And he loved his job. Reporter camara died doing what he loved. He was supposed to finish work at the Federal Building around 4 00 p. M. But agreed to work an extra shift. About an hour later, police say 68yearold Kevin Downing shot and killed camara before killing himself. He was an incredibly hard worker, very dedicated to keeping the building safe. Reporter shortly after the shooting, police and federal agents descended on the shooters home in fort leerks new jersey, evacuating nearby homes, including alexander glickmans. That guy didnt have enough money to sustain himself, hes going to have enough money to booby trap or something . Reporter downing was about to lose his home to foreclosure. He advertised it on youtube. Downing also lost his fiance to cancer several years ago and lived alone. I never expected. He looked such a nice guy. Reporter a relative tells news 4 its possible downing went to the Federal Building because it housed a Labor Department office, the same agency that fired him for whistle blowing more than a decade ago. Back attica marahs home in harlem, his cousin imam conante tried to comfort the rest of the family. Their spirit is high, their spirit is strong. We are so grateful. Reporter in harlem, sheldon dutes, news 4 new york. Overseas to the attack on a train in france. The gunman has been identified as 26yearold moroccan who had been placed on a security watch list last year. Meanwhile, three americans, two of them service members, are being hailed as heroes for stopping what could have been a massacre. The attack happened on a highspeed train heading from amsterdam to parris. The story now from nbcs kelly cobiella. Reporter the three americans who took down a gunman on a packed train last night will be in paris tonight ahead of a meeting with french president francois hollande. Air force Airman First Class spencer stone, National GuardsmanAlek Skarlatos and College StudentAnthony Sadler were traveling to europe together. Theyre childhood friends. We stopped a terrorist. Kind of crazy. Reporter they heard gunshots on board the high speed train from amsterdam to paris, then saw a againman with an ak47. I just looked over at spencer and said lets go. Go. Reporter the two took down the gunman with the help of their friend Anthony Sadler. A british businessman helped to tie up the suspect. What else is there to do . Either you sit down and you die or you get up and you die. Weve seen enough of these kinds of attacks to understand that they will kill everybody once they get started. Reporter one man was shot in the neck and is expected to survive. Stone has had surgery on his hand for a cut. As for the suspect, french t French Interior minister said theyre not ready to identify him or talk about a motive but he did say the attacker was armed with an automatic rifle, nine magazines, a handgun, and a knife. Hes now in Police Custody and is believed to be a 26yearold moroccan who was flagged for involvement in islamist groups. Back to you. Kelly cobiella. Its been a deadly day in afghanistan where a suicide bomber attacked a nato convoy in kabul. Officials say the car exploded on a crowded street outside a private hospital in the afghan capital. At least 12 people died, including three american civilian contractors. At this this point their names have not been released. The blast also injured at least 60 other people. The taliban has denied responsibility. A group of Animal Rights activists let their voices be heard dourg Chris Christies speech at the iowa state fair today. Oh, here we go. [ boos ] as you can sigh, Police Quickly whisked the hecklers off stage. The group was trying to draw attention to christies veto of a bill that would have stopped farmers from using hog crates. The governor immediately tried to make light of the situation before moving on. I have to tell you the truth, when Something Like that happens and im here in iowa, man, i feel right at home. Feels like im back in jersey for a couple minutes. Christie went on to say he thinks farmers, not the government, know whats best for their animals. Today thousands of antiabortion activists rallied outside planned parenthood clinics adds part of a nationwide day of protests. Its against the law what theyre doing demonstrators like this one want to cut off federal funding for the health care organization. The protests come after an antiabortion group secretly filmed videos it claims proves planned parenthood illegally harvest organs for money. Planned parenthood Officials Say the video were edited to bolster false claims. Still ahead on news 4 new york, an arrest in the disappearance of Rosie Odonnells daughter. What police found on her phone. Also up next, neighborhood worries, why residents in one part of the city are concerned about a new place thats meant to help people. And weather wise it was a great day today. Sunny, warm, with low humidity. But for tomorrow the humidity makes a comeback and maybe even a shower or storm. Were going to time it out coming up. Blinds to gos Summer Celebration sales so hot youre gonna need shades. Not those shades. These shades take a cool 2035 off all sun shades, cascade shades, basswood and more. Shades on sale. Theres nothing cooler than that. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Cannonball blinds to gos Summer Celebration sale is going on now make a splash with new sun shades, cascade shades, basswood and more, all at 2035 off its the hottest sale of the year. Just when you need to cool off most. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Authorities have charged the owner of the home where Rosie Odonnells 17yearold daughter chelsea was found earlier this week. Police arrestd 25yearold Steven Sheerer after a search of the teens cell phone revealed evidence the two shared whats being called inappropriate communications. Officers found chelsea with sheerer in new jersey a week after she ran away from home. Tonight charges have been filed in a deadly fight outside an east harlem mcdonalds. Jesus santiago faces a slew of charges, including murder. Police say santiago and a woman got in a fight with another couple at the mcdonalds on 125th and lexington yesterday. Officers say santiago stabbed and killed the man with a box cutter and stabbed the woman. This is video of the attack from the daily news. At last check, that woman is in critical condition. Residents in one section of queens tonight are on edge over the opening of a new homeless shelter. The shelter is set to hope in elmhurst and today workers were busy unloading beds and other furniture. When its ready, the site will include 169 units to house struggling families but people who live in the area say theyre worried about how the shelter will affect their neighborhood. The prices on the house is going to be down, you know . Everything is going this is this is insane. Reporter the de Blasio Administration has invested more than a billion dollars over the next four years to tackle the issue of homelessness. In a statement, the city said the new shelter will help ensure we have the capacity to house those in need. Still to come on news 4 new york, an air show disaster. Cameras rolling seconds after an outofcontrol plane slams into a his be busy road. Also, your storm team 4 forecast. Steve maps out the rest of the forecast and lets us know if sunday is as good as today. Dramatic new video out of southern england where a military jet crashed into a busy main road slams into several cars. It happened during an air show in brighton. You can see it there, the jet noysediving on the e ing ing to the ground. Seven people died in the accident. Officials say the pilot was coming out of a loop when the plane crashed. Erika hill joins with us a look at whats ahead on nbc nightly news. A tough story. Were going to have more on that plane crash. Also well bring you the latest in what were hearing more about, the train takedown on that train yesterday three Young Americans being hailed as heroes for their role in helping to subdue a gunman on board a train bound for paris. What were learning about that gunman and the weapons he had with him. Also ahead tonight, were going to get you up to speed on the wild fires which continue to burn out west. Now a call for volunteers, not just firefighters but regular volunteers to help and theres a massive Teacher Shortage across this country just as kids some places are back to school and others preparing to go back to school. Tens of thousands of open positions. Well tell you why theres that void and look at the creative ways different cities are trying to fill. It very good. Nice to see you at 6 00 at night. Nice to see you, too. We usually see each other at 6 00 in the morning on weekends. Thank you, erica. Pesee you in a few minutes. Steve, i give it a 10, lets do it again tomorrow. What do you say . Tomorrow well see a few extra clouds around and maybe a shower or storm so instead of a 10, well call it an 8. Fair enough. Good evening, everyone. Today was a beautiful, Beautiful Day. So nice outside, lots of sunshine, nice and warm but importantly it was the hidity that made it feel so, so comfortable. Now, tomorrow the humidity is ing to start to increase so the mugginess does start to come back and well also have a shower or storm. Otherwise were sitting currently at 82 as we look at times square under fire skies. 