that boeing 757 was carrying 185 people including sony on line entertainment president john smedley.alfway in the flight american received a the following tweet: we have been receiving reports john smedley's plane number 362 from dallas, fort worth from san diego has explosives on board. please look into this. >> we have pulled into the airport and there was police every where. >> after landing safely passengers deplaned and law enforcement used bomb sniffing dogs to search for any threats. the threat was posted by a alleged group of group of hackers known as lizard squad. that same group took credit for shutting down sony's popular play station network earlier in the weekend. >>> a little boy in china miraculously survived being run over by an suv. this video could be disturbing to some viewers. six year-old boy was playing with toys when a red suv drove over him. immediately after this you see the little boy stand up and walk away. local reports say boy was taken to the hospital for minor scratch toes his face and legs. the driver reportedly told police he simply isn't notice the c

passenger john smedley got a tweet from hackers calling themselves lizard squad warning of explosives the plane. nothing was found on board. passengers then boarded another jet to continue on to san diego. >>> we are tracking tropical storm cristo barks al, could have 8 inches of rain, and then expected to strengthen off the coast of the u.s. but may generate rough surf along beaches. it's being blamed for one death so far. >>> and one structure so far disarrayed by a fast-moving fire in california. the town of weaverville is threatened. schools in the area will be closed today due to the high fire danger. >>> time for a look at the weather. cold front, showers and thunderstorms from the central plains to the great lakes. and thunderstorms down into new mexico and up into the cascades. >> the heat wave continues for the midwest and the south, triple digits in texas, and 80s and 90s everywhere pels. >>> and now richard athen borrow is being remembered. >> he appeared inju juries are sick park. and he was best known for directing gandhi which won eight academy awards. >> he died yesterd

they phoned through a bomb threat to a plane being taken by john smedley, who is the head of the online entertainment division there. his plane diverted. we understand the fbi are now investigating this. back to you. >> that really is serious. jeff, along the same vein though but certainly in less serious criminal news. they're saying the gaming gender gap. tell us how more girls are getting involved. >> it's fascinating. i think people have the idea of the kind of individual that stays at home in their bedroom working on their gaming late into the early hours. >> right. >> usually it's a guy, right? but now the suggestion is that the numbers are more or less even as many gals as guys are big gamers. part of the reason they're suggesting for that taking place is you don't just game now on the big console, you can use mobile devices and you can be just about anywhere doing it. and you know what, some of the games perhaps are less gender specific. a little more candy crush than medal of honor. >> we need to come up with a candy crush app and we can meld these together and retire. i think

the hackers were only going after one passenger, sony exec john smedley. fight 362 left sunday heading to san diego. it made an emergency landing in phoenix. the hackers tweeteded there was a bomb onboard. dogs searched the craft but found nothing. smedley confirmed that his flight was diverted for security reasons. no one was injured. >>> coming up on the "morning news," bridge security breach. new york's famous brooklyn bridge is once again the target of a trespasser. we'll tell you why he was up there. this is the "cbs morning news." ♪ fill their bowl with the meaty tastes they're looking for, with friskies grillers. tender meaty pieces and crunchy bites. in delicious chicken, beef, turkey, and garden veggie flavors. friskies grillers. curing a yeast infection relieving the itch.... can happen instantly. vagisil max strength anti-itch wipes relieve itch and odor instantly as they cleanse. so why wait to feel comfortable? trust vagisil. the number one wipe for itch. it's the yoplait greek taste-off and we are asking the music city which 100-calorie straw

we have been receiving report that john smedley's plane number 362 from dallas-ft. worth to san diego has explosives on board. please look into this. the threat was posed by an alleged group of computer hackers known as lizard squad. the same group took credit for shutting down sony's play station group earlier in the week. they have over 50 million active users. >> cleared to land. >> cleared to lachbltd american 362. >> they've been in communication with american. >> after landsing safely passengers were taken off the plane and law enforcement used bomb-sniffing dogs to search for any threats. the sony executive tweeted my plane was diverted. not going to discuss more than that. justice will find these guys. there were no explosives found on that plane. passengers were put on another flight to san diego. gayle? >> all right. thank you, jeff. >>> at last night's mtv music video awards in california women prove they one the world. best went to arianna. katy perry won for dark horse but as we're shown one artist reigns supreme. >> mtv, welcome to my world. >> reporte

