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almost 40 years ago. and one man's courageous fight. >> will my kids be able to look at me again? >> after cancer forced him to choose between his face and his life. >> news 4 at 11 starts now. a mother is out of the hospital after her children were killed in a terrible crash. good evening, i'm jim vance. >> she says she didn't know what hit her when her car was rear ended friday night. everyone in the car was killed, except her, including her two children. darcy? >> we're right across the street from where that horrible crash happened just three nights ago. i did speak to the mother of these two children who died. she just got out of the hospital, she said, so she could bury her babies. >> i just felt like i was in a

dream or a nightmare, something. >> a mom who lost her little boy and teenage daughter in that horrible crash can't believe they're gone. >> i wish i would have died too. >> caller: they were in this acura, stopped at the light. >> my daughter was in the back seat, singing a little silly song, being silly like she usually is. we were all laughing. and the next thing i know, i saw cracks in the windshield. >> the driver of a mercedes had slammed into the back of their car. five people died, including boykin's 1-year-old son and her 14-year-old daughter. >> we never knew what hit us. >> boykin was the sole survivor in the car. she just got out of the hospital. >> all i could ask for was my babies. >> her two closest friends died in the crash. they were passengers in the car

with boykin. tameka was the mother of eight children, tiffany left behind two toddlers. >> we're talking about ten kids without mothers. ten. that's absolutely devastating. >> dominic green was a passenger in the mercedes. the 21-year-old also died, leaving behind devastated relatives who are also angry. >> she needed more time to live her life. she was too young. >> reporter: so far prince georges county police have not identified the driver of that mercedes. no charges have been filed at this point, but they do say, speed and weather appear to be factors in this crash. we're live tonight in oxen hill, darcy spencer, news 4. >> darcy, thanks. a d.c. funeral home is pitching in to help the family with its arrangements. we spoke to the director tonight in northwest. >> what we've decided to do is donate a large portion of our

services and time to the family, to accommodate them and assist them in the arrangements and also giving their loved ones a decent burial with dignity and respect. >> a joint funeral will be held for tiffany wilkerson and tameka curtis next week. the two women were sisters and together they leave behind ten children. tonight doctors are hoping that a blood tranfusion will with ebola. in texas who we learned this evening that dr. kent brantly, who survived ebola, went to dallas to donate his plasma to nina pham. the centers for disease control says it's doing an investigation to finds out how pham, a nurse, became infected while treating ebola patient thomas duncan. also new tonight, the university of kansas hospital says it has a patient with ebola-like symptoms. doctors immediately isolated that patient after learning the person worked on a medical boat

off the coast of west africa. a man taken to the hospital in germantown today does not have ebola. he traveled to africa and developed aches and a fever. he was taken to the hospital by ambulance out of an abundance of caution. the hospital says it followed history, but he did not present signs of ebola and he was released. >> another potential tool in the fight against ebola will be tested in maryland. an experimental vaccine is being shipped to silver spring. they're doing that for trials on 40 volunteers. it could be shipped to west africa within months if it works. another vaccine is also undergoing trials at the national institutes of health. a northern virginia man knows what it takes to control ebola, he helped name it in the '70s. the worse of the current outbreak is in guinea, sierra

leone, and liberia. but the first outbreak was in zaire. gary cook there was and tonight he talked to our jackie bensen. >> reporter: this wooden medallion is a memento of the successful containment of the first identified ebola outbreak in 1976, in what was then zaire. gary cook was a young foreign service officer tasked with helping coordinate an unprecedented international response to a disease ravaging a small village. he recalls the team of scientists and physicians who flew in from around the world to treat a virus that at the time, had no name. >> it fell to this team to actually name the virus. they determined it was a new virus, it needed a new name. we knew if we named after the village, it would be stigmatized. we heard about a river not far away called ebola, and that became the name of the disease. >> lessons from the 1976

outbre are the subject of an recall entitled "ebola then and now" published last month and illustrated with photos taken by co-author, dr. joel brennan. it describes the work by international physicians, nurses, and scientists who earned the trust of patients and their families. gary cook remem them as heroes. >> we had the people from the centers of disease control. i still remember the names of those heroes. they were dedicated. we had experts from belgium. >> cook says it was not until after the outbreak was contained that he was able to understand the full magf what they'd been dealing with. jackie bensen, news 4. we turn now to powerful line of storms out west. it's already left behind an awful lot of damage. this is what it looks like in northeastern louisiana, trees and power lines down.

