in historic settlement. fox news avoids trial in the defamation case brought by dominion voting systems over lies told after the election, but why the cable news networks, legal woes are far from over. the deadly parking garage collapse in new york. what we're learning about its history of safety violations at the new technology police used to search for survivors. cheerleaders shot a texas cheer squad comes under fire. one girl left in critical condition after police say she got into the wrong car after practice. it comes just days after the fatal shooting of a woman in new york, who entered the wrong driveway and days after a team was shot in missouri after showing up at

the wrong address what investigators are now revealing back in the game tomorrow. hamlin, the bills player who suffered cardiac arrest during monday night football, is cleared to return to football, his message and why doctors say his comeback is possible. the king's collection, a new report on king charles and his car collection, worth $6 million, but who owns them, and duck duck play ball. fenway park makes way for two unexpected visitors. from abc news in new york. this is america this morning. but wednesday morning, everyone i'm andrew denberg wednesday. i'm marie in an alley. we want to begin this morning with the historic settlement in the fox news defamation trial cable network was sued by dominion voting systems for spreading lies about the 2020 election. we're now learning more about the $787 million settlement and the other election related legal trouble that fox still faces. lindsey watts has more now from

washington. lindsay good morning. good morning, rhiannon . fox news may have settled the dominion case, but it's facing another lawsuit from another voting machine company that could be even more expensive. this morning fox news legal trouble stemming from the 2020 election appear to be far from over. even after the networks groundbreaking settlement with dominion voting systems, which accused fox of recklessly airing baseless claims that its machines were rigged against former president trump. it is the largest defamation settlement amount that i've heard of. by a factor of several fold smartmatic, a different voting machine company has filed a similar defamation lawsuit against fox for $2.7 billion significantly more than the 1.6 billion dominion was seeking. dominion and fox settled yesterday for nearly half that amount, just as the trial was about to start dominions lawyer says bringing the case to an end means bringing the trauma to an

end for dominion employees opening statement i was going to talk about one employee who has had to deal with changing gyms because of harassment by people who believe the lies who went to a doctor's appointment. with a new doctor was sitting in a hospital gallon and the doctor saw that you worked for dominion said. oh you work for dominion, the company that stole the election. they were going to come into court and relive all this again. so today was a very good day for dominion for their employees. the historic settlement keeps fox news stars like tucker carlson and laura ingram from having to testify about what they said on air. disturbing irregularities have been found. in a statement, fox news said. we acknowledge the court's rulings finding certain claims about dominion to the false this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. critics of the settlement note it does not require fox news to acknowledge the election falsehoods on air to its audience. but dominion isn't finished. it's also suing former trump attorneys rudy giuliani and sidney powell, as

well as my pillow ceo mike lindell for their false claims about the election results. blit filed by smartmatic, experts say the likelihood of a settlement in that case does appear high. no trial date has been scheduled yet. rhiannon lindsay. thank you. you fall out from the leak of highly sensitive pentagon documents. suspected leakers air force unit on cape cod has now been stripped of its intelligence mission. 21 year old jack teixeira is due back in court today accused of posting the sensitive u. s intelligence documents in a chat room. the air force inspector general's now looking into how to share a got access to those documents and now to that deadly parking garage collapse here in new york city, where first responders use new technology to search for survivors in the rubble. this morning new questions about the history of violations at this new york parking garage dating back decades before the structure suddenly collapsed. yesterday my car was collateral

damage for the building behind it. and it was crushed and totally gone. but again now that matters with human life at stake , witnesses say the four story parking garage pancaked without warning, sending cars, cement and people crashing down to the basement. authorities evacuated nearby buildings, including a dormant neibo pace university as rescuers sent a robotic dog and drones into the unstable building streaming back images in real time. the images inside are catastrophic garage worker was killed, but five others survived. sources say. one survivor fell from the second story down to the first and walked away. we heard a big boom. everyone was scared. everyone was everyone thought that was the last time being alive. show the parking garage had 64 violations since 1976 in 2003. the building was cited as hazardous after inspectors found

