Well, good wednesday morning, im reena ninan. And im dan kloeffler. A u. S. Citizen in federal custody accused of supporting i. S. I. S. Militants. He tried to help the terror group while managing a Convenience Store and spelling out his hatred on social media. An american indicted, he was fabbed back in may by an fbi sting. Authorities said tuesday he planned to kill u. S. Soldiers as they returned from iraq and attempted to recruit and provide support to individuals traveling to the middle east to join the extremist group. A naturalized u. S. Citizen from yemen and a devout sunni muslim, the 30yearold didnt hide his extreme views. Allegedly tweeting, al qaeda said it loud and clear, we are fighting the American Invasion over the earth and the people. I. S. I. S. Is using message boards, urging supporters to attack times casquare and other popular attractions. They create a new threat and are in a position to inspire. Increasing sophistication of their outreach in the social media. Reporter this came as they opened the room for Ground Troops in iraq. The white house said no boots on the ground. If i reach a point where i believe the advisers should accompany troops against specific targets, ill recommend that to the president. Reporter president obama will be in florida today to meet with the nations top military brass. The fbi wants more arrests like this one. Attorney general eric holder said the agency is focused on the front end, finding them before they can travel to the region or recruit supporters. The other major story, the Severe Weather across Southern California, new mexico, arizona. Part of Southern California hit by torrential downpours, trees and power lines knocked down. The athletic fields of a High School High school were damaged, and there were many traffic accidents. And san diego also hit, one plane hitting parked cars. That region had downpours, lightning, even hail. Thousands of homes and businesses also without power. Those storms are now heading for arizona, but the area south of phoenix has been hit by a microburst. It damaged several Industrial Buildings and derailed a freight train. Nearly 40 cars left the tracks, no injuries and the rail cars were empty. That is just a preview of what is in store today. Accuweather jim dickey tracking it all. Good morning. It will fizzle out, but the impacts just starting in the united states. Working from arizona to new mexico. Heavy rain has begun to fall, and more into arizona and new mexico through the day on wednesday. And the storm tracks through on to arizona and new mexico. And locally very heavy amounts of rainfall. 6 to 10 inches in tucson, locally higher amounts leading to significant flooding through saturday. Back to you. Thank you for that. Across the west, thousands of Fire Fighters on the ground as tinderbox conditions spark more wildfires. 15 wildfires are raging up and down the west coast, mostly in california and oregon and driven thousands of people from their homes. Some families in Northern California have no home to return to after a devastating wildfire ravaged their tiny town. Flames raced through the town of weed with stunning speed, damaging or destroying 150 buildings. Two churches, a library and a saw mill. But mostly homes. People were forced to flee at a moments notice. But no one was killed or seriously injured. One whom whos house burned to the ground was overcome by emotion, as you can see, brought to tears after a fire fighter spotted something priceless in the ashes. We just found my wedding ring of 44 years. It in all of this mess god answers prayers. Amazingly, they found another ring, an heirloom, passed down from her mother. That fire, now, 20 contained, still tearing around the surrounding forest after three years of drought. And breaking news in the case of Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson. His team changed course and told him to stay away from Team Activities until his problems are behind him. Initially they said he could return before it went through the courts. The vikings say they will support peterson, but hes not welcome to come to practice or play in games. As expected, the Nfl Players Association appealed rices indefinite suspension, he was caught on camera punching his thenfiance. They say theres a lack of fair process. Those scandals have several big name, big money sponsors calling out the nfl. Anheuserbusch is concerned about the scandals and how theyre being handled. And others voiced similar concerns. The nfl replayed that it is taking action and theres more to come. Now to the fight against ebola with dr. Kent brantly taking center stage on capitol hill, he returned to the u. S. After doing missionary work in liberia. He says there needs to be a global effort and gave a powerful description of this disease. We can not fool ourselves into thinking that the Atlantic Ocean will protect us. Before the hearing, he met with president obama at the white house. And the president visited the cdc, outlining steps the u. S. Will take, including deploying 3,000 u. S. Military personnel. If you want a ride into space, boeing and spacex