>> matt gutman, we know you'll stay on this. thank you, matt. >>> now to the pandemic in this country. the mandates kicking in across the country. in new york city tonight, amid the protests, authorities instead saying the mandates work. pointing to the new number. now 96% of teachers are vaccinated. and tonight, what dr. anthony fauci said about the virus and christmas this year. here's erielle reshef. >> whose body? >> my body! >> whose choice? >> my choice! >> reporter: in new york city today, hundreds taking to the streets to protest the vaccine mandate for 150,000 employees of the country's largest school district, just hours after it went into effect. 96% of new york city teachers are now vaccinated with at least one shot, but those who remain unvaccinated -- out of a job. >> to those who have not yet gotten vaccinated, it's never too late to get the life saving vaccine. get your first dose today. you are more than welcome to come back to work. >> we are not against the vaccine. we are however against coercion of anything c

matt gutman out on the ocean today as emergency teams try to contain this. >>> the coronavirus tonight. the mandates kicking in across the country. in new york city tonight, amid the protests, authorities now pointing to the numbers. now 96% of teachers are vccinated. and the virus and christmas. what dr. fauci said today about christmas this year. >>> the deadly shootout onboard an amtrak train. the suspects boarding the train, later one of them opening fire. >>> president biden tonight accusing republicans of playing russian roulette with the debt ceiling after they voted to raise it several times in the trump years. a reported $7.8 trillion added to the debt under president trump. cecilia vega at the white house tonight. >>> the woman known as baby rowe, roe, breaking her silence right here. how she learned who she was. who approached her at 18. and what she now says as the supreme court takes up a case that could affect the future of roe v. wade. linsey davis is here. >>> the hospital shooting in philadelphia. the gunman wearing body armor and carrying multiple weapons. >>> the two

>> matt gutman staying on this story for us. matt, thank you. >>> now to the pandemic and los angeles tonight imposing strict new mandates, requiring proof of full vaccination to go out to eat, to go to the movies and other activities. and we also took note today of what we heard from the cdc director, dr. rochelle walensky. what she said about this year's flu season, what they're most concerned about and what about the flu shot after you've had the vaccine? dr. jha is standing by to answer questions on that. but first, abc's kaylee hartung in l.a. >> reporter: tonight, the city of los angeles passing a sweeping new vaccine mandate. customers will now need to show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test not only at bars, clubs and big events but also at indoor restaurants, gyms, shopping malls, nail salons, movie theaters and venues like the staples center starting november 4th. l.a. joining new york to become one of the strictest cities in the nation. hair stylist fred herdst knows he may lose customers, but he sees the ne

here's matt gutman. >> reporter: wednesday's blue origin launch to the heavens is taking along someoneming up. me iths, playi the rising to iconic captain james t. kirk on "star trek," at last william shatner is going to be a rocket man. >> it captures the imagination of so many of us to see captain kirk getting to space. >> reporter: soaring about 60 miles above the earth's surface hitting weightlessness in zero gravity for about four minutes. >> i plan to be looking out the window with my nose pressed against the window. the only thing i don't want to see is a little gremlin looking back at me. >> reporter: still vigilant after his in-flight experience on "the twilight zone." >> there's a man out there! >> reporter: he won't be flying to space in the u.s.s. enterprise. this time his ride is the blue origin's "new shepherd" owned by jeff bezos. just two months after wally funk launched and landed safely in launched and landed safely in that same spaceship. now shatner, boldly going where no one his age has gone before. the iconic actor now 90 years old is set to become the oldest pers

>> all right, matt gutman tonight. thank you, matt. >>> we turn next here this evening to china. that country denying reports tonight that they have tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile. how would you track it if it was carrying a nuclear weapon? and was u.s. intelligence caught offguard? here's our foreign correspondent james longman now. >> reporter: tonight, china denying reports it test-fired a hypersonic missile, technology that would allow it to fire a nuclear warhead faster than anyone else. britain's "financial times" saying beijing test-launched the weapon this summer, sending it into space and around the planet before it landed just 25 miles away from its intended target. hypersonic glide weapons can fly five times the speed of sound and lower than conventional weapons. >> the u.s. does not currently have the ability to even track this weapon, much less defeat it. it will give the chinese the ability to conduct a nuclear strike anywhere in the world without warning. >> reporter: the u.s. and russia are also developing this capability, but it's thought they're far