. >> the president of sony online entertainment, john smedley, was on that american airlines flight froms to san diego when his flight was abruptly diverted to phoenix. it was grounded after threats from hackers on twitter claiming there was an explosive aboard. the flight was diverted, as i said, to phoenix and the hacking collecti iviv ivive lizard squa saying at american air we have been receiving reports that j smeddy's plane 362 from dfw to san has explosives on-board, please look into this. the grounding occurred just at the same time the sony president was addressing an ongoing cyber attack on sunday that brought down the entire gaming network. lizard squad was among the groups that took credit for it. sony is saying the network is back online as of this morning and no personal information was compromised. they are saying the fbi is now investigating the grounded flight and they have no further comment. but it is unclear who exactly is behind lizard squad but they don't really seem to care, that they have essentially committed a felony here. the twitter account laughed off the sit

john smedley is seen here of live in san diego despite having to make an emergency landing in phoenix after bomb threat. the flight landed safely and passengers lived on to san diego that this was happening attacker's launched a massive on the attack against playstation and network. the hackers call themselves at the blizzard's what enplaneand took responsibility for taking down other multi player games. they used a distributed a denial of service attacks to overwhelm the network. late monday most of the services were destroyed or restored. >> and members of rested after climbing at brooklyn bridge yesterday, a russian tourists want to snap photos. despite tight security at the bridge he managed to slip by authorities recalled that when he was seen as hopping the defense police arrested the man once he made his way back down from the climb. charges against them are still pending. at the beach goers got a bit of a shock when they hit the ways in new smyrna beach florida. load of stinging jellyfish, nearly 200 people were treated for jellyfish stings. >> of this time, i think the tentac

sonny online president john smedley would not go into detail about the scare. >> you cooperated withem in phoenix. >> of course. >> reporter: down why these hackers are targeting and making threats? >> i can't comment, sorry. >> the fbi is investigating the threat. no bomb was found on the plane. >> new this morning, there's been another security breach on. nypd arrested a 24-year-old climber atop one of the beams. the russian tourist scaled the to your to take photos. additional security was placed at the bridge after german artists scaled the bridge to place white flags in place of the american flag. >> taney dragons will be on "good morning america." >> reporter: it's a nice morning, 74 degrees by 10:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m., 83 degrees. >> keep up with the top stories on the go with the 6abc.com, take 6abc.com with you. the new smart design fits any device you have, whether it's your tablet or smart phone, no matter how large or small that sc male announcer: the magic of the bay is waiting. explore maryland's coastal villages, scenic waterways and the land of our national anthem along

the tweet to sony's john smedley from hackers calling themselves lizard squad warned of explosives on the plane. the lizard squad has taken credit for mass outages yesterday in sony's playstation network. the passengers boarded another jet to san diego. >> more than two weeks after he was shot to death by a police officer, michael brown is being laid to rest today in ferguson, missouri. that shooting touched off nights of angry appropriate tests in the st. louis suburb. brown's father is now asking for a halt on the violence so his son might be buried in piece. off awe all i want is peace. while my son is being laid to rest. can you please, please, take a day of silence so i can, so we can late our son to rest. >> emotional plea there. schools in the ferguson area expected to open today. classes were scheduled to start august 14th dechlt laid from the aftermath of the brown shooting. >> american journalist held for two years in syria is free this morning. until his release was announced sunday, the kidnapping of 45-year-old peter theo curtis of boston two years ago had not been public

strange twist, the group also tweeted that an american airlines flight carrying sony executive john smedleyives on board. renee marsh is sfling the strange and kind -- following the strange and kind of scary story. those threats had consequences for the people on board that plane. >> reporter: yeah, they definitely had consequences, carol. we're talking about american airlines flight 362 was flying from dallas. it was supposed to land in san diego. instead it was diverted to phoenix. add on to that two f-16 fighter jets were scrambled to monitor the plane as it made that landing, when it was diverted to phoenix. and it all appears to be because of a group of hacker who call themselves lizard squad. as you mentioned, the president of sony online entertainment was on board this plane. and it seems that the hackers knew it because they tweet tweeted @johnsmedley. this is what it read -- it says, "we have been receiving reports that @jsmedley's plane, number 362 from dfw to san diego, has explosives on board. please look into this." and they paired that tweet with images from september 11. that

it seems that this group of hackers, they knew that, they tweeted directly at john smedley and we haveeet. the tweet goes on to say, we have reports that j.smedley's plane, number 362, from dfw to san diego, has explosives on board. please look into this. they paired that tweet with images from september 11th. we should say, we know that the plane landed safely. captures captured the sony executive upon landing. he didn't have much to say. he did send out his own tweet, ashleigh, confirming that his plane was diverted. he said he wasn't going to discuss more than that, but he ended the tweet saying, "just will find these guys." of course there were no explosives on board. but still the fbi now stepping in and they are investigating, ashleigh. >> all right, rene marsh, following the story for us in d.c., thank you for that. >>> and back now to missouri. where a funeral for michael brown is under way. and we've got our live cameras there. the decision was made this should be a public memorial and it is a big one as well, thousands of people gathering to mourn the loss of this young man w

among the 179 passengers was john smedley, president of sony online entertainment.hackers called lizard squad tweeted the airline about reports of an explosive on board. the same group claimed responsibility for hacking the sony playstation network over the weekend. >>> and before we end this hour, we turn now back to the funeral service for michael brown. the steady crowd of people still coming inside. the friendly temple missionary baptist church in st. louis. about 4,000 people are expected to attend the service. it comes more than two weeks after brown was shot to death by officer darren wilson in ferguson. demonstrations, not just in that town but across the nation. michael brown's father has asked for a day of peace with no protests to honor his son. and trymaine lee joins us now. we know that the service started, the program has taken a pause while the choir sings. as i understand, they are waiting for more people who want to attend to actually arrive at the service. >> oh, certainly. up until the last 20 minutes they had locked the doors but there were still

