mary bruce live at the capitol. >>> the developing news today involving rudy giuliani. federal agents raiding the home and office of former president trump's personal attorney. sources telling abc news the fbi seized electronic devices, including his cell phone, as part of a federal investigation. what our jon karl has learned tonight. >>> the coronavirus in the u.s. and news tonight on the pfizer and moderna vaccines. the new study on seniors 65 and older and how effective these two vaccines are in keeping you from the hospital. >>> also tonight, for the first time, we hear from one of the jurors who convicted derek chauvin of murdering george floyd, telling us he did not feel pressure to find chauvin guilty. he and the other jurors studied the evidence. and the one charge that took them the longest to deliberate. and what he revealed about the jury, wishing derek chauvin had taken the stand. what the juror told our robin roberts. >>> breaking news tonight in the death of ahmaud arbery in georgia. tonight, news comi

>> mary bruce with us from the white house. president biden also meeting late today with the prime minster of japan. we gather discussing, among other things, the threat from china. we note tonight the president is also dealing with escalating tensions with russia, a response from russia tonight? >> reporter: david, just yesterday biden imposed new sanctions on russia, and russia today retaliated, expelling ten u.s. diplomats. president biden says he has no interest in getting into an escalation with russia. in fact he's still hoping he and putin can meet face-to-face late they are summer. david? >> mary bruce with us from the white house. thank you, mary. >>> overseas and on the eve of the funeral for britain's prince philip, the rare photo of queen elizabeth and prince philip in scotland. and tonight what we've learned about the service the world will be watching tomorrow morning. james longman from london. >> reporter: a nation, and a queen, prepares to say goodbye. tonight, the palace releasing this never before seen pictur

>> all right, mary bruce, thank you. mary will be right here with us tonight. i hope you'll join uses right here for the president's address. i'll be joined by mary, martha raddatz, cecilia vega, jon karl, our political team all here. live coverage of president biden's address to a joint session of congress, 9:00 p.m. eastern, right here on abc. >>> in the meantime, we continue with the news tonight and the other developing headline involves the federal raid involving rudy giuliani. federal agents and police raiding the new york city home and office of former president trump's personal attorney. authorities waking him up at 6:00 a.m. sources telling abc news the fbi seized electronic devices including his cell phone, all part of a federal investigation. here's our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl on what he's learned tonight. >> reporter: new york city police officers were seen this afternoon leaving the apartment building on the upper east side of manhattan where rudy giuliani lives. giuliani was awakened at 6:00 a.m. this morning by federal agents

>> mary bruce with us from the white house. thank you, mary. >>> overseas tonight, and on the eve of the funeral for britain's prince philip, the rare photo tonight of queen elizabeth and prince philip in scotland. and tonight what we've learned now about the service the world will be watching tomorrow morning. abc's james longman from london. >> reporter: a nation, and a queen, prepares to say good-bye. tonight, the palace releasing this never before seen picture of queen elizabeth and her prince, the duke of edinburgh. and we're learning more about tomorrow's funeral. the queen will pause in her car for a moment of reflection as she passes the coffin of her beloved husband. prince charles, princess anne, and grandsons will follow the casket in procession. it's an image sure to evoke memories of princess diana's funeral, when philip supported princes william and harry through their grief. but the brothers will not walk together. between them, a cousin, peter philips. >> it's really, i think, quite something that we're not going

>> mary bruce live at the white house tonight. mary, thuf. >>> and with the president and this summit with world leaders, tonight climate and its role in what we've witnessed on the southern border here in the u.s. tonight, our team in what's called the northern triangle, and what they found, the children and what they're surviving on. it's not just violence and cratering economies, it's climate. the severe drought. and tonight, matt gutman from guatemala on why so many parents there are willing to give up everything they have to send their children on that dangerous journey. p. >> reporter: roads as unforgiving as the soil here, a clump of houses clings to the mountainside. it is there we meet isabel hernadez lopez. he shows us his mud hut, the beans simmering in the pot, it's their food for the next 24 hours. lopez tells me he has ten children. and before the droughts came and the crops failed, his little farm here yielded enough beans and corn to feed the family. these days, it offers only hunger. what you're seeing across this

>> mary bruce live at the white house tonight. thank you, mary. >>> the other major news tonight involves those vaccinations in this country. at least two sites tonight temporarily halted in north carolina out of an abundance of caution amid concerns that a small number of patients that reported adverse reactions to the johnson & johnson vaccine. and it comes just one day after similar concerns at a site in colorado, also temporarily shutting down. so, dr. jha is here tonight, standing by. we're going to ask him, is there reason to be concerned here? but first, whit johnson on the virus, the halt at those sites and the newest concerns over the numbers tonight. >> reporter: tonight, at least two sites in north carolina pausing operations after some people had adverse reactions to the johnson & johnson vaccine. from unc at tapele hill to pnc arena in raleigh. officials saying the move was out of an abundance of caution. it comes just a day after 11 people at this site in colorado, of the 1,700 vaccinated yesterday, suffered adverse r

