>> all right, terry moran back at the court for us tonight. terry, thank you. >>> we turn now to the awful case out of beverly hills tonight. the wife of a famous and well-rfted music executive was murdered in their home. the couple mentored performers for decades. and here's abc's will carr. >> reporter: tonight, a shocking murder in beverly hills. jacqueline avant, the wife of legendary music executive clarence avant, killed overnight in their home. >> the motives in this case are still unknown and we are investigating all possible motives. >> reporter: around 2:30 a.m., police receiving a phone call about a shooting near the avant's residence. when officers arrived, the suspects were gone. they found 81-year-old jacqueline with a gunshot wound. she later died at the hospital. clarence avant is a grammy-winning executive. he was just inducted into the rock & roll of hall of fame. called the godfather of black music, he was known for his mentorship. he's the founder of two record labels, launching the careers of artists like bill withers famou

terry moran gives us an idea of how justices remaining. >> at the supreme court, the first signs roewade days may be numbered. outside the court, protesters gathered. inside, the justices heard arguments on the mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. no exceptions for rape or incense. roe v. wade established a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion, and if the court upholds the mississippi law, it would undermine and overrule it altogether. john roberts zeroing in on a key issue, viability. roe and other cases prohibit states from banning abortion before viability about 24 weeks. robert's saying mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks gives women plenty of time to choose. >> liability doesn't have anything to do with choice. if it really is an issue about choice, why is 15 weeks not enough time? >> justice soto sonja my art with of dire consequences if the rule is overturned or gutted. >> will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts? >> a d

terry moran gives us an idea of how justices remaining. >> at the supreme court, the first signs roe. wade days may be numbered. outside the court, protesters gathered. inside, the justices heard arguments on the mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. no exceptions for rape or incense. roe v. wade established a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion, and if the court upholds the mississippi law, it would undermine and overrule it altogether. john roberts zeroing in on a key issue, viability. roe and other cases prohibit states from banning abortion before viability about 24 weeks. robert's saying mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks gives women plenty of time to choose. >> liability doesn't have anything to do with choice. if it really is an issue about choice, why is 15 weeks not enough time? >> justice soto sonja my art with of dire consequences if the rule is overturned or gutted. >> will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts? >> a

terry moran with us on the. >>> with millions traveling the for the holiday, the news about unruly passengersthe new case, a passenger accused of assaulting a flight attendant and air marshal. >>> tonight, authorities investigating the death of a former super bowl champion, found dead in his home at the age of 33. >>> this evening the moving images and tributes. the final farewell to former senator bob dole. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us. very busy friday night here. the major change in new york involving masks amid this new forecast for the country involving covid in the coming weeks. >> also, that news on the economy, the prices you're paying. but we are going to begin tonight with the severe weather threat as we come on the air. tornado threat for more than 30 million americans. part of a very active system sweeping right across the nation reaching the northeast tomorrow. tonight, though, the concern possible tornadoes after dark. the severe weather threat from texas to ohio, severe thunderstorms and strong tornadoes possible in these overnight hours when it's most da

terry moran is there tracking the very latest for us.from the start, the conservative justices were taking direct aim at roe versus wade. this morning, the supreme court appears primed to upend roe versus wade, a move that would transform and maybe even eliminate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion in the united states. [ crowd chanting ] activists for and against abortion rights faced off, thousands protesting on the court's steps. meanwhile inside the six conservative justices signaled they're inclined to uphold a mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest. right now, roe and other cases prohibit states from banning abortion before fetal viability, that's about 24 weeks, but the mississippi law would halt them two months earlier. chief justice john roberts suggested the mississippi law provides women with sufficient time to choose. >> viability, it seems to me, doesn't have anything to do with choice. but if it really is an issue about choice why is 15 weeks not enough t

here's terry moran. >> reporter: 58 years from that fateful day in dallas, and today, new clues, new questions. among the documents released today, cia memos discussing lee harvey oswald's trips to the soviet and cuban embassies in mexico city months before president kennedy was killed. one of those cia memos, written the day after the assassination, says oswald communicated with an identified kgb officer while at the soviet embassy that september. oswald, who was married to a russian, was trying to get visas to move to russia. another new document, a tip from a u.s. official in australia two days after the assassination, anonymous call to the embassy from a man claiming to be a chauffeur for soviet diplomats who said the soviets had "probably" financial the assassination. the memo noting a similar call had been made a year prior. the documents show that american officials in australia dismissed both calls as crank calls. the national archives say the vast majority of documents related to the jfk assassination have been released, but not all, and president biden has ordered a review

democrats unlikely to pass the bill before the new year and terry moran is tracking the latest. ng, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. that's right. democrats will once again fail to meet one of their own self-imposed deadlines, this one to pass by christmas president biden's ambitious domestic spending agenda. biden just can't get senator joe manchin, maybe one or two others on board that nearly $2 trillion build back better bill and the big sticking point, the child tax credit. that provides most american families with kids up to $300 per child per month. manchin says that's too expensive and president biden wants it very much in his bill, of course. it expires on december 31st. so there's urgency around that. democrats have suggested that maybe they'll pass some version of this bill in january. stay tuned. >> okay. meanwhile, terry, the president seems to be pivoting toward voting rights trying to get that done before the new year. that's not necessarily going to be any easier. >> reporter: that's going to be very hard, george. he did say yesterday and a sign from him,

