this morning on "world news now," political fireworks from donald trump's fighting words with carly fiorina to joe biden's emotional interview just hours ago. will he run for president? scared commuters. today's drive to work and school in phoenix with a fear of highway shootings. the latest incidents and new clues. >> new this half hour, the patriots putting deflategate behind them. >> the wet and victorious start of the season for tom brady and his teammates. but was brady really the star last night? and late area, angry rock stars warning politicians to stop using their music. rem telling a top contender to cease and desist the ever shortening play list in "the "skinny." it's friday, september 11th. from abc news, this is "world news now." do you remember like any

political campaigns and the political campaigns and the songs? >> the songs that stand out? no, but i do remember when hillary clinton launched her campaign she played roar. it kept playing and playing. >> katie perry a big hillary clinton fan, supporter, right. >> our producer on the scene says he's going to have to get used to this. 300 plus days of this. the same song. trying to get katie out of his mind. >> we're going to kick it off with the next republican presidential debate. familiar faces except for one new addition >> we're talking about carly fiorina, the only woman in the gop race. she's going to be on the stage next week. fiorina, the subject though of donald trump's latest attacks. abc's karen travers has the war of words. >> reporter: donald trump was on the defensive thursday, pulling back from remarks he made about fellow republican candidate carly fiorina to rolling stone. look at that face. would anyone vote for that?

can you imagine that, the face of our next president? and the view trump backpedaling. >> she failed miserably at hewlett-packard. then ran for a senate, lost in a landslide. now running for president. >> why don't you talk about her brain instead of her face. >> trump on cnn tangling with dr. ben carson, former neurosurgeon and devout christian, trump's closest rival. >> i don't think he's a great religious figure. i saw him yesterday, he was quoting on humility. it looked like he memorized two minutes before he made the quote. >> reporter: carson responded by telling abc news, when it comes to trump, he'll turn the other cheek. >> i'm not going to get into the mud and start slinging dirt. it's not the kind of person that i am. >> reporter: in new hampshire, jeb bush weighed in, telling carson and fiorina. >> they have to get in line. i still i think i'm the number one beneficiary of the donald's insults. >> reporter: and from across the aisle, hillary clinton stumping in ohio calling out trump, as well. >> and there is one particular

candidate who just seems to delight in insulting women. if he emerges, i would love to debate him. >> reporter: trump phoning in to fox news firing back. >> beating her in a debate would be one of the easy challenges of my life. >> reporter: karen travers, abc news, washington. and vice president joe biden got a political push during last night's appearance on stephen colbert's show. that push came from the host himself. colbert telling biden he would be sorely missed if he doesn't run. biden spoke emotionally about making a decision about entering the race saying no one should run if they can't give it 110% and he says that he would be lying if he said he knew he was there. >> i don't think any man or woman should run for president unless, number one, they know exactly why they would want to be president and two, they can look at the folks out there and

say, i promise you, you have my whole heart, my whole soul, my energy, and my passion to do this. >> and biden also spoke at length about his son beau's death in may, as well as his faith and the emotional turmoil of working through his grief. >> the governor of arizona is asking drivers to be especially vigilant as the search continues for a possible serial shooter. 11 vehicles have been targeted since the end of august. abc's brandi hitt has the latest. >> reporter: drivers are on edge again on this busy phoenix highway with investigators looking into yet another round of vehicles that may have been targeted. this car's back window shattered early thursday morning. hours later, investigators also confirmed a bullet hole in this semi truck. >> we're not sure that all of these are bullets. it doesn't matter if it's coming from a handgun, a rifle or a pellet gun. >> reporter: in all, police say there have been nearly a dozen confirmed shooting incidents near this eight-mile stretch of

interstate 10 through the heart of the city. many drivers now feeling like sitting ducks. >> i use the side streets. i don't even use the 10 anymore. >> reporter: the targets over the last two weeks have been random, hit at all hours of the day on both east and westbound lanes. this pickup's back window was shot at wednesday. look at this tour bus with a gaping hole in the side and the seat. and this shattered window injured a 13-year-old girl. arizona authorities are now getting help from the fbi and atf in tracking down those responsible. >> to take potshots at moving vehicles that endanger people that are just trying to get to and from work epitomizes cowardice. >> investigators may be zeroing in on the shooter. in the last 36 hours, the calls they've responded to have been confined to a four-block area of interstate 10. reena? >> thank you so much. >> and a raging wildfire has forced evacuations in northern

california's sierra nevada foot hills sparked on wednesday. it's grown to around 15,000 acres. at least eight buildings have been lost. six of them were homes. more than 10,000 people are without power and schools across the are closed today. it's unclear how the fire started. that the now being investigated. >> staying in the west, investigators at the las vegas airport are probing the burnt out british airways jet that erupted in flames during takeoff tuesday. they know what happened in the engine that exploded. now the bigger question, why. abc's matt gutman reports. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board reporting part of the boeing 777's engine was disintegrating from the inside. in this video, you hear a bang. the plane shakes, then that curtain of smoke. >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain seated. >> reporter: the ntsb saying the engine case suffering multiple breaches. internal parts shooting outward like shrapnel. >> it's hard to express how rare this is. this is almost a never event. >> reporter: inside, terrified

