[Music] tonight the final ruling in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial ends with the former president fined $354 million today we prove that no one is above the law no matter how rich powerful or politically connected you are it's a very sad day for in my opinion the country the president and his sons fine for exaggerating the values of his real estate properties including maral Lago the judge citing the Trump family's quote complete lack of Contrition and remorse Trump's vow to appeal and make no
mistake Putin is responsible for nal's death Putin is responsible Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic Alexi naly dies in prison 24 hours after what would be his last court appearance the outrage in Russia and around the world good evening everyone I'm Trevor alt in for Lindsey Davis thank you so much for streaming with us we begin with that Landmark ruling against former president Trump and his sons along with other directors of the Trump organization with the judge already finding in Dec
ember that Trump defrauded lenders including Banks submitting false financial statements to obtain better rates on loans that judge now shooting down Trump's defense that valuing real estate is subjective writing when appraisals are starkly different it's not evidence of a difference of opinion that is evidence of Deceit Trump is now also barred from doing business in New York for three years his sons Eric and Don Jr barred for two years and those uh sons are also fined $4 million each the Trump
organization has made clear it will appeal this ruling but in the midst of his campaign for president Trump's legal fees are mounting and much of them are being paid by campaign funds our team is standing by to break it all down but we begin with ABC's senior investigative course responded Aaron kki with the full story tonight's ruling strikes at the heart of Donald Trump's image carefully crafted for decades the former president finded a staggering $355 million and banned from doing business f
or three years in New York the city where he built his fortune and made his name the judge determining Trump flagrantly overvalued his signature properties in order to get favorable bank loans and insurance rates things everyday Americans would never get away with Donald Trump may have authored the art of the deal but he perfected the art of the steel today the court once again ruled in our favor and in favor of every hardworking American who plays by the rules the most high-profile examples of
fraud the Trump Tower Penthouse the Trump organization inflated its value by some $200 million declaring it was 30,000 square ft but Trump signed a document certifying it's a third that size 11,000 sare ft and while Trump claimed his Mara Lago resort was worth up to $600 million its true assessed value was no more than 27 million today judge Arthur and Goran writing Trump's complete lack of Contrition and remorse borders on pathological calling Trump incapable of admitting the error of his ways
the former president attended 10 days of the trial this trial is ridiculous and on the witness stand he attacked judge Andor to his face complaining this is a very unfair trial I hope the public is watching in his ruling today the judge no trumps tell testimony for long irrelevant speeches adding his refusal to answer the questions directly or in some cases at all severely compromised his credibility the judge today also punishing Trump's two eldest Sons Eric and Don Jr who Trump entrusted with
the company when he was president both brothers had testified all they did was sign documents their accountants prepared insisting they didn't check what was actually in them whoever was bringing me a document if it was more accounting it was probably from accounting if it was more legal it would be from legal and I hey like are we okay signing this document do you believe it to be honest and accurate and if they were okay with it they'd have much more knowledge than I'd ever be able to amass an
d so I would sign up Eric Trump testifying I don't think I'd be so nitty-gritty that I focused on details like this this is just not what an executive at my level focuses on but judge and Goran didn't buy it finding Trump's Sons $4 million each and banning them from doing business in New York for two years declaring that without a significant penalty Trump and his sons would be likely to continue their fraudulent ways moments ago Trump lashing out it's a very sad day for in my opinion the countr
y a crooked New York State judge just ruled that I have to pay a fine of $355 million for having built a perfect company a great cash great buildings great everything and Aaron joins me now right here on the set Aaron great to have you here so let's talk about what happens next we know this appeal is coming from the former president does he have to put any kind of money down or is it just wait and see how the appeal plays out oh no he still has to come up with the money he can either put all $35
5 million in escrow with the court or he can post a portion of it as a bond with some pretty hefty interest using his properties and cash as collateral and that's on top of the $83 million he needs to pay to egene Carol so this is really adding up for the former yeah those properties aren't quite worth what he had said that they were worth Aaron kki we appreciate your reporting thank you for being here and of course late today both Attorney General James and the former president responded to thi
s ruling so let's listen we are holding Donald Trump accountable we are holding him accountable for lying cheating and a lack of Contrition and for flouting the rules that all of us must play by it's all having to do with election interference there were no victims because the banks made a lot of money they made $100 million all right so what does this mean for Trump's businesses in New York and what about that appeal that he's promising for that let's bring in former Federal prosecutor and ABC
