right now on "america this morning," the historic vote overnight. the senate passing the landmark gun safety bill. what happens next. and the new fallout after the supreme court decision that makes it easier to carry guns outside the home. new this morning, the former justice department official allegedly at the center of former president trump's campaign to overturn the 2020 election speaks out for the first time since his home was raided by the fbi. days before the busy july 4th travel rush, new questions about safety after two planes collide at jfk airport, and one of them keeps going and takes off to europe. caught on camera, chaos on the highway. this trailer carrying vans stacked too high. plus, we hear from the u.s.

swimmer rescued by her coach after passing out in the pool. her message this morning. and later, is it better to exercise in the morning or at night? what a new study says. good friday morning, everyone. we begin with breaking news overnight. a landmark vote in washington, the first of its kind since 1994. lawmakers finally finding common ground when it comes to gun laws. >> the motion to concur with an amendment is agreed to. >> reporter: overnight the senate passing the first significant gun legislation in the u.s. in nearly three decades. the bill includes enhancing background checks for gun buyers under 21, closing the so-called boyfriend loophole and providing funding for school security and mental health programs. it stopped short of banning or raising the age to buy ar style guns. >> what we are doing will

save thousands of lives without violating anyone's second amendment rights. >> reporter: the vote came hours after the supreme court expanded gun rights. the justices struck down new york's century old law that required a resident seeking a license to carry a concealed gun to prove they have a heightened need for self-defense. by a 6-3 majority the supreme court said the law violates the second amendment. justice clarence thomas writing, we know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need. it is not how the second amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense. in his dissent, justice stephen breyer mentioned the recent mass shootings including the supermarket massacre in buffalo. justice samuel alito fired back pointing out the new york law clearly did not stop the supermarket gunman. still the governor calling the ruling outrageous. >> we should have the right of determination of what we want to to do in terms of our gun laws in our state.

>> reporter: people in new york who want to carry a concealed gun in public will still need to get licensed, fingerprinted and pass a background check but experts say the court's decision will make obtaining it a lot easier. >> removing that requirement to show some special need for self-defense removes a lot of the teeth from the public carry regimes in places like new york and massachusetts and california. >> reporter: eight other states have similar laws to new york. the supreme court's ruling does allow the restriction of guns in so-called sensitive places like schools and government buildings. in new york, the city council is already asking state lawmakers to expand the definition of sensitive places to include hospitals, libraries, courts, places of worship and day cares. public transportation like the subway could also be considered. >> we are very, very sensitive about the fact that we need something because this is going to just blow the lid off of a simmering pot, quite frankly, that we're dealing with

for the city. >> reporter: the head of a gun rights group that brought the case says he's relieved by the ruling. >> we are the lawful, legal citizens of the state. most of us have training, and we're not going to start a gun battle over an argument for a parking spot. >> reporter: as for the bill that passed the senate last night, it's expected to pass the house today. the other big story this morning, the former justice department official accused of trying to help former president trump overturn the 2020 election is speaking out for the first time since his home was raided by federal agents. jeffrey clark was the subject of yesterday's january 6th committee hearing where witnesses describe how former president trump pressured the justice department to find fraud in the election, evidence of which did not exist. abc's jay o'brien is here with the new details. jay, good morning. >> reporter: yeah, andrew, mona, good morning. it now appears the justice department's investigation is going beyond the people who attacked the capitol on january 6th. this morning, a former department of justice official

is lashing out at the fbi after agents raided his home. >> i don't recognize the country anymore with these kinds of things happening. >> reporter: jeffrey clark said he answered the door in his pajamas when fbi agents came to his virginia home around 7:00 a.m. wednesday. >> i open the door and asked for the courtesy to be able to put some pants on and was told, no, you got to come outside so i came outside. they swept the house, eventually they let me go back inside and put the pants on. >> reporter: according to clark, the agents searched his house for more man three hours. it's unclear what they were looking for. clark says the agents took electronic devices. clark was in charge of the justice department's environmental division under former president trump. just as word of the raid on his home surfaced yesterday, the january 6th committee revealed evidence claiming clark was at the center of an effort by trump to get the justice department to fraud during the 2020 election. the committee showed a letter clark drafted to the state of georgia.