passengers watch the fire intensify. one of the pilots with the mayday call. >> mayday. mayday. request fire services. >> reporter: what seemed a chaotic exodus inside looked orderly from outside the plane. >> is everybody okay? >> reporter: those emergency slides popping open and all 170 passengers and crew streaming out. g.e., which built that engine, calls its product wildly reliable. the ntsb is still going to have to rematch that new jersey to examine it. it has to know whether this was a maintenance failure or a factory defect. matt gutman, las vegas. >> this morning a new threat every al qaeda on this 9/11 anniversary. the group encouraging the assassination of america's top business leaders including bill gates and warren buffett. the goal of the attacks to derail the revival of the u.s. economy. the threats come as a suspected isis sympathizer accused of a bomb plot at a kansas city 9/11 memorial is under arrest. and on this 14th anniversary

of 9/11, some school kids in new jersey have set up a special memorial, the juniors and seniors at cedar grove high are too young to remember the day itself but decided to place 2,077 flags on their school's front lawn. they also have a name of each of the 9/11 victims on every single one of them. >> what a way to share such a tragedy that took place 14 years ago than with a group of kids here at cedar grove high school. >> this flag memorial will be kept in place for the next week and a half. school administrators say it will return next year to once again honor the 9/11 victims and heroes. there are new federal food safety rules focused on cleanliness following a series of deadly food born illnesses. those rules force food manufacturers to prepare food safety plans and detail how they keep their operations clean. they also will lay out how

foodmakers monitor and clean up dangerous bacteria like listeria, salmonella, e. coli. the new rules go into effect later this year. of course, we know fall is right around the corner. and that means apple picking season is upon us. after a few bad seasons, this year's crop shaping up to be a pretty strong one with orchards across the midwest ready to turn out an abundant harvest. the success at these orchards in wisconsin attributed to months of wet weather. >> i don't know about this one. just in time for cold winter weather. keurig is hoping to heat up sales with chicken soup. the keurig campbell soup k cups are hitting stores two years after the companies decided to team up. each pod comes with a packet of noodles offered in two flavors. keurig recommends that you run a hot water cycle before just so your soup doesn't taste like coffee and vice versa. >> it sounds like a good idea. like every college kid that gets an expensive keurig will be loving this. >> i would say go to the dollar

store and get the ramen noodles. passage in college. time now for a brief edition of sports with reena. nfl season opener style. reena, all yours. >> thank you so much. kendis, the new england patriots started their campaign the way they ended the last one. >> how? >> by winning, kendis. quarterback tom brady in mid-season form. finding rob gronkowski for the patriots. first two touchdowns, gronk also caught a third touchdown in the fourth quarter, but this was brady's night. oh, yeah. he listened to that taylor swift song "shake it off." he threw for 24 yards and four touchdowns total. the steelers made it seem closer than it was in the end. final score, new england, 28, pittsburgh, 21. i did read a boston globe report that said gronkowski is due about $10 million in options. listen to the rihanna song and you might want to say to the folks at the patriots "betta have my money."

remember that song? >> coming up in "the skinny," a superstar sally field and stephen king have something new and prominent in common. >> football players injured by artificial turf. the investigation at a high school after student athletes suffered burns. and the retired tennis star body slammed by police caught in a case of mistaken identity. the apology from police but is it enough? first we have today's forecast map. you're watching "world news now." >> so rihanna, huh? "world news now" weather, brought to you by downey. brought to you by downey. and pilled cardigans become pets. but it's not you, it's the laundry. protect your clothes from stretching, fading, and fuzz. ...with downy fabric conditioner... it not only softens and freshens, it helps protect clothes from the damage of the wash. so your favorite clothes stay your favorite clothes.

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the artificial turf. the coach t.j. cavalier had the team crab walk across a field when the temperatures were above 90 degrees. six players suffered blisters on their hands. the coach immediately e-mailed apologies to the players and their parents. the district weighed his remorse in deciding the punishment. >> i believe they need to be concerned about having necessary protective gear on a hot artificial turf. the students that were wearing gloves sustained no injuries. >> the school did do an investigation and found the crab walk drill is a common one. this week's heat wave was however unusual. the coach said that he never realized it would hurt his players. got to speak up sometimes when you're a player. it's hard to do that sometimes. retired tennis star james blake will be meeting with new york's mayor and police commissioner sometime in the future. at that meeting, they will discuss blake's being mistakenly arrested. >> no doubt. >> the nypd has already taken steps to move past wednesday's

incidents as cecilia vega reports. >> reporter: new york city police say they have personally apologized to a former tennis champ tackled in a case of mistaken identity. james blake, once ranked number four in the world telling robin roberts he was standing on a busy manhattan street when a plain clothed fer ran directly toward him. >> picked me up, body slammed me. put me on the ground, told me to turn over and shut my mouth and put the cuffs on me. >> reporter: police official identifying that officer as james fraskatore. if i say something wrong, i'm sorry. >> reporter: police say blake looked like this man. seen in a picture on tmz sports. but to make matters worse, he, too, was an innocent person. wrongly identified. >> if you see those two photos together, the similarities are remarkable. >> reporter: but the tennis star not backing down. >> this happens too often. and most times, it's not to someone like me. >> reporter: and investigators reviewed surveillance footage from the scene.

