good morning, america. breaking overnight wild weather weekend. monster storms ripping through the midwest. toppling trees, shredding awnings and sparking fires. hundreds of thousands of people now without power. millions more are in the threat zone right now. emergency evacuations, wildfires people in california and oregon to leave town. flames coming close to houses and roads. the desperate attempt to bring these fires under control. ghost plane. fighter jets go scrambling when there's no response from the real estate mogul behind the controls of a private plane. the scary sight air force pilots saw when they peered into the cabin as the plane traveled thousands of miles off course. the catastrophe on board that

made it crash into the ocean. ticket to ride. the guy who found a lottery ticket that he totally had forgotten about. >> i got to the sixth number. i just freaked out. couldn't believe it and things i can't say on tv. >> how he finally discovered the ticket worth almost 3 million bucks. >> good morning. we have a lot of news to get to. we start on a personal note. we have a new member of our team to tell you about. rob marciano right here. >> hi, guys. >>sñqy you'll see him every wee here on weekend are excited about. >> i am so pumped. >> he is a great addition and he is no stranger to being smack

dab right there in the middle of the storm. >> you have to embrace a storm. that's for sure. >> you seem to be lacking a fear gene. as we said we're super happy to have you here and you are starting on a busy note. we've had storms tearing through. serious damage. hundreds of thousands of people without power and you have the latest pictures. >> dramatic stuff coming out of the lower great lakes. neighborhoods there really being pretty roughed up. flooding, high winds and power outages devastating chicago, detroit and surrounding areas as a powerful set of storms move through the midwest. this morning nearly 500,000 in the region without power thanks to up to 80-mile-per-hour winds leaving behind downed trees. some crashing through homes. >> this gust of wind comes. >> reporter: this church collapsed sending several people to the hospital. one in serious condition. >> it was devastating.

>> reporter: the winds also ripping down power lines some causing fires. other fires sparked by lightning strikes. >> lightning strike? >> yeah. >> flooding was the cause for concern in most areas. the friendly confines where the cubs were hosting a game versus the pittsburgh pirates felt the effects from the storm as the game was postponed until saturday afternoon. and chicago, streets were swallowed by the deluge, almost an inch of rain falling in just 20 minutes. take a look at these storms as they roll through the area yesterday. the radar just firing up. we had over 100 storm reports. most of those wind reports from just north of chicago to just south of detroit. winds in excess of hurricane strength so that's where the damage came from and those will be pushing off to the east as we go through the day today. cold front coming through. the northeast, new york, up through boston. portland, you'll see strong winds. same deal possibly not as bad. at least keep your fingers crossed. the possibility of seeing a tornado not out of the question, as well. time frame for the same deal

late afternoon in through the early evening and could see rough weather includining more power outages. the other big weather story we're working on, hurricane norbert, a category 3 storm with 120-mile-an-hour winds coming up to the baja of california. we'll talk more about that later in the program. >> so thinked to have you joining the weekend "gma" team. from flooding to fires, a wall of flames now threatening homes in the west. extremely dry conditions sparking wildfires that are raging out of control. homeowners are told to get out of harm's way. abc's aditi roy is in our los angeles bureau with more. good morning. >> reporter: it's a busy morning for firefighters. both these western fires are burning out of control and have forced hundreds out of their homes. let's start with oregon, rough terrain and high winds are the challenges for corvallis. that blaze is 100 acres and crews are just starting to gain the upper hand. more than 200 homes were evacuated. now, residents are being allowed to about back home, they are

warned they may be forced back out again. over to mariposa county, california, near yosemite where 300 acres are bhurning. that blaze forced 700 out of their homes and started under a main bridge and 10% contained right now. dry conditions and the statewide drought are making this blaze a tough one for firefighters and so far there's been no property damage in that fire. dan. >> that's good to hear but several desperate fights going on. aditi thank you. we move on to the latest on the investigation into that out-of-control private plane. a couple flying from upstate new york down to florida when the husband/pilot loses consciousness drifting for thousands of miles. fighter jets scrammed. they could see directly into the cockpit. the pilot breathing but unconscious. the faa is investigating right now and abc's gloria riviera joins us from washington with the latest. gloria, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. this was a much beloved respected couple in the rochester, new york, community.

