good morning, america. mask confusion. states and businesses split over how to react to the cdc's new guidelines. >> we are going from mask wearing requirements to mask wearing suggestions. >> who is scrapping the mask mandates and the union president raising concerns for food and retail workers across the country. tapped out. the spots still facing gas shortages even as service is restored on the colonial pipeline. >> i've been looking for gas for two days. a new announcement for the group blamed for the cyberattack as we take a closer look at america's infrastructure. how vulnerable are we to more hacks? deadly clashes. hamas firing more rockets into israel, intercepted by the iron

dome. israeli warplanes pounding gaza destroying buildings as the conflict widens to the west bank. we're on the ground with a live report. missing tiger mystery. the new video we're seeing as prosecutors press a texas man for the tiger's whereabouts at an appearance in court on unrelated murder charges. the circus surrounding the big cat still on the loose. and emotional moment. kobe bryant's oldest daughter donning the hall of fame jacket in honor of her dad. the touching lead-up to the basketball legend's induction just hours away now. hey, good morning, everybody. so here's the question about the new mask situation. is it liberating or anxiety provoking? we're going to start this morning with the mixed reaction to the cdc's new guidance saying people who are fully vaccinated no

longer need to wear masks. >> the recommendation leading several states to announce they'll be dropping or changing their mask mandates. but businesses are split on how to move forward. so right now here are the numbers, 120 million americans are fully vaccinated. that's more than 36% of the total u.s. population. abc's trevor ault is at a walgreens in new york. one of the companies still requiring employees and customers to keep those masks on. trevor, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. yes, so right now you can get a covid-19 vaccine inside walgreens, but once you're fully vaccinated, you'll still have to wear a mask inside, at least for now. now, make no mistake, this new guidance has created a lot of change very quickly, and with it it's brought a lot of relief, but it's also created many new questions and in some instances new problems. this morning, the cdc's groundbreaking new mask guidance leading to sweeping changes but in many cases confusion. at least 19 of the 24 states that still had mask mandates have announced plans to either

scrap them or adopt the cdc's guidance. >> we are going from mask wearing requirements to mask wearing suggestions. >> rs weekend in who distancing and the pittsburgh pirates relaxing their mask policy allowing fully vaccinated fans to watch the game without a mask. michigan just weeks removed from a covid crisis ditching mask requirements indoors and outdoors for the state's fully vaccinated population. >> it's a huge step on our path back to normal. >> reporter: but almost two-thirds of the u.s. population is still unvaccinated. and for many the return to normal isn't quite so simple. parents like himani shah can lose the mask, but her 10-year-old still can't get vaccinated. >> i didn't want to leave her alone on the island, right, so i thought we'll keep continuing to do what we have been doing. if we go to the grocery store, wiehl's both wear masks.

>> reporter: businesses now face big decisions, popular chains walmart, costco and trader joe's already dropping their mask policies for fully vaccinated shoppers while target and home depot are keeping theirs. many business owners and their employees are concerned about enforcement. >> should i card the people? should i ask for vaccination? i can see the conflict is going to be with people where they say, i'm vaccinated but i don't have my paper with me. how do you deal with that? >> reporter: others worry it will deter unvaccinated customers from wearing a mask. >> just the way i see people interacting with public spaces is it'll just mean that people are going to be able to say, okay, it doesn't matter now. >> reporter: and this morning there are several government agencies, the tsa, the cdc, the department of transportation, all reminding travelers there are still mask mandates in place for anyone using public transportation. whit? >> all right, trevor ault for us, thank you. joining us now is marc perrone, international president of the united food and commercial workers union representing 1.3 million

