let's get right to terry moran live on the hill tonight. terry, we know this whistle-blower plans to testify tomorrow before congress about what she says facebook knowingly does. she did leave taking thousands of documents with her. does she face any legal exposure for that or is she protected? >> reporter: well, she will be up here tomorrow morning, david, testifying before senators and she is protected from retaliation by the s.e.c.'s whistle-blower program. and with facebook gradually coming online now along with the other apps, it is still unknown where there is any connection between that massive outage and her revelations. david? > terry moran live on the hill leading us off on a monday night. terry, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to that oil spill threatening the coast of southern california. an underwater pipe spilling a torrent of crude oil. wildlife killed, beaches closed. late today, we were out on the ocean. tonight, divers have now zeroed in on the source and this evening, our team at kabc flying over the emergency worke

>> terry moran following the hearing all day for us. terry, thank you. >>> now to the pandemic in this country. major news tonight on the johnson & johnson vaccine and on their own booster. how soon could it be available? and what dr. anthony fauci said today about this idea of mixing and matching vaccines when getting a booster. he didn't rule it out. abc's steve osunsami at the cdc tonight. >> reporter: millions of americans who've gotten the single-dose johnson & johnson covid vaccine could be just weeks away from being able to get a second shot, a booster dose, from the drugmaker. the fda meets next week to review the drugmaker's data that they filed today and the cdc could approve the extra shot soon after. >> a booster at two months increases the efficacy to very high levels and we believe that a booster at six months would actually do even better than that. >> reporter: johnson & johnson says that a second shot of their drug about two months after getting the first provides 94% protection against symptomatic disease and 100% prote

terry moran tonight. terry, thank you. >>> and terry, as you know, also from the hill tonight, that sweeping senate report finding former president trump pressured the department of justice in the final weeks of his presidency to overturn the election. here's our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: in early january, donald trump attempted to use the justice department to effectively steal the presidential election. aid according to a new senate report, the documents this brazen attempt by trump to stay in power. >> former president donald trump would have shredded the constitution to keep his office in the presidency, there is no doubt in my mind. >> reporter: trump had been enraged when attorney general bill barr said there was no widespread fraud in early december. >> well, he hasn't done anything. so, he hasn't looked. they haven't looked very hard, which is a disappointment, to be honest with you. >> reporter: after barr left in mid-december, the report says trump turned

>> terry moran from illinois tonight. terry, thank you. >>> next this evening, to the supply chain crisis. we've seen the empty shelves, prices inching up and the critical logjam at ports on both coasts. look at this image tonight. 62 cargo ships waiting to dock at the port of los angeles today. stacks of containers already there waiting for trucks to deliver what's inside across the country. our correspondent today asking what's inside those unopened containers and if it hasn't come off the ship yet, does it have any chance of being in the store for christmas? the answer put this all in perspective. kaylee hartung at the port of los angeles tonight. >> reporter: tonight, with the holidays approaching fast, the all-out push to get goods off those backlogged ships and onto shelves. with the port of los angeles now running operations around the clock. officials know, the clock is ticking. >> we're only four and a half weeks away from black friday. we've got a lot of work ahead of us. >> reporter: what is sitting in all these

let's get right to terry moran, live at the white house. and terry, what are they saying over there at the white house tonight? >> reporter: well, they are still hopeful, david, despite this roller coaster of a day. the president, as you say, 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 aides emphasize that's part of joe biden's strategy here. this is not his first rodeo, they say. and they also say in these calls and meetings, he's listening more than dictating terms. he says he didn't like being told by presidents 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 that 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 thi

facebook responding tonight and terry moran with late reporting. >>> also tonight, the massive oil leak the california coast. up to 130,000 gallons of oil from an underwater pipeline. oil washing onshore, killing wildlife, beaches closed. matt gutman out on the ocean

facebook reacting tonight and terry moran is standing by. >>> major news tonight on the johnson & johnson vaccine and the potential booster, how soon?

terry moran with late reporting. >>> also tonight, the massive oil leak worsening ag long the california. up to 130,000 gallons of oil from an underwater pipeline. oil washing onshore, killing wildlife, beaches closed. matt gutman out on the

here's abc's senior national correspondent terry moran. >> i'm here today because i believe facebook'sren, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. >> reporter: that's frances houghen, the whistle-blower painting facebook as a giant with tremendous power but little responsibility. >> the decisions being made are disastrous for our children, for our privacy, for our democracy. >> reporter: she worked for facebook two years, leaving in may after her civic integrity unit was disbanded following the 2020 election. since that day she's been on a mission. >> as long as facebook is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny, it is unaccountable. left alone, facebook will continue to make choices that go against the common good. >> reporter: before she left the company, houghen copied thousands of pages of internal facebook research she shared anonymously with "the wall street journal," documents she says show the social media giant knowingly stokes divisions, spreads misinformation, and harms younger users, all for its own profit. houghen revealed her identity on "60

facebook reacting tonight and terry moran is standing by. >>> major news tonight on the johnson & johnsonand the potential booster,

here's abc's senior national correspondent terry moran. >> i'm looking for what's fair. if we're critically essential workers because we make agricultural equipment, we feed the world, well, do we not deserve a critically essential wage and benefit? >> reporter: in the wee hours thursday morning, 10,000 workers at john deere hit the picket lines in iowa, illinois, and kansas, on strike for the first time in 35 years. >> they can't continue to take our money and take our money and take our money. >> reporter: they're demanding better pay, secure pensions, a fair share of a hugely profitable american company. the workers at john deere voted overwhelmingly to reject the contract that their own union, the united auto workers, had negotiated with management. >> there was a pretty blatant attack on our benefits. they want to us pay more for our benefits. >> reporter: the deal offered a 5% raise, not what the workers expected from a company that estimates it will make $5.9 billion in profits in 2021. workers argue that even as john deere's profits grew by 61% in recent years, a