>> mary bruce with just one of those bridges over her shoulder tonight. mary, thank you. >>> former president trump now weighing in tonight after reports that florida congressman matt gaetz allegedly lobbied the trump white house for a blanket pardon for himself during the final months of the trump administration. here tonight, our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: today, donald trump broke his silence on the investigation into whether one of his most fervent supporters in congress had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. congressman matt gaetz has never asked me for a pardon, trump said in a written statement. it must also be remembered that he has totally denied the accusations against him. gaetz may never have directly asked trump for a pardon, but multiple former trump administration officials tell abc news that the now embattled congressman had urged the trump white house to grant blanket preemptive pardons for trump's political allies, including gaetz himself. gaetz had even talked about the idea publicly. >> he sho

mary bruce at the white house. ank you. >>> we turn now to the southern border tonight and to new and difficult video to watch. two young sisters being dropped over the wall by smugglers, just 3 and 5 years old. here's cecilia vega. >> reporter: the video is difficult to watch. in the dark of night on a remote stretch of the southern border, caught on surveillance camera. an apparent smuggler on the mexican side straddles the fence, hoisting a small child over, dropping her 14 feet below to the u.s. side. moments later, the same thing, a second child, dropped to the ground. then the two suspects flee up the trail, back into mexico. authorities say those children, two young sisters from ecuador, just 3 and 5 years old. a border patrol agent spotted the activity on camera and jumped into action. the biden administration grappling with the surge of migrants at the southern border. more than 18,000 children now in u.s. custody. we saw that surge ourselves on a recent trip. authorities overwhelmed. how organized are thes

>> mary bruce at the white house tonight. mary, thank you. and i hope you'll join us right here tomorrow night for the president's address. i'll be joined by mary, martha raddatz, cecilia vega, linsey davis, jon karl, our powerhouse political team for live coverage of president biden's address to a joint session of congress, tomorrow night, 9:00 p.m. eastern, right here on abc. >>> in the meantime, we do move onto the other news this tuesday night. the deadly police shooting of andrew brown jr. by deputies in north carolina. new video tonight shared by the family's lawyer showing deputies packed in a pickup truck, arriving at brown's home. and the family's independent autopsy results now, they say brown was shot five times, including what their lawyer said was a kill shot to the back of the head. here's abc's victor oquendo in north carolina tonight. >> reporter: tonight, new street camera video showing deputies rushing to andrew brown jr.'s home, tweeted by his family's lawyers. deputies piled into the back of a pickup truck, turning the cor

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mary bruce, thank you. >>> back here at home and to the southern boarder and the new and troubling image this evening -- a 2-year-old boy dropped by a smuggler from a 18-foot border wall into the u.s. tonight here, the story behind that child and the thousand of children now here. here's our chief national crrespondent matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, that jarring video, a 2-year-old dangling over that 18-foot border wall and then dropped by a smuggler into the arms of an adult. border patrol releasing the video, noting the child was not injured but could easily have been killed. it's the latest in a spate of videos showing children either dropped over that border wall or abandoned by smugglers in remote areas of the 2,000-mile u.s./mexico border. the mask of terror worn by this 10-year-old nicaraguan boy in a video that has now gone viral, describing the crisis of so many. the boy and his mother had crossed into the u.s. last month but they were deported. his uncle telling univision. that's when he says both the boy and his mother were kidnapped and held for ransom. the uncle telling

>> mary bruce from a windy washington tonight. >>> the u.s.roops in afghanistan are on alert, military officials concerned about taliban attacks surrounding tomorrow's original withdrawal date. the state department ordered some nonespecially personnel to leave kabul. president biden plans to pull out the roughly 2,500 remaining troops by september 11th. >>> new developments into the federal investigation of rudy giuliani. the office of president trump's personal attorney raided earlier this week and tonight giuliani is fighting back, calling the raid illegal and saying the prosecutors hate him. here's abc's chief justice correspondent, pierre thomas. >> god bless you, rudy. >> reporter: rudy giuliani, once the most famous federal prosecutor in the country, now lashing out at the u.s. attorney's office he once ran after investigators raided his manhattan apartment, showing up on his doorstep at 6:00 a.m. >> there was a big bang, bang, bang on the door, and outside were seven -- seven fbi agents with a warrant for electronics. >> reporter: it ma

