Rachel Scott reports on the federal judge chastising the Trump administration, saying they have done "nothing" to comply with the Supreme Court's order to facilitate the return of a Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador; Mireya Villarreal has the latest on the shots fired at a high school in Dallas, Texas, injuring four students, including one with a gunshot wound to the leg; Matt Gutman has details on the White House freezing $2.2 billion of federal funding to Harvard University after it refused to comply with the Trump administration's demands; and more on tonight’s broadcast of World News Tonight with David Muir.
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00:00Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air, what played out a short time ago, the White
00:04House standoff over that wrongly deported immigrant sent to that notorious prison in
00:09El Salvador.
00:10Also tonight, the man in a gas mask armed with pepper spray storming into a courthouse
00:14in the Northeast.
00:15At a passenger jet, the flames you'll see shooting from the engine in the air after
00:19what they call a possible rabbit strike.
00:22First tonight, the heated showdown between the White House and the courts over a mistakenly
00:26deported husband and father taken to that notorious prison in El Salvador.
00:31Following the Supreme Court's unanimous 9-0 ruling to facilitate his return, he's still
00:36not back.
00:37And tonight, a federal judge scolding the Trump administration, saying it has done nothing
00:41to facilitate his return.
00:43The image is coming in tonight, police racing to the scene of a high school shooting in
00:47Dallas.
00:48Dozens of students seen running from the school.
00:50The United Airlines flight with flames spotted shooting from an engine just after takeoff.
00:55The pilot reporting a possible rabbit strike.
00:58Did a rabbit crawl into the engine right before takeoff?
01:01The chilling video showing a man wearing a gas mask storming into a courthouse.
01:06The news late today, a top aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth placed on leave, escorted
01:11from the Pentagon amid a leak investigation.
01:14Martha Raddett standing by and what she's learned.
01:16Tonight, the battle escalating between President Trump and Harvard.
01:20Harvard rejecting the president's demands, saying no government, regardless of party,
01:25should dictate what private universities can teach and do.
01:28Tonight, the president now freezing more than $2 billion in federal funding.
01:33Tonight, the new CDC report on the autism rate here in the U.S., 1 in 31 children in
01:38America, and what's driving this.
01:40The $5 million jewelry store heist, the hole in the wall, how they got in.
01:45Look at this tonight.
01:46More than 30 endangered right whales spotted off Cape Cod, one of them struggling in the
01:51water.
01:52Also tonight here, remembering a popular game show host and what the elephants did during
01:56the California earthquake, the circle they formed, and why they did it.
02:01You'll see it right here.
02:02From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
02:13Good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy Tuesday night.
02:16We begin tonight with the heated showdown late today between the Trump administration and
02:20the courts over a wrongfully deported Maryland man, the husband and father, sent to that notorious
02:25prison in El Salvador.
02:26The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Trump administration needed to facilitate his
02:31return.
02:32And tonight, a federal judge finding the administration has done nothing to comply with the Supreme
02:35Court.
02:36The judge telling the Trump administration's lawyers, the Supreme Court has spoken, you
02:40made your arguments, you lost.
02:42This is now about the scope of the remedy.
02:44Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a husband and father, swept up and accused without evidence of being
02:48a member of a violent gang.
02:49This image of Abrego Garcia in that prison had shaved and dressed in white.
02:54The Trump administration acknowledged in sending him to that prison it was an administrative
02:58error, but now says they can't compel El Salvador to release him.
03:02The president of El Salvador in the Oval Office yesterday asked if he'll return the man, saying
03:06that's a preposterous question.
03:08So, Rachel Scott tonight on what a federal judge just told the administration and where
03:12this stands tonight.
03:14Tonight, a federal judge chastising the Trump administration, saying they've done, quote,
03:19nothing to comply with the Supreme Court's order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego
03:24Garcia, a husband and father who lived in Maryland, before the administration admits he was mistakenly
03:29deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
03:32This is an image of Abrego Garcia in that high-security mega-prison known as Secant, his head shaved,
03:39dressed in white.
