>> all right, martha raddatz with an incredible access tonight. martha, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the abc news exclusive tonight. george stephanopoulos one-on-one with actor alec baldwin. we reported last night here, baldwin breaking his silence after that deadly shooting on his movie set, claiming he did not pull the trigger. tonight, a lawyer for the assistant director says the same thing, that baldwin did not pull the trigger. here's abc's kaylee hartung. >> reporter: tonight, a witness to the shooting on the "rust" movie set corroborating alec baldwin's claim that he did not pull the trigger of the gun that killed halyna hutchins. >> well, the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. >> so you never pulled the trigger? >> no, no, no, no. i would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them, never. >> reporter: assistant director dave halls' attorney telling me he was just a few feet from baldwin when the gun went off. >> until alec said that, it was just really hard to believe, but dave has told me since the v

let's get right to our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. martha, i came to your town tonight. it's great to be with you. >> reporter: great to be with you, too, david. i know you know president biden said he hoped by tomorrow to announce meetings with at least four of our major nato allies and russia, to discuss the future of russia's concerns relative to nato. nothing has been set in stone, but that would really be a win for putin. meanwhile, you have a rhetorical escalation with putin accusing ukraine of genocide, saying that the russian-speaking population in the east is being persecuted. but there are more worrying signs tonight, david. i just got off the phone with a u.s. official who said russia is still building up those troops, despite that virtual meeting with vladimir putin. >> and questions about what he's signaling with these new words. martha raddatz tonight, thank you. >>> when we come back here on a thursday night, travis scott now breaking his silence about that concert tragedy, killing ten people while he was on stage. what

our martha raddatz was in touch with an interpreter named abdul. rt. earlier this week martha reunited with abdul and his family at a military base in new jersey to reflect on their daunting journey. >> reporter: it was a moment many months and thousands of miles in the making. an emotional reunion with abdul, lima, and their three daughters after their harrowing escape from afghanistan. when we first met the family last summer in kabul, as the taliban was sweeping through afghanistan, abdul who had worked alongside american marines as an interpreter, already feared kabul would fall, and he like so many other interpreters would be a target. >> i knew that i would be killed by the taliban. >> reporter: his fears were well-founded. >> it was the 18 of august i was out of my home. suddenly i received a call from lima, my wife. she told me the taliban came to our house and was asking about our bills. >> tell me about that day. >> i didn't open the door. i told them, there was no man at home, and after a few minutes, they left and they told me that we ar

martha raddatz, thank you so much as always. be sure to watch "this week" later on this morning. martha also has exclusive interviews with cdc director rochelle walensky, and colorado governor jared polis about combatting the omicron variant. >>> it's time now to get a check of weather with our very own rob marciano. there he is. yesterday we had to go all the way to hawaii to find snow. today we're only going to the pacific northwest, and that's where most of the snow and precipitation is. this is i-90, and trucks pulled over, and chains, and accidents and the snowboarders up there also getting fresh powder. just east of there, in parts of montana, 40 inches of snow reported, and actually the national weather service there, they go out there twice a day and they launch weather balloons. got to do this manually, and sometimes you have to bear the elements. even a blizzard warning across the arrowhead of minnesota today. 14 states with gusting winds, even away from the snow zone, and blowing and drifting snow certainly possible. rain later on today in chicago, and snow in the green

the question now, is there anything to west can do to prevent putin from moving on and martha raddatzare standing by to analyze after this report from senior foreign correspondent ian pannell on the front lines of the conflict. >> reporter: scenes of devastation. this is the front line, at least in ukraine. at the heart of what risks becoming the most explosive crisis in europe since the cold war. this is where ukrainian forces have been fighting against russian-backed separatists for almost eight years now. we have to keep our voices down here because this is the area where the russian-backed separatist forces and their troops, and they can hear us, the risk is they'll fire. hard to imagine this was once a bustling factory. today it's a monument to the ferocity of battles fought here. >> literally 50 yards, maybe less, they're on the side there. >> reporter: the lines here have barely moved since 2015 when a ceasefire ended large-scale fighting, but this has been a piece, and the conflict today is still burning. every few minutes, another gunshot there. we hear the sound of rapid, au

abc's martha raddatz getting an exclusive look inside one of moderna's facilities ready to produce thehots. both pfizer and modernity say the shots we have on the market right now will offer some protection against omicron. >> do you have the facilities to do both and do them rapidly? >> we do. we do have the capacity. morgan: morgan norwood, abc 7 news, not los angeles. ama: it is leading some to put a pause on plans to return to the office. google is waiting until the new year to decide whether to end its voluntary work from home period. amanda del castillo oh spoke about the impact on building a better bay area. amanda: stick with office over reopening plans or pushback timelines? a dilemma companies face after multiple delays due to covid-19 mutations. the most recent being the omicron variant. >> i think anything that stimulates concern causes further delay because companies don't want to be in the position of putting their employees at risk. amanda: the president and ceo of the bay area council says it's hard to imagine they won't impact return to office goals the way delta did,

abc's martha raddatz got this look inside the moderna facility. >> do you have the facilities to do both, and do them rapidly? >> we do have the capacity to do both and do them fast. >> reporter: and then the growing concerns about the omicron variant. google is delaying when employees will be required to return to the office. >>> congress has avoided a government shutdown just one day before funding was set to run out. the senate rejected an senate to defund joe biden's vaccine requirements as a condition for passing a spending bill. >>> a former deputy in columbus, ohio faces murder charges in the shooting death of a black man last year. he saw 23-year-old casey goodson waving a good and pursued him where he ignored commands to drop the weapon. the family says he was holding a sandwich, not a gun. >> you know, it means a lot to us. we feel like we have a piece of the accountability that we're looking for. >> the attorney says goodson was pointing a gun at mead. the deputy's record includes several incidents which he was disciplined. >>> now to alec baldwin revealing new details about t

abc's martha raddatz getting an exclusive look inside one of moderna's facilities ready to produce the pfizer and modernity say the shots we have on the market right now will offer some protection against omicron. >> do you have the facilities to do both and do them rapidly? >> we do. we do have the capacity. morgan: morgan norwood, abc 7 news, not los angeles. ama: it is leading some to put a pause on plans to return to the office. google is waiting until the new year to decide whether to end its voluntary work from home period. amanda del castillo oh spoke about the impact on building a better bay area. amanda: stick with office over reopening plans or pushback timelines? a dilemma companies face after multiple delays due to covid-19 mutations. the most recent being the omicron variant. >> i think anything that stimulates concern causes further delay because companies don't want to be in the position of putting their employees at risk. amanda: the president and ceo of the bay area council says it's hard to imagine they won't impact return to office goals the way delta did, google con

here now co-anchor martha raddatz. >>> good morning, and welcome to "this week." just 11 days have passed since south africa first reported the omicron variant to the world health organization, raising global concerns and renewed uncertainty about the future of the pandemic. since then, just look at this map. omicron has reached at least 40 countries around the world in every major continent. here in the u.s., after the first case was discovered wednesday in california, at least 15 other states from new york to hawaii have now detected the new variant. president biden laid out his initial plan to combat omicron on thursday, increasing access to boosters, making available, free, at-home covid tests, and strengthening testing requirements for international travelers. we'll discuss the strategy with cdc director rochelle walensky in just a moment, but first, our exclusive look inside moderna headquarters where they are already working on a new vaccine to fight omicron as the threat from the variant grows. >> reporter: two years into a global pandemic when things were