attack's mastermind. refugee backlash. lawmakers overwhelmingly passing a bill limiting the number of syrian refugees. presidential candidates weighing in. ben rson comparing some trums new plan to track muslims. a first for food causing controversy. the fdapproving a geneticacally engineered fish. are there any risks for consumers? > and rock of ages. a gigantic gem on earth, the largest diamond to be found in a century. good morning, we're going to get to all those stories in a moment but we get started with some breaking news. a team of gunmentorming an american owned hotel in the african nation of mali taking multiple hostages. >> the terror attack happening at a radisson hotel i in t nation's capital.

a commander in the malian army sasaid ten gunmen stormed the hotel shouting allahu akbar before firing on guards and taking hostages i including 140 guests. a u.s. military delegation is there for meetings but no word if they were inside the hotel or were in any way targeted. >> the u.s. and french embassies telling their citizens to shelter inlace islamic extremists took control part of the country but it's likely to fuel concerns especily after the attacks in paris a week ago. u.s. authorities continue to warn about attacks on so-called soft targets like hotels and restaurants. again, to recap we're tracking a mass hostage situation in africa. we'll continue to monitor the situation in mali throughout the morning with the very latest on "good morning america." okay, so as we mark one week since the terror attacks isis is warning of u.s. attacks. >> the latest video threatens to

blow up the white house after otherr vids threatened d.c. landmarks in new york city. >> kenneth moton has the latest for us where he's tracking them overnight. good morning, kenneth. >> reporter: good morning, reena and kendis. yes, u.s. countertrterrorism 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 releleased it 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. >> reporter: right now federal 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

>> 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 is to prevent a paris copycat attack. thfbi director says there are no known u.s. links to the paris attacks, and there are fewer and fewer cas of americans joining or trying to join the ranks of isis overseas. reena and kendis. >> kenneth moton, thank you very . kenneth. let's mo on to those attackcks in par we're 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 in paris earlier ts 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, c confirmatn police got their target. the bullet and shrapnel-ridden body now identified as the

so-called mastermind of the pariterror 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 manageto 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 abaaous cousin, hasna aitboulahcen, holed up in that same apartment with him when she detonated her suicide belt. police certain this terror cell was planning another attack, a follow-up to last week's horror, a part of which was caught on this surveillance video obtained by "the daily mail" showing a gunman aiming at people at this cafe, his gun finally jammmming befo anyone here could be 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 so 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 ta 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 comparg the syrian refugees to rabid dogs. >> if there's a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you probably are not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably going tput your children out of the way. it doesn't mean that you hate all gs by any stretch of the imimaginatio >> carson also tells abc news that isis is more of a threat to the u.s. today than al qaeda was in 2001. that's because, he says, isis

since flying planes into the world trade center, quote, didn't require a great deal of sophistication. > democrat 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 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 na germany. let's talk about the weather right now. the radar showing the storm system that brought heavy rain to theortheast 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. i in the meantime, the first big snow of the season is falling from the dakotas to the upper midwest. some areas c could endp with around ten inches before it's all over with. the snow will continue in to tomorrow iparts 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 salmon, yum, cleared for american supermarkets. consumers voicing their concerns. plus, an all-out search overnight.

300-year-old cello? this grocery store surveillance camera is not disfunctional. it's shaking from m a 4.7 earthquake rumbling through oklahoma. it rocked people hundreds of miles awaway from izona and texas to missouri and illinois. no injuries or major damage is reported. wewell, rumbng 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 black man by two officers. and that tension erupting in violence on friday night and protesters accuse police of abuse, but the police chief blames protesters calling them anarchists. civil rights leaders are demanding a federal investigation into the shooting. so, 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 securitconcerns, the tsa is asking travelers to get tohe airport two hours before flights. next sunday when everyone heads home is expected to be the busiest travel day. the least busiest is

those setting the table at home, thanksgiving dinner is going to cost a little bit more this ar. 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 thananksgivinginner in 1986, you all remember that one, it cost more than 61 bucks. >> oh, the good old days. >> yeah. well, a month before the "star wars" movie hits theaters, ticket sales are setting records. advanced ticket sales for "star wa: the force awakens" have crossed the $50 million mark according to sellers likike fandango. 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. >> that's 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.

