>> all right, steve osunsami 4r50eding us off tonight from atlanta. steve, thank you. >>> we're going to turn to the other major story unfolding tonight, what authorities are calling an extremely dangerous tornado threat across at least seven states tonight. 60 million americans in the threat toen and tonight, reports of several tornadoes already. look at some of the pictures. this giant twister, that's in alabama. far buildings ripped apart in waine county, mississippi. and take a look at the radar tonight. the current tornado watches, of course, the orange and the red there on that map, particularly dangerous. new orleans, jackson, birmingham and so many smaller towns and cities in the path of this. and of course, another real concern that this line of storms will be hitting after dark. ginger with the track and abc's victor oquendo in birmingham, alabama. >> reporter: a dangerous, potentially deadly night ahead across a huge swath of the south. the storm prediction center warning of a rare high risk threat level for long-track, intense tornadoes. >

the president just a short time ago on the horrific shootings in atlanta. and what we've learned tonight. president biden and vice president harris meeting with asian-american lawmakers and community leaders late today. president biden and the vice president on the tragedy, the pain, and vowing to work to make our asian-american communities safer. and tonight, the newly obtained surveillance of the alleged gunman at the scene of the first attack. all eight victims have been identified, six of asian descent. the devoted mother of two, the army veteran, the spa owner killed just two days shy of her 50th birthday. steve osunsami in atlanta tonight with late reporting on what we now know. >>> the other major news this friday night, the major change for schools across the country. the cdc issuing new guidelines tonight, recommending three feet of social distancing for school children with masks instead of six feet. could this help get children back to school sooner? some teaches unions pushing back tonight, the cdc director say, we have done the science. >>> pre

>>> tonight, the deadly and horrific shooting rampage in atlanta. eight people killed, six of the victims asian women. tonight, the gunman has now been charged with eight counts of murder, after opening fire at three spas across the atlanta area. the suspect in custody. authorities believe they halted further attacks in florida. police say the suspect's own parents identified him from surveillance images. news tonight on a possible motive, as these killings stir more fear among asian-americans. the president and vice president both weighing in tonight. >>> also tonight, as we come on the air, the extremely dangerous tornado threat across seven states. several reports of tornadoes on the ground already tonight and you'll see the images coming in. 60 million americans on alert from louisiana all the way to the east coast for potential long-track tornadoes. ginger zee live in the storm zone with the line of storms set to hit after dark tonight. and the severe threat right into tomorrow. >>> the coronavirus here in the u.s. and what are being called the

and in atlanta, crowds celebrating the nba all-star game. this is as more states lift restrictions and drop mask mandates. texas just the latest. >> we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, because we've spent a year battling, trying to survive, under water, suffocating, wondering do i close it, do i keep it open? >> reporter: but today essential workers protesting the lifting of the mask mandate, saying their lives are being put at risk. >> the answer is vaccinate. vaccinate first. >> reporter: the director of the cdc says they are really trying to restrain travel. dr. walensky calling this a first step. and hopes as more americans get vaccinated, there will be more guidance with the science behind what vaccinated people can do. david? >> victor oquendo right there in miami. victor, thank yo whillislld gi something to look forward to. we know many of you at home might have some questions about this new guidance, so, let's get right to dr. ashish jha. dr. jha, always great to have you with us. and we just heard the cdc director there g

the new danger this weekend. 45 million in the storm zone from memphis to atlanta to d.c. rob marciano timing it out. >>> the new warnings. an alarming rise in covid cases in the u.s. as more states ease restrictions. at least 18 states seeing cases increase by more than 10%. hospital admissions on the raise in at least eight states. michigan reporting a dramatic spike in the number of young patients. the cdc director saying she is deeply concerned. america speeding up the vaccination effort. 47 states rushing to lower eligibility by may 1st. johnson & johnson promising to deliver 11 million more doses next week. and the new study about vaccines and pregnant women. >>> the battle over voting rights heating up in georgia. the new law just signed by the governor, claiming it will make elections more secure. critics say it will keep black voters from turning out. rules preventing volunteers from giving food or water to people waiting hours in line. a state lawmaker arrested outside the governor's office. president biden saying the law represents jim crow in the 21st century.

