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00:00Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air.
00:03Dozens have been arrested, including a former NBA star, an NBA head coach who was coaching the game just last night.
00:09The FBI sweeping in, they say, busting a major gambling scandal, arresting more than 30 current and former players,
00:17coaches and alleged mobsters from four mafia families.
00:20What they're accused of doing using high-tech devices, including an X-ray poker table that could read the cards face down.
00:27Tonight, authorities say, stealing millions.
00:30Also breaking tonight, the growing outrage over the demolition at the White House.
00:34Tonight, the before and after images right here showing the East Wing of the White House then and now completely gone.
00:41The president had said his $300 million ballroom would not affect the integrity of the White House.
00:47Tonight, the White House is asked, why were the American people not told the entire East Wing was being demolished?
00:53And all of this amid the government shutdown day 23 tonight.
00:57More than 500,000 federal workers about to miss their first full paycheck.
01:02Also, President Trump's newest pardon tonight.
01:04This time, the founder of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world and a supporter of the Trump family's crypto business.
01:12The president was pressed late today if connections to his own family's crypto business played into this pardon and how he responded.
01:20Tonight, the deadly collision on a California interstate.
01:23That truck driver now charged with DUI and authorities now say he was in the U.S. illegally.
01:29The plane crash onto a California soccer field.
01:31A woman on the ground hit.
01:32And tonight news, what we've now learned about that woman.
01:35And Kim Kardashian revealing she has a brain aneurysm.
01:39And what doctors are now saying.
01:40From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with David Muir.
01:52Good evening.
01:52We do begin tonight here with the breaking news.
01:54The FBI sweeping in, making more than 30 arrests tonight, including an NBA star and an NBA coach who was coaching a big game just last night.
02:02Authorities say all part of a massive NBA and mafia gambling scandal.
02:06Investigators say they rigged poker games using high-tech devices, including an X-ray table that could read cards face down.
02:14Dozens have been arrested tonight, including a Hall of Famer, millions of dollars allegedly stolen.
02:19Hall of Fame player and head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, Chauncey Billups, arrested, accused of luring victims into poker games that were fixed, allegedly run by the mafia.
02:27The suspects, allegedly using those high-tech devices players lured in, had no idea their cards were being read.
02:35And Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier accused of what the FBI is calling insider trading for the NBA.
02:40He allegedly told gamblers to bet against him, allegedly telling those gamblers he would fake an injury, be out of the game early, so his scoring points would be low.
02:49Damon Jones, a former teammate of LeBron James, also indicted tonight, accused of secretly telling gamblers when LeBron James was injured and not playing so they could make their bets accordingly.
03:00ABC's chief investigative correspondent Aaron Kuturski leading us off tonight.
03:04Tonight, an NBA coach and a star player among more than 30 people indicted in a pair of illegal gambling cases that prosecutors say put pro basketball in bed with the mob.
03:14Your winning streak has ended. Your luck has run out. Violating the law is a losing proposition, and you can bet on that.
03:24Federal prosecutors say the mafia paid Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former Cleveland Cavaliers player Damon Jones to lure unsuspecting victims to high-stakes poker games in the Hamptons, Las Vegas, Miami, and Manhattan.
03:38The Bomsters called the celebrity athletes face cards and the victims fish.
03:43What the victims, the fish, didn't know is that everybody else at the poker game, from the dealer to the players, including the face cards, were in on the scam.
03:55Prosecutors showing off technology they say the mafia used to rig the games, including an altered card shuffling machine and an X-ray poker table that could read cards face down, allegedly cheating victims out of more than $7 million.
04:08And there were real victims here. Correct. Absolutely.
04:11Lured to these poker tables by Chauncey Billups?
04:15And others. And others, exactly.
04:18Billups, who coached the Blazers' season opener last night, placed on immediate leave.
04:22So was Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, who was charged in a separate indictment involving illegal sports betting.
