making news in america this morning, president's confession. a lack of strategy about the isis threat getting a lot of criticism this morning as the terror group releases a disturbing new propaganda video. the details in a live report. medical emergency. joan rivers hospitalized after suffering a health scare. what we've learned about her condition overnight and new reaction from the comedian's family. breaking now, explosive ash in the sky and lava escaping from the earth. the two volcanoes being watched very closely this morning. and star instructor. move over, jane fonda. johnny football trades in the helmet and pads for a headband and tights. ♪ >> now do this.

and a good friday morning to you. i'm brandi hitt. >> and i'm dan kloeffler. we do begin this morning with the latest u.s. response to the brutal threat posed by isis. the islamic terror group releasing this video of about 150 syrian soldiers stripped to their underwear, but the white house is clearly trying to lower the emotional response to this kind of propaganda. tahman bradley. >> reporter: a surprising admission from president obama who just days ago ordered surveillance flights over syria to identify possible isis targets. >> the suggestion seems to have been that we're about to go full scale on an elaborate strategy for defeating isil. i don't want to put the cart before the horse. we don't have a strategy yet. >> reporter: with that the president made clear military action against isis in syria is not imminent, even though the u.s. has already targeted the brutal terror group inside iraq. >> i want to make sure everybody

is clear on what we're doing now, because it is limited. >> reporter: there obama's comments immediately drew fire from republican critics who said the president doesn't fully understand the threat posed by isis which is holding american hostages. isis stunned the world last week releasing this gruesome execution video of american journalist james foley and terror is not its only tool. isis is sophisticated and well funded with a real army fighting for territory inside iraq. secretary of defense hagel describes the threat from isis as imminent to u.s. interests in iraq and elsewhere. despite that warning the president is urging patience. he says the u.s. is trying to build a coalition of middle east countries to battle isis. brandi and dan. >> tahman bradley, thank you so much live in washington for us. disturbing new details about the cap tippett of hostage james foley. "the washington post" reports this morning that foley was tortured during the two years he was held by islamic militants.

"the post" reports he and three others were waterboarded several times. waterboarding is the notorious technique used by the cia in questioning suspects after 9/11. now to the other major crisis facing the white house. ukraine has accused russia of invasion entering its territory with tank, artillery and troops and nato says at least 1,000 russian troops are in the country. abc's hamish macdonald explains why the russian move is such a threat to ukraine. >> reporter: russia already annexed crimea back in march and if rebel forces push further west, russia might secure a strategically important land corridor all the way to the black sea. >> in response to that president obama is blaming vladimir putin for lying about those military moves. comedian joan rivers is said to be resting comfortably in a new york hospital this morning. she went into cardiac arrest in a doctor's office after throat surgery. the 81-year-old rivers has been in show business for half a

century and all but invented red carpet commentary criticizing what the rich and famous are wearing at major events. still keeping a jam-packed schedule of stand-up comedy dates. rivers appeared healthy the night before she was hospitalized and this picture was taken wednesday night in new york city at a press event for her new book. rivers' daughter melissa released a statement saying "i want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. we ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers." >> the high surf that has been pounding california has peaked. the waves aren't as high anymore but there are still dangerous rip currents along the california coastline. lifeguards have made hundreds of rescues in the past week. the rip currents and the big waves were caused by a tropical storm in the pacific now falling apart. heavy rain in lubbock, texas, left one motorist stranded nearly underwater when his water was swept up by fast-moving currents. a fire department crew had to use a ladder truck and basket to

pull him from that sinking car and eventually get him on to dry land. there is a lot more wet weather ahead for that lubbock area. >> it is not the only spot, unfortunately, bracing for storms over the long holiday weekend. accuweather meteorologist jim dickey has the forecast. >> good morning, brandi and dan. tracking two systems causing issues here headed through the holiday weekend. the first bringing storms eastward through saturday, sunday on towards our labor day moves towards the eastern seaboard. the second, that's going to spark widespread severe weather especially sunday as it moves its way into the northern plains from the midwest cities from fargo, minneapolis, keep an eye to the sky. talking large hail, even dangerous tornadoes. brandi and dan, back to you. >> all right, jim, thank you for that. a volcano in iceland is now erupting causing concerns on both sides of the atlantic. hundreds of earthquakes have rocked this area and some lava is pouring out of a fish sure. iceland has just issued a red alert. that is the highest for airline flights near the volcano. four years ago air traffic to

and from europe was disrupted by ash spewing from another volcano in iceland. also another volcano affecting flights in the southern hemisphere after a significant eruption, an ash cloud in papua new guinea. it is 11 miles high. australia's qantas airlines is routing flights around it. some local residents have evacuated and others are told to stay indoors. an eruption from that destroyed a town 20 years ago. the might of the f-1 that crashed in virginia was killed in the accident. the fighter jet en route to new orleans crashed in a remote mountainous area wednesday. the pilot belonged to the 104th fighter wing of the massachusetts air national guard. the nfl is announcing a tough new policy against domestic violence and includes a six-game suspension for a first offense and lifetime ban for the second and applies not just to players but to all nfl personnel including owners.

