Avenue. It started here at 2 18, the southeast corner of the white house compound. The black car ramps into a barricade that do their job. Eye witnesses say Uniformed Secret Service acts are watching it all. The barricade fell down because they were plowing through. At that point secret service was getting more reactive like whoa, whoa, trying to stop them. Then they took off after they took the barricade down. Reporter secret Service Begin the chase right up pennsylvania avenue to the foot of capitol hill. By 2 40 she stops. Look against as shes surrounded by police, guns drawn. A patrol car tries to block her but she puts it in reverse and speeds away. Thats when the first gunshots are fired at the fleeing vehicle. It was a twodoor, dark coupe it looked like to me. I heard the gunshots and then the car tore out of the area back towards this direction with the police car following. Reporter the tv cameraman an arabic speaker, follows her as she circles in front of the capital and buzz
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Good evening. We begin with those 38 minutes of fear and chaos in the nations capitol today. Tonight we know that the person at the center was a woman with a very young child in a car. She rammed the barricade outside the white house, next a car chase, gunshots and a nervous city in lockdown. People taking shelter on city streets. Police rushing in. A sniper in position on the senate steps. So who was this woman and what really happened . Our team was there when the shots rang out and abcs Senior National correspondent jim avila starts us off. Reporter the unmistakable sound of gunfire as an unarmed woman sources say had a history of Mental Illness and a toddler in her back seat alludes police. Taking secret service and capitol hill officers on a wild mile and a half ride around d. C. Monuments and up americas most important street, pennsylvania avenue. It started here at 2 12, the southeast corner of the white house compound. The black car rams into a barricade that do their job. Eye
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we come on the air, millions of americans are shoring up for another staggering round of weather tonight. everyone watching this, rumbling wind in the gulf, now officially tropical storm andrea, the first of the season. abc s weather editor sam champion is standing by to show us its path while back on land, these pictures say it all about the midwest plains along the mississippi. a watery mess. and abc s steve osunsami is in the flood zone tonight in illinois. steve? reporter: good evening, diane. this is what the mississippi river has done to the small town of grafton, illinois. the drop-off here is at least a couple feet, so we have to be careful. the mississippi has flooded businesses and threatened homes, and up and down the river, families are praying tonight that the levees hold. north of st. louis, at least two levies that were struggling to hold back the mighty mississippi were breached over the last three days. the water came pouring over. authorities went racing t