Newburgh police have released 911 tapes from the day Lashanda Armstrong, 25, drove her minivan filled with her children into the Hudson River.

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"What's the problem," the 911 operator asks.

"I don't know, I'm on my way up there, I live in Rockland county, my niece is up there, And her father called and heard a lot of yelling and screaming. She's been going through a lot, so I don't know what's going on," said Gilliam.

Police released six emergency and radio recordings made on the night Armstrong drove her minivan into the river, with her four children inside. Only her 10-year-old son was able to escape.

"We need a dive team to respond to Gully's. Right there on the boat ramp. There's a vehicle in the water with a mother and child. They've got the boat down there right now, they're trying to find the vehicle," a rescuer said.

"They're in the car," 911 dispatcher asks.

"Yeah, the mother and child," rescuer said.

"Did the boat pull it in," asked the dispatcher.

"No, the vehicle drove right in, the mother was fighting with her husband," said the rescuer.

And around the same time emergency crews are called to the waterfront, officers try in vain to find Lashanda.

"It should be apartment two. 10-4 I knocked on apartment two and three and one, no answer," said a police officer.

Officials released the tapes in response to a FOIL request, but not before the investigation was complete.

"We wanted to make sure that the case is closed and that there was no other directions for us to go in for us to go in and we did, we waited, it's been over a month now," said Police Chief Michael Ferrara.

Just weeks since the drownings that Chief Ferrara says is one of the worst cases Newburgh has dealt with.

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