pillars of philanthropy all about giving back who had made countless flights together as husband and wife pilot and co-pilot which is why it makes it so hard for so many to fathom what could have gone wrong. this morning chilling pilot's radio recordings in an aviation mystery. how did a new york couple's brand-new plane fall from the sky 14 miles off the coast of jamaica. >> 900 kilo november atlanta center how do you read. >> reporter: real estate develop developer laurence glazer and his wife jane left at 8:45 headed to naples. about afternoon hour in, 28,000 feet over north carolina, the first indication of trouble. a request to descend 10,000 feet. >> we need to descend down to that 1-8-0. we have an indication that is not correct in the plane. >> stand by. >> reporter: due to traffic glazer is only cleared to drop to 25,000 feet at first.

but then repeated instructions from controllers to descend further go unanswered. at 10:40 a.m. two fighter jets scramble. one pilot so close he describes the terrifying image of glazer slumped over at the controls. >> i can see his chest rising and falling right before i left, it was the first time i could see that he was actually breathing. >> reporter: breathing but unconscious. then the windows icy, a sign that it lost cabin pressure depriving them of oxygen. that could lead to hypoxia which impairs j. a possible ex-practice face for why the experienced pilot did not declare an emergency. >> i can imagine the horror as they come up to the aircraft and see it's iced over and know right then this pilot has to wake up at some point in that descent. >> reporter: at 2:15 p.m. after four hours a ghost plane it crashes off the coast of jamaica. this particular type of airplane does not have a black box on board. of course, that makes it harder

to find those very important clues. paula. >> bizarre details. gloria, thank you very much for that. as we heard it is believed hypoxia or sudden loss of oxygen incapacitated the pilot and the passenger and a few years back ron found out about this. >> it can happen in a matter seconds and also be prolonged if it's a slow depressurization and can happen in a course of minutes. this test i did at an air traffic safety facility. the interesting thing when it's done slowly the test i did there you don't notice anything. maybe some lightheadedness that begins to impair your judgment but you don't know it. so you saw in that case the pilot had been in contact by radio and then suddenly was not in contact. could be he was incapacitated or euphoric or his judgment was lost. it happens -- it can happen slowly as you said, it can happen very quickly. >> sometimes you don't even know and why the flight attend dabts

say put that mask on -- >> because sometimes you only have two or three seconds before you pass out. very dangerous. >> dan. >> fascinating, thanks, ron. now to the fight against isis, president obama arriving home overnight where he started building a coalition to fight the fundamentalist islamic group that's been on a brutal march through iraq and syria. as we all know beheaded two americans. here's abc's jeff zeleny with the latest. >> reporter: overnight president obama returning home for a meeting of world leaders where he delivered strong new words in the fight against isis. >> we are going to degrade and ultimately defeat isil. >> reporter: at a nato summit in europe, the president and leaders of nine other nations vowed to form an international coalition to fight the islamic state in iraq and syria. it was the toughest talk yet from the president who once dismissed them as a jv team. even earlier this week calling them a manageable problem. >> you can't contain an

organization that is killing that many innocents and enslaving that many women. the goal has to be to dismantle them. >> reporter: some signs of that dermination already. isis fighters posting this photo friday of what they said was an unarmed american surveillance drone flying over syrian territory. but the president is still weighing how much force to bring against acts of barbarism like the beheading of american journalist steve sotloff and james foley. >> you take out their leadership and over time they were not able to conduct the same kinds of terrorist attacks as they once could. >> reporter: now, the president must now decide how to turn that tough talk into action and whether he can build the case for a broader military campaign even with international support and he warned that any fight will be a long one. paula. >> jeff zeleny live from washington this morning, jeff, thank you. now new details about the n untimely death of entertainer joan rivers. while the autopsy results are

inconclusive, we are learning more about that procedure she was having when she stopped breathing. all of this as her daughter plans the funeral. abc's linzie janis in new york at the temple emanuel where the funeral will be held. >> reporter: it has emerged that joan rivers went in for what was supposed to be a routine diagnostic procedure when something went badly wrong and this morning a close friend of rivers telling us the family still want to know exactly what happened. overnight, abc news has learned joan rivers was concerned about a raspiness in her voice. when doctors at an outpatient clinic put the comedy icon under anesthesia so they could drop a small camera into her throat. but the 81-year-old went into cardiac arrest. deborah norville visited her at the hospital. >> this was to look in there and see why her voice had gotten raspy. it shouldn't have happened.

