making news in america this morning, anxiety in the air. american airports set to tighten security as the investigation into the crash of that russian jet points to terrorism. we're live with the latest including what passengers can expect. political puzzle. questions about ben carson's past remain unanswered as he stands by his remarks on religion and history and hillary clinton goes for big laughs on late night tv. damaging twister. unseasonable storms tearing roofs clear off as tornadoes touch down in texas. accuweather has the latest on the system ahead. and feeling the force. the "star wars" fan with his one last wish answered, fighting cancer and getting a special

screening before anyone else. well, good friday morning. we begin with the growing fears over air safety following that devastating russian plane crash in the egyptian desert. >> russia and egypt still pushing back against suggestions that a bomb likely took down the plane but u.s. and british officials say they're being guided by intelligence intercepts and now major changes are in store for key airports across the world. abc's lana zak has the latest for us and joining us from washington. lana, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, reena and kendis. the department of homeland security is looking at ways to make foreign airport screening as rigorous as the united states, here airport workers may be credentialed every six months but in some foreign airports it is as infreak as every five years. the possibility that a terrorist bomb downed the russian plane in egypt is sending international shock waves with implications for u.s. travelers. >> i think there is a possibility that there was a

seriously. >> reporter: the department of homeland security is expected to announce plans to tighten regulations on u.s.-bound flights from international airports as early as today. >> the obama administration is reviewing a number of different steps that we can take to enhance security for commercial flights bound for the united states from certain foreign airports. >> reporter: with more than 25 million americans expected to fly over the thanksgiving holiday, the need for vigilant security could not be greater. here in the u.s., baggage is sent to special tsa underground screening rooms. each bag run through explosive detection scanners but the standards at foreign airports vary widely and even here in the u.s., security has been raised since the summer when tsa screeners were found to miss hidden objects 95% of the time and internationally the list of countries halting travel in and around egypt's sinai peninsula is growing. following the british lead. >> reporter: while back in russia communities begin to bury their dead, the first of

and that really puts into context what is at stake. some of the enhanced security measures being discussed include checking bags against passenger manifests prior to takeoff and really focusing in on those background checks of airport workers to minimize the possibility of insider threats. reena, kendis. >> good news especially with the holiday season coming up. abc's lana zak. turning now to the race for the white house and ben carson conservatives. >> yeah, carson made controversial comments about transgendered people saying they should have their own bathrooms uncomfortable. carson also reinforced his belief that the egyptian pyramids were not tombs but built by joseph to store grain and former classmates, neighbors and friends are disputing carson's claims that he had a violent past before turning to god. in the meantime, donald trump and marco rubio are trading jabs, trump attacked rubio for using a state

express card when he served as speaker of the house in florida but rubio says he paid for all of his personal 58 expenses out of his own pocket and fired back pointing out that trump has declared bankruptcy four times. the republicans will need fewer podiums when they face off next week in their fourth debate. knowledge governor chris christie and mike huckabee failed to make the cut with low poll numbers relegating them to the under card and lindsey graham and former governor pataki didn't make either debate. hillary clinton thinks she would defeat her husband if he could be involved in the democratic primary. clinton appeared on jimmy kimmel's show boasting she could beat the former president and took a jab at president obama who recently said if he could run again, he would be re-elected. >> yeah, i think you got to have that kind of confidence if you are in this areasoning that trying to be president so if i were going to run against him,

yeah. >> she joked her husband could be called first dude or first mate if she's elected. as for the republicans she says she would likely watch donald trump on "saturday night live" because she believes he watched her. a huge line of severe storms stretching from texas to the great lakes. a tornado in ft. worth tore part of the roof off a bank building in that city. sending it crashing onto vehicles on the ground below. the actual roof by the way wasn't damaged nor the air-conditioning system that it was covering. and there were no injuries, but further to the north this was the scene, the lightning strike, no damage reports here. speaking of storms, a powerful storm system is heading to the southeast. accuweather's justin povick is tracking it all, good morning, justin. >> reena and kendis, thanks and good morning to you. a very active day throughout the southeast and also into the tennessee valley. not so much at the coastline, i think we have one more warm day with sunshine toward myrtle

but there's going to be heavy rain along a cold front which is also going to produce some thundery downpours and potentially flash flooding and this is going to mount if anything over the course of the upcoming weekend as this front really slows down to a snail's pace. northeast, well, we're looking at fog here through the midday hours, but the good news is the sun comes back out later in the day and records again will be challenged. weekend. reena and kendis, back to you. >> thank you very much. breaking news now from brazil where a potential environmental disaster is in the making. a dam holding back waste from an iron mine has burst. burying a small town in toxic sludge. at least 17 have died. that toll is expected to rise since dozens are missing. rescuers say they're having trouble reaching the site because of the mud. also breaking right now, a mystery in the caribbean. a search overnight for a

