now, joining us live on the phone, officer john franzen with chp. what can you tell us?essentially what you just said. for unknown reasons, gunfire was exchanged on southbound 680 between an officer and a suspect. currently, traffic is being diverted, both at rutger for southbound 680 for traffic that's just north of lavorna and also we're diverting traffic onto highway 24 as well. we have both northbound and southbound freeways shut down

. >>> so that was officer john franzen with contra costa county chp, letting us know that an officer has been shot, as well as the suspect. details still sketchy at this point, but the investigation ongoing. definitely traffic in this area, you can see he was mentioning that both sides of the freeway have been shut down there through the walnut creek area on into alamo. so definitely avoid this area. ktvu does have a crew on the way to the scene and we'll have updates on our website and cut-ins here on ktvu, as we get more information. ked out for a minute. he comes to. the driver at one point stands up. he moans. the females, surprisingly, as much as they took, the older lady is actually a mother and a daughter. the mother takes a face full of water from the side of the boat. the daughter takes the whole dash with her face. they walked away. when the video progresses, you start to see the bruising and some blood. >> tell us exactly who all these people are. is this an entire family, or family and friends? >> the web published it as all family. really, it was a couple from florida. e

john harwood, thank you. >>> another big story. the severe weather that struck the eastern seaboard this weekend including tornadoes here in new york city. we have a report from michelle franzen. >> reporter: up and down the east coast cleanup today after a series of violent storms. >> look at the tornado. >> reporter: that even spawned a pair of tornadoes in two new york city neighborhoods. the first twister formed over the atlantic before moving on to land ripping through a sea side community on the edge of queens. ten miles away a more powerful tornado tore through a densely populated brooklyn neighborhood damaging several homes and downing trees. >> my son was looking at it out the window. he was like we are gelting hit by a tornado. >> reporter: homeowners are still assessing the damage in this neighbor but feel lucky that no one was injured. >> we have been fortunate nothing happened. >> reporter: the threatening skies caused delays at sporting events. in new jersey rutgers football fans ran for cover. washington was hit hard with winds of nearly 60 miles per hour. in virginia and maryland the storms toppled trees and left 150,000 customers without power. and on the pot