>> this letter claims that the u.s. department of justice's investigations have, quote, identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states including the state of georgia. >> reporter: three days before the attack, witnesses of an oval office meeting say trump proposed making clark the head of the justice department after clark said he would help trump reverse the election results. according to the committee, the white house then started referring to clark as acting attorney general, but trump didn't go through with it because others in the department threatened to resign. >> i said, mr. president, i will resign immediately. i'm not working one minute for this guy. you're going to lose your entire department leadership and every single aag will walk out on you and clark will be left leading a graveyard. >> reporter: clark was interviewed but refused to answer questions. meanwhile, a former justice department official testified that after a 90-minute conversation about the election not being rigged, trump eventually asked him to, quote, just say the election was

corrupt. >> he responded very quickly and said essentially, that's not what i'm asking you to do. what i'm just asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. >> reporter: the committee also named six republican members of congress who say they asked for presidential pardons including congressman matt gaetz, mo brooks, louie gohmert, andy biggs and scott perry, all spread false claims about joe biden's victory. perry's office calls the claim a soulless lie. mo brooks didn't deny the pardon request but said it was unnecessary after all. and while gaetz hasn't denied the pardon request, he dismissed the committee as a political sideshow. republican congressman adam kinzinger ending yesterday's hearing with this statement. >> the only reason i know to ask for a pardon is because you think you've committed a crime. >> reporter: and last night the chair of the january 6th committee saying he can prove those pardon requests were made. andrew, mona. >> all right, jay, thank you. investigators are looking into a collision on the tarmac

at new york's jfk airport. the pilot of an air france flight reported that his plane was hit by a jet from italy's ita airways, but the air traffic controller had trouble understanding his accent and by the time the controller contacted the pilot of the italian jet, he had already taken off for rome. he said he wasn't aware of the collision and landed safely. demand for the monkeypox vaccine is growing because of a rising number of cases. a long line formed in new york where vaccines were offered to gay men. some had to be turned away. the cdc is working to broaden eligibility for the vaccine. the world health organization could soon declare monkeypox a global emergency. meanwhile, an outbreak of meningococcal disease in florida is being called one of the worst among gay and bisexual men, seven people have died. the cdc urges men in florida who have sex with men to get vaccinated. overseas a symbolic win for ukraine. it's been granted candidate status by the european union.

full membership could be decades away but russia called it hostile. it came as the u.s. announced a new $450 million military aid package. time now for a look at your friday weather. severe storms will threaten the upper midwest and northern plains this afternoon with damaging winds and hail. the biggest threat for an isolated tornado will be in north dakota and western minnesota. to the south another day of dangerous heat for the plains and across the southeast. an excessive heat warning has been issued for new orleans where it will feel like 104 degrees today. checking the temperatures elsewhere, the heat is building in the pacific northwest. it will be nearly 100 in portland this weekend. 99 in new orleans. coming up, house speaker nancy pelosi's husband facing possible jail time. but first chaos in the courtroom. a father attacks the man accused of killing his son.

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back now with violence erupting at this hearing in ohio. the father attacking the man accused of killing his sovereign punching him in the head repeatedly. officers handcuffed antonio hughes but he again tried to attack the suspect. hughes facing contempt of court charges. another major air line cutting back on flights to reduce the number of delays this summer. united is cutting 50 flights per day at newark airport as the industry deals with staffing shortages. airline complaints are up 300% since before the pandemic and this july 4th could be the busiest in decades. travelers are urged to book flights in the morning if possible because severe weather is more common later in the day.

if you're connecting give yourself lots of time between flights. and a new mystery in the sky over southern california. another reported sighting of so-called jet pack man. abc's derricke dennis explains. >> reporter: this morning, yet another sighting of an unidentified person wearing a jet pack flying high above the los angeles area about 15 miles from l.a.x. >> jetpack about 4500 feet >> reporter: the strange sight detailed through air traffic control audio between an american airlines pile and airport dispatcher. >> 4500. >> confirmative. >> there was an aircraft reported eastbound. >> reporter: no word on the identity of the travelers but not the first sighting of its kind. >> we passed a guy on a jet pack. >> you don't hear that every day. >> reporter: back in december another pile on a training flight captured this video of what appeared to be someone wearing a jet pack flying a few miles from the airport.

