health. osha has not traditionally mandated other vaccines for other hazards that could be pose a grave risk, some might say? the flu kills people every year. other grave diseases do, too. reporter: today, the court ruling 6-3, with liberal justices breyer, sotomayor and kagan dissenting, writing, in the face of a still-raging pandemic, this court tells the agency charged with protecting worker safety that it may not do so in all the workplaces needed. many republicans tonight are celebrating the court s decision to halt the mandate, but the president says he is disappointed that the supreme court has chosen to block common sense life-saving requirements for employees at large businesses that were grounded squarely in both science and the law. but in a victory for the white house, the court is allowing a vaccine mandate for workers at federally-funded health care facilities to continue, a move which impacts more than 17
building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. as long as we have tens of millions of people who will not get vaccinated, we are going to have full hospitals and needless deaths. dion: military doctors being deployed across the country to fight coronavirus as even ers right here in the bay area fill up. anchor 2: but there are signs of hope in the most unusual place. how wastewater is showing the omicron surge could be went down. i m larry beil. dion: i m dion lim. you re watching abc 7 news at 4:00 right here on hulu live and wherever you stream. larry: the supreme court locked the test requirement for large workplaces. it did allow a mandate for workers at federally funded health care facility. dion: president biden will deploy medical teams to hospitals to fight the search. it will go to new york, new jersey, ohio, rhode island, michigan, and new mexico. chris: california reported
manchin, halt the president s efforts to protect voting rights? and now late word of a meeting tonight. and breaking news coming in now on sirhan sirhan, the man who killed robert k. kennedy. what california s governor has just now decided. and the father who stood up. his two little boys amazed. you ll see it right here. definitely america strong. good evening and it s great to have you with us here on this thursday night. and we begin tonight with the supreme court blocking president biden s vaccine mandate for large companies. the vote 6-3, the conservative justices against it. they did allow for the rules to move forward for 17 million health care workers at federally funded hospitals and facilities in this country. the supreme court decision coming late today. the conservative majority saying 0 th
0 that does not have the authority to enforce the rule. this effects some 80 million employees across the country. their own companies and bosses will now make that decision. many companies, of course, already have. as i mentioned, they did allow for a separate mandate to move forward for millions of health care workers at those federally funded sites. tonight, president biden s response, saying in part that justices blocked what he called common sense life-saving requirements. tonight, the president is now calling on the states and employ years to do the right thing. our senior white house correspondent mary bruce leading us off. reporter: tonight, in a blow to the white house, the supreme court blocking the biden administration from enforcing a vaccine and testing mandate for large businesses. the policy, which would have impacted more than 80 million employees, required they get vaccinated or wear masks and undergo weekly testing. the conservative justices argued the agency overse
joining us for this interactive show, getting answers. we will be with you every day at 3:00. see tonight, the major supreme court ruling against president biden and his vaccine mandates for large companies. in a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices blocking his mandate requiring large businesses to vaccinate employees. but the court allowing the vaccine mandate for health care workers at federally funded hospitals and clinics. 17 million health care workers. as tonight, the omicron variant spreads. the u.s. now averaging more than 761,000 new covid cases a day. tonight, the president sending military medical personnel to help across six of the states hardest hit. what doctors in those hospitals tonight are seeing right now. the extraordinary move from the justice department tonight. the most serious charges yet for the january 6th assault on the capitol. the founder of the oath keepers among 11 people now charged with