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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Tonight breaking news, the major Supreme Court ruling strengthening the
President's hand involving birthright citizenship, the severe storms as we
Come on the air, hundreds of flights canceled in the Northeast,
and the suspected shark bite at a popular New York beach. First,
the U. S. Supreme Court in a six to three
decision along ideological lines, allowing President Trump to move forward

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with his plans to change birthright citizenship, ruling that federal
judges cannot put nationwide blocks on his executive orders, the
president calling it a giant win, and what it means
for the rest of his sweeping agenda, and the High
Court's other major rulings tonight on parents' rights, Obamacare and more.
The severe weather watch tonight storms heading east, flash flooding

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in West Virginia, officials a five inches of rain in
less than an hour. The massive highway backup where the
temperatures are surging again tonight, and how a seventy six
year old Florida woman survived after her home was lifted
then slammed back down by a tornado. A goldberg with
the forecast, A possible shark bite at a popular in
New York beach, a woman standing in Waiste high water,

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the lacerations on her leg and foot.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
This video showing a.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Different baby shark on the same beach the same day.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Breaking news.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
One of the last fugitives who broke out of a
New Orleans jail more than six weeks ago captured late today.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
What we've just learned?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
The defense delivering its closing argument and the trial of
Sean Diddy calms, saying the case is not about sex
trafficking or racketeering, but a great modern love story and
a music mogul swinger lifestyle. The president of the University
of Virginia resigning today under pressure amid an investigation by
the Trump administration into the school's DEI efforts.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
The mystery solved.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
What we've learned about that fireball streaking across several Southern
states and America. Strong Tonight the Jeopardy contestant and the
game winning clue that fans are calling the most amazing
coincidence in the history of Jeopardy.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
From ABC News World Headquarters in New York.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
This is World News Tonight with David Bull.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Good Evening.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's great to have you with us on this Friday
night I'm with Johnson in for David, and we begin
with that major ruling from the US Supreme Court strengthening
President Trump's authority in a decision involving birthright citizenship.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
The six to three decision.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Along ideological lines, ruling that federal judges cannot put nationwide
blocks on a president's executive orders. Justice Amy Cony Barrett,
writing for the majority, that federal courts do not exercise
general oversight of the executive branch. Justice Sonia Sotomayora, writing
for the justices and descent, that the president's bid to
end birthright citizenship makes a solemn mockery of our constitution.

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President Trump, calling it a big win, making a rare
appearance in the White House briefing room today, saying he'll
now move forward with his plans to limit birthright citizenship.
The Supreme Court ruling may also allow the president to
charge ahead on other parts of his agenda. ABC's senior
Washington reporter Devin Dwyer leaves us off at the Supreme Court.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Tonight, the Supreme Court's conservative majority dramatically limiting the ability
of federal judges to check presidential power. The six to
three decision allows President Trump to move forward with plans
to end birthright citizenship, which has been law of the
land for more than one hundred years.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory
for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule
of law.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Federal judges in three states had ruled Trump's order on
birthright citizenship blatantly violates the Constitution, and Supreme Court president
issuing nationwide injunctions blocking the order from taking effect. But
today Justice amy Cony Barrett, writing for the majority, said
those sweeping injunctions went too far and that federal courts
do not exercise general oversight of the executive branch. They

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resolve cases and controversies.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
I want to thank Justice Barrett, who wrote the opinion brilliantly,
as well as Chief Justice Roberts and Justice is Alito Gorsich,
Kevanaugh and Thomas Great People.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
In a biting dissent, Justice Sonya Sotomayor said the liberal
justices would not join so grave an attack on our
system of law. Saint Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship
makes a solemn mockery of our Constitution. The Court's decision
took no position on whether Trump's executive order is constitutional,
though the ruling does let him put it into effect

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in thirty days, but at the White House today no
explanation of how that would work. Attorney General Pam Bondi
deflecting when pressed on how exactly citizenship for newborns across
America would be determined, who.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Would be tasked with actually vetting citizenship and how like
would this be a situation where you have nurses and
doctors checking for citizenship of parents.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Or this is all pending litigation.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
It's going to be decided in October by the Supreme Court,
and we'll discuss that after the litigate.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
But there is currently no litigation before the Supreme Court
in October involving birthright citizenship. Still, opponents of Trump's order
are vowing to get the issue back before the justices
as soon as possible, With the.