thousands of people could be without electricity for days. preliminary reports put a total of possible tornadoes today at 12. four of them have been confirmed, including one that killed a marine in arkansas. doug, are we looking at that coming our way? >> i don't think we are at all. but we are talking about the chance for at least some strong winds and very heavy rain too. take a look now. nothing on the radar this our region. we're on the dry side. however, we are dealing with a lot of fog across our area. take a look just down to the southwest, rain coming in around roanoke but more rain and thunderstorm activity into portions of alabama, tennessee, and that line continues to make its way our way. as it does so, we're going to see a pretty nice day tomorrow. winds upward of 20 to 30 miles pehour. then on wednesday, the line will move through. look at the winds here, gusts up to 40 miles per hour, heavy rain

likely, one to two inches, could be localized flooding. i'll give you the timing of this and really break it down for you coming up in just a couple of minutes. >> doug, thanks. help, the plea from the parents of hannah graham, who disappeared a month ago. they released these new pictures of their daughter, saying they are heart-broken that no one has come forward to reveal where she is. the man charged with her abduction is in jail and he's also linked to morgan harrington who disappeared in 2009. the candidates for the senate seat participated in their final debate today. senator mark warner talked about reports that he offered a federal judgeship to a former -- >> warner denies those claims.

his challenger, ed gillespie sa voters want answers. >> let me make clear. i did not offer her a job, nor would i offer her any kind of position. >> i can tell you this, the role a senator plays in the judicial nomination process say critically important one and a very influential one. >> they talked about taxes and public health among others. a poll released last week showed wah a ten-point lead. a virginia man accused of knowing he spreading hiv is due in court tomorrow. he had unprotected sex with a woman in bethesda and never told her she was hiv-positive. court documents show there could be other victims. we'll be extradited to montgomery county to face charges. next a 11, a full flight grounded. we'll tell you about the damage inside the plane that it to land. they're calling it an earthquake in the catholic

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a warning now you might find some of the images in this next story disturbing. we're about to meet donnie fritz, a man without a face. he lives without a nose, cheeks, or forehead. doctors had to remove them in order to save his life. and tonight, he's sharing his story of colonel with doreen gentzler.

>> it looks like a mask or a prop. but for donnie fritz, these items are his life line to the outside world. >> i felt i liked like a monster. i thought, if i can't even stand to look at myself, how can anybody else look at me. >> that's because underneath that mask, which is really a specially made hi-tech prosthetic, donnie looks like this. he doesn't have a face. it was removed by doctors after he was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer that ate away his jaw bones, nose, parts of his cheeks and forehead. the doctors told him, if they didn't remove it, he would die. >> it was very scary and some laying there all night long and just praying to god and saying, lord, i can't handle this. >> after the surgery, donnie couldn't tk or chew food. he was embarrassed to leave home. they searched for a doctor to reconstruct his face, but no one

was able to help. donnie was ready to give up. his wife didn't. her searching found dr. michael singer in bethesda. >> i think anybody with that kind of surgery and strength and will to live and faith in god and just, you know, really, your heart just goes out to someone like that. >> reporter: but drr singer also knew it would take something cl mirle to reconstruct donnie's face. >> we had to invent literally what we did, which was remarkable eng doctors were abl create and attach this prosthetic to cover his face. it snaps off to reveal another device, a palette which acts like an upper jaw, which can also be removed. donnie said one of the first things he did after he got his new face was take his wife out

to dinner, something he hasn't been able to do for years. >> and the people that looked across the table from her and see this huge smile on her face, and to be able to talk while i'm eating, it was such a blessing. it was overwhelming. >> reporter: donnie says his journey has been tortious, emotionally and physically, but now that he's made ito the other side, he's actually finding some wisdom in all that pain. >> it ain't about what we look like. it's who we are inside. >> reporter: it's a lesson that donnie fritz learned the hardest way possible. >> there's not a day i get out of bed and i don't thank god for everything i have. i mean, from -- i don't see that well, but i still hathank him f my e donnie's cancer is very rare, only about 50 people in the world have ever been diagnosed with it. the good news, that drastic

surgery, along with radiation has helped him to remain cancer-free. back to you. >> incredible story there. new at 11 tonight, gay rights groups are calling it a seismic shift. the vatican stunned the world today by showing tolerance to homosexuality. a preliminary report on family life written by bishops, mentioned the gifts and qualities of gay catholics. it urges pastors to provide homosexuals with support. the report did reiterate the church's opposition to gay marriage. conservative groups denounced the report calling it a betrayal that will only confuse catholics. an american airline flight from san francisco to dallas, several interior wall panels came loose while the plane was in the air. e cap decided to return to san francisco after an hour after taking off.