04:28Terry Rozier, right foot discomfort, doubtful to return.
04:31Prosecutors say during this game in March 2023, Rozier, then with the Charlotte Hornets, tipped off bettors that he would fake an injury and come out of the game to enable them to place fraudulent wagers on him underperforming.
04:44The winnings totaling more than $200,000.
04:46The proceeds were later delivered to his home, where the group counted their cash.
04:52As the NBA season tips off, his career is already benched, not for injury, but for integrity.
04:59Prosecutors also allege then-coach Damon Jones knew LeBron James would miss a Lakers game against the Milwaukee Bucks with an injury and sold that information to bettors.
05:08Texting, get a big bet on Milwaukee tonight before the information is out.
05:12Let's not, you know, mince words.
05:14This is the insider trading saga for the NBA.
05:18That's what this is.
05:19These cases, David, and the Association with Organized Crime threaten to cast a pall over the NBA's opening week.
05:25Tonight, the league says it's cooperating fully.
05:28David.
05:28Aaron Katursky leading us off tonight.
05:30Aaron, thank you.
05:31Now to the growing outrage over the demolition at the White House tonight, the before and after images right here.
05:36Satellite images showing the east wing of the White House just weeks ago.
05:39And look at this.
05:40This is what it looks like now.
05:41The east wing completely gone tonight.
05:43The president had said his $300 million ballroom would not affect the integrity of the White House.
05:49So, Mary Bruce asking the White House tonight why the American people weren't told the entire east wing would be gone.
05:55And all of this amid this government shutdown now day 23.
05:59Here's Mary Bruce.
06:00Tonight, the stark images, where the east wing of the White House once stood, now just a pile of rubble, demolished to make way for President Trump's ballroom, which Trump once said would cost $250 million and now says will run some $300 million.
06:17Satellite images show the dramatic transformation.
06:20This was the White House complex less than a month ago.
06:23And here it is today.
06:25President Trump once claimed the ballroom wouldn't interfere with the White House itself.
06:29It won't interfere with the current building.
06:31It won't be.
06:32It'll be near it, but not touching it.
06:36And pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of.
06:40Today, I asked the White House why once they realized the entire east wing would have to go, they didn't tell the American people.
06:47This is the people's house.
06:48Why not inform the public of that change and when it was decided that the east wing would have to be demolished?
06:54Look, again, with any construction project, changes come.
06:57If you look at the renderings, it's very clear the east wing was going to be modernized.
07:02Well, again, the president, the plans changed when the president heard counsel from the architects and the construction companies.
07:10The White House still has not submitted plans to the National Capital Planning Commission.
07:15And the National Trust for Historic Preservation says they're deeply concerned that the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom will overwhelm the White House itself.
07:24This was how it looked earlier this week.
07:26And here's a rendering of what it will be, the ballroom dwarfing the other buildings.
07:30The president says it will be wholly paid for with private donations and his own money.
07:35And how much specifically are you donating to it, personally?
07:38How much am I donating?
07:39I won't be able to tell you until I finish, but I'll donate whatever's needed, I'll tell you that.
07:44All of this playing out in the middle of the government shutdown, now day 23.
07:49Tomorrow, more than 500,000 federal workers are set to miss their first full paycheck.
07:54Food banks across the country, from New Orleans to Salt Lake City, already seeing longer lines.
08:00As over 40 million Americans who rely on the federal food assistance program, SNAP, many of them in red states, could lose their benefits in just days.
08:10The president's still refusing to negotiate with Democrats who want to repeal Medicaid cuts and extend Obamacare subsidies,
08:16to prevent some 20 million Americans from soon seeing their health insurance premiums skyrocket.
08:23The president is now plowing ahead with his $300 million ballroom.
08:27It comes after he already made changes to the Rose Garden, paving over the grass there to create a patio.
08:33And the White House tonight isn't ruling out that there could be even more changes to come here.
08:38David.
08:38Mary Bruce, thanks to you again tonight.
