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This is it." armstrong's 10-year-old son managed to get out of the van that went under water. the woman who stopped to help him describes the boy as both courageous and terrified as he told her what happened. >> gets in the car and he thinks they're just going for a drive and i said tell me what else happened. he said, we we just going for a drive and mom was driving the car frantically. she was speeding, and by the time they got down by the ramp, he was, like, mommy, mommy what are you doing? stop, stop, stop. you know? and she was, like, get to the back seat. so he went to the back seat. and...

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>> are we back where we started with a possible government shutdown? >> could be. it's important to underscore, the republican leaders who are whipping the vote, they still feel confident this will pass. part of the reason is because, like the last time, two times ago, i should say congress voted for a stopgap spending bill in the house they relied on democratic votes. i think that's probably going to be the case this time. >> dana bash with the story. we're learning more about what may have led a new york mother to drive hermineny van into the hudson river with her four young children in to...

>> nobody knows what my niese went through. >> reporter: angela gillian came to the banks of the hudson river to mourn. her niese, lashandra armstrong packed her kids into the van and drove to the river blocks from her home. neighbors said armstrong never showed signs anything was wrong. >> well mannered, very polite. they used to go in and wave hi, hi. that's how we were. we never got in nobody else's business. >> reporter: only thele eldest child survived, scrambling out of a window and swimming to shore. >> he was having difficulty speaking, repeating about the car being in the water with h...

>> reporter: well, it really is a tragedy and the community is really coming to terms, grappling with the scope of this tragedy. they want to find out why this young mom, who apparently had never caused any problem, what drove her to do this. >> >> nobody knows what she's been through. nobody. >> grief sfrik en, she came to the river to mourn. her niece, 25-year-old lashandra armstrong, packed her four kids can, ages 10, 5, 2, and 11 months in the family minivan and then drove into the river blocks from her home. neighbors say she never showed signs that something was wrong. >> well mannered, ...