american airlines said the captain did not lose pressure. oxygen masks were not deployed. the airline blamed the issue on a blown airduct. nobody was issued. that many has been taken out of service. >> are we going to have fog in the morning? >> i think so. some areas already seeing it. seeing very thick fogs. others, not much at all. show you what we're dealing with across our region. there current visibility. half a mile, less than half a mile. gathers burg, manassas, culpepper, about a third of a mile. winchester, less than a mile. we've come up from a mile earlier. some areas improving. some getting worse. give yourself time tonight and tomorrow morning too. we have the fog with the temperature of 64. any time the temperature and the dew point are close to one another, like they are right now, you can get fog and rain

d no rain to talk about. right now it's just the fog. to the south and west, some showers have developed around roanoke. they will come up through the blue ridge, parts of the shenandoah valley, heads u the west. they should stay to the west for the most part ofchester and rom see them. tornado watches for portions of tennessee, to the tallahassee area. storms are moving east fairly rapidly. birmingham and then atlanta is next. and then eventually in towards our region. but not tomorrow. we'll start future weather tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. notice just a few clouds, shower activity back toward the west. throughout the day, a couple of clouds. i think we'll see some sunshine. that's going to help temperatures to warm close to 80 degrees tomorrow. but the shower chance remains

west of the blue ridge. tuesday night, a better chance of showers, maybe loudon county. don't think we'll be totally dry tomorrow, but i expect most of the day to be on the dryer side. wednesday morning, a line back to the west. 8:00 a.m., notice the shower activity around the rest of the region. the line of showers coming through, 3, 4, 5, 6 in the afternoon. i think they could be quite strong. not goe a lot to bring down stronger winds. a low-risk of tornadoes. not too worried about that, not like out west. with you a medium risk of high winds, 40 to 50 miles per hour. not worried about hail. heavy rain, though, could definitely be in the offing as we expect one to two inches of rain. localized flash flooding possible. watch out on wednesday. tomorrow, a little bit of a dry spot for us. 79 in d.c., 80 in manassas, if we get the sunshine, and i do anticipate sunshine during the day tomorrow from d.c. off

towards the east. next couple days, 75 and stormy on our wednesday. good chance of showers on thursday. not a lot of rain, but still showers, rather gloomy conditions. and boy do we break out in a big way, 71 on friday. the weekend looking great, 74 on your saturday. much cooler, but still quite nice on sunday with a high back to 65 degrees. >> not bad. thank you, doug. >> just hold on a couple days. >> thanks, doug. sports coming up, a lot of questions about this football team here. they may get some help soon,

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sports. >> sitting out here a minute ago, trying to figure out, can we go nats? no. basketball, not yet. so i guess you got to go redskins. >> the window for kirk cousins to express his coaching staff may be closing. today they said robert griffin and next week possibly a full team practice. he hasn't seen action since injury in week two. during his action, jay gruden g f answers.kins have been against the cardinals, nothing seemed to be working. carson palmer looked like he never left the field. on offense, a few bright spots, but turnovers plagued tm once again. four turnovers in the fourth quarter. they sit at 1-5. coach gruden knows everyone is responsible for this bad start.

>> i'm not going to sit here and blame the players for poor execution, and i don't t can stand up and say it's the coaches. i think it's the combination when you have the record that we have. as long as we understand that, we accept the fact that we're letting the city down, the better chance we have to get out of rut. >> eight starts for kirk cousins now. we said we needed to see a bigger sample size. what do you think so far, eight games, eight starts? >> i think -- >> so you think he can bounce back? >> always a chance. >> give the guy some help. take away the interceptions and he'll be okay. on wednesday in preparation for the titans this sunday. orioles went from heavy underdogs to favorites this postseason. many thoug would cruise past kansas city, but the royals are putting up a tough fight, leading the series, 2-0.

tonight's game was postponed due to weather. a rain-soaked kansas city may actually benefit the orioles. it's another day off for both teams. the birds fans, they're hoping this helps cool off kansas city a little bit, who have been red hot this postseason. they have yet to lose a game. orioles manager, buck showalter, however, knows the time off doesn't really matter. >> as hot as the royals have been, is there a chance that this could be a good thing for you guys? >> no. [ laughter ] >> i appreciate you throwing it out there. no, you got good things going this time of year, it's about who pitches better and plays better. i think if anything, it's great for the restaurant business in kansas city. that's about it, i don't know. g on now, the washington wizards holding training camp practice at the army base for military personnel and their famili. wizards players, coaches, front office members also in attendance in virginia. the event featured contests,

give-aways and autograph sessions. also a very special day for that man right there, paul pierce. he turned 37 years old today, happy birthday to the truth. october 29th, first game for the wiia against the heat. heat. >> 37, calling him an old

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