women's soccer team is using the bright lights and big stage to focus attention on women's equality. here's jericka duncan. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: it was dÉjÀ vu for the u.s. women's national team. >> u-ss-a! >> reporter: but this new york city ticker tape parade was different than 2015, the signs, the chants... >> equal pay! equal pay! >> reporter: ...and the comments of fans centered around the fight for equal pay. >> my hope is that this isn't one moment in time. >> megan rapinoe! >> reporter: outspoken forward megan rapinoe, who was honored as the top player and top goal scorer, addressed the topic this week. >> i think everybody realizes at this point, you know, all the top brass included, that it's time for that change. >> reporter: the 23 women who make up the national team say their fight is about helping the next generation of female athletes. what lessons do you learn by watching them? >> teamwork. >> reporter: with young girls like that looking up to her, rapinoe made calls for unity and inclusion. >> we have pink hair and purple hair. we got white girls and black girls. and everything in between. straight girls and gay girls. ( cheering and applause ) hey! we have to be bet

s home teamor cup heroes back. u.s. women's national teamplayers rose lavelle and mallory pugh returned to the washington spirit earlier tonight. get this, they're just two of six spirit players who laced em up at the world cup. spirit taking on theouston dash, right. lavelle -- did not play as she recovers from a hamstring injury suffered in the semifinals against norway. firshalf, both teams kind of dancing around the middle of the pitch. volcanic temps will do that. so the spirit only ad four shots. the dash had six. but then all the sudden, everybody's finding the back of the net. >> a fantastic equal -->> washington would go on to win this one 3-0. the spirit in good shape, and a great crowd to see them and welcome back our world cup heroes. >> very cool. >> very cool. we are sisters. and we just moved in together. why alissa and aleah chose fios. we stream so much. a lot of times alissa is watching tv on her laptop using her phone, also using her tabletmulti-tasking cause i'm esome. a little. get the internet your family needs at a pri

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women's national team and the lawsuit against the u. is s. for equal pay against the men. this week nike announced the women's jersey have out sold any men's or women's. the more they go on the pitch the stronger their argument goes. >> very much looking forward to this match. 3:00 eastern time here in new york. thank you, amanda. should be fun. >>> and now what you've all been waiting for. some very cool images from out of this world almost 200 years in the making. nasa releasing new hubble space telescope pictures of a cosmic fireworks display that will be even better than yours this year, dave, sorry. >> yes. >> just in time for the fourth of july. this is an event appropriately called the great eruption. it happened to the double star syst system eta carinae. a bigger star consumed the smaller neighbor and it took 75 years to get to earth. >> with these hours, we're both sleeping through fireworks. let's be honest. >> not me. >> it was red, white and blue, too. >>> thanks for joining us. >> i'm michelle kosinski. >> i'm dave briggs. here'

s&p 500 dropped 14. and the u.s. women's national r ccer team headed home from france today, afnning a record fourth world cup. they beat thnetherlands two-nil on sunday. the players partied through the a ticker-tape parade iswe scheduled foesday in new york. still to come on the "newshour," californians without insurancen face acertain future following the state's latest earthquakes; the history behind sex crime charges against billionaire jeffrey epstein; president obama's head of homeland security on how to treat migrants, and much more. >> woodruff: aftershocks are still rocking parts of southern california today following two massive earthquakes struck thursday and friday. the largest was a magnitude 7.1 quake, the biggest to hit the area in 20 years. communities closest to the epicenter in the mojave desert-- 150 miles north of los angeles-- were upended by the damage.nd special correst cat wise visited the towns where residents are picking up the pieces. >> reporter: residents are trickling back in to some of the hardest-hit communities t

national security, immigration, abortion even, it's going to turn off a lot of voter s and seem really out of place in a general election. >> the washington examiner, thanks. >> thanks. >> well, u.s. women's national teams world cup title, bringing joy to millions of americans, all across the country, as many here in the states got up early to watch the team play the netherlands in france. janney hike heinrich with the celebration. reporter: jon this is a meaningful win on so many fronts , the second to win consecutive titles and all this while seizing the spotlight despite gender discrimination. the final score 2-0 usa taking the lead in the 61st minute u.s. scored within the first 12 minutes of every other match in the tournament so this is hard fought but it ended with a 12 game win streak dating back to 2015. and the captain lined up that win with a penalty kick after netherlands fouled and she's the oldest player to score in a world cup final but the breakout star sealed the deal with an 18-foot shot after a solo run up the center. >> after the celebration the medal around your neck what's it like to be with this group throughout this tournament? >> it's such an honor. these people just in spare me

