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making nus th ews this sunday. making news in america this morning, threatening attacks. the newest isis warning to the u.s., promising to burn down the white house. dramatic new video of the raid near paris that took refugee backlash. lawmakers overwhelmingly passing a bill limiting the number of syrian refugees. presidential candidates weighing in. ben carson comparing some refugees to dogs and donald trump's new plan to track muslims. a first for food. causing controversy, the fda approving a genetically engineered fish. are there any risks for consumers? and rock of ages. a gigantic gem on earth, the
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century. and we do say good friday morning to you. we're going to begin with the very latest on the threat from isis as we mark one week since the devastating terror attacks in paris. >> the new terror video warns that the white house or new york may be next and law enforcement officials are now keeping dozens of suspected radicals across the country under tight surveillance. abc's kenneth moton has the latest from washington. kenneth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, reena and kendis. yes, u.s. counterterrorism officials say they've got their eyes on those home-grown radicals as they work to prevent a paris-style attack. this morning, the isis watch continues in the u.s. from coast to coast. the terror group released its third propaganda video this week threatening the u.s., this time promising to turn the white house black with fire. >> we are operating around the clock to uncover and disrupt any plot.
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law enforcement agencies are monitoring dozens of high-risk radicals around the clock in the u.s. as isis pumps out 90,000 social media messages a day. there are terror investigations in every state, 900 total. >> we are not aware of any credible threat here of a paris-type attack. >> reporter: tourists in new york city surrounded by heavily armed nypd officers. >> it feels really safe right now, plus i think being here is an indicator that we can't choose to have terror end our lifestyle. >> reporter: the goal to prevent a paris copycat attack. the fbi director says there are no known u.s. links to the paris attacks and there are fewer and fewer cases of americans joining or trying to join the ranks of isis overseas. reena and kendis. >> kenneth moton, thank you very much, kendis. let's move on to those attacks in paris learning more about the mastermind of the paris attacks killed in that raid in france this week. >> french investigators say abdelhamid abaaoud, he was behind four other plots foiled
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in paris earlier this year and he was poised to strike again. abc's marci gonzalez is in paris with more on the ringleader and the woman being called europe's first suicide bomber. >> reporter: in the rubble of this raid, confirmation police got their target. the bullet and shrapnel-ridden body identified as the so-called mastermind of the paris terror attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud. the 27-year-old isis recruiter and ringleader from belgium was on terror watch lists everywhere, yet french officials admit they don't know how he managed to spend the last year traveling back and forth between syria and europe undetected. >> when they cross at those border points, eu passport holders are not always checked very carefully. >> reporter: investigators also looking into the background of abaaoud's cousin, hasna aitboulahcen, holed up in
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belt and police certain this terror cell was planning another attack, a follow up to the attack which was caught on this surveillance video obtained gunman aiming at people at this cafe, his gun finally jamming killed. but, of course, that wasn't the case at the other bars and restaurants, that gunman salah abdeslam targeted. police are still looking for him and one other suspect. marci gonzalez, abc news, paris. >> marci, thank you very much. and here at home the debate heating up over what america's part should be in the syrian refugee crisis. the house has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would slam the brakes on president obama's plan to take in up to 10,000 refugees and 31 governors, most of them republican, are refusing to allow them into their states and now republican presidential candidate ben carson is comparing the syrian refugees to rabid dogs. >> if there's a rabid dog running around your
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neighborhood, you probably are not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably going to put your children out of the way. it doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination. >> carson also tells abc news isis is more of a threat to the u.s. today than al qaeda was in 2001. that's because, he says, isis has essentially upped its game since flying planes into the world trade center, quote, didn't require a great deal of sophistication. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton, meantime, is calling for the u.s. to up its game against isis. at a speech in new york clinton proposed going well beyond president obama's proposals saying the u.s. and its international coalition must intensify and broaden their aggression against isis, and that includes stepping up air strikes. and then there's donald trump also weighing in on the immigration issue saying he would maintain a database of
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muslims here in the u.s., but he was short on specifics when asked about how such a database would be kept and what would happen to muslims who refused to register. critics compared the idea to what happened in prewar nazi germany. >> we've got some breaking news we want to get to right now. reports of an active shooter and hostage situation in africa. this is all happening, we're told, at a radisson hotel in the nation of mali. the hotel says two people have been taken. more than 150 guests and employees are hostage by those two people. the u.s. embassy telling americans to shelter in place. of course, we're going to continue continue to monitor that situation in the country of mali. friends and family are mourning the death of a teenager killed in a terror attack in israel. ezra shorts was killed when police say a palestinian man opened fire of pedestrians. the attacker got away. 18-year-old shorts was studying for a year in israel before returning to the u.s. to attend college. police in malaysia are warning of an imminent terrorist
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arrived today in koala lumpur. thousands of military personnel are on guard as the president embarks on the final leg of a series of summits focused on rebalancing ties towards asia. he is pushing his transpacific trade deal, which is coming under increasing fire here at home, as a job killer. >> let's talk about the weather right now. the radar showing the storm system that brought heavy rain to the northeast corridor yesterday. it is moving off into new england. as the rain moves away, it will be replaced by windy and cooler temperatures. weekend lows across the region will drop into the 20s. in the meantime, the first big snow of the season is falling from the dakotas to the upper midwest. some areas could end up with around ten inches before it's all over with. the snow will continue in to tomorrow in parts of the region. chicago gets its first snow of the season. up to an inch is expected. well, still ahead, the thanksgiving travel season getting under way. the important message from the tsa for people about to fly. and genetically engineered
