good evening, everyone. great to have you with us. i m erica hill in tonight for alison camerata. welcome to cnn. tonight we have much more. on the biggest story of this night. the supreme court, of course, protecting access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower court rulings that restricted its usage. big victory for the biden administration. it is far from the end, though the ruling means the appeals process now will play out and it is almost guaranteed the case. will eventually land back before the justices. in the meantime, though, the fda approval of medford cristante stands as does current access plus turmoil in the nfl tonight, three players suspended indefinitely to others slapped with a six game ban. so what they do is the punishment fair. and it wouldn t be a friday night here without a news quiz. see, if you know more about what happened this week. they are distinguished panelists. here is my panel tonight. defense attorney mr maris. john avlon, our seni
so now here s what we know. the balloon is about 200 feet high, the pay load, which you saw suspended beneath it to gather intelligence was about the size of a jetliner. that debris, which is expected to include glass solar panels was spread out over the size of 15 football fields. may have included battery material, explosives that would detonate that vehicle. the pieces now on their way, some of them, to the fbi lab at quantico for analysis. so there s a lot of discussion about how this thing was brought down and whether or not it maximized our ability to understand what it was and what was in it. as i mentioned, we re watching the white house. the press briefing is john going. we re waiting for fresh answers about what happened up there, new reaction. china says there might be a further response merited for the united states from our taking this out of the sky over the weekend. today fox news spoke with the gentleman who disclosed that this was up there in the sky without
live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. residents in and around myrtle beach are told not to collect debris from a downed chinese spy bloochblt that comes as we are getting one of the best looks yet at the shootdown of the balloon. you re looking at the footage right now. our u.s. fighter jets fired a single missile to crash the craft. right now military crews are scrambling to recover the wreckage. most of it sitting in 47 feet of water. oren lieberman is at the pentagon for us. back to the video we just got from c infer n in the last several minutes just to highlight the clearest image yet that we have where you can see the balloon is popped, essentially, destroyed. you can clearly see what appears to know the surveillance equipment dropping very quickly into the atlantic ocean. i suppose that gives the military, the pentagon, some hope that what they are hoping to retrieve out of the atlantic is salvageable and may offer some clues as to what the chinese we
the economy and vowing to finish the job, with the debt limit battles loom looming, what are republicans going to do? then, mystery in the sky the white house says no aliens, but questions remain after the u.s. shot down three unknown objects. defense secretary lloyd austin is speaking to nbc about it. and in what is being called one of the most disturbing docuseries of the year, victims of the sarah lawrence cut cult tell their stories. there is the director joins me live, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news we re reporting from cnn says special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows. the subpoena is part of smith s investigation into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. cnn s report is according to a single source familiar with the matter. nbc has not independently confirmed any of it. it comes
finish the job, with the debt limit battles loom looming, what are republicans going to do? then, mystery in the sky the white house says no aliens, but questions remain after the u.s. shot down three unknown objects. defense secretary lloyd austin is speaking to nbc about it. and in what is being called one of the most disturbing docuseries of the year, victims of the sarah lawrence cut cult tell their stories. there is the director joins me live, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news we re reporting from cnn says special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows. the subpoena is part of smith s investigation into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. cnn s report is according to a single source familiar with the matter. nbc has not independently confirmed any of it. it comes just hours away from a cr