it happened on a south florida beach. let me break it into legalese. it forbids guards from a privately run company to leave the station to help a swimmer in disstraes out of their jurisdiction, liability issues. >> i made my decision of taking the guy over the guard. >> tommy's fellow guards are leaving in disgust. tommy was offered the job back but said no. >>> let's go to our facebook page. this is our hot topic. you can sound off on our wmar facebook fan page at abc2news.com/facebook. >>> all right. very hot conditions, to say the very least. we have an excessive heat warning, warning, not an advisory for baltimore county, the entire city and looking at a widespread advisory. i'll have to give the national weather service a call. i'm not sure why carroll and frederick would not be included. the heat index value is as high there as anywhere. rehoboth beach, dundalk it was a hot steamy scenario here with hazy conditions. also bad air quality. sometimes we get that type of heat. that makes higher ozone levels. so outdoor exercise, ill advised because

we are warmer here than in florida and south beach. 85 our temperature. we are looking at a heat index of 90 in maryland. we have a heat advisory going into effect. many counties are already lifted from theheat advisory. we'll have a slight risk of thunderstorms as the front wipes out the heat and humidity in the area. we'll keep a close eye on that. temperatures 98. record 100. chance of a strong thunderstorm. temperatures 71 tonight. partly cloudy skies. hopefully these thunderstorms roll through without much problem. we'll have your completed forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you. >>> temperatures expected to approach or surpass triple digits today. marylanders are urging themselves to protect themselves and stay cool even though we won't be in the triple digits. we have more on how officials are trying to keep this dangerous weather from turning more deadly. >> reporter: good morning. volunteers were going door-to- door handing out ice and water. state leaders are encouraging everyone to check on their neighbors. as the heat wave stretched tone the

sunny south florida is always fun to see, and our trip to west palm beach was no exception.ian and manny showed us the secret to one of their dishes and what's kept their marriage going for nearly 50 years. as the dish finished off, manny got some easy-to-make rice in the microwave. adrian went on auto pilot making sure the dish got finished right. basically the cooking is done now. it's just a matter of taking our rice put it on your platter and pouring this over the rice, and there is your meal. what's that. he's taking out the rice. open this up. careful. alright. what are you doing over here? they just kept going. i just wanted to sit down and relax for a little while. i think it's time. long grain and wild rice. but you can use brown rice. kind of like manny. long and wild. okay. did you like that honey. let me help him out here. don't burn yourself. it smells amazing. it smells good, it tastes good, it's easy and healthy. we had a blast hanging out with adrian and manny is west palm beach. a recipe that is tasty and easy to make, we also learned a lot about life and ho

guarding lives on the beach and in the water, but a young man in south florida found himself without a job this week after responding to the call of duty. the problem, the swimmer he helped was drowning outside the patrolled section of the beach. swimming at his own risk. today the lifeguard was offered his job back. the question is will he accept it? tomas lopez is here to tell us his story. thank you for being here. what happened? >> thanks for having me. like you said, there was a young man drowning outside of my jurisdiction and i went to assist him. we assisted him and got him transported and i lost my job. >> in other words, you see him out there and what? he's flailing in the water how far away from you. >> he was a good ways away. a couple hundred yards, maybe 200, 300 yards. i find out by guests yelling telling me there's someone drowning. people are trying to get your attention. go. and so i went. >> so you bolted. now, when you took off from your lifeguard stand, did you make sure you had backup for the area that you were there to protect? >> i told everyone on the radio i'

guarding lives on the beach and in the water, but a young man in south florida found himself without swimmer he helped was drowning outside the patrolled section of the beach. swiping at his own risk. toe, he was offered his job back. tomas is here to tell us his story. thank you for being here. what happened? >> thanks for having me. like you said, there was a young man drowning outside of my jurs diction and i went to assist him. >> in other words, you see him out there, he's flailing in the water. how far away? >> he was a good ways away. a couple hundred yards, maybe 200, 300 yards. they say go, so i went. >> so you bolted. when you took off, did you make sure that youç had back-up for the area you were there to protect? >> i told everyone on the radio i'm going in for a rescue and when i told them it was out, when you tell them that, they automatically cover your water. >> about how many people were in your pat water at the time? >> about 20 through 40. >> so, you hustled down the tim water, he was already being pulled out by two guests. i then moved the board he was on. carried

it happened on a beach here in south florida. the problem, though, isn't what the lifeguard did. it's where he did it. abc's matt gutman joins us, now, from miami. good morning to you, matt. >> reporter: good morning to you, matt. that's right. tommy lopez, the lifeguard, literally crossed the line in the sand. stepping out of his jurisdiction to save a life. and the real heroism, in making that decision to save a life, he knew he would be fired. lifeguard, tommy lopez, trained for this moment. >> he's way down there. i started running. >> reporter: he saved a life on monday. >> he was coughing up water. he was blue when i got to him. >> reporter: his reward tuesday, the pink slip. the 21-year-old knowingly violated a rule that prohibits guards from a privately run lifeguard company from leaving their station to help a swimmer in distress, out of their jurisdiction. his station is over here. technically, you're not allowed to go beyond here. the person who was drowning was over there. >> you're not allowed to go help him, even if you see a guy drowning or severely hurt in the wat

