this morning on "world news now," breaking news in indonesia, a passenger plane crashes shortly after takeoff, losing contact with air traffic control. 189 passengers and crew were on board. details ahead. the synagogue horror in pittsburgh. worshippers gunned down during a baby naming ceremony, a celebration. 11 people were killed and several others injured. new details on the victims and the alleged gunman now in police custody. and new this half hour, america has a new world series champion. >> the boston red sox wrapped up a dominating season with a 5-1 win over the los angeles dodgers. this is the moment right there. their ninth world series win. we're going to hear from the red sox pitcher who clinched that victory. and stars, they're just like us.

how some of hollywood's top celebrities decked themselves out for a spook-tacular weekend of halloween festivities. we'll check out some of the more head-turning costumes later this half hour in "the skinny." it is monday, october 29th. >> and guess who that is. >> post malone? >> yeah. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> it kind of looks like it would be like bruno mars, but it's not bruno mars. >> that's not bruno mars? >> no, it's post malone. >> right. >> somebody going as post malone, but it could be bruno mars there who did that. >> you'll find out later. we'll start with the breaking news this half hour. the officials from the u.s. are on their way to indonesia today to try to figure out what brought down an american-made jetliner. >> the boeing 737 lost contact shortly after takeoff. this is the first reported crash involving the newest version of the boeing 737. the max 8. a tugboat crew reports seeing

the jet crash into the java sea and debris has been found floating into the water, including personal possessions. >> new pictures show relatives of passengers, as you can see there, grief stricken at the news at the airport. we're going to bring you any new details on this story. boeing is aware of it and is standing by and deeply saddened by the loss of this jetliner. they just released a statement moments ago. we turn now to the tragedy in pittsburgh. some new details emerging about the innocent worshippers brutally gunned down in their synagogue and the man accused of pulling the trigger. >> 11 people died, ranging in age from 54 to 97. six were wounded, including four police officers, and the suspect was shot and arrested. thousands of people of all faiths attended a vigil last night to honor the victims of what the mayor is calling the darkest day in pittsburgh's history. >> and in remembrance to those who were killed and injured, the

empire state building went dark with the exception of an orange halo symbolizing gun violence. abc's matt gutman has more on the massacre. >> reporter: the first 911 calls coming in at 9:54 a.m. people inside the tree of life synagogue frantic. they were under attack. members of three congregations inside. a baby-naming ceremony about to get under way and now a gunman had entered the house of worship. >> as soon as he came into the lobby, he opened fire. >> reporter: according to the fbi, the alleged gunman, 46-year-old robert bowers, hurling words of hate against jews, even as he murdered them. when the first two police officers encountered bowers, they say he was wielding an ar-15 rifle. >> we approached the front of the synagogue, he began firing at us. >> reporter: the officers wounded and the gunman then retreating farther into the synagogue. a s.w.a.t. team enters, discovering a scene of unimaginable horror.

11 people, three women and eight men, dead. as medics rushed to evacuate the wounded, officers climbed to the third floor where bowers has fled. >> contact. contact. shots fired. shots fired. give me additional resources. additional resources third floor. come on, we've got a guy barricaded actively shooting at us. >> reporter: what came next, an all-out gunbattle. bowers is shot and surrenders. >> the suspect talking about all these jews need to die. we're still communicating with him. >> reporter: police say he was ranting, they're committing genocide to my people. i just want to kill jews. >> we were dispatched to active gunfire. >> reporter: in the neighborhood, fear and disbelief. >> my father-in-law was inside. everybody. i got married in that place. this is crazy. this is unbelievable. people have to stop the hate. >> reporter: kim and kevin harden live across the street from the synagogue. as the chaos unfolded, police knocked on their door,

positioning a sniper in their bedroom window. the couple hearing a barrage of gunfire. >> it sounded like a full-on gunbattle. >> it did. >> it did. it was a warzone. >> reporter: as the couple watched, they could see survivors straggling out. >> it's so sad because they were so old they couldn't, you know, go fast and the police were urging them, hurry, hurry, hurry. >> reporter: authorities say in addition to that ar-15, bowers had three handguns with him and used all of his weapons. >> it's a very horrific crime scene. it's one of the worst that i've seen. >> reporter: matt gutman, abc news, pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> the suspected gunman had no criminal record but his anger was clear on social media. abc's pierre thomas takes a look. >> reporter: as the fbi and police race to dissect the life of robert bowers, a chilling portrait emerging. the introduction to his social media page signaling the hate to come.

