good morning, america. split decision. an fda advisory panel rejecting pfizer booster shots for all but supporting a third dose for those over 65 and others at high risk. what happens next? panel member dr. paul offit joins us live this morning. on alert. security tight in washington. police bracing for a rally in support of the rioters who stormed the capitol building in january, the concerns about possible clashes with counterprotesters. tragic mistake. the pentagon admitting the drone strike they said hit isis-k members in kabul actually killed ten civilians. >> i offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed. >> the investigation into the

intelligence failure. breaking overnight, migrant turnaround. reports the biden administration is planning a wide-scale expulsion of haitian migrants from a texas border town by flying them back home. what we know right now. robert durst. >> guilty verdict overnight, a jury convicting millionaire robert durst of murdering his best friend. the twists and turns of this decades long case. breaking news. police in florida now working to find brian laundrie. just days after police called him a person of interest in the disappearance of his girlfriend gabby petito. a police spokesman joins us live. sticker shock. car prices soaring. what's behind the price surge and advice if you're in the market for new wheels. and heading home. >> whoa. >> the inspiration4 team preparing to return to earth but not before answering some questions from a special group of kids. >> what kind of sleeping bag do

you have? >> thank you for that question. >> plus, the stunning new images this morning. and good morning, america. so dan has the morning off, but we're very excited to have our friend, the one and only stephanie ramos here at the desk this morning. >> thank you. >> also we call her major ramos because she is a major in the u.s. army. she's a super mom, super journalist. and our friend so we're excited to have her here. >> and she could beat you up probably. >> that's not saying a whole lot bt she definitely can. >> thank you so much for the warm welcome. it is so nice to see you guys. it's like seeing old friends, and we get to hang out for a couple of hours and then you'll give me 20 push-ups. >> that too. we have a lot to get to this morning and we begin with the battle over booster shots. the fda advisory panel delivering a mixed decision on a third dose of the pfizer vaccine deciding not to recommend boosters for everyone 16 and up but approving them for those 65 and over or those at high risk.

>> as the struggle to control the pandemic continues, a tribute to the victims opening at the national mall. blanketing 20 acres with more than 660,000 white flags in honor of the americans who have lost their lives. >> and abc's elwyn lopez is at cdc headquarters in atlanta with the latest on the pandemic and what comes next in this booster rollout. elwyn, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning. that was the first move in getting that extra dose into the arms of people across the country, but it came with two votes, a yes for some and a no for most, at least for now. this morning, millions of vaccinated americans one step closer to getting an added dose. at least six months after that second one. this after an fda panel backed the pfizer booster for emergency use authorization, but only to those 65 and older as well as anyone at high risk of severe covid. >> we do have a unanimous 18 out of 18 who voted yes. >> reporter: but first, the

panel overwhelmingly rejecting it for the general public saying more data is needed. >> one of the issues in this is that much of the data that's been presented is being discussed today is not peer reviewed and has not been reviewed by fda. >> reporter: the recommendation comes following the biden administration's suggestion that the general public be ready to roll up its sleeves for that additional arm to needle starting monday, but now adding this was only pending approval. a final decision expected in the coming days. then it heads to the cdc where the agency will also consider a third dose for essential workers at the front lines of the pandemic. the fda panel unanimously supporting it. meanwhile, the additional shots already going into the arms of the immunocompromised like beth dixon. >> you know, we need to listen to the experts on this. if they're saying that this is really only better for right now for people who are in higher risk categories, then it makes

sense it's only available to those categories. i understand that my condition is different from most people who have normal working immune systems. >> reporter: this as the pandemic continues to reach new heights. the u.s. now averaging more than 1,400 deaths a day, approximately 7.5 times higher than in mid-july. with icus in eight states now running out of beds, more than 2,000 of those hospitalized across the country sick with covid are children. in south carolina, 17-year-old christian davila is still struggling to walk a month after contracting the virus. >> right now it's just physical therapy to get back to 100%. covid took all of my stamina away. >> reporter: guys, while critics say the biden administration's time line for its booster rollout put pressure on the scientists, the u.s. surgeon general says the plan was always contingent on the fda and cdc's independent evaluation.