south florida. could they? let's take a look, shall we? we shall. top of the 3rd nats up 1-0. ryan zimmerman from virginia beacharlos zambrano, 10th of the year, 2 -0. good guys. no action in center field. in the bottom of the 3rd watch hanley ramirez tied game off edwin jackson, pulls, strikes a pose. edwin jackson doesn't like this. he's not going to like this. watch in center field. what is this thing? jackson doesn't like the stare. it's not pretty. 4-3 in the 6th. jesus flores bases juices and the nats fall to the marlins 5- 3 and split the opening series of 2nd half in florida two games apiece. >>> where was michelle obama before the basketball game you ask? right there checking out her washington world team tennis team against the boston lobsters with the kastles. here's venus williams and won her mixed doubles and doubles matches. she lost they are singles match, but it doesn't matter because the kastles defeated boston 26-11 and have a very impressive 22 in a row. >>> tomorrow at 5:00 and 6:00 i'll be live at nats park as the nats go to down to begin a big three-game series. will thomas is already in t

i mean, megyn, i grew up, actually, i lived for a short time in indian harbor beach, florida, just about a dozen miles souththe cape. i watched the first saturn 5 take off. my biggest fear was by the time i was old enough to apply we would have already been to mars and beyond, and all the good stuff would have been over by now. so this is really frustrating to see us just, you know, plod along and slowly dismantle our manned space flight program and lose a huge source of national pride and a big motivation for students all over not just the united states, but the world to succeed in math and science and do great things. megyn: and now you've got more than 7400 people who were once, i mean, these are some top engineers and so on who worked at gnat saw, i mean -- massa, i mean, walking around the kennedy space center offering oral histories. god bless them. i mean, i represent them for offering their expertise, but we could use them for so much more. they're capable of so much more, doc. >> oh, megyn, i was fortunate to have flown on four shuttle missions, and the thing that was so amazing was i got to go aro

beach. [screams] >> shepard: with a violent storm approaching, a high school girl jumps to safety. and. >> she said my arm is gone. >> shepard: tonight, gator attack on a south floridaod evening from kansas city. home of the royals, about an hour away from first pitch of the mid summer classic of the 2012 major league baseball all-star game right behind me at kaufmann stadium on big fox. the place is just about packed with the best players in all of baseball fighting for home field advantage in the world series, american league, national league. game starts 8:00 eastern time. 7:00 kansas city barbecue time on the big fox broadcast network. they invited us here to check out the action on an absolutely beautiful night for the national past time. a nice and chilly 97 degrees here in kansas city today.

south florida, best chance for airport delays and any trouble on the roads. i mentioned it's a beautiful mid summer like day. it's warm in the afternoon but this is how we like it. perfect pool and beacheather. if you chose this week for vacation you chose wisely through the mid-atlantic and portions of the great lakes. temperatures still warm, it's still 90s from chicago to denver to billings but not that 100-degree heat. so we can deal with this. this is what we call typical middle summer type weather. and peek at tomorrow's forecast. heavy rain coming through the southeast, especially areas that desperately need it, we're crossing our fingers that the heavy rain gets into arkansas and eventually up into kentucky and to the ohio valley. we desperately need it. we've heard reports of how bad the corn crop is. we're going to feel it in the supermarkets if we don't get rain in a hurry. leaving you with a shot, washington, d.c., beautiful sunrise. nice day today up near 90. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. the postal service is critical to our economy, delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet the house is considering a bill to close thousands of offices, slash servi

beach. [screams] >> shepard: with a violent storm approaching, a high school girl jumps to safety. and. >> she said my arm is gone. >> shepard: tonight, gator attack on a south florida teenager. and, good evening from kansas city. home of the royals, about an hour away from first pitch of the mid summer classic of the 2012 major league baseball all-star game right behind me at kaufmann stadium on big fox. the place is just about packed with the best players in all of baseball fighting for home field advantage in the world series, american league, national league. game starts 8:00 eastern time. 7:00 kansas city barbecue time on the big fox broadcast network. they invited us here to check out the action on an absolutely beautiful night for the national past time. a nice and chilly 97 degrees here in kansas city today. fully 10 degrees cooler than t was just one week ago and a perfect night for baseball. but all the festivities tempered by some big news and mixed news for the millions of americans who are out of work across our nation. first, the good, the number of job openings in may reportedly the second highest for a single month since the recession began way back

florida's two public beaches. earlier today i asked him what happened. >> i radioed him in, the other lifeguard and told him i'm going for a rescue, it's outside the zone. it's south. so i started going. my manager was telling me don't go. go back to your tower. get back to your tower. i told him i'm not going back. i was running for a while. didn't see the guy. then i noticed him splashing around. by the time i got to the water, two other guests had finally got to him and started dragging him in. i then was in the water already and i grabbed him under the -- under his arms and under his feet and we carried him out of the water. >> and was there ever a moment when you hesitated and said it's outside my area of the beach. there's so many people in my area of the water i shouldn't go, or it was just instinctual for you. >> it was probably instinctual for me. i could have probably thought about that a little. but at the same time we are trained to when something of an emergency happens, the other guards on the other stands are supposed to watch your water. >> and there were other guards, right, watching your area, so it wasn't as if you left all the people that you w

