this morning the fda and cdc are authorizing covid booster shots for 16 and 17 year olds as they face an early winter surge in cases breaking now the tragic toll in a crash is over 50. rapper travis scott speaks out about the deadly night at th the astro world concert. and jussie smollett found

guilty by his peers. and an appeals judge ruled against president trump 's attempt to block documents from the january 6th investigation. and we remember world war ii veteran, bob dole. good friday morning, i'm philip mena. more than 2 million americans are eligible for a covid booster shot hospitals are being pushed to the brink once again some are being forced to deploy the national guard to help relieve health care workers. >> reporter: cdc approve just two weeks until christmas meets 2.6 million teens will be eligible to dramatically boost their covid protection before gathering with family and friends over the holidays. pfizer's booster authorized for 16 and 17-year-olds at least six

months after their second dose while they present a strong defense, pfizer says the research shows the booster is essential to mount a strong defense against the omicron variant. so far younger kids are not eligible for the booster >> i would thing for the next several months kids will be okay because in general, they do better than adults in immune responses. >> reporter: meanwhile, at hospitals nationwide, many frontline doctors and nurses say it feels like the worst days of the pandemic once again. icus filled with unvaccinated covid patients struggling to breathe. from a nurse in arkansas >> i'm tired of it we are tired >> reporter: to doctors in colorado >> another day, another shift with no beds in colorado >> reporter: and indiana >> our number of covid patients

doubled over the weekend our icu is full. >> reporter: a critical care nurse in rockford, illinois. >> we have young people, we have old people i'm taking care of people my age and definitely younger than me >> reporter: the situation so serious in the northeast, the governors of new york, new hampshire and maine are sending national guard troops to help in the hospitals. >> our hospitals are being stretched thin health care is jeopardized for those who need it and our health care workers, as heroic as they are, are more exhausted than before we're at a tipping point >> reporter: december 2021, feeling a lot like december 2020 back now to those boosters and teenagers. not everybody's on board, including the fda advisory panel. he says it's extremely rare teenagers have any sort of severe illness associated with

the illness or mutations but he's concerned about teenage boys having the heart syndrome the cdc has approved boosters and encouraged teenagers to get them >> another marker there. thank you. accord the "washington post" report, former president came into contact with not fewer than 500 people after testing positive for covid last year it states he first tested positive september 26th, just three days before his presidentdle bait with then democratic candidate, joe biden on september 29th. the book goes on to say trump received negtive results after the initial positive but the trump administration announced he was positive october 1st. a spokesman for meadows also walked back his statements in the book, saying, in part, he

was referring to a false positive the then president received breaking overnight, a drisricate of columbia ruled former's can not stop the house committee from obtaining documents while he was in the white house. it's not strong enough to overcome president biden's decision that congress has a legitimate need for the material in a joint statement, the chair and vice chair wrote they applaud the decision and went on to say they will get at the truth. trump's lawyers have indicated they could file an emergency appeal with the supreme court to block the release. also breaking details surrounding a horrific crash claiming the lives of 53 people in southern mexico they say a cargo truck flipped over while rounding a sharp curve and crashed into a pedestrian bridge.

dozens were strewn across the road and among the victims, young kids 8 to 10 years old those that survived said they paid $3500 to meet smugglers to take them the u.s. border. former "empire" star found guilty in a hate crime hoax. they found him guilty on five of the six felony charges megan fitzgerald is following the latest >> reporter: former "empire" star found guilty on five out of six charges that he lied to police saying he was a victim of hate crime jurors deliberating for two days and more than nine hours jussie smollett saying in january 2019 he was attacked in downtown chicago by two men that put a noose around his neck and

yelled racial and homophobic slurs and put bleach on his head they say he lied to police and orchestrated the entire thing, paying two brothers $3500 to carry out this attack. >> that verdict was a resounding message by the jury that, in fact, mr. smollett did exactly what we said he did. >> from the first day of this case, his case has been prejudged. his case has been tried in the media. and it's unfortunate >> reporter: in the end jurors found this was one big lie smollett is expected to be sentenced sometime early next year in chicago, nbc news it was another day of emotional testimony in the trial of ex-minneapolis officer, tim potter >> hearing from dante wright's girlfriend, who was in the car with him when the deadly traffic stop happened. here's the latest on the trial good morning >> reporter: good morning. we're expecting anath dare of

emotional, heartbreaking testimony and perhaps more heartpounding police video of that day, as they try to give the jury more reason to convict potter of manslaughter in the death of dante wright. >> i just tried to hold it and i just tried to scream his name. >> reporter: dante wright's girlfriend, the passenger in the car, describing the moments after former officer had shot him in the chest >> he's just gasping just like, and he just wasn't saying anything. >> reporter: the jury seeing more police video as prosecutors focus on what happened the minutes after the shooting jumping a median, crashing into an oncoming vehicle. >> put your hands up >> reporter: police testifying the first officers to arrive had no idea one of their own shot wright one telling the jury after the crash, he thought wright was still alive.

>> did you see a movement of the driver >> yes, sir. >> reporter: and that would indicate at that point in time the driver was still alive, correct? >> reporter: they say minutes after show more examples of how she failed in her duty that day. >> she didn't do anything to help him she didn't call for assistance, render aid or communicate any information on what had happened to her fellow officers >> reporter: the defense trying to convince the jury wright's attempt to evade arrest caused his death. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: and telling the j jury potter's grief are inconsoleable. seeing wright as he lay dying. the jury saw more pictures and video of what happened to wright, some too graph took show here frances. >> ron, thank you. we're tracking the first big winter storm of the season michelle grossman is in for

vanessa. and joins us for the latest. happy friday >> i feel like i need confetti to go off when we say that happy friday almost the weekend you're watching snowy weather for some a big winter storm all through the northern plains and upper midwest. we could see a foot of snow in some spots today let's look at the alerts we're looking at 13 million people impacted. as we go through today, difficult difficult travel across the upper plains, midwest and the chance for strong storms in the ohio valley and tennessee valley could see strong nighttime tornados and winds in the upper 80s in texas.

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>> this is something travis scott created himself and now tries to act like he's surprised or a victim. he's no victim >> i have a responsibility to figure out what happened here. i have a responsibilities to figure out the solution. >> reporter: travis scott breaking his silence but not satisfying critics still to come how online misinformation could be driving the latest surge of migrants on the u.s. border. and a final goodbye to senate legend, bob dole. every night. right after dinner. definitely after meatloaf. like clockwork. do it! run your dishwasher with cascade platinum and save water. did you know an energy star certified dishwasher uses less than four gallons per cycle? while a running sink uses that, every two minutes. that means even small loads can save water. so why not do it? run your dishwasher every night with cascade platinum. the surprising way to save water. want more from your vitamins?

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yuma, arizona seeking asylum and misinformation drove many to make that journey. >> reporter: they arrive by the dozens some dragging the few belongings they could bring with them, others carrying their children many coming all the way from south america. venezuela, cuba and columbia, rushing to cross this open gap along the yuma, arizona border this peruvian mom forced to lie to her 3-year-old son for motivation >> reporter: most came with one goal in mind, to seek asylum in the united states. but now they must wait more than 4,000 migrants have crossed the border into arizona since friday thousands rushing to cross the border after misinformation began spreading that the u.s. was once again processing asylum claims the rumors coinciding with the announcement that the remain in

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right now at 4:30, a long road to recovery. a san francisco activist who has worked to keep the street safe becomes the victim of gun violence. the one thing he says he could have done before that gunfire. booster shots for 16 and 17-year-olds, and that comes as the omicron variant keeps spreading. >> and kari hall