it shouldn't have happened. >> reporter: also this morning friends and family of rivers confirming there was a call to 911 at 9:39 a.m. thursday. but by 10:08 when rivers arrived at the hospital she was already on life support. the state health department this week launching a full investigation. it says as a matter of protocol, but norville says the family want answers to how this could happen to a woman who told tmz just last month she was feeling fine. >> right? >> my health is good. >> reporter: the clinic declined to comment on rivers' procedure citing privacy laws but said it has an exceptional safety record and in the event of an adverse incident would promptly report to appropriate government and regulatory agencies." rivers' daughter melissa speaking publicly for the first time friday. >> what's the outpouring been like? >> humbling. >> she's doing a spectacular job planning her mom's funeral making sure that the people her

mother loved are a role to play. >> reporter: the affair is likely to be far from the one rivers joked about in her most recent book. >> don't give me some rabbi rambling on. i want meryl streep crying in five different accents. i want to be buried in a valentino gown. i want harry winston to make me a toe tag. >> reporter: well, it may not be exactly as rivers describes. she will be buried here, sorry, not buried. her funeral will be here at the temple emanuel in new york regarded as one of the largest and most beautiful synagogues in the world, dan. >> linzie janis, thank you. another health crisis this morning. we're going to talk about the third american aid worker to be treated in the u.s. for ebola. he's waking up this morning in a hospital in nebraska. what makes this case unique is that dr. rick sacra was not treating ebola patients when he got sick over in africa. he was working in a maternity ward so what's his prognosis? here's abc's bazi kanani. [ sirens ]

>> reporter: the third american with ebola whisked by ambulance and police escort after a 6,000-mile journey from liberia to omaha, nebraska. this is where dr. rick sacra is being cared for this morning by dozens of staff at the nebraska medical center taking on this case of ebola to make sure they're ready for more if needed. >> the longer the current outbreak goes on it's inevitable we will continue to see additional spread worldwide. >> reporter: dr. sacra's infection alarming because unlike the other two american aid workers also evacuated from liberia after fallingill, sacra was not working with ebola patients. he was delivering babies in a maternity ward. in a ler to his colleagues he apologized for getting sick. dr. sacra's wife, debbie, says even now her husband is hoping to return to west africa. >> we are, indeed, praying that rick will stay longer with us so that he can continue the good

works that he has done in liberia. but he would want you to know that he would not be afraid to pass into eternal life. >> reporter: the courage of volunteer doctors so desperately needed, more than 2,000 dead in five countries, many ill-equipped hospitals forced to close. for "good morning america," bazi kanani, abc news, washington. >> all right, thanks to bazi. we have a lot of other stories so for that head back over to ron claiborne. >> hi there, paula, dan, sara. we begin with an alarming health alert. hundreds of children in colorado have been diagnosed with a mysterious life-threatening respiratory illness. more than 900 kids across the state have been treated though though one as died. early symptoms of the inteinter virus takes a deadly turn with patients being unable to breathe. similar cases are being investigated in other states.

an all-out manhunt for a sexual predator. a fourth attack within the past week occurred friday and investigators are focused on the man seen in this video surveillance footage who they say fits the description given by three of the victims and one case a student was badly beaten by the suspect who tried to rape her. police are asking students to stay in groups on that campus and off campus. hawaii residents are on high alert as lava from the world's most active volcanoes is creeping slowly but steadily towards a rural part of the big island. scientists warn that if the lava flow from the kilauea continues on its current path it could reach a small patch of hopes in about a week. reach a small patch of hrthis.n a wild police chase on the streets of orange county, california, after several close call, the driver driving on the wrong side of the street. police nearly cornered him at as are dengs cul-de-sac however the

driver made one last effort to get away and backed up and tried to escape. didn't work. he ended up being cornered. as you sigh there and collared. corner and collared. finally a lesson in chivalry. it happened friday night in fenway park. a foul ball handed over to ryan. without hesitation he gives it to the little girl. her name is reese behind him. but didn't even end there. ryan was given two baseballs and a gift bag which he also shared with reese giving her another memento. a red bracelet. >> what a gentleman. >> a true gentleman. >> he's a trainee ladies man. >> i always say it's better than give than receive. >> it is and the red sox -- the sox, right? >> sox. >> went on to win 9-8. a rare occurrence for the cellar dwellers. >> really, really. >> they're in last place in packet. >> he said something nice about boston but had to back it up with a little barb.