we know here at the cdc, they are expected to meet next week to discuss those boosters. whit. >> elwyn lopez for us, thank you so much. joining us is dr. paul offit, a vaccine expert at the children's hospital of philadelphia and a member of the fda's advisory panel who was part of the booster recommendation yesterday. dr. offit, it's good to see you. good morning. great to have you. as we noted in that report, you and your colleagues on the fda advisory panel voted to reject booster shots for everyone 16 and up. i'll get to what you did support in just a moment, but what was missing from the data regarding young people and boosters and why are you unconvinced that they need them right now? >> well, i think what we were presented were data from israel showing that there was an erosion of protection against severe disease with the mrna vaccines. that hasn't been appreciated in the united states. i mean, there are a handful of studies that have all showed the same thing, which is two doses of mrna vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe disease including delta and including all age groups so we weren't as -- felt as compelled to follow israel's lead and rather we wanted to test the water with one foot by

putting the vaccine into people who are older, those greater than 65 or those with high risk medical conditions and then learn from that. remember, the initial phase 3 trials of the mrna vaccines were in 30,000 for moderna. 44,000 people for pfizer. the phase 3 trial for three doses was in 306 people so i think we really do need to test the water with one foot as we move forward. >> so there were some dramatic twists, so to speak, as far as these panels go. you voted unanimously eventually to limit the scope as you mentioned recommending booster shots for those 65 and older and at high risk. what was different about that group specifically and then what's your advice for those people who could soon be eligible? >> right, i think also again as we said in the preliminary here is that we're an advisory body. we give advice to the fda, the fda then will presumably take that advice and then -- but the fda is a regulatory agency, not a recommending agency, then it

goes to cdc. the cdc will be -- so by the end of this week i think we'll learn more about exactly what the recommendations are, but i want to make one point, i mean, hopefully to some extent this will impact the pandemic by giving a third dose to people who are at highest risk, but if we really want to get on top of this pandemic we need to vaccinate the unvaccinated, as you saw in the graph that you just showed in terms of where the hot spots are, those are all states with relatively low vaccination rates. that's going to be the key. i don't think people should have the notion now with this third dose we're going to get on top of the pandemic because we're not until we vaccinate people who are unvaccinated. >> part of what led up to the debate, last month the biden administration put out this date of september 20th for when boosters would likely be available to the general public they did say pending approval, but did the white house get too far ahead of themselves and the science on this? >> i don't think they necessarily got ahead of the science. i think what they got ahead of was the scientific process.

so what normally happens, you have a problem, for example, erosion and protection against milder asymptomatic infection and a solution which is to give a booster dose and generate data. those go to the fda for at least approval regarding regulating, allowing the company to distribute it, for example, as a three-dose product to certain groups and then it goes to the cdc who makes the recommendation. i think by sort of declaring a date of september 20th, they really did marginalize the fda and cdc in that process initially but eventually it worked out. >> dr. offit, thank you again for your time this morning. we do appreciate it. >> thank you. >> eva, over to you. security is tight in washington, d.c. this morning ahead of the so-called justice for j6 rally. abc's congressional correspondent rachel scott is there with the preparations police are making. good morning to you, rachel. >> reporter: eva, good morning. and in just a few hours, demonstrators are expected to gather right here in support of those rioters who stormed the capitol on january 6th. and this time police say they are ready.

they're taking no chances. take a look, you have one layer of fencing right here, and as you get closer to the capitol you have those seven-foot-high fences that wrap around the entire complex. also around the entire supreme court. over on this side, two layers of barricades right there including those plow trucks that are being linked together. you have d.c. police that will be fully activated, 100 national guardsmen will be standing by, waiting in the wings ready to be used if necessary. we've also seen new surveillance cameras that have been up, all serving in stark contrast to what we saw january 6th. we were out here that day and we saw police officers overwhelmed, outnumbered, more than 140 officers were injured that day. the department of homeland security has warned of potential violence. the capitol police chief told me that he is most concerned about demonstrators here clashing with some counterprotesters that are gathering over in freedom plaza, but the bottom line, he says,

they will not tolerate any violence, and he was clear that this will not be a repeat of january 6th, stephanie. >> rachel scott there in washington for us, thank you so much. security certainly trying to avoid every key situation. now to a stunning admission from the pentagon that a drone strike in kabul during those chaotic evacuations from afghanistan hit civilians instead of isis-k members. abc's white house correspondent maryalice parks is on the north lawn with that story. and the apology. good morning, maryalice. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, stephanie. it's been three weeks, but the pentagon is now unequivocally apologizing for the missile strike in kabul that left ten dead including children. pentagon officials now calling a u.s. missile strike in kabul a terrible mistake concluding it left seven innocent children and three innocent adults dead. identifying the driver of the car targeted as zemari ahmadi, an aid worker who worked for a u.s.-based group seen in this surveillance video officials now acknowledge loading water canisters into the car, not

