ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - June 27, 2025

Tonight, breaking news. The major. Supreme Court ruling strengthening the. president's hand involving birthright. citizenship. The severe storms as we. come on the air. Hundreds of flights. canled in the Northeast. And the. suspected shark bite at a popular New. York beach. First, the US Supreme Court. in a six-to3 decision along ideological. lines allowing President Trump to move. forward with his plans to change. birthright citizenship, ruling that. federal judges cannot put nationwide. blocks on his executive orders. The.

president calling it a giant win and. what it means for the rest of his. sweeping agenda. And the high court's. other major rulings tonight on parents. rights, Obamacare, and more. The severe. weather watch tonight. Storms heading. east, flash flooding in West Virginia. Officials say 5 ines of rain in less. than an hour. The massive highway backup. where the temperatures are surging again. tonight. And how a 76-year-old Florida. woman survived after her home was lifted. then slammed back down by a tornado. Lee.

Goldberg with the forecast. A possible. shark bite at a popular New York beach. A woman standing in waist high water. The lacerations on her leg and foot. This video showing a different baby. shark on the same beach the same day. Breaking news. One of the last fugitives. who broke out of a New Orleans jail more. than six weeks ago, captured late today. What we've just learned. The defense. delivering its closing argument in the. trial of Sha Diddy Colmes, saying the. case is not about sex trafficking or. racketeering, but a great modern love.

story and a music mogul swinger. lifestyle. The president of the. University of Virginia resigning today. under pressure amid an investigation by. the Trump administration into the. school's DEI efforts. The mystery. solved. What we've learned about that. fireball streaking across several. southern states. And America Strong. tonight. The Jeopardy contestant and the. game-winning clue that fans are calling. the most amazing coincidence in the. history of Jeopardy.

From ABC News World Headquarters in New. York, this is World News Tonight with. David Mure. Good evening. It's great to. have you with us on this Friday night. I'm Whit Johnson in for David. And we. begin with that major ruling from the US. Supreme Court strengthening President. Trump's authority in a decision. involving birthright citizenship. The. six-3 decision along ideological lines. ruling that federal judges cannot put. nationwide blocks on a president's. executive orders. Justice Amy Coney.

Barrett writing for the majority that. federal courts do not exercise general. oversight of the executive branch. Justice Sonia Sotomayora writing for the. justices in disscent that the. president's bid to end birthright. citizenship makes a solemn mockery of. our constitution. President Trump. calling it a big win, making a rare. appearance in the White House briefing. room today, saying he'll now move. forward with his plans to limit. birthright citizenship. The Supreme. Court ruling may also allow the. president to charge ahead on other parts.

of his agenda. ABC's senior Washington. reporter Devon Dwire leads us off at the. Supreme Court tonight. The Supreme. Court's conservative majority. dramatically limiting the ability of. federal judges to check presidential. power. The 6-3 decision allows President. Trump to move forward with plans to end. birthright citizenship, which has been. law of the land for more than a hundred. years. This morning, the Supreme Court. has delivered a monumental victory for. the Constitution, the separation of. powers, and the rule of law. Federal.

judges in three states had ruled Trump's. order on birthright citizenship. blatantly violates the Constitution and. Supreme Court president, issuing. nationwide injunctions blocking the. order from taking effect. But today, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for. the majority, said those sweeping. injunctions went too far and that. federal courts do not exercise general. oversight of the executive branch. They. resolve cases and controversies. I want. to thank Justice Barrett who wrote the. opinion brilliantly, as well as Chief.

Justice Roberts and Justices Alto, Gorsuch, Kavanaaugh, and Thomas. Great. people. In abiding descent, Justice. Sonia Sotomayor said the liberal. justices would not join so grave an. attack on our system of law, saying. Trump's bid to end birthright. citizenship makes a solemn mockery of. our constitution. The court's decision. took no position on whether Trump's. executive order is constitutional, though the ruling does let him put it. into effect in 30 days. But at the White.

House today, no explanation of how that. would work. Attorney General Pam Bondi. deflecting when pressed on how exactly. citizenship for newborns across America. would be determined. Who would be tasked. with actually vetting citizenship? And. how like would this be a situation where. you have nurses and doctors checking for. citizenship of parents or this is all. pending litigation. It's going to be. decided in October by the Supreme Court. and we'll discuss that after the. litigation. But there is currently no.

litigation before the Supreme Court in. October involving birthright. citizenship. Still, opponents of Trump's. order are vowing to get the issue back. before the justices as soon as possible. With the impact of today's decision. could be farreaching. Dozens of federal. judges have issued nationwide. injunctions against some of President. Trump's controversial policies from. layoffs of federal workers to federal. funding freezes of foreign aid. Some of. those injunctions may now need to be. rolled back or lifted entirely. Whit and.

