of brittney griner. right now president biden is overseas for the g7 conference where he s meeting with alies on the global economy and ukraine. we ll have live reports from austria an kyiv. congressman castro of texas will talk about it. any moment now the u.s. supreme court could issue rulings in big cases. eight states have now complete bans on abortion. seven others have trigger laws that would take effect soon. several other states are enacting tough new restrictions. other states are seeking to expand access to abortion. this morning, we have a new look into how americans feel about abortion rights. a new npr and pbs news hour poll finds that 40% of americans support the decision to overturn roe wade while 56% are against it. a new cbs poll finds that 52% of all americans believe overturning roe versus wade is a step back ward for the united states and since the ruling came down, a number of companies have publicly said they will cover travel expenses for employees wh
and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn t have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn t have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. let s bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every single thi
egregiously wrong and deeply damaging. the three liberal justices dissenting, warning the ruling will lead to the curtailment of women s rights and of their status as free and equal citizens. on capitol hill, the reaction was swift. disgraceful. disgraceful judgment. it s absolutely a major issue on the ballot. largest governmental overreach in the history of our lifetime. kevin mccarthy told cnn he supports codifying a 15-week abortion ban at the national level. the supreme court upheld mississippi s 15-week ban in its ruling overturning roe. with the support of chief justice john roberts, who opposed overturning roe entirely. the right to life has been vindicated. the voiceless will finally have a voice. congressional democrats left with little recourse, given they lack 60 votes in the senate to overcome a gop filibuster. the senator from my state, the senator from west virginia, if you say you re for women, then do not use an old law that was not even, again,
the first covid vaccination given to children under five, what parents need to know the iconic art museum giving its own employees a chance to shine announcer: this is “nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. americans determined to stay on the move this holiday weekend despite inflation headwinds finding frustration at every turn to yet another holiday marred by airlin schedule meltdowns and stubbornly high prices at the pump. but tonigh relief may be on the horizon for drivers. president biden enjoying his own getaway in delawar revealed he may call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax perhaps before july 4th. a gas tax holiday if you will would knock 18 cents off the price of a gallon of gas which remains just under $5 but such a move has its risks americans paying high airfares and finding no relief from airport chaos and ruined vacations we ll get to that in a moment first, kelly o donnell on lowering the cost of driving reporter: the great getaw
incest, it does not matter. it is the same in kentucky, the same in south dakota and it will be the same in just a few weeks for other states on your screen right now. arkansas, i d how, missouri, north dakota, tennessee, utah and wyoming. reaction has been pouring in from lawmakers from reproductive rights campaigners. but i want to take you to a few women and listen to what they say. american women who say their country has turned its back on them. this is insane. i m going over to the other side, especially i wanted to yell at the people there. how? it feels like a betrayal. it feels like my country doesn t love he and appreciate my body as a woman. i can t even i can t even chant because i can t say anything. it just it hurts. i m worried for the young women who are on opposition who don t understand how at risk their lives may be. polling showed the majority of americans did not want the country to overturn the court to overturn roe v. wade. but majority