making news in america this morning -- severe weather. heavy rains and hail, damaging winds overnight. with millions of americans still in the danger zone this morning. under fire. ray rice and his wife break their silence, for the first time since new video of their altercation surfaced. but the attention is now turning to the way prosecutors and the league's commissioner handled the case. vicious attack. a 12-year-old boy caught in the jaws of a large shark. >> he just opened his mouth open. >> how he fought off the predator with his bare hands. and dangling design. the house that's for someone who really wants to live life on the edge.

good wednesday morning to you. i'm reena ninan. >> and i'm dan kloeffler. >> 60 million people in harm's way. look at the map. kansas city to chicago to detroit. heavily populated areas in nine states, all on alert. and the trouble has already started. dark clouds rolled in over missouri late last night. along with tornado warnings. against those clouds, dramatic flashes of lightning. >> it's strong out there. >> usually we wait at the door until, we got to get away from the door. >> reporter: torrential rain and hail arriving, too. triggering flash floods and turning rivers of water into homes. >> all of a sudden, the water started coming. >> reporter: to the west, a day of cleaning up. a major stretch of interstate 15, from las vegas to salt lake city, washed away. it will be days before it's passable again. >> started digging out what i could from the car.

it took six guys to push my car out. >> reporter: and in mesa, arizona, battered by days of monsoon rains, a kitty pool is the best way to get around these streets. the governor declared a state of emergency here. more than 1,000 customers without power and lots of losses in their homes. >> the houses are all -- they're all new carpet, new flooring. mold -- the mold is going to be insane if it's not kept up with. >> a tough day for a lot of people. that severe weather in the center of the country will move east today. >> in the meantime, though, clear and dry for much of the east. a few showers from the gulf and the edge of the southern coast. most of the west drying out. snow, yeah, snow, in the higher elevations from idaho to wyoming. now, to our other top story this wednesday morning. the growing threat of islamic militants overseas are posing to the united states. >> president obama will lay out the strategy of dealing with i.s.i.s., in a primetime address

tonight. >> reporter: good morning. secretary kerry is in iraq for a high-level meeting with that country's new prime minister. and tonight, president obama will try to assure a worried public that he has a strategy for taking on and destroying i.s.i.s. tonight, a rare primetime address by president obama to lay out his strategy for battling i.s.i.s. administration officials say the president wants congress to sign off on a program to arm and train syrian rebels, who would take the fight directly to the sunni militant group. yesterday at the white house, mr. obama made his case to house and senate leaders. president obama is also considering an even more aggressive campaign of u.s. air strikes against i.s.i.s. perhaps even expanding them into syria. it appears the president is ready to move forward with this broader military effort, without seeking congressional authorizization. some republicans want a vote. >> the view of myself and most of my members, is the president should be seeking congressional

approval, period, for whatever he decides to do. >> reporter: the president's speech, on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, comes as the public becomes increasingly worried about the threat posed by i.s.i.s. the terror group is trying to recruit young women using social media in videos like this. >> the advice i have for the sisters -- >> reporter: sources say many as a dozen young american women have tried to join radicals in syria. >> i think it's possible that you could see them as suicide bombers. >> reporter: part of the president's strategy, seeking commitments from u.s. allies around the world, to help defeat i.s.i.s. reena and dan. >> join our political team, as abc news covers the president's address live. coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern. to the firestorm over that video, showing ray rice knocking out the woman who is now his wife. the owner of rice's former team, the baltimore ravens, says the

organization was wrong for not pursuing its own investigation of the incident more vigorously. with new legal questions swirling, the nfl, along with rice and his wife, are all having their say. abc's karen travers has more. >> reporter: in less than two years, ray rice went from super bowl champion to out of the game. the nfl suspended the baltimore ravens star running back in definitely. the controversy around this video, showing rice hitting his then-fiancee, now wife, is not dying down. nfl commissioner roger goodell defended the league, in an interview with "cbs this morning." >> did anyone in the nfl see the second videotape before monday? >> no. >> no one in the nfl? >> no one in the nfl, to my knowledge. >> if there's no video, ray rice would be playing in the national football league next week. >> reporter: running back ray rice told espn, i have to be strong for my wife. she is so strong. janay wife defended her husband

