Kristine Galvan

South Texas Health System doctor shares breast cancer warning signs October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and is used to encourage women to get screened for a disease that strikes one in eight women. South Texas Health System Family Physician Dr. Martha Cano spoke with Channel 5 News' Kristine Galvan about breast cancer warning signs and why some women still hesitate to get a mammogram. STHS is offering discounted mammograms throughout the month. For more information, click here.

A Rio Hondo man was working inside the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 77 struck the building — while his wife watched from her workplace across the Potomac River. There were thousands of people inside the Pentagon that morning, including, Robert Lopez, who now calls the Rio Grande Valley Home. "I lost a couple of friends," Robert said.

A Brownsville mother is still grieving the loss of her 25-year-old daughter after a March 2026 car crash. But through her daughter's organ donations, six people are now living with a piece of her. Marisol Guerrero lost her daughter, Aurora — known to family as Ruby. Ruby was Guerrero's firstborn and a big sister to Jackquelyne and Ruben. "I never thought I was going to find her like that, in a coma… that she was never going to open her eyes again," Guerrero said.