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>> reporter: tonight, a tsunami, waves up to ten feet high, surging ashore in indonesia. the wall of water triggered by a magnitude 7.5 quake. powerful and deadly earthquakes striking the country. the family inside this cell phone shop hurrying out as the shaking starts, you can see phone cases swinging on the rack. there are reports of families missing. this as the injured are raced to hospitals, patients being treated in corridors and in the field outside. the quake striking near indonesia's sulawesi island, which sits on the "ring of fire." the series of highly active fault lines and volcan...

Somebody that you were close to. >> reporter: they say a bad day of fishing is better than your best day at the office. not in this case. but in this case bad could have been worse. but thankfully this picture tells the story of friends who stuck together and are still together. john thomas, abc news. >> lucky guy. and now, some dramatic video shot as last month's earthquake shook the washington monument. first, the shaking starts. then visitors can be seen rushing down the stairs as pieces of the inside of the monument rain down. today engineers will start rappelling down the side of the mo...

inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding in the short term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. one thing we're looking at has to do with a clean or simple measure funding fema. this is what everyone was looking for, fwunding fema as well as not shutting down the government. and did strips away all the obstacles that had really been holding up the agreement to this point. the second measure that they will be voting on is actually -- here's the confusing part. a one-week extension. one-week short-term spendin...

of our viewers. they were able to do this after all of this discussion and all of this fight over specifically inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding of in the short-term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. and it's a clean or simple and this basically is the measure that everyone basically agreed to. funding fema as well as not shutting down the government and it strips away all of the obstacles that had really been holding up the agreement to this point. the second measure that they will be voting on is...

Exposed and vulnerable the people like you who are in christchurch at the moment must feel rhys when you're getting these constant aftershocks. i want to ask you about the moment of the earthquake. you were obviously quite close to the hospital. just describe what happened when the quake hit. >> well, in the past, the aftershocks have sort of come in and you always get a gentle introduction to the aftershock. hey, i'm an aftershock, and the shaking starts. this came with no warning at all. it knocked my feet against the wall. light fixings were falling from the ceiling and book shelves were mo...