elwyn, joining us from atlanta. there are a lot of hectic travel days ahead. what are the airlines saying? >> reporter: we're seeing a flurry of cancellations tomorrow. although christmas day is the lightest travel day of the season, the issue might be getting that flight back. cancellations expected to continue into the weekend. >> elwyn, thank you. >>> and millions on weather alert from california to wyoming. flooding and mudslides making travel difficult in parts of california. will carr reports. >> reporter: tonight, rivers of mud closing roads and forcing evacuations from an atmospheric river fueling powerful storms. dumping torrential rain. >> look at the damage there. >> reporter: northeast of l.a. fast moving flood waters, tearing off this section of a highway. >> it just shows the power of p. >> reporter: in los angeles, one person was killed in this multivehicle pileup on the interstate 5 freeway. firefighters working to extract trapped drivers. in san bernardino county, this car flipped over in the mojave river, the driver able to escape. and on int

abc's gio benitez now from atlanta. >> reporter: tonight, after days of long lines and empty pumps, a welcome sight for those desperate for gas. lines of tanker trucks, east of raleigh, filling up with fresh fuel from the colonial pipeline, after the company restarted operations wednesday. >> we expect the situation to begin to improve by the weekend and into early next week and gasoline supply is coming back online. >> reporter: but there are still lines at the gas pump, and hundreds of empty stations. people worried they might miss a doctors appointment or not be able to get to work. >> i knew i should have filled up a week ago. and then all of this starts going on and it's like the toilet paper fiasco all over again. >>o, durham. >> reporter: north carolina, the hardest hit state so far from the shutdown. >> all of these people are waiting for the bp. >> north carolina still hovering close to 70% without fuel. it will take several weeks to get things completely back to normal. >> reporter: durham county telling their employees to work from home. panic buying turnin dangerous in cit

as of now, authorities have not classified the atlanta area killings as a hate crime. they continue to investigate the suspect, 21-year-old robert aaron long. rita barone was right next door to young's when gunfire erupted. what did you hear? [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: you heard people inside the business screaming. >> yeah. >> reporter: she and her husband own the business next door. a stray bullet piercing through one of their walls. as the shock wears off, rita tells me she's only now realizing her neighbors are gone. the children now left without their mothers, speaking to our juju chang. xiaojie tan, known as emily, didn't live to see her 50th birthday. >> she wanted us to have a good life. that's why she worked so hard. >> what does your heart feel like right now? >> empty. >> reporter: at gold spa in atlanta, hyun jung grant, a single mother, fatally shot. >> what went through your mind about all the things you have to shoulder now? >> i'm a train wreck at night when i'm alone. >> reporter: with attacks against people of asian descent on the rise

and more than half just here in atlanta. and you can see right here, someone has brought several gas cans to stock up on whatever gas is left. prices jumping about 10 cents overnight in south carolina and 8 cents in virginia. today in georgia, 24 cents since last week. this virginia station charging nearly $7 a gallon. >> six gallons of gas for $35. that's absolutely ridiculous. >> if there's price gouging going on, we won't hesitate to make sure our laws are enforced. >> reporter: transportation secretary pete buttigieg announcing they're waiving weight restrictions so trucks can carry more fuel. addressing reports of people hoarding gas. >> hoarding does not make things better. and under no circumstances should gasoline ever be put into anything but a vehicle directly or an approved container. >> reporter: cisa, the agency in charge of cybersecurity, says the russian-linked group of hackers known as "darkside" gained access to colonial's i.t. system. but that there was no indication that colonial's operational networks wer

