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janai norman joins us with a look at what comes next. janai, good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning to you. still a few days away from those younger children being able to get that shot but health officials are already preparing hoping for a smooth and seamless rollout when those kids ages 5 to 11 are expected to become eligible in just a few days. for the first time 15 million doses of pfizer's covid vaccine for young kids shipping out this morning, following fda authorization of the vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. >> our actions today, plus cdc's recommendations next week, help us get closer to hopefully closing another chapter in this pandemic. >> reporter: and ahead of a possible winter surge, 28 million children could be eligible to get the shot as soon as wednesday, the day after the cdc director is expected to sign off. state and local officials getting a jump on ordering those doses, now en route to medical centers, doctors' offices, pharmacies, community centers and mass vaccination sites.chil already opening up appoin

janai joins us tonight. the cdc and fda will weigh in on those boosters this week, and then all eyes will turn to the fda panel reviewing pfizer's vaccine for kids 5 to 11. what is the white house saying to do right now? >> reporter: they're telling states to preorder doses for 5 to 11-year-olds in hopes of a seamless rollout that could start in about 2 1/2 weeks. the fda already reviewing pfizer's vaccine for kids. the cdc will meet the first week of november. linsey? >> janai, thank you. >>> earlier today, former president bill clinton walked out of a california hospital six days after being admitted for an infection. the 75-year-old and his wife, hillary clinton, thanking doctors and staff at uc irvine medical center. his condition is not uncommon for men his age. and there are warning signs. marcus moore is there. >> reporter: six days after he arrived at this southern california hospital fighting an infection, former president bill clinton walked out on his own with a show of gratitude. the doctors and

janai joins us with more. janai, good morning. >> reporter: victor, good morning to you. the mandates continuing to cause a clashes across the country. the city of chicago and the under staffed department could be stretched even thinner as the deadline to provide proof of vaccination comes closer. this morning the city of chicago preparing to lose police officers amid clashes about a vaccination mandate. the requirement going into effect this weekend for the nation's second largest police force. >> the only way we can create a safe workplace and maximize that is by having everyone vaccinated. >> reporter: the police union also at odds with the city over how many officers have complied, says approximately 50% of officers remain unvaccinated. >> the city cannot keep doing what they're doing. they have an obligation to worry about public safety, not about someone's health status. >> reporter: the city saying it's ready to bring in state troopers to keep the streets a mibalehap in ry. setl the police force facing a monday deadline to provide proof of vaccination. they are alr

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janai, good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning to you. a big week for those vaccines for young kids, as well vaccinations in the city, mayor bill de blasio saying that the vaccination of workers is 91%. adding that 2,300 workers got the shot on saturday alone. but starting tomorrow, those who haven't gotten the shot won't be getting paid. this morning, officials bracing for a potential worker shortage as they race to vaccinate the largest city in the country. the nypd, fdny and other agencies falling short after a friday deadline to show proof of vaccination. over the weekend, thousands gtting a shot, but rates still not at 100%. already a number of fire companies closing saturday for a second day due to a lack of staffing and multiple sick calls. >> i have had members that have received the vaccination saying they're having flu-like symptoms and the department is allowing people to have a couple of days off after getting the vaccination. >> reporter: the fire department saying response times have not been affected and that they suspect t

the supreme court prepares to hear arguments next week on the highly restrictive texas law, abc's janain met some women who are putting aside politics and trying to help. >> this community where you decided to bring abide, why here? >> why not here? the entire southern sector of dallas, which is predominantly black and latina community, the disparities are high. heart disease, cancer, preterm birth, teen pregnancy. >> here in south dallas, cecily smith sees inequality all around here. so when it came time to open her easy access clinic, abide women's health services, she wanted it to be here. >> our little part of creating a better world and creating a better environment for the families is abide. so this is the waiting room/education space. >> her priorities life and what sees as its many forms. >> your stance on abortion isn't cut and dry. >> it's not. i sit in the gray. at first it was a very lonely place to be. it's an area where you have to do a lot of work. it's an area that you have to hold space for people that think differently than you. >> the growing fallout from that texas l

