good evening. and it s great to have you here with us on a thursday night. we begin with the month wanted man in the world. a 26-year-old british man. the world has seen him wearing that mask in those gruesome videos from is taking the lives of so many hostages. tonight, our team right there in london outside the home curtains drawn. authorities on the scene in this west london neighborhood. and this evening, we hear from president obama, his reaction as u.s. authorities learn quickly about this young man from a middle class family. he went to college, studied to be a computer programmer. abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross, leading us off tonight. reporter: the identity of the world s most wanted man is confirmed tonight as a 26-year-old college educated british citizen, mohammed emwazi, whose masked face and voice have come to symbolize pure evil. our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people. reporter: president obama today vowed to get hi
good thursday morning to you all. we have to start with this growing threat from those here in the u.s. who are now accused of siding with terrorists. three new york men now charged with trying to join isis overseas as well as making threats to carry out attacks at home even targeting police officers. abc s bazi kanani joins us from washington with the latest. bazi. reporter: good morning. the three men are now being held without bail. two of them arrested in new york. one in florida. investigators say they were planning to join isis and willing to attack here at home. three young men living in brooklyn, new york accused of plotting to help isis by fighting alongside the extremists overseas or attacking here in the u.s. by targeting police coney island or the president. if they were not able to go that they would seek to acquire weapons here, handguns machine gun and seek to attack very specifically police officers. reporter: the fbi swooped in to arrest the men wedne
hands off, lebron james telling colleges to stay away from his son. the fourth grade wowing them with his skills. lebron says it s too soon to make him heir to the throne. and we do say good morning, america. on this thursday morning, a lot to get to including two major developments in the war against isis. three big arrests in the u.s. men pledging their allegiance to the terrorist group in custody this morning. breaking overnight the executioner known as jihadi john has been identified. he s been the face of so many of those vicious isis videos. abc s brian ross with what we know right now. good morning, george. he s been the most wanted and reviled man on the planet. a senior u.s. official involved in the search for yahoo! this morning confirms to abc news that his name is mohammed emwazi. the bbc and the washington post are reporting this morning that emwazi is a native of kuwait who grew up in a well to do family in west london currently in his mid-20s has a de
good evening. and it s great to have you here with us on a thursday night. we begin with the month wanted man in the world. a 26-year-old british man. the world has seen him wearing that mask in those gruesome videos from isis. taking the lives of so many hostages. tonight, our team right there in london outside the home curtains drawn. authorities on the scene in this west london neighborhood. and this evening, we hear from president obama, his reaction as u.s. authorities learn quickly about this young man from a middle class family. he went to college, studied to be a computer programmer. abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross, leading us off tonight. reporter: the identity of the world s most wanted man is confirmed tonight as a 26-year-old college educated british citizen, mohammed emwazi, whose masked face and voice have come to symbolize pure evil. our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people. reporter: president obama today vowed to get
flooding concerns. this morning we re soaked right now. the heaviest rains have shifted into the mountains. it s still raining pretty good. san francisco to san jose, a continuous steady rain out there. the real downpours have moved towards yuba city. this storm system is one piece of it. you can see the plume coming into california. there s another piece behind that has to kick through on saturday. it doesn t look like until monday, lynn, this area will have a dry day. major concerns especially in northern california at this point. bill, thanks so much. elsewhere today, the first of the two grand prize powerball winners will come forward to reveal themselves and have their lives changed forever. and there s also buzz about a potential code with the winning numbers. nbc s kerry sanders has that story. reporter: in tiny dearborn, missouri, where just about everyone knows everyone, the question is was it one of their own that bought the winning powerball ticket at the loc