essential food and retail workers. mr. perrone, good morning to you. we appreciate you joining us. so we've already seen major retail chains go in completely opposite directions on this mask issue following the new guidance. where does that leave the workers you represent? >> well, it certainly leaves the workers that i represent in somewhat of a confused state and also in a challenged state because as customers come in and out, i think customers are going to be confused as well. we didn't want to be the mask police in the early portions of this pandemic, and we certainly don't want to be the vaccination police at the end of it. i had really hoped that the cdc would have been a little bit more conservative and allowed for a few more people to be vaccinated before they started pulling back the mask mandates, and i do believe it's going to be quite confusing for consumers,or

are inside the facilities because we have seen some pretty aggressive behavior from some of the customers that didn't like the mask, and if you think that somebody may get aggressive about a mask, just wait till you ask them whether or not they've been vaccinated or not. >> so do you think the cdc moved too quickly on this? >> i actually do. unfortunately this is what they've done. i'm sure they're not going to walk it back now, and it is going to put a lot of our employers, you know, in a position where they're confused. i am going to be talking to all our employers that we represent to ask them not to pull back just yet. maybe wait another month until we have more vaccinations. >> now the cdc makes the case that is the science backs this up, right? the cases, the hospitalizations, the deaths are going down, the vaccinations are going up. what do you say to those people who are fully vaccinated who say, why should i have to wait any longer?

>> well, i'm fully vaccinated but i think the reason why we would wait longer is because we want to make sure that we get an opportunity to get our children vaccinated, because we still do not have a vaccine that's approved for children between 2 and 12, so i think that we should, in fact, wait just a little bit longer, and i'm only talking about maybe a couple of months. >> well, either way it will be a delicate transition, that is for sure. mr. perrone, thank you so much for your time this morning. we do apprciate it. thank you. >> well, thank you, whit, and thank you for having us. we really do appreciate it. >> all right, eva, over to you. now to the fallout from the colonial pipeline ransomware attack. while the pipeline is back up and running, the gas shortages caused by a combination of the shutdown and panic buying persists. abc's elwyn lopez is at a gas station in atlanta as the entire state of georgia remains under a state of emergency. good morning to you, elwyn. >> reporter: eva, good morning.

here at this gas station they're still out of premium and fuel shortages are starting to east but gas is still hard to come by along several parts of the east coast gas is still hard to come by. gas buddy is reporting more than 80% of pumps are still dry in washington, d.c. north carolina, georgia and d.c. are now receiving products from our pipeline. over the past few days, experts say the biggest driving force behind the outages, panicked drivers hoarding gas. >> i've been looking for gas for two days like late nights and everything. couldn't find gas anywhere. >> this was more about that psyche that devolved into panic driving these outages more so in my opinion than the result of the shutdown of the colonial pipeline. >> reporter: north carolina hard hit by the outages shifted several school districts on friday to remote learning due to the shortages, and now darkside, the group behind the hack, said it was shutting down, but

experts say it was likely disrupted by law enforcement. now, gas buddy says it could take a week or two for gas stations to get back to normal, but they're hoping that the hunt for gas will be a thing of the past by memorial day weekend. dan? >> let's hope so. elwyn lopez, thank you very much. we turn overseas now and a particularly fraught moment in the middle east. as you may know, there's been a spasm of violence between israelis and palestinians in recent days. and now there's concern that things could get even worse because today is the annual commemoration of what palestinians call the catastrophe, the nakba, the founding of israel and the displacement of the palestinians. let's go to abc's matt gutman on the ground in jerusalem. matt, good morning to you. >> reporter: dan, we are told there will be protests across the west bank and in mixed jewish arab cities inside israel as well as lebanon commemorating what palestinians call the catastrophe. a different kind here in the streets right outside tel aviv. they're still scraping up the glass. that rocket landed about ten

yards behind me, exploding around here, one man was killed here and this likely means this conflict won't be over for some time. cars were on fire and that water main bursting, bystanders screaming. at least one man killed there. today's attack comes after the fifth straight night of rocket attacks from gaza into israel. and israeli warplanes pounding gaza, guided missiles smashing into this hamas commander's compound, again and again while south of tel aviv israel's iron dome missile defense system firing into the night sky. several rockets launched from gaza hitting israeli cities. in gaza, buildings pulverized. bulldozers clearing little hills of rubble. hundreds of thousands forced from their homes in gaza including 7-year-old diana. our team met her in gaza. [ speaking foreign language ] she says, "once they bombed our home, we ran to hide in the