tonight, russia says it will respond, and here's our senior white house correspondent mary bruce. >> reporter: president biden today announcing sweeping actions to punish russia for interfering in the 2020 presidential election and hacking into multiple u.s. government agencies and major private companies, like microsoft. >> we will always stand in defense of our country, our institutions, our people, and our allies. >> reporter: the u.s. imposing sanctions on dozens of entities and individuals and expelling 10 russian diplomats from washington. biden says the response is in kind, but is warning he could do more. >> we could have gone further, but i chose not to do so. i chose to be proportionate. we want a stable, predictable relationship. >> reporter: the u.s. is also ratcheting up the pressure on russia's continued occupation of crimea and reports russia offered bounties to militants in afghanistan to kill american troops. responding today, the russian foreign ministry called the u.s.' actions unacceptable and is promising a series of retaliatory measures will follow in the near f

i want all of you to send every bit of your money and freedom to washington. >> mary bruce joins us now from the white house. and mary, the president says he wants to work with republicans but he's only willing to wait so long. >> reporter: linsey, the president said he's willing to work with republicans to a point. stressing, quote, doing nothing is not an option. but going it alone and getting all democrats onboard is not a given, either. linsey? >> mary, thank you. and of course, one of the major issues in president biden's address last night, policing in the u.s. and tonight, three officers are under investigation in the death of a man in alameda, california. body camera images appear to show officers restraining him using their knees and elbows on or near his neck. here's abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, the alameda police department promising full transparency over the death of 26-year-old mario gonzalez. after officers appear to put knees on his back and elbows on or near his neck to restrain him. the incident began with two 911 calls on april

>> mary bruce with us on a friday night. thank you, mary. >>> an extraordinary picture from the southern caribbean tonight, and mass evacuations now under way. a volcano erupting. ash miles in the air. take a look. the volcano erupting on the island of st. vincent. thousands ordered to leave the area. cruise ships standing by. but tonight authorities only allowing those vaccinated to head to the ships. here's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, the monstrous eruption on st. vincent island spewing ash into the sky. a pilot reported seeing the plume rising to 25,000 feet. >> children at the front, please! >> reporter: a massive evacuation under way -- some 16,000 people. the ash raining down, stopping a high-speed ferry rescue because of the dangerous conditions. >> can't see anything. >> reporter: now tonight, four massive cruise ships are standing by offshore, waiting for orders to carry evacuees to neighboring islands. carnival, royal caribbean, and celebrity sending those ships. local health officials making the decision to

so, let's get right to mary bruce tonight, she's going to break this down for us. hi, mary. >> reporter: hi, david. well, these numbers are out and they continue to show that shift in political power in this country to the south and west. historically democratic states are now losing congressional seats to republican ones. so, let's take a look at the map here. states that are growing in population and gaining seats include montana, florida and texas, which is gaining two seats, while states that are losing seats are concentrated mostly in the rust belt, states like ohio, pennsylvania and michigan. and for the first time ever, california is losing a seat. so, too, is new york. and david, this was extremely close. if just 89 more residents had been counted, they would be holding onto that seat. it is likely to raise questions about conducting a census in the midst of a pandemic, but tonight, the census bureau is standing firmly behind their count. david? >> wow, a difference of 89 people being included in the census. mary, thank you. >>> in the meantime tonight, we'

among those gaining, texas and florida and mary bruce breaks it down. >>> in new york city tonight, the nypd releasing this surveillance video of a series of synagogues are targeted. they are stepping up security. >>> evacuations in the west tonight. flaming fueling high winds and dry conditions. hundreds forced to leave. red flag warnings now in effect. >>> the unidentified object. new images tonight from that spacex crew dragon flight. the object that flies by the rocket, just 12 minutes after launch. >>> also tonight, is the earth's axis now shifting? and where to see the pink super moon tonight. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us as we start another week together. and we begin tonight with the coronavirus in the u.s. and the hope that we just might turn one more corner. the cdc is expected to release updates guidelines on masks outdoors for those who are fully vaccinated, with a renewed push to get to americans who have not been vaccinated yet and those who have skipped their second doses. with his 100-day benchmark approaching, president biden is expected to reveal