a lot at stake, so we brought in our experts, senior national correspondent terry moran and constitutionalorning to you both, and terry, i want to start with you because you have been covering this all week. it became very clear very quickly that the conservative justices are poised to uphold the mississippi law. >> uphold the mississippi law, and what was so striking about the arguments, martha, was that you could hear in realtime the strong conservative majority on the supreme court, six justices, discussing not so much whether they should overturn or really gut -- excuse me -- roe v. wade, but how they should do it. it was really a discussion of how far they will go, and it seemed to me that the weight of the momentum on the conservative side is to go whole-hog. it feels to me like in june, america is going to be a different place for women and reproductive rights. >> the weight of the conservative justices, let's talk about that, kate. they may want to uphold the mississippi law, but do you think all of them want to overturn roe? do they want to go that far? >> martha, i think there's

director rick klein, deputy political director averi harper, and senior nation until correspondent terry moran make of that answer? >> a fascinating exchange, jon. i think it opened the door into joe biden's thinking wider than it has in any previous setting. look, on the surface, he still says he's running for re-election, and that is the answer he's been giving all along, but this is the first time you heard him explicitly acknowledge there's a scenario where he doesn't, talking about his own health, and even the part about president trump and the former president -- the possibility that he runs again, for biden to say that makes it more likely that he runs, that increases the possibility he isn't running and that is to shore up the base. for democrats who were skeptical about him and his health frankly at this moment, they also know he is the one man who beat donald trump, and that may be the most important quality in a candidate in 2024 as well. >> yeah. well, it's interesting. he said he plans to run before, and he's invoked the idea that fate could intervene, but that was a direct yes, b

between president biden and vladimir putin as russian troops amass on the border with ukraine and terry morann now with the latest. terry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, gio. during that tense 50-minute phone call vladimir putin issued the starkest warning any kremlin leader has made to a u.s. president since the cold war telling joe biden point-blank if the u.s. imposes any new sanctions on russia over the ukraine crisis, it could lead to a, quote, complete rupture in relations between the two countries. biden again warning putin that there will be crippling u.s. sanctions if russia invades ukraine but the two leaders did agree to pursue high-level talks in europe next month. and today, a russian official in the kremlin said that russia was, quote, in principle satisfied with yesterday's conversation. a senior biden administration official telling reporters that the u.s. has not decided whether or not vladimir putin is serious about invading ukraine. right now, though, putin keeping his intentions murky. his options open. janai. >> terry, thank you so much. >>> now to a huge weeken

senior national correspondent terry moran is on the scene with the story. morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, george. as you say hundreds of protesters here already. thousands expected today. the stakes could not be higher. for 50 years a bitter struggle over abortion in america and today in this court, this could be the decisive battle because roe versus wade is on the line. as the justices consider a law from mississippi that would ban almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, no exceptions for rape or incest. right now under roe and other cases states can't ban abortions until about 24 weeks of pregnancy viability. mississippi has asked the justices point blank to overturn roe versus wade and this comes before a court with a strong new conservative majority including three justices appointed by former president trump. a court that many legal observers says is more sympathetic to abortion opponents than any court maybe ever. but the majority of americans, they want roe versus wade to stand. arecent abc news/"washington post" poll found thre

terry moran joins us now with all of the details. >> reporter: good morning, mary. it's the only thing on president biden's schedule today right now. this high-stakes call between him and vladimir putin and it's the second call between these two leaders this month, the first since president biden directly threatened vladimir putin with severe economic sanctions on russia if putin decides to go ahead and invade ukraine and, since then, there's no sign of russia backing down from its massive military buildup. 100,000 troops on the ukraine border or from cyberattacks on ukraine's infrastructure, most ominously from putin's absolutist demands that the u.s. must sign a treaty that would forever block ukraine and other nations from ever joining nato and demanding a pullback. both of those are nonstarters for the u.s. >> so far no indication that putin is changing course but he did send biden a holiday greeting. is that a good sign? >> reporter: he did today, a holiday greeting from president putin to president biden. good wishes on the hol

this is kansas editor -- kansas senator terry moran, tweeting, i am regularly reminded to his tirelessommitment to kansas values well-being first and foremost a statesman, he treated others with respect and kindness. from roger marshall of kansas, as well, senator dole was an american hero, statesman of the highest order, and one of the greatest legislators of all time. most important, forever a kansan who always put service above self. i joined kansans and holding elizabeth, robin, and the entire family in our prayers. another tweet saying bob took me under his wing when i came to the senate, and i could not have had a better senator to learn from. he was the best friend and a mentor or, god bless the great bob dole. bernie, bob dole served his country with courage on the battlefield, with dignity in the senate. we send our condolences to his family. mitt romney, republican, saying when i think of the greatest generation, think of senator bob dole, a man who dedicates his life to serving our country, rest in peace, my friend. we will be praying for elizabeth, their family, and loved o