the officer in question has been placed on administrative leave. his gun and his badge removed. cecilia vega, abc news, new york. >> thank you so much. coming up the nation's top artists honored at the white house. >> and the house that jay-z and beyonce are being forced out of. "the skinny" is next. . "world news now" continues

♪ skinny, so skinny and topping your friday skinny this morning, politicians having a tough time you would say with their campaign play lists. >> the legendary rock band rem the latest music group to tell a candidate not to use their music. >> you have donald trump who used the band's "it's the end of the world as we know it" at an event in d.c. in reference to the iran nuclear deal. >> afterwards, rem singer michael steiff said "do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign." earlier in the week, the band survivor had a similar reaction to mike huckabee playing "eye of the tiger" when kim davis was released from jail. you know, my absolute favorite, this is a pretty interesting moment. good choice of music i would say. but i would say from the '92 campaign, clinton/gore "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." fleetwood mack song.

that's probably my ultimate. >> they got approval first. sarah palin used "barracuda," in 2008 and they didn't like it. heart did not like that. >> turning to the white house where president obama welcomed a distinguished group for the national medal of arts and humanities awards ceremony. among them actress sally field. she's been a force in hollywood since the 1960s as well as an advocate for women and a champion of lgbt rights. >> she starred in many classic films two of which earned her best actress oscars, something the president made reference to. >> we like you. we really like you. >> how did we know he was going to go there. >> a nod to her famous acceptance speech. also receiving a medal of honor, one of the most popular and prolific fiction writers stephen king. his many works of suspense and science fiction noted for their sharp analysis of human nature. >> other honorees chef alice waters, authors larry mcmurtry,

john baldessari, as well as musician meredith monk. >> we move on to music now and the superstar couple beyonce and jay-z and news they're about to become homeless. >> tmz, the house is reporting that the house they've been renting in l.a. was sold. now they have to look for a new place to call home. the carter family made headlines when this he decided to move from new york to california but they had to rent when plans to buy kind of fell through. >> apparently the owner of their rented home reportedly sold the property for $35 million. they're looking for homes in exclusive neighborhoods all over. >> my advice to them, there's always airbnb. >> and trulia. >> we're getting a look at how bernie madoff will get the big screen treatment. robert de niro will play madoff along with michelle pfeiffer as madoff's wife ruth. >> here's a sneak peek. the upcoming movie is called "the wizard of lies." that is de niro and pfeiffer.

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let's be clear. clearasil works fast. finally from us, what a week it's been. we will never forget those images, the seemingly endless flood of refugees pouring across europe. >> and the smoke pouring out of the british airways jet only seconds from disaster. those were two of the most indelible moments but our "friday rewind" includes many others, as well. >> it's biblical proportions. the people are coming quicker than we can load them. >> we want a good life far away from the death and the war and everything. >> now you're worried that the hungarian police are going to stop you? >> yes. >> stop us and hit us. >> and hit you? >> yes. >> may day, may day. request fire services.

>> 2276, heavy fire services are on the way. >> we could smell the flames and we looked from the left hand side of the window and could see black smoke. >> i wanted to get off the plane and be alive. >> i heard a loud bang. it startled me. >> i don't know if this is a copycat crime, if it's multiple people. there is no pattern for time. it's been different days of the week, different hours of the day. >> i just want to give god the glory. his people have rallied and you are a strong people! >> the courage of her convictions was more important than simply even her own freedom. >> i did not send or receive any information that was marked classified at the time. >> my brother probably didn't control the republican congress spending. i think he should have brought the hammer down on the republicans when they were spending way too much. >> i've been doing deals for a long time. that's what i do. never ever, ever in my life have i seen any transaction so

incompetently negotiated as our deal with iran. >> it shouldn't have happened. it's something that we'll deal with the police and we'll find out what they have to say internally. hopefully, there's video of it and people can see what happened. >> what is it like to be the arm candy in a relationship? >> don't talk. >> more of this, less of that. exactly. just be shiny. >> shiny and pretty. >> yeah, that's mostly what i do. >> that was a funny moment. if you did miss any of "world news now" this week, you can relive our highlights. check out our facebook page wnnfans.com. >> our weekly in case you missed wrap-up we'll fill you in. wnnfans.com as we mentioned. big week ahead. the debates. >> i'm looking forward to that. >> debates on the 16th, as well. >> this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. insomniacs

making news in america this morning, severe weather, several inches of rain falling overnight stranding drivers and flooding classrooms at a university. so where is it heading right now? high alert. an isis-inspired american under arrest planning an attack at a september 11th commemoration on this 14th anniversary of the tragedy. breaking overnight, hostage crisis. a carjacking suspect run nothing a crowded restaurant. the patrons filing out with hands on their head. how it ended. caught on camera, a bear trapped inside a family's lexus ripping apart the interior. well, good friday morning to you. a powerful storm moving through the heartland and