women's national team. it was an incredible performance. they had so much going on off the field t fight for equal pay. megan rapinoe 'sith prt. but this team is still able to put it all aside and prove that they are the best team in the world. team usa beating the netherlands 2-0 in the final. they're on their bay back to the u.s. here's a pretty cool pick they took together before boarding their plane. they're going to arrive about 4:15 eastern and they're going to have a parade tomorrow in new york. rapinoe was asked how their dominant performance will affect the federation's defense against them in their lawsuit. >> it's not good for them, is it? i mean, i think, obviously, it's huge. i think we've been a little shy to say that, putting so much pressure on ourselves, because i think we have a case no matter what. obviously we brought the lawsuit. but this just sort of blows it out of the water. it's not about that anymore, it's just kind of about doing the right thing. i think the federation is in a unique position to kind of ride this wave of good fortune and get on board and hopefully set things right for the fut

s plus, a freesung chromebook on us. th at's fios. >>> the rest of the world has four more years to figure out how to beat the women's national team. >> it mig take them eight that's how good they are. hey, dare to shine. that was the slogan for the fifa women's world cup. ? thought it was patronizing. the women's national teamidn't need to be dared to do anything. dare i say it. like another marketing slogan, they just diit. there have been eight world cups and they have won four. 27 minutes. it gets down to julie ertz. seven saves. she keeps it scoreless headg into halftime. she was something .else the 61st minute after a penalty by the netherlands. no. she scores her sixth goal of the tournament. the united states, the 1-0 lead. what a goal. 24-year-old gibbs in the 2-0 lead and that was what it took. winning the fourth world cup and econd straight. sold out soldier field, the united states putting the pressure on. tenacity opens opening the scoring memo. the defense just misses on this one. do you know what? he wishes he had that back. the minute, watch this. to jonathan. yeah. he oscres. what a goal for mexico. that's al it to

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against ense 2-1 w host nation france in their last outing, this morning, the u.s. s women's teamother european powerhouse. >> within the group, weave a great ability to just stay together and kind of block out those distractions when the time cos. >> tea usa accused of being arrogant after sending staffers to check out the five-star hotel where the team would stay if they make it to the finals. the only problem, their semifinal opponent, england, is currently staying there. england's coach calling it unbritish a bad etiquette. >> not something we would do, send somebody around to another team's hotel. it will have no bearings on the game. i actually found it q funny. >> u.s. coach jill ellis, who grew up in englfed, on dee. >> in terms of arrogance, that's got nothing to do with us. that's planning and preparation for our stf. so think that's pretty normal. >> yeah, i don't think our team is arrogant at all. i think our team is confident. we're respectful of our opponents, and i think the way that we respect them is by preparing as if the pponent we're going to play is the best w

s they left the door propped open. it wasn't locked and someone snuck in stealing cash and valuables including the key to new york city given to her and the members of the u.s. women's national team by the mayor of new york. now, she tweeted about this and said a thief came in and stole my wedding ring, cash and the key to my favorite city. asking the major mayor more a new one. saying, do you make copies. the mayor saying, we have you covered. we have copies like any good new yorker. george? >> let's hope she gets the ring back. thanks very much. >>> now to the big celebrity stealing the headlines in chicago. an alligator on the loose in popular humble park, you see there, it's been spotted swimming in the lagoon and managed to evade traps for days while drawing big crowds trying to catch a glimpse and snap photos. officials warn when you snap photos watch out because the gator is a gator and it could unexpectedly snap back. they're urging everyone to stay away from the water. the gator has been named in honor of another local celebrity. some are now calling him chance the snapper. i don't know how chance the rapper feels about that. >>> okay, we are following a lot of other hea

s security and antiterrorism fund according to the city's mayor. >>> and new york city celebrated the four-time world cup champion u.s. women's national team with a ticker tape parade through lower manhattan yesterday as chance of equal pay broke out during the ceremony at city hall. [ chanting equal pay ]. >> all right. i have chills. that's fantastic. >> that's something you could take up with the labor secretary. >> i love it. >>> speaking of the labor secretary, let's talk about the day. >> speaking of labor secretary alex acosta defending his role in cutting a sweetheart deal for wealthy sex offender jeffrey epstein a decade ago. a 2008 plea deal that let him avoid a lengthy jail sentence and violated a law to notify victims according to a recent court ruling. critics say acosta's offer also shielded others who may have been implicated in epstein's misconduct. so some would say this is a favor for a lot of different people. a person familiar with the matter tells nbc news that president trump spoke to acosta by phone on tuesday afternoon and urged him to hold a news conference to answer reporter's questions about the case. acosta read