>> it's not just domestic violence. once you dig into this you realize it's assault. it's violence, it's any kind of violence. >> the league heavily criticized for the two-game suspension given to the ravens' ray rice for allegedly hitting a woman who is now his why. the homeless man who accepted miley cyrus' mtv music award has turned himself in. jesse helt's appearance on the awards show garnered worldwide attention including in oregon where he had an outstanding warrant for him. cyrus offered to pay his legal fees and both are committed to the plight of the young homeless people. coming up, special delivery. google releasing some details about its secret drone project and showing off how it works. forensic find, a murder case goes cold until investigators examine a lego at the scene of the crime decades later. and watch your step. the dramatic rescue of a woman

who fell prosecutor a subway platform.

welcome back. it is going to be harder to tell who is wearing abercrombie & fitch clothing. the teen clothing retailer is dropping its name and logo from the clothing it sells. today's teens don't want branded clothing apparently and are more price conscious these days. abercrombie's sales have been down for ten straight quarters now. >> we're getting confirmation from apple new products are coming, sort of. the computer giant has sent out invitations to an event as it does every september, but as

always, apple will not say what it will announce. the smart money says the new products will be a smartwatch and a larger iphone. google's top researchers unveiled project wing. a fleet of delivery drones announced last year by amazon.com. not only to deliver goods more quickly but bring relief supplies to disaster areas. with americans trying to enjoy one last blast of summer hollywood is not expecting much at the box office. "guardians of the galaxy" is likely still to be the top earner for a second straight weekend but only estimated to pull in maybe between $12 million and $14 million. cleveland browns quarterback johnny manziel has a new nickname. he is now known as johnny jam boogie. this after appearing in a sni snickers commercial as an aerobics instructor. he will be their number two signal caller. he doesn't look entirely comfortable in front of the fitness class, but don'try because manziel has endorsement

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way from the great lakes down to the gulf coast. highways flew florida will be wet, as well and also in some of the upper plains region. delays possible in minneapolis, chicago, kansas city and houston. lego block, yes, lego blocks were key to solving a 23-year-old murder in utah. >> after a tip from a death row inmate's wife. detectives compared dna samples they they ran a check on fingerprints on legos found at the scene of the crime and they matched the suspect's then 5-year-old son. the sheriff says his department does not give up on so-called cold cases. >> it's very important that it was solved to us. i wasn't sure that it would ever be solved. >> the suspect is already on death row in arizona for an unrelated murder. investigators believe the suspect left his son playing with those legos while he killed the woman. of course, the 5-year-old's fingerprints were not on file back then. new details now in the second air rage incident this

week involving reclining seats. edmond alexander became enraged on a miami to paris flight after the passenger in front of him reclined her seat. when a flight attendant tried to intervene she was attacked. an air mar sthl arrested him and he was taken to the hospital because of a pre-existing medical condition. boston police are looking into why this woman fell or stepped off a subway platform on to the tracks. watch this. you'll see her fall then two passengers managed to lift her to safety before the train arrived. the woman suffered an injury to her arm but it's still unclear whether her fall was deliberate or dental. it is harder to avoid eating trans fat than you might think. a study by the cdc found one in ten processed foods in the u.s. have some trans fat in them. that's because the fda permanents manufacturers to label products as zero trans fat

if a serving size contains less than half a gram. even a small amount, though, can add to your cholesterol problem. racing champ tony stewart is returning to competition in atlanta this weekend. his first race since the death of kevin ward jr. he missed three nascar events since his car struck and killed ward during a race in new york earlier this month. stewart has not been charged in his death but the investigation is still ongoing. 15-year-old cici bellis has been the toast of the tennis world at the u.s. open but her amazing run came to an end last night. during one stretch of her second round match against diaz she won straight games and fell. she says she would not trade in experience for anything. >> unbelievable. like this whole experience has been unbelievable like mind blowing. it's been crazy. it's been like the best couple days of my life.

