breaking news on "america this morning," the director of the cdc issuing a statement overnight on covid vaccine booster shots overruling the recommendations made just hours earlier. we'll take you through the new guidelines with our medical experts. more witnesses coming forward describing the terrifying moments a gunman went on a shooting rampage inside this supermarket. people hiding in freezers, even climbing to the roof to escape. what we're learning about the shooter. a major step in the investigation of the january attack on the u.s. capitol. former president trump's top advisers now getting subpoenas. this as we learn results overnight from a controversial audit of the 2020 election results. plus, the unexpected arrest warrant in the case of murdered 22-year-old gabby petito.

in the footsteps of history, the stunning discovery in the american southwest showing humans may have been in north america much earlier than we thought. and later, tired of all those different chargers for your electronic devices? the new push for one standardized charger for all devices. good friday morning, everyone. i'm mona kosar abdi. >> i'm phil lipof in for andrew this morning. we begin with breaking news. the director of the cdc issuing a statement overnight. she is making new recommendations about covid vaccine booster shots. >> and her recommendations are differen from those issued late yesterday by a panel of cdc advisers. the difference concerns frontline workers like health care workers, grocery store p pleas and eachers. abc's ike ejiochi is here with all those details. ike, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mona. that cdc advisory panel said basing boosters off occupation will only lead to more

confusion. the cdc director felt otherwise. this morning, cdc director dr. rochelle walensky overruling parts of an advisory panel's decision regarding booster shots paving the way for tens of millions of more americans to get inoculated. dr. walensky releasing a statement this morning, i believe we can best serve the nation's public health needs by providing booster doses for the elderly, those in long-term care facilities, people with underlying medical conditions and for adults at high risk of disease from occupational and institutional exposures to covid-19. >> this was the right move by cdc director walensky to look at the scenario and say, those people exposed to covid-19 on a daily basis such as those working in er deserve to have the eligibility to get boosters alongside a 20-year-old who may have asthma or be a smoker and work at home and never see covid-19. so, yes, it's a rare move but it was a necessary one. >> yes, this motion passed. >> reporter: thursday the panel voting to

a third pfizer shot six months later to people 65 and over and those at high risk. a decision dr. walensky agrees with but the group originally voted against providing booster shots for people based on occupations leaving out frontline workers, teachers, day care staff and others. >> i think the health care workers are critical and cannot be without. >> reporter: national nurses united furious over the cdc panel's decision labeling it unconscionable urging the cdc's director to overrule the panel's decision. dr. walensky siding with frontline workers stating, as cdc director it is my job to recognize where our actions can have the greatest impact. now, dr. walensky said in part she made her decision because of the lines with the booster authorization decision from earlier this week. mona. >> ike, thank you. now to that mass shooting at a supermarket in tennessee. one person was killed. at least 14 others injured. some of them in critical condition. more witnesses are describing

how people in the store ran for their lives hiding in freezers, even having to climb to the roof. it all unfolded 30 miles outside memphis, a scene local police say was unlike anything they've ni, the firsvictim tennessee supermarket has been identified. the family of 70-year-old olivia they believe she went to church before heading to the store. that's when investigators say a gunman went on a rampage inside that kroger. >> i'm thinking there's nowhere to hide, and you're like out in the open, and you're at his mercy. he could just shoot you. >> reporter: jean prost works in the store. she was in the produce section when she says she heard five loud pops. >> i thought it was in floral and she had busted latex balloons. i thought, gosh, she's busting a lot of balloons, and i looked up, and i seen people running. >> reporter: officers rushing to

the scene searching for survivors. this worker had to climb to the roof to escape. >> we found people hiding in freezers and in locked offices and, you know, they were doing what they had been trained to do, run, hide, fight. >> you see a bear, you know what they tell you when you see the bear, play dead. so i played dead. >> reporter: police say the gunman who has not been publicly identified was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound. authorities have not revealed a motive, but sources say they are investigating the shooting as a suspects -- suspected case of workplace violence. witnesses say the shooter seemed familiar with the store's layout. just the latest example of a supermarket becoming a soft target for a lone gunman. in march a shooting at this supermarket in colorado left ten people dead including a police officer. as for the shooting in tennessee kroger did not immediately respond to questions about the shooter's employment history. breaking overnight, a new fast-moving fire has erupted in northern california.

