ammunition for a horrendous carnage. this is what he would have done but for your intervention. you took all of this including that of your own life. >> it comes as details are emerging about the 26-year-old from morocco. he was known to european authorities. last year french officials were warned about possible streamist ties. >> reporter: the man, tied up and tripped of an ak-47, a pistol, a blade and a bag of ammunition on friday is ayoub el khazzani, a 26-year-old from morocco who had lived in the spanish city of ail gentleman engineer easy with his parents. he went fishing, he was a normal kid this i ma'am said. spanish authorities say el khazzani was arrested at least once for drugs and french officials were warned about alleged ties to islamic extremists last year. a lawyer who represented el khazzani during his first few years in police custody said he swore he's not a terrorist and claimed he only wanted to rob passengers on the train after finding a bag with the guns in a park. usairman spencer stone was the first to tackle the gunman. he talked about how it happened at a press conference with his childhood friends, alec scar lore toes and anthony sadler. >> it's kind of a long story. alec hit me on the shoulder and said let's go. we tackled him, hit the ground. alec came up and grabbed the gun out of his hand while i put him in a choke hold. it seemed like he just kept pulling more weapons left and right. all three of us started punching him while he was in the middle of us. >> reporter: stone says he choked the suspect until he lost consciousness. that's stone with a cut on his neck helping a passenger who also had a neck wound. >> in the beginning it was mostly gut instinct. >> i saw spencer get up and alec get up. those are my close friends so i couldn't let them go alone. >> reporter: as for the suspect's claim that he wasn't on board to kill -- >> it doesn't take 8 magazines to rob a train. >> he seemed like he was ready to fight to the end, and so we were. now to louisiana where a state trooper is in critical condition after being shot in the head yesterday during a traffic stop. the man suspected of shooting him is behind bars because of the help of civilians. 13-year veteran steven vincent was responding to a report of a suspected drunken driver outside of bell city about 50 miles east of the texas border when it happened. police video reportedly shows him trying to talk a man out of a vehicle and the man shooting vincent with a sht shotgun. a passing driver saw vincent lying on the ground and stopped to help. a second driver then helped and used the trooper's handcuffs to subdue him. 50-year-old kevin daigle is behind bars and state trooper steven vincent is fighting for his life. >> he's on the third floor right now and he's fighting for his life. when you think of what happened just a few short hours ago, it's not something he should be doing right now. here's a good guy. his wife katherine, his son ethan nine years old, here's a guy who loved to run. he ran marathons. as we're standing here, the doctors tell us his organs are in great shop, they're ready to work, but the gunshot wound to his head has messed up his neurological output. simply as i can put it, his brain is not telling the rest of his body what to do. >> police say the suspect had been stopped many times before and received, quote, numerous duis, the state police superintendent says he'll now face charges of attempted first degree murder of a police officer. breaking news overnight, already overseas markets are in turmoil this morning. indices are off by as much as 7%. looks like another tough day for the markets across the globe already. >> reporter: absolutely. we had the biggest fall on the dow on friday, falling 530 points. the s&p falling 3.2. i can go through more numbers, a large number of sectors in the u.s. are in bear market territory or correction territory which means ten percent or more low. as far as today is concerned, the dow is down around 300 points at the moment. the s&p down by about 30 points, the nasdaq 140 points. some of the markets trading in terms of the asian indices, japan down 4.6% for the blue chips. the nikkei was done 7.5%. in europe as well, the major indices falling down three and four percent, adding to those concerns. at the heart of it, concerns about china and about the u.s. rate hike. back to you. >> steve cedric, live from london, thank you. a new wave of speculation surrounding vice-president joe biden's plans for 2016. the "wall street journal" reports that biden is leaning toward getting into the race for the democratic nomination. the paper reports he is, quote, weighing multiple political, financial, and family considerations before making a final consideration. nbc news has confirmed that biden met privately over the weekend with elizabeth warren at his d.c. residents. that comes on political reports that a biden run could create so many obama supporters that are already signed onto the clinton campaign. the site said, quote, even if their mind is with clinton, their heart is with the vice-president. here's the advice california governor jerry brown gave the democratic front-runner yesterday. >> this e-mail thing, it has kind of a mystique to it. an e-mail is just an utterance in digital form, but it has some kind of dark energy that gets everybody excited. i don't know how, it's almost like a vampire. she's going to have to find a stake and put it through the heart of these e-mails in some way. >> clinton will cut her hampton vacation short this week to get back on the campaign trail. her numbers are softening in part over questions about her private e-mail server. reuters reports there are indications that some of clinton's e-mails are filled with the type of information that the state department automatically deems classified from the outset, whether marked or not marked. clinton's camp said she never received or sent any material that was marked classified and the question now of whether to stamp e-mails as classified is little more than a dispute between