gio benitez covering this. what have you learned, gio?nal two hours before this landing, we've learned that the main landing system actually failed, and they had to create right here on earth a whole new software and send that to odi there by the moon. and that made that successful landing. incredible, david. >> david: made all the difference. it was supposed to land at 6:24 and it did just about that. thank you, gio. and thank you for watching at home. good night. of those biden fundraiser was nearly a week has passed since the death of alexei navalny, the longtime russian opposition leader and critic of vladimir putin died in prison at 47 years old. >> a russian medical certificate says he died of natural causes, but his family and allies accused putin of killing him. >> he was a man of incredible courage and it's amazing how his wife and daughter are are emulating that. >> while on his california fundraising trip, president joe biden met with his wife and daughter yulia and dasha navalny. dasha is a student at stanford. the white house

gio benitez with the breaking news tonight. gio, thank you. >>> next here this evening, president biden meeting with alexei navalny's widow and daughter in san francisco today, delivering his condolences in person, after navalny's death in a russian prison in the arctic. the president calling navalny a man of incredible courage. and tonight, right here, the video message from navalny's mother, what she claims russia told her. and what president biden called putin last night that made news. james longman overseas tonight. >> reporter: tonight, president biden offering his condolences to alexei navalny's widow and daughter in san francisco. >> he was a man of incredible courage, and it's amazing how his wife and daughter are emulating that. >> reporter: biden ready to unveil new sanctions on russia tomorrow and praising yulia's resolve. >> she's going to continue the fight he had underway. they're not letting up. >> reporter: the president even going so far as to call vladimir putin "a crazy s.o.b." at a closed fund-raiser yester

>> david: gio benitez on both of these flights tonight. gio, thank you, as always. >>> there's also a breaking headline out of the white house at this hour. abc news has just learned that president biden is considering major new action on the southern border. significant restrictions on asylum seekers on the u.s./mexico border. let's get right to mary bruce live at the white house tonight. mary, what are you learning? >> reporter: well, david, we have learned that president biden is considering taking executive action to impose tough new asylum restrictions. one possibility would be to bar migrants from seeking asylum if they cross between u.s. ports of entry. now, he is considering, i'm told, a wide range of options, this is just a possibility. no final decisions have been made. but this does come after republicans on the hill under pressure from donald trump tanked that bipartisan border deal, and as president biden is eager to show voters he's taking this issue seriously, david. >> david: mary, before we go, the other major headline out

gio benitez standing by. >>> also tonight, the breaking headline as we come on. president biden considering executive action on the border. mary bruce standing by with late reporting. what's now being considered. >>> in new york city tonight, the murder case. the suspect right now in arizona. the prosecutors there says she will not extradite the suspect to new york. tonight, the manhattan d.a. says they're playing politics with a murder case. >>> that horrific scene on a florida beach. 7-year-old buried while digging a hole in the sand with her brother. the walls caving in around her. rescuers saving her brother, the girl, though, was beneath him. >>> tonight, the first look at the former fbi informant now charged with lying to the fbi about president biden's son hunter, the president, and ukraine. pierre thomas on the hill tonight, pressing republicans, where do these allegations go from here if the informant was lying about it all? >>> tonight, in ukraine, authorities warning russia is about to launch a major offensive there. james longman reporting inside ukra

commissioner benitez, thank you for the information. just, um, out of my own knowledge of how long do these businesses have to be in operation, can it be a new business that has just decided to right there and open maybe this year they're not even six months in operation yet, or up to legacy businesses as well. that it's a great question. so with these particular products, i think it's a minimum of two years in business. um, but i think tejal mentioned earlier, we're thinking about sf lens as part of this kind of whole landscape of the resources that the city has to offer. and so we know that there are cdfi programs that are available for businesses that are just starting out for startups and for entrepreneurs. and so we imagine sf lens to be one of the kind of rungs in the ladder to stepping stones along the way. but this particular one, when we went out to the banks to qualify these products, we mentioned two years in business. um, do you have information that, um, we could easily like email out? do we have that already? okay. and i'l

