is cnn breaking news. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight. we do have breaking news, the supreme court making a major ruling tonight one that many across the united states were waiting anxiously to hear the court ruling just hours before a midnight deadline. right? so we re on a friday night here. seven o clock eastern, just this ruling coming out their ruling that are widely used abortion drug. kristen will remain available for now. okay so here s the crucial context here. it was just two weeks ago that a trump appointed federal judge suspended the medications approval by the fda. so an appeals court then decided to impose restrictions on the drug that included blocking mail delivery requiring a doctor visit to get it determining what point during a pregnancy. the drug could be used all of this. so it goes to the supreme court, which is now weighed in which is stopping those lower court rulings from taking place. now here s the key, at least until the appeals pr
there were some people here and elsewhere who genuinely supported russia. that s not really the case anymore. women s rights marches take place across the us, marking the 50th anniversary of the roe v wade case, which was overturned last year. a public memorial takes place for the singer lisa marie presley at her father s graceland mansion in tennessee, ten days after her death at the age of 5a. and no wipe out here! it looks like a french surfer has set a new record in california, for the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman. let s start with developing news and within the last hour police in california say the main suspect in saturday s mass shooting has shot himself dead after being tracked down to a van he was travelling in. 10 people were killed and 10 others injured in the attack during lunar new year in monteray park, around 11 kilometres east of los angeles city centre. at a news conference the la county sheriff, robert luna, gave more information about the suspect. th
luckily it didn t get worse than that. police say this followed verbal confrontations against protesters and a driver. in phoenix, a crowd of abortion rights protesters surrounded the state law building, tear gas was used to disperse the crowd. as of today, 13 states have trigger laws banning abortions in light of the ruling. some gomboldened house republicans want to push a ban on abortion at 15 weeks nationwide. leaders around the world are blasting the supreme court s decision, calling it a huge blow to women s rights and gender equality. cnn has a team covering today s protests. polo sandoval is in fnew york. but we begin with joe johns, outside the supreme court. joe? reporter: jim, we have certainly seen this crowd growing over the last several hours. it has been peaceful but it has been confrontational. when i worked up i saw people on either side of this issue essentially yelling and cursing at each other but it has not gone physical. there s a lot of anger here.
jones now has to pay the parents of a sandy hook school shooting victim more than $4 million for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a ten-year period. now, of course, this does fall way short of $150 million they did ask for in compensatory damages sought by little jessie lewis parents, a number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims of the hoax spewed by jones and the baseless arguments that the newtown s grieving parents were actors. the number also factored in the emotional and mental anguish those parents suffered and continue to suffer today for years of harassment by jones and his followers. he finally acknowledged what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words after what ten years, 100% real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom, not in texas, because jones legal battles are actually far from
that believe the false claims of a hoax, spewed by jones in his absolute basis argument that the newtown parents were actors. the number also factored into the emotional and mental anguish that the parents suffered, there i say continue to suffer from the day four years of harassment from jones and his followers. a seemingly last-ditch effort to try to save himself, including finally acknowledging what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words, after ten years, 100 percent real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom in texas, because his legal battles are actually far from over. the compensatory damages are supposed to make you hole in some way, bring you back this where you are before this all happened, well punitive damages, they are meant to punish. tomorrow, that same jury will begin considering just how much to financially punish alex jones. the judge said no to his claim for a mistrial