florida for the fiance, a person of interest in the case, nbc news international correspondent miguel almaguer has more. reporter: gabby petito s body was officially identified, the coroner now ruling her death a homicide, discovers in the remote stretch of teton mountain range, authorities have not yet said how she died, but named her missing fiance brian laundrie has a person of interest. from day one, brian laundrie has done nothing other than help himself and buy time so he can cover his tracks and his actions. reporter: 2500 miles away in florida, the intensified search for laundrie in the alligator-infested swampland. laundrie s parents told investigators he came to the 2500 acre reserve for a hike, the day before he was named a person of interest in his fiancee disappearance. terrain very difficult,
nothing other than help himself and bide time to cover his tracks and actions. reporter: 2,400 miles away in florida, tonight the intensifying search for laundrie in this alligator infested swampland. laundrie s parents told investigators he came to the 25,000-acr reserve for a hike, a day before he was named a person of interest in his fiance s disappearance. terrain is very difficult. essentially 75 of it is underwater. reporter: after an fbi raid at the family home laundrie s parents telling nbc news through their attorney he left their house with a backpack and hasn t been seen in a week. we have been lucky so far. reporter: last spotted together in utah, laundrie and gabby petito were documenting their cross-country trip, her disappearance, his refusal to speak to investigators. he was very kind of awkward and confused. reporter: resulting in a flood of tips
found is 24,000 acres and it s swampland and it s remote. not a lot of people go there. it seems like an odd place to get lost if you wanted to get lost. but i can understand why it has certainly not been easy to find him. they found his car. yeah. candice delong, thank you. we ll continue to follow this story and we ll have you back as we get developments. we appreciate it. uh harkes you re welcome. a six-point plan to overturn the election. it s all in black and white, written by the president s lawyer. that s next. t s paint with new behr dynasty™. so that you can be proud of your walls. go ahead, throw your wine on it. what? it s also scuff resistant. you re paying for that! introducing behr dynasty™, the best of behr. exclusively at the home depot. tonight. i ll be eating a buffalo chicken panini
education with superintendent tony thurmond and we learned about and ftes. tonight, as we come on the air, the key meeting at the cdc under way. all of this with the fda decision on boosters for millions of americans expected at any moment. the fda could green-light a third pfizer shot for adults 65 and older and those at high risk of covid. at the same time, a cdc advisory panel also meeting to decide who should get those boosters first and how quickly. tonight, authorities say those first pfizer boosters could possibly be ready to go by the end of this week. steve osunsami with late reporting, he s at the cdc. also tonight, the new images coming in. the urgent police search for brian laundrie. divers and drones now called in, searching 25,000 acres of swampland. a person of interest in the case of gabby petito and what we re
opening. i think it was very, you know, instrumental to get us to where we are at this point. reporter: authorities have not confirmed this is petito s petito s body was found under a small grove of trees on sunday. memorials continue to grow in florida and the wyoming countryside where a single cross of river rocks sits as a silent reminder of a young woman taken from her family far too soon. after the autopsy confirmed the body was petito laundrie s parents released a statement saying may gabby rest in peace. investigators are headed back out to that marshy swampland to continue grid searching for any possible evidence of laundrie within there. steph. catie beck, thank you for staying on this story. it s a difficult one. when we come back, big evidence against the big lie, new reports the trump team knew their claims about election fraud were lies from the very