ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - March 4, 2024

tonight the Supreme Court weighs in on Donald Trump the unanimous decision the nation's highest court deciding Colorado cannot keep Trump off the ballot saying this is not up to the states Terry Moran live at the Supreme Court the new winter storm warnings at this hour after more than 10 ft of snow in some places and a recording of wind gusts 190 mph the new storm Now set to hit tonight and where it's headed Faith abou in the storm Zone tonight the images hear the major fires burning about 500 h

omes now gone families with no place to go B via Rial in Texas it's been nearly 10 years the jet that vanished Without a Trace tonight the new turn families hoping for answers Donald Trump's former CFO Alan weiselberg pleading guilty to perjury headed back to Riker now to serve time again tonight the Massachusetts Air National Guard member pleading guilty to leaking classified documents sentenced to 16 years in prison tonight the B Administration increasing the pressure for an immediate ceasefir

e in Gaza what vice president kamla Harris said today meeting with Benjamin netanyahu's rival in the US the first over-the-counter birth control pill sold without a prescription college basketball Superstar Caitlyn Clark making history you'll see the moment now beating the alltime men scoring record too and the tearful goodbye today from beloved Philadelphia Eagle star Jason Kelce breaking down in tears what he said about retiring from football that famous moment cheering on his brother Travis a

nd what he said about Philadelphia from ABC News world headquarters in New York this is World News Tonight with David mure good evening and it's great to start another week with all of you at home we do begin tonight with this historic ruling by the Supreme Court deciding Colorado's highest court cannot take Donald Trump off the ballot in a unanimous decision that justices fighting individual states cannot invoke the 14th Amendment to keep Trump off the ballot delivering blows to at least three

states Colorado Illinois and Maine the court saying it's up to Congress Trump celebrating today's Victory praising the court for working hard and quickly in his words but the court is not done weighing in on key issues that will affect the race for president in just a few weeks they will hear arguments over former president Trump's claim of absolute immunity in the federal election interference case against him in today's ruling the justice is not discussing whether Trump took part in an Insurre

ction on January 6th and while the decision was unanimous some of the justices made their differences clear ABC's Terry Moran who covers the Supreme Court leading us off tonight for the Supreme Court a rare moment of unanimity all nine justices so often divided in major cases declaring as one that individual states cannot ban Donald Trump from the presidential ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the Constitution's 14th Amendment the court did not address the issue of whether Trump actually e

ngaged in Insurrection but declared that the responsibility for enforcing that section of the Constitution rests with Congress and not the states they worked long they worked hard and frankly they worked very quickly on something that will be spoken about a 100 years from now and 200 years from now extremely important courts in three states Colorado Maine and Illinois have ruled that Trump should be banned from the ballot because of his actions on January 6th and in the weeks before under the 14

th amendment's command that no one who has taken an oath to support the Constitution and then engaged in Insurrection can hold public office afterwards during oral arguments last month liberals and conservatives on the court voiced sharp skepticism of what Colorado did I think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States today the justi has pointed to the potential disruption that could happen if some states disqual

ified Trump and some did not all using different standards and procedures to disqualify insurrectionist candidates the Court ruled Congress must first pass a law spelling out how but the Court's three liberal justices in a concurring opinion said that goes too far by saying only new legislation can address the issue the conservatives the Liberals wrote are attempting to Shield the court itself and Donald Trump from future controver y adding sharply the majority attempts to insulate all alleged i

nsurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office J as Amy Cony Barrett also wrote separately agreeing with the Liberals that the majority went too far but urging her colleagues to turn the national temperature down not up our differences are far less important than our unanimity Barrett wrote all non justices agree on the outcome of this case that is the message all Americans should take home so let's get right to Terry Moran's life at the court for us and Terry this unanim

ous ruling today Justice Amy Cony Barrett as you just reported there suggested that the Supreme Court turned the national temperature down but that might be impossible because the nation's highest court is now preparing to hear another case with potentially major consequences here in the race for president of course Donald Trump appealed that lower court decision that Court saying Donald Trump does not have absolute immunity in this federal election interference January 6th case the Supreme Cour

t now agreeing to take up Trump's appeal and to decide on presidential immun which is Major that's right really big David and that case is now set for argument at the end of April so expected decision in late May or June and as all these cases grind on tomorrow is super Tuesday voters going to the poll in 15 states and Donald Trump remains on the ballot in everyone Terry Moran leading us off tonight Terry thank you we should note as Terry mentions ABC News will have live coverage of super Tuesda

y tomorrow night 15 states voting but a much different year of course where this race stands stand and if it is in fact President Biden facing off against Donald Trump where this race stands right now in the Battlegrounds what would happen if the election were now what about these court cases will they play out before the election we're going to try to answer all of your questions including tomorrow night's results and any surprises tomorrow night 10 p.m. Eastern right here on ABC again thanks T