>> my hometown where chivalry is a regular habit. >> he gives me pens. >> you're claiming you're chivalrous. a guy drove around with almost $3 million in his trunk and didn't know it. >> he found his change. i imagine he is one very happy millionaire. >> very -- >> would you like to borrow a pen. >> so chivalrous. >> lost in chivalry. anyone has a car knows how much things pile up perhaps a lottery ticket worth 2.9million. that's what happened to gerry. he is a single father of two. supply know you got to be in it to win it but never expected i would win. >> the 48-year-old auto body shop owner has been playing the lottery for a decade without ever winning a prize.

until he hit the jackpot back in july. but he didn't find out about his windfall until last week. >> it was right in here behind the keys. >> for six weeks the winning quick pick ticket. >> right in here. >> reporter: sat forgotten in the center console of his red dodge ram. >> what if it blew out. i would have never known i won. >> reporter: he waited another few days before going online to check the numbers. a perfect 6 for 6 match. >> i got to the sixth number. i just freaked out and couldn't believe it and said things i can't say on tv. >> reporter: ritieno choosing to take the lump sum payout, almost $1.3 million after taxes. >> pie biggest plan is to put a good chunk of change in my kids' 529 college funds and then the rest of the money i'm going to act like i never got it. >> reporter: if you think jerry is going to stop playing the lotto now, don't bet on it. >> hopefully lightning will strike twice. >> reporter: but he's not leeing anything to lady luck anymore. making sure all his tickets are

right where he can see them. >> this time i'll make sure that it's on my person and not lose sight of any tickets from this point forward. >> today happens to be gerry's 48th birthday. new york gaming commission told us gerry's odds of winning this particular lotto were 1 in 45 million. >> wow. >> great. great for him. >> interesting he says he'll buy more lottery tickets. i don't think he needs it. >> in it to win it. >> it's all about the winning. >> i only find french fries. rob marciano probably does too. >> french fry, chips, apple pieces, you name it. if i did win the lottery i'm not sure i'd go on tv and tell people about it. nice to know he's giving back by buying more. hurricane norbert, overnight this thing explodes into a category 3 storm with winds of 120 miles an hour. it's less than 100 miles off the coast of the baja of california watching it track northward.

the moisture it'll bring with it. here's the forecast from the national hurricane center. it will slowly decrease in intensity as it heads into slightly cooler waters eventually by tomorrow. probably less than hurricane strength and diving south of los angeles. we're not going to see a hurricane hit los angeles. we will see the wave, though and a little bit of the rain. not going to put much of a depth in the drought there but some of that rain could cause flash flooding in the mountains of east of l.a. and across the mountains of arizona and new mexico as well. areas that have seen a lot of flooding. interesting tidbit we're watching across georgia. unorganized at the moment area of low pressure could get more organized into maybe something tropical. either way it's going to give us heavy rain across parts of the southe >> good morning, anoth steamy day. some hazes in the air and u can e the moisture, 69 in frostbururg and 79 in bethesda d the dew point is still in the

's. we h have a cold front to the northwest comingng our w way ant will be it was 9 93 yesterday and it will be ababout the samae totoday a and strtrong orms pose >> it is the first saturday of september. i'm happy to be here. >> football, football this weekend. >> i hear you're a yankee fan. >> we're going to get along just fine? we don't need to talk about it. >> ron and rob, no more. brace yourself, rob. we have a hazing ritual. we'll welcome you to the team pulling up old clips and family photos. getting to know rob marciano later. where is she? an intense search for a young woman from texas and a surveillance video helps solve the mystery. a chico's jacket makes a statement -- your statement. fabulous. captivating.

