Through the city alongside the famous landmarks. A woman was at the wheel of a black infinity coupe with her toddler in the car. At one point, she briefly stopped and was surrounded by officers with weapons drawn. Here is the scene as recorded by the camera crew on capitol hill. [ car alarm, gunshots ] it all ended a short distance away. Tonight the driver, a woman from stanford, connecticut, is dead. Her 1yearold daughter in protective police custody. Think about this. The u. S. Capitol police who responded arent being paid because of the Government Shutdown. A crisis atmosphere in washington on top of whats already going on there. Its where we begin tonight with our justice correspondent Pete Williams in our d. C. Newsroom. Pete, good evening. Reporter good evening. This unfolded quickly in a city thats still jumpy from the shooting at the Washington Navy yard a few weeks ago. Tonight investigators say the woman at the center of it all did not have a gun. The only shots were fired by
From palm beach to jacksonville. Before it is expected to move further north impacting 19 Million People in all, and then potentially looping back around for a second hit. Tonights impact expected to bring sustained winds of up to 140 Miles Per Hour. Storm surges of up to 11 feet and rain amounts up to 15 inches along a path that ensures the storms intensity and to repeat, risks looping, lingering trail of destruction. We will, of course, have live coverage throughout the hour and this evening as florida endures a blow for which officials have been preparing. Governor rick scott issuing an update just an hour ago. Protecting lives remains our number one priority. As ive continued to activate more troops for lifesaving missions. Theyre prepositioned all across the state. Helping people evacuate right now for safety. The sheriff of two of the counties expected to be most heavily impacted, palm beach and st. Lucie county, expressed grave concern about some residents not heeding those warn
Of this little, lets call it a jog to the north after it passed over nassau, the bahamas. Every little jog, when a storm is coming, its paralleling a coastline, ten miles is the difference between historic, if it goes towards the coast or ten miles off shore maybe a moderate hurricane. It affects millions of people. Billions of dollars. Now, heres the forecast map. Weve been watching this little black line. Hurricanes wobble, especially the powerful ones especially when theyre having what we call eye wall replacement cycles like we had near freeport. In general its still heading in this northwestward motion. We have reports that theyre seeing flashes in the sky. This is about when weve expected to see the stronger winds show up. This is the beginning of this sustained and stronger gust Tropical Storm force winds. Thats enough to knock down some power lines. Thats enough to get those flashes and the Power Outages are beginning right around the west palm beep area. The core of the hurric
Many time, ive also done hurricane prep stories in that area. A lot of homes are built to strong hurricane standards. You can take a baseball bat and you can pound that glass and just keep pounding it forever and it doesnt crack and it doesnt break. But that house, one story or two stories tall, doesnt give you the owe, thats nice. Doesnt give you protection from that 15 foot storm surge as it pushes that wall of water in, brian. All right, sam champion, thank you for that. It appears youre in as safe a spot as youre going to get in miami. Theyre getting all the storm they can handle. Just to emphasize to our viewers, sams location is, again, across the state, which is, what, 140 miles at its widest point. 90 from the center of the storm. But 90 from the center of the storm. And yet you see what its doing to sam. Lets see what its doing where Maria Mariana intenso is doing. Mariana, how have conditions deteriorated there . Brian, im at a point in the beach thats the southern most part
Tests and their recent nuclear test. The north korea sanctions are way less than what the u. S. Government had initially proposed but they did pass. Neither china nor russia vetoed them. Thats important because china is historic rally reluctant to anything too disruptive to north korea. And russia, for russia sanctions of any kind are a touchy subject. They take that all personally. Investigative reporter Michael Isikoff had the scoop at yahoo news today that the russian state media outlet sputnik is being investigated by the fbi. According to isikoffs reporting the fbi is talking with former employees of sputnik. Theyre reportedly interested in whether or not sputnik is, well, maybe less of a news outlet and more of a russian government propaganda operation at work in this country. And if they are that they need to register as foreign agents or theyre going to get kicked out of this country. Mike isikoffs scoop today at yahoo . Its interesting. For a long time mike isikoff was partner