bipartisan infrastructure deal that would anger progressives in his own party. up first, the major supreme court decision with a giant impact on your health care, the new ruling is 7-2. it dismisses a challenge to the affordable care act. the decision leaves intact how millions of you pay for your doctor s visits, pay for your prescription drugs, it s the third challenge to the health care law since president obama signed it and it is the third time a conservative tilted supreme court agreed to save it. cnn s joan joins us now. reporter: it s very important for the millions of americans who depend on the affordable care act. it s important to the legacy of barack obama. it s important to the administration of joe biden. but it s really important to the roberts court. those two prior rulings, upholding the act, they were narrowly divided, 5-4, then 6-3 back in 2012 and 2015. this one is 7-2. chief justice john roberts had a strong majority. he has signed it to justice st
seditious conspiracy. what the fbi says it uncovered, cracking encrypted apps. the oathpe lder allegedly telling followers, we aren t getting through this without a civil war. federal authorities say they had quick reaction force teams prepared to transport weapons to d.c. we are also tracking a major winter storm tonight. the midwest, then the south, and then up the east coast, right into the northeast. on alert for snow and ice. dangerous driving ahead. and several inches of snow in some places. ginger zee times this out. tonight, britain s prince andrew stripped of his military titles just hours after a u.s. federal judge said the sex assault lawsuit against him can move forward. what buckingham palace is now saying tonight. the voting rights showdown on capitol hill. democratic senator kyrsten sinema and her words, just an hour before the president arrived on the hill to meet with democrats. did she, along with senator joe manchin, halt the president s efforts to pr
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