bathroom and when we thought it was over, then the sound was boom again and kept shooting. it didn't quit." palestinian authorities say at least 139 people killed in gaza including 39 children and over a thousand wounded. and the conflict widening. in the west bank clashes in at least five cities between palestinians and israeli troops leaving at least 11 dead, hundreds wounded. also in the west bank, which until now had been relatively quiet, hundreds of armed men vowing to kill israeli soldiers and settlers, and in jordan hundreds of pro-palestinian protesters spilling out towards the border with israel, warning shots fired to keep them from crossing, and along another border with lebanon, protesters setting a fire and actually penetrating the border fence. one person killed in those clashes. and over the smoke clogged skies of gaza, that image, on the right a spray of about a dozen

rocketed launched from gaza and on the left a swirl of iron dome missiles launched to intercept them. we visited one of those facilities. people say, it didn't get every one of the rockets launched out of gaza. >> certainly. the system has been about 90% successful in intercepting rockets. ithink the situation on the ground would be different without the system. >> reporter: and rockets disrupting of funeral friday of a 5-year-old israeli boy killed two days earlier by rocket fire in town of sderot. mourners seen ducking for cover. the u.s. envoy on the ground and we're told he'll speak to palestinians and israelis but with so many conflicts on so many fronts, this is going to be a challenging diploming diploma. whit. >> so much at stake. matt gutman, thank you so much for your reporting. we appreciate it. now back to the battle over leadership and the republican party, congresswoman liz cheney ousted from her post, replaced by a trump loyalist. abc's white house correspondent maryalice parks is on capitol hill with more on what cheney is saying this morning. maryalice, good morning to you.

>> reporter: good morning, whit. now, the republican conference votes this week might have happened behind closed doors, but since neither congresswoman liz cheney nor congresswoman elise stefanik elected to replace her have been shy or quiet, congresswoman cheney has been consistent in her message and raising the stakes saying that this is about more than her future, but about democracy. cheney in her words saying that it is dangerous for other republican leaders to be going along with former president trump's false claims about the election, his refusal to acknowledge the decision that voters made. abc's jon karl spoke with cheney yesterday. take a listen. >> and what does it say about the party choosing somebody to replace you who was effectively chosen by donald trump and saying what he's been saying, those very lies you're talking about? >> i think it's dangerous. i think that we have to recognize how quickly things can unravel.

we have to recognize what it means for the nation to have a former president who has not conceded and who continues to suggest that our electoral system cannot function, cannot do the will of the people. >> reporter: now, cheney went on to say she thought other republicans should be speaking out and that she regretted voting for trump in 2020. on the other hand, congresswoman elise stefanik, who might be slightly more moderate compared to cheney in some of her past votes around tax and social policy, she has just embraced former president trump after being elected to her new leadership post. she thanked trump for backing her and referred to him as a critical part of the republican team. eva? >> maryalice parks for us in d.c. thanks, maryalice. now to the mystery over that tiger seen roaming in a houston neighborhood. a man linked to the animal appeared in court friday as police hunt for the animal.

abc's zohreen shah joins us with more. good morning, zohreen. >> reporter: good morning, eva. cuevas is accused of shooting and killing a man four years ago outside of a restaurant. according to court documents, he violated his bond four times, and that is before he was caught allegedly running from police with a tiger. this morning, a man linked to a missing houston tiger is waking up in jail after a judge revoked his bond friday raising it to 300 grand on a separate 2017 murder charge. new video showing the man, bengal tiger whose big escape - sunday night was repeatedly brought up during the hearing. >> once we were across the street in the yard, mr. cuevas came out, stated, don't kill it. don't kill it. don't kill it. >> reporter: a deputy recounting seeing cuevas and the 9-month-old cub outside of a home in this houston neighborhood last weekend. bystanders catching it on camera.