are going to build and fly space taxis, replacing the russian ship going to the space center. They pay 7 million for each passenger. They are due in three years. But you have to wonder the metered fare on that find of ride. Coming up on this wednesday morning, downsizing that starbuc starbucks . The new mini drink they are testing out. And new developments in the deadly racetrack incident involving tony stewart. What authorities have decided to do with the evidence theyve uncovered. Plus armed, dangerous, and ready to kill. Investigators know who ambushed two state troopers. Why finding him is proving to be so difficult. Welcome back. Some good news about poverty this morning. It was down last year only 14 and a half percent of us were living below the poverty line. It was 15 a year earlier. Its not much, but the first drop in eight years in the u. S. The Census Bureau says part of the reason is more people are working fulltime all year now than in 2006. Apples mobile users get a free upgrade today. The ios 8 has many new features and functions and improvements. And the work on the iphone 4s or newer, the ipad mini and touch 35. Fedexis raising rates, 5 for express, ground and express services. They hope it will increase revenue and operating income. It is facing competition, particularly from the postal service. And United Parcel service is hiring for the holidays. Ups plans to hire nearly 100,000 Seasonal Workers this year and expects more applicants than last year. 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Nascar driver tony stewart says he will continue working with authoritieies now that the racetrack death case is moving forward. He struck and killed driver kevin ward jr. The case will be presented to a grand jury. Experts say he could be charged with Second Degree manslaughter if hes found to have recklessly caused wards death. Schools in the poconos will be closed today as the hunt is intensifying for the man who killed two state troopers. Eric matthew frooen was identified as the shooter. His car was found, and shell casings, camouflage face paint and his i. D. He could be hiding anywhere. Hes made statements about wanting to kill Law Enforcement officers and also to commit mass acts of murder. This fella is extremely dangerous. We have no idea where he is in the community. The troopers were shot during a shift change. The suspects father said his son is an excellent marksman who does not miss. And searching for a missing university of virginia student. A Surveillance Video puts 18yearold Hannah Elizabeth graham in a different area than thought. Friends heard from her when she texted she was lost. Her family is heartbroken but hopeful she will be found. A cancer doctor is in the middle of medicare fraud. Dr. Fareed fata put patients through unnecessary chemotherapy and billed insurers. He defrauded medicare of 225 million. Prosecutors now plan to seek a life sentence. Next, a scary situation for a guy trying to travel every country on earth. He was in buenos aries, when a guy on a motorcycle held him up at gunpoint. The guy demanded his camera equipment that hes going to use to document the trip, and he ran away and rode, with the help of locals to a nearby officer. The number of deaths due to painkillers are up. Those due to prescription pain medication quadrupled in a decade. It was ages 55 to 64, but the number of deaths may be leveling off. The key, they say, is awareness. Patients should know that medicine, when overused, can be deadly. Well, if you dont get enough sleep, your memory may be playing tricks on you. People with less than four hours sleep remembered things that never happened or hadnt seen. Research shows that sleep deprivation slows reaction time. Your ability to think and make learning more difficult. Its obviously enough to keep you up at night, think about that. Take some notes, right. And sports, its busy in the washington and baltimore area. First of all because the Washington Nationals are heading back to the playoffs as champions of the National League east, clinching their place last night with a 30 victory over atlanta. And the Baltimore Orioles earned their ninth win in ten games and clinched the American League east title, the first crown since 1997. They are heading for their second playoff appearance in three years. Congratulations to both those teams. Now to a great performance that you have to see to believe. It happened at a prestigious flute competition in denmark. Check this out, yuki ota is playing when a butterfly lands on her face. She kept playing as if this was all normal. When she was done, she just waved it off. Hope the judges remember that as the competition moves on and the scoring continues. I never would have been that successful. Theres no way. The concentration cannot be broken. Theres a fly. Nice. I was going to let that one going. Up next in the pulse, what would you grab in a fire . Pets . Smartphone . Court documents . Wait until you hear the new findings. And david muir and jimmy kimmel share some late night laughs. How do you eat your eggo . 