08:40This evening, President Trump also facing questions over his newest pardon tonight.
08:44The founder of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, and a supporter of the Trump family's crypto business.
08:50The president was pressed late today if connections to his own family's crypto business played into this pardon.
08:56And here's Rachel Scott on that.
08:59Tonight, President Trump facing new questions about his latest pardon.
09:02Crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao, an influential supporter of the Trump family's crypto business, who pleaded guilty to money laundering in 2023.
09:11Zhao, known as ZZ, created Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
09:16Prosecutors say he turned a blind eye, allowing money to flow to terrorists, cyber criminals, and child abusers through its platform.
09:23Binance paid a $4 billion fine.
09:25After serving four months in prison last year, Zhao helped strike a deal in May with the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial.
09:33Today, the president was pressed about why he issued the pardon.
09:36Today, you pardoned the founder of Binance.
09:39Can you explain why you chose to pardon him and to have anything to do with his involvement in your family's-
09:44Which one? Who is that?
09:44The founder of Binance.
09:45He has an involvement in your own family's crypto business.
09:48I believe we're talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people.
09:53I don't know he was recommended by a lot of people.
09:57A lot of people say that-
09:58Are you talking about the crypto person?
10:00Yes.
10:01A lot of people say that he wasn't guilty of anything.
10:03He served four months in jail, and they say that he was not guilty of anything.
10:07That what he did-
10:09Well, you don't know much about crypto.
10:11You know nothing about-
10:12You know nothing about nothing, you fake news.
10:14But let me just tell you that he was somebody that, as I was told-
10:19I don't know him.
10:20I don't believe I've ever met him.
10:22But I've been told by a lot of support.
10:25He had a lot of support.
10:26And they said that what he did is not even a crime.
10:30David, and tonight, President Trump continuing to face questions about Zhao and his ties to the Trump family's crypto ventures.
10:36Tonight, the White House is defending this move.
10:38Press Secretary Caroline Levitt saying the president is within his constitutional authority.
10:42David.
10:42Rachel Scott at the White House as well.
10:44Well, Rachel, thank you.
10:45Tonight, the truck driver charged in a deadly chain reaction crash in Southern California.
10:50This case is now at the center of a new battle over illegal immigration in the U.S.
10:54The driver is accused of driving under the influence.
10:57Authorities also say he was in this country illegally.
11:00Here's Matt Gutman.
11:01Tonight, this dash cam video of a chain reaction crash that left three people dead on a California highway, now at the center of an investigation and the debate over immigration.
11:12The driver behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer facing charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for causing that horrific crash on the 10 freeway east of Los Angeles.
11:2121-year-old Josh and Preet Singh of India was driving with a valid California commercial license, but ICE officials say he was in the country illegally.
11:30It comes months after another deadly crash in Florida.
11:33The Department of Homeland Security says this driver, also with a California commercial driver's license and in the country illegally, allegedly made a reckless U-turn on the Florida turnpike, causing a crash that also killed three people.
11:45California officials say that driver in Florida had a work permit at the time he was issued a license.
11:51Tonight, this latest crash in California is under federal investigation, and among the victims killed a high school basketball coach and his wife.
11:59And tonight, the White House weighing in.
12:00These tragedies are following a disturbing pattern of these criminal illegal aliens being issued commercial vehicle licenses.
12:08And so, yes, the Department of Transportation is absolutely cracking down on that.
12:11And David, Florida's Attorney General now asking the Supreme Court to prevent states like California from issuing commercial driver's licenses to people in the country illegally.
12:21They're saying it's a matter of public safety.
12:23David.
12:24Matt Guffman with us tonight reporting.
12:25Matt, thank you.
12:26Now to Tropical Storm Melissa, gaining strength in the Caribbean at this hour, expected to become a major hurricane within days.
12:32The new models just in tonight, the potential tracks of this storm.