News legal contributor con nowaday Conan thanks so much for being here good to have you let's break down this decision first we've got those jaw-dropping fines Trump and his company's on the hook for more than $350 million his son's owing $4 million and actually I'm hearing that we actually just lost con so instead we're going to uh skip ahead to John santui uh who runs our investigative unit here John we appreciate that executive editorial producer let's talk big picture politically here obviou
sly no person likes to be told that they have to pay $350 plus million dollar it's a question as to whether or not that's going to stick pending the appeal what I would like to know from you John is does this ruling matter to his base at all do they care about it because of course seconds after the ruling came out rather than a statement coming from Donald Trump a fundraising email came first and that is what Donald Trump is building his campaign off of look we had four criminal indictments last
year within a matter of each of those hitting the docket an email would go out fundraising that is what Donald Trump is doing over the course of this campaign Trevor look this is not a campaign about issues for Donald Trump this is a campaign about taking the courthouse to the campaign Trail and we have seen Donald Trump do that repeatedly look at the statement he made we just played a clip of it for your viewers coming out of his Maro home today of course that's another place where the FBI sho
wed up to raid a couple years ago part of that case but look that is what Donald Trump is doing making all of this about the unfair persecution that he calls it The Witch Hunt the Joe Biden LED investigations all of which is obviously not accurate but nevertheless that is Donald Trump's campaign message it's not about cutting taxes it's not about uh ways to fix schools it's about getting revenge and getting these criminal cases away he often says that I'm the one standing in the way which is why
they are coming after me put me back in I'll make it all better and John while we have you I would love to get some greater context if you could give us some perspective about what these payments mean in terms of portions of what Donald Trump is worth he's of course branded as a billionaire uh if he pays up all of this money and the egene Carroll money too are we talking about him draining all of his funds does it make a difference will he ever pay it at all well on the will he ever pay it at a
ll I mean Aaron talked with you a little bit about this a couple moments ago the reality is he has to put it up in the interim right because we're going through an appeals process on EEG Carell we fully expect and Trump and his attorneys have said this they're going to appeal this ruling from the New York uh case that just came down tonight but the reality is that Donald Trump forget the money for a second let let's believe it or not I'm actually going to say Donald Trump money let's put it asid
e for 10 seconds if we can here is the bigger thing this hurts Donald Trump's ego more than anything thing you know the first time I met Donald Trump in 2015 Trevor he did with me what many friends of his told me he would do he took me to the 26th floor of Trump Tower and he showed me his real estate he showed me his prized possessions the company he built look at Waltman rink he'd said to me look at the Plaza Hotel I own that for a little bit made a lot of money selling it that's Donald Trump's
image it was the image that catapulted him to the White House in 2015 and 16 as a successful businessman tonight Trevor he's been called a fraud by the state of New York definitely a powerful ruling although of course we do know a number of his supporters consider him now Beyond a businessman and the savior of this country John sanui we appreciate that perspective and always your reporting and we do now have Khan nowaday joining us so KH let's bring you in here uh uh first and foremost we talke
d about the payments there with John what I would like to have you talk about uh is the rulings regarding Donald Trump and his sons being able to perform business in the state of New York what's your take away from the judge's ruling and how this is going to impact them moving forward sure so I I think one it's really powerful what the judge did he's basically enjoyed Donald Trump and his son from running a business in New York uh he's also uh prevented them from getting loans in New York now I
think it's a big statement now ultimately however it's only for uh a couple years so they can come back uh So proverbially speaking the judge threw the book at both of them but not a big heavy book as he could have done let's talk about that appeal so the judge wrote in his ruling today KH that the frauds found here quote leap off the page and shock the conscience this is not a close ruling based on what he's writing he directly rejected a lot of Trump's core defenses so what kind of argument do
you think his legal team might make in this appeal I don't see them having really any argument and the reason for that is the judge here is the finder of fact and the judge here is the one who determines the credibility of witnesses the appeals court isn't going to go into those findings of facts so I think the Judge has really set a very tight record where Donald Trump is going to have very few means upon which to appeal uh so Trump and his supporters have kind of argued from the beginning thi