03:40There, 80 inmates are jammed into a single cell.
03:43The lights are always on.
03:45No books, no visitors.
03:47Inmates are never allowed outdoors.
03:49Judge Paula Sinise declaring every day Abrego Garcia spends in that prison is a day of further
03:55irreparable harm.
03:57Today, Justice Department lawyers insisting the administration is prepared to facilitate
04:01Abrego Garcia's presence in the United States if he presents at a port of entry.
04:06But they argue they cannot compel El Salvador to release him from prison, even though the
04:11administration is paying El Salvador more than $6 million to hold him there, along with more
04:16than 200 other undocumented immigrants, who they claim, without providing evidence, are
04:21members of violent gangs.
04:23The Justice Department pointing to these comments in the Oval Office from Salvadoran President
04:27Nayim Bukele, a close Trump ally who declared he would not release Abrego Garcia.
04:33Of course I'm not going to do it.
04:34It's like, I mean, the question is preposterous.
04:38How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?
04:41Today, the judge brushing aside Bukele's words, saying they are not evidence.
04:46The White House claims Abrego Garcia, who is from El Salvador, is a gang member.
04:50He illegally came into our country.
04:53And so deporting him back to El Salvador was always going to be the end result.
04:57But tonight, the ripple effects of this case being felt across the country.
05:03In Fort Madison, Iowa, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley confronted by angry constituents at
05:09a town meeting.
05:09Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador?
05:14Yeah.
05:15Yeah.
05:16Yeah.
05:16Yeah.
05:18Why not?
05:19Well, because that's not a power of Congress.
05:24The Green Force doesn't bring him back.
05:26Grassley insisting it's up to El Salvador to send Abrego Garcia home.
05:30The president of that country is not subject to our U.S. Supreme Court.
05:35To Trump, I'm not going to bring him back.
05:37I'm not going to bring him back.
05:39I'm not going to bring him back.
05:39I'm not going to bring him back.
05:41I'm not going to bring him back.
05:42The crowd's frustration on full display.
05:45These people have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a foreign country with no due process.
05:50Trump obey the Supreme Court.
05:53Trump's not obeying the Supreme Court.
05:55He just ignores him.
05:56Yeah.
05:57And tonight, outside court, Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer, an American, pleading for
06:02his return.
06:03I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive.
06:07The judge is now giving the Trump administration two weeks to prove that they are facilitating
06:12the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States.
06:15At that point, it will have been three weeks since the Supreme Court first issued its order.
06:19And for all that time, Abrego Garcia will be sitting in that prison in El Salvador.
06:24All his family has heard about his condition is what the administration has said, that he's
06:28alive and secure, David.
06:29Rachel Scott with late reporting from the White House tonight.
06:32Rachel, thank you.
06:33Now to the terrifying scene at a Dallas high school.
06:35Gunfire inside the school.
06:37Law enforcement then rushing to Wilmer Hutchins High School.
06:40Students you can see they're running to safety.
06:42Authorities say one student shot and wounded.
06:43And what they revealed just moments ago at the same school where they had a shooting
06:47nearly a year ago to the day.
06:49Maria Villarreal on the scene in Texas.
06:52Tonight, terrified students running out of this Texas high school after multiple shots
06:57fired.
06:58We got an active shooter.
07:00Wilmer Hutchins High School.
07:01We do have reports of one student being one shot.
07:03First responders swarming the scene at Wilmer Hutchins High School in Dallas around lunchtime.
07:09The shooter at the school has reportedly run out of the back of the building.
07:12Authorities say four students were injured, three of them shot, police still searching
07:18for the shooter.
07:19The senior forced to take cover.
07:22We heard a few gunshots and we were still standing there, confused.
07:26And then we heard more, saw a few students running, heard a few screams, and we had to
07:32go and take cover back in the band room.
07:34Students seen walking out with their hands up, parents desperate for answers.