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district judge roger benitez says the law violates the second amendment.the judge claims the background checks essentially force californians to ask the state for permission to purchase ammunition. instead of treating the purchase as a right to bear arms. the ruling halts the enforcement of the law for the time being. judge benitez blocked the law in 2020 as well, but a circuit court of appeals reinstated it. the following day. >> in washington, d.c, negotiations on a border deal have come to a standstill. this is legislation that senators on both sides of the aisle have been working on for months now. now, the bill would reportedly allow president biden to shut down the border if illegal crossings reach $5,000 in one day. house speaker mike johnson now says the senate's latest plan would be dead on arrival in the house. democrats accused republicans of sabotaging the bill before it's even been finalized, while republicans say laws already on the books give president biden the authority to shut down the border, but he doesn't want to done all i can do does

federal judge roger benitez says the law violates the second amendment.the background checks essentially forces californians to ask the state for permission to buy ammunition instead of treating the purchase as a right to bear arms. so thatrillionuling stops the enforcement of the law for the time being. back in 2020, judge benitez blocked the law. back then, however, an appeals court reinstated it. the very is national change your password day and the experts remind us every time we log on to a website, we're sharing personal information, making us more vulnerable to hackers. they say there's a hack attack someplace in the world every 39 seconds. so changing your password is best protection. but what you choose as your password, that's also really important. >> secure password is long. um and a secure password also does not involve your personal information. so some people are tempted to put things like names or birthdays in their password to make them easier to remember. but those sorts of details are the kinds of things that can, um, fall into the wron

time us district judge roger benitez from san diego, says the law violates the second amendment. the judge claims the background checks essentially forced californians to ask the state for permission to purchase ammunition instead of treating the purchase as a right to bear arms. benitez blocked the law in 2020, but a circuit court of appeals reinstated it the following day. today's ruling halts the enforcement of the law for the time being. >> east bay congresswoman barbara lee has endorsed the candidate she wants to see succeed her in congress. congresswoman lee has endorsed lateefah simon. simon is a member of the bart board of directors. since lee is running for us senate right now, she can't run for reelection to represent district 12 in the house of representatives in a statement, congresswoman lee said latifah is from the community and for the community, from her teenage years working to support young women and trans youth, to fighting to make public transit more affordable and accessible. she's a fierce advocate and proven leader. >> former president donald trump th teams

abc news reporter gio benitez explains how it works in this morning's gma first look. >> as he plansbreak and summer vacation trips, you may want to consider adding a stopover flight to your itinerary. get this you're planning a trip to beautiful santorini. why not visit paris along the way at no extra charge? it's possible. through booking what's called a stopover ticket. carrie elizabeth took advantage of it on a trip last year. the flight was detroit to santorini with a connection through paris. >> so we did the stopover in paris and stayed there for five days. >> many carriers like tap, iceland, air emirates and hawaiian airlines offer stopover on their flights, allowing customers to visit more cities at the same price as booking a one way ticket. >> if you've only got one vacation, you're going to take this year, you should look into stopovers to maximize the amount of places you can visit. >> and coming up at 7 a.m, we're going to tell you how you can find these flights and save money with your gma. first look i'm gio benitez, abc news, new york 556 this morning. >> it's a clou

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here's gio benitez. >> reporter: one month after that terrifying midair blowout, tonight, the ntsb says four bolts meant to hold that door plug in place were missing entirely. in its 19-page preliminary report, the ntsb says the fuselage arrived at boeing's renton factory back in august with "damaged rivets" near the door plug. to fix the issue, the door plug was opened and "bolts had to be removed." but the ntsb says evidence shows that when the plug was returned, the bolts were not put back. this photo, shared in a text among boeing employees, showing the missing bolts in "three visible locations," but apparently going unnoticed by workers. >> this is going to be a quintessential human factors type of problem, and that people failed to do their job. >> reporter: shockingly, that alaska airlines jet making nearly 150 successful flights without those key bolts until that incident in january. in a statement tonight, boeing's ceo saying, in part, "whatever final conclusions are reached, boeing is accountable for what happened. we simply must do better for our customers and their passenger

gio benitez again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the stunning first image being sent in from the lunar, nicknamed odie, taking this photo six miles above a crater near the moon's south pole. odie touching down just minutes before we came on the air last night. >> congratulations, im team. >> reporter: tonight, we've learned odie hit a rock during landing, ending up on its side. >> caught a foot in the surface, and the lander has tipped like this. and we believe this is the orientation of the lander on the moon. >> reporter: incredibly, the majority of the payloads onboard odie still working along with its communications. and that landing almost didn't happen. just two hours before touchdown, odie's laser navigation system failed. >> was not intended to be the primary landing system o this. >> reporter: the team quickly creating new software in just two hours, putting an experimental nasa laser system into action. the lander taking an extra lap around the moon, allowing time for that last-minute switch. then odie finally landing on the moon's south pole. so david, the next big question

now us district judge roger benitez says the law violates the second amendment.judge claims the background checks essentially forced california to ask the state for permission to purchase ammunition, instead of treating the purchase as a right to bear arms. the ruling halts the enforcement of the law for the time being. benitez blocked the law in 2020, but a circuit court of appeals reinstated it the following day. social media making it more common for elementary and middle school students to create elaborate skincare routines for themselves . >> i use a cleanser, then three moisturizers was a serum, like a facial spray and an overnight mask, then an eye cream. >> now, dermatology warn not all skin care products are designed to be used on young skin and including retinol and chemical acids, they say it's too soon to know if using them at an early age will lead to irreversible skin problems. but they do say a range of possible issues is wide. more unnecessary products you have in your routine, the more opportunities there are for things to go wrong that could be