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mary bruce at the white house with the latest. president, though, seizing this moment to outline his sweeping ambitious agenda arguing this is a once in a generation moment and declaring america is on the move again. with fist pump bumps and elbow jabs, the president entering the chamber, relishing in the history of this moment. relishing in the history of the moment. >> madam speaker, madam vice president. >> reporter: for the first time flanked by two women. >> no president has ever said those words and it's about time. >> reporter: on the eve of his 100th day, the president pushing his plan to reshape the economy and the role of government. >> democracy still works and our government still works and we can deliver for our people. >> reporter: the president urging congress to pass his ambitious infrastructure bill, speaking directly to american workers. >> now, i know some of you at home are wondering whether these jobs are for you. the american jobsobsobsobs collar blueprint to build america. that's what it is. american jobs pla

here's mary bruce tonight. >> reporter: at arlington cemetery tonight, president biden honoring the lives lost as he announced he's ending the 20-year war in afghanistan, withdrawing all u.s. troops by this september 11th. >> it's time to end america's longest war. >> reporter: over the last two decades, 2,312 americans were killed. more than 20,000 wounded. and nearly $825 billion were spent. biden said the u.s. has succeeded. >> we delivered justice to bin laden a decade ago, and we have stayed in afghanistan for a decade since. since then, our reasons for remaining in afghanistan become increasingly unclear. >> reporter: on capitol hill today, the head of the cia with a sobering assessment. >> when the time comes for the u.s. military to withdraw, the u.s. government's ability to collect and act on threats will diminish. that is simply a fact. >> reporter: but he also said al qaeda, the group behind 9/11, does not have the capacity today to carry out an attack against the u.s. >> mary with us live from the white house. we noted while we were on the air that the president was speaking t

mary bruce has more. >> reporter: tonight, stunning new allegations that florida republican matt gaetz paid women for sex. abc new confirming reports that the justice department is investigating whether the congressman and a local florida politician gave cash, or other items of value, to multiple women who were recruited online to sleep with them. "the new york times" reporting that as recently as last year, the men allegedly told women to meet at hotels, sometimes giving them cash from the hotel's atm. and that some of the encounters reportedly involved the drug ecstasy. the inquiry is also examining whether gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and possibly violated sex trafficking laws. >> it is a horrible allegation and it is a lie. >> reporter: a spokesman for the congressman telling the "times" gates adamantly denies what he calls the "disgusting allegations" completely, and that he's never paid for sex. gaetz claims he's being extorted. sources tell us that as a member of the florida house of representatives, female colleagues referred to him as "creepy gaetz"

this local business leader in kentucky telling our mary bruce it's time for that investment. >> we've gone through multiple presidents, multiple governors of both parties, and they've been unable to get this done. we're hoping that some transportation solutions are on their way for the country. >> reporter: while the white house says they want the bill to be bipartisan, the reality is, they don't seem to have all democrats onboard. joe manchin says he's against the proposed corporate tax rate. and his vote alone could be enough to sink this deal. linsey? >> maryalice, thank you. >>> and in maryland, landmark police reform legislation is now law. the democratic-controlled legislature overriding the republican governor's veto. the governor says the measures go too far. the laws restrict police use of force, eliminate no-knock warrants, and repeal the bill of rights for the law enforcement officers. >>> and now, the prosecution in the derek chauvin murder case is expected to rest this week. what to expect when the defense begins their case. here's reena roy. >> reporter: derek chauvin's

mary bruce, thanks very much. robin?>> now to the latest on the crisis at the border and that disturbing video showing these two young girls being dropped by smugglers over the wall to the u.s. side. now thankfully both are doing fine this morning. our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega has more on this story for us. good morning, cecilia. >> reporter: hi, robin. good morning. this is especially frustrating for the agents on the frontline. they're up against human smuggling operations and preying on migrants. i will warn you, this is tough to watch. this morning, authorities are on the hunt for these smugglers, unfolding in a remote location in new mexico, on the mexican side a mexican straddles the fence and hoists a small child over, she drops a full 14 feet landing on the u.s. side. moments later a second child dropped to the ground. then the two suspects flee back into mexico. a border agent using a remote camera saw it all. authorities quickly rescuing the two sisters from ecuador, just 3 and 5 years old.

senior white house correspondent mary bruce has more on his reaction. od morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, robin. well, these were the president's most extensive comments on racial justice since taking office. the president urging americans not to look away and think that the work is done now. arguing instead that now is the time to acknowledge and address systemic racism head on. >> this can be a moment of significant change. >> reporter: this morning, the president says a guilty verdict is just the start. >> it's not enough. we can't stop here. we can and we must do more to reduce the likelihood that tragedies like this will ever happen or occur again. >> reporter: calling systemic racism a stain on our nation's soul, biden urged congress to pass the sweeping police reform bill named in george floyd's honor, legislation introduced by then-senator kamala harris. >> here's the truth about racial injustice, it is not just a black america problem or a people of color problem. it is a problem for every amrican. >> reporter: the president telling ame