>> matt gutman with us tonight. thank you, matt. >>> next tonight, the first capitol police officer charged with obstruction of justice in the january 6th riot. the officer accused of telling a rioter, i agree with your political stance. and what authorities say he then allegedly told that rioter to do. here's pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a decorated capitol police officer is accused of helping a rioter evade justice for his alleged role in the january 6th insurrection that injured many of the officer's peers. a potentially stunning turnaround for michael riley, seen here in a 2011 video when a national law enforcement organization honored him as officer of the month for helping an injured colleague. >> i would have done it for any other officer. >> reporter: but in obstruction of justice charges announced today, federal prosecutors describe riley as giving aid and comfort to a rioter. at one point, riley allegedly messaged the man, identified by a source as jacob hiles, writing, i'm a capitol police

matt gutman on the fire line. >>> tracking dangerous storms in the west. heavy rain and snow, whiteout conditions in some areas. at least nine reported tornadoes touching down in the plains. the new threats tonight. rob marciano timing it all out. >>> breaking news overseas. images coming in following a deadly bow and arrow attack. several people killed, others wounded. >>> the fda issuing new guidelines on how much sodium we consume. the message to food manufacturers, restaurants, and school cafeterias. >>> and actor william shatner making history. >> i hope i recover from this. >> at 90 years old, becoming the oldest person to fly into space aboard blue origin's new shepard capsule. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us on a wednesday night. i'm whit johnson, in for david. we begin with the crisis in america's supply chain. empty shelves, long waits, and rising prices as the holiday crunch fast approaches. tonight, president biden vowing to act. bringing business, labor, and shipping companies together to end the bottleneck. we've been reporti

>> matt gutman there on the scene tonight.att, thank you. >>> there are new images this evening from the moments before the deadly plane crash into homes, cars, and that ups truck near san diego. the desperate calls from air traffic controllers urging the pilot to climb immediately. we warn you, these images are disturbing. here's will carr. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, we're seeing the chilling images of that twin engine plane nose-diving into the neighborhood. >> low altitude alert. climb immediately. climb the airplane. >> reporter: the pilot doesn't respond moments before the plane crashes, shooting a fireball into the sky. >> just watched a plane go down right by my house. flew right over my head. >> it was literally like an airplane like from the movies you know when you're hear it goes -- and then you can hear it like banking, and then all of a sudden it's like, boom, this huge loud crash. >> reporter: the plane hitting a u.p.s. truck, killing the driver. identified a as 61-year-old steve krueger. >> everyb

>> all right, matt gutman tonight. matt, thanks. >>> we continue with the news here and from capitol hill late today, the house voting to move forward, including nine republicans, voting to recommend criminal contempt charges against steve bannon for refusing to show up to answer questions about what led up to the january 6th attack of the capitol. and tonight here, the video, the audio, what bannon told his listeners just one day before the attack. here's our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl now. >> reporter: nine republicans joined all house democrats today in voting to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress, asking the justice department to pr >> steve bannon has led us down cooperate in any way with our investigation. >> reporter: the january 6th committee argued that the american people have a right to know what led up to moments like this. >> ahh! help! >> reporter: the contempt resolution pointed to bannon's own words on his podcast the day before the capitol riot. >> all hell is going to

matt gutman on the reasons why tonight. >>> averting economic catastrophe for now. senate democrats and republicans and this short-term deal. terry moran standing by. >>> the sweeping senate report tonight finding former president trump pressured the department of justice in the final weeks of his presidency to overturn the election. jon karl reporting. >>> news tonight in the manhunt for brian laundrie. laundrie's own father now helping authorities in that search. >>> the powerful earthquake rocking japan. the images coming in tonight. >>> and made in america is back. the one thing you can buy tonight, they're handy, and it will put dinner on the table for another family. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. we have a lot to get to tonight. the battle in texas over abortion. a judge stepping in, halting that new controversial law that had stopped nearly all abortions in texas. and the u.s. nuclear submarine in a collision in the pacific. but we are going to begin tonight with that major step in protecting children in this pa