82, thats what it says. 84 is the reading at jfk. 83 in the meantime over towards ocean side. North of the city its colder from sussex through newburgh and towards dan berry with temperatures in the upper 70s. Generally clear on the satellite image thanks in part to hearing impaired, brought us a Beautiful Day today. Just offshore theres a frontal system and this front isnt going anywhere. In fact, its going to go backwards as we head into tonight and into tomorrow. So this right here will be tomorrows weather. Its going to simply shift westward and as we head into tomorrow well end up seeing a mix of sun and clouds and maybe a shower or thunderstorm here or there but by no means a washout. To the west, right here from minneapolis through omaha theres another front and this one will sweep in monday and tuesday bringing us a slightly better chance of shower or thunderstorm, especially on tuesday. This right here in the atlantic is hurrica danny. Danny has weakened over the last 24 hours. It wt at one point a category three hurricane, now its a category one hurricane. Wind of 75 miles per hour. So its barely a category one hurricane. And it will continue to weaken over the next couple of days, becoming a tropical storm. T itn ill make its way across the caribbean, bringing some locally heavy rain and gusty winds to the u. S. Virgin islands, to puerto rico, to the Dominican Republic and then by the time e get to thursday afternoon its no longer a tropical storm, its now a tropical depression but it will continue to bring cuba and the bahamas a couple of showers, maybe gusty winds and most computer models take it out to see but some bush push it towards south florida. So something well wash. You can see the front offshore as we head into tonight. We can see a shower or two across long island. That will be the story tomorrow morning and then notice as we. E head into tomorrow afternoon you can see that moisture s rtin to push inland into northern new jersey and intoedarts of theo hudson valley. But, hgain, very widely scattered. Not everyone sees it, otherwise we end up with partly sunny skies tomorrow. Tonight a mixture of 60s and 70s, 83 the forecasted high tomorrow with a mix of is up and clouds. Much more humid tomorrow so well notice that, maybe a shower or thunderstorm here or there. I think the best chance will be on tuesday as a front come us there, behind that front looking good. Wednesday right into the weekend. Very nice. You said looking good and another great weekend. Appreciate it. How about this . Basketball legend Shaquille Oneal returned to his native newark today to cohost a babble basketball tournament for city youth. He teamed up with the mayor to host the believe in newark. Crowds filled the bleachers in fr t of city hall. High schoolboys and girls took part in separate tournaments for a chance to become city wide champions and shaq handed out trophies to the winners. He took pictures with the players, too. If youre going to hang out with someone, isnt it shaq. Hes sporting a yankees hat there. Lets not get political. [ laughter ] John Chandler with a look ahead at sports. Football tonight. Preseason football right here on 4 new york. We will preview giants and jaguars with the help of tom coughlin and bruce beck. Plus, another ceremony at the stadium. Sure yankees are running low on number. But there was something so special about Jorge Posadas me tt the bronx today. Youll hear it next. Is. The most important numbers for the yankees are the digits that separate them from the toronto blue jays. The numbers to 20and 46 mean something in the bronx today. The yankees retired Jorge Posadas number. The 19th uniform retire bid the team. Five times an all star, five times a silver slugger and most importantly five times a world series champ. He said he would never wear another uniform and he didnt. Derek jeter led a lineup of former teammates who returned for todays ceremony for jorge, Andy Pettitte was there hugged by his old catcher. Jorge posada was emotional reflecting on his 17 seasons, all with the yankees. Thank you to the best fans in the world for encouraging me to give it all every time i stayed on the field. Thank you for this honor. This is simply one of the best of my life. I love you all and thank you again. And the bases commemorating jorge. Indians took the last two in the bronx, leading the yankees 10 in the first and brent gardener says not today. Takes advantage of the short porch for two run homer. His 12th long ball this year. Danny salazar serves one up to brian mccann, a sky high shot to right center. Yanksup 31. From there the rookie went to work. Robe o perez, nice velocity. Sounded like it. How much . 96. 