can the league prove they have learned something from the incident? judgment day, oscar pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide of his girlfriend. what does that mean? burger king unveils a new item in japan. mmm. is it coming to america? this is "way too early." good morning. i'm back in here for thomas roberts. i know, i have either just made your morning or made you spit up. it's friday, september 12th. welcome to "way too early," the show that will try anything once. breaking news in south africa. oscar pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp.

the crime, similar to manslaughter could carry up to 15 years prison time. pistorius was convicted of firing a gun in a restaurant. he was cleared of two other firearm charges. thursday, he cried as the judge announced she wouldn't convict him on two murder charges. a sentencing will be held for the charge he got convicted of. a lot of people talking about the nfl. the ravens took to the field under the cloud of the ray rice scandal. the video's impact was inescapable. cbs scrapped the pregame program that was supposed to feature rihanna because of the coverage of the fallout. the team owners apologized, explained the organization's shortcoming and cast it as a watershed moment. >> had you known in february

what was on that video inside the elevator, would you have fired him then? >> we would have been told to wait until the court case came out. they had it. the police had it and gave them equal misdemeanors that night. again, it's astounding to me. for me to tell you the truth, it makes me look like i'm pointing fingers at other people, but, they gave them equal misdemeanors. >> you are saying you weren't geting a signal from the courts in new jersey that this was as bad -- >> or the prosecutor that gave him probation. >> if this is a seminal moment for domestic violence and the way we handle it as a society, then that's not a burden for us to beat a poster boy. it's not.

now, i'm embarrassed about it, but five years from now, things have changed significantly for the better, i'll be proud of it. >> we spent a lot of time talking about how the nfl got things wrong. that owner gets things right. >> talk about getting things right, yesterday, an espn report took issue with the events. multiple sources told "outside the lines," a great show, painted a picture of what happened in the elevator and admitted to hitting his fiance. goodell said that week, when he met with the running star, the description of what happened was quote, ambiguous. two owners, john mayer of the giants and pittsburgh will be seeing it.

there are discussions of whether to hold hearings. 16 female senators wrote roger goodell asking the league to adopt a real zero tolerance policy. on the 20th anniversary of the violence against women act. 30 miles down 295 in baltimore, women donned ray rice jerseys proudly in spite of the fire storm. i'm sorry, i don't get it. that brings us to our twitter question this morning. has your support of the nfl changed in the wake of the scandal? tweet us by using #waytooearly. give us your answers. we are going to put the best ones on the show. of all the questions surrounding the u.s. strategy against isis, some of the most serious are soon to be trained by u.s. forces. analysts tell "the new york times" it's a myth to believe they have any sort of unified front. many groups are competing

against each other and far more focused on beating president assad's government than taking on militants. they are outgunned by the terror group and outmanned with isis numbers topping out at 31,000 fighters. saudi arabia is going to provide bases to train the fighters. egypt, jordan, lebanon and several nations are pledging tepid support for that campaign. still, it will likely take months before the boots on the ground will be ready for any battle. it's a complicated position for the obama administration pledging to destroy isis without acknowledging that america is back at war. >> i think that's the wrong terminology. what we are doing is engaging in a very significant counterterrorism operation. it's going to go on for some period of time. somebody wants to think about it

as being a war with isil, they can do so. the fact is, it's a major counterterrorism operation that will have many different moving parts. >> okay. use planes, use bombs, use guns, that's war. moving on. ohio authorities caught a man convicted of killing three fellow students after he escaped from prison overnight. he and two others escaped late thursday. one was quickly apprehended. the other is still on the loose. he pled guilty to shooting three students at a high school outside of cleveland in 2012. three other students were also injured. the school canceled classes for today and is offering counseling to their students. now on to business. new revelations on how far the u.s. government went to get yahoo! to hand over data as part of the nsa surveillance program.

jeff joins us live from london. my god, it sounded like a tough shakedown of yahoo! when they refused to hand over the info. why did they give in? >> it's a good job, but we all trust our government otherwise, we might get upset. "the washington post" discovered back in 2008, the government put pressure on yahoo! to hand over information about its users and said if they didn't, they would it's not like they have form on looking at the right material, right?

