and he's confident the courts will be on his side. >> and terry moran with us tonight. erry, the justice department, i know, is seeking an injunction to try to halt this law for now? >> reporter: that's right, david. and it is possible that within a week or two, a lower federal court could issue an injunction that would block the law, but texas would appeal that probably all the way to the supreme court and there's no guarantee there. so even with clear constitutional rights at stake, this process has a ways to go. david? >> the legal fight we knew would come. terry moran tonight. terry, thank you. >>> overseas tonight and to americans in afghanistan. tonight, the first charter out of kabul, u.s. citizens and permanent residents among the passengers on that flight. the images of that first international flight to take off since the u.s. military withdrawal. but there are several other planes the taliban has not allowed to leave. here's our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz. >> reporter: it was the first international flight from kabul airport since u.s. f

>> terry moran tonight. terry, thank you. >>> and tonight, closure for some of the families, the families of two more victims of the world trade center attack. the new york city medical examiner's office making two new identifications through dna analysis. dorothy morgan of hem stead, new york, the 1,646th victim. and a man whose family requested his name be withheld tonight. he's been identified, as well. about 1,106 victims remain unidentified. >>> we should note that abc news will have coverage all week here as we mark 20 years since 9/11. robin roberts with the women of 9/11 tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. eastern. and on friday night at 9:00, i'll be reporting on the day that changed america. and then diane sawyer at 10:00 p.m. eastern on the children of 9/11. and rob bun, diane and i will all be here saturday morning as a nation remembers. >>> in the meantime, we turn to texas tonight. one week after that sweeping abortion law took effect banning abortions in that state about six weeks, governor greg abbott

>> terry moran at the white house tonight. thank you, terry. >>> now to the other major news this tuesday night and to news on the pandemic. pfizer revealing they have submitted to the fda the first data on their vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old. so, the question, how soon could there be vaccines for children? and on boosters tonight, the new study just in from the cdc on side effects. and dr. fauci tonight on that question from so many, waiting for boosters from moderna and johnson & johnson, how soon could we learn the data on mixing and matching for those waiting? here's eva pilgrim. >> ready? she's going to count for me. one, two -- >> reporter: tonight, pfizer says it has started submitting trial data to the fda showing the vaccine is safe and effective in 5 to 11-year-olds. the fda beginning its review right away. >> in the next few weeks, they will examine that data and hopefully they'll give the okay so that we can start vaccinating children, hopefully before the end of october. >> reporter: officials warning that

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let's bring in terry moran, who has covered the supreme court for years for us. and for decades, this has been a theoretical argument. this 5-4 ruling overnight. chief justice john roberts, a conservative himself, signaling a willingness of a compromise, but conservatives, rachel just mentioned them, relatively new to the court, didn't buy his argument. >> reporter: they didn't. that was so striking. john roberts, he's just 10 or 15 years older than the three justices appointed by donald trump, but those 10 or 15 years, they mark a huge differences in the republican party. the difference between bush republicans and trump republicans. and the chief justice did want the court to take more time to consider what he called an unprecedented law. he lost the votes of those conservatives. and it looks like this will mark the end of what's called the roberts court. >> and one more quick question for you, terry, bottom line here, texas would appear to be just the first state to do this. a number of other states signaling they might follow this blueprint, particularly when

terry moran in washington. >>> the risk along the east coast this weekend because of a tropical threat. >>> the lions and tigers coming down with covid here in the u.s. >>> and those four civilians on their own in space tonight, and who got them on the line today. you have to see our persons of the week. >>> good evening, and it's great to have you with us here as we near the end of another week together, and we begin tonight with that fda advisory panel today approving a plan to offer pfizer booster shots to millions of americans 65 and older, or americans who are at high risk of severe covid, six months after that second dose. that same panel rejecting boosters for all americans 16 and older, saying more data is needed. so they're starting with 65 and older and americans who are at high risk first. this all now goes to the cdc next week. the president said that all americans should be prepared for boosters starting september 20th, three days from now, but the white house says that was always pending approval from the fda and the cdc. it comes amid those numbers tonight -- the u.s. av

let's get right to terry moran, live at the white house. and terry, who are they saying at the white house tonight? >> reporter: well, they are still hopeful, david, despite this roller coaster of a day. the president in the oval office all day working the phones, pulling out all the stops. last night, he attended the annual congressional baseball game. that's a throwback to a very different washington. and aipds emphasize that's part of joe biden's strategy here. this is not his first rodeo, they say. and they also say that in here's calls and meetings, he's listening more than dictating terms. he says he didn't like being told by president what to do when he was a senator and he's not doing that now. but there are many democrats less hopeful who are hoping he'll be more forceful and get this thing done. right now, it's not done, but they are still hopeful. david? >> all right, a long night ahead, perhaps long several weeks ahead. terry, thank you. >>> we're going to turn in the meantime to the other major news this thursday night. the cor