jews are the children of satan. just before the deadly assault, bowers posted this, i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. screw your optics. i'm going in. bowers wrote those posts on the fringe social media site gab, which has become popular among white supremacists who believe mainstream sites like facebook and twitter censor their radical views. on gab, which has nearly a half million users, bowers reposted vile comments like this, it's the filthy evil jews bringing the filthy evil muslims into the country. about president trump he wrote, trump is a globalist not a nationalist. there is no make america great again as long as there is a blank infestation. bowers using a racial slur for jewish. law enforcement officials saying the 46-year-old not on their radar. a neighbor describing bowers as reclusive. >> the most terrifying thing is just how normal he seemed. >> reporter: if convicted, bowers faces the death penalty. based on the attorney general's statement, it's likely to be

pursued. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >> the president in the meantime is facing a fresh round of calls to tone down his rhetoric following that attack. the president said he did not cancel his weekend campaign rallies because we can't let evil change our lives. >> last night's vigil attracted mourners from the jewish community and beyond. >> yeah, thousands showed up at pittsburgh's soldiers and sailors memorial hall. despite the pouring rain, they were there to grieve and comfort each and other to stand up to anti-semitism. ♪ ♪ >> when violence came to christian sanctuaries, you stood with us, and today with our whole hearts we stand with you. >> we will drive anti-semitism and the hate of any people back to the basement on their computer and away from the open

discussions and dialogues around this city, around this state and around this country. >> our goal is to make sure that pittsburgh is a place where immigrants can call it their sanctuary or refuge if they want to. >> this bigotry will not defeat us. love will conquer all. >> some scenes from the pittsburgh area overnight. there's been a dramatic rise in anti-semitic incidents over the last year. later this hour we're going to take a look at the troubling uptick in violence sparked by hate. there is a hearing for the man charged with mailing bombs. a hearing for cesar sayoc in south florida this afternoon. investigators say they connected his fingerprints and dna to the packages. investigators have recovered 14 of the suspected devices. boston is waking up to another world series championship this morning. >> that's right.

just after 11:15 eastern last night, the red sox's chris sale threw the final pitch of the season to close out the l.a. dodgers in game five. after the game, he said the whole scene was incredible and his kids thought it was pretty cool, too. >> you know, your parents driving you around when you're a kid, my dad throwing endless amounts of baseballs at me, and, you know, my wife with me, you know, through thick and thin. to be sitting here with my two boys right now, there is not a better feeling on the planet. >> how cool is your dad right now? >> awesome! >> thank you. >> that is awesome. for the dodgers, it's the second straight year that they've lost the world series. both have ended in l.a. manny machado there saddened. they haven't won the series since 1988. >> feel a little bad when you see how sad they look. >> they do look sad. you know what? i actually stayed up until 4:00 in the morning sunday morning -- >> the 90-inning game?

>> yes. so they were -- >> that was brutal. >> that was brutal. but that shows how you tough this team is. ♪ ♪ time now for the royals down under clip of the day. >> i was going to say, we know what that means. >> is it still going? >> still going. meghan markle, check this out, may now be a duchess with two future kings as in-laws but she's no fashion snob. oh, no, kendis, the mom to be stunned royal watchers with this super affordable little black maternity dress from ace owes. the so-called wiggle dress retails for just $56. >> an lbd for 60 -- >> a pregnancy lbd at that. >> so the duchess paired the lbd with a black trench coat, black pumps and her signature messy bun. the newlyweds landed in new zealand on sunday. that's the final country, thank god, on their nearly two-week

tour of australia, tonga, fiji -- >> i can tell you from experience, they like to rook you on the pregnancy clothes. that is quite news there. >> jack, we're almost there. >> getting there one step at a time, baby. all right. well, coming up in "the skinny," how a justin bieber look-alike pranked all of us. remember that photo that sparked outrage across the interwebs? well, that was a burrito, but was it justin bieber? we're going to find out later on. but first, how america's increasingly toxic political discourse is now turning deadly. you're watching "world news now." now." i'm alex trebek, here to tell you about the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, anmemberhe three p.life insurance on a fixed budget, the tee's are price, price

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that deadly attack in pittsburgh is only the latest in what appears to be an alarming trend in our country of hate turning violent. >> it has a growing number of our nation's civic leaders from both sides of the political aisle vowing to combat this troubling trend. here's abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: in the last week a simmering hate in this country turning violent. those 14 ieds sent in the mail allegedly built by the man living in this van plastered with partisan stickers,

including targets on the faces of prominent democrats. the suspect seen here. >> you take a look at these people. you study these people. >> reporter: on wednesday, an armed man tried to break into a predominately black church in jeffersontown, kentucky. he then walked to a kroger and fatally shot two black victims, passing right by a white man in the parking lot. and now the horrific crime at a neighborhood synagogue. at a time when anti-semitic incidents reported in this country are surging, up 57% in 2017. here in pittsburgh it's not lost to community leaders that in those first public remarks after saturday's synagogue shooting the president suggested having armed guards in places of worship might help. >> do you think it might have saved lives, an armed guard? >> yesterday it was at a synagogue. it might be at a school, but the next time it could be at a grocery store or at a public