. >> targeting one executive, john smedley, makes it a little more malicious and nerve-racking. >> it does. smedley tweeted he was going from one place to another. apparently folks were able to figure out what flight he was on and thus send a tweet and maybe ear me other messages. this is kind of like graffiti. denial of service attacks. you can't exactly stop them. if somebody's got control of a g botnet or the resources to direct internet traffic and flood your servers, there's not that much you can do, while some companies have figured out how to blunt it somewhat. this is kind of a nuisance thing especially if you're sony and you're the leader right now when it comes to console video games. >> nuisance has happens to a lot of companies in different sectors, but rarely do you see a hacker individually targeting and communicating with a single executive. >> i agree. >> on a medium like twitter. >> i think it's so much worse. to literally be threatening someone in an aircraft is a whole another level. >>> tweet time this morning. two tesla owners took out an ad to ask for changes to

on board was john smedley. earlier the group claimed responsibility for hacking the sony playstation network that knocked out service over the weekend. it's since been restored. sony said although this has impacted your ability to access our network and enjoy our services, no personal information has been accessed. the plane landed safely without incident. american airlines releasing a statement saying only the flight was diverted due to a security-related issue. the fbi confirmed the incident saying the investigation is still ongoing. >> it's something you read about in the paper. you say, no big deal. when it's you and your family, and you don't know what's going on and there's a threat, it's not funny. >> reporter: sony's network has been hacked before. the biggest attack back in 2011. the group lizard squad says it has also targeted the service of world of war craft videodisk owe game makers. and threatened to attack microsoft's xbox live network. back to you. >> thank you very much, tom. >>> dangerous floo

investigating an american airlines flight on sunday carrying the sony entertainment president john smedleye plane was diverted from the original destination due to a bomb threat by a hacking group named lizard squad. they said on their twitter account said it was meant to pressure the firm to spend more profits on online security. the same group said they also targeted the servers of another video game maker called blizzard entertainment whose website was down and also threatened to attack microsoft online game service as well. sony's gaming network has suffered a similar attack in its online service in 2011 with over 100 million users' information breached. since then, the firm has taken steps to strength tennessee network security. that's all from the nikkei. back to you. >> makiko, thank you for that. >>> we'll look at what is on the agenda for asia tomorrow. china is kicking off the troubled airline sector in the region. we will be getting an idea of how china's flagship carrier is doing after the rivals issued profit warnings earlier this month. also reporting on tuesday, china's thir

that's john smedley. he didn't want to talk -- >> i don't to want talk. >> reporter: he did tweet.my plane was diverted. justice will find these guys. >> there is a process that the airlines use, fbi, law enforcement will use, tsa will use to vet each one of these threats. >> reporter: the lizard squad also claiming to take down the sony playstation network over the weekend. sony releasing a statement, saying its network was overwhelmed with artificially high traffic, denying service to some users. we asked sony why they might have been targeted, we didn't get answer. and the fbi is investigating this case. lara, the hacker group now says it is targeting the vatican. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> and right to amy for the other top stories this morning. good morning. >>> good morning, and we begin with new video overnight of a fast-moving wildfire now threatening more than 500 homes and businesses in north california. at least one building already up in flames in the historic town of weaverville. at least 150 homes evacuated, and nearby roads are closed. school cancelled toda

jay smedley is john smedley, the president of sony on line entertainment and just before that tweet wasthe bags were searched, the f.b.i. is now investigating. >>> the video music awards marred by a shooting at chris brown's preparty. someone opening fire there inside a packed hollywood nightclub shooting the rap mogul sug night. new reports claim chris brown was the intended target. knight underwent surgery and is expected to be okay. >>> miley cyrus turning some heads at the mtv music awards. she did not we can twerk, but she had a lot of people talking. she let her date, a homeless teen-ager, accept her video of the year award. >> i have survived in she wanters all over the -- shelters all over the city. i've cleaned your hotel rooms, been an extra in your movies and an extra in your life. though i may have been invisible to you on the streets, i have a lot of the same dreams that brought many of you here tonight. >> then beyonce who blew the crowd away with an epic 15-minute performance. ♪ ♪ >> amid divorce rumors, she was greeted by her daughter and husband. they presented her with