Speaker 8 (05:13):
Impact of today's decision could be far reaching. Dozens of
federal judges have issued nationwide injunctions against some of President
Trump's controversial policies, from layoffs of federal workers to federal
funding freezers of foreign aid. Some of those injunctions may
now need to be rolled back or lifted entirely.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
And Devin the Supreme Court also issuing several other major
rulings today.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
It sure did.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
The Supreme Court upheld those popular Obamacare no cost preventive
healthcare services. The justices also said that parents have a
right to remove their children from classrooms when LGBTQ books
that violate their religious beliefs are used, and the Court
upheld online age verification for adult websites in an effort
to protect children.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
All right, Devin Dwhy are that major news from the
Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
We appreciate it, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
We move now to the dangerous weather threat as we
come on tonight, powerful thunderstorms and more than eight thousand
flights already canceled or delayed nationwide. Severe weather on the
way for parts of the upper Midwest and along the
I ninety five corridor, including d C, New York and
New England, and those scorching temperatures rising again in the northeast.
Lee Goldberg with a forecast in just a moment, But first,

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here's ABC's Stephanie Ramos.

Speaker 9 (06:27):
Tonight, severe storms battering much of the Heartland for a
second straight day. More than seven hundred and fifty flights
delayed at Chicago airports, dozens more canceled that system, prompting
a traffic nightmare overnight on the West Virginia Turnpike south
of Charleston. Part of the road closed due to high water.
Local officials say they got five inches of rain in

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just forty five minutes. Alex Wilkinson telling us she and
her sister Samantha were stuck for eight hours. When you're stuck,
can you just make the mess of it?

Speaker 10 (06:58):
And tonight we're hearing the harrowing story of Deborah Metler.

Speaker 11 (07:02):
I had been in what was a battery room and
stepped out, which was good because it's no longer there.

Speaker 10 (07:08):
An EF one twister with ninety mile per hour winds
lifting her Largo, Florida home off the ground, suspending at
mid air for fifteen seconds Wednesday evening while she was inside,
telling our Tampa affiliate WFTS, I.

Speaker 11 (07:24):
Didn't realize I was actually up in the air. I'm
just too busy doing somersaults and getting thrash.

Speaker 12 (07:31):
And with here in the Northeast, after that extreme heat
wave earlier this week, the temperatures are rising again. It
will feel like mid nineties tomorrow with a chance of thunderstorms.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Wit Stephanie Ramos, Thanks Let's get right to Chief Meteorologist
Lee Goldberg with our New York station WABC, And Lee,
you're tracking some dangerous storms hitting right now.

Speaker 11 (07:52):
You know what.

Speaker 13 (07:53):
That's happening as the heat is moving from the midwest
of the Northeast. Here in the Northeast, our trip back
in time to May is coming to an animal warm
up over the weekend. But some big storms right now
working north of Detroit, just south of Pittsburgh. There's some
flood issues from Pittsburgh to Rowan Oak this evening. A
new tornado watch on the western side of that hot
high in North Dakota. Severe thunderstorm watch in parts of Nebraska. Now,

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even though it's comfortable in the Northeast, we have all
this heat from Memphis all the way up into the
Ohio Valley.

Speaker 10 (08:18):
See how cool it.

Speaker 13 (08:19):
Is in the Northeast. That's going to change big time
over the weekend. As that happens. We have storms from
New York City, d C up to Alby, especially in
the late day and evening, could be gussy. Another severe
threat near Minneapolis, back to Sue Falls.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Now, in terms of the.

Speaker 13 (08:31):
Big holiday week in the fourth of July, you know what,
no major heatwave but the heat is from the northern
Rockies into the east, cool in the southwest because of
the monsoon.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Wait all right, we'll be tracking at Lee Goldberg.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
A woman is recovering tonight from a suspected shark bite
at a popular beach on New York's Long Island. She
was standing in waste high water, getting lacerations on her
leg and foot. That bite one of several incidents already
this season. Here's the ABC is Faith of Oubay.

Speaker 14 (08:57):
Tonight, official say a sand tiger shark most likely bit
a woman in New York's popular Jones Beach on Long Island.
The twenty year old was waist deep in the water
at the Central Mold Beach front after four pm on Wednesday,
when authorities says she sustained minor lacerations to her left
foot and legs. A shark this baby sharks spotted at
Jones Beach that same morning, but not the one believed

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to have bitten the woman. It's the first suspected shark
bite in the New York City area since twenty twenty three,
when a swimmer was seriously injured at Rockaway Beach. Sand
tiger sharks can grow up to ten feet long and
three hundred and fifty pounds. The sharks known to frequent
the waters around Long Island in the summer, but are
not aggressive towards humans unless they're threatened.