s was a purely political case and in fact part of their argument to the public at least is that it was impossible for the former president to get a fair trial in New York City because New York City is is liberal and thus the judge wouldn't like him just looking at the entirety of this case does it appeal to does it appear to you to be a fair trial with a fair verdict here it was an absolutely Fair process Donald Trump his companies his family got full process from the court probably one would sa
y more processed than other people it was done in open court he had every opportunity to raise any factual defense he could and frankly he was given that opportunity and the judge found that he doesn't win all right Khan now day glad we got that all those audio issues sorted out good to have you on as always and thanks to John sanui and Aaron kki and in the meantime now we want to move to that shocking news out of Russia today as Russian prison officials announced Vladimir Putin's best known cri
tic Alexa Nal is dead but how did this happen and also tonight President Biden making it clear he believes that Putin was behind this our Martha rits has the reporting tonight the stunning reports of Alexi nal's death prompting MERS across Russia to Brave arrest but few were surprised by his death after his yearslong opposition towards Vladimir Putin just yesterday naali was seen via video link from one of the harshest penal colonies in Russia's Arctic Circle the 47-year-old appeared gaunt but s
eemingly healthy and was even joking during a court hearing with the judge just hours later Russian officials say naali fell ill after after a walk in the prison and lost Consciousness they claimed doctor spent 30 minutes trying to revive him before he was pronounced dead saying the cause of his death was now quote being established at the White House today President Biden left no doubt who was to blame make no mistake make no mistake Putin is responsible for naval's death Putin is responsible n
aval's wife Julia was in Munich Germany today attending a sec conference and urged world leaders to hold Putin personally responsible she received a standing ovation naal has been the target of numerous attacks and attempts on his life over the years most notoriously in 2020 when he fell ill aboard a flight from Siberia moaning in agony poisoned by the deadly nerve agent novachuk naal miraculously recovered after treatment in Germany but decided to return to Russia knowing full well the risk he
faced as Putin's fiercest critic after the news of naval's death Putin appeared in public today but said nothing of it smiling and appearing to be in High Spirits over the years Putin's critics have had a way of winding up dead just last August the head of the mercenary Vagner group Yani pran who once marched his forces towards Moscow was killed when a suspect Ed bomb blew his plane out of the sky navali knew he could face a similar fate and was asked what his message would be if he wound up dea
d he said you're not allowed to give up if they decide to kill me it means that we are incredibly strong we need to utilize this power to not give up a man a lot of people look to as a source of Hope there in Russia and Beyond it around the world Martha r joins us now so Martha how is this going to potentially impact the upcoming elections in Russia well Trevor naly supporters are calling on Russians to write in naval's name but Vladimir Putin is expected to get six more years and he's already b
een in power for essentially two decades Trevor potentially in control till 2030 Martha Raditz thank you and we want to dig deeper on this so let's uh bring in Julia yafi a russian-american journalist and found ER and correspondent at Puck who Julie I appreciate you making time for us I know it's getting late where you are in Munich you're at the Munich security conference as is nal's wife Julia uh so first and foremost just what was the environment like there when this news broke I think just s
hock shock spreading through the uh through the rooms here it it was like a bomb went off and people whispering did you hear did you hear did you hear uh just absolutely awful and then of course jul getting up and giving this incredible address uh maybe an hour after finding out that her husband had been uh killed and getting up there with tears in her eyes Defiance in her voice and promising Justice and that a day of Justice will come for Putin for what he has done to her family and her country
it was uh an incredible moment and Mr devalia did also express some skepticism at the reports of her husband's death why why do you think that is well because she's right in that the Kremlin lies all the time uh that said from what I understand people close to na VI are trying to verify reports of his death his lawyers uh flew out from Moscow to uh visit the penal colony where uh he was being held Alexi Nal is of course a towering figure there in Russia and has been maybe the most prominent tho
rn in the side of Vladimir Putin what does his death mean to the opposition movement well the opposition movement was really crushed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the introduction of military censorship which caused about a million Russians to flee many of them who were opposed to Putin um Alex of course stayed and maintained his relevance but now with his death there's a sense that the back of the opposition has been completely broken and what I see my friends um and Alex's colleagues are
saying on social media now is that their future is gone Alex was their future there was a hope that uh he was younger he would outlive Putin he would come into power and Usher in a new more hopeful more optimistic and a democratic Russia and now that he is dead I mean there was nobody like him nobody like him and it's hard to see anybody filling those shoes for a really long time and we have heard from many world leaders both at the Munich security conference where you are and far beyond it tha