. >>> and new details of a gruesome murder in atlanta. the potential witness coming forward as police investigate the deadly stabbing of a woman. >>> also tonight, the u.s. adding 493,000 new jobs l.a. month. how the delta variant could threaten the economic progress. >>> good evening, everyone. thanks so much for joining us. i'm linsey davis in for david. we begin tonight with the surging delta variant. 120,000 new cases reported in just the past 24 hours. that's a six-month heigl but there is a vaccination milestone tonight. 50% of all americans are now fully vaccinated, but scientists are watching another new strain, the lam da variant. this map shows all counties in the country. every state reporting high or substantiasusubsbsbstatatantntne in just seven states. all of them have low vaccination rates. florida is one of them. 60% of its hospitals face critical staffing shortages. memorial health care system in broward county suspending elective procedures to care for covid patients. and with 48 million children still too young to be va

gio benitez is at atlanta's hartsfield airport, america's busiest. >> some airlines are already feeling the effects. american telling us it will have to make pit stops for fuel on some long haul flights to hawaii and europe and cancellations could be next. >> reporter: it's been more than four days since colonial revealed that its systems were compromised by what the fbi has identified as a gang of hackers based in russia known as "darkside," in a brazen scheme to extort money. >> cyber attacks in our nation's infrastructure are growing more sophisticated, frequent and aggressive. >> reporter: according to the department of homeland security, ransomware attacks targeting the u.s. are up nearly 300% this year, with hackers extorting roughly $350 million from u.s. companies and consumers. the fbi identified "darkside" last october and said the group has targeted a number of industries ranging from manufacturing to health care to insurance. "darkside" part of a larger trend where hackers are going after bigger and bigger targets. >> and pierre thomas back with us again tonight. pierre, thi

potentially in through atlanta, as well. tomorrow morning, st. louis, cincinnati. d.c., you'll start to see some heavy snow. look at that big pink area, that's the icy conditions. i-95, philly, new york,afrnoon through tomorrow night. significant accumulations ealy could see anhere from 5 toinchei erg contis could be s d? >> all rit, we're all watching it with you, rob. be careful on the roadways to everyone out there tomorrow. rob, thank you. >>> in the meantime, we are going to turn to the coronavirus tonight and president biden making news with a shifting timeline on when most americans can expect to have access to a vaccine. and when this country could be back to some sense of normal. a test for the new president, as this pandemic, these new variants and the fight to get this vaccine supply up and running forced a bit of reality check for this administration and for the american people. here's our senior white house correspondent mary bruce tonight. >> reporter: with the country itching to get back to some sense of normal, president biden tonight finds himself

major league baseball moving the all-star game out of atlanta in protest. the republican governor calling it a cancel culture move. and there are some surprising reactions to boycotts from leading georgia democrats. abc's steve osunsami is in atlanta. >> reporter: it's a strong message tonight from major league baseball to republican lawmakers who just passed and signed new voting restrictions in georgia. baseball commissioner robert manfred jr. is siding with a good number of black americans and business leaders who believe that the new rules are voter suppression, saying, "i have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's all-star game and mlb draft." >> major league baseball just caved to the pressure. >> reporter: this week the president came out encouraging this. >> i would strongly support them doing that. people look to them, they're leaders. >> reporter: but this is money and business we're talking about, and even many georgia democrats who fought the new rules are not happy with baseball's decisions.

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jha is standing by, but abc's steve osunsami leads us off at the cdc in atlanta. >> reporter: public health officials are trying to warn americans tonight that the fight against the coronavirus has changed dramatically. after looking at the latest outbreaks around the world, they believe that this new delta variant of the coronavirus can be more than three times as contagious as ebola, bird flu, and the common cold. just one person sick with the original strain of the disease could easily infect an average of two to three people in close contact. that number could now be up to nine people with the delta variant, according to the cdc. >> i started to get a fever, and that's when i kind of knew, oh, this is it, this is -- this is covid. >> reporter: johnny chagnon is one of the nearly 900 new cases scientists believe is an outbreak of the new delta variant in provincetown, massachusetts. he's a public health department employee from vermont and says he and his friends were fully vaccinated. >> we were partying -- like i said, partying like it's 2019 and pretending like the pandemic nev

gio benitez live from atlanta tonight. and gio, the late news, the pipeline now back up and running but we know me your y'all day still a couple of weeks away. millions will hit the roads. and it could take that long to get back up to speed? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, david. we're talking about two weeks to get that gas all the way from texas to the northeast. and on that price gouging, remember, those state of emergency orders specifically mention price gouging, so, state officials say they will investigate any complaint and if they have to, they'll prosecute them. david? >> gio benitez leading us off tonight. gio, thank you. >>> we also have new reporting tonight amid the battle inside the republican party. representative liz cheney tonight ousted from her leadership position today for speaking out against president trump and about lies involving the election. it took just minutes, with reports of boos while cheney made a last-ditch argument to save her post and she argued the republican party. moments after the vo