on top of it, we learned last week he's giving a billion taxpayer dollars in benitez to illegal immigrants. that's our money. nobody approved that, or came to the american people and said, are you okay with your money going to illegal immigrants, a billion dollars worth? i don't think most people would be okay with that. >> no. most people are not. what this is, this is a giant trap. once again, the left, they are manipulative, they are smart, they are cunning. they have found a way to once again move the goal posts. then our so-called republican leaders, representatives, senators, they're rushing to this, tickled pink, calling this as an accomplishment, codifying and legitimizing illegal immigration is an accomplishment? once again, the democrats set the rules, bend the rules. as stephen mentioned, there's a loophole next to it that maybe the average american reading it doesn't immediately realize. this to me amounts to treason. to me it amounts to legitimizing illegal immigration for the foreseeable future. donald trump was able to in four years, able to give us the most secure border, c

let's bring back gio benitez. good morning, gio. >> reporter: good morning, george.the first time a private spacecraft has landed on the moon. and the first time an american spacecraft has landed there in more than 50 years. it landed upright in the lunar south pole where no human has been before, already sending back data. the mission was not flawless. they lost the main navigation system hours before landing and had to create new software here on earth and send that software to ody there in space. thankfully, it worked. now what ody learns could help shape how we explore the rest of the universe. michael, back to you. >> when they make those trips to the moon, you're gonna be there, bud. i feel it. [ laughter ] sending you. you deserve to go. going now to the investigation into that major cell phone outage. at&t said a software update gone wrong caused the nationwide problem. let's go back to trevor ault with more. good morning again, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, michael. at&t says this was self-inflicted. this was an error from a network expansion that went

district judge roger benitez from southern california says it violates the second amendment. no word yet if this ruling will be appealed >> 10 25 in congress is cracking down on the education department's rollout of the new fafsa application. the government accountability office is now launching and investigation because of a request by republican lawmakers and because of the investigation, colleges and universities are not going to receive student's fafsa at least applicants until at least early march. the department of education says that delay allows it to fix an error in how it calculates eligibility. lawmakers say they're concerned about how this delay is going to impact students. >> this is a clear failing of the department of or delay department of education. we need to get this straightened out right now. the education department says the forms themselves have easier and quicker to complete that in the past, which was the main goal of the update. >> the department also says more than 3 million students have always submitted the new fafsa form. >> we'll take a break he

>> abc news reporter gio benitez talked with us earlier and gives us a sneak peek at some of the answers, we're going to reveal a lot of our new reporting that shows that a former employee was actually warning them about the whole design line, but also about this acoustic warning system that basically would have some sort of sound that would alert you to some sort of crack that's happening. the problem is that these experts were saying, well, wait a minute. if something is happening and you hear it happening, it's now too late. >> truth and lies fatal dive to thy titanic airs tonight at 8:00 here on abc seven and streaming on hulu. >> coming up next, an underground rescue. at first, it looked like a sinkhole. you could say it's actually worse. >> and we'll get a look at the weekend forecast. guess what? finally, a break from the rain politicians... "he's bad. i'm good." blah, blah. let's shake things up. with katie porter. porter refuses corporate pac money. and leads the fight to ban congressional stock trading. katie porter. taking on big banks to make housing more affordable. and drug

gio benitez is here with more. good morning, gio. >> good morning.tiple sources are telling abc news the doj is investigating the door plug blowout. you see the video right there. you remember when that door plug flew off a 737 max 9 in january while the alaska airlines flight was 16,000 feet in the air. the plane made an emergency landing. while no one was hurt, the doj wants to know if boeing violated its 2021 deferred prosecution agreement. that's when the doj was investigating boeing for those max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed more than 300 people. slt the settlement forced boeing to cooperate with federal government probes and fined the company $2.5 billion. boeing has declined to comment on this new investigation. meanwhile the faa has told boeing that it must develop a comprehensive action plan specifically on quality control:the next 90 days. >> there was an incident overnight involving an american airlines plane. >> reporter: that's right. the american flight had taken off from jfk in new york and was heading to spain when the cockpit

