making news in america this morning, breaking overnight, a second night of protest after a police involved shooting. new video from the scene moments after officers opened fire. and what was the man pointing in this picture? a teenager opens fire at an elementary school. we have an update on one of the young victims and the search for a motive as police try to find a connection between the suspect and the school. hillary clinton bringing out the big guns, the first lady, chelsea and bernie sanders, plus the new strategy for donald trump in the next debate, and libertarian candidate gary johnson with yet another blunder. and an attempted kidnapping caught on camera. see the video as the man abducts a clerk dragging her through the store, then stuffing her in a car and see how police finally

we do say good morning on this thursday as we get started with that breaking news from southern california. protests in the streets of el cajon. >> police in riot gear watched demonstrators march past the scene where officers shot and killed a black man on tuesday. there were some isolated incidents, but the protest was described as generally peaceful. >> the march began a little more than 24 hours after alfred ol police say olango was holding an object when he assumed what they call a shooting stance. the object turned out to be an electronic cigarette device. emotional community leaders have demanded a transparent investigation into that. there are also new developments overnight in a school shooting that left three people injured. >> a teenage suspect is in custody accused of opening fire in the parking lot of the elementary school in south carolina. >> one of the victims, 6-year-old jacob paul is in

his parents have released this picture of their son overnight. meanwhile, police in townsville say that the shooter also killed his father at their home before going to the school. the motive behind the shooting is still a mystery. the suspect was homeschooled. let's turn our focus to politics and sources in the donald trump campaign are expressing disappointment in his debate performance. >> one senior official admits there were missed opportunities saying trump, quote, left a lo his nerve. before he and hillary clinton face off again in ten days, she's getting a little help from her friends. here's abc's stephanie ramos. >> reporter: hillary clinton and donald trump are out of debate mode and whipping through battleground states. >> the next 40 days will determine the next 40 years. >> reporter: clinton in new hampshire with just 40 days to go till election day joined by some welcomed advocates. >> by going high when they go low.

made up of mainly young people pumping up clinton qualifications for president. >> no one in our lifetime has ever had as much experience and exposure to the presidency, not barack, not bill, nobody and, yes, she happens to be a woman. >> reporter: even vermont senator bernie sanders joining the clinton support bandwagon urging battleground state voters to back his former primary rival. >> it is absurd, it is disgraceful for donald trump and his friends to be talkg hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks for the top 1%. >> reporter: donald trump in wisconsin last night still insisting he won the first presidential debate and going after clinton on big banks. >> follow the money. the wall street investors who have rigged the regulations against the middle class, they're donating to hillary clinton. >> reporter: his campaign manager on fox saying trump will be better prepared for the next debate.

format, we will certainly be taking into account the different logistics. >> reporter: and donald trump is continuing his feud with a former miss universe. trump is accused of body-shaming the beauty queen 20 years ago and told fox news that he saved alicia machado from being fired by getting her to lose weight. kendis, diane, back over to you. >> all right. that's stephanie ramos for us live in washington. stephanie, thanks. then there is the libertarian candidate gary roadblock on his run for the white house. during a town hall style meeting last night, msnbc's chris matthews asked johnson to name a foreign leader he respected and here's what happened. >> anywhere, any candidate, canada, mexico, europe, over there, asia, south america, africa, name a foreign leader that you respect. >> i'm i guess i'm having an alope aleppo moment in the --

>> i know, i know. >> anybody in the world you like. anybody. pick any leader. >> the former president of mexico. >> his running mate eventually told him to say vicente fox. by the way, johnson was referring to his earlier interview on msnbc when he was asked about the syrian city devastated by civil war and went blank and responded what's aleppo. a major defeat for president obama as congress overrides the first veto of his administration. both chambers overwhelmingly reversed the president's blockage of a bill to let 9/11 victims' families sue saudi sets a dangerous precedent for the u.s. with its allies. >> this time in saudi arabia but let's say that there's a terrorist who comes here from great britain, our closest ally, they come here and they carry out something, now under this legislation, somebody who had been harmed by that terrorist could sue the british government. >> well, five of the 9/11 hijackers were saudi nationals.

a bipartisan group of senators suggest that it could open the u.s. to lawsuits from other nations. and also from capitol hill, a stopgap bill to prevent a government shutdown is on the way to the president's desk. it provides $1.1 billion to fight zika and half a billion dollars in flood aid. republicans also promise to send money to flint, michigan, later this year to deal with that city's water crisis. the bill keeps the government operating through december 9th. president obama has authed of mosul from isis. the white house says the additional 615 troops will assist and advise the iraqi military joining more than 4,500 u.s. forces already working there. the operation to oust isis from mosul is set to get under way very soon. the city is the islamic state's last major urban stronghold in iraq. and in syria, the u.s. has warned russia it will suspend peace talks unless

stop their campaign. the recent bombing in aleppo has been some of the worst in the five-year conflict. unicef says nearly 100 children have been killed during the fighting since friday. one official said, children in the city are, quote, trapped in a living nightmare. and israelis have begun paying their final respects to former leader shimon peres. peres' body is lying in state ahead of tomorrow's state funeral, and we have a live picture from the knesset in jerusalem. the nobel peace prize winner ed there you can see the casket as the public pays their respects. president obama will travel to syria later today where he'll head the u.s. delegation attending peres' funeral. tropical storm matthew is churning toward the caribbean. new video overnight shows strong winds whipping across a construction site on the island of dominica. matthew is expected to strengthen into a hurricane. it'll likely impact the u.s. sometime next week, but it's way too soon to know when or where so, of course, we'll be tracking

radar showing a massive storm swirling over the northeast. it's expected to bring days of rain to the area. still ahead, the new connection between having acne and a person's lifespan. plus, a man drags a woman out of the store and puts her in a car. a terrifying abduction caught on camera. and you thought the debate between trump and clinton was