. >>> we turn now to the deadly chemical leak at a food processing plant, this was north of atlanta. workers say they were overcome by clouds of chemicals. hazmat teams responding. and tonight, at least six workers have died. here's abc's steve osunsami now. >> reporter: workers at this georgia poultry plant tonight say that the fog of chemicals in the air was so thick that anyone who walked into the area lost consciousness. >> i couldn't but see nothing but foam at the bottom of the steps. so it was too thick. i probly -- everybody that went down there, i fell out. >> employees evacuated, along with multiple victims that were in that crowd that were experiencing medical emergencies. >> reporter: more than 100 were put on buses to a nearby church where they were medically evaluated. >> the folks came into work today did not have any idea of what would happen, nor did their families. >> reporter: taking no chances, authorities put a school nearby on lockdown, frightening the school's parents, who were told that they shouldn't come get their kids. four firefighters were also hospitaliz

so, here's our senior national correspondent steve osunsami from the cdc in atlanta. >> reporter: any future use of the johnson & johnson covid vaccine could be decided tomorrow by a cdc advisory panel. because it's a single shot, it's become an important tool in fighting the coronavirus. >> we need to make a decision quickly i'm and really hopeful that we'll be able to use the vaccine soon. >> reporter: u.s. health officials put use of the vaccine on hold after six women developed rare blood clots after getting the shot. tomorrow, they could continue with that hold or join health officials in europe, who just days ago decided that the benefits outweigh the risks and have cleared the vaccine to be used with a safety warning. across the country, it appears fewer people are rushing to get immunized, with thousands of appointments sitting empty and some vaccination places shutting down. >> when 16 and older opened, i did expect a rush and it just never materialized. >> reporter: for the first time in weeks, the daily average of shots put into arms has fallen below 3 million doses a day.

. >>> we turn now to the deadly chemical leak at a food processing plant, this was north of atlanta. workers say they were overcome by clouds of chemicals. employees immediately falling unconscious. hazmat teams responding. and tonight, at least six workers have died. here's abc's steve osunsami now. >> reporter: workers at this georgia poultry plant tonight say that the fog of chemicals in the air was so thick that anyone who walked into the area lost consciousness. >> we have a nitrogen leak. we have some people down inside. >> reporter: six people died. one of them at the hospital. doctors tonight are still treating at least eight of the plant's workers. >> i couldn't see but nothing but fog at the bottom of the steps. it was too thick. so, i turned around. but if i had gone down there -- everybody that went down there, they fell out. >> once the units arrived, they found a large contingent of employees that had evacuated, along with multiple victims that were in that crowd that were experiencing medical emergencies. >> reporter: more than 100 were put on buses to a nearby church

some of the mass shootings in this country in just the past month, from the attacks in la atlanta to the massacre in boulder. we're covering indianapolis tonight. the flags lowered at the white house. some of the workers at fedex were not allowed to have their phones so they were unable to call loved ones to let them know they survived this, adding to the horror of it all. victor oquendo leads us off tonight from indianapolis. >> reporter: tonight, new details into that deadly shooting at an indianapolis fedex facility as we learn a former employee armed with a rifle allegedly opened fire. >> we have an active shooter currently at fedex. >> reporter: just half 11:00 p.m. thursday, officers responding to reports of shots fired at this operations center, fedex's second largest hub in the world, roughly 100 workers present at the time. >> we heard three more shots, and then my buddy levi saw someone running out of the building. >> reporter: police finding eight killed, four outside the building and four inside. at least five others rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds. their ident