cracks in the concrete. the owner of the building paid a fine but no certificate of correction was ever filed. new york recently strengthened its code for parking garages requiring owners to hire their own inspectors everyth collapn we did reach the owner of that garage, but we have not heard back. the kansas city homeowner who shot a teenager who showed up at the wrong address to pick up his brother is due in court today. 84 year old andrew lester has been released on bond, he told police after the doorbell rang. he saw 16 year old ralph funeral, pulling on the storm door and thought it was a break in. but according to your rules family, the team said he never touched the door. meanwhile as general recovers at home, his schoolmates held a march to show their support. fundraising site has raised $3 million for him. upstate new york sheriff says the homeowner charged in the shooting death of a 20 year old woman who mistakenly entered his driveway showed no remorse, police say caitlin gillis and her friends were in two cars and

a motorcycle when they made a wrong turn. onto kevin monahan's property and he opened fire. monahan lawyer claims they were revving their engines, giving monahan reason to fear them. high rate of speed shining their lights in his house late at night, had no idea who they were what they were doing there. it was not a simple drive in turn around, drive out that's being portrayed again by the sheriff. a neighbor says monahan was increasingly upset at people accidentally turning into his driveway in texas. police say two high school cheerleaders were shot after one of them mistakenly got into the wrong car after practice. their cheer team posted this prayer message online for girls were involved in the incident outside of austin, texas, one of them senior patent. washington is in critical condition. the alleged shooter is under arrest. now to a legal case that could have far reaching consequences on the american workplace. it's about whether your boss can be required to give you time off for religious observances. the supreme court is now weighing in

here is a b cs injury of fuji. this morning, the supreme court appears skeptical about whether to expand religious accommodations for workers. the justes heard arguments in the case of gerald growth of former postal worker who's an evangelical christian. he was disciplined after skipping his sunday shifts to observe the sabbath by law, employers cannot discriminate based on religion unless that religious accommodation causes the employer undue hardship. but even the conservative justices had questions about how that undue hardship can be quantified . how do we apply it to a situation where you have to? pay new workers where you have to go short shifted the postal service's graphs. absences created a significant burden on its operations and co workers eventually resigned. justice barrett voice concerned about how far religious accommodations could go, you might have many religious people in a workplace seeking the same accommodation.

um for sundays off or other kinds of accommodations. justice sotomayor seemingly unsympathetic he was required. to work saturday sunday and holidays. and now he doesn't want to work. half the days he was hired to work. a decision is expected in june. meanwhile today, the court takes up another closely watched case, this one about free speech concerns whether online threats can be protected by the first amendment. billy counterman was convicted of stocking after sending colorado musician cole's whalen hundreds of threatening messages on social media, including you're not being good for human relations die don't need you the supreme court could decide if those messages are a crime or protected speech, supreme court upholds this conviction than a huge swath of online speech is open to potential criminal prosecution. germans. lawyers say he has mental health issues and thought he was having a conversation

with waylon. so there was no real threat. but what constitutes a real threat versus protected speech is now up to the court to decide. rhiannon andrew andrea. thank you time now for a look at your wednesday weather. today from montana to colorado up to a foot as possible in some parts of the northernsa sysmai e radar. severe storms roll through the plains. today, the worst is expected in kansas, nebraska and iowa, where storms will include damaging winds and hail. checking today's high temperatures eighties across the southeast and florida mild in the northeast and around the great lakes cool in the northwest. 82 in phoenix. up a wake up call about team drug abuse ahead. mar hamlin is cleared to return to football after suffering that cardiac

arrest on the field back in january by doctors say it's now possible and later how one airlin