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It is time now to check the pulse. Starting with midnight laughs from our own david muir. After two weeks as the news anchor of abc world news tonight, he stopped by kimmel live, he had gifts, flash lights from his made in the america series. And david shared one of his earliest moments in journalism, tagging along with the local reporters in syracuse, new york. We were chasing down thunderstorms, much like in the west. And they jump out of the car, listen, we have to get this shot, just drive the car up the road and well meet you a half mile down the road. I was in the cruiser, the chevrolet, four door, the big 5, i think i was the coolest guy ever. They were like, thanks, how old are you . I was 14. Leave the headline away from that one, obviously. Just a couple of years later. But look where he is today. Congratulations, david. I thought you had to be 18 to sp intern. When its a news story the passion of david muir, got an internship at 14. We love our pets and technology, but which comes first in our hearts. A new survey reveals a lot about us, what would we grab first . 31 said the smartphone, 18 said the pet, and 13 of us would grab the cash. Sounds about right. Oh, gosh, fido. Were addicted. But the dogs wake up the entire family when they smell smoke. They have a homing instinct, probably out there before us. Thats true. And a hot dog eating contest is usually the fourth of july. Its hamster versus human. Kobayashi taking on a hamster named bogart. And bogart has hot dogshaped food. Its bogart judged to have one and be and he puts a medal around his neck. Theyre going to have to check the rules on the competitive eating contest, can you have that much fur and walk on two legs . I see. For some of you, your local news is next. Oh, theres an Energy Crisis happening alright. A human one. And its time to fight it. Quakers good energy is just what you want. Its how we help keep gogetters like you. Going. And getting. One bite at a time. Try quaker warm crunchy granola for the crunchy side of oatmeal. Quaker up. Good morning, im tamala edwards. Its wednesday, september 17th. Were on several developing stories. New details emerged overnight in a gay bashing case out of center city. Hear how a local social media sleuth helped to crack the case. Breaking right now nfl star Adrian Peterson has been banned from all minnesota viking Team Activities and new details are just coming in. There are also new details on the final hours of comedian joan rivers. Well tell you what the doctor who performed that final surgery did before rivers died. Also wham break causing problems in center city. Well have that and your weather traffic updates all next on action news ttered thunderstorms from the gulf coast to texas. And some thunderstorms in the plains. And finally, it had to happen to someone, right . Someone had to be the first person ousted from the ballroom on abcs dancing with the stars. Its one week down, one dancer down. Who was it . The answer from george. Reporter lolo jones wishes she had more time on dancing with the stars. It was not meant to be. She got to dance the cha cha. She is most upset her partner giving the bootd. Whatever happens, it happens. Im crushed for him. I take losses, i dont know thousand take losses when somebody puts so much work on the other end. Its difficult. Reporter jones said she learned something valuable about her experience in show business. You have to smile all the time. Im not used that. I just learned that. Reporter with jones out, 12 celebrities and their professional partners get to work on week two of this competition. Bye, bye. Engage, engage. Dance the salsa, so its going to be hot spicy. And spicy. Maybe some gauc on there. Just a little x rated. Yeah . Going to come up with something great that when people see it, theyre going to take their phones and dial the number and they can vote. Reporter Antonio Sabato jr. Brought his biggest and maybe smallest fan with him to our postshow interview, his son. Are you enjoying watching your daddy dance . Yeah, yeah. Reporter do you think hes a good dancer . Yeah. With her. Reporter would you like to chance with cheryl too . No. Why do that, i dance with papa. I dance with papa. Reporter next week is my jam monday with the celebrities picking their songs. In los angeles, george for abc news. I dance with papa. Love that. Truth spoken action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With matt odonnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning. Were following several breaking and developing stories on this wednesday, september 17th. The Minnesota Vikings have reversed course and banned star running back Adrian Peterson from all Team Activities. Weve got a live report coming up. Social media users spring into action to help police figure out who brutally attacked two gay men in the heart of center city. A water main erupts into a gushing geyser and leaves chaos in a center city gushing geyser and leaves good morning. It is 4 30 on this wednesday morning. David is off. Karen rogers is here with a bit of a chilly s
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