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ter a week of withering heat, some relief coming our way later todaday and torrow. this i is what it looks like in bethesda thihis morng. you canan see the haze in the ar and partly cudy conditions. 73 degrees in washington and it''s very sticky out ere. are in the 70's.

it is going to o be a tough day out there with any kd of air-conditioning. afternoon-ais cold front is poised to mo through and there is the possibility of strong thunderstorms this afternoon even intnto the overnight. 93 yesterdayhich is 10 degrees above normal a today temperatures 87-93 and strong storms likely by mid afternoon and tonight, more storms and tomorrow 77-82 degrees and less

over this wall. that's a lot, although we may -- this may be the last shot we do from this position. >> in the thick of it when it comes to covering all kinds of storms. there's no storm too big. you look 12 there, by the way. we are so glad that you have joined our "gma" team. coming up we'll see another side of rob marciano including how you spend your time with your beautiful wife and young daughter. >> they're terrific and after watching that video i'm happy to be here with ron in the dry, comfy studios of abc. >> but don't get too comfortable because we'll send you back out into the rough stuff. >> i love it much. also coming up also completely different. the same guy behind that giant rubber duckie, the one that went on a world tour is now up to some tricks sara has breaking "pop news" coming up. but we'll start here this half hour with a mystery and all

out search for a woman from texas. she vanished interest a party. >> 23-year-old was last seen walking to a parking garage at a popular shopping center and abc's michelle franzen has the latest. good morning, michelle. >> good morning. that search resumes with friends and family continuing to post flyers and retracing her steps. christina morris disappeared right out of thin air after being caught on surveillance cameras in that parking garage. for days no one knew she was missing until she didn't show up for work. precious time lost as investigators and family members look for answers. >> my name is johnny and my daughter went missing. >> reporter: the frantic search for christina morris. >> has anybody told you they know anything? >> reporter: her mother desperate and determined to find the 23-year-old who5,x vanished last sunday morning in plano, texas. >> christina, wherever you're at, i miss you so much. >> reporter: this parking garage surveillance video capturing the last known images of morris

walking with a friend at 4:00 a.m. she was never seen leaving the garage. >> we checked around the area where the car was. there was no signs of any foul play, any struggle. >> reporter: morris lives with her boyfriend. police revealing her last 15 phone calls were to him but the recent business graduate's parents say the boyfriend never reported her missing and it wasn't until her boss called four days later that the search began. >> we were already behind the curve on this because getting it four days late so we had a lot of catching up to do. >> reporter: police say her bank accounts have not been touched and her cell phone is off. their only lead, three cars seen that night on the same surveillance camera. >> you can't tell any of the cars apart which is really frustrating because i stifeel t could a big lead. >> reporter: as searchers focus on the woods and open areas within a mile of garage. >> looking for tire tracks. >> reporter: morris' mother is

left pleading for her daughter's return. >> please, if you have her, i need my daughter back. i need her back. i'm begging you. >> tough wait. police have interviewed friends including the person she was seen walking with on that surveillance camera. and stress that the friend is fully cooperating and not a suspect at this time. >> michelle, thank you. overnight headlines with ron. good morning. >> hi again dan and paula. we begin with hundreds of evacuations in the west as wildfires are raging in two states in oregon, a huge blaze in corvallis forced 200 families out of their homes and in california, 700 people had to be evacuated near yosemite national park where 300 acres are burning now. and a search is resuming for the private plane that crashed off the coast of jamaica. they say they saw the pilot slumped over the plane which failed to respond to radio calls and took off from rochester

headed to tampa, florida. on board were laurence glazer piloting the aircraft and his wife jane. and the stage is set for sunday's women's u.s. open finals and tennis after serena williams blew away mac rove virginia. she will face caroline wozniacki who is seeded tenth. if serena wins she'll become the first woman since the 1970s to win three consecutive u.s. open titles. finally surprise detour for president obama after he attended the nato summit in wales, a visit to stonehenge. listen to his reaction as he took a stroll through the boulders. >> how cool is this? it is spectacular. knocked it off the bucket list right now. >> just before leaving the site mr. obama made new friends and walked across the countryside for a stop and chat with a local family at a nearby field of sheep. some of them even taking photos with the president. >> not the sheep.

