good evening the u.s. supreme court tonight ending a term that reshaped the court itself and the country in dramatic fashion. the first black woman to be confirmed as a supreme court justice sworn in today justice ketanji brown jackson replacing retiring justice stephen breyer she joins a court that days ago rocked the country with its ruling overturning the long-established constitutional right to abortions the term ending today with split decisions for the biden administration on immigration and the environment. in a win for its border policy, the court saying the administration acted properly in trying to end the trump-era policy that requires asylum seekers wait in mexico while their cases are decided. but the court also undercut the administration s climate change efforts, saying the epa overreached in its efforts to move the country from coal production to cleaner alternatives justice correspondent pete williams has details. reporter: in one of the most important envi
joe on a friday morning, this first day of july. it is 6:00 a.m. in san diego, 9:00 a.m. here on the east coast. it is a holiday weekend but busy friday morning as we talk to governors across the country to talk about abortion. two states had their ban blocked. that important nato summit for the president ended yesterday but less than 24 hours after the alliance meeting wrapped up, russia ramping up attacks on civilians in ukraine striking a residential building in odesa and killing at least 19 people amid a new report from amnesty international that declares russia committed clear war crimes in the attack on the theater in mariupol and while the january 6th committee is taking a break for the july 4th holiday, new questions who exactly is paying for the lawyers representing some of the witnesses and whether that is impacting their testimony. meanwhile, vice chair liz cheney is defending the committee s actions during a debate for her political life. we need to recognize t
till s cousin will be there. it s a moment that i think black americans are excited for. something they have been looking forward to for a long time. this moment where this child was mutilated, beat up and murdered, revitalized and created the civil rights movement we ended up knowing. it told and showed thanks to his mother s courageous telling that she wanted everyone to see what happened to her son. it went on the cover of jet magazine and around the country where people saw what was happening in the jim crow south for the first time. folks in the north had no idea how terrible things were for black americans in the south. it s a big moment, the fact it s happening where you have the first black woman who is vice
till a document reigniting the family s quest for justice. we dropped to our knees, prayed, shouted. reporter: till s cousin said they found an unserved arrest for the woman of kidnapping that supposedly made a rude gesture to in a store in 1955. her husband and half brother abducted and murdered till. the killers both now dead acquitted by an all white jury and confessed in interviews. dunham was never arrested or charged. do you think this is a turning point? i do. there is a note on the reverse side of the warrant that indicates that she was not found in the county.
14-year-old emmett till, a document just found in the basement of a mississippi courthouse reigniting his family s decades long quest for justice. we dropped to our knees. we prayed. we shouted we embraced each other. reporter: till s cousin, deborah watts, says the family found an unserved warrant for the arrest of carolyn bryant donham for kidnapping, the woman who till supposedly made a rude gesture toward in a store in 1955. her husband roy bryant and his half brother then abducted and murdered till. his mutilated body in an open casket, one of the most iconic images in the civil rights era. till s killers, both now dead, were acquitted by an all-white jury but later confessed in interviews donham, now in her 80s, was never arrested or charged. do you really think this is a turning point? i do. i have to hold out hope there is a note on the reverse side of the warrant that indicates that she was not found in the county, but no one ever searched for