but the video was dismissed as a balloon that looks like a jet pack. last august multiple pilots reported some high-flying hazard in the sky. >> we just saw the guy pass us. >> person on a jet pack reported at about 3,000 feet. >> reporter: technology is out there with sightings at the statue of liberty and in the uk where the royal navy's been developing and testing a jet suit for boarding enemy ships. what experts say operating a makeshift jet pack near commercial flights could spell disaster. >> the size, weight of a person in a jet pack impacting an airplane at the exact wrong spot could potentially bring that airliner down. people need to fly them in a responsible way. >> reporter: the faa says it has worked closely with the fbi to investigate every reported jet pack sighting and so far no sightings have been verified. derek dennis, abc news, new

york. >> derricke, thank you. house speaker nancy pelosi's husband is facing jail time in a dui case. paul pelosi arrested after a crash in california's napa county. the 82-year-old is now charged with dui with injury. he could be sent to jail for five days and faces five years probation. coming up, one big cdc to save money on groceries. first the u.s. swimmer rescued after passing out in the pool speaks out.

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chaotic scene on this south florida highway. a trailer carrying vans was stacked, yeah, too high. one of the vans smashing into that overpass then falling down hitting an suv. luckily no one was hurt. the driver of the trailer received a citation. olympic swimmer anita alvarez is thanking her fans after nearly drowning during a competition. she's recovering after passing out during an event in hungary. her coach, andrea fuentes, dove into the pool after alvarez started sinking to the bottom. fuentes later posted images of alvarez laughing with her teammates at lunch. alvarez said thank you to her fans for their well wishes. she said, i'm healthy and okay. doctors say the swimmer attacked by a shark near monterey, california, is expected to make a full recovery. the 62-year-old was in the icu for his wounds but did not suffer any broken bones. in a statement he said he got lucky because of the bystanders who rescued him. now to south florida where people came together in the

early hours of this morning to mark a solemn anniversary. a building collapse on the beach that would change their lives forever. this morning marks one year since the tragic condo collapse in surfside, florida, and overnight where the 12-story champlain towers once stood a vigil held for the 98 souls lost that night. it's left a lasting trauma for the victims' families and loved ones. >> we're still struggling. i'm still having nightmares. >> reporter: pablo rodriguez lost his mother and grandmother and his family coping with grief and his young son growing up marking milestones like birthdays without them. >> he's still sad. he talks about them often. >> reporter: gonzalo and maria torres fell in love in the 1960s, cuban immigrants who operated a local hotel and called the champlain towers home for nearly 40 years not knowing it's where they'd spend their final moments beneath the rubble. their grandson nick carries on their memory. >> there's a lot of great memories there. yeah.

>> reporter: and still there are stories of heroism from that day. the first responders and the relentless effort to find survivors. 15-year-old jonah was pulled from the debris pile badly wounded but alive. as he started to heal in the following months support flooded in meeting the people who saved him even throwing out the first pitch at a marlins game but the emotional scars linger. >> every time the thunder goes for him, it's the building collapsing. >> reporter: and now some financial relief for the families still reeling from the devastating loss. this morning, one year after the tragedy, a judge has finalized a $1.2 billion settlement for the families calling it remarkable. money for the settlement will come from insurance companies, engineering firms and a neighboring condo that allegedly contributed to the structural damage. coming up in "the pulse," is it better to exercise in the morning or at night? also ahead, what we're learning about jon snow from "game of thrones." >> he knows nothing.

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reggie: now at five, a burst of fires in the bay area, firefighters working to keep them in check. kumasi: a family bike ride it turning into tragedy, this deadly hit and run of a father in oakland and of the effort to find the killer. >> the high-stakes hearing on the january 6 insurrection, former top officials share how former president trump close to them to overturn votes. kumasi: but first, we are starting with pride weekend weather. we have a full weekend ahead. reggie: you can see the pink triangle. that is very cool. good morning. we are going to start with drew. drew: hot temperatures inland, back into the 90's. that does create a higher fire danger. it's and afternoon where we have the summer spread. fog is at the coastline. half moon bay at a quarter mile

visibility, so denseog