hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now under way to collect the fallen debris which will be taken to the fbi lab in quantico for analysis. the balloon had made its way across the country after first being spotted in montana on wednesday. its appearance over the u.s. and the military operation to take it down complicating the already tenuous relationship between the u.s. and china. beijing accusing the u.s. of overreacting and expressing strong dissatisfaction over the balloon s destruction. we have reporters around the world coverin
the feds have seized the phone of former trump election attorney john eastman. put your arms up for me. there is the video there. he is being detained. what it could mean for him and potentially former president trump. that s coming up. but first, to the fury and fear on one side and jubilation on the other still palpable in our nation in this first week since the supreme court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. its ruling means it is now up to the states to decide whether to allow abortions. protests against the ruling are growing, but so too is the fight by those who want to ban abortion altogether. and to their delight, a cascade of new abortion bans went into place in the hours after the ruling. as of tonight, ten states effe effectively banned abortion. this is truly historic. tonight we re about to illuminate the impact this four-day-old decision will have. one by one we are seeing more than half the states in america moving swiftly to implement l
though myers did file a police report, and as our viewers know, it s illegal to file a false police report. myers alleges he began work for santos before he was designated z aa staff member and was designated as a volunteer at the time of this episode. he s asking the ethics panel to investigate this arrangement and questions if this was even okay to do under house rules. fred, this is just another chapter in this long saga, this list of political and legal problems facing the congressman. eva mckend, thanks for bringing that to us. appreciate that. the miami police department is defending its decision to sponsor a cruiser meant to celebrate black history month. the newly designed patrol car is wrapped in the colors red, yellow and green and features images of raised fists. the department diffebuted it la
mortality and morbidity among people of color. shaw says abortion is one of the many opgss she gives. z aa physician, i know that abortion care is health care. abortion is not health care and helping women lower mortality rates. why should woman not have agency over her body? well, of course a woman should have agency over her own body. what we re contesting is in a pregnancy, there s two bodies. reporter: and so enters yet another dispute. is a fetus a person who should enjoy the same human rights? here are the words of one of the five justices who overturned roe versus wade during his confirmation hearings. a fetus is not a person. reporter: no matter what science says, dr. shaw says history has shown, legal or not, women will get abortions. the question is will they be safe or potentially deadly? so, people are still going to do whatever it takes to get that care. whether that means they re going to travel to other states or