and the manhunt is still on for a convict who escaped in clayton county near atlanta. he was on his way to prison to serve a sentence for burglary. >> reporter: americans' love of chicken is fueling a shortage. major fast food chains blame the pandemic for disruptions in the market and supply chain. there's also the increased demand for takeout or delivery of comfort food. and the storms in february halted work for some processors. >> reporter: and an update to a story that we have been following. major biden, the first dog, he's back at the white house after some additional training. first lady dr. jill biden says that included going to see cats at a shelter, and major did fine. the first cat is expected to arrive soon. >>> when we come back a top draft pick's inspiring story and how football success is changing their lives. with a hybrid, you don't have to choose. that's why insurers are going hybrid with ibm. with watson on a hybrid cloud they can use ai to help predict client needs and get the data they need to quickly design coverage for each one. businesses that

abc's steve osunsami leading us off tonight from the cdc in atlanta. >> reporter: the vote this evening was nearly unanimous. with 17 yeses and one abstention, an fda advisory panel says that the benefits far outweigh any risk, and they're saying yes to the pfizer vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old. >> we don't want children to be diagnose of covid, even if it is far fewer children than adults and we don't want them in the icu. >> reporter: they were convinced by a study from the drug maker, where pfizer gave 2,200 children a third of the regular dose and found that the two shots were 91% effective against symptomatic disease. >> that's an incredible finding. that's actually more effective than a lot of routine childhood vaccines we use. >> reporter: pfizer says any side effects from the vaccine were mild and that none of the children came down with myocarditis, a rare swelling of the heart muscle. 8-year-old sebastian prybol in north carolina says the only thing he felt was a sore arm and a slight fever for a few days. >> all done! >> you did it. >> you did so well! >> you did it!

here's abc's elwyn lopez from atlanta. >> reporter: tonight, even with that massive pipeline back up and running, experts warning some drivers might still have a hard time finding fuel at the pump. >> it will be a few weeks before every gas station has gasoline, so two the three weeks especially in the hard-hit areas. >> reporter: colonial pipeline now flowing, delivering millions of gallons of fuel, but it only flows at 5 miles an hour. officials assuring americans the end of the gas crunch crippling much of the east coast is in sight. >> gas station outages are down about 12% from the peak. so, it's still going to work its way through the system over the next few days, but we should be back to normal fairly soon. >> reporter: with supply trickling in, parts of the country still feeling the pinch. in washington, d.c., nearly 80% of gas stations still without fuel. >> more gas stations are closed than i thought there would be. so, i've gone up and down and was lucky to find this one. >> reporter: the ransomware attack on the colonial pipeline which triggered the shortage raising the

the faa is now investigating a deadly plane crash about an hour outside of atlanta. authorities say the plane was heading to daytona beach, florida, when it crashed shortly after takeoff. three people onboard were killed. part of the plane's wing found inside a mobile home. the people inside were not hurt. authorities say it appears the pilot tried to turn the plane around but did not make it. >>> next to the search for the driver who dragged a asian-american woman down the street in oakland. take a look. the surveillance video here showing the woman clinging to her handbag as the car drives down the road. she was not seriously injured. police say the suspect snatched the woman's purse as she left the grocery store. they say it's unclear whether the incident was racially motivated. more than 30 asian-americans have been attacked in the bay area since january. >>> an iceberg roughly the size of los angeles has broken off from antarctica. aerial footage shows a major crack in the ice shelf just days before the split. the iceberg measures 490 square miles and is about 4

abc's steve osunsami from atlanta. >> vote no on hb531! >> reporter: at the state house in downtown atlanta, people who voted by mail in georgia are bringing the fight, accusing republican lawmakers of trying to stop black and brown people from voting. >> because black voters came out in record numbers and flipped this state. >> reporter: it was the presidential election here in november and the u.s. senate runoff in january that led to this. democrats won, with the largest mail-in vote ever recorded. before all the votes were even counted, state republicans were writing these new laws. if the governor agrees, you'll no longer be able to vote by mail without giving an accepted reason. and they're trying to get rid of the drop boxes outside county offices that made it real easy to turn in votes. some of these lawmakers are even trying to end sunday voting, which is hugely popular with black churches. >> our freedom to vote is under attack. >> reporter: georgia is not by any means alone. the governor of iowa just signed a law reducing early

