in america this morning. stay with us for "good morning america." have a great friday. making news in america this morning, convicted again. the once cleared amanda knox found guilty of murder in italy setting up a possible extradition battle with the united states. super bowl security. unprecedented measures to keep people safe for the big game. the food, the seat cushions and a whole lot more being checked. new details coming up in a live report. running dry. a deepening crisis on the west coast. lakes and reservoirs nearly empty. some towns will run out of water in weeks. a drone that delivers beer is now buzzing in the skies, but it is also brewing up trouble with the faa. good morning. i'm marci gonzalez in for diana

perez. >> and i'm john muller. we begin with the uphill legal battle for amanda knox hit with a guilty verdict for the second time. >> a court in italy has convicted knox and her ex-boyfriend of the 2007 murder of her roommate. for now she is still a free woman in the u.s., but she may be in for a long extradition fight. more now from abc's mary bruce. >> reporter: it's the latest twist in the roller coaster case that's made global headlines for more than six years. amanda knox once again found guilty of murder. the former american exchange student convicted by an italian appeals court for brutally killing her roommate, meredith kercher, now sentenced to 28 1/2 years behind bars. >> amanda's upset. we were all just shocked and i think upset, but we're all ready to fight too. >> reporter: now living at home in seattle, the 26-year-old said she felt sick as the new guilty verdict was read saying in a statement, "i have been found innocent before. i expected better from the italian justice system.

this has gotten out of hand." after spending four years in an italian prison, knox was cleared in 2011 because of unreliable evidence. she returned to the u.s., wrote a book and then learned italy's highest court had ordered a new trial. >> i felt like after crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reaching what i thought was the end, it just turned out that it was the horizon. >> reporter: so what's next? knox is almost certain to appeal. if italy's high court upholds the guilty verdict, the question of extradition would come into play. >> how can they not ask to have her extradited meaning they then have a convicted felon on the books. >> reporter: knox has vowed to put up a fight. >> i'm definitely not going back willingfully. they'll have to -- they'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming. >> reporter: even if the conviction is upheld,

extraditions to italy are extremely rare. now, amanda knox's parents are dug in for another long fight, and they say if she were to turn herself in for an unjust verdict, it would be tantamount to suicide. mary bruce, abc news, washington. police in italy have found amanda knox's boyfriend. raffaele sollecito was found guilty along with knox. a judge did not order his arrest after the verdict. police took sollecito's passport after finding him a town 20 miles from the border. he be freed later. >> we will get to hear from amanda knox later in an exclusive live interview on "good morning america." and now to the morning's other top story, the super bowl weekend kickoff. the teams are ready, the fans are gearing up and the toughest security plan ever is in place. >> abc's tahman bradley joining us live from outside of metlife stadium in east rutherford, new jersey. good morning, tahman. >> reporter: john and marci, fans here in new jersey and new york are ready for some football. it will be a super bowl like no

other. everybody here is ready to make history. the first outdoor cold weather super bowl is now only hours away. fans are fired up. >> yeah. >> reporter: it's the seattle seahawks versus the denver broncos, the best defense versus the best offense. >> so i'd like to help, help the broncos get another championship and -- but you have other people that you'd like to win it for, as well. >> i mean, we go after it at all times, and i think that's why our offense is one of the best at keeping it, and we're one of the best at getting it. >> reporter: here at metlife stadium in new jersey, final preparations are under way. earlier in the week, crews cleared snow. sunday's game time forecast is mild, in the mid to high 30s. >> our game is to experience the elements. it's part of what we do. it's part of football. >> reporter: new york city has transformed broadway into super bowl boulevard. large crowds are enjoying concerts and greeting nfl players, past and present. an unprecedented security plan is in full effect, bomb-sniffing

dogs, fighter jets in the sky, helicopters and high-speed boats in the water with radiological detection and infrared sensors. every delivery to the stadium is getting a police escort. no specific terror plot has been identified, but officials say they're leaving nothing to chance. the fbi is also on alert on the lookout for any lone wolf actors like the two brothers accused of bombing last april's boston marathon. >> an event like this, you know, the person that we don't know about who comes out of nowhere who wants to make a statement, i mean, that's what we're really concerned about. >> reporter: the fbi has done thousands of background checks on stadium workers from the people who clean up all the way to the people selling concessions, marci and john. >> all right. tahman bradley live at metlife stadium in new jersey, thank you. and just as thousands of fans were flocking to midtown manhattan ahead of the games, some robbers were pulling off a brazen heist. they smashed a display case at cartier on fifth avenue right around lunchtime yesterday and made off with 16 expensive

watches. those watches are worth more than $700,000. then the five bandits disappeared. the hunt for them continues. well, it may be difficult to fly in or out of denver this morning. overnight, dozens of flights were canceled or delayed because of the latest snowstorm. officials say they have plenty of equipment there to clean the runways, taxiways and parking lots. they also say the airlines had a chance to move their planes to other cities, so denver's problems should not affect other cities. schools remain closed in the atlanta area for the third straight day after that deadly ice storm paralyzed parts of the south stranding drivers and schoolchildren. all the cars and trucks abandoned along georgia's roadways have finally been moved and the governor there is now acknowledging that he should have shut things down much earlier saying he takes full responsibility. the surviving suspect in the boston marathon bombing faces the death penalty. the short justice department statement says dzhokhar tsarnaev betrayed his country by carrying out a terrorist act.

tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty. the two bombings last april killed three. they wounded hundreds. even so, a poll last fall found that most massachusetts residents don't want him executed. the u.s. is growing impatient with syria. syria is taking longer than expected to remove and destroy its chemical weapons. the u.s. says the syrian government is stalling and hasn't done very much. meanwhile, a human rights watch says the government is destroying entire neighborhoods to punish civilians sympathetic to the rebels. the opening ceremony of the winter olympics debuts one week from tonight. they're sending the largest delegation in winter games history. 230 athletes participating in all 15 disciplines. first stop, the olympic village welcome center for those all-important credentials. all right time now to check the weather from across the nation.

the south putting that nasty cold snap behind it. milder temperatures are back. rain from arkansas to pennsylvania. snow from colorado across the midwest. heaviest around the great lakes. showers along the california/nevada border and in the mountains of the southwest. 60s and 70s there. 20s across that snowy midwest. 60s and 70s along the gulf. 40s in the mid-atlantic states and 30s in new england. all right, a plan for a night out this weekend? a restaurant chain wants to pick up your baby-sitting tab. >> sounds like a plan. plus, water worries. some california towns warn that their water supplies could run dry very soon. and stranded for days, a hiker is plucked off a snowbound mountain. you won't believe where this happened.

welcome back. u.s. stocks bounced back yesterday with the dow, nasdaq and s&p all posting gains. facebook founder mark zuckerberg's net worth soared more than $3 billion yesterday as facebook shares rose 14%, and under armour's ceo kevin plank he picked up another 350 million yesterday as his athletic apparel company's stock gained 23%. if you use yahoo! mail, your account may have been compromised. the tech company says user names and passwords were stolen in a coordinated cyberattack. yahoo! didn't say how many of its nearly 300 million accounts were affected. it is the world's second biggest e-mail provider. the world's largest restaurant chain is hoping coffee will give it a sales jolt. an internal mcdonald's memo calls on its franchises to deliver a great cup of coffee after admitting earlier this month that starbucks is winning the coffee wars. the burger chain wants to act fast as coffee and snack sales

are set to outpace fast food sales this year. olive garden is so eager to boost its sales, that it will pay for your baby-sitter. next friday night mom and dad can drop off kids at certain locations and after dinner, they show their olive garden receipt, they get back their deposits and presumably their kids too. >> which is always a good thing. >> let's hope. now we're talking about all fast food, things like that, well, let's not forget burger king. it is testing a chicken and waffle sandwich. check it out. it is a chicken patty between two waffles. >> sounds like a plan. all right. it was spotted first at a pennsylvania burger king. the company says it's testing the sandwich in some regions, but it's still waffling on whether or not they want to offer it nationally. i'm sorry. >> ba-dum-dum. >> i couldn't resist. when we come back, frantic rescue caught on camera after tourists jump off their ship that is sinking. and parents outraged after school workers snatch dozens of lunches from students and threw them away. this morning school officials are explaining why it happened.

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during this stretch of arctic weather, the people of arizona have been quietly gloating. they're out golfing or sitting by the pool. it will hover around 70 degrees again today. break out the sunscreen and those icy drinks. of course, they say it is payback for the blistering days last summer. >> yeah, next time it's 105, we'll remember that. >> right. >> but, oh, yeah, the place to be right now. the morning road conditions, snow and ice creating hazards on the highways from the central plains to the midwest along much of i-70 and 80 across the center of the country. if you're flying, airport delays possible in salt lake city, denver and kansas city. earlier today, chicago and detroit. later this evening all because of the snow. all right, not a lot of rain or show on those maps for california, and that is not good with the state in its worst drought since 1977. >> governor jerry brown is trying to make sure residents

appreciate just how serious this situation is. he says everyone across the state needs to do their part. in a normal year california's folsom lake looks like this, but this is what it looks like now. at dangerously low levels. the sierra nevada mountains usually store much of their drinking water in the form of snow. on the left, last year. on the right, this year with just 12% of the usual snow. state health officials say 17 communities and water districts mostly in rural areas are now within 100 days of running dry. digging new wells and hauling in water are two ways they will be helped. california governor jerry brown is calling on residents to do whatever it takes to conserve. >> don't flush more than you have to. don't shower longer than you need to and turn the water off when you're shaving or brushing your teeth. >> reporter: brown declared a drought emergency two weeks ago. he's asking californians to voluntarily use 20% less water but that could change.