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after a short chase police tased the man and arrested him. the woman was taken to a hospital for evaluation. fbi investigators looking into the new york and new jersey bombings say they now know the identity of two mystery men. the pair is seen in these images taking a suitcase from a manhattan street after removing a pressure cooker bomb. they're believed to be employees of an egyptian airline and have since returned to their home country. investigators still want to question the men. a documentary out tomorrow on netflix is shedding new light on the case of amanda knox. the american student who spent four years in an italian prison until her conviction for murder was finally overturned. abc's neal karlinsky has the details. >> did you kill meredith kercher? >> reporter: a new crime documentary hitting the airwaves on the murder case that captivated the world. the 2007 killing of meredith kercher, the college roommate of amanda knox. >> either i'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing or i am you. >> reporter: chilling new

>> i known her only for five days. >> reporter: shed light on the trial that made headlines for years in which foxy knoxy and her boyfriend were convicted, freed and convicted again only to be found innocent in 2015 by italy's highest court. >> if i'm innocent, it means that everyone is vulnerable, and that's everyone's nightmare. >> reporter: neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. and amanda knox will be live on "good morning america" to documentary in an exclusive interview. the angry town of the u.s. presidential campaign has nothing on politics overseas. really. this happened in the former soviet republic of georgia. one candidate throwing his glass of water at his opponent and then he even comes around the desk and another water glass flies. the fighting continued off camera. it's the second time a televised candidates' event has resulted in a fight in the past

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another team clinches a mayoff spot in the mlb. >> here with the highlights let's turn to our guys at espn. good morning, america. send us your texts and tweets about this segment. he's kenny, i'm neil. >> that's right. if you've been following major league baseball, you know that the red sox could win the american league east by virtue of a win. >> too much information. >> or if somebody lost and they're going to win -- no, they're not. mark teixeira fencing that had been set up. so too bad. the red sox don't win the a.l. east. wait, no, they do because somebody else lost so the yankees are happy because the blue jays lost, the red sox are happy, everybody wore scuba gear and had a good time and wasted alcohol. san francisco, the mets and the cardinals were in a three-team race for two spots in the n.l. wild card. the mets won on wednesday, the cardinals lost, and the giants, you would think, would mop up on colorado, but, no. buster posey in the bottom of

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checking our top stories, protesters filled the streets of el cajon, california, a day after officers shot and killed a man they say appeared to be holding a gun. but the object was actually an e-cigarette device. a 14-year-old is in custody in south carolina accused of opening fire in an elementary school parking lot. police say the teen killed his father before taking a gun to the school. president obama says congress made a mistake overriding his veto of a bill affecting 9/11 famil it's the first time one of his vetoes has been overturned. the measure allows those families to sue saudi arabia. taking a look at today's weather, cooling down in the west. showers over the rockies and heavy rain in the northeast. sunny almost everywhere else. 67 in chicago. and finally this morning, it's up, up and away for a talented teenager as an annual balloon festival kicks off in new mexico. >> yeah, the 16-year-old is the youngest balloon pilot taking to

weekend. sasha linenger reports. >> reporter: waking up early, preparing her balloon and being in the air is something that runs in her blood. >> it's amazing. i'm a third generation pilot on my mom's side of the family, fourth generation on my dad's side. >> reporter: at just 16, savannah bradley is the youngest balloon pilot at this year's balloon fiesta. >> i was hanging out with my parents then i got the e-mail and i was ecstatic. >> reporter: bradley says becoming a pilot. >> it wasn't until i was about 13 when i kind of figured out like, oh, the youngest i can solo in a standard balloon is 14 and i was like, well, i'm going to go for it. >> reporter: this is her balloon, "seventh heaven." she says she wanted to stick with the family tradition when she named it. >> our balloons all have the name heaven in it because my dad's very first balloon was named "stairway to heaven" after the led zeppelin song because that's his favorite song.

about flying balloons isn't the pretty view like this. >> i like the challenging part of it, trying to find different winds at different elevations to get to that landing spot. >> reporter: bradley's landed herself a record as well. she ties the record for the youngest balloon pilot in balloon fiesta history. in albuquerque, i'm sasha linenger, koat, action 7 news. >> that's always a fantastic scene there in new mexico. it lasts some nine days and kicks off this weekend. some 500 plus balloons. >> and it's been going on for 40 years now. i love the images that come out after when you just see either -- from the perspective of the actual balloon pilots or from down on the ground, just absolutely beautiful. >> and the look on her face when she gets up there this weekend. well, that's what's making news in america this morning. >> check us out at at tmfans.com. have a great thursday.

erin: now on "daybreak," state law overturned. why a federal appeals court says it is okay to take a picture of your filled out ballot next time you vote. kevin: sunshine and cool sean: major drug bust. where they found a huge shipment of heroin in new hampshire. erin: how recorded calls helped them track down a woman helping her grandson. >> no one covers new hampshire like we do. now wmur "news 9 daybreak." erin: good thursday morning to you. thanks for starting your day with us. i'm erin fehlau. sean: hi, everybody.