they were striking at the heart of the suburbs. the guy is dead, and there s a white man just went by. tomorrow i m going to my fourth funeral in four days. people were dying. they were dying right in front of us. we can t be everywhere all the time. this, without a doubt, was the most intense three weeks of my career. it was one of the biggest manhunts in american history. the hunt for the d.c. snipers, next. it s known as the beltway, the growing metropolis that surrounds our nation s capital. encompassing portions of maryland and virginia, the beltway is a sprawl of medium and small-sized towns, the kind of places where indiscriminate violence is rare. for area residents, october 2nd, 2002, began quietly enough. nationally, the big news was a hurricane in the gulf of mexico. category 4 hurricane and the buildup to the invasion of iraq. we know the awful nature of war. but a very different war was about to erupt. i got a call from my deputy,
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night. jonathan karl standing by, he s with us tonight. as this was all playing out late today, the supreme court rejecting former president trump s emergency request involving those classified documents from mar-a-lago. terry moran on that tonight. the emotional scene for families who lost sons and daughters in the parkland shootings. the jury sparing nikolas cruz the death penalty. parkland families walking out of the courtroom. tonight, the deadfully police ambush. two police officers killed, a third seriously wounded. were they lured in by a suspicious 911 call? the numbers on inflation here in the u.s. the prices you re paying for everything. also, the change to social security payments. and the dow ending the day up. the american airlines flight making an emergency landing. several crew members sickened. the war in ukraine tonight. roughly 40 towns struck in just 24 hours, some with kamikaze drones. and here in the u.s. in the northeast tonight, flood watc
they are in response to a leaked draft opinion revealing a majority of justices poised to strike down roe versus wade. if over turned, constitutional protections for abortion rights will be eliminated in 26 states, likely. we have reporters covering this in several key cities today. joe johns is live for us in the nation s capitol. let s begin in the nation s cap capital. the d.c. rally is near the washington monument and it will kick off at about noontime and people will start making their way to capitol hill outside the u.s. supreme court. reporter: that s right, fred. the point, obviously, the message they are trying to send is there is strong support for upholding roe v wade even though the court appears to be poised, if you will, to strike it down. what we re told here is that they are expecting about 17,000 people in the nation s capital for this event but that certainly could be affected by the weather. rain is in forecast. a coalition of organizations is throwing th