felt there tonight. david? james longman. james, thank you. back here at home, and extraordinary images that came in today of a plane making an emergency landing in washington state. you can see the plane coming down on a highway. drivers right beneath the plane. an officer s camera recording the plane just as it was getting closer. here s abc s clayton sandell now. reporter: in his two-decade career, washington state trooper clint thompson never had a traffic stop like this. an aircraft incident. possibly just landed on pacific avenue. reporter: that is a small airplane coming head-on into morning rush hour traffic in parkland, south of tacoma. as it got closer, it got bigger and bigger and bigger. it was getting closer to the ground, so, i decided to make it a u-turn. reporter: thompson spins his car around, clearing some space on the roadway turned runway, as the pilot makes a wobbly but safe touchdown, even managing to stop before that red light. it was crazy. i mea
republicans nancy pelosi playing talks the speaker pushing back saying secret service agents should not be asked to work even if they are not getting paid to. the partial government shutdown now in his 27th day. peter doocy life on capitol hill, peter how are the democrats pressuring the republicans to give up while many and voting to end the shut down? dana, the virginia democratic senate to share the stage on the senate side with air traffic controllers that are making the case that the stress of missing paychecks are starting to take its toll on the people most directly responsible have the pilot for making sure the plane land and take off and tax e safely. a few blocks away from here there is a group of furloughed fellow workers protesting as well at the republican retreat that is underway at national ballpark today. democrats in the house introduced the immediate financial relief for federal employees act. you may remember when gm
george h.w. bush came in thinking probably this was a political dead end for him. but bonded with the place. restored the relationship with congress. he did something like 50 congressional testimonies in the one year that he was director. his work with congress led to the creation of the oversight committees, and we re watching the plane land now. it s special mission 41. by the way, just to make the point, the cia building in langley is named after george h.w. bush. yes, it is. he as the aircraft carrier and the cia. let me bring in joe watkins. tell us about him personally. he seems to have tremendous love. that s the word for it from the military that served under him, the cia, the officials that served under him. and even the white house staff loved him from what i ve been told. absolutely. i mean, we were we had total allegiance to george h.w. bush. we loved him because he loved
he knows this is a feel-good moment. and there is some reporting out there that maybe donald trump believes that this success in the foreign policy field might be enough to distract attention away from the robert mueller investigation into russia, the criminal investigation of his own personal attorney, the stormy daniels affair. what sort of thinking there in the white house? what have you heard? there is no question that all of these weighty matter here is are indeed giving the president something to focus on. as we were just watching, the secretary of state s plane land, i can see it just going in the distance there. so extraordinary to point out that he is the brand-new secretary of state. mike pompeo just confirmed less than two weeks ago, and already he is returning home from his second trip to see kim jong-un. that is significant in every respect. the president pulling out of the iran nuclear deal this week so significant. but the headlines here in the
started feeling dizzy and disoriented. as the plane flew over new mexico she eventually lost consciousness. a doctor ton flight recommended the plane land immediately to get her to a lophospital. it didn t happen. the flight continued another 90 minutes by the time the plane landed she was without a pulse and died three days later. why did the pilot continue on with the flight when he had a dook to telling him she needed to land, that my client was in distress and needed emergency