t there is going to be some kind of accountability or retribution but How likely is that uh frankly I'm not sure what form it would take we've already kicked out a lot of Russian spies from all over Western countries uh We've sanctioned Russia up to the hilt Putin you could see in his interview with Tucker Carlson you could see it in the remarks he made U on the factory floor today after he was told about Alex Na's death he's clearly Riding High he feels like the wind is at his back he feels lik
e he's winning in Ukraine especially with the Ukraine Aid uh stalled perhaps mortally in US Congress and of course now Russia is heading towards its own elections that might keep Putin in power until 2030 obviously there are at least some people in Russia that would like some kind of change for a Russian that wanted that to happen is there anything they could even do or is this a foregone conclusion there oh it's definitely a foregone conclusion there will be no opposition on the ballot um you s
aw people coming out today when they heard the news all across Russia and Moscow as well coming out and leaving flowers at monuments to political repressions of the past to victims of those political repressions and the police cracking down on them and arresting them uh these are the people who are still in Russia and who are scared people are living in fear and now was the hope they for that some of them had um now they can't even put out flowers to commemorate him so I think there is this sens
e that hope really died today and it'll take a very long time for it to be resurrected it's just so alarming what's happening there Julia Yi we thank you for your reporting and for your time and President Biden today came before cameras to say naval's death shows the urgency of supporting Ukraine along the way he blasted House Republicans for now taking a two- week break instead of negotiating vital military aid our senior Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott reports from Washington tonight
President Biden says there's no question Vladimir Putin and killed Alexi naali and he called out House Republicans for refusing to pass new funding to help Ukraine fight Russia but it's about time they step up don't you think instead of going on a two week vacation two weeks they're walking away two weeks what are they thinking it's just reinforcing all the concern and and and almost I won't say panic but real concern about the United States being a reliable Ally the Senate has already passed Uk
raine funding with bipartisan support but in the House Republicans spurred on by Donald Trump have pumped the brakes Trump instead is encouraging Russia to attack our NATO allies if they don't contribute enough to defense spending no I would not protect you in fact I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want Biden today warning House Republicans history is watching we have to realize what we're dealing with with Putin all of us should reject the dangerous statements made by the prev
ious president that invited Russia to invade our NATO allies if they weren't paying up so plenty for the president to talk about Rachel Scott joins us now but Rachel President Biden did also speak about that new Federal indictment of a former FBI informant so what's he saying tonight yes Trevor and that former FBI informant is now accused of completely making up a story that President Biden accepted a $5 million bribe as vice president from a Ukrainian company that his son Hunter sat on on the b
oard of the key here is that House Republicans have been using that as a justification to try to impeach President Biden well tonight the president is calling for the impeachment inquiry into him to be dropped calling it outrageous from the very beginning Trevor Rachel Scott Forest Rachel thank you and next tonight the dramatic new testimony in the high stakes misconduct hearing for Fulton County district attorney fonny Willis who is Prosecuting Donald Trump for election interference in Georgia
Willis's father testified on his daughter's behalf we tell you what he told the court today our Steve osami is in Atlanta the drama in this Georgia courtroom over whether Fulton County prosecutor fonnie Willis will continue to lead the election interference case here has come to this I have one daughter uh fonnie Willis her father called to the witness stand knocking down accusations that she was dating special prosecutor Nathan Wade before she hired him to help her prosecute former president Do
nald Trump and 18 others did you ever meet Mr Wen uh the year 2019 absolutely not how about in the year 2020 absolutely not do you ever see Mr Wade at Miss Willis's fton County house in the year uh 2021 and never John Clifford Floyd an experienced lawyer himself says he was living with his daughter when lawyers from the Trump side of the courtroom say the relationship began it is a lie it is a lie Willis lit up the witness stand yesterday Trump and several of his codefendants accused her of prof
iting from the relationship with money she was paying Wade to work the case she says she paid him back for their romantic trips with cash her father says he taught her to keep cash at home but it's a black thing okay you know I was trained and most black folks they hide cash all right so let's bring in Steve osami from Atlanta and Steve fonny Willis and Nathan Wade say their relationship started after they began working on this case so they argue there's no conflict of interest here but what are
the judge's options and what's the timeline overall here well this hearing isn't even over yet the lawyers are still arguing closing arguments there going to be closing arguments in this case are going to be next week probably the end of next week the judge says you know in terms of what the judge's options are we're told first he's not going to issue an immediate ruling no ruling From the Bench but if he does decide to remove fonny Willis from this case it would be unprecedented it's a tall or