>> he said, that is my tiger. >> and what did you observe the defendant do? >> he approached the tiger, grabbed it by the collar, ss it onheead and proceeded to take it back into his house. >> reporter: according to deputies, cuevas came back outside, loading india the tiger into his jeep and running from law enforcement. on monday authorities finding cuevas at his mother's home arresting him for evading police. but the tiger still nowhere to be found. >> where is the tiger now? >> reporter: midweek cuevas out on bail. friday was his bail hearing for his previous 2017 charges, and despite many pictures on his now deleted instagram account with exotic animals, his wife and lawyer making the case he does not own the wildcat. >> i know it's not victor's. he was just his caretaker. >> this was literally like a dog. this cat slept with victor when he was there, played with victor when he was there. >> reporter: overnight houston

of searching for a missing tiger. >> i'm not sure. i don't know if he was just looking after the tiger or actually purchased it. a lot of times when we're going after people dealing in exotic animals, they start passing the animal from house to house with people that are involved in the trade. >> reporter: it is illegal to keep a pet tiger in the city of houston. animal rights activist carole baskin offering a reward to locate the tiger. dan, we are now on day seven of tiger watch. >> you know, i have to say i feel bad for the tiger in all of this. >> yeah. absolutely. t>> hese wild animals are meant to live in the wide. zohreen, thank you very much. really appreciate it. we're going to check the weather and rob marciano is in miami beach this morning. robert, good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, dan. a beautiful morning here in miami beach, and we are here to preview the upcoming hurricane season and all the cities that are vulnerable as we sort of were last year with the record-breaking season, so let's start actually with what's happening in new orleans. obviously very prone to

hurricanes. they had zeta go through at the end of the season. this is a severe thunderstorm that came through earlier this week and spit up a little tornado and did some damage there. a little bit more inland in goodland, kansas, blowing dust there with winds 70 miles per hour north of wichita, softball-size hail with that severe thunderstorm. the severe weather threat will remain, it looks like, in the central plains. i think after 1:00 to about maybe 9:00, 10:00, is when you'll see it east of denver through the panhandle of texas, damaging winds, large hail, an isolated tornado and probably a similar area tomorrow. an isolated tornado and the dry line doesn't move a whole lot and flooding rains potentially with this. that's what's happening nationally. let's get a check a little closer to home. good saturday morning. some light showers from sfo to oakland to the east bay mist and drizzle at the coast. we'll break out into some sun

this afternoon but this will be below average and the week ahead doesn't hoekstra warm. 59, san francisco. 65 san >> big changes at the national hurricane center here in miami. we'll talk more about that and what the city of miami is doing to protect itself against the rising waters here along the atlantic. guys, back over to you. >> an important story. all right. rob, we'll talk to you soon. thank you. well, the preakness is just a few hours away and despite controversy following the kentucky derby, winner medina spirit has been cleared to run in the second leg of the triple crown. abc's elizabeth schulze is at the pimlico race course in baltimore with a preview. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, whit. well, ten horses will compete in the preakness today in the second leg of the triple crown but one horse is already stealing the spotlight, medina the ntky derby winner was officially cleared to race here

today after passing three separate rounds of drug testing, this, of course, comes after the horse tested positive for a banned steroid after winning the derby just two weeks ago. now, famed trainer bob baffert agreed to rigorous testing and monitoring in order fo medina spirit and two of his other horses to compete in baltimore but he won't be here today. he'll be watching from home in california. baffert is currently still suspended from churchill downs and he is awaiting a second drug test that will determine if medina spirit can hold on to the title of the derby winner. baffert is now also facing two class action lawsuits from betters who claim that he knowingly cheated them of their earnings by running a, quote, drugged horse. baffert denies that he intentionally cheated and said the steroid was part of a cream prescribed by the horse's vet. and, guys, here in baltimore, baffert has already won seven times in the preakness. if he wins today it will be a all-time record. early betting odds show

