a best-selling author and humanitarian is under fire amid allegations that he fabricated stories his memoir. andrea mitchell has the latest details. good morning. reporter: good morning, meredith. the questions are being asked about greg mortenson, author of three cups of tea who has sold millions of books about his work with girls in afghanistan. he s been the hero of the movement to educate girls in afghanistan and pakistan. soldiers deploying to afghanistan are encouraged to read his book. president obama donated part of his nobel prize money to the
here with flooding, and they ve managed to open, but not this time. there are a lot of sandbags around. take a look at what happened in other places around our area. this is a scene from montgomery county when a tree came down on the house in kensington. and the occupants of this house in kensington was taken out as part of the roof and attic space. flooding was the issue from those storms. and they ve done a lot of damage out west to the south of our area as well. gloucester county, virginia, what s believed to be a tornado cut a 12-mile swath of destruction. four people died there. one person is still missing. at least 60 people were indeed injured by that. in terms of the out anls, pepco got off kind of light this time. they re suffering or dealing with 51 outages right now. dominion s got 541 in northern virginia. and pge, they ve got the bulk. they ve got 1,042 and another 1,200 in prince george s. their biggest problem is in anne arundel county where they re dealing wit