agencies and other democrats, came to her defense. >> this is manufactured partly by a press that's bored and partly by the republicans. here's the deal. she did not break any rules. she did not break any policy. she may have sent stuff that was classified that wasn't labeled classified, and it is well known that the state department and others are trying to get stuff classified after the fact. she can't be blamed for this. >> senate minority leader harry reid has come out strongly in favor of the agreement with a nuclear iran, diminishing chances that congress is going to block it. reed said he had do everything in his power to make sure the deal stands. the "washington post" counts 31 senators in favor or leaning that way, just three short of what's necessary to uphold a presidential veto against a resolution of disapproval. meanwhile, iran un-valed a short range, ballistic 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schedule but i have four sessions of a supplemental medicine, and it takes about a half-an-hour to get an i.v. that's enough of that subject. >> reporter: three days after revealing he had started treatment for cancer in his brain he took on another tough subject, love. >> i would say that just being able to admit you might be mistaken and another person might be right is a very important aspect of christianity and it's an important aspect of love well. >> reporter: to hear that messa message, hundreds starting lining up before down. the 90-year-old started teaching here when he was 18, he grew up, met his beloved wife roselyn, became a peanut farmer and became the president of the united states. as he greeted the congregation. he was a man at peace, a living lesson in humor and faith. >> if you have a setback, accept it, and ask how much of it is our fault and then set a higher goal than you ever had before. >> time now for sports, we begin with the associated press college football preseason. good news for the buckeyes fans. the ohio state buckeyes take the top spot, making it the first time in the history of the a.p. poll that a team has entered the season as number one. tcu, alabama, baylor, michigan state round out the top five. osu will try finish the season as number one after starting in the same spot. a scary day at pocono raceway. justin wilson was left in a coma and critical condition after being hit by a piece of flying debris. wilson was air lifted to the hospital by helicopter from the track. let's go to the track where usain bolt was once again crowned as the olympic championship. he won the 100 meter track and field world championship yesterday in beijing. bolt defeated american rival and favorite justin gatlin by 1-100th of a second. gatlin had been unbeaten in 28 races. just a little faster than you. >> slightly. i ran it in 9.82. pro football hall of famer chris carter is facing criticism after a video showed carter telling players that tat the 20 symposium that they should have a fall guy if they get in trouble. >> in case y'all decide not to do the right thing, if y'all got a crew, you got to have a fall guy in the crew. >> the nfl called his comments unfortunate and unappropriate. carter posted an apology saying seeing that video has made me realize how wrong i was. i was brought there to educate young people and instead gave very bad advice. to the nfl preseason, in pittsburgh the parkers lost wide receiver jordy nelson with a left leg injury. he landed awkwardly after catching this pass. he was able to limp off the field before heading to the locker room. the initial diagnosis of nelson's injury unfortunately is a torn acl. results from an mri will confirm the extent of the damage. to the pga tour's wyndham championship. tiger woods teased us a little bit, showing flashes of promise after more than two winless years. he needed to win or finish alone in second to secure a spot in next week's playoff opener but after starting sunday just two strokes off the lead, he stumbled with a triple bogey on the par four, ending the tournament at number 178 in the standings. he's probably a little better than you, i suspect. 51-year-old davis love becomes the third oldest winner in the tour history, with a one-stroke victory. >> that's like a barnacle. >> why do you got to bring barnacle into this? oh, barnacle is back, exactly. break it down for us. >> 102nd birthday. >> what's it looking like out there? >> the fires are still the big story. over the weekend they didn't really flare up too much. we have more pictures and some of these complexes are merging over the weekend. it was almost like a blanket over the fires. they weren't able to real grow but the air quality was horrible. today the winds are going to pick up, the air is going to mix and they're afraid the large fires are going to flare back up in a hurry. so a very dangerous day in the northwest where for all the fire crews. there are red flag warnings for many areas of oregon, washington and even montana. we'll keep on eye on that. danny was a big hurricane as we went into the weekend and as expected it's dying off. we're hoping for rain in puerto rico. this storm may die so fast that report re puerto rico doesn't get much needed rain. in the lower 48, very quiet this monday. cold front makes it feel like fall in chicago, maybe even grab a light jacket as you head out the door. some temperatures in the 40s in the northern plains this morning. warm and humid in the northeast. as this front plows through over the next two days, numerous areas will get quick showers and storms. today at 5:00 p.m. from the capitol, scranton, d.c. and tuesday afternoon towards new hampshire. no big headlines, no heat waves, no severe weather and the tropics are avoiding anything devastating. >> still no good news for the firefighters. they can't get a break. >> they're going to have to wait until winter when it gets older. still ahead, twice the payoff for a panda wash in washington d.c. plus a hip-hop star subdued after reportedly riding, get this, his hover board. 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