der what would happen after that that is the state would then appoint another prosecutor and it would be up to that prosecutor to decide whether the case moves forward Trevor lot hinging on this Steve osami thank you and now to the fast moving winter storm heading east tonight 70 million Americans on alert for snow and then brutal cold with windchills in the teens I take a look at this massive pile up in the snow on I70 this is in Warren County Missouri and this system is now heading east tonigh
t so ABC senior meteorologist Rob Marciano timing it all out hey Rob hi Trevor different from this system earlier in the week this one's going to be mostly all snow really it's much colder and we're starting to ramp up our snow total forecast as things becoming a little bit more robust albeit fast moving winter storm warnings are posted for Philadelphia Baltimore now Columbus Ohio where the snow is falling there in Indianapolis Cincinnati stretching over towards Pittsburgh there's a low itself s
liding right over Charleston overnight tonight and look how quickly the snow gets into DC by around midnight night if not sooner and then up the I95 Corridor into New York City by 2: a.m. that's probably when the heaviest snow is going to be falling and that'll last till 5 6 o'clock in the morning as the system quickly get gets out to sea leftover snow showers throughout the day but it'll pile up in New York Metro 2 to 4 in expected one to two in places like Connecticut but upwards of five plus
in the mountains of West Virginia and certainly the suburbs of Philadelphia you could see close to a half a foot of snow it's going to be all snow and it's coming on a Saturday so the kids will enjoy it and should be a little bit less disruptive than what we saw earlier this week but nonetheless another winter storm yes no threat of remote learning Rob Marciano Force Rob thank you now to an ABC News exclusive with Prince Harry our will reev sat down with him to talk about the king where his rela
tionship with the royal family stands now and what's next for him and Megan tonight Prince Harry speaking for the first time about the moment he learned his father King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer how did you get the news that the King was ill um I spoke to him and what did you do next I jumped on a plane and went to go and see him as soon as I could how was that visit for you emotionally um look I I I love I love my family the fact that I was fact that I was able to get on a plane an
d go and see him and spend any time with him I'm grateful for that and what do we without prying um what's sort of your outlook on on his health that stays between me and him Harry didn't meet with his brother Prince William but tells me he hopes his father's illness could have a unifying effect on the royal family an illness in the family can have a galvanizing or sort of reunifying effect for a family is that possible in this case yeah I'm sure I think um any any illness any any sickness bring
s brings families together the Duke and his wife Duchess Megan giving us an all access tour of the sight of Harry's passion project Invictus games Vancouver Whistler 2025 and Trevor Harry also telling me he enjoys living in California and has even considered becoming a US citizen Trevor all right will re thank you very much and we have still much more to get to here on Prime coming up the headlines on new developments in artificial intelligence that seem to be coming faster and faster we're goin
g to turn to an expert to break down the latest but next we travel to Iran to see how people feel about the nation's role in the Israel Hamas War where things stand more than four decades after the Iranian Revolution why are you here today because we want to support support our countries and we can uh uh war and uh fight with [Music] enemies whenever news breaks we are here in Israel a nation at war after that brutal surprise attack by Hamas on the ground in Ukraine reporting from Leon main the
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n bullet holes all up the wall within minutes the AR Sirens going off you can hear the sound of an explosion we are pinned down here tonight Israel waging a fierce bombardment of Gaza the Israel Hamas War for Non-Stop live coverage stream ABC News live reporting from Southern Israel from the front lines in downtown rala wherever the story is we'll take you there ABC News live welcome back amid growing fears of a widening regional conflict in the Middle East tonight we take you to Iran as it mark
s the 45th anniversary of the Islamic revolution thousands of Iranians flooding the streets there some waving Iranian Flags but others Bur burning us and Israeli Flags ABC's mola langi has this report Iranians celebrating the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution that installed ayatollahi as Iran's supreme leader hundreds of thousands gathering this week in tan young and old alike including 14-year-old Ali Rea why are you here today because we want to support support our countries and
we can uh uh war and a fight with enemies who's your enemy now America and Israel we speak to this father carrying an Iranian flag he tells me that he still supports the Revolution and hopes Iran's youth will stand by it too there is the threat that Iran could get involved in a regional conflict with the US with Israel is that something they're paying attention to he says Iran has always been ready to confront anyone and that he'll obey whatever the supreme leader commands Iran revolutionary gua
