america this morning. >> stay with us. "good morning america" is coming up soon. have a great thursday. . making news in america this morning, hunting down the executioner. pressure is mounting for president obama to deal with the isis threat as family members mourn the second murdered american hostage. we're live in the latest. chemical mishap. an experiment goes awry at a museum. new details this morning about what went wrong and the children inside who were injured. close encounter. two kayakers come face to face with a great white shark. >> the next thing i'm in the water and i just see a shark as close as you are to me biting my kayak. >> how they made their escape after getting tossed into the water. collapse on the court. a stadium ceiling comes crashing down with players and fans inside.

good morning, everyone. it's thursday, i'm tahman bradley. >> i'm reena ninan. >> we begin with the aftermath of the execution of steven sotloff by the isis islamic group. >> a candlelight vigil was held for him last night. his death is also on the minds of many in the obama administration. >> gloria riviera with the latest. >> reporter: president obama is in the uk meeting with so many key allies. a lot on his plate, ukraine, russia, but, of course, isis and with the u.s. policy and what it will be. pressure is building for president obama meeting with nato allies to clearly define u.s. strategy after he said the terror group isis will pay the price for the murder of american journalist steven sotloff and james foley. >> we'll either fight them now or fight them later because they're not going to stop. it's disciplined.

it's well financed. it's military. it's a state. it's a government and they move with lightning speed. >> reporter: lightning speed and a sophisticated social media campaign. terrorism observers say it boosts their power in syria and iraq. isis commander abu bakr al baghdadi an the hooded executioner is key targets. they are looking for clues. spy planes and satellites honing in on raqqah where they think they were killed. in florida steven sotloff's family and friends remember a dedicated journalist. >> he wanted to give voice to those who had none. >> reporter: it was a mission that cost him his life. secretary of defense chuck hagel said there are at least 100 american passport holders fighting with isis and terror

experts say english speakers are key to spreading the isis message increasing their power and recruiting others. reena, tahman, back to you. >> gloria riviera live in washington. >> the terror threat from iceland is sure to be discussed at the nato summit this week even though ukraine is the main item on the agenda. >> president obama will be meeting with several heads of state today in newport, wales. abc's devin dwyer is traveling with the president. good morning, devin. >> reporter: good morning, reena and tahman. president obama arrived here overnight making front page news this morning. he's the first american president ever to visit wales. the nato summit already under way. the agenda here is ambitious this morning. ukraine's president is here as a special guest. he wants help from the u.s. and nato and more money to confront that invasion. president poroshenko will meet with president obama, german, italian and french leaders and the other big issue what to do with the isis militants in sr.

and iraq and the papers this morning, british prime minister cameron, president obama penning a joint op-ed and they have different views about what to do about it. today meetings between the two, prime minister and president obama, will be closely watched to see if perhaps a more aggressive strategy emerges and military strategy perhaps. this evening, though, president obama and the other leaders, 67 of them from around the world will rub elbows with prince charles's sprawling countryside resort here but overall reena and tahman, this is being dubbed as perhaps the most consequential nato summit ever. >> okay, devin, thank you. a science experiment turned dangerous at a museum in reno terrifying a room filled with children. seven kids were among nine rushed to the hospital following a routine demonstration at the discovery museum. the staff was using a machine to simulate a tornado when it malfunctioned and a chemical flash occurred causing multiple acid burns.

>> the one tornado wasn't going and then she was like, oh, i forgot this one and added it and that's when everything explodex. turning to more scrutiny for police in ferguson, missouri nearly a month after the shooting of a unarmed black teen. the justice department is launching a full-scale investigation. sources say it will look into whether the officers used excessive force and also the way arrests are made. joan rivers is out of intensive care this morning. her daughter melissa said her mom was moved to a private room but gave no further explanation. rivers who is 81 years old remains sedated on life support and went into cardiac arrest last week during a procedure at a clinic. well, norbert has strengthen into a hurricane packing winds of 75 miles per hour dumping

heavy rain across mexico's tourist destinations. it is stirring up rough surf and waves up to 80 feet. it's not expected to make landfall. in minnesota, severe storms dropped pies of hail up to a foot deep and severely damaged crops, everything from squash to apps and corn. the sheer force of it severed the vines off the pumpkins. pretty powerful. >> indeed, time now for a look at today's weather. a band of storms stretching 1800 miles from the southwest up into the great lakes is bringing torrential rain, powerful winds and damaging hail. heavy rain up to washington, d.c. and the midwest remains hot and humid with temperatures in the 80s and 90s. 106 for phoenix. 60s and 70s for the upper plains. barrow, alaska, got its first significant snowfall one day after labor day.

