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>> a police chase with a bizarre ending when a woman desperately trying to escape from police runs over herself. >> thats a hard thing to watch for a lot of people. >> january 3, 2011, moses lake, washington. thomas tufty is on the lookout for a woman wanted by police on forgery charges. >> she had multiple warrants for her arrest. id gotten a phone call from our dispatch center that let me know that she was on the move in her car. >> that woman is jonah zeigler. tufty has a description of zeigl...

>> she had multiple warrants for her arrest. id gotten a phone call from our dispatch center that let me know that she was on the move in her car. >> that woman is jonah zeigler. tufty has a description of zeigler and her vehicle, and it isnt long before he spots her. >> i saw a pink vest and her head behind the steering wheel. i pulled in behind her truck. >> corporal tufty approaches the truck. >> i let her know who i was and why i was there. she said she wasnt jonah zeigler. i finally convinc...

>> she had multiple warrants for her arrest. id gotten a phone call from our dispatch center that let me know that she was on the move in her car. >> that woman is jonah zeigler. tufty has a description of zeigler and her vehicle, and it isnt long before he spots her. >> i saw a pink vest and her head behind the steering wheel. i pulled in behind her truck. >> corporal tufty approaches the truck. >> i let her know who i was and why i was there. she said she wasnt jonah zeigler. i finally convinc...

Side of the bridge, i thought. i radioed our dispatch center and said i think she jumped. >> she jumped. >> but then a miracle unfolds. >> hold on. >> next thing i look over and i see les pulling an arm up. i could see he had ahold of her hand so i yelled into the mike hes got a hand. >> the womans fall is broken by a beam that runs along the outer edge of the bridge. it gives trooper bolt one last chance to grab on to her and save her life. >> i was able to get ahold of her arm, keep her there,...

it is tuesday, may 24th. were getting a much better picture of the scope of the disaster that were talking about in joplin, missouri, today where our ali velshi is. >> good morning. what are you seeing there? >> good morning, kiran, christine. i wish i could tell you its a good morning in joplin. it simply isnt. over my shoulder you can see the remains of the medical center which in this vast area is really the only building of significance that is still standing. lets begin this morni...

And joining us now to talk about it is the deputy fire marshall here, al santosstefano. this happened at about 11:30 in the morning. what were the workers doing? >> they were purging a pipeline. it was 11:13 when the first call became into the dispatch center. >> what happened to that? you had to get to the site. its not an easy one to get to. we hear about flames. we hear a lot about people feeling repercussion and shaking from that. so did you. >> i live about five miles from the site of this ...

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Comes to a podium in the building just behind me here in the countys emergency management building. what we do know at this point is that as you said, csx was controlling the switching, signaling, and dispatching of that amtrak train that plowed into a freight train with no one onboard it. this happening because this signaling system on this stretch of track was down. im told there was scheduled routine maintenance, something thats not all that uncommon. but the dispatch was then manual to tell ...

I note that a couple of the people are having more work done, and i think that dr. thomas can give you updates on that. but our thoughts and prayers are with them, and we are pleased that no one was more seriouslily injur -- seriously injured and look for them all to recover shortly. i give you to mark jamal who is our director of public safety. >> to just give you a brief timeline of events this morning that we had at 9:52, the officer involved called out that a car had hit about seven to eight...

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