the "oasis of the sea." not clear if the 35-year-old man jumped or was pushed. a plea deal has been reached in the case of that gyrocopter pilot who landed on the capitol lawn. his lawyer says douglas hughes will plead guilty to operating the copter without a license, which is a felony. he faces three years in prison. well, based on new data from nasa scientists think they know what went wrong on mars once likely a garden spot of the solar system. most of its atmosphere was stripped away by solar storms and without. air it lost most of its water. earth was spared blas it has a magnetic field. the channels, the solar wind toward the pole, mars doesn't have any of that. >> i was always curious about what happened to mars. now we do. america. did yours make the list? the first big shopping frenzy of the season as the top designer's fashion sells out everywhere.

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brand-new pictures this morning from nasa of that rocket launch failure last year. the rocket exploded just seconds after takeoff from the launchpad in virginia. it was supposed to be delivering supplies to the international space station. the explosion releasing the force of 200 tons of tnt. this morning's jobs report could trigger an interest rate hike. economists expect it will show that payroll growth of around 183,000 jobs and slightly lower unemployment rate. 5.1 or 5% even. that would be good news showing

a stronger economy and that might prompt the federal reserve month. do you know your way to san well, new york economic should. america. it's per capital output is $105,000, more than twice the national average. bridgeport, connecticut, is second followed by san francisco, san jose and san francisco, by the way are tech centers, bridgeport has banking. all also have high workers. >> tech and banking, we're in the wrong fields. the dungness crab season has been delayed because of that toxic contamination. eating them could lead to severe significantness, even death, the toxin is linked to a vast algae bloom off the west coast which was usually seen during warm ocean temperatures as a result of el nino. >> one more note from california. it was a shopping frenzy worthy of black friday at h&m stores around the world because of what

okay, in new york, london and in san francisco, some customers were lined up outside for a day just to buy items from an affordable line of clothes from designer balmain. groups of shoppers were led in for 15 minutes to grab arm loads of clothes and fashion accessories, most of it already on ebay, steeply marked up. >> glad i didn't know about this one. i would have been waiting in line. >> card would have been hurting. one woman's major surprise, the intense stomach pains that turned out to be something else entirely. stunning new details surrounding the illinois officer who staged his suicide planning a hit on somebody else. [makes siren noise] i'm watching that. eew. every christmas is memorable. but a gift from kay jewelers... makes it unforgettable.

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well, a young driver in new jersey lucky to be alive after nearly being impaled behind the wheel. the 18-year-old girl was inches from being truck by an eight-foot pickett fence post and hit the gas to avoid another car and wound up plowing near the fence near a school yard filled with kids. no one hurt thankfully. morning road conditions. watch out for flooding from the western gulf coast into the deep south. there will also be wet roads in the eastern interior to the northwest. roads could be slippery in the rockies from snow. if you're flying airport delays likeliest in detroit, atlanta, charlotte, washington,

well, it seems that we learn more and more about the suburban chicago cop who committed suicide, the worse it gets. >> he not only staged his death to appear like a murder, he tried to hire a hit man to kill a village official about to uncover his thefts from a youth charity and "the chicago sun-times" that his personnel file shows a history of complaints including drunkenness and sexual harassment. >> possible motive in the stabbing of four people on a university of california campus. police said the freshman was angry over being booted from a study group. according to manifesto found after he was killed by police, the student planned to kill an officer, steal a gun and shoot those who had evicted him, all of the stabbing victims are expected to be okay. getting new details in that missing persons case. julian hernandez was 5 when his dad took him from his mom's home

well, now 18, julian realized he was abducted. he had trouble with his social security number while applying for college. that's when a guidance counselor found him in the national data bank for missing and exploited children. julian and his dad had been living this cleveland for years under assumed names. >> different, he struck me as kind of a weird guy. i really didn't talk to him all that long but other than that, i mean, just kind of normal, i guess. >> we're told that julian has since been in contact with his pore and she is set to be overjoyed. his dad could face more than ten years behind bars. the cdc warning half of pregnant women gain too much weight. women already overweight or obese are more than likely to pile on the extra pounds. the extra weight can harm mom and baby. the cdc says about a third of women gain the recommended amount, the rest gain too little. surprise, that's newborn carolyn, the daughter of judy and jason brown of massachusetts.

she was born despite the couple having no idea that judy was pregnant. judy brown said during her pregnancy she never suffered morning sickness and she attributed her weight gain to simply growing older. what a surprise. >> i'll say. it will be no surprise tomorrow when the florida gators host vanderbilt. what was a surprise was a florida resident's return home and a run-in with a gator. look at this. he found the ten-footer right at his front door. they called animal control and when a trapper got a rope around the gator's neck it got a little feisty. they think the gator crawled up from a pond on a nearby golf course. yay, florida. >> nice football reference. >> see where we were going there. trying to bring together a number of things. >> okay, speaking of football, there was a great deal of it last night, not this one, though. that one is later in the weekend. >> i think so, the highlights now from our guys at espn. he's stan, i'm neil. hut, hushths hut.