washington correspondent and a "this week" co-anchor, jon karl, senior white house correspondent mary bruceand abc contributor, lz granderson and abc news deputy political director averi harper making her "this week" debut, and she is an expert, an ace, so no pressure, averi. but i'm going to start with jon. jon, more shootings this week, more mass shootings, the white house lowering its flag to half-staff again on friday after those mass murders in indianapolis. president biden as you saw calling it a national embarrassment and urging congress to act, but there are already two bills stalled in the senate, so what happens? >> martha, those flags over the biden white house have been already been lowered three times after a mass shooting and he hasn't even been president for 100 days. it doesn't take, you know, a genius to see that something is tragically wrong when the shooter in indianapolis is able to legally buy two assault rifles even after and not long after reportedly the police had seized a weapon from him because of concerns about his mental state. so there's no magic law out there t

mary bruce tracking the latest. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, george.this morning about the scope of this investigation. reportedly now focusing on whether the congressman paid cash to multiple women who were recruited online for sex. this morning, new details in the federal probe into republican congressman and close trump ally matt gaetz. the department of justice zeroing in on whether he and a local politician from his home state of florida gave cash or other items of value to women they had sex with after they were recruited online. the developments first reported by "the new york times" and confirmed to abc news by a source familiar with the matter. the inquiry also examining whether gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and possibly violated sex trafficking laws. accusations he denies. >> i've not done anything improper or wrong. >> reporter: in the new report "the times" adding investigators believe gaetz's associate joel greenberg introduced him to women greenberg met on different websites, inviting them to florida hotels as re

senior white house correspondent mary bruce has all the details on that. orning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, michael. well, we're told the president will reveal the details of this plan next week at his big address before congress. this is the second part of his ambitious and costly infrastructure plan and it is expected to focus on education and child care. things like family leave, universal pre-k and tuition-free community college. these are measures that the white house refers to as human infrastructure and this plan is expected to cost at least another trillion dollars, now, to pay for all of this the president is reportedly going to propose raising taxes on the most wealthy americans and wealthy investors considering raising the top income tax bracket from 37% to 39.6%. as well as nearly doubling the capital gains tax on top earners. now, the white house isn't talking specifics or details about this just yet and say this is all still in flux but stressing the president's commitment not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 a year, bu

senior white house correspondent mary bruce has the latest. well, congressman matt gaetz is one of president trump's most loyal and devoted supporters that he tried to leverage in the final week of the trump administration hoping for a preemptive pardon. this morning, sources tell abc news as the investigation into republican congressman matt gaetz was getting under way, the longtime trump ally turned to the former president asking him for a blanket pardon during his final weeks in office, a request that was ultimately denied. as first reported by "the new york times," it's not clear if gaetz or the president knew he was under investigation at that time. in the final months of the trump administration gaetz publicly urged the president to use his pardon power freely claiming the left was out to get trump supporters. >> he should pardon everyone from himself to his administration officials to joe exotic if he has to. >> reporter: the justice department is now investigating whether gaetz paid women for sex and if he had a sexual relationship wit

mary bruce joins us with the latest. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, amy. well, walter mondale served just oe term here as vice president but he forever changed the power of the role and later helped pave the way for a woman to take the office. with his pick for vice president in 1984, walter mondale made history. choosing geraldine ferraro who became the first woman on the presidential ticket of a major party, shattering a glass ceiling with mondale by her side. but mondale's career of service started long before that watershed moment. he served his country in the korean war, was minnesota's attorney general and spent 12 years in the u.s. senate. all before becoming jimmy carter's running mate in 1976. as vice president, he began the tradition of weekly lunches with the president. overnight, president biden saying it was walter mondale who defined the vice presidency as a full partnership and helped provide a model for my service. and in 1984 vice president mondale made his run for president with ferraro, but the pair struggled to overcome opponent ronald

. >> our senior white house correspondent mary bruce has the latest on what comes next. morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, george. well, the president now taking what he's described as the first steps to curb this violence while urging congress to do more. the president using his executive authority to try and crack down on those so-called ghost guns. these are those at-home kits that let you build a gun that has no serial number and cannot be traced. the president trying to limit stabilizing braces that can turn a pistol into a short barrel rifle, and he's urging states to enact red flag laws, but these actions are limited and fall far short of the sweeping reforms the president has promised. he has called for a ban on assault weapons, and high capacity magazines, called for stricter background checks and he did promise to send legislation to the hill on day one. when i've pressed the white house about this, they insist the president isn't hesitating, but rather he's pressuring congress to act, but the reality, george, there's very little appetite from republican