hillary clinton visiting him in the hospital and matt gutman is there. >>> tonight, the first capitol police officer charged with obstruction of justice in the riot. the officer accused of telling a rioter, i agree with your stance and what he toll the rioter to do. >>> nikolas cruz and what his attorney says he's about to do. >>> the british lawmaker stabbed and kills during a meeting with his constituents. ian pannell from london. >>> back here at home tonight, storms from alabama to new york. damaging winds, large hail, possibledos an coming this weekend. chain.sply jurynstrucons six wks nit, keybacklog. and martha raddatz taking us out on the water, up close, the massive cargo ships waiting to be unloaded. >>> tonight, adele, that song, 38 million views and what she's revealed about it. >>> this evening, the clue. someone you met here. she stood up to overwhelming applause. applause. o tk?he's doneso >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us as we near the end of another week together. news just coming in on former president bill clinton. we'll get to that in just a mom

our chief national correspondent matt gutman from california now. >> reporter: across california today, in those boisterous protests, thousands opposing the state's vaccine mandate for students. some parents preparing to homeschool their kids. >> i will never vaccinate my kids. i will never vaccinate my kids. >> reporter: so you would pull them out? >> i will pull them out, i will quit my job. i will teach them at home if i have to. >> reporter: california teachers are now required to get the shot and all students will follow as soon as the vaccine is fully approved for their age group. the covid accine joining a list of ten other vaccines required for school like measles and mumps. lindsey mccoy, who sarted homeschooling her kids last year, says this vaccine is different. do you do the mmr vaccine and the polio and all that stuff? >> i am totally pro vaccine in general. in general. absolutely. and i think that it's my choice with my doctor. we should have a conversation and decide what is necessary for or children. >> reporter: and tonight, across the country, some police officers are

>> all right, matt gutman there in long beach tonight. matt, thank you. >>> now to president biden in michigan today, making his case on his infrastructure bill and on the larger bill that includes paid family leave, early education, pre-k and expanding health care for seniors. and tonight, signs that there has been some movement here. the progressives and moderate senator joe manchin appearing to get closer on a price tag. here's our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega tonight. >> reporter: president biden today taking his sales pitch on the road, hoping to sell his sweeping domestic agenda to union workers in michigan. >> these bills are not left versus right, moderate versus progressives or anything that o. these bills are about competitiveness versus complacency. they are about opportunity versus decay. >> reporter: but for democrats in congress it is exactly moderates versus progressives. and now, after weeks of infighting, both sides closer to compromise on the president's sweeping plan to cover everything from universal pr

authorities before the cameras a short time ago on this and matt gutman on the scene again tonight. >tonight on the pandemic. l.a. imposing strict new mandates requiring you to show proof of full vaccination to go out to eat, to go to the movies and other activities. what new york city

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abc's matt gutman was on the water. >> reporter: so i just bent down and this is what i scooped up. this is the kind of oil that's being leaked. and you can see that it's hardened once it hits the water. but the ocean here is covered with this stuff. >> investigators are looking into whether a cargo ship's anchor ruptured the oil pipeline. the disaster is renewing calls for more oversight of all offshore oil platforms. >>> new evidence this morning shows just how divisive our politics have become. protesters confronted a u.s. senator in the stall of a bathroom demanding she support the president's infrastructure plan, and now there's another high-stakes deadline looming in washington which could impact the finances of every american family. here's abc's dan lieberman. >> actually, i am heading out. >> reporter: this morning police are investigating video that shows protesters following senator kris kyrsten sinema into a bathroom at arizona state university where she teaches. the protester are heard demanding she fall in line with other senate democrats. abc news is not airing the vi

