Good evening on this friday night, diane is on assignment. We do begin with that wild weather across the country tonight starting with what you see right here behind me. This giant swirling storm, Tropical Storm karen, on a collision course with the gulf coast this evening. A state of emergency in louisiana, alabama, mississippi and florida. Evacuations now underway, president obama briefed on the gathering storm, its not the only trouble spot tonight. Look at this. Several states out west with an early winter in south dakota, an october blizzard, cars abandoned. In wyoming look, the summer patio right there. The furniture buried in snow. In utah tonight, hale. Dotting those green lawns. And in nebraska, listen to this. Those are the sirens tonight, the night sky lit up by lightning, as a tornado moves through town. Abcs meteorologist ginger zee is in the gulf tracking it all. She begins with the Tropical Storm moving in. Reporter surf pounding in alabama. Storms streaming on shore in
Were seven days into the shutdown, if you think this is bad for america, wait until you see what happens when they run down the clock in the next few weeks, and it could be a catastrophe. And more on john mccain, what his party has left, Robert Reisch on the left, and Newt Gingrich on the right. And why there is an attempted right wing coup against the president. Well answer your questions tonight, and with washington in a straight jacket, who better than to show us how to get through an impossible situation, the worlds greatest magician. And again, from john mccain, he said from the beginning of this, the americans will blame the gop for the shutdown and things are no better with the debt deadline looming next week. Senator mccain, it has been more than a week with the shutdown, and many are asking when is washington going to get its act together . Do you know the answer . I dont know, piers, but we may reach the point where the markets tell us to come to an agreement, and that would
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
suv driver. you ve seen the video. the driver attacked and a rider injured also. edwin mieses was hit and paralyzed. joining me is his wife and lawyer gloria allred. why did you take this case and why do you believe that the real victim may be edwin and not as many people think the driver of the suv? piers, edwin is clearly a victim. here is what the media is not tying together. our investigation has revealed that even before what you just saw on the videotape, as the driver of the suv was coming down the highway several miles before that he hit another biker. and as the as he was moving from the right lane over to try to get into the middle lane, he