Devon. The Supreme Court also issuing. several other major rulings today. It. sure did. The Supreme Court upheld those. popular Obamacare nocost preventive. health care services. The justices also. said that parents have a right to remove. their children from classrooms when. LGBTQ books that violate their religious. beliefs are used. and the court wit. upheld online age verification for adult. websites in an effort to protect. children. Whit. All right, Deon Dwire. with that major news from the Supreme. Court. We appreciate it. Thank you. We.

move now to the dangerous weather threat. as we come on tonight. Powerful. thunderstorms and more than 8,000. flights already canled or delayed. nationwide. Severe weather on the way. for parts of the upper Midwest and along. the I95 corridor, including DC, New. York, and New England. And those. scorching temperatures rising again in. the Northeast. Lee Goldberg with the. forecast in just a moment. But first, here's ABC's Stephanie Ramos. Tonight, severe storms battering much of. the Heartland for a second straight day.

More than 750 flights delayed at Chicago. airports. Dozens more canled. That. system prompting a traffic nightmare. overnight on the West Virginia turnpike. south of Charleston. Part of the road. closed due to high water. Local. officials say they got five inches of. rain in just 45 minutes. Alex Wilkinson. telling us she and her sister Samantha. were stuck for eight hours. When you're. stuck, you just make the best of it. And. tonight, we're hearing the harrowing.

story of Deborah Metler. I had been in. what was a family room and stepped out, which was good because it's no longer. there at all. An EF1 twister with 90 mph winds lifting. her Largo, Florida home off the ground, suspending it midair for 15 seconds. Wednesday evening while she was inside. Telling our Tampa affiliate WFTS, I. didn't realize I was actually up in the. air. I was too busy doing some salts and.

getting thrashed. And with here in the. Northeast, after that extreme heat wave. earlier this week, the temperatures are. rising again. It will feel like mid 90s. tomorrow with a chance of thunderstorms. Whit Stephanie Ramos, thanks. Let's get. right to chief meteorologist Lee. Goldberg with our New York station WABC. And Lee, you're tracking some dangerous. storms hitting right now. Yeah, with that's happening as the heat. is moving from the Midwest into the. Northeast here in the Northeast. Our. trip back in time to May is coming to an. end. We'll warm up over the weekend, but. some big storms right now working north.

of Detroit, just south of Pittsburgh. There's some flood issues from. Pittsburgh to Rowan Oak this evening. a. new tornado watch on the western side of. that hot high in North Dakota. A severe. thunderstorm watch in parts of Nebraska. Now, even though it's comfortable in the. northeast, we have all this heat from. Memphis all the way up into the Ohio. Valley. See how cool it is in the. northeast? That's going to change big. time over the weekend. As that happens, we have storms from New York City, DC up. to Albany, especially in the late day. and evening could be gusty. Another. severe threat near Minneapolis back to. Sou Falls. Now, in terms of the big.

holiday week in the 4th of July, you. know what? No major heat wave, but the. heat is from the northern Rockies into. the east. Cool in the southwest because. of the monsoon. Whit. All right, we'll. be tracking it. Lee Goldberg, thank you. A woman is recovering tonight from a. suspected shark bite at a popular beach. on New York's Long Island. She was. standing in waist high water getting. lacerations on her leg and foot. That. bite, one of several incidents already. this season. Here's ABC's Faith Abubet. Tonight, officials say a sand tiger. shark most likely bit a woman in New.

York's popular Jones Beach on Long. Island. The 20-year-old was ways deep in. the water at the Central Mall beachfront. after 400 p.m. on Wednesday when. authorities say she sustained minor. lacerations to her left foot and leg. Nope, that's a shark. This baby shark. spotted at Jones Beach that same. morning, but not the one believed to. have bitten the woman. It's the first. suspected shark bite in the New York. City area since 2023 when a swimmer was. seriously injured at Rockaway Beach. Sand tiger sharks can grow up to 10 feet.

long and 350 lbs. The sharks known to. frequent the waters around Long Island. in the summer, but are not aggressive. towards humans unless they're. threatened. Something hard bit me and. then and tried to tug me away. Just two. weeks ago, a shark nearly biting off. 9-year-old Leah Lendo's hand as she. snorkeled off Florida's GF coast. X-rays. showing the damage. Doctors using blood. vessels from her leg to restore blood. flow to her hand.