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graduate student wanted in the killing of a yale student is behind bars. u.s. marshals arrested qinxuan pan in montgomery, alabama, after a nearly three-month-long manhunt charged in the killing of kevin jiang in new haven, connecticut. also right now, the department of justice and the fbi are investigating the death of jamal sutherland. sutherland who reportedly suffered from bipolar and schizophrenia died while in police custody in charleston, south carolina, earlier this times. ter being tased numerous- and also in south carolina, a special honor for the bus driver who was at the wheel when his bus full of students was hijacked by a soldier last week. kenneth corbin was honored for bravery in a ceremony on friday. the alleged hijacker, 23-year-old jovan collazo faces multiple charges, including 19 counts of kidnapping. we start this half hour with a closer look at just how vulnerable america's infrastructure is to hackers. the colonial pipeline shutdown,

the most disruptive cyberattack on record but more breaches may be in our future. abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas has more. >> reporter: as if the pandemic were not enough last november for children in baltimore county schools, there was another menace. >> we can now confirm that we were the victim of a ransomware cyberattack. >> reporter: a hack by criminals demanding a ransom shutting down virtual learning for more than 100,000 students. incidents like this demonstrating the rising threat of so-called ransomware attacks. >> ransomware and multifaceted extortion is the number one cybersecurity threat out there. we're going to continue to see more and more of it and it's going to start to impact our way of life more and more. >> reporter: millions of americans unable to buy gas this week in a number of states throughout the southeast after a group operating in russia known as darkside forced colonial pipeline to shut down. under pressure of a million dollar ransom allegedly paid to re-open a pipeline responsible for 45% of the east coast's

fuel. >> we need to harden our infrastructure and make it more resilient against all threats, natural and man-made. >> reporter: ransomware attacks spiking. according to homeland security up nearly 300% in the past year alone, and hackers have been getting paid. roughly $350 million in extortion money last year with companies and american consumers paying up. hackers from around the world ever more skillful with private companies inconsistent in their security measures and their training of employees. >> malicious cyberactors today are dedicating time and resources towards researching, stealing and exploiting vulnerabilities. >> reporter: and the cybersecurity firm crowdstrike says it tracks more than 5 trillion incidents per week. >> only thing we can do is invest in security, invest in people and invest in technology and to elevate the security posture of every organization across the country. >> reporter: president biden admitting this week that there are limitations on what the federal government can do to push private companies to

improve cybersecurity. >> i cannot dictate that the private companies do certain things relative to cybersecurity but i think it's becoming clear to everyone that we have to do more than being done now. >> reporter: the president did sign an executive order which would require companies doing business with the u.s. government to properly report incursions and the justice department plans to target the infrastructure of hackers and to block them from getting access to their extorted money. for "good morning america," pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >> our thanks to pierre for that report. we do want to turn to the weather. rob marciano is down in miami beach. the weather looking fantastic down there, rob. what's going on? >> reporter: well, nothing like a hurricane preview to have some nice weather finally. we're normally chasing storms when we get into hurricane season. the national hurricane center here in miami has taken the unprecedented step by starting forecasts earlier, may 15th, two weeks before the start of hurricane season because we have

such an early start of late. last year was so busy we have news out of hurricane zeta which hit new orleans last year at the end of the season and upgraded it to a cat 3 with reanalysis. 150-mile-per-hour winds that makes it the latest landfalling hurricane in the u.s. on record. all right, let's talk about the names for the pacific. we talked about andres. their season does officially tart today but they already had andres last week. that's the earliest named storm and names for the atlantic are colorful as we go through the alphabet, hopefully not the entire one again. that's a check nationally. time for a look at your local it's a pretty good marine layer. above a partly cloudy sky on the way. some showers this morning and cool today with >> reporter: this weather report >> this weather report sponsored by the google pixel phone.

