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>> christie pulls out and heads south through plano toward dallas. her son-in-law, who witnesses the abduction, calls 911. and within minutes, plano police officer koy clements has located the truck and is in hot pursuit. >> i had never chased an 18-wheeler before. and not realizing that even if you disable nearly every tire, it's not going to stop. >> police try stop sticks, spikes designed to puncture the tires. but they have little effect. the big rig keeps on rolling. >> i was only taking out the front tires. it didn't disable the drive tires and the truck didn't slow down at all. >> meanw...

>> outside the city, a man is speeding east in a stolen school bus, straight to the city line. >> the bus is stolen from this albuquerque bus yard. the suspect drives 80 miles west on i-40 to the city of grant. before turning around and heading back to albuquerque. >> now state, city and county law enforcement are in hot pursuit. they turn him to stop the empty bus before it reaches the rush hour. >> the plan, stop the vehicle with spike belts, also known as stop sticks, strips of metal barbs designed to puncture tires.

Truck, and the danger is that it's an 80,000 pound vehicle. it's going to run over or destroy anything else on the road. >> alerted by other truck drivers that the suspect is listening to a police scanner, bowers tries to convince the man to give up. >> you need to pull over and stop now before you get shot. >> but the suspect ignores the warning. >> bad things are about to happen if you don't stop. >> with few options, police deploy stop sticks in the path of the semi, but the truck manages to avoid them. another unit waits at the top of a hill, but the suspect spots him and swerves to the ri...

>> outside the city, a man is speeding east in a stolen school bus straight toward the city line. the bus is stolen from this albuquerque bus yard. the suspect drives 80 miles west on i-40 to the city of grant. before turning around and heading back to albuquerque. >> negative. just the driver. >> as for now, just one male driver. that's all we have. now state, city and county law enforcement are in hot pursuit. determined to stop the empty bus before it reaches albuquerque's morning rush hour. the plan, stop the vehicle with spike belts, also known as stop sticks, strips of metal bar

Before police can arrest him, he takes off. detective steve bowers is one of the officers in pursuit. >> this was the first chase that i've ever had that involved a truck, and the danger is that it's an 80,000 pound vehicle. it's going to run over or destroy anything else on the road. >> alerted by other truck drivers that the suspect is listening to a police scanner, bowers tries to convince the man to give up. >> you need to pull over and stop now before you get shot. >> but the suspect ignores the warning. >> bad things are about to happen if you don't stop. >> with few options, police depl...