Have is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im tony harris. Chaos on the macedonia border with greece today. Take a look. [ gunfire ] [ screaming ] special Police Forces fired as you can see here, tear gas and beyond that stun grenades to stop a wave of refugees from entering the country. Many have been camped out in a stretch of no mans land along the border with greece. Our correspondent is on the greek side of the border with macedonia. Ivan, what happened there this morning . The pictures are pretty frightening. Reporter yes, the chaos is the right word that describes what happens this morning. People are tired, people are nervous, many of them are are traveling more than two weeks, so no wonder that incident happened, because a lot of them are waiting here at the border more than three days. They tried to break through the police barricades, and force entry to macedonia. Macedonian police helped by Macedonian Army stopped them by using grenades and ten people were injured,
And war. A man about to go on a killing spree stopped in his tracks. I came to see my friends and my first trip in europe and we stopped a terrorist, its kind of crazy. American heroes on a train. We didnt know his gun wasnt working or anything like that. Spencer just ran anyway. They tell their story. Those three americans given credit for their role in stopping a suspected terrorist attack. They overran a man who was had a rifle and an ak 47. President obama said i wanted to thank the two brave individuals for preventing more tragedy staying place on this train, two reasons why on duty and off, ours is the finest fighting force the world has known. Airman first class Spencer Stone was stabbed, when he confronted the gunman. College student Anthony Sadler were all invited by Francois Hollande to the elysses palace on friday. The man had been confronted first by a french passenger then overpowered by a group of american travelers including off duty u. S. Military personnel. Their frien
More must be done to prevent a disaster. We begin with a refugee crisis in europe. They met to it discuss it. And as they met, there was more tragedy. Bodies of dozens of refugees were discovered in an abandon truck, east of vienna, and in the mediterranean sea, at least 30 people were killed as a boat sank. Dozens were rescued. At least 340,000 refugees landed in europe this year. Many travel the route that crosses the central and the east and them make the trek through the balkans. The refugees head to prance and britain and other countries in search of better opportunities and a better life. We have two reports for you. Reporter it looks like nothing out of the ordinary. A truck parked on the busy road leading into ver vienna, but ths is the scene of a crime. When the police approached, the dry was nowhere to be seen, and they saw blood seeping out of the back, and they were overwhelmed. [ audio difficulties ] our apologies. No idea what happened. But well get that fur. One nation h
This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Tropical storm erika is plowing a deadly path through the caribbean and heading for florida. In fact the governor declared state of emergency just about an hour ago. This church collapsing under the fury of the tropical storm. Officials say they have found 14 bodies and several people are still missing. Erika dumped 15 inches of rain on dominica. Power and Water Supplies have been knocked out completely. Lets bring in kevin corriveau. Kevin when might we expect to see the outer bands of this in florida . Based on what we know so far and based on the current track, we think sunday night well start to see the feeder bands, and then monday morning, very early it will make its way from the south up to the north, but theres still quite a bit of uncertainty. You can see the storm is really not well organized and they have moved it several different times over the last 48 hours, which changes all of the tracks ahead of it.
Once the Iran Nuclear Deal moves forward. The gulf coast remembers the wrath of one storm as another churns in the caribbean. Forecasters say Tropical Storm erica has the potential to dump several inches of rain on florida next week. As that storm moves west, the u. S. Is marking 10 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast. More than 1800 people died in one of the worst natural disasters in american history. Former president george w. Bush returned to new orleans today to praise the citys comeback. His administration was severely criticized for its response to the storm. Jonathan martin joirnzo joins us live from new orleans. Good evening, jonathan. How was the former president received . Reporter erica, good eveni eveninging to you. He was received pretty well by the people he came in contact with. Its important to point out this was a very brief stop for the former president. He made one stop here in new orleans at a Charter School, a Charter School he visited before on t