>> bellis is the youngest player to win a u.s. open match since 1996 and at just 15 years old you can plan on seeing much, much more of cici bellis. phenomenal athlete at her age. >> in the tenth grade. makes you wonder what were you doing in the tenth grade. >> not that much pressure. no way. >> good for her. time for more sports. the first thursday night of the year with college football under way. >> here now are our guys at espn with all the highlights. >> how are you? he's stan, i'm neil. we're doing pretty good and watched a lot of college football thursday and will share that with you. texas a&m scored again. >> taking on south carolina and in the second quarter they're up 17-14. remember they lost onshoreny manziel but got kenny hill at quarterback. hits pope for the touchdown. hill was just getting started. three touchdown passes, 511 yards for a new texas a&m record and breaks manziel's single game

record and aggies win, 52-28. >> i hi hill won the heisman with that. mike trout, bases loaded. two out, mike trout. what happened? game goes to extra innings. force-out at second. bottom ten, runners on the corners. howie kendrick, the scioscias with a one-game lead over the melv melvins. josh reddick going to make the catch. albert pujols is able to score on that. angels win, 4-3 on a walkoff. the first of four. >> does look like it hers when albert runs. >> yeah, yeah. >> that's all we got. >> yeah. >> back to you. >> we're hurting. >> thanks, guys. coming up next in "the pulse," the one thing about president obama's news conference that got more attention than his remarks. plus, sibling surprise. the best reaction from a kid

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♪ as long as i got my suit and tie ♪ >> appropriate music for "the pulse," stories you'll be talking about this friday starting with that suit and tie. >> president obama got a lot of attention while delivering a very solemn statement about syria. the twitterverse could only focus on that tan suit. twitter exploded with some people saying it was tan-tastic. >> one comparing him to a used car salesman though, ouch. another hinting at the year's fashion abuse female politicians have endured. former secretary of state

hillary clinton especially here. but a lot of guys also talking about this because in the fashion world i'm not really up on the whole trend but this is a no-no. >> the fact of the matter is it's hard to pull off a tan suit but with labor day you have limited opportunities to pull out that summer collection so i guess that was it. >> not only us ladies. hey, congratulations to newlyweds brad pit and angelina jolie. the longtime couple married over the weekend at their chateau in france. it was a family affair with all six kids involved in the wedding. >> "people" magazine saying they got the license from a judge in l.a. who flew over to perform the ceremony. george clooney telling abc news, how great is that? i'm happy for brad and angie and their whole family. reportedly not included, jolie's dad, jon voight but the 75-year-old actor at thes a british newspaper he'll be celebrating with the family very shortly. you know, you never know how small children will react when they hear they're going to have a baby brother or sister.

can either go really well or be a bit of a bummer. >> watch here. watch what happens when this mom tells her 7-year-old trey, that she is having a baby. >> what were you thinking? why you have to -- just get another baby. you just had two. so why -- why do you -- this is exasperating. >> exasperating. in case you missed it he says, what were you thinking. why do you have to get another baby? why you do? you already have two. this is exasperating. >> he was worried he might be replaced by the new baby but mom assured him that would never happen. exasperating at the age of 7. >> it's pretty darned cute. >> it is adorable. i think i just learned how to spell exasperating just last week. >> he already knows the meaning, as well. for many solve you your local news is next. foreveryone else your

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>> good morning, everyone, it is 4:27 a.m., i'm matt o'donnell. friday! , august 29. we are following several problems here, a tractor-trailer films on its side. a violent robbery takes place in a supermarket in northeast philadelphia. the robbers made off with tens of thousands of dollars. we'll have a live update. there will be a party on the parkway, preparations are underway, we're talking about traffic related issues, we'll have an update on that, your winning weather forecast, we'll and finally from us on this friday, a lot of the late night comics made their return from summer break this week. >> they wasted no time tackling some stories in the news and even a few stories they had

missed. here now your "friday funnies." >> apple is hard at work secretly developing a new product that's rumored to be the largest ipad they've ever made. it seems excessive. it's going to make those people who take pictures with their ipad look even more ridiculous. this is what it's going to look like with the new ipad. >> barack obama is back from vacation today and his aides will tell you differently but i saw him holding a press briefing, i think his head, his mind is still on vacation. i brought in the tape. look at this earlier today. press briefing. >> the united states is -- >> i recently learned something disturbing about one of our classic games. >> for the first time in nearly a decade 5,000 new words will appear in the new edition of scrabble's official dictionary like hashtag, selfie, buzzkill and bromance. >> that's right. hasbro has added new scrabble words. the new words capture the way

young people speak. at least the ones who are chillapp xing at the funples while geocaching. the amount of marijuana being seized from packages mailed out of the state of colorado is skyrocketing. people have been trying to ship it all over the country by putting stamps on it. well like this. like this guy, he didn't stash >> anybody been at the burger king, had the whopper? >> yes, sure. >> now, here's what happened when they made the announcement up in toronto that burger king is buying a canadian doughnut chain. here's what happened. >> i know. >> out of my way, lady. >> classic ford video there. >> that's what's making news in america this morning. >> stay with us for "good morning america" and have a great friday.

>> good morning we're following a developing story on this friday august 29. crews are working to clean the mangled wreckage of this tractor-trailer crash on the schuylkill expressway. >> cleanup crews used masks and cruised a backhoe to remove trash from a northeast philadelphia home.to remove let's get more on the developing story, the