stunning release back into the wild thursday on g m a the driver is recovering after this suv flew into the second floor of this home outside of sacramento. the vehicle came to arrest on top of a carport. no one in the home was hurt. the cause of the crash is under investigation, researchers say a new study about teens abusing prescription stimulants like adderall is really a major wake up call. the study found up to 25% of middle and high school students are abusing the drugs, which are typically prescribed to treat a d h d use of adderall soared during the pandemic. after many gye later on prescriptions were lifted. the increased use has led to a nationwide shortage of adderall made worse by supply chain issues now to the remarkable

story of damar hamlin, he said. he died on national tv during monday night football. but this morning, he's back in the game. this event was life changing. but it's not the end of my story this morning, damar hamlin is officially cleared to play football again. i'm here to announce that i plan on making a comeback to the nfl, revealing he suffered a heart condition called komodo cordis when he collapsed on the field in january. i died on national tv in front of the whole world. that right there is just the biggest blessing of it all is for me to still have my people and my people still have me. the condition is the leading cause of cardiac death in young athletes, tortoises, a relatively rare cause of sudden cardiovascular death and athletes, and that's sudden impact of the tackle. if that happened at the right time at the right speed that could cause this type of fatal arrhythmia specialists have now given hamlin the green light to play. the doctors have probably team of doctors that we're taking

care of them excluded any other cause of heart disease. we do think it is safe for athletes to go back to play because the likelihood of that exact perfect storm of events happening is quite rare, leaving the left is releasing this video of the 25 year old training with his teammates. he's moving forward. one step at a time here has been cleared from a physical standpoint and will provide all the mental help we can. from a my embarrassment. spirit standpoint, super excited for him super excited for our team. it's just good whenle admits being anxious but says he's ready pretty much building this thing up from from 0 to 100 , you know, but that's the favorite part about the game. i love the process. everyone says he'll continue raising awareness about the importance of learning cpr and increasing access to a e. d s defibrillators that save lives. we throw around miracle a lot, but this truly is remarkable to see coming up the end of an era and netflix, first

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from check in to security. in less than five minutes. we turn now to netflix, making some big changes on two different fronts. we're talking password sharing and dvd rentals. yes, they still do. those for now. abc is lana moist, explains. this morning. netflix is in a state of evolution, and it could be good news or bad news, depending on how much you watch this streaming giant is delaying its password sharing crackdown now saying it will roll out by summer, the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires . we see some of these services attempting to tighten their finances up by monetizing a lot of those people that that are currently sharing a password. the restriction of password sharing has already been successful in other countries like new zealand and spain and in a letter to shareholders, netflix acknowledge the shift will make some people cancel, but it's only short term in canada. netflix says it's paid membership base is actually higher now than it was before their password crackdown as customers set up their own

accounts or the end of an era when it comes to those red envelopes that started it all. after a 25 year run, the company is ending its dvd mailing service. back in 2009. abc news got an inside look at a netflix distribution center. i'm seeing ahead of me a world of at least hundreds of thousands of this millions. with a nod to the company's humble beginnings. what was your source of dvds in the beginning very early. it was the best buy things have changed , but before its transition to streaming netflix shipped more than 5.2 billion dvds, the first ever shipped showtime. beetlejuice in 1998, the most popular dvd. you look at him. you think of me. blindsides starring sandra bullock. if you're one of the few people who still own a dvd player, and you want to be one of the last people to rent a dvd by mail. the final discs will ship on september 29th. rhiannon andrew

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pleasanton where a home depot employee was shot and killed. now at 5:00 what we are learning about what led up to that shooting. kumasi: we are standing by this morning effecting a decision from supreme court justices on weather and abortion pill that has been in use for the past two decades could be pulled from shows. reggie: fox news settled out of court. agreeing to pay nearly $8 million to dominion voting system. the agreement coming moments before the trial was supposed to begin. kumasi: pride around the corner. this morning we have a major announcement for san francisco celebrations and the parade. reggie: good morning. it is tuesday, april 14. drew: good morning. a lot of sunshine. it feels a little warmer. here is a live look outside on live doppler 7 along with satellite. here you can see patchy cloud cover off the coast line.

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