07:39I'm glad this is my last child in school and I won't have to go through this anymore.
07:44You might wake up one day and your kids be beside you and the next day they're gone.
07:49David, today's incident comes nearly one year to the day of a similar shooting that happened
07:53at the same school that you see right behind me.
07:56The superintendent telling me that they have spoken to the governor, they have updated him,
08:00and he has offered the resources they need to help in this investigation.
08:05David.
08:05Maria Villarreal in Texas.
08:07Maria, thank you.
08:08Now to the United Airlines flight with flames spotted shooting from an engine just after
08:11takeoff.
08:12The pilot can actually be heard reporting a possible rabbit strike.
08:16Of course, the question, how did a rabbit get into the engine before takeoff?
08:19And if not a rabbit, what was it?
08:21Here's Gio Benitez with the pictures.
08:22Look closely tonight.
08:25That's United flight 2325 packed with passengers bound for Edmonton.
08:29It's right engine in flames after officials say a rabbit made it inside during takeoff.
08:34I was involved.
08:36The rabbit through the number two.
08:38The rabbit through the number two.
08:40That'll do it.
08:40All right.
08:41Harrowing video from inside the plane shows the midair scare.
08:44Large flames shooting from the engine.
08:46The Boeing 737 in the air for just 75 minutes before turning around.
08:51We lost the right motor.
08:52The pilots at one point thinking the fire compromised the landing gear.
08:57Scott Wolf was on board.
08:58Someone near the rear of the plane started to shout out that the wing was on fire.
09:03Thought to myself all of a sudden, I shouldn't be recording.
09:06I should be texting.
09:07On takeoff, the engines are going at their maximum rate.
09:10And anything that is in front of them is probably going to get ingested.
09:14And David, that flight landed safely back in Denver.
09:17Now, in 2024, the FAA says there were more than 20,000 wildlife strikes in the U.S.
09:23Only four of those were rabbit strikes.
09:26David.
09:27Gio Benitez in New York.
09:28Gio, thank you.
09:28We're going to turn to the chilling scene in a courthouse in Woburn, Massachusetts.
09:31A man wearing a gas mask storming in using pepper spray.
09:35Here's Trevor Ault.
09:36Tonight, terrifying video of a man storming a Massachusetts courthouse in a helmet and
09:42gas mask Monday, firing pepper spray at an officer and rushing in.
09:47The court officer came, just pulled the door shut and just told everybody, get out of the
09:51courtroom, get out of the courtroom, run, run out the back door.
09:53It happened in the city of Woburn outside Boston.
09:56Watch as he pushes through the entryway, sprinting through the metal detectors.
10:00I started to hear screaming and everybody just got up and ran.
10:03Video shows the first officer tackling him from behind, then multiple officers ultimately
10:08subduing him.
10:09The bailiffs were really quick and on point with what their training, I guess, is, and
10:13they handled the situation right away.
10:16In total, three officers were taken to the hospital, all of them later released.
10:20Authorities now identifying the suspect is 28-year-old Nicholas Ackerberg from Yarmouth,
10:25saying he had eight cans of pepper spray and two smoke canisters on him.
10:29He was scheduled to appear in court that same day on several charges, including alleged
10:34assault of a 67-year-old man.
10:36Tonight, his bail for those cases now revoked.
10:40David, the suspect pleaded not guilty to the charges stemming from this latest incident,
10:44and he was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation.
10:47He's due back in court next month.
10:49David.
10:50Trevor, thank you.
10:51Now to the developing headlines tonight at the Pentagon, where a top aide to Defense
10:54Secretary Pete Hegseth has been placed on leave tonight, escorted from the Pentagon
10:58amid a leak investigation.
10:59Let's get right to Martha Raddatz.
11:01Martha, what have you learned tonight?
11:02David, Pete Hegseth has been adamant that leaks will not be tolerated in the Pentagon,
11:07but this was surely a huge shock to Hegseth that one of his own top advisors, Dan Caldwell,
11:13has now been kicked out of the building after a leak investigation.