the fire near redding has already destroyed more than two dozen buildings and forced 4,000 people to evacuate. a woman is under arrest accused of starting that fire. meanwhile, farther south new evacuations have been ordered around the sequoia national forest where a wildfire has burned 68 square miles. ltare i controversial audit of the 2020 election results in arizona. a draft copy of the final report confirms president biden's victory. the recount actually found biden won by a bigger margin. now to washington and the investigation into the january riot at the capitol. the first subpoenas have been issued to former president trump's top aides and advisers. the question now is, will they cooperate? this morning, the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol is now targeting close aides of former president trump. >> this is a major escalation by the january 6th committee, the most significant development that we've seen so far. >> reporter: the committee sending four subpoenas to the former president's advisers including trump's chief of staff

mark meadows, former deputy chief of staff dan scavino, conservative activist steve bannon and kash patel, the committee telling the four that it's seekfoatn about trumpe duri a a the capitol ri pe aterinlose contact wi psident trump in january 6th are potentially going to have all of their communications scrutinized and are going to be brought in for questioning, and it is going to just tighten the focus on the very inner circle around the president. >> reporter: in letters to bannon and scavino, the committee writing, quote, there's reason to believe they have information relative to understanding the important activities that led to and informed the events at the capitol. meadows, the panel saying it appears you were with or in the vicinity of president trump on january 6th and, quote, the investigation has credit evidence of your involvement in

select committee's inquiry. >> they will almost certainly fight this and use every tool they have to try to avoid cooperating with the january 6th commission. >> the four men have been asked to appear for a deposition next month. former president trump issued a statement calling the subpoenas, quote, harassment. u.s. officials say more than 4,000 migrants, most of them from haiti, have now been removed from that makeshift camp in del rio, texas. nearly 2,000 of them have been returned to haiti. now, unicef says most are women and children. others are waiting processing here in the u.s. the biden administration is still not saying exactly how many are staying here. meantime, the u.s. envoy to haiti has resigned in protest. he says returning the migrants to haiti is inhumane. former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin is appealing his conviction in the murder of george floyd. in his appeal filing chauvin has listed more than a dozen complaints including the court's decision not to allow a change of venue or sequester the jury. chauvin is looking for a new lawyer after his request for a

public defender was denied. time now for a look at your friday weather. a storm system that brought heavy rain and flooding to the northeast will eventually move out to sea today. some parts of new jersey got more than 3 inches of rain. drivers are being warned about street flooding during rush hour this morning. elsewhere some showers in the midwest today and afternoon thunderstorms are expected in parts of the southwest. checking today's high temperatures, most in the 70s, east of the mississippi at least and still pretty warm across the plains and southwest today. coming up, deja vu. the major retail chain that's once again limiting how much toilet paper and cleaning products you can buy. also ahead, a dramatic crash. a plane ends up tangled in power lines. and later the supermodel who claims a cosmetic proce

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back now with a small plane crashing into power lines. this is in southeastern georgia, trapping the pilot inside. once the pilot was turned off, emergency crews pulled him to safety. flight attendants are demanding action to stop the wave of violence in the air, with more airline passengers being fined for unruly behavior. the flight attendants want more than just fines for punishment. >> reporter: this morning, flight attendants are demanding a tougher crackdown on air rage, saying the friendly skies are not so friendly any more. >> turn around! >> if we continue at this rate,

there may be more incidents in 2021 than in the entire history of aviation. >> reporter: nearly 4300 cases have been reported this year, including this one in june. passengers and crew detaining a man they say tried to break into the cockpit on a flight to nashville. >> air rage has become all too common. i've lost count the times i've been insulted or threatened on a delight. >> reporter: most cases are mask related. >> he said "n" word, i don't have to listen to a damn thing you say. this is a free country. i was completely taken aback. i didn't know what to say. but he continued. you heard me "n" word boy. >> reporter: and another frightening encounter in the sky. a man tried to storm a cockpit

on a jetblue flight. the man was yelling in spanish and arabic, saying he wanted to be shot. and then tried to strangle a flight attendant. to stop all the chaos, the association of flight attendants is urging lawmakers to bring more criminal charges, and step up alcohol policy enforcement in airports. >> while 85% of the incidents are mask related, there are many contributing factors. the next highest being alcohol. >> although unruly passengers have been fined more than $1 million this year, the flight attendant's union says only one has resulted in federal charges. mona, phil? >> andrea, thank you. costco is telling customrs how much toilet paper they can buy. the new purchase limits will apply to paper towels, certain cleaning products. the company says there's plenty of merchandise, but they're facing pandemic related shipping delays and truck driver shortages. only 60% of the toilet paper

ordered by u.s. retailers this week is being shipped. experts say smaller stores might be a better option, because they're better stocked, at least right now. coming up, the safety recall after the deaths of eight young children. the products affected. also ahead, a major development in the gabby petito case. her boyfriend, brian laundrie, now facing a federal arrest warrant. what we're learning about it,