4.4 inches of snow fell there in america's northernmost city. well, a change in poultry practices. the major product adjustment for one of the biggest chicken producers. breaking news for the search of a missing 8-year-old girl that has investigators desperately seeking answers. killer cobra. the rare and dangerous snake slithering around a community.

thanks for stay withing us. the nation's third largest poultry producer is stepping into the debate over the use of antibiotics in meat and dairy.

perdue says it stopped using human antibiotics in all their chickens virtually. however, perdue will still use animal antibiotics which critics say are just as dangerous. u.s. auto sales boomed. overall sales up 5.5% since a year ago. the big winner was chrysler up 20% thanks to crossovers and suvs. ford sales were basically flat and general motors was off 1%. dragged down by cadillac. fast food workers across america are planning to walk off their jobs today demanding a $15 an hour wage. the last time they did this was back in may. organizers expect strikes in more than 100 cities. they also say workers will use nonviolent civil disobedience to make their point and a $15 an hour wage would wipe up profits, some say. a popular show is learning there's a downside to winning so many emmys. piracy of "breaking bad" surged after the emmy awards were announced and more than

quadrup quadrupled. piracy of other emmy winning shows went up too. and we're still five days away from apple's big announ announcement about, well, we don't know for sure. but there are people lining and waiting for whatever it is outside the flagship apple store, new york. it's widely believed they will announce the newest iphone on september 9th. >> of course, it'll be the phone. >> that's what you have your money on. >> i want a dialup without internet. when we come back, the high school that gives students the option of coming in much later in the day. plus, bite marks on their kayak. a wild story to tell. two women talk about their encounter with a great white shark. and look out below. a narrow escape as a stadium ceiling comes crashing down.

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well, it gives new meaning to being under the golden arches two injured when a giant mcdonald's sign crashed on top of cars in the restaurant's drive-through. that was in weatherford, oklahoma, crashing those cars like bugs practically. the two people trapped in the wreckage suffered only minor injuries. now for a look at your morning road conditions. an 1800-mile-long band of severe weather will create wet conditions to the upper midwest and great lakes and wet conditions stretch from south texas to the southeast and up into washington, d.c. if you're flying, delays are possible in minneapolis, and atlanta. well, breaking news this morning in the search for a missing 8-year-old girl in arizona. >> a body has been found near the home of the girl but it has not been identified. isabella grogan-cannella vanished from her bullhead city home before dawn tuesday and her parents say she was not in her bedroom when they went to check on her.

no struggles of a break-in but they haven't ruled out a kidnapping. the unidentified body has been turned over to the medical examiner's office. the judge was emotional at the sentencing of a man who killed a 19-year-old woman who banged on his door in the middle of the night. theodore wafer will spend at least the sex 17 years behind bars. he was convicted for the shooting of renisha mcbride when she showed up on his porch acting strangely after a car accident. at the hearing wafer apologized to her family. >> i can only hope and pray that -- that somehow you can forgive me. >> the jury rejected his claim of self-defense. to massachusetts where two kayakers got the fright of their lives when what appears to be a great white shark took a bite out of their boat. they were taking pictures off the coast of plymouth.

one minute they were talking to each other, the next they were knocked into the water swimming with a shark. >> i looked back at her and it came directly out of the water underneath the boat, launching her backwards and flipped me over. >> fortunately neither were injured. the shark swam away but the bite mark on the kayak belongs to a great white shark, they say. known to hunt seals in those waters this time of year. now, some news about snakes starting with a dangerous cobra on the loose in a los angeles neighborhood. an albino cobra considered dangerous. what's not clear is where it came from. on monday it attacked a dog sending it to an animal hospital in critical condition. cobras are generally illegal on their own in california if you own them. and that snake, that one right there was found in the drive-through lane of a burger king in illinois. no one knows how the more than six-foot-longbow what constrictor got there. animal control officers captured

it and took it away. plenty cowing it a whopper of a boa constrictor. so the nfl, it's a tough business but here's an example of one team going the extra mile for a player. >> devin still was cut by the cincinnati bengals last weekend but now he's been re-signed to the team's practice team. >> his 4-year-old daughter is battling cancer as a member of the practice team still can keep the nfl's insurance plan that helps pay for his daughter's treatment. >> that is great. of course, the new nfl season kicks off tonight with the packers visiting the reigning super bowl champion, seattle seahawks. first baseball and tennis thanks to our guys at espn. >> welcome to our "sportscenter" set in los angeles. he's neil everett, i'm stan verrett. a battle of division leaders demands our attention. >> let's go to dodger stadium. the dodger dogs are no longer fresh in the bottom of the 13th. nationals in town, runner on third, two outs. gordon, lay down, sally, no. both left 12 on base.