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question long-standing policies against hair and their detrimental impact on black identity and self-worth. >> this will never change how i feel about my face, my body, my hair, none of it. it's going to be with me for the rest of my life. >> reporter: 16-year-old nicole pyles was given a choice, remove beads from her hair or leave her teammates and get kicked out of her high school softball game. the midgame decision came after umpires said her hair violated athletic regulations when they couldn't see her jersey number although the number is clearly visible. pyles opted to remove the clear beads. some had to be cut out. you can hear her teammate in this facebook live video. >> does anybody have scissors? >> how did it make you feel when you were faced with the decision to, you know, change your appearance? >> i mean, i truly felt like in my heart that it was not a choice or decision. i felt disrespected. and i felt humiliated. >> reporter: this morning the sophomore and her father are calling it discrimination and are demanding the regulations change to prevent future

incidents. >> my child wasn't protected. how can they see the pain that they caused to these children's lives, to black people's lives? they can't. >> reporter: according to pyles after the opposing team's coach singled her out the umpires took a strict interpretation of the rule that allows barrettes and hair clips, but prohibits bandanas and hair beads. >> it's like it defines us. it's a part of us and i'm like, like i said, i'm not going to let braid as take away from who i am like on the field and off the field but that is a part of me and i don't think that should be stripped away from me. >> reporter: black hairstyles from braids to locks have long been policed in sports and in society. in 2018, this video of student wrestler andrew johnson went viral after he was forced to cut his hair and in order to compete in a high school match. >> the harm that is caused by imposing these rules especially upon students of color vastly outweighs any benefit in having them. we're talking about baseball where nicole could get hit in the stomach with a baseball but

we're worried about a student being harmed by beads in her hair. it just doesn't make sense. >> reporter: durham public schools saying it opposes unreasonable or biased restrictions on black women's hairstyles adding, we believe the blanket ban on hair beads is culturally biased and problematic. we support our student nicole pyles and believe this rule should be amended. the national federation of state high school associations, whose rules govern high school sports, say these regulations are ultimately about safety. >> the rule was never intended to address any kind of prohibition of a culture, ethnic group or even a hairstyle that might be most comfortable for a participant. obviously risk minimization is still a concern, but where it's appropriate, we want to go ahead and make sure that a youth participant can play with a full identity being expressed. >> reporter: earlier this year the durham city council passed the bill banning discrimination against certain hairstyles in

the workplace. it's known as the c.r.o.w.n. act which the local school district supports. now, that high school sports governing body says the ban is up for consideration on beads and will be reviewed in june. dan? >> sounds like it's possible some lessons will be learned here. zachary, thank you. coming up on "gma," rob takes a look at the forecast for this year's hurricane season and the challenges of rising sea levels. ♪ ♪ i want to see you stand up ♪ ♪ i want to feel you be proud ♪ ♪ i want to hear your beating heart ♪ ♪ live out loud ♪ ♪ you can do it on your own ♪ ♪ stand up now ♪ ♪ be proud, yeah ♪ ♪ stand up now ♪ ♪ live out loud, oh ♪ ♪ love them, hate their laundry, protection.

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big season. rob, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning ri we think wind and water, and for cities on the coast like miami, water is probably the bigger problem, and it's becoming a problem all year long to the point where they have to build parts of the city up higher like the road around this restaurant which you have to climb out of after you have a meal so they can protect this neighborhood. it's adaptations like these that are going to become more common as sea levels continue to rise. after a record-shattering 2020 hurricane season, residents along the gulf and east coasts are bracing for a new season. dr. michael brennan from the national hurricane center says, it's likely to be another active one. >> we've had, you know, very, very active hurricane seasons going back the last three or four years, so i think everybody has to be prepared for that to continue. >> reporter: that's everyone from texas to new england. here in miami, that means another year of flooding with or without tropical storms. it's one of many american cities

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