>> all right, janai, really important reporting from you and the team on this. thank you. >>> overseas tonight, the u.s. military base has been attacked in syria. a u.s. official confirming that there has been a coordinated attack on the u.s. base at al tanf in syria near the border with jordan. the attack now over and they say with no u.s. injuries or deaths. >>> when we come back here tnight, a police officer on the scene of an accident, blindsided by a speeding car. the images and news on his condition tonight. >>> and the queen has been told by doctors, she needs rest. hidn if you can help heal your skin from within. with dupixent adults saw long-lasting, clearer skin and significantly less itch. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. if you take asthma medicines don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. talk to your doctor about dupixent. air wick w

janai norman is having an amazing time in ohio.re from these women thriving on the water and how they're helping their community as well. we've got a big surprise for them coming up. >> they are in unison and it was two years ago this month that the "gma" book club was born. 3 lln copies in print, 24 page turners, 16 of them instant "new york times" best-sellers and this morning we've got one more for october. >> let's give it up for our book club. [ applause ] they've done a tremendous job. they really have all the way around. >> great job. it was a great idea. >>> we begin with the latest on that oil spill disaster learning officials were aware of the spill hours before the energy company reported it as investigators target a possible cause for the rupture and matt gutman back on the scene. good morning, matt. >> reporter: george, good morning. that clean up resuming this morning. one of the reasons the governor of california declaring a state of emergency here. that as we learn of the 12-hour time gap between the first report of

>> all right, janai, thank you so much. >>> we do want to transition to the weather now. and we know fall is, like, taking hold when you are wearing the vest in the morning on "gma," rob. >> it's a good look, rob. >> i was wondering how long it was -- thank you, juju. i was wondering how long it was going to take whit to poke on me about the vest. yeah, it's a great leaf-peeping attire. if you are going to do that, you can do it in utah, and i'll show you a couple of spots where we do have some fall foliage to highlight. great drone footage out of utah there, and wisconsin also seeing some color begin to pop for our friends across cheese country in the midwest, and in vermont, of course, a quintessential shot there with the red barn as the maples continue to pop. i tell you what. today's going to be temperatures about ten degrees above average across a good chunk of the mid-atlantic and the northeast before things begin to cool off and get back to more normal. hurricane sam is weakening. it's still a category 2 storm though, but it's churning up some waves, it will contin

janai is here with more. good morning to you, janai. >> good morning to you, juju. the world of women's soccer. commissioner of the national women's soccer league, lisa baird, resigning and fifa announcing it has opened an investigation into the allegations of misconduct that prompted the firing of two prominent head coaches. the move follows u.s. soccer announcing an independent investigation into the allegations and two officials with the women's soccer league now out as the league canceled all of this weekend's matches. this all stems from allegations in "the athletic" accusing new york new york courage head coach paul riley making unwanted sexual advances and inappropriate comments about players' weight and sexual orientation. two players, sinead farrelly and mana shim, even going on the record. the team firing riley, who denied most of the allegations saying in a statement, i have never had sex with or made sexual advances towards these players. u.s. soccer suspending riley's coaching license and that comes days after richie burke, head coach of the spirit, was

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janai norman has the details. >> good morning, janai. >> good morning, george.pen your phone camera quickly redirected to a website or place to make a payment. experts are warning not to scan just any qr code you see. qr codes, a common sight at restaurants and retailers. from contactless payment to menus but some experts warning you should be careful when using them. the better business bureau says scammers are creating their own qr codes and putting them on everything from flyers you may get in the mail, sometimes even putting stickers over legitimate codes in stores or on menus. >> one of the ways that scammers are using qr codes is directing you to a phishing website that collects your information. >> reporter: like in that looks legit but experts say is fake and after your personal info and money. to show what could happen if you click on a bad website linked to a code, we enlist the help of mark ostrowski. >> i created this one here. >> reporter: i scan the code just as i would at a restaurant or store. >> see where it takes you? >> reporter: it takes me t