12:35Let's get right to Chief Meteorologist Lee Goldberg from WABC here in New York.
12:39Hailey.
12:39Hey, David.
12:41Melissa, barely moving, poised to just wait patiently for atmospheric conditions to get better for it to intensify.
12:48That happens over the weekend.
12:49Goes to a Cat 1, then rapidly intensifies to a Cat 4 and parallels the south coast of Jamaica and batters the island for days.
12:57Watches are up for parts of Haiti and over to Jamaica.
13:00It's a multi-day event with flooding rains, mudslide possible, and destructive winds.
13:04And then it moves over Cuba and out in the Atlantic midweek next week.
13:07Thankfully, the trend closer to the U.S. coast has stopped.
13:10David.
13:10OK, Lee Goldberg back with us.
13:12Thanks, Lee.
13:12Here in New York City tonight, the heated race for mayor, outgoing Mayor Eric Adams now endorsing Andrew Cuomo tonight.
13:18And the fiery debate moments between Cuomo and Zoran Mamdani, the assemblyman and self-described Democratic Socialist over experience.
13:26Here's Matt Rivers on that tonight.
13:29New York Mayor Eric Adams, whose popularity plunged when he sought and received a pardon from President Trump, today endorsing former Governor Andrew Cuomo to take his place.
13:39The mayor put his own ambition aside because he cares more about New York City.
13:47Overnight, Cuomo, decidedly an underdog, clashing on the debate stage with Democratic nominee Zoran Mamdani, a 34-year-old assemblyman and self-described Democratic Socialist.
13:57You have never had a job.
13:59You've never accomplished anything.
14:02There's no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification for eight and a half million lives.
14:08The issue is that we have all experienced your experience.
14:12We just had a former governor say in his own words that the city has been getting screwed by the state.
14:18Who was leading the state?
14:20It was you!
14:22Cuomo has tried to make experience his defining issue.
14:25This is not a job for a first-timer.
14:28Any day, you could have a hurricane, you could have, God forbid, a 9-11, a health pandemic.
14:34And if we have a health pandemic, then why would New Yorkers turn back to the governor who sent seniors to their death in nursing homes?
14:40After last night's debate, Cuomo raced to join Mayor Adams' courtside at the Knicks.
14:45They weren't always so chummy.
14:47Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar.
14:49But now?
14:50Brothers fight.
14:52Cuomo and Adams seizing on Mamdani's views on the Israel-Hamas war to paint him as an extremist.
14:58If elected, he would be New York's first Muslim mayor.
15:01New York can't be Europe, folks. I don't know what is wrong with people.
15:05You see what's playing out in other countries because of Islamic extremism.
15:10Mamdani casting Cuomo and Adams as puppets of Donald Trump.
15:14We have a president of this country who has spoken publicly of his desire for Eric Adams to drop out of the race.
15:19Eric Adams dropped out.
15:20Spoken of his desire for candidates to consolidate behind Andrew Cuomo.
15:25Today, Eric Adams is endorsing Andrew Cuomo.
15:27Today, Cuomo asked.
15:28Mr. Cuomo, do you offer Mayor Adams anything in return for him?
15:31Don't even answer.
15:32Love.
15:33Thanks, Gary.
15:33Love.
15:34David, Election Day, November 4th, now less than two weeks away.
15:38Most polls showing Mamdani with a comfortable lead.
15:40It's unclear if Mayor Adams' support will help Andrew Cuomo make up some ground.
15:45David?
15:45Matt Rivers on the race for mayor.
15:47Overseas tonight, French investigators reviewing new video appearing to show two of the suspects of that heist at the Louvre in Paris.
15:53Take a look.
15:54The two whose faces are obscured by a bike helmet there, seen using a cherry picker to descend from the gallery.
15:59They addressed as construction workers inside, according to authorities.
16:02The video taken by the Louvre security, the manhunt for the suspects intensifying.