>> not the sheep how cool is that on a scale of one to ten? >> thank you for clearing that up. >> i've got rob's back and ron's back which is a nice segue to rob marciano. >> he doesn't have the ladies' backs. >> he does. oh, he does. >> save us, rob marciano because this is going to get into a weird territory. >> like this situation. all right, from cool stuff to hot stuff. going to be 91 in new york. take a look at the current temperature outside right now. 77. low clouds inundating lower manhattan. can't see the world trade center. freedom tower obstructed. it is going to be a soupy day. dew point of 72. temperatures, 77. that is muggy, my friends and that is going to add some fuel to the fire of some of those thunderstorms. they're going to roll through. there's your cold front, 91 into the 70s at some point. look at the cool temps behind it. 69 in buffalo. at we mentioned we could see severe weather through tonight from new york up the i-95 up through hartford and boston and portland, maine, but look at the temperatures behind it, 72

degree in chicago that after the rough weather we saw yesterday. all right, pacific northwest. fire in corvallicorvallis. 94 degrees. going to be the high temperature in portland with gusty winds so red flag warnings remain posted there so fire danger will be high. that's for sure. warm there, nice across parts of denver, dallas, soupy as well. cool temperatures up in minneapolis with a high of 76 >> good rning, washington, one moreteamy day beforeome relief, part sunny and hum with strong aftnoon thunrstorms and t tomorrow, >> this weather report brought to you by ashley furniture which i think helped pay for that massive weather -- >> after the show we play video games on there. >> now we're talking. >> don't break it or we'll dock you.

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we've been talking about him all morning to the point where he's a little embarrassed actually. the newest member of our merry weekend band. he's covered hurricane, blizzards. >> there he is. >> ron, that is not cgi. that's a real storm. >> that's real? >> for years he made a big turn and started covering celebrities on "entertainment tonight" which is really cool. >> a different kind of storm. >> right. >> different precipitation. >> ego storm. >> rob is back to his roots. his passion for weather and we couldn't be happier to welcome him to the "gma" family. rob marciano, ladies and gentlemen. take a look. >> at the end of this pier just ripped away. >> if there's any doubt as to

why we need to save the gulf of mexico. >> reporter: you know rob marciano as the intrepid meteorologist chasing wild weather for nearly a decade on cnn. he's covered it all. >> easily winds sustained 0, 90 miles an hour, gusts 110, 120. >> reporter: from hurricane katrina in new orleans -- >> two monster twiste erers tea across the state. >> reporter: to punishing blizzards. >> right now cruising 1,000 feet. >> reporter: the cornell graduate started had is career in local news in his native connecticut before moving on to stations in louisiana and oregon. the wild west here down -- >> reporter: last year rob traded in the radar -- >> i'm rob marciano. >> reporter: for the red carpet becoming co-host of "entertainment tonight." >> is this how you live it up. >> i'm really not this crazy. >> reporter: he interviewed everyone. superstar angelina jolie, superheroes scarlett johansson

and singing sensation katy perry. >> time for that. >> yeah. look at my face. >> reporter: but now he's returning to his roots as senior meteorologist at abc news. >> take a look, hurricane norbert now a category 1 storm. >> reporter: coming back east with his wife erin and their 21/2-year-old daughter madeline. >> good morning, america. >> good morning, america. >> yeah, we'll get subtitles. >> so you were totally upstaged by your daughter. >> she is adorable. >> can i say, i have been watching you and we've all been watching you since your cnn days. you are awesome. you love the weather. you take it super serious and you're also very fun and the second thing i want to say is ron and i are used to being the hunks on this set so could you wear a mask and be shorter. >> he's not that tall. >> rob lifts up his chair to a ream level. >> i wanted to work at abc for

so long and watched you guys every weekend for a long, long time so i'm just thrilled to be here. that comfort inn biloxi during hurricane katrina has gotten a lot of mileage. >> yes. >> by the way, sara and i want to take your daughter to chuck e. cheese. >> she would love. >> madeline. >> you'll have your hands full. >> i'm ready. >> she already does. >> i can handle it. >> you make our team complete. so welcome. >> you complete us. >> you complete us. >> we are so psyched -- >> you had us at hello. >> all right. >> show me love, baby. much more rob marciano coming up and movie cliches and j. lo or j. law. how jennifer lawrence set a no world record with the other member of our team, sara haines. >> we love you. >> we love "pop."