11:17Caldwell was escorted out of the Pentagon today by security and is now on administrative leave.
11:23Caldwell has such close ties to Hegseth that he was his point of contact with the NSC for
11:30strikes on the Houthis in Yemen during that signal chat last month.
11:34Caldwell was on that signal chain.
11:37Of course, Hegseth himself has been under fire for passing on attack plans on the signal chain.
11:43But this leak investigation began after a story about a possible top secret briefing for
11:48Elon Musk was leaked and that a second carrier would be heading to the Mideast.
11:53But it is unclear exactly what story led to Caldwell being escorted out of the building.
11:59David?
11:59All right.
11:59We know you'll continue to follow this for us.
12:01Martha, thank you.
12:02Next tonight, to the battle escalating between President Trump and Harvard.
12:05Harvard rejecting the president's demand, saying no government, regardless of party,
12:10should dictate what private universities can teach and do.
12:13Tonight, the president is now freezing more than $2 billion in federal funds and is now threatening
12:17Harvard's tax-exempt status.
12:18Our chief national correspondent, Matt Guttman, in Cambridge, Massachusetts tonight.
12:23Tonight, 24 hours after Harvard refused President Trump's demands, President Trump escalating
12:28his threats against the university, now suggesting the university should lose its tax-exempt status
12:33if it continues its defiance.
12:35The president posting today, perhaps Harvard should be taxed as a political entity if it
12:39keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist-inspired slash supporting sickness.
12:45But critics of the president say it's Trump who's playing politics with academic institutions.
12:50The White House freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard after the university refused
12:55to comply with a series of demands, including reporting to federal authorities foreign students
13:00who commit conduct violations, submitting to an audit to ensure academic departments have
13:05diverse viewpoints, ending all DEI programs, sharing hiring data with the administration, and submitting
13:11to an audit of admissions data.
13:14The school's president, Alan Garber, writing, no government, regardless of which party is
13:18in power, should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and
13:23which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.
13:26And tonight, with about $7 billion in federal funds still on the line, Harvard doubling down,
13:32vowing it will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.
13:36Neither Harvard nor any private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal
13:41government.
13:42So with the university saying that it's not going to surrender, where does this go next?
13:47One place it could go is court.
13:49What the Trump administration is doing is illegal, and the university has a very strong legal position
13:54here that the First Amendment and the Civil Rights Act do not permit what the Trump administration
13:59is demanding.
14:00The administration targeting about 60 universities and claims what's driving this is their effort
14:05against anti-Semitism.
14:06Harvard says it has taken steps to combat anti-Semitism, and critics of the president
14:11say this is about much more than that.
14:13And tonight, the acting president of Columbia, also a target of the White House, addressing
14:18the university's efforts to restore $400 million in canceled funding, saying they're working
14:23with the administration, but would reject any agreement that would require us to relinquish
14:28our independence and autonomy as an educational institution.
14:32And David, of course, Harvard with that over $50 billion endowment.
14:37And while scientific research is on the line, university officials say it's not a piggy bank.
14:42It could be just mined for anything.
14:44And the university president making it clear that no government should dictate to a private
14:48university what it should teach and do.
14:51David.
14:52Matt Guttman in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
14:53Matt, thank you.
14:54We turn tonight to the new CDC report on the autism rate in America.
14:58One in 31 children now diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and what HHS Secretary Robert
15:03F.
15:04Kennedy Jr.
15:04is now promising to do by September.
15:07ABC's Steve Osansami at the CDC in Atlanta.
15:10Authorities at the CDC are trying to explain what's behind new numbers tonight, showing that
15:15one out of every 31 children in America was diagnosed with some measure of autism in 2022.
15:21The latest figures available.
15:22Those numbers were one in every 36 children just two years earlier and one out of every
15:28150 children in the year 2000.