senior national correspondent terry moran has the latest from washington. , terry. >> reporter: good morning, amy. that's right. women in texas are again facing a denial of their rights under the constitution as this battle in court continues, and it's been such a roller coaster. last week a federal judge blocked that law from going into effect, that texas law, which bans abortions after six weeks, and that amounts to a near total ban on abortions in the state. the judge in that state calling the law, quote, an offensive deprivation of an important constitutional right. but then two days later late friday it was reinstated and gave the biden justice department until tomorrow to respond to that ruling. all this back and forth and uncertainty has shuttered most clinics in texas and driven women into neighboring states. some driving hundreds of miles and spending thousands of dollars. this case will certainly go to the supreme court, but that could take weeks at least. amy? >> all right. terry moran with the latest from washington for us. thank you, terry. t.j.

want to go back to terry moran. to the picket lines. they are looking for better pay and to keep their pensions and they notice that the company is making record profit, $6 billion this year. shattering previous records and that the ceo of the company, he gave himself a 160% pay raise. they want more. just the latest in a wave of labor stoppages across the country. nurses in california and oregon at kaiser permanente, they've authorized a strike. workers at kellogg's have been out on strike for about a week now and that big one looming ahead, 60,000 film and tv crew members in hollywood threatening to bring that whole industry to a halt. they are talking about unfair working conditions and they've authorized a strike for monday. several forces driving all this as the pandemic eases, companies are seeing sky high demand and very tight labor markets. they can't fill jobs. workers are noticing top executives and bosses are getting paid. they want more. they're willing to strike and so for the very first time in many, m

. >> biggest challenge yet for president biden, and let's go to terry moran at the white house. ning, terry. >> reporter: good morning. this morning, the white house putting a brave face on what is a tough day for the biden agenda and biden presidency. aides insisting that this is just one step in what is always the long, difficult process of passing major legislation, democracy is messy they keep telling us. last night, in the final scramble to get something, anything passed on the hill, it seemed more than messy here. no one really seemed to have a real grasp of what was going on, plans changed back and forth on whether the president would make a public statement. he hasn't spoken publicly since from giddily hopes to exhaustion and resignation. no papering over how tough it is. biden is the leader of his party. he failed to unite the party to get it done, but they're putting their shoulders to the wheel this morning. as you heard from rachel there, in a statement last night after it was all over press secretary jen psaki saying progress has been made but, quote, we will need so

terry moran is in washington for us. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, robin.came to congress on a mission, to change facebook and she painted a picy w power and little sense of social responsibility. this morning, mark zuckerberg is breaking his silence issuing a statement on facebook that the claims brought by the company's former employee frances haugen don't make any sense adding, at the heart of these accusations is the idea that we prioritize profit over safety and well-being. that's just not true. >> i believe facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. >> reporter: haugen appearing before a senate subcommittee tuesday alleging the company is operating in the shadows and hiding its research from public scrutiny. >> they have put their astronomical profits before people congressional action is needed. they won't solve this crisis without your help. >> reporter: a former product manager, haugen who worked in civic integrity says the company knew about the harmful effects caused by it's apps including instagram's potential to

and our senior national correspondent terry moran joins us now. terry, good morning to you.ght is not over yet. >> reporter: good morning, cecilia. it's not over, but disaster is averted for now. that's the headline up here after the senate voted last night to raise the debt ceiling by $480 billion. republicans giving a little ground with the threat of a national default looming over the country but the deal struck by majority leader chuck schumer and minority leader mitch mcconnell is only temporary and only lasts till december 3rd and we'll likely be up here doing the same thing at that time, and deal or no deal, this was a party line vote. no republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling. they're demanding that democrats do this on their own, protesting and trying to make political hay out of biden's spending plans, even though the debt being paid off now is mostly debt that was run up under president trump. business leaders across the country are blasting this brinksmanship saying congress is playing a dangerous game with the u.s. economy but as i say, we are likely up her

terry moran is live outside john deere headquarters in illinois for us this morning. morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, michael. they've been here all night all through this chilly night, the men and women on this picket line in a john deere facility and across three states demanding what they say is their fair share from a hugely profitable american company. they're not alone. across the country more and more workers on the picket line. the question now is hollywood next? this morning, the more than 10,000 john deere workers on strike stand united as they demand higher wages and better benefits. the united autoworkers union members had vowed to walk out if they couldn't settle on a contract. now the pressure on john deere as the company that builds those iconic green tractors sees their first major strike in three and a half decades. sounds like it's about sticking together. >> and the people that come after us. >> reporter: workers rejected a proposal of just over $30 an hour for a top production worker rising to 31.84 after five years. bargaining for wages

terry moran is tracking the story from washington. orning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. this remarkable report shines a bright light on those tax havens and skulduggery, all of it legal. the world's super rich use it to hide their fortunes from tax collectors and ordinary citizens. it's a bombshell report based on the biggest leak of offshore banking data in history. >> the investigation should make us all wonder how and why the world's rich and powerful are able to play by different rules that grant them financial and business benefits that the rest of us don't have access to. >> reporter: an international collection of journalists scouring a trove of 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 firms around the world. nda pars blow thlid es dubbed off the secrets the wealthy use to their advantage. the investigation names more than 130 people listed on the "forbes" billionaires list, "a" listers like columbian pop star, shakira -- ♪ -- and more than 330 current and former public officials from around the world, including jordan