16:06Investigators say they have recovered DNA on a helmet and gloves, less than the scene of that $102 million heist.
16:13When we come back here tonight, history made at the Vatican this evening, King Charles and Pope Leo praying together.
16:19Also ahead here, Kim Kardashian tonight revealing her new diagnosis.
16:23She says doctors have told her she has a brain aneurysm and what they're saying.
16:27And we're learning more after that plane crash right onto a neighborhood soccer field.
16:30A woman on the ground hit.
16:33And tonight, news coming in on her condition.
16:34A lot more ahead here.
16:37Tonight, history made at the Vatican for the first time in 500 years.
16:40A pope and a British monarch praying together.
16:43King Charles and Queen Camilla, welcome to the Vatican today by the first American pope.
16:47Of course, Pope Leo.
16:49Tonight, news after that plane crash onto a soccer field hitting a pedestrian in California.
16:53It happened in a crowded park in Long Beach.
16:55The pilot was also her, the woman's sister now, telling our station, KABC, that the woman is deaf
17:01and did not hear that plane approaching while she walked her dog.
17:04Both the woman and the pilot are expected to recover.
17:06When we come back here tonight, Kim Kardashian revealing she has a brain aneurysm and what her doctors are saying tonight.
17:14To the index, businesswoman and reality star Kim Kardashian revealing tonight she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm
17:19and has been undergoing treatment, saying doctors told her stress was the cause.
17:24Aneurysms are often asymptomatic but can sometimes cause symptoms such as headaches, blurry vision, nausea, or vomiting.
17:30When we come back here tonight, you met her right here a decade ago and what she told me then about being a little girl with a dream.
17:38Well, last night, her extraordinary final bow.
17:41She proved so many wrong.
17:44Finally tonight here, America Strong, Misty Copeland's final bow, the trailblazer, and what she told me a decade ago.
17:50Last night, Misty Copeland's final bow at the American Ballet Theater, a ballerina who made history and defied the odds.
18:01We first interviewed Misty at New York's Lincoln Center a little more than a decade ago.
18:06Here you are.
18:06She remembered being that girl with a dream.
18:08You're a long way from Kansas City, Missouri.
18:09Yeah, that's for sure.
18:11Raised by a single mother who was determined to lift her children up.
18:15You were one of six.
18:16One of six kids.
18:17Had a single mom.
18:18Yeah, it's one of those, like, stories that you think some Lifetime movie's going to come of it.
18:23And I never thought that might.
18:24It is right now.
18:25It is.
18:26But in that moment with us, she still had no idea the history she was about to make.
18:31Misty never had any classical training as a child.
18:34She started to dance late at 13.
18:36There were coaches who saw something.
18:38You began on a basketball court.
18:40On a basketball court in my socks and my gym clothes.
18:44Within just two years, winning dance competitions.
18:47Don't miss your smile.
18:48Within five years, a spot with one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world.
18:53Many calling her a prodigy.
18:55But she remembers being told she didn't have a ballerina's body.
18:59What did you hear?
19:02I'm black.
19:03We don't exist in the ballet world.
19:05I'm too muscular.
19:07I'm too short.
19:08My bust is too big.
19:10But Misty would prove them wrong.
19:13Within a year of our interview, she became the first black female principal dancer in the company's 75-year history.
19:20And last night, they celebrated the trailblazer, retiring from the company, now with her three-year-old son Jackson in her arms.
19:28And we remember what she told me a decade ago.
19:31To know that there are little children dreaming of doing what you're doing.
19:35And proof that the dream can come true now.
19:38I am proof of that.
19:39Misty Copeland, her final bow at the American Ballet Theater.
19:43America Strong.
19:45Inspiring so many little girls along the way and inspiring us, too.
19:49I'll see you tomorrow.
19:50Good night.
19:50David Muir, the most watched newscast in America.
19:57And now, ABC's World News Tonight has won the Emmy for Best Live News Program for the third year in a row.
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