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♪ you know, we've given a lot of attention to this side of the table but we still love sara haines so let's -- >> we love you. >> why the special finale. i'll get started. she's already among the youngest actresses to win an academy award of the now jennifer lawrence has another honor to celebrate. she just earned her place in the guinness world record book as the highest grossing action movie heroine and "the hunger games" pulled in $100 billion worldwide. kelly ripa and michael strahan took on nick carter and jordan knight all of them battling ice, fire and mud on the set of "live with kelly and michael". >> that looks really fun. >> you can probably guess the result having an nfl hall of famer is a bit of an advantage but it was all in good fun. >> kelly is in great shape.

>> kelly -- let's not forget that. burying the lede with that. the giant rubber ducky that went on a worldwide tour ruffling feathers since 2007 everywhere from hong kong to sydney and last month in l.a. the rubber duckie has a sidekick. the dutch artist unveiled something new, a giant bunny. the 82-foot rabbit is made of synthetic rubber and waterproof paper burrowing in taiwan. the only thing that would be better is if it is filled with marshmallows. >> it's wiped out. >> creepy bunny. what's becoming a rite of passage i've come up with a "pop news" pop quiz for our newest team member to get us acquainted with always the "gma weekend." >> this was not the plan. >> can you guess which one of us drives a minivan? first answer. >> paula. >> bam. >> question two, who do you think has been on weekend "gma" the longest let age lead you? >> ron. >> the yes!

>> which one of us proudly owns three cats? >> dan harris. >> the one hanging his head. >> yeah, baby. >> also cat fan. >> 3 for 3. >> finally i don't love this question who do you think played college volleyball? i would have gone with the chihuahua question. >> there's only one left. she has chihuahua and doesn't like people to have cats. >> i like them more. it might be me. i should have gone with a smart question. dan says which one are they talking about. >> dan is brilliant. i'm trying to live up to that. >> we don't understatement your intelligence. we'll see you in a second. >> i thought they should have gone with a grade point. at famous footwear we're not just selling back to school shoes, we're selling straight up confidence. we've done our homework to find the hottest shoes

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>> oh. >> in the backseat. >> i was strapped into the back. you can't see but there's a handcuff on me. >> there is room for all of you, by way. let's all take a road trip. road trip. >> road trip. >> see you tomorrow, everybody. >> live from the abc 7 broadcast center, this is an abc 7 news update. >> good morning. it is 7:56. ticking a look at some of the stories topping the news today, we are getting word of a serious crash overnight in prince george's county. that happened along the suitland parkway at handling avenue in forest hill. one person was critically injured.

you do not know have news about what led to that crash. our other top story is a chance of severe storms. >> absolutely right. lots of heat out there and juicy air. an approaching cold front. all the ingredients for a stormy afternoon. here's what looks like this morning was rather calm conditions. nice mix of sun and clouds out there. in western maryland, you can see the sun beginning to break through. in frostburg, 74 -- those winds are out of the southwest. it is in all week long. it has been a week of the withering heat. dew points have been in the 70's for the past 35 hours. the tipping point is a 70. it is another day that you will need air-conditioning. a ragged line out to the north. let to zoom in closer and you can see all of that moisture,

coming out of the cell. that will collide with this cold front this afternoon. the front will not go too far. it stalls to the south. in the wake, we'll have a much nicer day tomorrow. 93 degrees, 10 degrees better than normal. todayor temperatures 87-93. tomorrow, the window full maybe near 80 degrees. feeling like fall tomorrow. >> thank you for watching.

>> "jack hanna's wild countdown" is sponsored by nationwide insurance. >> hi, everyone, i'm jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to "wild countdown." most of the animals i meet live in just one kind of habitat, but some just can't make up their minds. whoa! whoa, buddy. today, unique species that split their time between dry land and water. oh, there they are out there. from the florida everglades-- >> whenever you feel like you get ready, we will jump in there. >> did you say we'll jump in there? the river in borneo-- >> oh, look. >> oh, sue. >> i love that. >> and even a waterfall. i have been all over the world and i have never seen animals live in a habitat like tt.