And when New York officials say they. suspended swimming shortly after that. incident and used drones on the. beachfront to search for dangerous. marine life, but found no threats. The. beach has since reopened back to the. public. Whit Faith Abubet, thank you. And breaking news we're following. tonight. A ninth inmate who escaped from. a New Orleans jail has now been caught. Let's get right to Eva Pilgrim. And Eva, what more are you learning? Well, that breaking news is just coming. in. Authorities saying they have. captured Antoine Massie after six weeks.

on the run. This is the moment Massie. and nine other inmates escaped on May. 16th, seen running out of the New. Orleans jail. Their disappearance was. not noticed for several hours. 33-year-old Massie was found today at a. home in New Orleans. He was in jail for. domestic abuse battery involving. strangulation as well as theft of a. motor vehicle. Videos had surfaced on. social media earlier this month. appearing to be Massie that led to a. failed raid. Whit, there's still one.

more inmate, a convicted murderer on the. run tonight, but a major break so far in. this case. Whit sure is. Eva Pilgrim, thank you. Now to the Shawn Diddy. Combmes trial. Today, the defense. delivering its closing argument, mocking. the evidence, calling the prosecution's. case overzealous. Jury deliberations. expected to begin on Monday. Here's. ABC's chief investigative correspondent, Aaron Couturki. For more than four. hours, the defense tried to persuade the. jury the trial of Sha Colmes has nothing. to do with sex trafficking, racketeering, or prostitution, but is a.

great modern love story. Arguing star. witness Cassie Ventura was no. trafficking victim, but a woman who. actually likes sex and willingly took. part in sexual marathons with male. escorts. This was her lifestyle choice, too. The defense said she's not. clutching her pearls. The defense mocked. the government's case, referencing the. searches of Col's Miami and Los Angeles. homes that turned up baby oil, lubricant, drugs, high heels, and guns. They found the baby oil. They found the. Astroglide, the defense said in a. sarcastic tone. The only crime scene is.

your private sex life. The defense. argued Colmes was no racketeering. kingpin, casting doubt on the alleged. crimes of arson, drug possession, and. bribery. This is his personal life. It's. not about an enterprise. The defense. asking jurors to summon the courage to. acquit Shawn Cololmes. He sits there. innocent. Return him to his family. But. prosecutors pushed back, telling jurors. in their rebuttal not to let Colmes. blame victims and the government for his. lies, his threats, and his violence. Jurors went home for the weekend with.

they'll be back here on Monday for the. judge's instructions and to begin. deliberating the charges that could send. Shawn Colmes to prison for life. Whit. Aaron Kurski, thank you. Next tonight, a. university president has resigned under. pressure from the Trump administration. University of Virginia President James. Ryan stepping down today over the. school's efforts on DEI policies. Here's. ABC's senior political correspondent. Rachel Scott. After months of pressure from the Trump. administration over diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, tonight, the.

president of the University of Virginia. announcing he will resign rather than. battle the federal government. James. Ryan writing, "I'm inclined to fight for. what I believe in, and I believe deeply. in this university, but I cannot make a. unilateral decision to fight the federal. government in order to save my own job.". The Trump administration has launched a. series of investigations into. universities, including a probe at UVA. over its DEI efforts. Sources tell ABC. News the Justice Department demanded. Ryan step down as a condition to settle.

that ongoing investigation. Protests on campus today in support of. Ryan. Virginia's Democratic senators. outraged. The fact that the federal. government would get in and decide that. it should micromanage who the president. of UVA is just is just frankly shocking. This is the latest flash point in the. Trump administration's showdown with. universities, cutting more than $2. billion in grants to Harvard after it. refused to comply with the president's.

demands. Tonight, Ryan acknowledging the. pressure from the federal government, saying he did not want to put funding or. jobs at risk. Tonight, in a statement, the White House says DEI has no place in. our country, saying that any university. president that fails to comply will be. met with the full force of the federal. government with Rachel Scott. Our thanks. to you tonight. The so-called big. beautiful bill is hitting a big. roadblock now. The bill includes a. package of tax cuts, military, and. border security spending. Senate. Republicans are now forced to rewrite.