in a post on instagram. i woke up this morning feeling i had a horrible nightmare. to make us relive something we regret every day is a horrible thing. and new questions whether rice should have faced prison time. prosecutors telling abc news, he received the same treatment that any first-time offender has. >> it is not unusual. a first-offender with a victim who is very well supportive. >> reporter: karen travers, abc news, washington. that frightening entrovirus sending children to hospitals is apparently spreading. michigan, the 12th state reporting a spike in respiratory infections among children. six of those states have confirmed cases of entrovirus 68. the illnesses start as common colds. but they develop into serious infections. another infection that's front and center with the cdc, ebola. the fourth u.s. aid worker sickened with the virus, has

arrived at emory university in atlanta. the total number of ebola infections in west africa has soared to over 4,200, with more than 2,000 deaths. and maybe the last time a kid in the oval office got this much attention, it was jfk jr. hanging out under his dad's desk. check out the son of retiring secret service agent, face-planting on the couch, while mom and dad speak with president obama. the nearly 3-year-old kicked all of the pillows off the couch. we're told the president didn't seem to mind. haven't you always wanted to do that? come on. >> that is a christmas card if ever there was caught in the oval office. coming up, an alternative to drugs. the new research that shows that kids with adhd can do about symptoms. and apple goes big. david muir's access to ceo tim cook. plus, alligator attack. a 12-year-old boy fights off a giant reptile and wins.

and welcome back on this wednesday morning. apple confirming nearly all the rumors that were out there. the company will sell its iphone 6 later this month, in two sizes. both bigger than present iphones. and update its mobile operating system. ios eight will include the apple pay system. and the watch is apple's first new product line since co-founder steve jobs passed away. abc's david muir talked to exclusively to ceo tim cook. >> i think he would be

incredibly proud to see the company that he left us, which i think is one of his greatest gifts to mankind, is the company itself, be doing what it's doing today. i think he's smiling right now. >> investors, though, were not smiling. some, having doubts about the apple watch, which isn't coming out for a couple months. it requires an iphone nearby. it will cost about $350. but the stocks of competing smartwatchmakers fell more than apple's did. the number of openings was again high in july. and companies are hiring at the fastest pace in seven years. it's another sign the employment market is getting better. job openings have soared 22% in the last 12 months. mcdonald's sales are down again. the fast food giant had its weakest sales, mostly because asians are avoiding the golden arches. but it's same-store sales were

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it's probably a juvenile. but they're not sure what it's up to. this time of year, gray whales migrate north. it's been hugging the coast, going south. it doesn't seem to be in distressed. maybe just lost or curious or waiting for the iphone 6. >> as is everyone out there. now, a look at the morning road conditions. there could be troubles with the commute from north texas, to the midwest, with dark skies, wet roads. also, slippery conditions in that snow zone, in montana and wyoming. >> if you're flying, airport delays are possible in chicago, detroit and minneapolis. new details this morning about what may have gone wrong during joan rivers' surgery at a manhattan clinic. >> sources are telling "the new york daily news," that a doctor who arrived with rivers, performed an unplanned throat biopsy. she had signed off on the procedure to see why her voice had gotten raspy.

a new study is suggesting that exercise before school could ease the symptoms of ahdh. the small study of 40 children in kindergarten through second grade, found after 30 minutes of exercise before school, not only were the symptoms were reduced, they were more atentative. it's not clear if afternoon exercise would be as beneficial. researchers tested the kids only in the morning. a louisiana boy is recovering after successfully fighting off a ten-foot alligator. matthew kelly was spear fishing with his father, when the alligator chomped down on his leg, leaving gashes and puncture wounds before his dad could reach him. matthew pried open the gator's mouth and freed himself. >> you felt something clamp down on your leg. >> yes, ma'am. pulled me down under.

