that s something you need to decide with your doctor. alisyn, victor. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. top of the hour, i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. republican governor greg abbott is facing push back on his controversial and broad band on covid vaccine mandates, including private businesses from enforcing vaccination mandates. american and southwest airlines both based in the lone star state vowed to continue requiring their employees to be vaccinated. abbot is up for reelection next year. he has been on a bit of a collision course with president biden who just last month announced that all employers with 100 or more workers should adopt vaccine mandates or covid testing regimens. ed lav reporter: i think everybody in texas is looking at abbot t s move through the prism of politics he finds himself in the middle of, and that is he is facing a primary challenge to be reelected next year. that primary is coming up in the spring
matter he calls private. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news in our national lead. just minutes ago we finally learned gabby petito, the 22-year-old woman found dead in a wyoming national park three weeks ago, was killed by strangulation. her death, according to the wyoming coroner, was ruled a homicide. petito was first reported missing more than a month ago after spending the summer travel with her 23-year-old fiance brian laundrie. the couple extensively documented their adventures on social media and stoked nationwide conversation about the tens of thousands of missing persons stories that do not garner such an intense interest. they also brought attention to the issues of domestic abuse and apparently inadequate police training on the matter of domestic abuse. cnn s leyla santiago starts us off from florida where they continue to search from laundrie, the fiance who disappeared after he became a person of interest. cause of death by strangulation an