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Discussions for the payout began one month after that bombshell "new yorker" article came out in which argento accused harvey weinstein of rape in 1997, when she was 21. in a statement tonight, harvey weinstein's lawyer says these revelations demonstrate to everyone how poorly the allegations against mr. weinstein were actually vetted. argento is not one of the victims involved in the case against weinstein. our calls to attorneys were not returned. the los angeles county sheriff's department tells abc news their detectives are reaching out to bennett and his attorney. david? >> linsey, thank ...

Themselves and police agreed. tonight, his family is urging the state attorney to reverse course and charge him, saying the video shows mcglockton turning his body away from drejka after that shove, proving he was not a threat. now, at least 27 states have similar stand your ground laws, and tonight, the family attorney is demanding that that law be changed so that someone who starts a confrontation cannot then claim immunity. david? >> linsey davis here with us on the desk. thank you, linsey. coming up, the new medical headline about alzheimer's. a drug that could bring some memory back? we...

Buildings or into air conditioning systems. >> reporter: several blocks along 5th avenue and nearly 50 buildings, shut down. >> i want to get to my office but i like to avoid the air. >> reporter: firefighters first sprayed down and then showering off in a decontamination tent. and anyone in the area at the time is being advised to do the same. >> wow. really lucky the injuries weren't more serious today with so many people there. linsey davis joins us live near the site of that explosion. we know authorities are on the scene there investigating cleaning up, but linsey we saw those decontamina...

Telling a local newspaper, she screamed and kicked at her attacker. he stumbles, falling to the ground, then takes off at high speed. >> she also had the presence of mind to take a picture to help law enforcement, to help us actually catch the perpetrator. >> reporter: it happened right in donald prohovich's front yard. >> she had some suntan lotion on her, i think she may have been slippery, and she was able to break away. >> reporter: lyons was arrested a short time later, after crashing his car. today, during his arraignment in the hospital, the 57-year-old hid under a sheet. lyons faces mu...

>> thank you, linsey. now, the president's power to pardon tonight, and the joyful reunion. a great-grandmother released from prison after 20 years. the president commuting her sentence. alice johnson rejoining her family after decades behind bars on a nonviolent drug offense. it was reality star kim kardashian who told the president about her. tonight, some asking, does it take a famous name, a reality star, to get the president's attention on pardons, or will he and the justice department now look at other cases involving nonviolent drug convictions? here's abc's chief justice corresponden...