15:31And the report shows that autism was much more common in boys than girls.
15:35U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.
15:37Kennedy, who for years as a civilian helped blame autism on the use of vaccines, is underlining
15:42the new numbers tonight.
15:44His take on this has been rejected by the world medical community.
15:47In my generation today, the rate of autism is one in 10,000.
15:53And this is just one disease.
15:55Other health officials this evening are explaining that the larger numbers are because parents
15:59and doctors are now much more aware of the disease and are now correctly identifying more
16:04symptoms.
16:05Not a reason, they say, to buy into unproven theories that discourage Americans from using
16:10vaccines.
16:11So now we have better diagnosis, broader recognition of autism spectrum.
16:15So many children with less severe learning and behavior differences are being included
16:19in these new rates.
16:21Autism is not new and it is not caused by vaccines.
16:25Kennedy has ordered scientists here at the CDC and across the federal government to investigate
16:29what causes autism and has promised that he may start to have answers as soon as September.
16:37David.
16:37Really important reporting affects so many families.
16:39Steve, thank you.
16:40When we come back here tonight, you'll see the 30 endangered right whales spotted right off the
16:44coast in the northeast off Cape Cod and the five-year-old calf tangled in fishing gear.
16:48Also tonight, we remember a popular game show host and the $5 million jewelry heist.
16:53The store ransacked the hole in the wall.
16:55How they did this in a moment here.
16:59Tonight, authorities are investigating a jewelry store heist in Los Angeles.
17:02At least $5 million in jewelry stolen.
17:04Police say the family-owned store was ransacked.
17:07Owners say the thieves stole jewelry and gold bars knocked out the surveillance cameras.
17:11Authorities believe thieves broke in right through a wall.
17:13The owners are offering $100,000 in cash reward for any information.
17:17Tonight, about 30 endangered right whales have been spotted right off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
17:21Take a look.
17:22The whales include multiple pairs of mothers and calves.
17:25Marine experts say the rich feeding grounds drawing them in.
17:28But there is concern for a five-year-old calf entangled in fishing gear since December.
17:32Some of that gear, but not all, has been removed.
17:35When we come back here tonight, we remember a well-known game show host.
17:38To the index tonight, former game show host Wink Martindale has died.
17:43Known for tic-tac-toe, gambit, and high rollers.
17:45More than 20 game shows during his career, Wink Martindale was 91.
17:49Tonight, Major League Baseball paying tribute to an all-time great and a trailblazer.
17:53On this day every year, every team honoring Jackie Robinson,
17:56every player will wear his number 42 honoring his breaking baseball's color barrier.
18:00When we come back here tonight, what the elephants did during the earthquake in California yesterday,
18:05what the cameras revealed, and why they did it.
18:10Finally tonight here, the elephants and the circle they formed.
18:14It was a moving scene captured during that strong 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Southern California yesterday.
18:21The elephants instinctively forming a circle to protect their young.
18:24The elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California,
18:29begin running as the earthquake hits, the surveillance camera shaking.
18:34Then the older elephants rushing to protect their young,
18:37forming what's called an alert circle around the youngest of their herd.
18:41The adults standing in that tight circle there facing outward, shielding the calves.
18:46The zoo sharing the remarkable images, reminding us elephants are highly intelligent social animals
18:52who have the unique ability to feel sounds through their feet.
18:56And this was their natural response to a perceived threat to defend the vulnerable.
19:00Right here tonight.
19:02Hello, David.
19:03Marco Wynn, Wildlife Ambassador at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
19:06We are all connected with Mother Nature,
19:08and this was an excellent reminder of the beauty and the nuances of wildlife.
19:12What a really unique and very special moment for us
19:15that we can share with your audiences and around the world.
19:18Telling us the elephants were all unharmed,
19:20the circle dispersing once they determined all of the elephants were safe.
19:26The beauty of the elephants tonight.
19:28I'm David Muir.
19:28Thank you for being here from all of us here.
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