explosives. >> it was a mistake, and i offer my sincere apology. >> reporter: secretary of defense lloyd austin offering his condolences to the family writing, we now know that there was no connection between mr. ahmadi and isis-khorasan and that his activities on that day were completely harmless. it was just three days after a suicide bomber killed 13 american service members and some 170 afghans at the kabul airport. fears and anxiety around the final withdrawal of u.s. troops sky high. and the pentagon said it had dozens of intelligence reports indicating another imminent attack. so u.s. drones tracking a white car for hours they thought had linked up with isis-k watching the driver load the vehicle launching that hellfire missile. in the days after military officials defending the move. >> i know it's a righteous strike. >> reporter: a "new york times" investigation first calling the strike into question. >> there were all sorts of factors that went into the poor

decision to pull the trigger on this target without properly identifying the person in the car and in the surrounding area. >> reporter: there are questions now of accountability. the military says it will finish a complete investigation into what went wrong, but this was obviously an intelligence failure after a long line of major intelligence issues out of afghanistan this summer. whit. >> really an awful scene there as the country moved out of that afghanistan after two decades of war. maryalice, thank you so much. we appreciate it. now to the humanitarian crisis at the border. u.s. customs and border protection closing the del rio port of entry as thousands of migrants gather trying to seek asylum. abc's zohreen shah joins us now with more. zohreen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. texas governor greg abbott retweeted an ap post that said the biden administration is planning to put the migrants at the texas border on planes to haiti, and it could come as early as tomorrow. this comes as city leaders declared a state of emergency in the border town of del rio. that's where nearly 13,000 migrants have now come together seeking asylum.

they're being held under tough conditions in a staging area under the del rio international bridge. there is triple-digit heat during the day. food and clean water are also scarce. governor abbott ordered state police and national guard to help the overwhelmed border agents. the mayor says it's simply not sustainable. he says one person gave birth under the bridge. sources say the majority are from haiti. the country is still recovering from a recent presidential assassination and an earthquake. and more than 208,000 apprehensions were reported at the southern border in august. that's an over 300% increase over the same month last year. now, the dhs secretary says they are working to address the influx. he says they will employ the use of title 42, that's a trump-era health policy which allowed the expulsion of migrants without allowing them to seek asylum. now more migrants are expected to arrive, about 8,000 expected in coming days. eva. >> zohreen shah for us there, thank you.

now to a court case that has garnered headlines across the country for decades. overnight, a jury convicted robert durst of first degree murder in the shooting death of his best friend. abc's senior national correspondent jim avila has the details from los angeles. >> reporter: overnight, a verdict years in the making. a rich, once-powerful new york real estate baron but now at 78 suffering from cancer sitting in a wheelchair hooked to a catheter bag just feet from the jury as he testified. robert durst had escaped justice for four decades after his wife kathy disappeared. her body never found. but prosecutors say his efforts to cover up the crime, one he has never been charged with, led to two other murders, one of them in beverly hills, the execution-style shooting of durst's best friend, susan berman, who was about to tell investigators she knew durst was his wife's killer. >> he's a narcissistic psychopath. >> reporter: durst was acquitted of murder in the killing of a

neighbor who threatened to reveal his identity while in hiding in galveston, texas. then he made the mistake of talking about his innocence in an hbo documentary called "the jinx" inadvertently confessing to the three murders, according to prosecutors, mumbling to himself while in the bathroom during a break. >> what the hell did i do? killed them all, of course. >> reporter: and it was durst's own words that again led to this guilty verdict testifying he would lie under oath to save his freedom. >> there's never been a defendant that i'm aware of that has perjured himself so many times about so many different things in such a short period of time. >> reporter: now he's likely to spend the rest of his remaining years in a california prison. his attorneys say he will appeal. durst was not in the courtroom for his own verdict. he's in isolation in a jailhouse hospital with covid exposure. his sentencing is october 18th. stephanie. >> incredible that that case has