Speaker 9 (09:40):
Something hard bit me, and then I tried to took
me away.

Speaker 14 (09:45):
Just two weeks ago, a shark nearly biting off nine
year old Leo Lendol's hand as she snorkeled off Florida's
Gulf Coast X rays showing the damage, doctors using blood
vessels from her leg to restore blood flow to her hand,
and when New York officials say they suspended swimming shortly
after that incident and used drones on the beachfront of

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sorts for dangerous marine life but found no threats. That
beach has since reopened back to the public.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Wit Faith of Bubey, thank you, and breaking news were
following tonight. A ninth inmate who escaped from a New
Orleans jail has now been caught. Let's get right to
Eva Pilgrim and Eva, what.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
More are you learning?

Speaker 15 (10:25):
What that breaking is just coming in authority saying they
have captured Antwan Massey after six weeks on the run.
This is the moment MASSI and nine other inmates escaped
on May sixteenth, scene running out of the New Orleans jail.
Their disappearance was not noticed for several hours. Thirty three
year old Massi was found today at a home in
New Orleans. He was in jail for domestic abuse, battery

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involving strangulation, as well as theft of a motor vehicle.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Videos had surfaced.

Speaker 15 (10:53):
On social media earlier this month appearing to be massy
that led to a failed raid. There's still one more inmate,
a convicted murderer, on the run tonight, but a major
break so.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Far in this case, wit Sure is Eva Pilgrim. Thank
you now to the Sean Diddy COOLMBS trial. Today, the
defense delivering its closing argument, mocking the evidence, calling the
prosecution's case over zealous. Jury deliberations expected to begin on Monday.
Here's ABC's chief investigative correspondent, Aaron Katurski.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
For more than four hours, the defense tried to persuade
the jury the trial of Seawan Colmes has nothing to
do with sex trafficking, racketeering, or prostitution, but is a
great modern love story, arguing star witness Cassie Ventura was
no trafficking victim, but a woman who actually likes sex
and willingly took part in sexual marathons with male escorts.
This was her lifestyle choice too, The defense said, she's

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not clutching her pearls. The defense mocked the government's case,
referencing the searches of Colmbs's Miami and Los Angeles holmes
that turned up baby oil, lubricant, drugs, high heels, and guns.
They found the baby oil, they found the astroglide, The
defense said, in a sar castic tone. The only crime
scene is your private sex life. The defense arguid Colmbs
was no racketeering kingpin, casting doubt on the alleged crimes

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of arson, drug possession, and bribery. This is his personal life.
It's not about an enterprise. The defense asking jurors to
summon the courage to acquit Shawn Combs. He sits there innocent,
return him to his family, But prosecutors pushed back, telling
jurors and their rebuttal not to let Colmbs blame victims
and the government for his lies, his threats, and his violence.

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Jurors went home for the weekend with they'll be back
here on Monday for the judges instructions and to begin
deliberating the charges that could send Shawn Combs to prison
for life.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
With Eric Katirski, Thank You next night. A university president
has resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. University of
Virginia president James Ryan stepping down today over the school's
efforts on DEI policies. Here's ABC's senior political correspondent Rachel Scott.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
After months of pressure from the Trump administration over diversity,
equity in IT inclusion initiatives, tonight the president of the
University of Virginia announcing he will resign rather than battle
the federal government. James Ryan writing, I'm inclined to fight
for what I believe in, and I believe deeply in
this university, but I cannot make a unilateral decision to
fight the federal government in order to save my own job.

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The Trump administration has launched a series of investigations into universities,
including a probe at UVA over its DEI efforts. Sources
tell ABC News the Justice Department demanded Ryan step down
as a condition to settle that ongoing investigation. Protests on
campus today in support of Ryan. Virginia's Democratic senators outraged.

Speaker 11 (13:40):
The fact that the federal government would get in and
decide that it should micro manage who the.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
President of UVA is just frankly shocking.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
This is the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration showdown,
with universities cutting more than two billion dollars in grants
to Harvard after it refused to comply with the President's demands. Tonight,
Ryan acknowledging the pressure from the federal government, saying he
did not want to put funding or jobs at risk. Tonight,
in a statement, the White House says DEI has no

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place in our country, saying that any university president that
fails to comply will be met with the full force
of the federal government.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
With Rachel Scott or thanks to you tonight, the so
called Big Beautiful Bill is hitting a big roadblock now.
The bill includes a package of tax cuts, military and
border security spending. Senate Republicans are now forced to rewrite
key sections after they were tossed out by the Senate's
nonpartisan rule keeper. President Trump has given the bill a
self imposed July fourth deadline to pass. To Wall Street

