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Tonight on this special edition of abc 7 news at 4:30, a missing woman found safe thanks to search crews and the family dog into a hazmat crews deals with a fire. >> and a bay area man is in custody after ending up on white house property in the middle of the night and the president is speaking out about the incident. abc 7 news at 4:30 starts now. a two-day search for a missing bay area woman has a happy ending. as the family dog is hailed as a hero for keeping her warm through the cold night...

Asthma, and she taught him from an early age what to do if a severe attack ever happened. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> my mommy cant breathe again. >> and your name? >> rocco. >> rocco? >> yeah. >> how old are you, rocco? >> im 7. >> is she able to talk to you at all? >> she cant really talk that much. she can only say, like, one or two words. >> reporter: calling and answering the dispatchers questions for more than nine minutes. >> is she in the chair or on the floor? >> she is on the fl...

9:00 p.m. no one was killed. the station was shut down, cordened off by police, and helicopters hovered overhead. bruno macedo was on the train at the time. >> were not stopping at the station. the station is closed. >> reporter: a short time later, police confirming one arrest was made. the identity and motive of the attacker, still unknown. dozens of officers search the train station and nearby businesses for possibly additional suspects. across europe, governments are on a heightened state of...

Kris van cleave reports that crossing collisions are happening more often all over america. >> multiple people all over the road. >> we need an ambulance. were going to need some ambulances. >> reporter: the charter bus carrying 49 passengers got stuck on the tracks before the freight train came through. witnesses said passengers tried to escape. the trains engineer applied the emergency brakes but couldnt stop in time. in addition to the four deaths, 40 passengers were injured. they were on the...

Torero ca captioning sponsored by cbs >> pelley: the presidents wiretap claim: still no proof but many questions. >> is the president the target of a counterintelligence investigation? >> pelley: also tonight, the battle begins over the republican health care plan. >> this is a conservative wish list. >> this is a bad joke. no wonder youve been hiding this dog in the cave with an armed guard until monday night. >> pelley: tragedy on the tracks. the search for ways to make things safer. and a pin...

Location. >> reporter: gusts as high as 68 miles an hour, fanning the flames at this detroit apartment complex, killing five. >> it was a horrendous fire to fight. weve got these high winds and it just drove the fire right through the building. >> reporter: at the willow run airport, a plane carrying the michigan mens basketball team and their families, aborting takeoff, sliding off the runway. terrified students spilling out on the tarmac. no one was hurt. winds snapping huge trees, some 600 th...

40 people are displaced. some tenants said their units had no working smoke detectors. cornell bernard has the details. >> it was just fire coming through the walls. >> reporter: robert jones says he narrowly escaped the fire which raged out of control through 16 rooms of the travel inn about 9:30 a.m. jones is confined to a wheelchair. >> no wheelchair accessible. they had to pull me down the stairs. >> my son said the building is on fire. we grabbed what we could and ran out the door. >> repor...

It got to our room, fast. >> reporter: he woke up this morning to screams and then the flames. >> my hero. he woke us up. got us out. >> reporter: his mother said he woke up the family giving them enough time to grab a few belongings. >> building was on fire. knocked on peoples doors to make sure they got out. >> the fire at the travel inn happened just before 9:30 a.m. it started in a room on the first floor, spreading to h second floor -- spreading to the second floor and several of the three ...

Clothes as quickly as possible. todd is winded, but his airway is clear. major albers assists with one of the other firefighters who also fell into the freezing water. miraculously, there are no serious injuries that day. >> it was a group effort. if they wasnt able to hold on to him on that bridge, we would have been downstream looking for the fireman. >> georgetown first responders transform luck from this bad day into improvements for future swift water rescues. the hope is that theyll be abl...

Suspenders, and be able to grab as much as i could of the bucket pants and pull him. >> come on! >> with all his might, major albers yanks the fireman back upstream, but the waterlogged man is so heavy, hes pulling the officer in too. just at that moment, former paramedic, pam strong grabs the major. >> she grabbed a hold of my legs, which really helped me at that time. i will never forget it. and i was able to pull up enough and get his lower body, hips, upstream, and pull up enough that i got ...