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good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, decertify the election. that is the demand coming from none other than the former president, donald trump, and it comes in a new letter to georgia s secretary of state, brad raffensperger. the secretary is outfront exclusively tonight to respond for the first time to trump s new attempt to overturn the results of the election nearly 11 months after the election. so trump claims in his letter that there is a new report of invalid ballots and says, quote, i would respectfully request that your department check this and, if true, along with many other claims of voter fraud and voter irregularities, start the process of decertifying the election or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner. that letter was sent three days ago. the election results and been certified and audits again and again and the true winner is still joe biden. trump did not win 321 days ago in georgia, and there has been zero evi ....
remains of 22-year-old gabby petito in northern wyoming. an autopsy to confirm her identity is scheduled. the cause of death still unknown. sad developments there. there is a lot happening this morning. kristen holmes has more on the vaccine news, trials for children. kristen, tell us what the data shows here, because i know a lot of parents are watching. good morning, jim and erica. we cannot stress what a big deal this is. it s something we ve been waiting for, the first vaccine data for this 5 to 11 age group that we ve seen yet. now in addition to showing that the vaccine is safe, it also showed that it generated a robust immune response. the company says there were no instances of myocarditis, which is heart inflammation that has been linked to some mrna vaccines. all positive news here. while it has not been peer reviewed or published yet, this is the first step of getting these shots into children s arms and in fact, the fda, excuse me, pfizer says they are ....
that stopped shortly before laundrie returned home alone on september 1st. cnn correspondent laila santiago is on the scene in florida. what s happening there, laila, right now. reporter: right now, ana, in the home behind me where the couple lived and where the parents of brian laundrie are at this hour we understand fbi agents are questioning the parents and this is now about the third hour that they have been doing that. we were here when a caravan of cars pulled in. they they surrounded the home, called out that they had a search warrant, went inside. the parents came outside. they executed the search warrant and then brought them back in for questioning. a lot of critical questions remain to get some big answers as to what happened here. the big one being where is brian laundrie? let s back up for a minute to talk about how we got here. remember, over the weekend there was quite a search in a 25,000-acre wildlife reserve because the parents of brian laundrie to ....
want to know, when is it available for 5 to 11 years old. and the short answer is could be in about a month. and that is creating a split sort of reaction from parents. some of whom say, look, the time is now and others who say, it should be waiting. reporter: the long wait for a covid-19 vaccine for children is a step closer to reality. this after pfizer announced today it s vaccine is safe for five to 11-year-olds and shows a robust antibody response. i think this is exciting, as a pediatrician and parent of a 6-year-old, the only one not vaccinated, i think it is a huge difference in the fight against covid-19 and participants and teachers are waiting for them. reporter: they plan to get emergency thorgsz as soon as possible. as f all goes well for pfizer, it could be available for 5 to 11-year-olds by halloween. depends on how long it takes to review the application, a four week or a six week review, you could have a vaccine available to children as early ....
this is cnn breaking news. top of the new hour, thanks for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. democrats announcing moments ago they will tie an increase in the debt limit to the government spending bill. this move sets up a looming show down with republicans. for more, let s bring in manu raju and lauren fox on capitol hill. lauren, i want to start with you. walk us through what this decision means and how it will work. essentially democrats are daring republicans to vote against an increase in the debt ceiling. there of course is a looming deadline coming sometime in mid october to raise the country s debt limit for what democrats say is money that they have already borrowed. with republicans, given all of the spending for coronavirus over the last year and a half, now, republicans have been saying over and over again that they are not going to join with democrats to actually increase that debt limit. here democrats are saying if yo ....