told you about in south florida, we talked about this last week, the one who was fired after saving some one's life. >> yes, the 21 year owed, thomas lopez was the toast of the beach yesterday as he received the key to the city. he was also called a hero by the tourist from estonia who he pulled to safety. >> lopez if you remember was fired because he went outside his designated area to save the guy. he was offered his job back, but turned the offer down saying, now he needs to focus on the bigger picture. i think that is just deserts for that guy. he saved a life. and losing your job for saving a life. >> high is very handsome. the bigger picture, i see commercials, acting, reality shows, i see, sort of that baywatch type thing. very attractive. >> slow motion running down the beach. everything just. everything just. >> i can see it. >> toned and tan. >> see that? >> i know you like that, willis. >> oh. >> willis. >> very handsome. >> coming up next -- [ laughter ] one of the country's most recognized stores will soon be off-limits. >> later the latest chapter in the "batman" series that has fans buzzing. you are watching "world news now." ♪ batman >> announcer:

south florida this morning. all places, the worst weather by far. just a shield of rain. all the way from west palm beachwave in the middle portion of the country, that shifted to the west. record heat. 114 in vegas. 102 in salt lake city. what a period of hot weather we had in areas of utah. fire danger high today. we are going to be bo b 101 in salt lake city. our friends in seattle, they had a very chilly summer, they are going to see a sunny 83 today. typical mid july forecast, warm with a few thunderstorms. that's needed rainfall. louisiana, arkansas, mississippi and alabama. we are hoping some of that rain can make its way to the ohio valley where the crops are suffering especially the corn. that could happen tomorrow. we will leave you with a shot of washington, d.c. your streak of 90-degree heat is over. for today we will call it 89. the medicare debate continues in washington... ...more talk on social security... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. [ female announcer ] when it comes to the future of medicare and social security, you've earned the right to know. ♪ ...so what d

yesterday about the south florida lifeguard who helped save a drowning man, but then was fired because he left his own post to do it. lopez has been offered his job back at the beach. he says, thanks but no thanks. the 21-year-old said he is now looking for other job opportunities. can't blame him. >> good luck to him. we are expecting a key report on the nation's unemployment later this morning. analysts predict the june jobs report will show employers added as many as 95,000 positions. that's only a slight improvement from may. the payroll company, adp, yesterday said private employers added 176,000 jobs last month. but that report does not show how many government jobs were cut last month. >>> from lackluster unemployment to disappointment at the gas pump. triple a reports gas prices inched up for the past three days in a row. the average price is now $3.34. the first increase since april. probably due to an increase in crude prices. g cheaper that in was a week ago. >> nowhere near the $5 gallon doomsday. silver lining is there, folks. now almost a week since the destructive storm hit the states in the mid-atlantic. thousands, believe it or not, still do not h

. >>> south florida sun sentinel reports over an outcry over the firing of a lifeguard. on monday, tomas lopez ran to an unguarded area of the beacho save a man. he was fired because he left his post. two other lifeguards quit in >>> this national weather report sponsored by mercedes-benz. experience truly great engineering today at your authorized dealer. >>> a final report is out today of the crash of air fans 447 where people -- captain sully s sullenberger shows us what the pilots did wrong. >> challenging but manageable. >> yes. >>> snoring can be a sign of sleep apnea. we'll look at new research showing it can lead to depression on "cbs this morning." >>> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by purina. your pet. our passion. [ whimpers ] - hugs from beneful baked delights... - [ barks ] are crispy, oven-baked dog snacks with soft savory centers, made with beef and cheese. beneful baked delights: a unique collection of four snacks... to help spark play in your day. to make peanut butter so deliciously creamy. it might just make you feel like a kid again. [ both laugh ] choosy moms never stop choosing jif. [ both laugh

a south florida life guard is out of a job today because he saved a life of a drowning man. his bosses say he went beyond his zone and that put the rest of the beach goers at risk. we get the details now from wplg. >> the person was drowning outside our buoy lines. it's an unguarded zone. >> i started running. i didn't see the person at first. we carried him in as fast as possible. >> reporter: and for that rescue, lopez was fired on the spot. the reason, he left his zone. >> while he was off, we had two other guards watching the zone so it would be secured. >> reporter: to save somebody outside the buoys in an unprotected part of the beach. >> i'm not going to put my job over going to help someone again. i'm going to do what i felt was right and i did. >> and lopez wasn't the only one. he was also let go this week for going against corporate code. >> i'm going to save them because i'm a life guard. and as a human, i'm going to save someone if i see they need help. and they told me i was fired. >> reporter: an orlando-based company is paid to man the beaches, but only certain spots. >> i think we should be able to rescue anybody. like anywhere. >>