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and stock surging today, the S and P and Nasdaq
composite each up more than half a percentage point hitting
record highs, the Dow up one percentage point. A roller
coaster day for investors, with numbers taking a dip after
the President announced halting trade talks with Canada, then rising
again to a strong close. There is still much more

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ahead on world news tonight this Friday, Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos tying the knot, the A list, guest lists, and
the stunning amount of money being dropped around Venice, Plus
the mystery appears to be solved that huge fireball lighting
up the sky and loud booms. NASA now weighing in
about what caused him. Next night, the mystery appears to

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be solved about that fireball seen across the southeast, NASA
now confirming it was a meteor weighing a ton, first
spotted nearly fifty miles over Georgia. When it disintegrated, the
metior unleashed energy equal to twenty tons of TNT, causing
loud booms heard for miles. Small pieces believed to be
debris falling to the earth, only some minor damage reported

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but no injuries. When we come back, a passing to
note an actor from a popular TV show in the
eighties to the index now a mancus of kicking a
Customs and Border Patrol dog at the airport has been
kicked out of the country. Investigators say the dow Freddy
was kicked while inspecting a bag for contraband at Dallas
Airport CBP, saying that man's luggage had more than one

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hundred pounds of prohibited meat and produce. The man from
Egypt was arrested, fined, and sent home. Freddie suffered contusions
to his rib area, but will make a full recovery.
Wedding bells for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez
Vogue releasing a digital cover of Sanchez in her dress
immediately after they got married, a star studded guest list

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including Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian. Despite some protests, the
Venice deputy Vice mayor telling us the nuptials could bring
up to thirty five million dollars to the region and
we have a passing to note tonight. Actor Rick Hurst
rose to stardom playing Deputy Cletus Hogg on The Dukes
of Hazzard. He started acting at the age of five,
and once in a radio interview he said he did

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one hundred and forty six national commercials. In just two years,
Hurst was seventy nine, still had the incredible contestant coincidence
during Final Jeopardy. It's never happened before. Finally, Tonight, Final
Jeopardy and the contestant coincidence. This is Jeopardy forty one

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seasons of Jeopardy, but what you're about to see has
never happened before. What fans are now calling the most
amazing coincidence in the history of Jeopardy.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
From Edver, Colorado, Emily Crow right away, Emily on a
hot streak.

Speaker 16 (17:26):
Emily puts Arizona right with the Hunger Games, right, that's awful.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Marine, that's right, and she kept going.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
It was Eliza Skyler, that's right?

Speaker 16 (17:35):
What is Sons of Liberty?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Correct?

Speaker 16 (17:36):
Who is Tennyson?

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yes? Emily way ahead, leading into Final Jeopardy.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
And then let's take a look at the clue, the
final clue.

Speaker 7 (17:44):
In eighteen ninety six, the Vasser educated wife of this
man wrote, thousands of dollars may be paid for a
copy of Shakespeare. The contestants guesses it's not Smith, I'm afraid,
and it's not a Rockefeller either.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
And then it was Emily's turn.

Speaker 7 (17:58):
Who is Folger? And that's You're a Jeopardy champion, Emily.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Emily with the win, and as the credits were rolling,
you see Emily and host Ken Jennings talking, Ken looking surprised.
That's because of what Emily had just revealed. She is
a distant relative of the correct answer. In fact, she's
named after the wife mentioned in the clue, Emily Folger.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Tonight Jeopardy sharing what happened behind the.

Speaker 16 (18:23):
Scenes, say that again, Emily does my great great aunt, Emily.

Speaker 7 (18:27):
Emily Folger, the one we mentioned in the clue is
the person you Emily crook a named after guess yeah wow.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
And joining us tonight, Emily on the moment. Nothing could prepared.

Speaker 16 (18:40):
Me for the moment of seeing a final Jeopardy clue
about my family. It was the most out of by
experience of my life.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Emily sharing these family photos with us, Emily with her mother,
Emily Folger's great great niece and Emily's grandmother also named Emily.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Tonight Emily and her Needless to say, I am still
processing the weirdest.

Speaker 16 (19:04):
Coincidence of my life. Thank you to Jeopardy, the Jeopardy community,
and everyone out there who loves learning and exploring the world.
Around us.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh, we just love that moment. I'm with Johnson in
New York. Thank you so much for watching good.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
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