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. details in a live report. deepening crisis on the west coast. lakes and reservoirs empty. some will run out 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. >> they 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 she felt sick as the

new guilty verdict was read, she said 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 could 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 willingly. they'll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and

screaming. >> reporter: even if the conviction is upheld extradit n extraditions to italy are extremely rare. her parents are dug in for another fight and if she were to turn herself in for an unjust verdict it would be tantamount to suicide. mary bruce, abc news, washington. we'll 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 e gearing up and the toughest security plan ever is in place. >> abc's tahman bradley joining us outside met lilife stadium i east rutherford, new jersey. >> reporter: john and marci, fans 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 final preparations are under way. earlier crews cleared snow, sunday's game time forecast is mild, in the mid to high 30s. >> our game is to experiment the elements. 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-speedboats in the water with radiological detection and every delivery is getting a police escort. no specific terror plot has been

identified but officials are 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. >> and a veepts like this, the person 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, mar vi and john. >> tahman bradley, thank you. 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 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. it may be difficult to fly in or out of denver this

morning. overnight dozens of flights canceled because of the latest snowstorm. officials say they have plenty of equipment there to clean the runways and parking lots and also say the airline has 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 dreiers 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 killed three and wounded hundreds. even so a poll last fall found most massachusetts residents don't want him executed. the u.s. is growing impatient with syria.

syria is take 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, human rights watch says the government is destroying entire neighborhoods to punish civilians sympathetic to the rebels. another cruise ship returned to home port ahead of scheduled following an outbreak on board believed to be the norovirus. the caribbean princess arrived in houston after nearly 200 passengers got sick. princess cruise lines says the ship will be sanitized before leaving for another cruise on saturday. the incident follows a larger outbreak on a royal caribbean ship earlier this week. the opening ceremony of the winter olympics debuts one week from tonight. american athletes are beginning to arrive in sochi along with their mountains of gear. the u.s. is sending the largest delegation of any nation in winter games' history. 230 athletes participating in all 15 disciplines.

first stop, the olympic village welcome senatore for those all-important credentials. the weather 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, a restaurant chain wants to pick up your baby-sitting tab. some california towns warn that water supplies could run dry very soon. stranded for days. a hiker is plucked off a sn snowbound mountain. you won't b

welcome back. u.s. stocks bounce 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 underarmour ceo kevin plank picked up another 350 million as his company's stock gained also. >> if you use yahoo! mail, yr password may have been compromised. they 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 memo calls on

franchises to deliver a great cup of coffee after admitting 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 it will pay for your baby-sitter. next week they can drop off their kids and after dinner show their receipt and get back their deposits and presumably their kids too. >> let's hope. now we're talking about all fast food, things like that, 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. 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 dumb dum.

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during this stretch of arctic weather the people of arizona have been quietly gloating. out golfing or sitting by the pool. hovering 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. >> next time it's 105 we'll remember that. >> right. but, oh, ah, 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. 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 looks like this but this is what it looks like now. 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 shaving or brushing your

teeth. >> reporter: he declared the emergency two weeks ago and asking californians to voluntarily use 20% less water but that could change. >> every day this drought goes on we'll 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 usually sees in its rainy season. 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 a 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 lumps 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. >> then the jet flew a 12 flight pattern captured on 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 in los angeles. i'm stan verrett. isis is neil everett. clirpers and warriors didn't fight much. >> they split earlier this season and split on 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. won three in a row. talk kyrie irving might want out of cleveland. j.r. smith. irving late to rotate. he didn't want a part of that. 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 of the it was hard to tell which one that was. 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.

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and one for no reason at all. ♪ checking our top stories, amanda knox convicted for the second time of killing her roommate in italy setting the stage for an extradition fight that could drag on for years. she'll join us live on "gma." the toughest security in super bowl history is in place across the region for this weekend's big game at metlife stadium. officials say there are no specific threats. and amid the super bowl hype in manhattan the hunt is on for five thieves who got away with watches from the cartier flagship store. 16 watches stolen were worth more than $700,000. looking at today's weather a witness storm stretches from new england to colorado. a band of rain below it. light rain in florida. central florida and the cascades. the late night comics have a

field day when any politician is in the news and this week, the president's state of the union was the big political story. >> the host wasted no time cracking jokes. here now "your friday funnies." >> if you cook our troop's meals or wash their [ muted ] you should not have to live in poverty. >> my parents used to say to me you need to [ muted ] so you can go to college one day and so i did. >> when you sit behind the president you have to sit perfectly still. i think it's safe to say joe biden does not feel the same way. take a look. okay. there's "duck dynasty" guy. >> this year he teamed up with old johnny boehner to form the old man version of the comedy and tragedy masks. >> do you remember last year when marco rubio told that weird long drink of water. this congresswoman had a swallowing issue too. listen to this. >> i wouldn't have thought it

possib possible. that's the genius of america. tomorrow i'll watch my son cole get on the school bus. >> what a surprise that the congresswoman from a state that legalized marijuana has cotton mouth. ♪ >> all right, so what did you think about obama faking the heart attack at the end? >> i think that was more for shock value, not, you know, sympathy or what have you, but just -- >> i mean, yeah, he did get shocked when they brought that defib great rillator defibrillator. >> why are there so many songs about rainbows and who let the dogs out? i guess we'll never know. hey, who wants to do shots? yeah, that's what i'm talking about. [ cheers and applause ]

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