market. where do we stop with arming our entire society and feeling as if we can't be safe anywhere? >> reporter: the mayor was firm. >> we will not try to figure out ways in order to lessen the degree of crimes such as this. we will work to eradicate it. hatred will not have a place anywhere. >> our thanks to martha raddatz there. we would like to think that will be the case and this will make a difference, but -- >> and all our leaders will work toward it. >> yeah. we shall see how it plays out. we're going to switch gears when we come back and tell you why george clooney was inside a cockpit over the weekend. and the character who could soon be dropped from "the simpsons." "the skinny" is next. >> homer? >> homer? from theicism sons. "the skinny" is next. [throat clears] say hello to your fairy godmother, alice. oh and look they got gain scent beads and dryer sheets too!

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>> yes. the stars proving they are just like us, dressing up over the weekend for halloween. >> yeah, some of the costumes so amazing. these stars were downright unrecognizable. so we think that hands down the year's best disguise was this guy. we're trying to figure out before -- >> any guesses on -- >> do we have the picture? >> any guesses on who it is? >> dressed up as post malone. >> uh-huh. >> but actually -- >> any idea? >> i thought bruno mars was a good guess. that is singer rita ora dressed up as post malone. >> like, rita ora got the new haircut. >> she got the whole thing down. it was perfect. >> she got the under eye tattoo. >> but not enough face tattoos, i think. a couple more face tattoos would have sold it. >> that's true. that is awesome. definitely a winner. this is probably a close second, i'd say. this is joe jonas dressed as his

fiance sophie turner and her "game of thrones" character there. interesting. as for turner, she dressed as an elephant. >> then we're going for the nice try award, which is nsync's joey fatone. he was also trying to channel post malone but just got the face tattoo part only. >> all right. and he got the beard. george clooney and his pal randy gerber thrilled their friends, taking controls of a private flight from l.a. to vegas dressed as pilots with gerber's wife supermodel cindy crawford as the flight attendant. they did a very good job, i would say, all of them. next to an early hollywood trick played on us. >> you may recall last week's viral photo that sparked global outrage showing what appeared to be justin bieber eating a burrito as if it were a corn on the cob.

it turns out that was not justin bieber, just an amazing look-alike tapped by the youtube group yes theory to orchestrate this elaborate prank and it totally worked. people were outraged at justin bieber. >> our show was featured prominently in their gotcha video. thanks. we weren't alone. quite a few media organizations fell for it. we still think that's how bieber would eat a burrito. >> yeah, but we can't say that for sure. next to "the simpsons," they may be cutting one of their most beloved characters. >> a source tells indiewire that kwik-e mart owner apu will soon be cut from the series. >> debate over apu has been generating controversy over stereotypes. >> the producer says his sources inside the show tell him, quote, they aren't going to make a big deal out of it, but they'll just drop him altogether to avoid the controversy. >> so that's how they avoid the controversy?

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>> if they had protection inside, the results would have been far better. they didn't. he was able to do things that, unfortunately, he shouldn't have been able to do. >> reporter: surveillance video obtained exclusively by abc news shows package bomb suspect cesar sayoc during the same week he's accused of targeting prominent democrats. sayoc seen greeting customers and flipping through papers early friday morning. hours later, fbi agents took him down. here severe flooding along the east coast this weekend. really pounding that coastline. we showed you yesterday when we were live in new jersey, downed power lines and trees there sparking up across new jersey. megyn kelly is out at nbc. her comments about blackface quickly drawing backlash. >> what is racist? because, truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface. back when i was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as a character.

>> a spokesperson for the network confirming the news friday, saying "megyn kelly today" is not returning. next week the 9:00 a.m. hour will be hosted by other "today" co-anchors. >> i was wrong and i am sorry. we finally have a powerball winner. actually two of them. the jackpot ended up coming to about $688 million. one of the tickets was sold here at this deli in west harlem, new york. the other was sold in central iowa. there were also two additional winners in texas and florida that took home $2 million apiece and 13 people won $1 million each, and, guys, none of them was me. >> well, she'll have to come back to work some day. something else that caught our eye over the weekend. dj khaled, who is not a small guy, was at the party for swiss >> he decided to crowd surf. it didn't work out. they didn't hold him. life comes at you fast. a this morning.

>> have a great monday. . making news in america this morning, breaking news. an air disaster overseas. a plane going down in the water off indonesia. crews already recovering some debris. families of those on board expecting the worst. all the latest straight ahead. after the synagogue massacre in pittsburgh. as that city mourns, we're learning more about the suspected gunman. plus, the president's recollections and where he is placing blame for acts of hate. new this morning, the man who was trapped in an abandoned mine for days speaking out for the first time. >> if i stayed down there, i knew i was going to die. >> how he fended off rattlesnakes. plus, the boston