erry we move on to the other news tonight and this new winter storm brewing winter storm warnings up already at this hour several States will get hit and take a look at this it comes after heavy snow across multiple States within 10 ft of snow falling in parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains and a recording of wind gusts 190 mph snow blocking Mountain Roads stranding drivers in fact for hours Interstate 80 closed for days we have just learned it has reopened and now this new storm set to hit ABC'

s faith abouet in the storm Zone again tonight for us tonight after enduring multiple days of blizzard conditions communities in the Sierra Nevada mountains now bracing for another winter storm more than 10 ft of snow in some areas already one Lake Taho ski resort reporing a wind gust of 190 mph during the storm's height the blizzard shutting down more than 70 M of Interstate 80 for days we were with California Highway Patrol Sergeant Eric ster this weekend as he checked on stranded drivers you

want me to give you a little nudge watch as he uses his Cruiser to push this car out of that snow bank we should be out of there in the bling snow and wind over donor Summit Friday night First Responders going vehicle to vehicle rescuing more than 200 drivers including a mother and her newborn baby we end up getting her car jump started but realized she still doesn't have enough fuel so at that point we just elected to have transport her and the baby off of the mountain down to a warming Center

The crucial Interstate finally reopening today and David winter storm warnings remain in effect for parts of Northern California until early Wednesday as amilies and communities continue to dig out from this storm several additional feet of snow forecast for some areas as the system moves from California to Colorado David all right Faith you've been a really good sport about this night after night in the storm for us and we appreciate it meantime tonight the harrowing images coming in the deadly

fires burning across the Texas Panhandle tonight about 500 homes are now gone families left with no place to go more than a million Acres now destroyed ABC's B vial in Texas tonight tonight a new Wildfire triggering the evacuation of another town in the Texas Panhandle as firefighters rised to contain the largest fire in State history that has killed two people and destroyed hundreds of homes officials temporarily evacuating Sanford Texas Sunday Crews battling wind fueled Flames from the ground

and in the air five wildfires scorching more than 1 million Acres hitting cattle ranchers hard so far today Jay mesnard owns The Bait Shack in Fr Texas helping coordinate hay donations from around the state authorities estimating thousands of cattle have been killed potentially impacting the nation's beef Supply and those cows need to eat over a million acres has burned there is no grass on the ground for them to eat so hay is of dire importance if you don't get the hay to the livestock what ha

ppens here the meat market and tonight word of the first lawsuit a woman suing power company Excel saying a wooden pole Excel failed to properly inspect snapped off at its base adding powered utility lines hit the ground igniting a fire Excel responding to that lawsuit saying they are working to support the Panhandle adding there has been no official determination of cause or causes for the fires and investigations are ongoing and tonight back in Fr the community rallying to help those strugglin

g this is our town this is where we live these are the people that we bump shoulders with every day if we don't stick together as a town who's going to do it David firefighters are trying to take advantage of the temperatures here in the Panhandle we've got cooler temperatures and light winds through Wednesday and we're also looking at a chance of rain later on during the week David let's hope it helps Maria thank you in New York City tonight Donald Trump's former CFO Alan weiselberg pleading gu

ilty to Pur y he now heads back to Rikers to serve time again here's Aaron kki for almost 50 years Alan weiselberg was a trusted Lieutenant of the Trump family tonight for a second time that loyalty is sending him to jail weiselberg pleaded guilty to perjury admitting he lied during the New York attorney general's investigation and trial of his former boss the 76-year-old weiselberg came to court today in handcuffs he was released until April 10th when he'll be sentenced to 5 months in jail how

do you feel weiselberg has already served time for evading taxes on benefits he received as Chief Financial Officer of the Trump organization this time he lied about his role in affirming the size of Trump's Fifth Avenue Penthouse Trump's financial statement said it's 30,000 square ft but the Attorney General showed Trump's signature on a document certifying it's a third that size 11,000 square ft that false valuation is part of the reason Trump was held liable for fraud and ordered to pay a nea

rly half billion dollar civil penalty weiselberg did not implicate Trump he left the Trump organization last year with a $2 million Severance the Trump campaign said weiselberg fell victim to a crusade of vindictive and oppressive pressure by the Manhattan District Attorney's office but David prosecutor said it is a crime to lie in depositions or a trial plain and simple David Eric pki Aaron thank you tonight the Massachusetts a National Guard member who pleaded guilty to leaking classified docu

ments has been sentenced to is 16 years in prison in a deal with prosecutors Jack tuxera admitting to illegally collecting and posting classified material online including detailed information about the war in Ukraine he did smile at his father before being led out of that courtroom today it's been nearly 10 years since The Disappearance of that passenger jet MH370 the jet Vanishing Without a Trace 239 people on board tonight an American company now says it wants to launch a new operation to fin