janai norman has top tips, how to score your bird.in. and good morning from them. i'm surrounded here by a whole bunch of chatty turkeys at doublebrook farms here in new jersey. they've got about 2,000 turkeys and say so far this year the demand has doubled and the price of feed and labor has gone up. as more people try to get together this year there could be fewer turkeys but they definitely think the price is likely to go up. they're the thanksgiving centerpiece staple. >> but you got to have turkey on thanksgiving. i mean, thanksgiving with no turkey is like fourth of july with no apple pie. or friday with no two pizzas. >> reporter: but this holiday season the u.s. department of ricu pdicting slight drop in turkey production. this quarter expected to dip from 1,451,000 pounds of tender turkey this time last year to 1,420,000. some farmers are already seeing sales soaring. >> we're seeing sales substantially greater than they were at the same time last year. >> reporter: according to food analysts editor this turkey day you may be

janai norman joins us now with more. good morning, janai. >> good morning, robin.in additional payments. many calling this a huge win for the players and their families. the lawyer representing all former players in the settlement saying the agreement will ensure that the nfl concussion settlement works fairly and equitably. this morning the nfl reaching a deal with its former players eliminating the use of the controversial practice of race norming. it's a tool used t evaluate cognitive damage that critics say disadvantaged black former players seeking compensation for head injuries received on the field. >> this battle for us is very personal, because this is our -- this is our family, you know, these are our families on the line. these are our husbands. these are our fathers. >> reporter: the original settlement program's recommended formula assumed black players began their careers at a lower cognitive level than white players. they had to prove more a significant cognitive decline than white players in order to receive a payout. after months of confidential ne

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janai norman has the details. janai, good morning. >> hey, you guys, good morning.had to extend their trip for four weeks after he underwent several procedures. we talked to him back in philly as he continues to recover. this morning, 12-year-old charlie buhl is speaking out after a crocodile pulled him off a staircase near a dock dragging him underwater. >> there was nothing i could do. like it could do whatever it wanted. it was so strong. >> reporter: charlie was playing hide and seek on a family vacation this summer when he hid at these set of stairs. moments later he says he felt something grab on to his leg. >> i could feel like it almost pushing on the inside of my leg was someone was digging their nails into your arm. >> reporter: nearby guests and hotel employees at club med in cancun, mexico, rushed to his aid as he struggled against the nearly 13-foot-long reptile. >> the workers helped pull me out and they were kicking the crocodile's eyes and putting a blue pillow on its head. then finally it let go and they put me on the ground. >> reporter: charlie tr

good morning, janai. >> reporter: michael, good morning.e a lot of people excited by what you just said. electric vehicle sales around the world are said to have skyrocketed 200% in the last year. now that big investment by hertz is making tesla a trillion dollar company but it's also making trying out tesla even easier. hertz electrifying its fleet and energizing tesla stock driving the automaker to top the trillion dollar market cap this morning joining the ranks of apple, microsoft, google and amazon as the rental car company bets big on battery power. >> investors are enthusiastic about the future and outlook for this company. they see almost unlimited future growth for electric vehicles coming from tesla. >> reporter: hertz barely out of bankruptcy filing chapter 11 last year, but rebounding with travel and a red hot rental car market helping them clear $5 billion in debt in securing billions more to reinvest. hertz ordering 100,000 tesla model 3s by the end of next year, a base price of $40,000 each adding up to more than $4 billion i

end of his life in every interview, would say that my greatest role was that of jenna and the phone janai. he did a tremendous tribute, and he was terrific while we were filming, it was opposition. they were protest, and he would come with me and talk to people, and he would come people down and say, look, i'm here to pitch a beauty of great fonda, mr. janelle is one of the big men of history. so it really wasn't amazing experience. it was almost like a battery being conducted. remember, no one had made a film on jenna before this. remember that jenna is so i don't want you to a secret, but he's so respected by so many in bucks on the very ideal watching him on, on, on, on the screen. and by someone like christopher lee with directly and so on, was almost best for me. and what's the resistance to christopher lee? who as you rightly say, proclaimed as one of his great roles of not his greatest role. it was that different from what see was the resistance been kinsley a playing gandhi and, and the tenants the film and what was something particular people wanted a pakistani actor to, to play

state, but also could see heavy amounts of rain for karnataka and into tom on the do just south of janai know for west been goal more than about half a 1000000 people were forced from their homes, we saw about 400 millimeters of rain over the past. it still seen some rain pop up in some heavier pockets over in northern bangladesh into the northeast of india. now as we go for southeast asia, but i want to focus on the philippines, this area of low pressure scrutiny across the southern islands, it's dropped a $150.00 millimeters of rain. and on tuesday it's just north of pure. so princess and once again it could drop similar amounts of rain. now for southern sections of china, it's all about the heat. look at this almost 38 degrees that continues on tuesday. the temperature is into the high thirty's. but north of that low temperature is we've got a slow moving system dropping quite a bit of rain. we could be jane just a high of 15 degrees in that. what whether extends to the korean peninsula, cross the waters between korea and japan into northern areas of honshu and southern areas of how k

