A story that sound like something out of a hollywood thriller that stars three very well american heroes. One is an air force airman, another an Army National guards man and a third is a pal from california they were traveling with on a train from anthony amsterdam to paris. Thats when the three americans jumped into action. Charlie dagata picks up the story. Reporter video that appears to be shot inside the train shows the suspect face down and tied up. You can see a rifle he was carrying and one of the american men who brought him down after seeing a french passenger first confront the gunman, 22yearold National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and his two friends moved in. I saw a guy entering the train with an a. K. And a handgun, and i just looked over at spencer and said, lets go, go. And he jumped up, and i followed behind him by about three seconds. Reporter u. S. Air force Airman First Class stone tackled the gunman, and skarlatos knocked him unconscious with the butt of his rifle. Fe
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
Im jim axelrod. We begin tonight in france with a story that sound like something out of a hollywood thriller that stars three very well american heroes. One is an air force airman, another an Army National guards man and a third is a pal from california they were traveling with on a train from anthony amm to paris. Thats when the three americans jumped into action. Charlie dagata picks up the story. Reporter video that appears to be shot inside the train shows the suspect face down and tied up. You can see a rifle he was carrying and one of the american men who brought him down after seeing a french passenger first confront the gunman, 22yearold National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and his two friends moved in. I saw a guy entering the train with an a. K. And a handgun, and i just looked over at spencer and said, lets go, go. And he jumped up, and i followed behind him by about three seconds. Reporter u. S. Air force Airman First Class stone tackled the gunman, and skarlatos knocked him
Katrina, a look back at the storm that devastated new orleans and part of the gulf coast. We begin night with unease by Global Investors as stocks start in the red. Markets in hong kong and china are dropping. Japans nikkei is dropping another amount as well. Slowing economy, the wall street journal says that chinese is pumping money into the markets to ease drops there. Week saw major lasts that followed 530 point drop. U. S. Markets havent tropped that far that quickly in four years. Were going to have much more on this story, coming up a little later in our broadcasts. We go to france where three american men are going to be recognized for acts of bravery, french president Francois Hollande will present them a medal of bravery, this man they subdeed wasubdued had hundreds s of ammunition. When most of us would run away, spencer, anthony and alex ran in. Is. It was either do something or die. Reporter Airman First Class Spencer Stone and alex scarlatos, are being recognized as heroes
This is al jazeera america. Ali velshi will join me in a memo. Catching their breath, the dow down 242 points, thats still a significant number. Uhhuh. The dow fell a thousand points at opening. This in response to a selloff in china. Shanghais Exchange Closed down over 8 over fears that the economy is slowing, seems to be the case, no doubt about that, oil prices are plummeting too. They are at a six year low. Ali is here. When you saw this, what did you think . You and i talked on friday after the markets closed. Down tick with high velocity. More selling. The only thing stopping the market from going lower was the clock. We knew asian markets would open lower, we didnt know the rate it would down tick. Erasing all of its gains for the year, its been down a lot lately, it was a hot market. As the sun moves fast, europe took another big hit and it reopened. What you saw was a finishing off like that this morning. Ive never seen a selloff, a thousand points but what is this about . Its