rd military hardware on full display a staggering show of force not lost on many of those in attendance Iran is not afraid to use these this man tells me the celebratory mood at the ceremony punctuated with the occasional burning of the American and Israeli flags and chance of death to Israel and death to America this against the backdrop of escalating tensions throughout the Middle East we met 35-year-old Neu far Iran getting involved in conflict in Gaza getting involved in a war maybe with the
US that something are concerned about we not we're not H we're not concerned about the war and if uh a war happened we are never afraid we never deny Palestine and uh support it forever uh for uh making it make it free they support Palestine because it's the Gen side that happened in Gaza Amir Ali haeda who commands Iran's revolutionary guard Corps Air Force with a measured warning telling me the Americans know that they should not mess with Iran we are not warmongers we do not seek war either
speaking at Sunday's ceremony Iran's president Ibrahim RI calling on Israel to be expelled from the UN for their military campaign on Gaza echoing what a Hamas spokesman in tan told me we Palestinian need simply to live as free as secure as any free or secure nation in the world but not on the expense of a legitimate rights which has been granted by the very International Community to us today everybody is talking that Israel is an occupation that's not me it's United Nation a common perception
in the west is that uh is that Iran controls Hamas or uh will dictate what Hamas does we are a family and that is Iran that is all the the Freedom Fighters everywhere so there's not orders coming from no no no no I mean they are uh uh brothers and we are also independent free uh uh Freedom Fighters earlier miles away from the anniversary ceremony we spoke with average Iranians who were concerned less about the state of the 45-year-old Revolution and more about the state of the economy the countr
y's high unemployment and crippling inflation shop owner Sal man complaining to me the prices go up every day Adjunct professor sassan Karimi at the University of tan blames us sanctions there are many um difficulties and from my point of view most of them uh are related to the sanctions definitely we are experiencing experiencing tough situation especially in economic side uh but uh the economy of Iran is not broken today but getting worse definitely following the Hamas attack on Israel last Oc
tober the US issued a second round of sanctions aimed at Hamas officials in Iran and members of Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard Corps the move targets what the US describes as conduits for illicit Iranian funds to Hamas a designated terrorist group the state department has long accused of supporting Hamas with funds weapons and training back at the market 26-year-old May Day one of an increasing number of empowered young women openly skirting hijab rules no we don't we don't afraid no no we a
re strong she says wages are not even close to keeping up with the cost of living many of her friends have left the country to find work abroad Iranian born hedra who lives in the UK says during her visit here she has noticed a difference certainly from everybody that I meet and I socialize with they tell me that everything is expensive prices change on a daily basis it's really you know because of our currency it's devaluing on a daily basis M who works at this sweet shop tells me we are making
just enough not to die MDI unsure of who or what to blame for Iran's economic strain is convinced us sanctions are making matters worse instability politically and economically with no clear end in sight all right thanks to mola langi for that report and still ahead here on Prime two young boys not nearly old enough to drive stole a car at gunpoint what happened next caught on camera but next college basketball Superstar Caitlyn Clark's new record and her smash record smashing season 2 by the n
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e 8 points that she needed to beat the Record She surpassed Kelsey Plum who' previously held that record for seven years but Clark was far from done after those eight points she finished the game with a personal best 49 points which is also a single game record for Iowa now Cit Clark is currently at 3,569 career points in counting she has made Iowa basketball too along the way a very hot ticket the Hawkeyes recently announced 30 of their last 32 regular season games are going to be sellouts or s
et attendance records and getting into last night's game was not cheap $375 on average for week uh for week of game tickets that's according to ticketing technology company logitics and there is still more history Within Reach for Caitlyn Clark she has 90 points away from surpassing Pete maravich's longtime scoring record that's among all division one basketball players men and women and Iowa still has four regular season games left plus the conference tournament and the NCAA tournament so she h
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red in the Kansas City shooting and the wild new floor coming to the NBA these stories and More in tonight's [Music] rundown Senator Joe Mansion the Democrat from West Virginia announced he will not launch a 2024 bid for the White House as an independent Mansion announced last year that he would not seek reelection for his senate seat fueling speculation over whether he planned to mount a third-party White House bill did but today he said the system is not set up for a third party candidate I ju
st don't think it's the right time instead Mansion said he will focus his efforts on his daughter's super pack called Americans together Seattle Police have arrested a 12-year-old in 13-year-old boy after they stole a car from a woman at gunpoint tried to steal a car from a man at gunpoint and then LED officers on a chase before trying to run away he's got to G dramatic video shows officers tracking down the two boys both armed and arresting them get on the ground the two are charged with robber
