Trapping drivers on thor and state. Some forced to jump from their cars and tonight, hundreds of families forced to evacuate. The lines of cars and trucks unable to move. Our team reporting in from the scene. The breaking headline tonight. An arrest warrant coming for a Police Officer. Authorities say she walked into the wrong apartment thinking it was hers, shooting and killing her neighbor. The tv anchor who read a story about her own daughter. Why she decided to do it. Heartbreaking moment right here. And together, they were movie magic. Sally field, and what she is now saying tonight about Burt Reynolds who long ago said she was the one who got away. Good evening, and it is great to have you here with us on a friday night, and we are watching the potential hurricane, the east coast, the possible track. But first, the other storm. Only growing in washington tonight, unleashed by that anonymous letter and this evening, President Trump while on air force one making it clear what he wants done. He wants his attorney general to find the author, whoever that Senior Administration official is, and he wants them turned over. And as the president was unleashing on air force one, something we have not seen yet. Former president obama breaking precedent and taking aim at President Trump by name. It was a rare moment, and all of it playing out at once. Abcs chief white house correspondent, Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter enraged at the idea of an enemy within his own administration, President Trump declared today that attorney general Jeff Sessions should launch an investigation into the New York Times essay written by an unnamed senior official. Jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece was because i really believe its national security. And is there an action that should be taken against the New York Times for publishing it . Well were going to see. Im looking at that right now. Reporter the essay described a, quote, quiet resistance of Unsung Heroes in the Trump Administration working to frustrate parts of the president s agenda and his worst inclinations. An anonymous really an anonymous, gutless coward. He just look. He was nobody knows who the hell he is, or she, though they put he, but probably that is a disguise, that means its she. Reporter abc news has learned aides close to the president have compiled a list of about a dozen suspects on the president s team. One trump ally, senator rand paul, has even suggested lie detector tests for senior officials. Is it subversion, is it treason . Its a horrible thing. Reporter the memo echoes the theme of Bob Woodwards new book that senior officials are trying to protect the country from the president they serve. Woodward describes former top economic adviser gary cohn swiping a document off the president s desk so he wouldnt sign it, quoting cohn explaining, got to protect the country. Did gary cohn actually take a memo off your desk and is he a traitor . No, he never took a memo off my desk. How did woodward get it . Gary cohn, if he ever took a memo off my desk, i would have fired him in two seconds. If he did that, id never speak to him again. Id never speak to him again. Reporter all of this raises a fundamental question. Can the president trust his own top advisers . Do you trust the people that are around you . I do, i do, i do, but what i do is now i look around the room and i say, hey if i dont know somebody let me just tell you this. We have a really wellrun, smoothrunning white house. Reporter in fact, the president says nobodys done a better job than he has. Still, at a rally in montana, he told supporters he could be impeached if democrats win control of congress. If it does happen it is your fault because you did not go out and vote. You didnt go out to vote. You didnt go out to vote. Thats the only way it could happen. Jon karl with us live tonight inside that White House Briefing room there. President trump as you reported is calling on the Justice Department to investigate that letter in the New York Times. Is there anything illegal about what the author did, and what can the Justice Department do here . Reporter there certainly doesnt seem to be any classified information in there, so its unclear what law could possibly have been broken. We have asked the Justice Department if they are actually investigating. They said simply the department does not confirm or deny investigations. And the New York Times responded with a statement, harshly worded statement saying, we are confident the department of justice understands that the First Amendment protects all american citizens and that it would not participate in such a blatant abuse of government power by launching such an investigation, david. Jon karl with us all week long. Jon, thank you. As i mentioned at the top there, former president obama who has largely stayed out of the spotlight since the election, took the very rare step today breaking precedent and taking aim at a sitting president , talking about the, quote, crazy stuff coming out of this white house. Heres abcs Senior National correspondent, terry moran tonight. Reporter it was an extraordinary break from tradition. A former president lashing out at his successor. Barack obama denouncing the politics of bigotry and division and blaming donald trump by name. It did