our transportation correspondent gio benitez join us with those details.d morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, robin. good morning. incredibly, this plane made nearly 150 flights all with those bolts missing until, of course, that terrifying moment a month ago. this morning early answers from the ntsb. federal investigators say all four crucial bolts designed to hold the door plug in place on that alaska airlines 737 max 9 were never there. the head of the faa telling lawmakers changes must be made. >> it's not delivering safe aircraft. >> reporter: the ntsb's preliminary report says during manufacturing, an unrelated problem with the fuselage needed repair. to make the fix, the door plug had to be removed. when the door plug was reinstalled, the ntsb says the bolts were never put back on. >> perfect logical to assume the bolts were in place before the door was open for maintenance on the line. but once the door was closed up again behind the insulation, the problem was, nobody had put the bolts back in. >> reporter: a photo shared between boeing staffers showe

our transportation correspondent gio benitez is back with the details. >> the good news is we have aefore. the insurance institute for highway safety added more testing for backseat passenger protection and pedestrian c avoidance systems. no matter where they are sitting and those vulnerable pedestrians. 22 of those 71 winners at the highest marks. conde which includes genesis got the most awards. let's look at some of the winners right here. in small cars, the acura integra, and in midsize cars, we have the honda accord, suvs, the genesis, midsized suvs, the ford explorer. there are many more cars on the list here to see if yours is on its, head over to the iihs website, iihs.com. >> i will check mine. thank you. coming up in her gma morning menu, a new tumbler set to be released this morning. -- coming up on our gma morning menu, a tumbler set to be released. >> and concerns about the aquarium around the country. >> are take out fake out his back with tiktok's trends showing us how to recreate a take out favorite. >> hi. we have got the right fit for you today. some looks at denim,

our transportation correspondent gio benitez is here to explain why. it sparked some debate on set with that question, should airlines be weighing passengers? this morning we go to the expert for answers. it turns out, the explanation has to do with safety. this morning the airline fin air inviting passengers to be weighed in along with their carry on baggage. the airline says that the goal is to collect anonymous data on average weight passengers with their hand luggage for the purpose of aircraft balance and performance calculations needed for the safe operation of flights. so far 600 passengers have volunteered for the survey. >> airlines use an average of a male and female for summer and winter. you need to correct those now and then. especially since the population has gotten a bit more pudgey. >> reporter: turns out the airline has been doing this since 2018 and it's completely voluntary. it's not uncommon for some international airlines to do weight surveys every few years, required by their governing body. >> every five years you figure the pop

transportation correspondent gio benitez is at newark airport with those details.rning, gio. >> reporter: good morning, robin. that threat was allegedly left written in one of the lavatories. even the fbi is involved. this morning the fbi investigating after a plane diverted after an alleged bomb threat. a united airlines flight from newark to los angeles diverted to chicago. a source telling abc news the threat was found in one of the plane's bathrooms. >> when we landed they told us that somebody had written a bomb threat on a mirror in a bathroom. >> reporter: authorities swarming the plane on the tarmac. passengers getting off safely and loading onto buses. incidents on planes have been making headlines recently. a united flight diverted monday after the wing of the boeing 757 starting tearing apart midflight. then the report of a boeing 737 cargo plane fire. then the door plug flying off a 737 max 9 last month. now a major shake-up at boeing. the head of the 737 max program suddenly ousted and replaced. >> this will be an on going process as boeing looks at al

our transportation correspondent gio benitez has all the details for us.d morning, gio. >> reporter: good morning. yeah. everyone is safe. it was a series of scary events. we're going to start with this passenger. already this year 200 reports of unruly passengers. >> somebody get help. >> reporter: this morning a passenger under investigation after a midair scare. >> your heart just starts pounding. it's like, oh my god, is this real? >> reporter: the faa and fbi looking into why he allegedly and unsuccessfully tried to open a door midflight. >> the guy sitting next to him heard him say, i gotta get off this plane. we all managed to kind of rip him off the door and eventually one of the flight attendants brought duct tape so we could duct tape his legs together. then they had flexi cuffs which we put around his arms. >> reporter: the pilot forced to return the plane back to ail albuquerque just after takeoff. police met the plane, taking the man into custody. >> he was a large guy. if everyone on the plane just sat back and said we're going to let the fli

the ceo of elsa benitez addressing criticism after gemini depicted historically inaccurate scenes.ctural changes will be made to prevent further incidents. i wonder what he is alluding to. lisa: it seems like there is a real issue here. does he really had to go deeper to say what wrong with the processes, why they did not slow it down and why he was not aware of it? is that how they are adapting? their data sets were projecting something that the end-user did not want to see. jonathan: making an accident would imply that they were not aware this was not working the way it would be. it is a regrettable mistake, but was it truly an accident? it implies that maybe this was not. that is a problem. lisa: the issue that i think is a bigger issue is, how do you deal with the fact that people are buying. that would generate biases. they get entrenched in social norms. how do you offset that? what are the right parameters for that? these are big questions that we have not established. anne-marie: what will be the response in washington dc? they called for saying it is long past time that go