d it here's Gio Bonz nearly 10 years after Malaysia Airlines flight 370 mysteriously vanished from radar and plunged into the Indian Ocean some of the victim's families hope they could finally get answers it's what we wanted to hear and we hoped for that for a very long time the Malaysian government says it may relaunch the search for the wreckage after a proposal from the American seabed exploration company ocean Infinity if they're compelling case evidence that need to be reopened we will cert

ainly be happy to reopen m 370 took off from koala lur with 239 people on board but the plane made a u-turn and disappeared pieces of wreckage later washed up on Reunion Island and off Tanzania but despite the biggest search in aviation history the crash site was never found ocean Infiniti last searched in 2018 this private company has information that they think has refined the search area and they think that it's worth going back out and looking in this new area which was not explored before w

e don't know what that information is we don't know if it's legitimate information they will probably only tell the Malaysian government and David we still don't know what caused the crash but a leading theory is that it was the intentional Act of a pilot or someone else on board David hard to believe it's been 10 years Gio thank you tonight the bid Administration increasing the pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza but vice president kamla Harris said today meeting with Benjamin

netanyahu's rival here's Tom Sufi Burge in Israel tonight amid growing desperation in Gaza the US stepping up calls for a ceasefire vice president Cara Harris meeting with a member of Israel's war cabinet with a pointed message time is running out to free more hostages calling on herass to accept the terms of an immediate 6- week ceasefire the deadline is the end of this week we're in a window of time right now where we can actually get a hostage deal done we all want this conflict to end as so

on as possible and how it does matters the push for a deal comes as the UN sets out clear and convincing evidence of sexual violence by Hamas militants during the October 7th attack in a new report the UN calling for a full investigation saying hostages in Gaza were also sexually assaulted the findings released while the US Egypt and katar tell Israel it must allow more Aid into to the strip the US airdropping 38,000 ready to eat meals into Gaza this weekend but the UN warning half a million peo

ple are on the brink of famine one Gaza Hospital saying 16 children have now died because of malnutrition with UNICEF warning that number could quickly spiral we are seeing children die because of malnutrition because of dehydration and we will see those numbers Skyrocket without a ceasefire and David Israel not sending its negotiating team to Egypt for the latest round of talks so no sign of a breakthrough The Unofficial deadline the start of Ramadan is in just five days time David Tom Sufi Bur

ge in Tel Aviv Tom thanks when we come back here the new over-the-counter birth control pill here in the US also Jason Kel's very emotional goodbye today and traffic coming to a halt on an American Highway look at this a few police sources apparently had a mind of their own in a moment next tonight the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the US op pill will be sold Ates across the country in weeks it'll be available without a prescription an historic move to protect abortion rights in F

rance lawmakers there overwhelmingly approving a measure making abortion access a constitutionally protected right in that country president Emanuel macron had promised this after the US Supreme Court overturned roie Wade when we come back the horse is halting traffic on that Highway Caitlyn Clark beats the men too and Jason Kelce in that tearful goodbye today the index in the police hes halting traffic on I90 in Cleveland look at this Galloping against traffic for a Time weaving between Vehicle

s as well they got loose from their stables and headed straight for I90 officers eventually rounding them up and Iowa's Caitlyn Clark beating the men's record now too this for college basketball history it was something this was the shot that did it her last college home game she already beat the women's record of course for scoring now she's beaten the men's record just going pro when we come back tonight football star Jason Kelce and his very tearful goodbye today finally tonight here Philadel

phia Eagle star Jason Kelce struggling to find the words to say goodbye he is the star Philadelphia Eagles Center great job Jason kelon considered by some to be one of the greatest centers in NFL history Jason Kelce tonight here his emotional announcement that he is retiring I announce that I am retiring where I announce I'm retiring from the NFL after 13 Seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles the onetime Super Bowl champ coming before the cameras today wiping away tears I have been the underdog m

y entire career and I mean this when I say it I wish I still was few things gave me more joy than proving someone wrong thanking his team his coaches who believed in him even those early in his career I heard trade rumors Galore and speculation I'd be cut I imagine if the Eagles had received a trade offer for a brand new set of washing machines they may have pulled the trigger hell if I was in charge I would have pulled the trigger his parents his brother Kansas City chief star player Travis Kel

i right there sitting in the front row I like to think I got my toughness aggression and lunch paale mentality from my father and from my mother I learned the all too important lesson of never of never letting anyone tell you what you can't do the brothers facing off at the Super Bowl back in 2023 and of course that moment just this past season Jason cheering on Travis at the AFC playoff game against the Buffalo Bills there's his brothers right on there is no chance I'd be here without the bond

Travis and I share it made me stronger tougher smarter and taught me the values of cooperation loyalty patience and understanding tonight Jason Kelce saying farewell to the fans and to his second home Philadelphia where he played all 13 Seasons it has always been a goal of mine to play my whole career in one City and I couldn't have dreamt a better one and a better fit if I tried what a great story for all the underdogs out there what a day I'll see you tomorrow good night thank you for making W

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