And the moment his 106yearold mother says goodbye to her son. And nothing but respect. A celebration of the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin. Her life, legacy, and, of course, her music. And good evening. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. We begin with the Labor Day Weekend kicking off with severe storms and flash flood alerts from the midwest to the east. A flash flood emergency right now in pennsylvania. Water rushing through the streets of shaferstown. Route 238 flooded in lancaster. Cars and trucks stranded. Millions bracing for a holiday washout. Gio benitez leads us off. Reporter tonight, what look like river rapids. Water rushing through this pennsylvania neighborhood. Torrential rain falling in sheets, soaking parts of the state. Unbelievable. Reporter a flash flood emergency in lancaster. Nearly ten inches falling there in just four hours. Snarling Holiday Travel by road, and by rail. A passenger showing us how this amtrak train came to a screeching halt. Car after car submerged. Several motorists having to be rescued, including children on this school bus. Im really, really afraid. Reporter water nearly up to the windows of this restaurant in reading. Extreme weather from minnesota to maryland. More than 9 million at risk to start the holiday weekend. In wisconsin, the cleanup just beginning. The flooding destroying this familys home. Were just kind of in a shell shock right now. Reporter after a dayslong deluge left some towns underwater earlier this week. And, tom, heavy rains may keep falling on parts of the east over the next several days potentially threatening a washout on this unofficial last weekend of the summer. Tom . All right, gio benitez starting us off tonight. And millions bracing for the bad weather gio just reported on. Lets get right to abcs chief meteorologist ginger zee with the forecast for the weekend. Hey, ginger. Reporter unfortunately, not looking great, tom. Lancaster, pennsylvania, for example now going to have their wettest august on record. Thats what you get when you have rainfall rates in the two inch per hour category. Flash flood warnings in delaware and in southeastern pennsylvania. Its all laying along the stationary front, stationary meaning not moving much. So that is not good news when youre talking about heavy rain. Flash flood watch in wisconsin. Close to 15 inches this week, and theyll get another 1 to 3. 3 to 5 in southeastern florida, where the tropical wave in the caribbean will move westward. Shouldnt become a storm. Florence will, but it should however stay out to sea. Ginger, thank you. Also tonight, dramatic new images of the explosive takedown of a serial bomb suspect in austin, texas. The video just released today disturbing. The video there showing Police Closing in on the suspects suv, hes killed in a sudden blast, knocking back officers. That suspect wanted for killing two people during a wave of package bomb attacks in march. Abcs marcus moore with those images. Air to ground, hes on the move. Reporter newly released video tonight showing a dramatic takedown in texas. Aircraft above recording the Early Morning police chase of austin bomber mark conditt. I got an eastbound, eastbound wall lane. Coming up the 35 frontage. Reporter it was the end of a 19day bombing spree in march that terrorized austin. Look for the laser. Ive got it on. All right. Van has made contact with him. The van has made contact with him. Reporter look closely. S. W. A. T. Cars surround conditts suv, boxing in, then ramming his vehicle. Guns drawn, the Team Approaches his car. Conditt then detonates one final device, killing himself. The explosion, punishing. Got an explosion. Got an explosion inside the vehicle. Reporter five of conditts bombs exploded, killing two and wounding five. Before his capture, Police Spotted him on surveillance trying to mail packages from this fedex store, dressed in a wig and wearing gloves. And, tom, this ended just feet from where im standing right now and amazingly all of the officers involved escaped serious injury in this deadly blast. Tom . Incredible they survived. Marcus, thank you. We turn to the tribute to a national hero, senator mccain lying in state at the national rotunda. Thousands paying their respects tonight. These are live pictures. The senators flagdraped casket surrounded by family, friends and colleagues in the house and senate. Senator mccains mother, at 106 years old, mourning her son. Heres abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent martha raddatz. Reporter they came by the thousands to pay their respects. An american giant, john mccain, lying in state today in the capitol rotunda. A rare honor, befitting his decades of service. His two sons serving in the military, standing with his beloved wife, cindy. It began outside with a powerful burst of rain. An honor guard carrying his flagdraped casket up step by careful step. Placing it upon a simple black platform that was built for abraham lincolns casket. Friends from across his full life gathering with his family. Mccain had said serving in congress was the great honor of his life. Today, his colleagues putting partisanship aside. He had Americas Fighting spirit. Our noble idealism, our solemn patriotism. And our slightly irreverent streak all rolled into one. Reporter remembering mccain, the straighttalking statesman. This is one of the bravest souls our nation has ever produced. Reporter noticeably absent from todays service, President Trump. We gather here today to honor an american patriot. Reporter Vice President mike pence speaking in his place. Honoring the mccain family for their sacrifice, too. His mother, roberta, 106 years old providing strength for meghan mccain, a granddaughter in grief. One by one, they said goodbye. Mccains fellow americans remembering a man who said he wanted to be remembered most for his service to country. Powerful moments there in the rotunda. Martha raddatz joins us now live from capitol hill. People are still lining up at this hour to pay their respects inside. We know President Trump was not there today. And he wont attend tomorrows service, instead two other president s will. Reporter thats exactly right, tom. Tomorrow youll see former president barack obama and former president george w. Bush. Both of them will eulogize john mccain. John mccain was all about bridging divides, and that is what will happen tomorrow as well. Tom. Martha raddatz for us tonight, martha, thank you. And abc news will have live coverage of tomorrows Memorial Service beginning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Now to President Trumps attacks on the Justice Department, the fbi, and the Robert Mueller investigation. The president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani saying hes preparing a rebuttal report to muellers findings, whatever they may be and the new abc news poll showing President Trumps disApproval Rating heading in the wrong direction as americans show where they stand on Robert Mueller. Heres abcs chief correspondent jonathan karl. Reporter campaigning today in charlotte, the president s Approval Rating is down. And now an overwhelming majority of americans say they support special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation. Its just one poll, but the numbers in todays abc News Washington post poll are stark. 