>> steve osunsami in atlanta tonight. steve, thank you. >>> we're going to turn next here to the search for that person of interest, brian laundrie. that search intensifying tonight after the death of gabby petito now ruled a homicide. divers have now been called in, drones, too, in the search in that alligator-infested nature reserve. they are now using high-water vehicles, since much of that area is covered waist-deep in water. abc's trevor ault from florida tonight. >> reporter: tonight, new images of the intense search for brian laundrie. authorities bringing in a specialized dive team to search the 25,000-acre reserve, an area twice the size of manhattan, alongside their atvs, drones and canine units. 75% of the area underwater. >> we are trying to cover every acre with our law enforcement partners. they're motivated and they're hungry. >> reporter: and the public reporting thousands of tips, with rumors brian had been captured overnight proving false. >> caller is advising that a civilian, possibly be brian laundrie

abc's elwyn lopez leading us off from atlanta. >> reporter: tonight, after an 11 day pause, the johnson & johnson vaccine >> i think the benefits outweigh the risks. >> reporter: at least 22 states saying they'll resume the one-dose shots immediately. what would you say to people who are hesitant? >> i would just say look at the facts, trust science. >> reporter: the cdc and the fda recommending j&j's shot come with a warning label of the risk of rare blood clots. so far, 15 blood clot cases verified, but with 8 million shots given, that's about 1 clot per 500,000 vaccines given. experts say things like birth some americansse are exceedu a blood clot than the rare but potentially deadly type from the shot. >> the risk of you having this complication versus the potential risk of getting covid right now certainly is on the side of getting covid. >> reporter: over the past nine days, the average number of daily vaccines administered dropping nearly 16%. and with supply outpacing demand, some states like louisiana and mississippi now asking for fewer doses. adding to growing concerns that v

. >> atlanta leading 3-0. >> the atlanta braves versus the houston astros and watch braves pitcher charlie morton. >> off the pitcher's leg. >> the ball hitting morton in the right leg, 102 miles per hour. >> braves hope morton's okay. >> he kept playing, not knowing the ball fractured a bone in his right leg, his fibula. in fact, morton striking out the next batter. >> out number two. >> a third out. then coming back for the third inning and striking another out. morton seen bracing himself with both arms on the mound. >> charlie morton is going to exit. >> morton then walking off the field. three of those outs -- on a broken leg. and it turns out in the dugout, he apologized to his teammates, saying he wished he could have stayed in longer. tonight, the braves now saying he'll be out for the rest of the series. but his team going on to win last night, cheering on their pitcher, knowing morton will be ready for spring training next year. it was incredible. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. good night hold at a bay area in-n-out. protesting. next we don't want to see students or

steve osunsami leading us off tonight from atlanta. >> reporter: public health officials tonight are frightened by the direction the numbers are heading. nearly every state except south dakota and wyoming is seeing the number of new cases starting to rise again. >> virtually all hospitalizations and deaths are occurring among unvaccinated americans. these tragedies are avoidable. >> reporter: the numbers are where we were last fall, long before the vaccines, and before the average number of new cases multiplied months later. the cdc is sharing this map tonight to make a point, the areas in red are places where the virus is now spreading the fastest, and these happen to be many of the same places where vaccination rates are the lowest. >> most people will either get vaccinated or have been previously infected, or they will get this delta variant, and for most people who get this delta variant, it's going to be the most serious virus that they get in their lifetime in terms of the risk of putting them in the hospital. >> reporter: a doctor at a regional hospital in arkansas has recorde

