tonight the pressure campaign for Nikki Haley to quit after another convincing win from Donald Trump this time in her home state after a 20-point win for the former president South Carolina Republican leaders say it's time to unite the party but Haley is vowing to press on saying she's a woman of her word but is there any path to Victory our exit poll shows broad support for Trump among voters last night even if he's convicted of crimes but he does face a money crunch only made worse by mounting
civil penalties Alex pet on the campaign Trail also tonight the Biden White House weighs its options after Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryo should be considered children what this means for the future of the IVF the Bold promise from Ukraine's president stating we will win as the war enters its third year with Russian forces advancing in the East the ukrainians are now pleading for more aid from the US claiming the next month is crucial our James Longman right alongside president
zalinski asked asking if he's lost faith in America a Kentucky college student dead another student now under arrest accused of killing him the latest in a series of Campus murders Nationwide vigils for next Benedict the non-binary student who died after an altercation at school new video from inside the school building and from the hospital as well as their mother's painful call to 911 we now know the cause of a deadly fire in New York City one person killed more than a dozen injured the dramat
ic rescues by firefighters new calls to end cord storming after a star Duke basketball player is injured by the college campus tradition important news for anyone looking to buy a home is the housing market coming back and is now the time to buy and on the edge of History the Umpire ready for the majors and the figure skaters who become an inspiration on the ice from ABC News world headquarters in New York this is World News Tonight good evening everyone thanks so much for joining us on this Sun
day I'm lindsy Davis one day after Donald Trump trouts Nikki Haley in her home state the former South Carolina governor is pledging to stay in the race at least through super Tuesday while the Republican winner in South Carolina has historically gone on to become the party's nominee in all but one primary since 1980 Haley remains defiant telling supporters it's not the end of our story but there is growing pressure for her to step aside in former president Trump's victory speech he said he'd nev
er seen the Republican party so unified and did not mention Haley by name Trump now appears set to lock in enough delegates for the Republican nomination and his looming legal Wes did not deter South Carolina Republican primary voters in fact 61% of those surveyed said they would consider Trump fit to be president even if he was convicted of a crime so why is Haley still hanging on ABC's Alex pet leads us off tonight from the campaign Trail tonight Donald Trump barreling into Tuesday's Michigan
primary Fresh Off a 20-point victory in South Carolina now there's a spirit that I have never seen he's now the first non-incumbent Republican presidential candidate to sweep Iowa New Hampshire and South Carolina I have never seen the Republican party so unified as it is right now I said earlier this week that no matter what happens in South Carolina I would continue to run for president Nikki Haley vowing to continue on at least until super Tuesday a defeat in the state she once governed is a b
low she lost by a wider margin than in New Hampshire her path forwards narrowing and she's facing increasing pressure to drop out the Republican party chair here saying we need to unite our party and put Donald Trump back in the White House in 10 days 20 plus States and territories are going to vote let them vote America doesn't do coronations and the Trump campaign is motoring into Michigan burning through cash year in disclosures showing his political fundraising committees spent more than 50
million on legal fees related to the former president in 2023 exit polling from South Carolina showing more than 60% of Republican surveyed would see him fit to be president even if you were convicted of a crime Trump campaigning over the weekend saying these investigations have gained him support in the black community we've all seen the mugshot and you know who embraced it more than anybody else the black population it's incredible those comments drawing Swift backlash over the weekend from Ha
ley and many others Alex B joins us now from Charleston South Carolina Alex many are asking why Haley is remaining in this race when the cards are clearly stacked against her well Lindsay one of the big reasons is that Nikki Haley still has quite a bit of campaign funding she's got big adbis through super Tuesday now Nikki Haley was able to pick up three delegates here in South Carolina but the fact remains that her path towards a nomination is increasingly narrow and looking ahead to Michigan t
hat primary she's already down some 60 points in the polls Lindsay Alex pet for us in South Carolina Alex thank you and we turn now to a topic that is once again front and center on the campaign Trail Reproductive Rights President Biden is weighing possible responses to the Alabama Supreme Court's recent IVF ruling that declared Frozen embryos are people ABC's White House correspondent Mary Alis Parks joins us now Mary Alice officials say the president is limited here in what he can do yeah Lind
say in terms of new policy it is Poss posibly the administration can do something on the edges the White House team says that they are looking at potential executive actions but fundamentally they say that Congress needs to act to put back in place a nationwide right to reproductive care but it's hard to imagine this Congress getting laws like that passed despite public support at two years ago 195 Republicans voted against a bill to protect access to birth control and right now today there are
125 Republicans including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson who are signed onto one bill called the life at conception act that would protect life at all stages including the moment of fertilization so it really comes down to a political debate now and that is why Democrats are putting this case in Alabama front and center in their campaign messaging they are pointing to the fact that former president Trump pushed to get anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court and other anti-abortion judges