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6 this grocery store surveillance camera is not disfunctional shaking from a 4.7 earthquake rumbling through oklahoma and rocked people hundreds of miles away from arizona and texas to missouri and illinois. no injuries or major damage is reported. well, rumbling of a different kind in minneapolis where there's no end in sight to the standoff between police and protesters. they're at odds over sunday's fatal shooting of an unarmed
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plaque man by two officers erupting this violence and protesters accuse police of abuse but the police chief blames protesters calling them anarchists. federal rights investigators are demanding an investigation. today starts the busy thanksgiving travel season. more than 25 million passengers will head to the nation's airports over the next 12 days. because of security concerns, the tsa is asking travelers to get to the airport two hours before flights. next sunday when everyone heads home it's expected to be the busiest travel day. the least, thanksgiving day. for those setting the table it will cost more. 70 cents more to be exact crossing the $50 mark for the very first time. however, it's still a relative bargain compared to what it used to be. adjusted for inflation thanksgiving dinner in 1986, you remember that with you, it cost more than 61 bucks. >> oh, the good old days. well, a month before the "star wars" movie hits theaters
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advanced ticket sales for "the force awakens" has crossed the $50 million mark. the film from abc's parent company disney such anticipation as industry experts predicting this is a good chance it could be the highest grossing release in history. >> saying a lot. okay, well, when we come back one of the nation's biggest airports unveiling plans for a new terminal just for the rich and famous. an historic restaurant
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mmm yoplait police in suburban pittsburgh looking for a thief who stole a school bus and crashed it into a strip mall and vitamin store. the impact was so strong, it left the restaurant next door, ironically named smashburger, heavily damaged. checking the morning road conditions, careful. you don't want to be slipping and sliding from the rockies all the way to the great lakes and there will be wet surfaces along the gulf coast, florida and new england. it's a good start to the thanksgiving travel season weatherwise. boston is the only place with weather-related airport delays and for the first time ever light for a genetically engineered animal to enter the u.s. food supply. >> aqua boundary says it's genetically engineered salmon will grow nearly twice as fast
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but critics are calling it frankenfish and are particulared alarmed that the fda won't allow it to be labeled as such. >> the only thing the fda could determine was that it grows faster. it's identical to salmon grown using conventional techniques. >> critics say it's not about nutritional value. they point to studies showing health problems from eating genetically modified food. obamacare could face a major challenge next ler. the nation's leading insurer may pull out. united health care says low enrollment and high usage fees have cost the company millions of dollars. that would send millions of consumers scrambling for low cost insurance. well, this was a setback for a professional dancer who lost her leg in the boston marathon adrianne haslet-davis says american airlines lost her luggage which contained her
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prosthetic leg and tweeted "you lost my luggage with over $250,000 of leg and dance parts. i have an entire team on you. please respond. been days, can't dance." the airline responding, we're doing all possible to get you and your bag back together again. meanwhile, a special terminal only at los angeles international airport approved that will allow the rich and famous to avoid their public on the way to first class. a temporary facility will be operational at l.a.x. within six months while the permanent terminal is constructed. all right. police in southern california are reaching out for help to find a missing 300-year-old cello. the rare instrument was made in ferrara, italy, in 1714. it's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. it was put in the trunk of a maroon-colored acura parked in the embassy in the garage of the embassy suites in glendale. when a thief took off with the car, the cello was inside. >> from southern california, the original taco bell restaurant is on the move. the company calls its numero
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uno. it opened in downey, california, in 1962. overnight it was moved on a flatbed truck 45 miles to taco bell's headquarters. the move saves numero uno from demolition. it'll be put in storage until taco bell figures out what are they going to do with it. >> well, they could have made a run for the border. now some sports starting with a game that took place in los angeles. >> we get the highlights from our friends at espn. she's nicole. i'm neil. going to be honest with you. we both checked out already. >> but don't check out of this one becasue the warriors and clippers played a good game last night. the clippers. third quarter, warriors down 13. the bucket anyway. warriors down 11. three minutes remaining. thompson, 0 for 3. that was the first for the war a little back and forth between green and deandre jordan but
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the ball ends up in curry's hands. curry, 40 points, 11 rebounds. the warriors once trailed this game by 23. they won by 7. they're now 13-0. >> when i say check out, i meant check this out. that's blake bortles, if you're not familiar. that's the jags and titans. bortles, julius thomas, at least when i was a kid i used to get orange julius. he went to portland state so did neal lomax. five seconds left, marcus mariota, quack, no, no, duck blinded. andre branch, clemson, drops him, poses. jags win by six. >> that was no 40-hour marathon but that was at least a minute, right? >> oh, yeah. no, we've been out here. >> we can hang. >> yeah. our love for you. >> we'll keep you guys around. >> yeah. >> 40 hours was a long time. we're glad we had a good end to
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it. >> glad it's over. bring on the weekend. >> yeah, exactly. up next in "the pulse." boy, that's a big rock. >> yeah, it is. >> the biggest diamond found in more than a hundred years. and boy, does she got game. this 11-year-old prodigy already dominating high school basketball. ol basketball. suffer from opioid-induced constipation, oic, caused by the opioids they use to manage chronic pain. oic is a different type of constipation. opioids block pain signals, but they can also block activity in the bowel. finding relief has been a real struggle! a different picture? definitely! talk to your doctor about oic and prescription treatment options. i can do that! the pursuit of healthier.