97 for carlos santana. Zef reno walked four and allowed a run and earns his first big league win. Toronto visits the angels tonight. Mets are up five games on the nats but lucas duda heads to the 15 day disabled list after his back flared up. That puts more pressure on the lineup. A triple away from hitting for the cycle and a three run homer for hitting for the home run cycle. Solo, two run, grand slam. He powered them a 149 win. 5 for 6 at the plate. Droe drove in seven runs and stole the hearts of mets fans. The giants try to get the offense rolling against the guars. Brneuce becker worked the sidelines and is here with tom coughlin. Second pr season game for the giants tonight against the jaguars. Tom coughlin, are you expecting better execution if your guys tonight . I am. I am. Theyve been preached to about the need to improve in all kinds of areas. Were looking for a big improvement and hopefully well get it. You talked about the offehsive line coming toge er. Is this the ti it has to start. It better start tonight. We need to solidify not only just five but see what will happen with our other spots as well. So very important for that group as well. They have a good run game. This will go b a good test for the defense. We have to run the football. Theyre a good defense. Very, very sound, technically sound, very good at rushing the quarterback as we well know and their offensive line is vastly improved and they ran the ball very well against pittsburgh last week. Giants and jaguars later on nbc. John, back to you. It better start tonight. Please don ever change, tom coughlin, we love you. Here is your exclusive course for giants preseason games. Big blue and he jags starting tonight at 7 30. Nbc prime time programming can be seen on cozi tv. The pga tour is full of names that deserve your attention but fo evlry Jordan Spieth o oc. Day, nobody draws you in like tiger woods. He shared the lead after 36 holes at the windham ch pionship a with putts like th on ten he stayed near the top today. Woods putter rarely let him down until a bogeyann 8 dropped him into the second group for sundays final round so he is two strokes back of the leader. Flashback there for tiger woods. And smiling. We havent seen that for him in recent years. Well be right back. Cue the pan0a cam. Giant panda me i shon has just given birth. Her labor began today but zoo experts werent sure when the baby would arrive. Were waiting to find out how the new cub is doing. This is her third surviving cub. Her second cub bao bao turns two tomorrow so they can share birthdays down the line if they want to. A programming note here. Last week nbc 4 led an initiative to help clear the shelter which is resulted in more than a thousand pets around here finding loving new homes. Well, join us in 30 minutes for our half hour special on this one day event. Natalie morales will share some of the success stories, tens of thousands of them across the country and the need still there. So thats in just a bit. Thats it for news 4 new york for now. Nbc nightly news is next. Well be here after the giants game, hope you are, too. Have a good evening. On this saturday night, takedown. How three americans tackled a gunman armed with an ak47 to prevent a possible massacre on a train. And what other weapons the suspect was carrying. Chaos at an airshow in southern england as a military jet slams onto a crowded highway. The terrifying moments all caught on camera. Out of control. Wildfires continue to grow in Washington State as a call goes out to volunteers to help fight those flames. Eye of the storm. Straight into hurricane danny. An elite will group of Hurricane Hunters takes us for an exclusive ride inside the storm as it barrels toward puerto rico. And Teacher Shortage. Across this country, School Districts scramble to fill a void in criticalot areas like math and science. The measure some cities are taking to alure teachers into their schools. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, erica hill. Three childhood friends are being hailed as heroes tonight as authorities try to determine just what the gunman they ckled was planning when he boarded a parisbound train friday night, carrying an ak47 and a handgun. Three Young Americans and a british man prevented a possible massacre. Belgiums Prime Minister is calling this a terrorist attack. While french officials have avoided that label, there are new signs for possible terror connections for the gunman. Kelly cobiella has more tonight from london. Reporter the strain is still moving chaotic seconds after a gunman is subdued. An ak47. The suspect restrained with a neck tie. Moments earlier, three childhood friends made a splitsecond decision, potentially i said basically lets go. And he went. And he tackled him. And he got cut by a knife after he tackled him. And at that point i showed up and grabbed the gun from him. Reporter National Guard alec s is kalatos were on vacation. The attacker boarded in brussels. And somewhere in northern france opened fire. But then reportedly the gun jammed. We just all ran back there and we tried to like do