on federal benches Lindsay widespread implications here Mary Alice thank you overseas now Ukraine's president zalinski is vowing Victory against Russia even as Russian forces are gaining ground on the battlefield and Russia's intensifying its attacks overnight missiles and drones hit targets throughout the country these images coming in from Eastern Ukraine zinski is making an appeal to the West once again for more military aid and what he had to say specifically about the US ABC's James Longman
from Ukraine tonight as Russia's invasion of Ukraine now enters its third year Ukrainian President Vladimir zinski and his top security officials holding a major press conference in keev to Mark the anniversary vowing to win the war and disclosing Ukrainian casualty figures for the first time they claimed 31,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed since the War Began that's far lower than recent us estimates of around 70,000 zinski also saying Ukraine which is running low on weapons and ammunitio
n needs military aid from the US within a month that Aid currently held up in Congress after the event I press zinsky on whether that Aid will arrive Mr President can I say about aid from the US Congress are you worried about not getting it I think that the guys will will decide we make we'll make good decision for us very important a little bit a little bit hurry up for them yes have you lost faith in the US no no no no no no they are great people and I we I count on your people they will push
everybody so putting on a brave face but the war here is not going well he still thinks though that Aid will get through Congress it comes as Russia makes some of its most significant Battlefield gains in months officials Tau the Strategic city of advika in eastern Ukraine captured by Russian forces last week they're now pushing to secure nearby towns White House officials tell ABC's Martha RIT it's vital for Congress to approve that Aid package this is not about a shortage of will Martha this i
s about a shortage of bullets and if we can fill that shortage of bullets Ukraine will stand up Brave and courageous and take the fight the Russians over the last 2 years Ukraine has not wanted to comment on casualty figures preferring instead to project strength that President zinsky did so today is a sign perhaps of just how serious the situation here is Lindsay yeah changeing strategy there James thank you we turn now to a tragedy in rural Kentucky an 18-year-old campbellville University stud
ent is dead a 21-year-old student is now under arrest it's the third case of fatal violence on college campus in just the past two weeks here's ABC's Morgan Norwood tonight friends and family struggling to understand why 18-year-old Kentucky college student Josiah kilman was murdered allegedly by his schoolmate it's indescribably suffocating you know for this to happen to him from all people police arresting 21-year-old Charles escalera Saturday escalera now facing murder and burglary charges po
lice called to a campbellville University dorm room early Saturday where kilman was found unresponsive kilman takes into the hospital where he was pronounced dead kilman's longtime soccer coach remembering him as a role model it was such an exceptional human being that shined of a really bright light authorities identifying escalera as the suspect releasing these surveillance images of him the campus placed on lockdown by evening police taking escalera into custody after getting a tip from a loc
al farmer he had located a male in his in his barn while he was feeding kilman's death is the latest deadly incident involving college students across the country within the past two weeks Nicholas Jordan facing murder and other charges in the shooting deaths of his roommate Samuel knpp and kno's friend cely rain Montgomery at the University of Colorado and Jose abara going before judge Saturday charged in the killing of Augusta University nursing student lakan Riley on the University of Georgia
campus in a statement Federal officials say iara is a citizen of Venezuela and was arrested in 2022 after unlawfully entering the US and Lindsay asked for the campbellville murder that suspect being held on a $2 million Bond police have not said how Josiah kilman died but that Community is grieving there's a hope and healing service being held on the University's campus tonight Lindsay our hearts certainly go out to them Morgan thank you vigils are being held tonight to remember a 16-year-old O
klahoma student who died one day after being attacked in a high school bathroom next Benedict identified as non-binary and was repeatedly bullied authorities are investigating the circumstances of the death but officials have said it was not a result of the attack more now from ABC's jacn Lee tonight vigils across the country to honor the non-binary teenager who died one day after getting into a fight with several students in Oklahoma sadness and anger are my main two emotions right now it's thi
s should not happen all children deserve to be loved and accepted and celebrated for who they are newly released surveillance video shows next Benedict walking into a bathroom at aaso high school a faculty member soon follows and the fight is broken up the school says it lasted less than 2 minutes okay so so they just up and decided to start messing with you there was there yeah because of the way that we dress police body camera shows Benedict lying in a hospital gney hours later the 16-year-ol
d telling an officer that a group of girls were making fun of them Benedict admits to then pouring water on them and things escalated they came at me they grabbed on my hair I grabbed on them I threw one of them into a paper towel dispenser and then they got my legs out from under me and got me on the ground started be the district says administrators took statements from students and assessed their health the school recommending one parent take their child to visit a medical facility parents al
so given the option to file police reports she's not doing good at all I need someone here now in a chilly 911 call the next day Benedict's mother demanding an ambulance my daughter I don't know what's going wrong she's posturing and her hands are in is she she is 16 okay she fell at school or that she got beat up at school yesterday I took her to the hospital last night aaso police saying in a statement that preliminary information from a complete autopsy performed by the medical examiner indic