gone on for decades. our thanks to jim avila for that report. it is time now to check in with rob marciano. rob, you got a tropical storm to tell us about. >> yes. >> look, they're all on -- >> i know. >> reporting for duty. >> major ramos, good to have you. hey, good morning, guys. >> good soldier. >> do some laps as well. so much rainfall in richmond, virginia, the last couple of days that the downtown streets were flooded. i-95, water splashing over the k-rails from 4 inches of rainfall from a front and a tropical system that's now tropical storm odette heading away from shore, about 200 miles south of nantucket, 45-mile-an-hour winds, the worst we'll get from this is our rip currents but nearly the entire east coast will see it. so if you're heading to the beaches this weekend, just be aware of that. it's going be dangerous. 48-foot seas as well and big waves out there for the surfers. we have another area of

disturbance, two actually but this one near the leeward islands, 90% chance of becoming our next tropical cyclone, so next name will be peter, by the way, our spaghetti models bring it towards us. this time of year it's tough to get to the u.s. and hopefully that will be the case and it wi >> 98, 99. >> you're not low enough. >> 100. >> all right. >> thank you, ma'am. may i have another? >> at ease. >> private marciano. >> a couple laps around times square.

>> was that nine or ten? what was that? >> can i have some ice? >> i feel like you did five of them. >> who's counting? >> we'll get you some tiger balm. thanks, robert. we'll talk to you soon. we do have more ahead. the crew of spacex inspiration4 are getting ready to return to earth, but before they do that, these civilian astronauts are making the most of their time in orbit, and abc's transportation correspondent gio benitez is at a planetarium in new york city with a look at what the crew has been up to way up there. gio, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning to you. yeah, this crew, this all-civilian crew has been soaring 367 miles above the earth, and as you're about to see, they've spent much of their time in space raising money to help end childhood cancer. overnight, the inspiration4 crew beaming back stunning new images from orbit. an orbital sunset as they circle the earth at 23 times the speed of sound. this is the ship's cupola and hayley arceneaux, the youngest american in space, gives us a tour. >> this is the largest window

ever flown in space and we can put our head in and see the entire perimeter of the earth. >> reporter: hayley works at the st. jude children's hospital where she was once a patient. as they try to raise $200 million for the hospital, the crew spoke live with the children there now answering their questions. >> what kind of sleeping bag do you have? >> hey, miss ava, thank you for that question. so, if you've ever been camping, we pretty much have those same kind of sleeping bags and we had a seat belt around our sleeping bags so we didn't fly away when we were sleeping. >> did you take pictures in space? >> great question. we absolutely can take pictures in space, and we've been taking a lot of those pictures and video so we can capture this moment and share it with everybody when we come home. >> reporter: while moving at 17,500 miles per hour orbiting the earth about 16 times every day, the crew has been

conducting experiments, some with this portable ultrasound. >> measuring our cornea and optic nerve for indications on intracranial pressure. >> we've also been taking several swabs of different parts of our body to evaluate the microbiome and how that changes in these three days in space. >> reporter: now, in just hours, the crew plans to splash down in the ocean just like this with recovery boats standing by. and that splashdown is expected to happen tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern. by the way, since liftoff on wednesday, the inspiration4 crew has already raised nearly half a million dollars for st. jude. just incredible, guys. >> so incredible and so cool to see those kids getting to ask them questions. >> i love that. >> i'm sure they will never forget getting to talk to someone in space. >> good questions too. >> absolutely. very smart questions. well, new developments overnight in the search for gabby petito, the fbi is now also looking for her boyfriend whose whereabouts are not known.

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♪ welcome back to "gma" on this saturday morning. "the mandalorian" going into tomorrow night's emmy awards ceremony with 24 nominations including best drama series, coming up in "binge this," your guide to the emmys, who's expected to take home those coveted statues in our second hour. very exciting. >> we're big "star wars"/"mandalorian" fans up around here. >> you guys have been selling it. >> you have to get caught up. >> i do. this is my time to make a list of movies that i need to watch. >> exactly. >> we're heading into the winter when it's too cold to go out anyways. >> exactly. plenty of time. we have a lot of other stories to look at. here are the ones we're following. happening now, france is recalling its ambassador to the u.s. and australia. the french government is

