plus president biden meets with the saudi crown prince and says he did raise the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. now the crown prince is firing back. plus more than half the country is seeing high community spread of coronavirus. and now some cities are reconsidering mask mandates. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, july 16th. i m kristin fisher. i can t believe it s already july 16th. we re halfway through the month. it s flowna by. this whole year has flown by. i m boris sanchez. we start with new revelations, the january 6th committee digging into reports that the secret service deleted text messages sent the day before and during the insurrection. the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service yesterday after meeting with the inspector general of the department of homeland security. we should note this is the first time the committee has subpoenaed an agency in the executive branch. and earlier this week a gov
radical and said it s a slap in face to women eviscerating their right. what is happening at this hour? the courts ruling today means there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion in this country. that historic decision up ends 50 years of abortion rights. it immediately transformed the landscape of women s reproductive health and their choices in america. the court s ruling is very similar to that draft which was written and leaked last month. at issue is the mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy . reporter: it s identical to what the justice wrote in the draft we saw in may. this one not much different. what he said is roe v wade was wrong from the start. the decision has had damaging consequences and far from bringing a national settlement. it s inflamed debate and deepened division. what this opinion does, this ruling from a 5-4 supreme court eliminates the constitutional right to an abortion and now leaves the issue to indivi
one of the most consequential decisions in supreme court history was just handed down. the conservative majority of justices overturned roe vs. wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion. in a narrow 5-4 vote, the landmark decision reverses nearly 50 years of court precedent. this is sparking a range of emotions from victory celebrations to outrage. you see some vocal protesters gathering outside of the supreme court at this hour. president biden called the decision a, quote, tragic error. today, the supreme court of the united states expressly took away a constitutional right from the american people that had already recognized. they didn t limit it. they simply took it away. state laws banning abortion are automatically taking effect today, jeopardizing the health of millions of women, some without exceptions. so extreme that the women could be punished for protecting their health. so, the stunning decision now turns abortion rights over to the states, and the
entertainment industry and beyond. we have a powerhouse of folks here to help hash it all out with a new hour of american voices, live from pride begins now. we begin this hour honoring how far we have come in the 50 years since the stonewall riots here in this neighborhood. those riots opened the country s eyes to the demonization of gay people. it was at stonewall in 1969 that far goers refused to orders to leave their only safe haven in the city. the refusal led to them being beaten for a number of nights by police. spit upon by anti gay protesters. it was their bravery and belief and never sidelining their true selves that helped pave the way to the supreme court s ruling seven years ago. making same-sex marriage legal across all 50 states. it was that landmark case that fell on the right side of history. putting america on record as a country extending freedom even further, to love we love. but the question has quickly become for how long after the supreme court overtu
shield. there also appear to be at least two rifles there. that picture was taken at 11:52 a.m. that s just 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school. and 58 minutes before officers took him down. now, there s another picture obtained by the texas tribune this time that shows multiple officers armed with rifles there. ballistic shields, multiple shields. and axe-like tools. most of which the tribune reports were never deployed. now, we must note, we do not know at what point in the standoff this image was taken. but it does seem by these images that police were well equipped to storm the gunman. and this is raising new questions and understandably new anger about the police response by uvalde officers. we re also learning that some officers on the scene questioned the plan, as confusion delayed the breaching of the classrooms with kids still inside. rosa flores is live in san antonio this morning. rosa, with the new images that really just delve further in to w