not start with donald trump. Hes just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years. Reporter obama summoned the ghosts of charlottesville. [ chanting ] President Trump said there were very fine people on both sides. Obama argued that bedrock American Values require a lot more than that. And were sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to nazi sympathizers. [ applause ] how hard can that be . Saying that nazis are bad . Reporter the former president also invoked the socalled quiet resistance within the Trump Administration. The claim that everything will turn out okay because there are people inside the white house who secretly arent following the president s orders thats not how our democracy is supposed to work. These people arent elected. Theyre not accountable. Theyre not doing us a service by actively promoting 90 of the crazy stuff thats coming out of this white house and then saying, dont worry. Were preventing the other 10 . Reporter one hour later, a withering review from President Trump, going after obama, something he has done from the start of his presidency. I watched it, but i fell asleep. I found hes very good very good for sleeping. All right. Terry moran joins us tonight from our washington bureau. Former president barack obama has kept a low profile since leaving office. Todays speech changes all of that. I gather well see more of this as the midterms approach . Reporter across the country, beginning tomorrow in california. The country will have the spectacle, unprecedented of two president s barnstorming the country, campaigning in midterm elections. David . The times were in. Terry moran tonight. Terry, thank you. We turn next tonight to that potential major hurricane headed for the east coast. Dangerous rip currents and high surf already being reported. The socalled Spaghetti Models showing florence right there and its possible path up and down the east coast, and, in fact, its one of four tropical systems brewing in the atlantic tonight. Senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all. We are in peak Hurricane Season right now. Indeed, and those computer lines you just shows, theyre a lot more jampacked hidden in the u. S. , so there is reason to be concerned. Even though florence is over 1,500 miles away, the weakening phase is over. We expect it to become a hurricane over the weekend, and maybe a category 3 or 4 by thursday or wednesday. Problem is, blue waves forcing potential tracks to the south, and our more reliable models are pointing this towards the carolinas. Meanwhile as you mentioned, there are two depressions and another wave closer to home. This is the peak of Hurricane Season, and folks who live on the coast should prepare and plan for anyone who could get potentially hit. Water and supplies ahead of time. Rob, thank you. From cincinnati tonight, the new stunning video tonight out this evening of the gunman who walked into that Downtown Office building. The moment he takes aim. The Surveillance Video also showing the gunman walking calmly through that lobby firing straight ahead. Police bodycam then shows the officers from the outside shooting through the windows to try to get to the gunman. Authorities say this all shows it could have been much worse, and heres abcs alex perez. Reporter tonight, our first look at those chilling moments of panic in cincinnati. Surveillance video capturing the gunman, identified as 29yearold omar perez, entering the lobby about 9 06 a. M. And randomly shooting people. Horrified, unarmed security guards help move people to hiding places. 55 seconds after those first shots, calls to 911 start streaming in. We saw someone that looked like they had a gun. Were hearing what sounded kind of like gunshots. Reporter 3 1 2 minutes later, officers on the scene, following the sound of gunfire. Shots shots reporter outside, officers zero in on the gunman through the window. In a split second, they move in, firing through the glass killing the suspect. I got him covered. Im with you. Im with you. If he had been there a little bit earlier or longer, many, many more people would have been killed. Reporter the gunman who police say legally bought his gun, killed three people. Court records indicate he had Mental Health issues. David, two victims remain hospitalized, including one woman who was shot 12 times. Miraculously, Authorities Say she is in stable condition. David . That is good news, alex thank you. In the west tonight, the drivers on the interstate that was suddenly engulfed in flames. That fire growing tonight. That major highway still shut down. Trucks and cars at a standstill. Flames on both sides of i5 between california and oregon. Trapping drivers in their vehicles, some of them jumping out to get away from the fires and you can see here the lines of cars and trucks unable to turn around or go back. Abcs will carr right there on the fire lines in Northern California for us. Reporter david, tonight crews are fighting fire with fire. They have started this back burn. You can see and hear those flames eating through the bonedry brush. The crews trying to use their flames here to cut off the fires path. You can see the flames still running along i5 here. This is shut down for more than 45 miles. Flames are running on both sides. Its still a very volatile situation heading