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>> janai, thank you. >>> now the signs coming back from the pandemic.ing $50 million at the box office. the highest earning weekend since the pandemic began. chris connelly, who else to tell us more? bin.rs a ing, chri little, our younger film goers are driving the return to movie theaters. that's the takeaway from the last weekend. a horror film you could have watched at home made a killing at the box office. >> where did you see him? look. >> reporter: in a film-making world marked by fear and uncertainty, there's at least one sure thing, a "halloween" movie featuring gentleman my lee curtis. >> what do we do? >> we fight. >> reporter: she's back in "halloween kills," the latest horror franchise that kick started her career in 1978. >> that was the bogeyman. >> reporter: her commitment and the enduring popularity of michael myers -- >> i want to take his mask off. >> reporter: -- boosting the r-rated "halloween kills" to a sensational $50 million opening weekend, even though it was also available to stream at home. proof perhaps of the hollywood rule

>> janai, thank you. joining us is dr.aul offit, vaccine expert from the children's hospital of philadelphia and a member of the fda advisory panel that voted to authorize the johnson & johnson booster shot. doctor, good morning to you. it's always good to have you. take us inside that panel meeting. you and some of your colleagues expressed some concern about a lack of long-term data, and yet the panel voted unanimously to recommend j&j boosters after just two months and for younger people as well. what went into that decision? >> when we considered the single dose j&j vaccine at the end of february, we knew at that time that the vaccine was roughly 74% effective against all illness, 85% effective against serious illness but we also knew they were in the midst of doing a two dose trial. 30,000-person two-dose trial. they knew from their so-called phase one studies their dose ranging studies they had shown there was a two to three-fold increase to neutralizing antibodies with the second dose. we look at this data, 30,000-p

janai norman is here with that. >> reporter: everybody knows him as gunther.t as an extra for just a few episodes but by the series end, he appeared in 150 known to many fans as the seventh friend. >> this is from the woman at the bar. >> oh. >> sorry. she thought you were somebody else. >> reporter: he was the actor best known as the ever so witty gunther in the hit sitcom "friends." >> i want somebody. you know, want a man. >> reporter: james michael tyler passing away this weekend after a three-year long battle with prostate cancer. >> spin the bottle works like this. i spin the bottle, lands on gunther so i would have to kiss gunther. all right. >> reporter: in june, he had revealed he had been undergoing treatment for stage 4 prostate cancer that began in 2018 and later spread to his spine. gunther became a household name on the show. >> gunther, kiss me. >> what? >> reporter: he was the bleach blond barista working at the famed central perk where he would often profess his love for rachel green played by jennifer aniston. >> this is getting rid of anythi

. >> faith, great job filling in for janai. >>> "this week" with george later and "world news" with lnseys" with li. . >> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions. this is abc7 news. liz: good morning. i am liz kreutz. growers will gather at half moon mpr sothing to getple about for the pumpkin way off. there will be a vip party for all the growers, then they will bring there -- their gourds to be weighed. $30,000 will be awarded if a pumpkin breaks the world record. this year's pumpkin festival will not be happening. organizers say the city council denied the event permit. also happening today, it is not just fleet week attracting big crowds. the city's italian heritage. begins today. it will be san francisco's first parade back in person. it starts at 12:30 at the foot of jefferson and powell streets in fisherman's wharf and ends in north beach at washington square. this is the 153rd italian heritage prayed. lisa, let's get a check of the forecast now. lisa: lookout clear the golden gate bridge is. 45 at half moon bay. 54 in santa cruz. upper 60's later on, but we h