abc senior national correspondent steve osunsami is at the cdc in atlanta tonight leading us off. >> reporter: it's a decision tonight that health officials say is in the best interest of public health. >> the vote is ten in favor, four opposed. >> reporter: a cdc panel recommends that we should remove the hold on using the single shot johnson & johnson vaccine. anyone 18 years old or older should feel free to get the shot, and they will be warned about the low risk of blood clots. >> i'm a firm believer that the perfect should never be the enemy of the good. i think the risks and benefits of this vaccine clearly show that we're preventing tremendous disease. >> reporter: public health authorities put a pause on using the vaccine after six women came down with severe blood clots about two weeks after getting the shot. tonight, the cdc shares that there are now 15 of these cases, most of them with severe blood clots near the brain. all of them are women between 18 and 59 years old. three of them died, and seven are still hospitalized. but the experts underline these are out of 8 milli

to atlanta making an emergency landing in oklahoma city friday night. dun can suspected of having a mental health crisis. the case, just the latest in a string of shocking moments caught on tape. this southwest flight attendant attacked by a passenger just two weeks ago. the faa now telling abc news has it received more than 3,000 reports of unruly passengers on pla planes. the overwhelming majority are passengers refusing to wear a mask. >> the mask mandate is in place for a reason. it's in place because not everyone who boards a plane can get vaccinated yet. >> reporter: the faa threatening fines of $35,000 and as high as $50,000 for some of the violators. and david, right now, american and southwest are not serving alcohol, specifically because of this issue. but no word yet if other airlines will do the same. david? >> all right, gio benitez reporting tonight. gio, thank you. >>> and overseas tonight, benjamin netanyahu is out as israel's prime minister. came down to a single vote in the parliament to oust him. chaotic scene as opponents and former

here's abc's elwyn lopez reporting in from atlanta. >> reporter: tonight, at gas stations along the east coast, fuel is flowing again. >> i'm really excited! >> reporter: colonial's massive 5500-mile pipeline is back up, and the company says it is delivering millions of gallons per hour. but lingering fuel outages still plaguing the nation's capital. as of this morning, 80% of d.c. stations experiencing outages. elizabeth schulze found rita gunther near one of them. how long have you been stuck here? >> friday night. >> you haven't been able to move at all get gas for the car? >> right. >> reporter: north carolina still feeling the pinch, too. >> every day you got to literally get out, wake up, and the first thing you got to prioritize is finding fuel. >> this is not the result of the colonial pipeline being shut down, rather, due to the pipeline and how that fed fear that there wouldn't be enough gasoline, americans started to hoard and panic. >> reporter: experts at gas buddy says once the level of alarm goes down, stations should fill up within days. and, linsey, gas buddy says it cou

threatening flash flooding and possible tornadoes now up through atlanta and then moving into the mid-atlantic. let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all tonight. he's in panama city beach, florida, tonight. rob? >> reporter: david, i can tell you, certainly felt like a hurricane coming ashore just a few hours ago. still a formidable storm to our north and east where damaging winds and tornadoes are a possibility over the next couple of hours. the watches remain up until 8:00 and the tropical rains, all of it, will be drifting north. and those flood watches have been extended past georgia now into north carolina. this rain will get all the way up into the northeast. grace just south of haiti now. the next 12 hours will be difficult with flooding rains, potentially mudslides. into the gulf of mexico and mexico this weekend. david? >> rob marciano with us from florida tonight. rob, thank you. >>> and as rob just said, tropical depression grace now bearing down on haiti at this hour. more misery there after that 7.2 magnitude earthquake. thousands are now homeless. more

abc's steve osunsami leading us off tonight from the cdc in atlanta. >> reporter: the new numbers tonight are getting health officials more worried about 1,100 people, the size of a large high school, are now dying every day. that's 57% more death than just last week. and more american children are getting sick, too. close to 200 children a day are now needing to be hospitalized, up nearly 37% from a week ago. >> because we have still substantial numbers of people unvaccinated, they will continue to be important vectors for the spread of the delta variant, which is still wreaking havoc in so many parts of the u.s. >> reporter: it's been a tough few days for the desell family, north of boston. two of them are still sick. the mother and their oldest daughter were vaccinated and only had mild symptoms, but the father and their youngest daughter, who is 12, were not vaccinated, are still hospitalized tonight, and need machines to breathe. >> i would say, just like, please get vaccinated, even if you think that you don't need it, like, this could happen to anyone. >> reporter: public health of

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