plans for mobile clinics and a grassroots effort to help women get abortion drugs. plus, growing questions about what the supreme court could do about things like same-sex marriage and access to contraceptives. also tonight, president biden signing the first significant gun-safety law in nearly 30 years. what s in the bill and what s not. why the president says it will save lives, as the last of the victims of the uvalde school massacre is laid to rest. the deadly attack in norway. why officials are raising the terror alert after a gunman opens fire just ahead of pride celebrations. murder confession revealed. in a case that gripped the nation, brian laundrie s chilling eight-page letter, claiming he ended the life of his girlfriend, gabby petito. why he called it a mercy killing. powerful rockets from the u.s. arrive in ukraine. with their longer range, will they make a difference? as ukrainian troops lose ground to russian forces. plus, president biden arrives in eu
so-called, trigger laws. and the next 30 days or so sick states would similar laws on the books are likely to join them. and within the coming weeks and months, six more states are expected to issue new bans on all or most abortions. meanwhile, abortion will remain legal and protected in 20 other states and washington d.c.. that means abortion access is pretty much decided in 40 states. that leaves us with ten states. shown in the gray on this map. they represent tens of millions of americans literally living in a gray area. in those states access to a safe and legal abortion will likely hang in the balance based on a few external factors like which political party gains control in the midterm elections. that is the case in michigan. which is not a law that criminalized abortion back in 1931. that law was superseded by roe in 1973. now michigan s governor, gretchen whitmer, has promised to quote fight like hell to prevent it from going back into place. here she is speaking ex
american women s constitutional right to abortion. justice samuel alito pending the majority opinion, joined by four other conservative justices, held that, quote, the constitution does not compare a right to abortion. roe and casey are overturned. even chief justice roberts dissented from overturning roe, saying that the court was going too far. however, he decided with the conservatives on the case at hand, upholding mississippi 15 -week abortion ban. of course, overturning roe would have an immediate impact on women across the country, particularly in 13 states with so-called trigger laws. those states have already banned abortion or will in the coming days and weeks. the institute estimates that in total, 26 states are certain or at the very least, quite likely, to ban abortions. the nationwide reaction has been immediate. thousands have gathered and and cities and towns across the country to protests. this was the scene outside the supreme court today. here is what it wa
in these mountains, people and boomers just don t get along. this man alone has killed dozens of them. and today, he has one more in his sights. [speaking spanish] . at the ends of the earth is a land of extremes. home to spectacular wildlife. for centuries, people and animals have battle for supremacy. now, enemies are becoming allies . together, they face new challenges in our rapidly changing world. you are at the mercy of the elements. this is a story of what it takes to survive on the edge of the world. patagonia, one of the world s last great wildernesses. it stretches for more than 1000 miles all the way down to the southern most tip of south america. towering above the region are the andes mountains, dividing chile from argentina. we are headed on an epic journey up through patagonia s wild high lands. from its foothills to its volcanic plateaus all the way up to its high ice fields. our journey begins on the grasslands of the patagonian steppe. at 1500 feet
jacking up interest rates, raising bar owing costs. on thursday our first look at u.s. economic growth for the second quarter, another decline in gdp is expected. of course, two quarters of a loss in a row is a sign of a recession, so are we head there had? here is the treasury secretary. the labor market is now extremely strong. we are in a period of transition in which growth is slowly. we re likely to see some slowing of job creation, but i do i don t think that that s a recession. a recession is broad-based weakness in the economy. we re not seeing that now. we re not seeing that now, but here is this from someone who used to have that job, the former treasury secretary larry somers. i think there is a very high likelihood of recession when we ve been in in kind of situation before. recession has essentially always followed when inflation has been high and unemployment has been low. soft landings represent a kind of triumph of hope over experience, i think we re v