Heroes were given medals. And the americans getting a personal thank you call from president obama. Frances president will thank him and his friends in person. Tonight, french media are reporting that the suspect traveled to syria and had been flagged as an extremist in belgium, sprain, and germany. Nbc news has not confirmed that. Already some european leaders are calling for an emergency meeting to talk about how to make trains more secure. Erica . Kelly cobiella dont. Kelly, thank you. Dramatic pictures of a fiery military jet crash during an airshow today. Several people were killed when the plane slammed onto a highway in southern england. Spectators looked on in horror. That entire event was also being streamed online. Warning, some may find thue moment of impact disturbing. Reporter it quickly turned tragic. The whole thing captured live as it plummets into a busy highway, exploding into a ball of fire and thick, black smoke, killing at least seven on the ground, the pilot in cr
School districts scramble to fill a void in critical areas like math and science. The measure some cities are taking to lure 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 tackled 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 as they capture the chaotic seconds after a gunman is subdued. An ak47. The suspect restrained with a neck tie. Moments earlier, three childhood friends made a splitsecond
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
[chanting] the people want the fall of the regime and protests sweep the lebanese capitol beirut for the second day. Hello, start of a new week but the worlds Financial Markets looks like the same story fears of a slow down in the worlds biggest economy are continuing to spook markets in asia and europe after the big drop and sent global commonty prices and currency tumbling. The shanghai index wiped out its entire gains for the year dropping 8 1 2 at closing time on monday, the sharpest fall since 2007 and that had a Ripple Effect across the asian markets and the niki the biggest since 2014 and 5 trillion dollars has been wiped off the market since china devalued its currently earlier this year. Crude oil has fallen below 45 a barrel and currencies across asia are badly hit as well. In india it takes more than 66 to buy a dollar, that is a twoyear low. Adrian brown has more from beijing. Reporter shanghais stock market is a very scary place. Within minutes of the market opening today
State that the Government Policies are making it impossible for them to grow their crops. Hello, marathon talks between north and south korea have ended in agreement defusing a crisis that pushed them to the brink of armed conflict. Earlier police broke up protests in the border area where negotiations have been taking place. A south Korean News Agency reported that the north expressed regret over a land mine incident that wounded two south korean soldiers this month. Both countries militaries have been on alert after a brief exchange of fire at the border on thursday. Live now to seoul and our correspondent harry fawcett. Harry tell us more about this agreement. What more do you know . Reporter well i. T. Was about two hours ago that the chief National Security advisory to the president here, park geunhye he was the person who came before reporters and said that an agreement had been reached and as far as he was concerned it was an indication of south koreas tough negotiating line. He