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authorities before the cameras a short time ago on this and matt gutman on the scene again tonight. >night on the pandemic. l.a. imposing strict new mandates requiring you to show proof of full vaccination to go out to eat, to go to the movies and other activities. what new york citys

matt gutman has more on all of this. to you, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, amy. this new antiviral pill by merck is being billed as a potential global game changer. now, it's largely because it would require only a prescription and a trip to the pharmacy. now, in trials it seems to be most effective in people with mild cases of covid and in keeping people out of the hospital. but it has not yet been peer reviewed. of course there's a long way to go before it's authorized by the fda. this morning, drugmaker merck will be the first to apply for fda authorization of an oral medicine to treat covid-19. clinical data suggests that for a person testing positive, four pills taken every 12 hours for five days can reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by 50%. and as the nation waits for news on how soon that authorization may come, more hope just around the corner. dr. anthony fauci making the vaccinated, halloween should be safe. a lot of that reassurance coming from a layer of protection from parents who are vacci

want to go back to matt gutman at the hospital in california. public was only notified late yesterday. doctors here underscore the fact this blood infection he's fighting has nothing to do with covid or the former president's heart condition. this morning, new images of hillary clinton leaving the uc irvine medical center in southern california where her husband, former president bill clinton, is hospitalized being treated in the icu for a blood infection, also known as sepsis. >> sepsis can be a serious matter. we are concerned about a decrease in blood pressure and we also need to monitor the heart. >> reporter: doctors at uc irvine medical center are stressing clinton's diagnosis is not related to covid and is not related to his history of heart disease. according to the hospital, clinton was given an iv and is responding well to antibiotics. it's the latest health scare for the 75-year-old since leaving office. he had quadruple bypass surgery in 2004 and a pair of stents implanted in 2010. clinton telling abc news in 2004 his health problems

before the energy company reported it as investigators target a possible cause for the rupture and matt gutmane of the reasons the governor of california declaring a state of emergency here. that as we learn of the 12-hour time gap between the first report of a spill and the time that oil company shut down its pipeline. as crews race to contain that california oil spill, this morning, new questions over when authorities first knew about the spill. according to documents obtained by abc news the first apparent call reporting sheen, that thin layer of oil smearing the surface of the water, came in at:22 p.m. on friday. that report was followed up about five hours later by a national oceanic and atmosphere satellite image showing an anomaly dark against its background with sharp edges. roughly the size of new york's central park. noaa saying with high confidence it was oil but it wasn't until 8:55 the next morning that amplify energy reported the spill saying it shut its pipeline. officials saying that delay could have posed a risk to public health. >> i want to hold all the individuals accountab

matt gutman on the scene with the latest. , matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, george. the wind has been the story. the gusts up to 50 miles an hour. all of that has been fueling an explosive fire so far, going from about 50 acres nine or ten hours ago to over 4,000 acres right now. you can see all that fire causing the embers to shoot up in the air. that's causing new spot fires. couple hundred firefighters on this already. they have bulldozers out here. what they have not had are firefighter aircraft because of the wind. the iconic ronald reagan ranch is being threatened at this point. the major concern is this will leap over the 101 freeway which is shut down going both ways. some good news. this fire and the wind is set to die down in the coming hours. robin? >> all right, matt. thank you. >>> we turn now to the fatal plane crash outside san diego. two people killed and two others hospitalized when the small plane went down in a residential neighborhood destroying two homes and a u.s. delivery van. will carr is on the s

matt gutman has the latest on the firefight. >> you can tell the fire has been exploding over the past largely driven by all of that wind. you can see it is scattering the fire. it is also casting embers hundreds of feet into the air. it has been raining ash since we have been here. firefighters have been trying to put out the flames. firefighting aircraft has been grounded because of all of this wind. they had bulldozers, a couple hundred firefighters out here, but they managed to protect a vast majority of the structures here, including the ronald reagan ranch. that continues to be under threat, i'm told. the good news is, over the coming hours, the wind is set to die down, hopefully reducing the ferocity of these flames. right now, the fire is at 0% containment. all of this is driven by this historic drought we are in. everything is so incredibly dry. in the bay area, when those wind gusts come in, a fire can start so quickly. jobina: thank you. in napa county overnight, the sheriff's says that arson may be to blame for the fire in american canyon. a man found near a burning car was