y and unlawful possession of a firearm the 13-year-old is also charged with attempting to elude a police vehicle authorities say two people have been found shot dead in a dorm room at the University of Colorado the case is being treated as an isolated incident and there's no ongoing threat to the community according to police while the campus lockdown has been lifted classes are cancelled for the rest of the day Kansas City Chief's quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife Britney visited kids in
jured by Wednesday's shooting at the Kansas City Chief's parade they were pictured with Children of the reyes's family whose eight and 10-year-old daughters were both shot in the leg in a statement the family said the girls are making good progress two juveniles were charged in Wednesday shooting that left one dead and 22 injured this is happening at MetLife Stadium it's typically home to the New York Jets the Giants often Michael Strahan but this weekend it's hosting outdoor hockey so we have a
time lapse here MetLife conver from a football field into an ice ring they're going to be expecting 140,000 fans over two days first the New Jersey Devils hosting the Philadelphia Flyers at 8:00 Saturday night you can watch it on ABC and then Sunday the New York Rangers play the New York Islanders at 3:00 p.m. that's also on ABC those attending and playing during the NBA's All-Star Weekend are in for a surprise a state-of-the-art LED Court is set to make its debut at Lucas Oil Stadium tonight t
he court is made of two layers of laminated safety glass is expected to feel the same as a regular Court when players are using it the NBA says the immersive Sports floor is designed to enhance The Fan Experience in Arena and on broadcast through its interactive displays tonight on 2020 John kones reports on a young African-American husband father and Soldier who's murdered while home for the holidays never beeseen interrogation tapes and extensive police body camera footage reveal a twisted Tal
e Of Heartache and greed here's a clip of how this father remembers his son it was bad like the news spread it fast everybody was crying and screaming and falling everywhere um why is it important to you to talk about it what do you want people to know about this story well I feel like I owe it to my son he made me a proud father he just did everything that he needed to do and so successful I feel like I want everybody to know about so I won't ever stop talking about and it's tough being good in
in these communities sometimes yeah when you come from where we come from you just don't have a child that that succeeds um to that level it's exceptional that def our thanks to John kones next tonight we want to talk about Ai and every day there seems to be some kind of new artificial intelligence headline so we're going to take a look back at what happened for the entire week and we want to welcome in ABC's senior reporter Emanuel CBA Emanuel thanks so much for being here of course we're talk
ing big picture here first not necessarily the technological advancement but the fact that 20 of these leading companies have signed this pledge that they're going to prevent deceptive AI from interfering with the the upcoming election or other elections happening around the world broadly what does that mean and how is it possible so that was a huge announcement of these companies meta Google X Tik Tok all came together and said we're going to work to prevent deceptive AI from interfering in our
elections because globally this year 4 billion people in uh 40 countries around the world are expected to vote and AI is going to play a really big role Ro potentially in swaying some of those votes and so they've decided to take action to make eight commitments to from everywhere from labeling to working on detecting this content online um to developing new technology and uh working together to prevent the this deceptive this deceptive content for impacting our elections and this is only elect
ion specific it's not General to artificial intelligence content and other decep information not election related which could still be its own thing and there was I saw this on my Twitter or my X feed the other day this new development from I believe open AI of text to video yes let's just start with what is it and how does it work it's very similar to text to image essentially it's using a verbal cue or text prompt to ask these generative AI tools to create a piece of video um open AI unveiled
their um tool called sora it's not publicly available right now but they wanted to show what capacity it had to create um incredibly realistic video um but open AI isn't the only tool out there there are others Runway uh pabs have been working on these text to video tools for months and experts are concerned about you know the risks involved with releasing that kind of technology in the wild uh I think everyone is marveling at how fast these things can develop are we keeping up with the ability
to detect that it's fake it's a c and mouse game because with every new model the detection tool has to re be retrained to detect it but there are efforts like these 20 companies coming together and another Coalition of companies that are creating um metadata files that you can attach to these videos and to these images and label them as AI generated contest and as it travels through the internet whether it's on X on meta on your phone that that information is going to be on that image so that i