>> the alligator snatched the dad's gun before swimming away. matthew is going to be just fine. look at what texas fishermen found. a huge squid. this one, ten feet long, weighs 200 pounds. but the giant squid was already dead when the fishermen spotted it. it looks as if it was attacked by a shark. the guys still say it's their greatest catch ever. a burglary suspect in florida did choose a very strange time to take a nap. here he is. police said he dozed off while attempting to steal jewelry and other items from a home in sarasota. dion davis. a cop took a picture before waking him up and putting him under arrest. now, some sports and what would be a record price for an nfl team. the same owner that owns the sakers hockey team has bought

the bills. the previous record paid for an nfl franchise was $1.1 billion. that was for the dolphins. there's about three weeks left in baseball's regular season. >> lots of important games going on. with the highlights from a couple of them, here are the guys over at espn. >> good morning. welcome to our "sportscenter" set here in los angeles. i'm stan verrett. this is neil everett. we're talking baseball pennant races, dominating the headlines tuesday. >> thank you, stan. let's go to the highlights. royals/tigers. they're locked up in a tight one. rajai davis from the nine hole. two-run homer off jason vargas. tigers up 3-0. bases loaded. same score. aaron hosmer, playing. scherzer out of a big jam there. top five. j.d. martinez. oh, yeah. solo. his 20th. tigers win, 4-2. a's have just played their

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>> ♪ >> good morning everyone. i'm matt o'donnell. it's wednesday, 4:27 on this clock and we're following some new developments on disgraced football star ray rice. hear what the owner of the baltimore ravens had to say overnight about the team's handling of the case. happening today, a big event for the thousands of recently laid off casino workers in atlantic city. take a look at this. a man sleeping in the bed. problem is it's not his house and that means it's not his bed, either. we'll explain what happened here. we could see some more of the sun today. we'll have your bus stop forecast, checks on traffic, also an fyi philly for you all coming up next on "actionn the . snow in the northern rockies. drying out in the west and most of the soggy southwest. finally this morning, one for the record books that could be made here in america. >> it was all about the creation of what was being called the largest living "star-spangled

banner" ever. and they did it in baltimore. >> and reporter bill fink of our station, wmar, was there. >> reporter: from the pounding of the drums to the pounding of the pbj, those are the studeounf the students. not only to honor history, but to make it, as well. >> we're coming together for the 200 anniversary for the song that francis scott key made in 1812. >> reporter: to somerset county. >> it represents our country. and our american flag. >> reporter: red, white and blue, a record number formed the stars and stripes. >> i think they enjoy being outside. and having a hands-on learning experience. not just sitting at their desks. being a part of the history. >> reporter: it was nearly 200 years ago when a battle at this

fort inspired what would become our country's anthem. and not since 1914, has a group assembled in its honor. >> it happens every 100 years. >> reporter: twice in a lifetime for myrtle sanders. but for the record -- >> this was an honor to be here with all these children. >> reporter: the significance of this living flag is not only what's captured in an image. as governor martin o'malley states, what it represents today. >> this flag connects you to your neighbors. but it also connects you in a very real way to one another. and to your country. >> reporter: at ft. mchenry, bill fink, abc news 2 news. >> it says in the prompter, dan sings national anthem. >> is that what it says. and it says, he is quickly let go from his position, right? you don't want that. >> that's what's making news in america this morning. >> stay with us for "good morning america." have a great wednesday.

>> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala program. meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ >> good morning. here's what's happening on this wednesday, september 10th. today a job fair in atlantic city will aim to ease the pain of workers as yet another casino goes belly up. >> president obama will speak during prime time tonight to make his case on broadening the fight against isis on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary. >> closing arguments begin today in the school kidnapping case that rocked a philadelphia neighborhood. >> good morning everyone, it is 4:30, midweek. let's check that accuweather forecast, see what is in store for today with meteorologist, david murphy. hi, david. >> well, like yes