into the weekend. David. Will carr on the scene again for us tonight. Thank you, will. We turn next to the breaking headlines out of dallas at this hour. A Police Officer now facing an arrest warrant. Authorities say she walked into an apartment thinking it was her own, and then shot and killed her neighbor. There are disturbing questions tonight about how this could happen, and abcs marcus moore from dallas. Reporter police in dallas tonight investigating a puzzling death inside this Apartment Building after a man was killed by one of their own. Standing by at 1210 south lamar gunshot wound. Reporter it happened late thursday. An offduty female Police Officer calling 911, telling authorities after returning home from her shift, she walked into an apartment she thought was hers and fatally shot the man who lived there, 26yearold botham jean. There are more questions than we have answers. Reporter Dallas Police chief rene hall revealing little about if the two knew each other beforehand or if the doors were even locked, saying her department is filing an arrest warrant for the unidentified officer. That warrant is for manslaughter. Reporter the offduty officer was still in uniform during the incident. Tonight, the family of jean who served as a youth pastor demanding answers, including a mother on her way to bury her son. She could never give me my son back. So just speak the truth. Reporter and david, jeans mother also said she approved of her sons apartment because she thought it was secure, and in a safe area just a block from the police station. David . Marcus, thank you. Next tonight, the sentencing this evening of a member of President Trumps campaign team, in the special counsel to russia investigation. George papadopoulos, a Trump Campaign adviser has now been sentenced. Tonight we are also hearing from President Trump who is now distancing himself from that former adviser. Heres abcs chief justice correspondent, pierre thomas. Reporter former Trump Campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos today making his way to court to learn his fate. Congratulations. Youll look great in orange. Reporter his wife by his side. She had pleaded with the president for a pardon. I trust and hope and ask to President Trump to pardon him. Reporter inside a federal judge handing down the sentence. 14 days in prison, a year of supervised release, and 200 hours of community service. Papadopoulos telling the court, i made a dreadful mistake, for which he was ashamed. He was part of the Trump Campaigns Foreign Policy team. Seen here in that infamous photo with Jeff Sessions and four seats from the candidate who praised him during the campaign. George papadopoulos, hes an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. Reporter but just hours before todays sentencing the president saying he didnt remember him. I dont know papadopoulos. I dont know him. I saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. Thats the only thing i know about him. I dont know him, but they got him on, i guess, a couple of lies is what they are saying. Reporter papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with a professor who claimed the russians had obtained thousands of hacked emails from hillary clinton. The fbi suspects the professor of being an operative for the russian government. His attorney just told me outside the courthouse papadopoulos cant recall who, if anyone, he told about those hacked emails, but we believe that this is something that Robert Mueller is pursuing, david. Pierre thomas with us on a friday night. Thank you, pierre. There is much more ahead on world news tonight this friday. The tv anchor who found herself reading a story about her own daughter. Why she decided to do it. The heartbreaking moment just ahead. Also news tonight about Tesla Ceo Elon musk. The moment he smokes marijuana on camera, drinks whiskey, and stocks now plummeting. And the disabled ship off the east coast tonight. Hundreds of people on board this ship. The coast guard on the scene. A lot more news ahead. Ship. 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Reporter it was the most difficult newscast Angela Kennecke would ever deliver. In recent years we have brought you many news reports on the Opioid Crisis, but now the Opioid Epidemic has hit home in a tragic and devastating way for me personally. On may 16th, my 21yearold daughter emily, died of an overdose. Her official cause of death was fentanyl poisoning. Reporter her anguish, still raw. And there is no recovery for me or my family of the loss of my talented, smart and beautiful daughter, emily. Reporter the news anchor at south dakotas kelotv going public with her personal plea in the belief that her daughters death might help abolish the stigma of opioid addiction. My only hope in the face of such devastating loss is that emilys story, my familys personal tragedy, can be a catalyst for change. If 72,000 people were dying from any other cause, we would be uniting to end the suffering of so many families, so many mothers. Reporter that veteran news anchor has set up a fund in her daughters name to make treatment more accessible and affordable for everyone. Emily died just three days before she was scheduled to be checked into a treatment center, david. Were thinking about angela and her daughter and the whole