furious over a secretly negotiated security deal between australia, the u.s. and uk costing the french a $90 billion submarine contract with australia. france says the recall will last indefinitely. also right now, the department of justice is charging 138 people including 42 licensed medical professionals with $1.4 billion in healthcare fraud. the feds say the majority of the schemes involved telemedicine with allegations of billing medicare for fraudulent tests as well as doctors receiving money to order unnecessary equipment, tests and medications. and the excitement is building in state college, pennsylvania, as fans start gathering for the big whiteout game between auburn and penn stte. this marks the return of this famous game at beaver stadium after taking a year off due to covid. you can watch all the action right here on abc later today. and we start this half hour with the breaking news surrounding the search for a

young woman from new york gone missing. gabby petito's boyfriend has apparently disappeared himself. abc's trevor ault has more. >> reporter: this morning, growing questions and a new twist in the disappearance of gabby petito as her boyfriend's family now reports his whereabouts are unknown. they say they haven't heard from him since tuesday. the fbi and local law enforcement now looking for him. >> we've been trying all week to talk to his family, to talk to brian. >> where is gabby? >> reporter: overnight, protesters gathering outside his home in florida. investigators saying brian laundrie has refused to speak with them after gabby vanished on a cross-country road trip. >> she wouldn't leave her family. i'd like to emphasize that. >> reporter: gabby's friend rose telling us she was planning to meet up with gabby and brian last week at yellowstone. when gab indy didn't call her for her 21st birthday in late

august, she knew something was off. >> i was a little taken back by it just because like i know her. and she would have messaged me. >> reporter: brian laundrie has been named a person of interest in the search. >> it seems his lawyer is very clear about the strategy that they want the police officers to do the work and he's not getting involved. >> reporter: his sister cassie is so far the only one to speak publicly. >> me and my family want gabby to be found safe. she's like a sister, and my children love her and all i want is for her to come home safe and sound. >> reporter: those body camera images show the couple just days before gabby petito was last seen, officers responding to a 911 call from a witness reporting an argument between the two near arches national park in utah. >> what's going on? how come you're crying? >> we've just been fighting this morning, going through some personal issues. >> reporter: gabby's mother said she last spoke with her dawg august 25th with gabby saying they were in grand teton,

wyoming. >> the key here is going to be finding other people that have seen them. >> reporter: overnight, the fbi releasing this missing person poster of gabby, the agency's denver bureau the latest to join the effort. >> she's still out there somewhere where she doesn't have access to communication and we got to get her. >> reporter: gabby's family now fanning out across the country traveling to florida and wyoming to help in the search to find her. >> all that matters is finding her, bringing her home. we're still trying to get the word out there, you know, and try to find that one person that might have some details that we need. >> reporter: and investigators continue to stress that while brian laundrie is a person of interest, right now he is not wanted in a crime though police admit they're frustrated. and overnight the petito family attorney released a statement that said, all of gabby's family want the world to know brian is not missing, he is hiding, gabby is missing. eva. >> trevor ault for us there, thank you. joining us now is josh taylor, the public information

officer of the north port, florida, police department. thanks for being with us this morning. let's first talk about brian laundrie who has now disappeared. how did y'all find out about that? what's the latest on that situation? >> his attorney reached out to law enforcement late friday evening, said the family need to speak with us. they were concerned they had not seen brian since tuesday, so we went to the house and began talking with them, and we are trying to corroborate everything that they've been telling us. >> do you know if he left a note or a message about where he was going possibly? >> no, ma'am. i don't believe that that happened. again, we've been trying to reach the family all week. this is the first time we've had communication with them and now they're telling us that he's been gone for essentially the last four days. >> and let's talk about the

communication you've had with his family. now that you've spoken to them, have they given you any information, any more information about what happened to gabby? >> right, our detectives were certainly speaking with them yesterday with their lawyer present on the phone. so it was -- i wouldn't say that it was, you know, a full conversation. right now their focus was on us helping them find their son. >> did they allude to any idea if their son had told them what happened between the two of them? >> i do not have that information. you know, obviously everything that's been shared, we're not -- i can't release everything and honestly right at this moment i don't know, ma'am. >> and i know you guys have been trying to kind of piece together brian's movements from the last time that we know that gabby was seen. can you walk us through what you've been able to figure out

so far? >> as far as the time line on their movements across the country for the last three weeks? >> yes, and kind of what you guys are doing. are you looking at cameras, at tollbooths? how are you piecing all of that together? >> sure, so, you know, we have the tip line that's out there. we hope to continue to share that, 1-800-call-fbi. certainly this vehicle drove back here to north port ten days ago. brian was back here in this community for ten days before his family, not him, reported her missing. they began to get concerned, weren't able to get answers, so that's when we were called in. certainly that truck did not drive from, you know, potentially, you know, the mountain west to here on one tank of gas, so we know there were stops along the way. if people saw anything as far as those movements, we're piecing that together, some parts of the time line i think that we have solidified.