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the 22-year-old found murdered in wyoming, now an arrest warrant has been issued for her fiance but it's not for murder. this morning new insight in the gabby petito case now that a federal arrest warrant has been issued for her fiance brian laundrie, an indictment filed in wyoming claims laundrie committed fraud by using a debit card and p.i.n. number that did not belong to him and charging more than $1,000. the indictment not revealing who it belonged to or what it was used for but does reveal the charges were made between august 30th and september 1th, just days after gabby is believed to have died. despite the search for laundrie now entering its sixth day police would not have been able to detain him had he been found but the new federal warrant now grants them that power. drones and dive teams have been searching a 25,000-acre reserve and his parents drove home the ford mustang the fbi towed earlier in the week and police say laundrie's family told them he had drift everybody that car to the nature reserve

before his disappearance. meanwhile the final days of gabby petito's life are coming into clearer view. >> you could feel his temper. >> reporter: a woman claims she saw petito and laundrie arguing at this restaurant in jackson hole, wyoming, august 27th. >> he was just very visibly angry. she was crying, and he immediately like went to the hostess stand and was just, yeah, he was just like going in on the hostess and the waitress and then eventually the manager. >> we've been fighting all morning. >> reporter: farther south the city of moab, utah, is investigating how police responded to a fight between the couple earlier in their road trip. the fraud charge laundrie is facing carries a possible ten-year prison sentence. the search for him in florida will resume this morning. an important recall is under way at this hour to tell you about affecting millions of families with babies. the boppy company is pulling products labeled newborn loungers. the pillows have been linked to the suffocation deaths of at least eight babies. supermodel linda evangelista is raising concerns about the risk of coolsculpting. she says she was brutally

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checking the top stories, the cdc has approved pfizer's covid booster shots for millions of vulnerable americans including frontline workers. the agency's advisers wanted to leave out those frontline workers, including teachers, but in a rare move, they were overruled by the cdc director rochelle walensky overnight. those boosters will be available beginning today. investigators are trying to determine a motive behind the mass shooting in a supermarket outside memphis. one person was killed. 14 were injured. the gunman apparently died by suicide. sources say it appears to be a case of workplace violence. election officials in texas have announced plans to audit results of the 2020 election in four counties. former president trump has called for a review of the results even though he won the state. meanwhile in arizona, a draft report confirms president biden

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he's taller and thinner than i thought he was. >> and how did meghan look? >> beautiful. it was totally unexpected. >> reporter: the entire appearance under tight security. they toured the pools and spent time in the 9/11 museum before they waved to crowds gathered outside on their way quickly ducking into a black suv. >> i've loved meghan since she was on "suits" for quite some time, but i always followed the royals. so her coming into the royal family just kind of renewed my love and excitement around it. i just love their honesty. their love is just very clear. it comes across on camera. >> reporter: the duke and duchess of sussex spent a little more than an hour inside the trade center. they will be wrapping up their visit to new york city with an appearance at global citizen live to talk about the importance of global vaccine equity. at one world trade i'm diana rocco, channel 7, eyewitness news. >> just being out and bumping into the royals. >> oh, no, not at all.

this is their first visit to new york as a breaking news on "america this morning," the director of the cdc issuing a statement overnight on covid vaccine booster shots overruling the recommendations made just hours earlier. we'll take you through the new guidelines with our medical experts. more witnesses coming forward describing the terrifying moments a gunman went on a shooting rampage inside this supermarket. people hiding in freezers, even climbing to the roof to escape. what we're learning about the shooter. a major step in the investigation of the january attack on the u.s. capitol. former president trump's top advisers now getting subpoenas. this as we learn results overnight from a controversial audit of the 2020 election results. plus, the unexpected arrest warrant in the case of murdered