Now abc 7 news at 11 00 on your side. First at 11 00, a man with a history of Mental Illness and a prior arrest opened fire if a louisiana Movie Theater last night killing two people and injuring several others. Tonight we are learning more about the gunmans past and how he got that weapon. This as many are struggling to come to grips with the surge in Mass Shootings in our country. Ashley coleman is live with new developments on this case and how this tragedy is impacting what is a very busy time for theaters around here. Ashley. Ashley it is the start of the weekend when folks are headed to the movies and families are telling us their hearts go out to the victims in louisiana, but theyre not letting what happened there shatter their sense of security. It was a terrifying scene inside this louisiana Movie Theater. Everyone was just running down the stairs freaking out, climbing over chairs and people and everyone was screaming. Ashley police say 59yearold John Russel Howser stood up a
Daniel brown. Nbc 4 learned the second missing brother is doug brown the coowner of a restaurant here in d. C. Doug and his brother daniel went missing after a swim off Cove Point Beach in lusby last night. Daniel browns body was pulled from the water this afternoon. His restaurant just posted a message on their facebook book saying, it is closed due to a, quote, death in the family. The Brown Brothers went under water after struggling to swim against the tide. Searchers believe that doug brown is dead and will resume search efforts to recover his body tomorrow. We will send you updates on the Recovery Efforts from our nbc washington app. New tonight, the family of a volunteer firefighter killed by a drunk driver is honoring her memory in a very special way. Autumn Marie Jenkins family says it is on an Urgent Mission to stop drivers from getting behind the wheel and killing someone you love. Nbc 4s Darcy Spencer is in our newsroom now with their emotional story as police crack down on
Mid80s inland. We will talk about the back to School Forecast and a slight bump up in the temperatures coming up. Carolyn. Lisa, thank you many this morning sharp questions are being asked about how a man flagged with terrorism charges in france was able to border a train. Three american men stopped the attack and they are now International Heroes. French Authorities Say if not for the action of these three men, who grew up in sacramento, many people would have died. Melanie woodrow has the latest. Injured, but not defeated. Airman Spencer Stone waved to photographers as he left the hospital. Spencer is one of three men being called International Heroes for thwarting a terror attack on a parisbound train. Sacramento state senior Anthony Sadler is another, although he still questions the title. I would say my friend spencer is the heroe. I really just followed his lead. Once he got up, we just followed him. The third Army National guardsman, alek skarlatos, who said tackling the gunman
Good morning, everyone. Im Carolyn Tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, august 23rd. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. Hi, carolyn. Good morning, everyone. Still a lot of gray out there. A little bit of sun break at sfo but still delays offed minutes there. San jose waking up to cloudy skies and temperatures at around 60 trees. 64 Mountain View, and oakland at 62. Also at San Francisco and the coast. Today at the coast you may get some sunshine here with the temperatures in the 60s to near 70. Looking at midand upper 80s inland. We will detail the mini warmup coming your way in a few minutes. Thank you, lisa. This morning sharp questions are being asked about how a man flagged with terrorism charges in france was able to border a train. Three american men stopped the attack and they are now International Heroes. French Authorities Say if not for the action of these three friends, who grew up together in have died. Melanie woodrow has
Train cabin. Alex gave the initial command that thwarted terror on a train. I said basically, lets go. Heeding those words, his friend and airman spencer stone. Spencer ran a good ten meters to get to the guy, and we didnt know that his gun wasnt working or anything like that. Here he is walking out of the hospital, having survived those injuries. I showed up and grabbed the gun from him and weve basically started beating him in the head until he went unconscious. Passengers on the paris bound train helped tie up the 26yearolds moroccan gunman, later sur rounded by authorities. Spencer and alec were on vacation with anthony sadler. In the aftermath, we saw that a mans throat had been slit and he was bleeding profusely and sponsor who has some paramedic training just clogged up his neck, so he wouldnt die. The gunman had an assault rifle, knife and close to a dozen additional cartridges. I talked to spencer he said i would have been killed if it werent for alec. I talked to alec, and he