f a platform decides hey I want the user to know they can do that they can let us know that this is an AI gen kind of like a serial number for a gun it's like a digital yeah or like a digital digital nutrition label it would have all of the information listed of who created it how um if it was altered so really right now we're seeing a push for companies and Publishers to make that information available gotcha we can certainly understand why I have a million followup questions but we'll save it
for another weekly Round Up Emanuel CA thanks so much for being here thank you and finally tonight it's Friday night so how about we close out with a little pop music a little bit of glitter a little bit of guts we're talking with singer songwriter Chapel ran who is being called Pop's next big thing she's also being called an absolute favorite by Elton John and a lot of it is because of the success of her first studio album the rise and fall of a Midwest princess it features some extremely catch
y singles like red wine Supernova take a listen [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's a jam pop Powerhouse Chapel Ron thanks so much for being here thank you wonderful to meet you thank you you too uh one of my favorite things to do at the end of every year is read the best of lists of albums and songs and you could not find one that did not have that song on it thank you that was crazy yeah I'm sure I me that's just my first question with all of the success and the pr I mentioned the Elton John prais
e there's no better endorsement how does it feel riding the wave right now I feel very prepared I've been doing this for a decade yeah um I've been through like a major label deal already and dropped and then another major label deal so I think if this were to happen when I was hoping it would happen when I was like 17 I wouldn't be able to enjoy it so I'm really to enjoy it because I feel ready you were discovered from YouTube first got that deal 17 move out to LA and then it falls through you
go back to Missouri yeah I I don't think a lot of people would say they feel prepared when they finally hit the kind of success that you have in 2020 I ran out of money like everybody did and I was a barista working the drive-thru back in Missouri and um yeah I just it was it was either give it one more shot or maybe go to school to be a biologist or something right which would have been great which would have been awesome yes can you tell us a little bit about them maybe some of your favorites
oh well I just started doing themes because I love dressing up I want any excuse to dress up and I love dressing up for concerts so all of my themes for my concerts go along with my songs and I have like Pink Pony Club is pink cowgirl themed we've got casual we've got super graphic ultramodern girl which is one of my songs and it's like alien girly um we have naked Manhattan um which is slumber party it seems like a a an incredibly supportive Community also like super positive everybody's having
a great time lifting each other up on top of your own Tour opening for Olivia Rodrigo at some of these gigantic stadiums around the country are you prepared for that you know what it's it's going to be fine that's all I'm saying in my head over and over again I've never played an arena I am so grateful to be able to do this um and I think once I do it once it'll be fine but it's scary to think about 20,000 people everyone says that has played an arena that um you can't see past the Thousand the
first thousand anyway so it doesn't really matter the album the rise and fall of a Midwest princess you're from Willard Missouri population about 6,000 I'm sure it's a wonderful place shout out to your grandmother s that watch Good Morning America today thank you Grandma uh I don't know that a ton of uh pop Superstars come out of Willard Missouri how do you feel like it shapes you and your songwriting I think that the pendulum swung I was I was so like scared and and just like so reserved and I
just wanted to be do everything right all the time and not ruffle any feathers and I think the second I left the pendulum swung so far that I was like oh no no no I'm out and proud and also I'm going to be a drag queen and also I'm going to say the raunchiest lyrics you've ever heard M um my grandmas like maybe aren't like stoked on that part but they like when I dress up listen it's a give and take you look I love where it came from because I have an incredible perspective on the Midwest which
I think a lot of people on the coasts kind of you know put all midwesterners in one type of category but there are drag queens there are people who are trans there are massive queer communities that are just kind of Hidden Away in these teeny tiny towns and I feel like that's who my real Community is and I feel like that's what the community feels like at the shows all the people who maybe aren't allowed to be out and proud all the time right and I know that you've done some shows specifically
designed to raise some money for some of those groups can you tell us a little bit about that yeah yeah yeah um so I did like a fundraiser for my hometown um one of the like queer Charities there but a portion of every ticket for my past tours has actually gone to um a New York City uh black Trans charity called for of quels and I just think it's important to give back to the queer Community they give everything to me um it's like it's my duty I feel like to give back to to the community hello a
gain to your grandmothers the album is the rise and fall of a Midwest princess you can listen to it anywhere you stream your music it's Chapel R thanks so much for being here on a Friday night and that is our show for tonight I'm Trevor alt ABC News live is here for you all night with the latest news context and Analysis and you can always find us on Hulu Roku Pluto TV the ABC News app and of course on abcnews.com have a great night and a great weekend [Music] why do so many people start their d
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