that s crazy. it s an island reporter: tonight stunning images of the latest american city to get slammed with severe weather across st. louis, historic rainfall an flash flooding. we ve got stalled out cars here. reporter: forcing rescue after rescue. i have several people trapped on a roof. reporter: roughly 100 people trapped in these apartments evacuated by boat. i was terrified because it is so high. reporter: more than 9 inches of rain falling since midnight shattering records set in 1915 and turning highways and roads into raging rivers. it was so dangerous with the water, we had to pull them out we couldn t even get our trucks reporter: authorities confirming one person trapped in their car has died and in suburban st. peter, the water surged into an animal shelter. staff scrambled, saving mos of the animals, but devastated to learn 10 puppies drowned.
yeah, allie s father posted on facebook funeral arrangements. there s going to be visitation friday. funeral services taking place saturday morning. both taking place in suburban st. louis where the family lives. meanwhile, back here in oxford, students describe ally as a friendly person who enjoyed helping others. she was a member of the alpha phi sorority which is tied black ribbons are on the front columns of the sorority house in ally s memory. shepard: jonathan serrie live in oxford. thank you. to rex or vita, the suspects neighbor during their freshman year in the same dorm. new the victim through friends and is a journalism student at ole miss. what can you tell us about this guy? i personally did not have a really good relationship with him. my time in the dorm with him, i really found them to be extremely rude and just overall, a good word is privileged. shepard: i read on your
today saved a lot of lives because this guy was just shooting that poor woman that got off an elevator, had nothing to do with nothing. was shot. why? there s no doubt in my mind that all those officers that responded were heros and they saved a lot of lives because we just don t know how much damage he was prepared to do. the gunman is also dead. not sure if he shot himself or was killed in a police shoot-out. around the same time in downtown denver, five were shot near coors field. one died on the scene. that suspect is at large in suburban st. louis, police are looking for a gunman who sexual assaulted and then shot a woman and killed her at a catholic supply business. and a gruesome scene inside a philadelphia basement where authorities found four people all shot execution style. hours before the mass shooting in thousand oaks, california, the national rifle association scolded trauma doctors to,
money from going towards construction of the president s controversial border wall. for the third day in a row we will see the vice president here on capitol hill, mike pence. he is going to be doing some private arm twisting of the hold-outs on the health care legislation. the goal of the administration here is a self-imposed deadline, 24 to 48 hours to try to get the votes necessary before the house goes to another recess. that starts on friday. it s an 11-day recess. so far house speaker paul ryan not setting on the schedule a vote for this legislation until they have the votes to get this passed. chris. thank you very much. we have some breaking news for you out of missouri. flood waters are shutting down roads and rushing down neighborhoods. this is the scene in suburban st. louis. you ve got to remember, this area, you ve got millions of people in and around this area.
my concern is for next generations and what they re walking into. reporter: the epa was pressed on why of all agencies it could not prevent something like this from happening. the answer, there will be an independent investigation to figure that out. thank you. the suburban st. louis city of ferguson is on edge again tonight in a grim case of deja vu. that police officer was cleared of any wrongdoing, but now more violence, more raw emotion, and more shootings. we are in ferguson tonight. reporter: they re waiting for nightfall. protesters they they want to demonstrate peacefully. police officers say they want to