>> every day this drought goes on, we're going to have to tighten the screws on what people are doing. >> reporter: the san francisco bay area has seen less than 10% of the rainfall it ordinarily sees at this point in its rainy season. forecasters say rain would have to fall heavily every day through may to bring conditions back to normal. now, a storm dumped some new snow in the sierra nevada yesterday but not nearly enough to ease any drought concerns. a hiker is safe this morning after a harrowing two nights stranded on a hawaiian mountain by a snowstorm. the experienced hiker was on his way down from the summit of the volcano mauna loa when the storm hit. he thought he was going to die, he said. national park service rangers used a helicopter to find him after finding his parked car and realizing he hadn't come back down. now to a nasty food fight at a utah school after cafeteria workers took lunches from children and threw them away. workers at this salt lake city elementary school confiscated the lunches of some 40 children because their parents were

behind in paying. they couldn't tell who owed money and who didn't until the children had already been served. the move has, of course, shocked and angered parents. >> the last thing you do is confiscate lunches especially in a public setting in front of peers, so i think that was a really poor idea. >> the school district's child nutrition manager ordered the move after discovering that a large number of students owed lunch money. afterward, the school issued a statement of apology. all right, check this out, dramatic video this morning of a terrifying scene off the coast of thailand. people scrambling for their lives after a diving boat started sinking incredibly fast. panicked passengers jumped from the boat before they even had time to put on life jackets. fortunately, a nearby boat came to the rescue, and it only took, you can see here, a few minutes for the boat to go down. incredibly, everyone survived. >> that is incredible when you see that video. washington state's largest

employer clearly going all out for the seahawks in sunday's super bowl. >> not only did boeing repaint one of its 747s in seahawks colors declaring it the spirit of the 12s, 12, of course, the -- to honor the team's fans called the 12th men. >> that's right. then the jet flew a massive 12 flight pattern yesterday. it was captured on the website, flightaware.com. the pattern stretched across almost the entire southern border of the state. all right. now for some hoops highlights. >> as usual, we get that from our guys at espn. good morning, america. welcome to our "sportscenter" set here in los angeles. i'm stan verrett. this is neil everett. clippers and warriors didn't fight this time. >> they don't much like each other. 11 fouls if the two games they split earlier this season. let's split up north. the clips played the night before and the curries did not. david lee to steph curry. that's pretty much automatic. in the third quarter, the clippers went 1 for 15. not going to win a lot of ball games when you do that. >> no. >> curry to the hole.

whistle over deandre jordan who maybe is bummed, didn't make the all-star team. 111-92, the dubs. how about the knicks taking on the cavaliers in new york. hot all of a sudden. they had won three in a row. talk that kyrie irving might want out of cleveland. j.r. smith. wow! what a finish. irving late to rotate. but he didn't want any part of that anyway. smith with 19 points in the game. and tim hardaway jr. >> you know what smith did to celebrate that dunk, i heard. >> what did he do? >> got a tattoo. >> he already had plenty of those. it was hard to tell which one that was. >> yeah. >> all right. that's all we got. now back to you. >> yes. >> all right, thanks, guys. now to a remarkable feat by a talented young athlete. a shoo-in for our "play of the day." >> take a look.

an amazing amateur skier here pulling off a pretty incredible double backflip. >> my gosh. >> and he's only 16 years old. his name is bryson colemere wowing the crowd at a ski resort in utah turning over high in the air, not once, but twice. >> you can see his landing wasn't quite perfect but if you can pull that off, who cares. >> he didn't stick the landing but it's not gymnastics after all. it's pretty amazing. >> the fact he was able to do that and not get hurt. >> tell the tale. pretty incredible. up next, "the pulse." we knew jerry seinfeld was up to something with cast members of his former hit show. now, he's giving some clues. and beer delivered by drone. >> hmm.

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abc7 news begins with breaking news. >> the news? santa clara, four people are out of the their home after a two-alarm house fire this morning just before 1:30 this morning. one person was taken to the hospital with minor burns. here is a look at the scene, the charred remains of the home with firefighters on the scene. the flames are out. everyone got out. a neighbor threw rocks at house wake everyone else up and alert them the house was open fire. abc7 news reporter cornell bernard has an update at the top of the hour. >> thank you for joining us at 4:2. we are watching, also, the weekend weather and if the rain

is out of here. >> i think so. there were a few drops on the car this morning, a random shower that rolled through but it is a dry commute and very nice to have. you can see live doppler 7 hd showing how dry it is. we are looking at the areas an the embarcardero in downtown san francisco. you can see how dry the streets are. this afternoon, chilled sunshine and close to normal with temperatures hanging around 60 inland in the bay and mid-to-upper 50's at the coast. here is the first look at the commute: we will first take you right into san jose where we have this early crash that was a fatality northbound highway 85 with all lanes now re-opened. we are looking at traffic that flows through away from 101 up to highway 17. we will look at what happen at the toll plaza which is clear.

you can almost count the cars as they funnel into the city. >> thanks, more now on the accident on highway 85. one person died in the crash around 11:30 last night. police say two cars collided. both overturned. you can see the result. each had only a driver inside. one driver was taken to the hospital and he died. the other was arrested for d.u.i. and speeding. the highway was shut down while crews worked to clear the crash. >> first lady michelle obama is weighing up in san francisco for fundraising including a v.i.p. lunch at the fairmont hotel. we have a preview. >> it is a women's lunch. she will be here with house democratic leader nancy pelosi. the lunch is sold out. she is creating quite a stir being in the