ated that Benedict did not die as a result of trauma Lindsay the Benedict family says they're conducting their own independent investigation tonight at a local park in aasa there will be another vigil and tomorrow at Benedict's high school students plan on staging a peaceful walk out to stand up against bullying Lindsay Jacqueline thank you we're learning more details about that deadly fire here in New York one person died 17 others injured firefighters use ropes to rescue some residents trapped
on the upper floors officials say a lithium ion battery caused the blaze details now from ABC's Reena Roy firefighters making daring rope rescues a two alarm Blaze erupting in New York City's Harlem neighborhood Friday investigators revealing the cause this weekend saying a lithium ion battery is to blame there a ladder or rear fire shape for roof access you can see people trapped on the top floor of this apartment building calling for help there's a whole bunch of smoke everywhere you can see
all these people like waving out of the window and they were trying to escape Rescuers hoisting people out of Windows and carefully descending to safety we made our way up to the roof and showed them not to jump that we're coming down to rescue them the nyp Aviation unit guiding the delicate rescue efforts from above the figh fighters had to make re rope rescues which is something very unusual for us to do at one fire 18 people hurt five rushed to the hospital in critical condition tragically Fa
zil Khan dying from his injuries his employer posting We are devastated by the loss of such a great colleague and wonderful person and the FDNY is warning that lithium ion batteries are now a leading cause of fires and fire related deaths here in New York City Lindsay Reena thank you we'll get new home sales numbers from the government tomorrow anyone in the market for a home knows it's anything but a buyer's market across part of the country and that's shut out many prospective homeowners for t
he past several years but there are signs that's changing there's ABC's Alexis christopherus tonight home buyers enjoying something they haven't seen in years more homes to choose from as a drop in stubbornly high mortgage rates late last year can convince some homeowners to sell sales of existing homes Rising 3% in January with the most sales in the South and West more available homes could bring back buyers As Americans slowly get used to elevated mortgage rates this is not just a one Monon fl
ip it is something that we've seen for the last 3 months new housing data shows there are nearly 8% more homes for sale compared to a year ago still 40% below pre-pandemic levels so far at least supply and demand have balanced out in favor of Sellers and we've continued to see home prices go up mortgage rates have ticked up in recent weeks too but at 6.99% they're about a percentage point below their October Peak and experts warn it could be years before we get back to those three and 4% rates f
irsttime buyers edelina and Trevor bomgarden spent five months looking for a home in Seattle frustrated by low inventory and high prices I was definitely getting a little discouraged the first two offers we put in we lost out to uh all cash offers but in early January things started to change they're now the proud owners of a three-bedroom home we did have to go over asking price and I I believe we weren't the highest offer it seems like it is still pretty competitive persistently High inflation
fueling the recent rise in mortgage rates but we'll get more clues on the strength of a housing rebound tomorrow with fresh data on new home sales Lindsay Alexis thank you tonight calls for change after Duke star 7- Foot Center Kyle filipowski was injured after the blue Devil's upset loss to Wakeforest filipowski was knocked down by a Wake Forest fan storming the court injuring his knee in the Collision that he says was intentional the incident is renewing calls for on court safety Duke's coach
es demanding action last month Iowa star Caitlyn Clark was knocked down when Ohio State fans stormed the court after beating Clark's hawkey she was not hurt and there's still much more ahead here on World News Tonight this Sunday including a winter warm-up we'll show you where records could fall this week and why this could be the year a woman calls the balls and Strikes in the major leagues it will not feel like February in many parts of the country as we start the work week records could fall
with temperatures running 10 to 30 Dees above average from the plains to the east coast Dallas could see 90 Dees on Monday Chicago could get close to 70 on Tuesday temperatures could rise to the 60s and low 70s from DC to New York and when we come back the Umpire who just might break baseball's gender barrier to the index now this could be the year a female umpire gets to call a major league baseball game during the regular season Jen Powell who played softball with the US Women's team began wor
king spring training games this weekend the first woman to do so in 17 years she's expected to start start the season in the minors but could be called up to the majors history was made last night at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Lily Gladstone won for female actor in a leading role in the killer of the flower Moon she's the first indigenous actor to win in that category Oppenheimer won for outstanding cast and it leads the Academy Award nominations with 13 the Oscars are two weeks from tonight
on March 10th you can watch right here on ABC when we come back meet the skaters who become an inspiration on the ice finally tonight breaking the ice something special in the nation's capital let's come these skaters from Howard University gliding into history over the weekend as the first ever figure skating team from a historically black University in the country to ever participate in an interc Colgate skating competition I first started ice skating when I was seven co-founders Maya James a
nd Cheyenne walk ER worked tirelessly for months to get the team up and running to be able to see like our new members people who have never been on Ice before learning how to skate is the most exciting part of everything last October it all came together the team held its first practice at a skating ring 10 miles from campus at 500 a.m. sharing these behind the scenes views on their Instagram page how you feeling I'm feel good and here they are on the ice today our University B wowing fans at t
he blue hen Ice Classic in Delaware come on now blazing a trail on the ice and Beyond H making history thanks so much for watching I'm lindsy Davis good night thank you for making World News Tonight with David mure America's most watched newscast
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