. a michigan airport officer is recovering this morning after being stabbed in the neck by a man in what officials are calling a possible terror attack. according to authorities, a man from canada stabbed a man with a large knife yesterday outside a tsa area at bishop international airport in flint, michigan. they say that he allegedly shouted god is great in arabic and blamed the united states for deaths in syria, iraq, and afghanistan before the attack. multiple senior law enforcement officials telling nbc news that the suspect who first entered the u.s. last friday was not in any fbi databases prior to the incident. officials are saying that they believe the attack was an isolated incident. he is charged with violates at an international airport and other charges could follow. let s turn now to the weather once again. tropical storm cindy barrelling towards the gulf coast. let s get another check of the weather with bill karins. we found out that cindy had weakened to 40 miles
here. thank you. bret: when we come back, new information about what the russians were after when they tried to hack the election. plus terror in the homeland after a man stabs an officer at a michigan airport.
airport s offices, officers were getting ready to have a meeting, so within seconds, three to four officers were here, helping lieutenant neville, but the first person to respond was in airport maintenance worker, who was standing here talking to lieutenant neville, when the attack occurred, into the airport officials are now crediting him with possibly saving neville s life. i believe he saved jeff s life. i believe you know, i am proud of all of our responders, especially proud of him because he jumped up there, and he did something that is courageous, i would like to say we would all do the same thing. anyway, we just spoke to the hospital a short time ago, we are told that officer neville is now in good condition, he is in good spirits, spending time with his family in the hospital, communicating with them as normal, very good news to hear. melissa: what more are we learning about the attacker? well, we learned that he had his initial court appearance last night, we learned
worse. we learned that i want to show you where this all took place. fbi officials tell us that shortly before 9:00 a.m., he should appear at the airport. he was carrying two bags, he came up the escalator, he came over to this restaurant, where he spent about 20 minutes, and i want to show you here s the security area here, so this is before he would have reached any tsa agents or anything along those lines. after 20 minutes, he came over here to the bathroom, with his two duffel bags, and then moments later, he came out with a 12-inch hunting knife, lieutenant jeff neville was standing somewhere around this area, and that is when we are told that he yelled, the attacker yelled allahu akbar and he is a step of the officer in the neck. it is yet to be cleaned up. thankfully, all of this displayed right in front of the
astronomically, and here to washington descent, they are talking about over 50% increases, and it is because of the failure of obamacare. melissa: is the question. we will see you, senator, thank you for spending time with us, and thank you for your essay. thank you very much. melissa: so here is a lie look at the centers, trying to go about business, after unveiling the draft of a new health care bill. and dozens of people staging a dine in in front of the senator majority leader s office. we will take you there. plus we are awaiting a briefing on the fbi for the ninth attack on a police officer at a michigan airport, was this an act of terror? e playing. -what? -we gotta go. -where? -san francisco. -when? -friday. we gotta go. [ tires screech ] any airline. any hotel. any time.