>> no doubt about it. a couple other quick things i want to get to this morning. one has to do with radioshack. there was a great ad, basically the '80s called and they want their show back. they want their store back. now, the end may be near for radioshack. what is happening? >> yeah. this is a tough story, isn't it? >> yeah. >> this company is supposed to be in a restructuring phase at the moment. they are sending out an s.o.s., it seems. they may have to file for chapter 11 here. the turn around doesn't seem to be happening quickly enough. we have a look at second quarter, same store sales down 20%. oops. that's not so good. we had a net loss of 119 it was, $119.4 million. the turn around story not happening quickly enough. that means they may have to put themselves up for sale here or at least file for chapter 11 to restructure their debt.

>> obviously a lot of talk in great britain. banks are getting involved. some are threatening to leave the country? >> yeah. this is a scary story if you are in scotland and have an account in any of these banks. royal bank in scotland, lloyds standard life. they all came out and said, if in this referendum, they decide to leave the union of countries in the united kingdom, maybe they will move their either their tax or business headquarters south or they will gradually rejuice their engagement north of the border. so, just a reminder of what's at stake when the scotts go to the ballot next week on the 18th to decide whether they want to be part of the united kingdom. it's pocketbook story over a head story, i think, this morning. we'll l3w a little more about that, no doubt, over the coming

days. the scottish opposition, the leader to the first minister saying this is corporate scare mongering. the banks know how to hurt a scottsman, i guess. go for his pocket. >> it might work. thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. boy, that is going to be a close election. now, let's move to the fight against ebola. doctors say the third american doctor who was infected by the virus in west africa has been improving. it could be thanks to inventive measures. he received two blood transfusions from survivor, dr. kent brantly. he's being treated at the university of nebraska. he flew there to donate blood. his wife thanked the family for support on thursday. >> it really meant a lot to us that he was willing to give that donation so soon after his own recovery. i spoke with his wife before it

was arranged and we both marv led at the fact they had the same blood type. >> it is crazy they have the same blood type. of course it's experimental, but it may help anybody with the active virus in them. a flightening moment in milwaukee when a batter got hit in the face. this is terrible. we'll give you an update on the status this morning. apparently, he' back. >> what is it? >> first world talk show. >> oh, man. >> 5-year-old makes his debut on the ellen show. that's ahead on the cooler. that story and a check on weather when "way too early" comes back. >> the history, the logic and the facts lead to one

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being a cat just got more enjoyabowl. fancy feast broths. wow served daily. hey, welcome back. time for sports. week two of the nfl kicked off in of all places, baltimore. joe flacco connected with owen daniels. tucker kicked four field goals and the ravens forced three turnovers and held the steelers to two field goals the entire game. baltimore improves to 1-1 after a 26-6 victory. after the game, coach john harbaugh commented on how recent events impacted his team. >> i know from the outside looking in, you feel like all the media stuff is being generated at the team. it's really not. as you know, you have been

inside. we are isolated from that. we didn't have much to do with that. we were working on football. we have been in that football cocoon. it carried us into the game. >> football can be a dangerous sport. it's a dangerous night to be a baseball hitter. marlins outfielder is struck in the face by a pitch from milwaukee's mike fires in the fifth inning. stanton fell to the ground where he remained several minutes. medical staff rushed to his aid. it was horrible. he was carted off the field to the hospital, hit under the left eye. he suffered multiple face fractures, dental damage and a facial ras ration that required stitches. stanton, the major league rbi candidate will likely be done for the season. umpires ruled stanton swung at the pitch that hit him so the 0-2 count pitch hitter, reid

johnson came up to bat. man. he's hit on the hand. >> you have to come out and confront the pitcher after your best player gets hurt. >> are you kidding me? that was also called a strike. the marlins are not happy about another teammate getting beaned. there's punching and shoving, no punches are thrown. things will settle down. the brewers go on to win the game, 4-2. can you believe that? two in a row. >> i don't know. either he had no control or not very intelligent. >> he needs to get off the mound. he tweeted apologies to stanton and extending well wishes. to the bronx, last lick for the yankees. chase handley takes a pitch off the chin. hits the dirt. eventually, he walked off the field with help. he exits the game and is sent to the hospital for x-rays.