key sections after they were tossed out. by the Senate's nonpartisan rulekeeper. President Trump has given the bill a. self-imposed July 4th deadline to pass. To Wall Street and stocks surging today, the S&P and NASDAQ composite each up. more than half a percentage point, hitting record highs. The Dow up one. percentage point. A roller coaster day. for investors with numbers taking a dip. after the president announced halting. trade talks with Canada. then rising. again to a strong close. There is still.

much more ahead on World News Tonight. this Friday. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. tying the knot. The A-list guest list. and the stunning amount of money being. dropped around Venice. Plus, the mystery. appears to be solved. That huge fireball. lighting up the sky and loud booms. NASA. now weighing in about what caused it. Next tonight, the mystery appears to be. solved about that fireball seen across. the southeast. NASA now confirming it. was a meteor weighing a ton. First. spotted nearly 50 miles over Georgia.

when it disintegrated. The meteor. unleashed energy equal to 20 tons of TNT. causing loud booms heard for miles. Small pieces believed to be debris. falling to the earth. Only some minor. damage reported, but no injuries. When. we come back, a passing to note, an. actor from a popular TV show in the 80s. To the index now. A man accused of. kicking a Customs and Border Patrol dog. at the airport has been kicked out of. the country. Investigators say the dog,

Freddy, was kicked while inspecting a. bag for contraband at Dallasos airport. CBP saying that man's luggage had more. than 100 pounds of prohibited meat and. produce. The man from Egypt was. arrested, fined, and sent home. Freddy. suffered contusions to his rib area, but. will make a full recovery. Wedding bells. for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren. Sanchez. Vogue releasing a digital cover. of Sanchez in her dress immediately. after they got married. A starstudded. guest list including Oprah Winfrey and.

Kim Kardashian. Despite some protests, the Venice deputy vice mayor telling us. the nuptules could bring up to $35. million to the region. And we have a. passing to note tonight. Actor Rick. Hurse rose to stardom playing Deputy. Cletus Hog on the Dukes of Hazard. He. started acting at the age of five and. once in a radio interview he said he did. 146 national commercials in just two. years. Hurst was 79. Still ahead, the. incredible contestant coincidence. During Final Jeopardy, it's never.

happened before. Finally tonight, Final Jeopardy and the. contestant coincidence. This is Jeopardy. 41 seasons of. Jeopardy. But what you're about to see. has never happened before. What fans are. now calling the most amazing coincidence. in the history of Jeopardy. From Denver, Colorado, Emily Pro. Right away, Emily. on a hot streak. Emily, what is Arizona? Right. What is the Hunger Games? Right.

What's Aquamarine? That's right. And she. kept going. It was Eliza Skyler. That's. right. What is Sons of Liberty? Correct. Who is Tennyson? Yes. Emily way ahead. leading into final jeopardy. And then. let's take a look at the clue. The final. clue. In 1896, the vassor educated wife. of this man wrote, "Thousands of dollars. may be paid for a copy of Shakespeare.". The contestants guesses. It's not Smith, I'm afraid. And it's not a Rockefeller. either. And then it was Emily's turn. Who is Fulier? And that's correct.

You're a Jeopardy champion, Emily. Emily. with the win. And as the credits were. rolling, you see Emily and host Ken. Jennings talking. Ken looking surprised. That's because of what Emily had just. revealed. She is a distant relative of. the correct answer. In fact, she's named. after the wife mentioned in the clue, Emily Fulier. Tonight, Jeopardy sharing. what happened behind the scenes. Say. that again, Emily. That was my great. great great aunt Emily. Emily Fulier, the one we mentioned in the clue, is the.

person you, Emily Croak, are named. after. Yes, that's Yeah. Wow. And joining us tonight, Emily on the. moment. Nothing could have prepared me. for the moment of seeing a Final. Jeopardy clue about my family. It was. the most outof body experience of my. life. Emily sharing these family photos. with us. Emily with her mother, Emily. Fulier's great great niece, and Emily's. grandmother, also named Emily. Tonight, Emily and her message. Needless to say,

I am still processing the weirdest. coincidence of my life. Thank you to. Jeopardy, the Jeopardy community, and. everyone out there who loves learning. and exploring the world around us. Oh, we just love that moment. I'm Whit. Johnson in New York. Thank you so much. for watching. Good night. [Music]. David Mure, the most watched newscast in. America. And now ABC's World News. Tonight has won the Emmy for best live. news program for the third year in a.

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