hitting the road overnight. sfx: stomach growling now i feel better. mmm yoplait poce i 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.d. checking the morning road conditions, careful. you don't want to be slipping

and sliding from theockies all the way to the great lakes, and there will be wet surfaces in a couple of places along the gulf coast, florida and new england. it's good start to the thanksgiving travel season weatherwise. boston is the only place where eer-related airport delays are possible. and for the first time ever the fda has given the green light for a genetically engineered animal to enter the u.s. food supply. >> aqua bounty says its genetically engineered salmon will grow nearly twice as fast as natural salmon, but critics are calling it frankenfish and are particularly alarmed that gmo salmon won't be labeled as such by the fda. >> the only thing the fda could determine was that it grows faster. it's identical to salmon grown using conventional techniques. >> critics say, hover, it's not about nutritional value. they point to studies showing health proroblems fr eating genetically modified food. obamacare could face a major challenge next year. the nation's largest health care

insurer says it may pull out of the obamacare exchanges. united health care says low enrollme and high usage fees have cost the company millions of dollars. if united health does drop out, 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 bombings. adrianne haslet-davis says american airlines lost her luggage, which contained her prosthetic leg. she tweeted "you lost my luggage with over $250,000 of leg and dance parts. i have an entire teaeam on you please respond. been days, can't dance." the airline responding doing all possible to get you again." meanwhile, a special terminal only los angeles international airport approved that will allow the rich and famous to avoid a temporary facility will be operational at l.a.x. within six months while the permanent terminal is constructed. all right.

are reaching out for help to find a missing 300-year-old cello. the rare instrument was made in ferrara, italy, in 1714. of dollars. it was put in the trunk of a maroon-colored a acura. it was 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. uno. 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. 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 ne. i'm going to be honest with you. we both checked out already. >> but don't check out of this one becasue e the warrrs and the clippers played a good game last night. stepeph curry the road against the clippers. third quarter, warriors down 13. curry in transition but he gets the bucket anyway. warriors down 11. three minutes remaining. thompson, 0 for 3.3. that was the first for the warriors since the score was 3-2. a little back and forth here between green and deandre jordan, but 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 would get

orange julius. he went to portlanand state did neal lomax. five seconds left, marcus mariota, quack, no, no, duck blinded. andrdre branchclemson, 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 it. >> exactly. glad it's over. bring on the weekend. >> yeah, exactly. and up next in "thpulse." 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 1year-old prodigy already dominating high school basketll.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

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legendary, of course, cullinan diamond mined in 1905. >> what do you do with that, wear it around your ne? >> i don'tnow. >> you can't put it on your finger. >> you can try to rock that out. i'm sure melania trump has one similar in size. okay, so breakups are especially tough in this age of social media, so facebook has found a way to ease the pain. >> the social network now testing new tools that kick in when you find yourself suddenly single, so iyou change your status to indicate that you're no longer in a relationship, 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, phos a posts without having to unfriend themem. >> 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 t think abo that. >> it's beautiful. and finally, a a pint-sid athlete who is dreaming big dreams.

she's 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 yoyoungest hh school player to score more than a thousand points. >> she scores at quite a clip. 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 inin the nbaistory. i bet she does it. >> those are the sort of numbers that steph curry put up tonight, last night. good for her. >> so, who should recruit her? >> the kcks need help. the wizards need help. >> give her a call, knicks. more news after this. this is my life. this is my family. being a part of helping people in need is who i am. working at brookdale for me is not just a job, it's a life for me. i love it. i formed many connections with the residents. i feel like i am part of their family and they're pt ofine. if you can get up in the morning, ya know,

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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. wel 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 take on a tough news week. >> here now your "friday funnies." >> isis hahas manageto bring the whole world together. the u.s., russia, western europe, iran and china have all condemned isis. the lasthing 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 joing 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 this weekend, a big focus of the debate was foreign policy, which was not ideal for bernie sanders.. th's not his area of expertise. when they asked him for his position on syria, he said he likes grape-nuts. he also, if you watch the debate on mute, it looked like bernie sanderers spent o hours angrily seing his soup back at the deli. >> cbs actually ended the debate seven minutes before it was supposed to finish. yeah, or as bill clinton put it, oh, my god, you're home early, hey, ah, ah, this is vanessa. she's helpining me witmy taxes. >> o'malley's debate performance wasn't especially memorable but he did have one of the mt noteworthy moments in the debate when he brought up donald trump. >> 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. [ lalaughter ] i think he pays his hair flap engineer more than $400,000 a ar. >> oh, boy. >> it's definitely one of those weeks where we appreciate the talent of those guys. >> a little bit of humor. >> making us laugh. big interview with barbara walters tonight and donald trump's family. hope you tmoring iowa in hd. we accurate weather team. good morning iowa starts now " elias: good morning i'm elias sabrina: ahmed. it's x:00 a-m on ((day and date))