they get revenge after young hits a three-run walk-off homer. the yanks win it, 5-2. >> dangerous night to be a hitter. >> philadelphia restaurant called out eagles running back desean mccoy for leaving a 20 cent tip on a bill for more than $60. he addressed it calling it a statement. he said, quote, you can't disrespect somebody and expect them to tip. give me a break. i don't care who the person is. that's why i left my card so they could see my name. what a punk. makes as much money as he makes. the owner sends everybody over to his table. the guy is acting like a diva. we ought to put him in a pink dress if he wants to be treated that special. what a loser. you don't do that to waiters and waitress waitresses. >> he says they forget the

appetizer andqhwt the food gam late, then left. >> so. so give them a 15% tip instead of 20%. give me a break. what's happening this weekend? are we going to have another beautiful weekend? >> 50/50 in a lot of areas. >> way to take a stand. >> half the weekend may be nice and half won't. tonight, though, interesting. if you are out of the main cities of the country, a good chance of seeing that aurora boreial us tonight. the areas of green have the best shot. the white line shows you, it could be possible as far south as indianapolis, pittsburgh, new york city area. again, you have to be away from the bright lights. the snow has been the show. it showed in denver. it's 34 degrees in denver right now. this is brutal stuff. 37 in duluth. people are running for their gloves, hats and winter coats. it's a cold rain across

nebraska. not a fun day there. south florida, we have rain. this could become a tropical depression over the weekend. a tropical storm in the week ahead. itis going to bear watching. it's not too bad at this point. weekend forecast, a beautiful day in new england. the cold mess in the midwest heads for the northeast on saturday. a chillier, cloudy, raw day for us. southeast dodging the thunderstorms. sunday is the reward day. saturday in new england, not a nice day. sunday, much better. where is bama playing this weekend? >> i don't know. >> probably a florida team. >> they did that last weekend. i'm showing how out of it i am. i know liverpool plays. i'm going to get killed when i get back to tuscaloosa. for us, being from northwest florida, you know? >> you know that's what matters. >> you are high on the perch and

don't bother with the other games. could you whisper in my ear. who does alabama play? they are horrible. >> georgia and south carolina. coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," ray rice is out. what about other nfl players facing domestic violence charges? more on that problem. it's bigger than one man or one league. when we come back, here we have lewis and he's going to show us this tasty looking burger and tell us which fast food chain expects us to shove that thing down our throat. that's when we return. can this decadent, fruit-top pastry with indulgent streusel crumbles be from... fiber one? fiber one streusel. available at walmart.

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all right. lewis that has cooler. >> the youtube sensation of the summer, miller ritter was made famous in pennsylvania for his use of the word, apparently. he made a debut on the show ellen. take a look. >> it was live television and you got the mic and they asked you a question and the word apparently is your favorite word, isn't it? >> yeah, but i got over it now. >> you got over it? you don't use apparently anymore? >> nope, got over it.

>> you are in kindergarten. what are you learning? yeah. >> they are holding me, i don't know how many hours, probably like 11 hours. i don't know, i was in prison for ten days. >> do the kids in your class know you are famous? >> no, i only told the big kids on the bus. why can't they just park at my home? why can't the bus driver park at my home, he has to park at the bus stop and i'm walking down the sidewalk with my grandparents. oh, my gosh, my legs hurt. when i finally get home, i'm like ahhh. i sit down on my couch and then that's the end of pain. >> feels so good to get home, doesn't it, joe? he told ellen his favorite word is seriously.

he's over apparently. something we have been waiting for here. >> are you talking the all black burger? >> from burger king. it's being rolled out in japan, black buns, black cheese and a special black sauce. they smoke the burger in bamboo charcoal. looks like a delicacy to me. you think mika might like that? >> my dogs wouldn't eat it. >> they say it's good? >> who are they? thank you so much. time to get your responses to the twitter question. if your support for the nfl changed in the wake of the domestic violence scandal. we have your responses. what do you have? >> good morning. the viewers are split. i support the nfl and wish nothing but good for ray rice. people make mistakes. we are becoming a zero mistake society. the thrill of watching nfl games

are gone. athletes are held to a higher standard of conduct. >> thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. thank you for watching. that's it for "way too early." "morning joe" is minutes away. e. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. find it for less and we'll match it and give you $50 toward your next trip. expedia. find yours.

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do we lose season ticket holders? do we lose sweet holders? do we lose sponsorships? that's so petty at this stage. i regret i let people down. i regret that people love us might not love us any more. i'm sad for that and i'm sorry for that but i'm not scared of that. >> that's again how you do it. >> that's how you do it. beautiful shot of the empire state building. >> gorgeous morning. that's how you do it, man. that's how you do it. you know what? the nfl and other owners need to look at this guy. you hear a lot about