here's our seep national correspondent terry moran. >> reporter: it wasn't what they were hoping for. >> we'll get this show on the road, so to speak. >> reporter: in the end, the arizona republican audit found 99 more votes for joe biden and 261 fewer for donald trump. republicans in the legislature admitting today that their controversial months-long partisan review of the votes had found in the end that, yes, joe biden won arizona. >> well, the interesting fact is truth is truth, numbers are numbers. >> reporter: for months, donald trump has been whipping up his supporters with baseless claims of election fraud and declaring that the republican so-called audit in arizona would provide the proof. just last night he put out a statement saying, everybody will be watching arizona and praising the highly respected auditors. that statement taken down today. democrats in arizona calling the gop's audit useless and ridiculous. >> the arizona republican-controlled state senate has wasted taxpayer dollars perpetuating the consistently debunked false claims. >> reporter: the total cost of $15

terry moran who also covers the courts said this, roe versus wade is functionally dead. it has not been formally overruled but has no effect in texas. and if texas can do this, so can other states. more analysis of the supreme court's decision and reaction on our website, abcnews.com. >>> new details about a deadly school shooting in north carolina wednesday. the second school shooting this week in that state. police say a student die the after being shot at a high school in winston-salem. the manhunt ended with the suspect, a juvenile student, at the school taken into custody. the police chief was overwhelmed. >> medical responders began lifesaving measures and the injured student was transported to wake forest university baptist medical center where he succumbed to his injuries. >> police did not identify the suspect or provide a motive for the shooting. just two days earlier on monday a 15-year-old wounded at a high school in wilmington. >>> fire crews in california say they made progress fighting the caldor fire near lake tahoe because winds have died down but warned

martha raddatz reporting and terry moran with reaction from the white house. >>> also tonight, news onr children 5 to 11. what we learned from pfizer today. and boosters for adults. tonight, the new study here on side effects.

here's terry moran. >> reporter: secretary of state anon theny blinken facing congress for the first time since the chaotic american retreat from kabul, and facing fierce criticism. >> our enemies no longer fear us, and our allies no longer trust us. >> you should resign. >> reporter: secretary blinken rejected the criticism completely, defending president biden's decision to pull out of afghanistan, arguing that decades of u.s. led nation building there had failed. >> if 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in support, equipment and training did not suffice, why would another year, another five, another ten? >> reporter: but the real issue at this hearing -- how did it come to this? the chaos, the 13 u.s. service members killed, the americans left behind? blinken blamed the trump administration. >> how meticulous was the planning for the trump administration declared may 1st withdrawal? >> thank you congressman, we inherited a deadline, we did not inherit a plan. >> reporter: representative adam kinzinger of illinois noting that the biden administration had months to prepare

senior national correspondent terry moran is tracking that from the white house. morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. the white house is in damage control mode and pushing back hard on the accusation that president biden lied in his interview with you about the military advice he received on afghanistan. press secretary jen psaki saying there were other military advisers who supported the president's decision to withdraw all u.s. forces. when i asked her who those advisers were, she wouldn't say. she did emphasize the president was heeding other warnings about what would happen if the u.s. left a residual force of troops in afghanistan. they would inevitably come under attack from the taliban requiring more troops to be sent in and rather than ending the war it would prolong it and the mmder inuse insisting as was determined to end the war and that that was the right decision. >> there's no question, terry, this whole episode has taken a toll on the president's poll numbers. >> absolutely. it is battering his public support. our most recent abc news

yesterday where you didn't just have peter doocy or jackie heinrich asking tough questions but terry morano pressed jen psaki and there was a notable back and forth as far as asking can you give me one military leader as far as recommending to the president that he should pull all troops out of afghanistan and not leave any peacekeeping force behind, she got very defensive which is rare for her, more defensive than usual. it is done too sporadically. of donald trump and dennis and said he didn't recall talking to general xyz about something this important the apocalypse would be upon us as far as media coverage and you would see a 24/7 on abc, cbs, nbc, cnn and others. todd: talking about biden but trump still, it has not gone away in their minds. another area where the media is going after somebody would expect them to support his kirsten cinema renewing their attacks against the democrats another -- senator for opposing the president biden's spending spree, writing so the point in case you are tuning in hashtag trojan horse saying she is a shill for corporate lobbyists but doesn't that l

terry moran joins us now with more on the pretrial hearing in guantanamo bay. morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, michael. it's been 20 years and still no justice in this case, but today in guantanamo bay khalid shaikh mohammed described as the architect of these attacks, he came up with the attack and four other men described as financial organizers, hijacking trainers and other planners, they will appear in a special military court in guantanamo bay to face charges including terrorism, violation of the laws of war and conspiracy. they face the death penalty. and a group of family members of 9/11 victims, they're also in guantanamo bay, cuba, some spending this 20-year anniversary of the attacks witnessing these proceedings. but even after all these years as you say, this case is still stuck in pretrial motions. the actual trial with witnesses and evidence, that's not expected to start even this year. these defendants were brutally tortured at cia black site prisons around the world for years before they were transferred to guantanamo bay in 2006. khali

