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>> and you see right there. almost 9 million people watched "jersey shore" last week. >> the premiere, the season premiere. >> she's like, yeah, they did. sitting over there. >> uh-huh. >>> so, you know, child star, where are they now? not all kid stars make the big transition. we have some kids who made it huge in hollywood with blockbusters. but would you recognize them today? we'll tell you where they are coming up. >> you know, that 8-pound -- whatever he said in that -- the human head is 8 pounds. and he gets so tired of people like me reminding him what he said. >>> when we did our reality show week, i checked out the great food truck race. you wouldn't believe what comes out of them. in times square for a culinary showdown and we're about to show them. one big thing, curveball. we have a couple of secret ingredients. korilla. i can't wait for those ingredients. >>> the first, josh elliott back with the news. >> we begin with breaking news from afghanistan. the taliban militants who shot downwnhat chinook helicopter over the weekend, have now themselves been killed in a coalition air strike. the top commander in afghanistan aid u.s. forces learned where the insurgents were hiding after the attack. and launched an attack on wednesday. >>> the other big story at the hour, the rollercoaster ride continuing today on wall street, after the best day in two years, yesterday. the dow is back to its losing ways. dropping more than 400 points in early trading. investors, worried about the federal reserve statement that economic growth has been considerably slower than expected. >>> one industry hard hit, cable television. americans are canceling it in record numbers. cable and satellite providers lost nearly 200,000 subscribers between april and june as more and more people turn to the internet for their favorite television shows. >>> we turn, now, to the search for a missing 3-year-old girl. everyone is searching around the clock. but with few clues to work with so far. 3-year-old breann rodriguez was last seen four days ago. riding her pink bike with training wheels outside of her missouri home, when she just vanished. her parents are desperate to find their little girl. >> we want our baby back. that's all we ask them please. >> reporter: she had been playing with her 6-year-old he went inside for about five minutes and when he returned breeann was gone. >> the last time i see her is by the window. and she was riding around her bike. >> reporter: the fbi is treating breeann's disappearance as an abduction. and is looking for an older model white van that might have been seen in the little girl's neighborhood. >> we have been searching by air, with dogs, by water and on land. >> we just pray for my daughter and pray that she comes home where she's supposed to be with us. >> we do share your prayers here at "good morning america." a $45,000 reward is being offered for information leading to breeann rodriguez's whereabouts. >>> meanwhile, an emotional day on what would have been caylee's sixth birthday. george and cindy anthony led a walk in orlando, where they released balloons and a butterfly near the wooded area where her remains were found three years ago. >> just hard to come down here. so hard. >> very overwhelming. we really appreciate everything. >> we want the anthonys to know at we back them. we support them. and we feel the pain of losing little caylee. >> casey anthony did not attend the memorial. her whereabouts remain a mystery. >>> meanwhile, a camera rolling off martha's vineyard as three abandoned ship. their boat sinking in the water. waves swept over the boat, giving them only seconds to jump. thankfully a handheld radio floated up just a few feet from them allowing them to call for help. passing boater came to the rescue 15 minutes later. >>> finally, some new images showing the power of that tsunami that devastated japan in march. watch as it actually broke apart massive icebergs in antarctica. 8,000 miles away. even though the swells were only about a foot high by the time they reached antarctica their consistency produced enough force to cleave two huge ice chunks each the size of manhattan. that ice shelf by the way, 260 feet thick. >> so, they're moving like a knife. >> moving like a knife. and i should stop talking right now. >> your eyes are watering right now. take a sip of my water. not my straw. but you can have some of my water. >> go back to the glacier. >>>>t's okay. the glaciers are going to be okay. >> i know. there's a lot going on there. >> you're so sensitive. >> you know what? we should mark this moment. that happens to all of us. it has happened every time -- the first time it ever happened to you on "gma." >> i'm glad we can all share that. precious moment in america. >> way to rally. >>> what's over there on the burner, there, lara? >> just checking on josh. you okay? okay, guys. right to it. time for the pop news heat index. do you remember the movie "contact" jodie foster looking for alien life? well, turns out, that for this academy award-winning actress life imitates art a bit. budget cuts are going to shut down a california-based science program that uses a $50 million telescope that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence. she helped raise over $200,000. e.t., phone jodie. thank you very much. more to come. >>> next up, what's more important, oil or your ipod? well, for a brief moment yesterday, wall street would have gone with the latter. by midday, apple surpassed exxon for a little time. and then exxon was back on top. many analysts say, not for long. >>> and is this the end of advertising as we know it? yes, that is a play on words. two professional beach volleyball players have rented out their rear assets for five figures to a website company that hopes that people might not just be looking at the game when these ladies play. i know that's hard to imagine. here's my question, guys. if you were a company that wanted to use women's bottoms as billboards wouldn't bigger be better? a little food for thought there. >>> finally, urkel is back. grown up. a nerd no longer. he plays c. lo green, lady's man, in his new video, "bad baby." and looks like he picked up a few new moves since he used to do the urkel dance. that, everything, is your "pop news heat index." >> a child star and seeing them later. and, you know, it kind of pays to have a little junk in your trunk. >> i could have several companies. >>> let's get outside. amy freeze is in for our sam champion from wabc. >> here's amy. we've got some folks from indiana today. they're in the northern part. i grew up down south. almost 400 reports of severe weather yesterday. check out the hail for parts of nebraska. it was bouncing and golf ball-size hail reported on the eastern plains of colorado, as well, where the temperatures dropped 50 degrees behind that hail. severe weather is expected today again through the central plains. but it's just a little further to the east so expecting storms from oklahoma city into the central part of the tennesse river valley. plin and little rock, tupelo included in that. cool marine air mass is still over the west coast. so, 60s and 70s expected. los angeles, 73 today. keep those 70s heading into the weekend. so, it is about ten degrees low average for that a that's the forecast. and "jersey shore" representing out here today, lara. back inside to you. >> all right. good to know. thank you. >>> here's a look at what's coming up on the "gma" morning menu. they were once the hottest child stars in hollywood. where are they today? 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