>> college football and nfl from thursday night. browns and bengals an ohio thing in cincinnati, andy dalton he's been really special so far this season and so has his team. dalton hooking up with his tie end tyler eifert, university with three touchdown catches. he now leads the nfl with nine touchdowns on the season. and they had it working. and the bengals are 8-0. johnny manziel got the start for cleveland but managed just one touchdown. >> so they got this new kid. quarterback at baylor because seth russell broke a bone. true freshman. this kid was really good. first half he threw for two, ran for one. kansas state, though, has a chance. you don't just go into manhattan and run by bill snyder. so deonte burton made the catch, then they missed a fgcu, did

baylor and k. state has a chance and somebody thought that would be a good idea. and it wasn't. baylor still unbeaten. >> i counted four defenders in the area there of that pass. >> yeah. also from the s.e.c., mississippi state over missouri. >> we have so many more scores but we're out of time. >> yep, back to you. >> thank you, gentlemen. up next in "the pulse," the subjects in this painting you'll see may not play fetch but the art is fetching. quite a sum of cash. the inspiring "star wars" fan getting a special screening

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he wouldn't live long enough to see the december release of "the force awakens" but thanks to an online petition that went viral his wish has been granted. >> needwood's wife ashley is thanking our parent company, disney and director j.j. abrams for bringing an unedited copy of the film to their house so he could see it. >> i love this story because it's such an incredible gesture and very top secret about this so it's a big deal. >> till hoping to live long enough to be able to see it in the theaters, as well. >> in december. possibly right. a restaurant in houston is setting up some ground rules for its tiniest patrons. >> the couple who owns the restaurant is fed up with out-of-control kids. they printed out rule cards making it clear what children are not allowed to do. no running, no wandering around, screaming, throwing tantrums or touching the walls. >> the couple says the last straw was a kid who caused $1500 in damage. they say children are always welcome as long as they behave. i suggest just get takeaway.

>> that's a long list. next up what's being called the greatest cat painting in the world. it has been sold for, well, more than what was expected. >> the painting is officially known as my wife's lovers. that title was created by the husband of the woman who commissioned the painting. she reportedly owned 350 cats. >> okay, so 42 of them are in that painting which measures 6 feet by 8 and a half sold for $826,000, more than half a million more than its estimated value. finally some four-legged friends, one of which is having something of an identity crisis, that would be goliath, an 8-week-old calf in california. >> here's the deal. goliath doesn't know that he's a cow because he's been hanging out with leo, the great dane. their owners think he believes he's actually a dog, as well. >> leo has been showing goliath the ropes since he was saved

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our top story, as investigators look into whether a bomb caused the crash of a russian passenger jet in egypt, the u.s. is expected to call on foreign airports with direct flights to the u.s. to step up security. the directive could come today. ben carson is coming under fire for his remarks on transgender people. he says they should have their own bathrooms because it makes people uncomfortable. human rights activists comments. a severe storm system brought rain, hail to texas, oklahoma and arkansas. a roof covering without taken off this building in ft. worth. heavy rain from the texas gulf coast up to western new york. chilly in the upper midwest but a good chance of record highs in the east. okay, so this week we saw the race for the white house finally move to within one year of decision day. >> so as the candidates continued taking swings at each other the hosts of late night tv

had their own jabs. here's your "friday funnies". >> donald trump is keeping busy. new book of his went on sale today. take a look at that. it's called "crippled america": how to make america great again" again". >> he looks like he's been trying all day to see the image in one of those 3d magic eye posters. >> like he just woke up from a nap in a tanning bed. >> he's not the only candidate with a book. jeb! just released a brand-new e-book entitled "reply all." a great way to show you're done after something people do by accident. jeb bush's campaign says they want to bring back the canceled telemundo debate but donald trump threatened to boycott it rather than go. when they heard that telemundo was like -- poll, dr. ben carson is leading

the field of republican candidates now by his largest margin yet. this is the first time the republican field has ever been led by an african-american candidate who appears to be asleep at all times. >> new national poll found that ben carson is now ahead of donald trump by six points in the republican race. finally proving that you can literally sleep your way to the top. >> no matter how tough it get, don't count jeb! out because as he explained, he is a fighter. >> they don't know. i eat nails when i wake up then i have breakfast. >> jeb eats nails when he wakes up and i believe him. am i still running for president? >> oh, boy. >> eating nails right about now. coming up on "gma," 40 years of cooking, the best cooking