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okay, time now for "the pulse." stories you'll be talking about today and one thing that many women will be talking about, we're going to start with girl's best friend. >> of course, we're talking about diamonds. but this morning, a whopper of a rock called the second largest diamond on earth ever has been dug up in botswana and weighs in at a stunning 1,111 carats. it's roughly the size of a baseball. >> it's the biggest diamond found in the past 100 years eclipsed in size only to the legendary, of course, cullinan diamond mined in 1905. >> what do you do with that, wear that around your neck. you can't put that on your finger. >> you can try to rock that out. i'm sure melania trump has one similar in size. breakups are especially tough in this age of social media so facebook found a way to ease the pain. >> the social network now testing new tools that kick in when you find yourself suddenly single, so if you change your status to indicate that you're no longer in a relationship,
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don't you worry, you don't have to manually untag yourself from your ex's photos. facebook does the work for you. >> this is beautiful. newly uncoupled users will also see less of their ex's name, photos and posts without having to unfriend them. >> uncoupled, we're still going with that? >> we're still going with uncoupled, but you can ghost your ex now on facebook. >> i didn't even think about that. >> it's beautiful. finally, a pint-sized athlete who is dreaming big dreams. 11-year-old jaden newman and she's a great basketball player. >> yeah, and despite her age newman plays high school hoops and, in fact, just became the youngest high school player to score more than a thousand points. >> she scores at quite a clip. and in the game she set the record she poured 47 points in her season opener. the score, 57. she scored 57. newman says her goal is to become the first female player in the nba history. i bet she does it. >> those are the sort of
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our top stories this morning, a new threat from isis vowing to target the white house. the fbi chief says there's no credible threat, but he says there are dozens of people who may have been radicalized and living here in the u.s. and breaking right now, a possible terror attack under way at a hotel in africa. more than 150 people have been taken hostage by armed suspects at the radisson hotel in the nation of mali. a u.s. military delegation is in mali for meetings, but we have no word if they were inside the hotel or if they were targeted. we'll continue to monitor the situation in mali. and the weather situation, things are dry out across the west. snow falling from the rockies to the great lakes and the midwest. sunny skies in texas, rain in florida, as well as in new england. finally for us from us this friday, the late night comics
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take on a tough news week. >> here now your "friday funnies." >> isis has managed to bring the whole world together. the u.s., russia, western europe, iran and china have all condemned isis. the last thing that so much of humanity agreed on this much was that none of us would go see "the fantastic four." >> president obama is overseas this week. that's right, he's joining other world leaders in turkey for the g-20 summit, which is unusual because normally when people are gathered around turkey debating obama, it's just a bunch of drunk uncles at thanksgiving. >> because of the terrible tragedies in paris had this weekend, a big focus of the debate was foreign policy which was not ideal for bernie sanders. that's not his area of expertise. when they asked his position on syria, he likes grape-nuts. he also if you watch the debate on mute, it looked like bernie sanders spent two hours angrily sending his soup back at the deli. >> cbs actually ended the debate seven minutes before it was
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supposed to finish. yeah, or as bill clinton put it, oh, my god, you're home early, hey, ah, ah, this is virginia necessary have. vanessa. she's helping me with my taxes. >> o'malley's debate performance wasn't especially memorable but did have a noteworthy moment here. >> let's say in our debate because you'll never hear that immigrant bashing, carnival barker donald trump. >> trump was like, is this because i get my hair from the cotton candy machine? is that what he's talking about? >> donald trump said that mosques need to be watched and studied because he believes they may spread hateful views. in related news, donald trump needs to be watched and studied. [ applause ] i still think donald trump will drop out once he finds out how much money the president actually makes. i think he pays his hair flap engineer more than $400,000 a year. >> oh, boy. >> it's definitely one of those weeks where we appreciate the
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