this game was unbelievable. and in the top of the 14th two outs and manufactured a run on an error and wild pitch and cabrera said we'll play the bottom of the 14th but there will be no 15th. nationals win, 8-5. i'm surprised more fans didn't stay. nobody there at the end. u.s. open, novak novak, andy murray. no touch luck this time because djokovic said so. murray into the net and now this is match point. murray looking a little fatigued. that is perhaps why he hit another into the net and djokovic wins it 7-6, 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to get into the semifinals. >> a text from a friend said brendan murphy was sitting in djokovic's box at that match. pretty cool. >> that's all we got. >> we don't usually deal with

badminton on the show unless, of course, this happens. that roof collapse took place, can you believe it, at a badminton tournament in availabvietnam. >> thankfully no one was injured. they got out of the way just before it happened. that is frightening. thankfully they weren't there. wow. all right. up next, "the pulse." it's official, new details about who is joining "the view." and a's ward to find a camera after this happened.

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♪ okay, reena, time to check "the pulse," stories you'll be talking about today starting with a big announcement from "the view." the show has named actress rosie perez and political analyst nicolle wallace as its newest co-hosts. >> rosie has an important latina voice and nicolle brings her experience from working in the white house. they'll join whoopi goldberg and rosie o'donnell when the groundbreaking daytime talk show -- can you believe this -- starts its 18th season a week from monday. >> lots of screaming and talking over each other.

>> i'm looking forward to it. >> i am too. >> i'm a big fan of the show. >> me too. me too. >> i think it's a good group of women. >> guys watch. >> good to know. the highest paid actor in television is a woman. "forbes" says "modern family's" sofia vergara earned $37 million in the past year most from endorsements and licensing. mariska hargitay of "law & order: svu" is a distant second among tv actresses with $13 million. >> still okay. >> yeah. and third is kaley cuoco of "the big bang theory" with $11 million. overall, though, the top ten tv actresses made about two-thirds as much as the top ten male actors. >> hmm we'll bet when you were in high school, you wish you could sleep in and not go to class until afternoon. well, that wish came true for adnexis this school. a group of charter school students are in royal oak and chose a morning or afternoon session, which starts at 12:30. the american academy of pediatrics now says that's healthier for teens whose natural sleep cycles make it

harder for them to fall asleep before 11:00 at night. good idea. >> i always took morning classes because i fell asleep in my 6:00 p.m. classes. >> should we talk about our sleeping? >> yeah. >> on the show. >> no. and finally, an attempt to film great white sharks that went horribly wrong. it took place off the coast of new zealand. >> with six gopro cameras on his pole, the guy in the cage was hoping to film sharks with 360-degree precision, but a great white got the camera in his mouth, and when he pulled it out, it fell to the ocean floor. >> so much for that. now, the guy who lost the camera is offering a big reward to anyone who braves the shark-infested waters and retrieves the camera. gee, good luck. >> good luck, indeed. i'm not going down there with a shark. >> just buy a new camera. forget about it. >> yeah. >> that's what i would say. >> yeah, it's just equipment. for some of you, your local news is next. yeah, and for everyone else, we'll be back with a couple who hit a jumbo jackpot.

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live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good thursday morning at 4:28. >> i overheard mike saying something about ground hog day. is that our weather? >> you heard me talking on the radio. i do the radio, as well, the next couple of days will be morning clouds and afternoon sun but we will tweet the temperatures. six miles visibility in santa rosa and four miles visibility if san jose. the marine layer is compressed. it is not so thick as yesterday. that leads to warmer temperatures. we will have sunshine quicker. away the bay 74 to 84 in the north bay and south bay and warmest inland east bay, 85 to money and coast is in the upper 60's to mid-70's in san

francisco with partly sunny skies. leyla gulen? we have a traffic advisory to northbound 17 closed no construction until 5:00 -- no, until five hours -- no, until 5:00 so the detour is southbound 17 to redwood estates. it could cause a crimp in the commute but it should not be too bad because we will wrap it up. the drive time traffic is 580 tracy to dublin at 37 minutes and highway 4 westbound antioch to concord is 14 minutes. thank you, at 3. miles northwest of american canyon. this is a look at the graph and you can see the pulse showing the earthquake. there are no reports of damage

or injury. this the second earthquake felt in less than nine hours. last night a 2.9 earthquake hit the peninsula near palo alto. >> in santa rosa a pursuit helps with a crash in a being at petaluma hill can flower avenue. police tried for pull over the driver of the jeep at 12:30 but he would not stop. he sped off and ran several red lights before crashing into a store. he took out a gas main and water pipes. two people in the jeep were take were to the hospital. police detained a third person at the scene. >> a 14-year-old is in police custody this morning acaused of stabbing another teen to death in san francisco's mission district. amy hollyfield is at sacred heart cathedral preparatory school with more. >> a 14-year-old is