at nbc, i had a colleague, you know, our former colleague terry moran who did wear a flag pin and i remember tom brokaw saying, look. we're just not going to start doing that because it was true that became not just a kind of patriotism but it became an emblem of are you kind of behind what the administration is doing. and the bush administration knew that. so it was a mixed kind of message and a lot of people in the media stood down from that. >> just then in the aftermath the republicans were obviously in control and they asked americans to give up real freedoms. you know? that is when we started getting searched at the airports and of course the patriot act that was overreach in some ways but people did it because of a collective cause. now taking a vaccine is too much for them. anyway, i appreciate the perspective. well delivered as expected. my brother david gregory thank you for joining me. >> thanks, pal. >> david gregory. he'll never forget. now i mentioned the first responders in there. because they were an early sign of what david is talking about that, yeah. we come together in a

this morning, senior national correspondent terry moran travels to cleveland, ohio where the pandemicing inequity and where unlikely heroes are still at work. >> reporter: tina kovach and seventh grader natalia mcfadden get to work on their latest project. >> we were in quarantine and we couldn't meet in-person, what did you miss the most? >> my 3d printer. >> reporter: kovach runs a robotics team, and these children face so many challenges. 100% of the children in cleveland public schools qualify as economically disadvantaged under state law. for tina kovach, a proud cleveland native giving these kids every opportunity is a personal mission. >> when i was younger, school was everything. i grew up very poor. i didn't have a lot of role models at home. >> reporter: when the pandemic closed cleveland's schools, kovach and the metro school district ceo eric gordon faced an immense challenge, staying connected to the kids. >> 37,000 kids sent home to the worst connected city in the country, the highest poverty in the country, and they don't have the internet to be connected to. >> reporte

terry moran is in washington with the story. morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. this is shaping up to be a major showdown between the titans of fossil fuel and congress. the ceos of exxonmobil, bp and shell called to testify in an investigation by congress into an alleged industrywide campaign to spread disinformation about the role fossil fuels have in causing global climate change. the hearings come after the release in june of a secret recording made in a greenpeace uk sting operation catching exxonmobil executive keith mccoy admitting to undercover activists posing as job recruiters that the company actively worked to undermine climate change legislation. >> did we aggressively fight against some of the science? yes. did we join some of these shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? yes, that's true, but there's nothing illegal about that. you know, we were looking out for our investments. we were looking out for our shareholders. >> reporter: democrats in congress say these words indicate exx

our senior national correspondent terry moran has more at the white house. ng, terry. >> reporter: good morning, michael. it is a real cliffhanger here and everyone in this white house knows how challenging this moment is, how critical it is for the biden presidency as he president biden all smiles last night as he made that appearance at the congressional charity baseball game, glad-handing with members and behind the scenes a flurry of activity here. biden meeting with a steady stream of lawmakers especially those crucial moderate senators manchin and sinema and we're told he's doing more listening than dictating his terms for these bills. press secretary jen psaki saying as a senator, joe biden didn't like when presidents told him what to do and he's not going to do that now. more and more democrats are getting vocal especially progressives saying they want to see joe biden being more forceful, more active spelling out exactly what he wants and getting those moderates in line with the rest of the party. today there's no public events on the president's sch

2019, the subcommittee in congress led by our colleagues senater richard blumenthal and senator terry moran conducted an 18 month investigation into this case. the investigation concluded that the u.s. olympic committee and the usa gymnastics knowingly concealed abuse by nasser between the summer of 2015 and september of 2016. the senate passed two bills aimed at addressing the failures of the nasser case with overwhelming bipartisan support. the act of 2017 was sponsored by senator feinstein and the paralympic amateur athletes act of 2020 by senators moran and blumenthal. both extended the duty of certain adults to report suspected child abuse. these are good and important steps. the reporting requirement in both laws is not worth much if law enforcement and the fbi failed to respond and immediately investigate these abuse cases in that's exact it would happen in the nasser case. these vector general's findings in his july report paint a shocking picture of fbi dereliction of duty and gross incompetence. the inspector general's scathing report details the neglect and inaction of the fbi in

terry moran was an abc news reporter. we explained george stephanopolous asked biden, that turns out not to be true. moran pushes at the white house press briefing. >> these conversations are about a range of options about what the risk assessments are about every decision. of course there are individuals who come forward with a range of recommendations on what the right path forward looks like. ument matly regardless of the advice it is his decision. he is the commander-in-chief, the president. >> bill: we'll see how it goes at the hearing today not just in the house but the white house as well. remember, joe biden was against this war 12 years ago. he thought the pentagon was taking obama into a war they could not get out of. that's been his position for a long time and laid bare yesterday during that hearing. >> dana: lots more to come. this. progressionives are threatening to sink a bipartisan bill tomorrow. the move is forcing biden to cancel a planned trip to chicago. more from the white house this morning. >> good