let's get back to matt gutman live on the scene on huntington beach. they sealed the pipeline on both ends. they sent divers in, but they've not been able to understand why this happened or find the source of that leak. this morning, that potentially devastating oil spill blackening the beaches of some of california's most iconic beach towns, and threatening wildlife. >> we are in the midst of a potential ecological disaster. the oil spill has significantly impacted our community. >> reporter: up to 144,000 gallons of post-production crude leaked into the pacific early sunday. oil and goopy tar lining miles of beaches and pristine coastal wetlands. >> we are starting to see oil-covered fish and birds washing up on our coastline. >> reporter: the leak stemming from a broken pipeline at a depth of less than 100 feet and roughly four and a half miles off shore. today amplify energy, the company that owns the pipeline, pledging full cooperation. officials say it could take weeks to learn the full scale of the disaster. wildlife officials are concerned it c

abc news chief national correspondent matt gutman is live at the port of long beach with those imagesod morning, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, robin. investigators increasingly convinced that a ship's anchor from one of these massive container ships snagged a section of the concrete encased steel pipeline. what remains in dispute, however, is when the oil company knew about the oil spill and how quickly it took action. this morning, those first images of the cracked pipeline that leaked tens of thousands of gallons of oil into the pacific. that slim 13-inch crack along the top of the concrete encased steel pipeline. it was located by divers in remotely operated vehicles along the nearly mile-long section of the pipeline. the coast guard investigation focusing on the possibility that a ship's anchor caused the spill. the associated press reporting plume of oil twice the size of new york city's central park ruptured. there are looming reports of what amplify knew and when. alarms indicating a possible leak sounded at 2:30 a.m. saturday morning and the oil company reported it to

chief national correspondent matt gutman is in los angeles with the latest. orter: good morning, george. we have been following this case for months. but last night's announcement by authorities was truly a bombshell, they say san diego father and husband larry millete instead of granting his wife a divorce tried to use black magic, curses to keep her in the marriage. when they failed they say they murdered her and hid her body. nine months after the mother of three disappeared a team bursting into their arri arresting her husband for murder murder. he tried to hold on to her by enlisting a spell caster to curse her with black magic. >> he was asking her to become incapacitated. for there to be an accident or broken bones. >> reporter: may went missing on january 7th the same day prosecutors say she contacted a divorce lawyer. their investigation including that he murdered his wife to avoid granting a possible divorce. >> today is a step towards justice, but it does not mark the end of our investigation. >> reporter: her husband charged with one count of felon

matt gutman is live again there in huntington beach, california. tt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, robin. and now federal regulators are saying that that oil company received alarms of low pressure in its pipeline, basically blaring signal of a possible oil leak six hours before they notified authorities. the reasons for that are unclear, but what is unmistakable is the massive effort and clean up here, including 12-foot berms behind me to try to prevent oil from getting into the channels. this morning with the army of cleanup workers set to swell to 1,500, officials saying the oil spill was not only devastating, it was preventable. >> this tragedy did not need to occur and does not need to persist into the future. >> reporter: according to federal officials preliminary findings obtained by abc news amplify energy received alarms indicating a potential failure in the pipeline more than three hours before it was shut off. it took them another three hours to report the spill. coast guard officials tell us divers in remotely operated vehicles found t

matt gutman with the latest. >> reporter: this morning, the fda signaling that it will allow americanschoose a booster shot from a vaccine maker other than the one they originally received. abc news has learned that the fda will however recommend that the brand of the booster match that of their original vaccination. >> this potential new recommendation is a big deal because there are many patients that have been left in the dark and specifically those that received j&j are potentially interested in boosting with another vaccine. this allows for greater flexibility. >> reporter: that news follows a study released friday which showed that people vaccinated with the johnson & johnson vaccine saw their antibodies drop 76 fold after receiving a moderna booster as opposed to those who received a regular j&j booster who saw their antibodies raise by a factor of only 4. that as the fall out for the vaccine hesitant mounts. washington state university firing its head football coach and four assistants mid season for refusing to get vaccinated. and the nhl has now suspended san jose sharks forw