we know that her mom talked to her, saw her on facetime on the 25th of august. she later did receive some texts, however, you know, there is a lot of speculation as to how many of those texts gabby actually sent. >> and really i guess you guys are asking people if they saw that van or the two of them at all to please call that tip line and help you guys as you try to piece this all together. thank you so much, josh taylor, for being with us. whit, over to you. we do want to turn and get a check of the weather, rob marciano, we were talking about the flooding but also the fire danger, still a major issue out west. >> yeah, you know it too well in california, whit. this is the sequoia fire where they have those huge sequoia trees which typically actually like fire, they need fire but the fires are burning so hot with climate change, that they are in danger. we lost a number of them a couple of years ago and taking the steps of wrapping one at least the biggest one with this aluminum foil type of stuff and hopefully will survive. red flag warnings across parts of california, across eight

states. there was a new fire burning north of los angeles and wind gusts 40 to 60 miles an hour and humidity levels down to 6%. there is a little bit of rain coming to the northwest, but the extreme drought is still the problem across parts of california. 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 inches of rain seattle to portland. more like october than september but it's only staying for the northwest. this will end your fire season, not so much for california. that's the latest on what's this weather report has been sponsored by state farm. let it be known i'm borrowing one of dan's ties. next weekend is his last weekend. >> will he have a tie estate sale for the rest of us? >> i mean just taking them is a sale. >> they're all black anyway. black, dark blue. >> i already got the couch from his office, for the record. >> thank you, rob.

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welcome back to "gma" and why car prices are set to take off faster than a maserati. i didn't write that but i do like it. a new set of wheels threatening to bust the budget. abc's deirdre bolton is here with advice for potential buyers out there. deirdre, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, whit. you are so right, car prices are already at record highs for both new and used cars. the pandemic has been contributing to major supply chain shortages and experts say prices are going to go even higher due to hurricane ida and other storms. david paris from j.d. power & associates told me used vehicle prices usually pick up for two, three months after a major storm but that's when there's a healthy level of inventory and this is uncharted territory. dealers lost inventory in those storms, people lost their cars so that creates more demand.

kayla reynolds from cox automotive points out that flooding and damage from the hurricanes really hitting at a time when the auto industry is fragile so, for consumers who have to buy now the silver line something trade-in values are 60% higher than this time last year, but the bottom line is for those of you who can wait until spring to buy either a new or a used car, wait. experts say prices will come down in the next few months, whit. >> got to have a little patience. all right, deidre. thank you so much. we appreciate it. coming up here on "good morning america," rob talks to paralympian mallory weggemann about her impressive achievements in and out of the pool. stay with us. of the pool. stay wh us. more....beginners' yoga. namaste... ...surprise parties. aww, you guys. dupixent helps prevent asthma attacks...

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legs as she balances herself upside down, oh, boy, this is what my sons will be trying. when i get home. >> yeah, yeah. hopefully put a pillow underneath just in case. "gma" now two hours on saturdays so coming up more on the fda advisory committee's recommendation on booster shots and who should get them. our "gma" cover story. one of the ancient wonders of the world getting a touch-up. wonders of the world getting a touch-up. >> abc 7 mornings. >> good morning. it is the annual festival in san francisco's richmond district. the festival is back after being canceled last year because of the pandemic. working nicer say it is time to -- organizers say it is time to

focus on the event. it runs from 11:00 to 3:00. today is national cheeseburger day. some restaurants are celebrating with discounts and free food. mcdonald's, red robin and wendy's are celebrating the day. flour garden is blooming once again. now through septe thr sanitizing stations will be available at all 12 pianos. the concert hall was put on pause in 2020. tickets are free for san francisco residents. >> good morning. as we look at our live doppler seven image, this satellite and

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>> building a better bay area, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> pg&e's warning about a shut off in some counties in two days. good morning,,,, abc 7 news live on abc seven and wherever you stream. but start with a quick look at the weather. this is tracking the conditions that have pg&e concerned. lisa: that has to do with what is behind the cold front, gusty offshore winds. we will be at first by the clouds, winds,