63 say they support mueller. Just 29 say they dont. This comes as the president has ratcheted up his attacks on the special counsel and even on his own Justice Department, which oversees the investigation. Our Justice Department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now because people are angry. People are angry. Reporter that was the president last night in indiana. He went on to say he might take control of the investigation himself. Whats happening is a disgrace. And at some point, i wanted to stay out. But at some point, if it doesnt straighten out properly, i want them to do their job. I will get involved, and ill get in there if i have to. Disgraceful. Reporter meanwhile, in an interview with bloomberg news, the president suggested he may shake up his Justice Department, starting with the man at the top, attorney general Jeff Sessions. Id just like to have Jeff Sessions do his job, and if he did, id be very happy. But the job entails two sides, not one side. And jon karl joins us now from the white house. Jon, the president also said in that interview that the special counsel investigation initiated by his own Justice Department is outright illegal. Something even some of his own lawyers dont believe. Reporter well, in fact, Rudy Giuliani, lead attorney, says he doesnt see it that way although giuliani did call the investigation illegitimate and regardless, tom, you can expect that from now until the midterm elections you will hear harsher and harsher attacks on him as a central theme coming from the white house. Jonathan karl for us tonight, thank you. New developments in that deadly highway crash in new mexico. Today, at least eight People Killed in the collision between a Greyhound Bus and a semi truck on interstate 40. The bus driver among the victims. Investigators say the truck blew a tire then veering into oncoming traffic. One of the survivor, get this, giving birth to twins hours later. She is in stable condition, the babies are in neonatal care. News tonight concerning the Harvey Weinstein scandal. A former nbc news producer accusing his own network of initially killing the story about weinsteins sex abuse allegations. Ronan farrow blocked from reporting. The bombshell that launched the me too movement and nbc now ronalding. Heres adrienne bankert. Reporter tonight, a former nbc news employee is accusing the network of killing a groundbreaking story of Harvey Weinsteins alleged sexual misconduct. Reporter ronan farrow worked at nbc until last year. His then supervising producer, rich mchugh now says, as we were about to interview a woman with a credible allegation of rape against weinstein, i was told not to do the interview. Effectively killing the story. Those orders came to me from the highest levels of nbc. But nbc calls the accusations an outright lie and that at the time farrow did not jet have a single victim of or witness to misconduct by weinstein who was willing to be identified. Of the seven women who eventually went on record with farrow at the new yorker, including asia argento, mira sorvino and rosanna arquette, nbc says not one of these seven women was included in the reporting farrow presented while at nbc news. Mchugh, a former abc news producer, resigned in protest from nbc news this month, telling abc, as the father of four girls, i knew that if i didnt pursue this story with everything i had, how could i live with myself . Tom, the president of nbc news gave his blessing when farrow asked to take the story elsewhere, effectively ending their working relationship. Tom . Adrienne, thank you. Now to detroit and what has been a daylong celebration of the life of Aretha Franklin. The Funeral Service in her hometown for the queen of soul. Stevie wonder there, among those delivering powerful performances. Smokey robinson blowing a kiss to his childhood friend and former president bill clinton remembering Aretha Franklin as a breathtaking talent. Abcs Zachary Kiesch with the farewell to the queen. Reporter america and the world got taken to church today. As family, friends, fans, president s, and pop stars packed the Greater Grace Temple in detroit to say farewell to the undisputed queen of soul, Aretha Franklin. She was classy enough to sing on the most prominent stages in the world, but she was homegirl enough to make potato salad and fry some chicken. In a class all by herself. Reporter aretha, in that solid bronze, goldplated casket, dressed head to toe in gold. President clinton, paying tribute. The secret of her greatness was she took this Massive Talent and this perfect culture that raised her and decided to be the composer of her own lifes song. And what a song it turned out to be. Reporter arethas grandchildren speaking with reverence. Her voice made you feel something. You felt every word, every note, every emotion. In the songs she sang, her voice brought peace. I know youll be watching me from the windows in heaven and i promise to carry our family legacy with pride and joy. Long live the queen. Reporter some of the music industrys biggest stars lending their voices. You make me feel like a natural woman reporter but above it all, this was without a doubt church. Cmon, take miss franklin to church. If miss franklin can dance on the stage, somebody ought to be able to dance in the church. Higher higher higher reporter tom, the funeral lasted most of the day and aretha will be buried at woodlawn cemetery. They also made the announcement that shade park, the same place that held a goss kel concert will be renamed Aretha Franklin park. Tom . Zachary kiesch for us. Zachary, thank you. We will have much more on one of the amazing moments from that funeral later in the broadcast. But theres still much more ahead on world news tonight this friday. The violent road rage in the nations capital. A woman attacking a Greyhound Bus. Ramming the driver when h to stop her from taking off. Plus, the uber driver in that stand your ground case speaking out. 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