Heroic acts on the battlefield are usually just told by one soldier to another. Theres a video record of one Army Captains bravery during an ambush in afghanistan. The videotape helped show his courage and humanity on the day that president obama awarded him the medal of honor. Heres abcs martha raddatz. Reporter the sun had not yet risen when captain will swenson and his men made their way into an afghan village. Thats when it happened we start receiving fire. [ gunfire ] reporter an ambush. Pinned down, swenson returned fire for 90 minutes. His men hit. Sergeant first class kenneth westbrook, bleedsing from the neck, losing consciousness. Bullets all around him. The enemy so close, they called out for the americans to surrender. Swenson ran to westbrook, lobbing a grenade and carrying him the length two of football fields. A helmet cam captured the moment. That is swenson, his helmet off, risking his life by being out in the open, using an orange tarp to guide the helicopter in. He h
Wented . A 12 year old committed suicide. A teen punished for helping a friend get home safely. Parental guyedance on huckabee tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. Thank you, and what a great audience we have here. Thank you all and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. Well, did the republicans make a heroic stand as in the a la moor porly assault by little big horn by a failed general and ignored the scouting reports of the strength of the opposition and made a suchgz assumptions that proved not to be true. In the alamothey fought to the death. Republicans launched the plan that was not of Battle Tested generals but newest rekrauts. Blame the press and liberals and ones own team was the analysis of those who thought it wise to charge up the hill but without following the counsel of jesus who admonished to count the cost before starting a law. Liberalism is not destroying the Republican Party. Compared to the most conservative democrats ther
Successful . Could it be the way your pillow faces or a nighttime walk . Fox friends begins right now. Hey, good sunday morning, everyone. Welcome in to fox friends. Get your coffee and get out of bed. Do you have a nighttime ritual . I get my outfit ready for the day before. Every night . Not the night before. I go into tuckers room, he likes to hang its unusual and elaborate. Let me put it that way. How about you . I just read a little bit. My wife has a 20 minute procedure. Can you please just get into bed. Well have more on that. All right. Were going to get right to your sunday morning head lines. Finally the man hunt weve been telling you about is over. Two convicted killers who escaped the florida prison on bogus paperwork are back behind wars. Charles walker and Joseph Jenkins were found hiding out in a Panama City Hotel room. They gave up without resistance. An interview with one of their associates helped pinpoint their location. The two fugitives were serving life sentences
So possible progress this morning in a Longterm Nuclear standoff. Iran in direct talks with the u. S. About scaling back its nuclear ambitions. Were live. It was awesome, there were people sprinting to go and see this fish. It was awesome. It is a rare 18foot sea monster discovered off the coast of california. How one snorkeler made the discovery of a lifetime. Everybody is excited. Thats one weird looking fish right there. I dont want to call it ugly because i dont want insult it. I dont think it cares. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. And im score ride za sambolin. Its wednesday, october 16th, and its 4 00 a. M. In the east. Were pretty much there, folks. Pretty much deadline day. Just a few hours to go before his country flies head first in the debt ceiling where the u. S. Begins to run out of money to pay its bills. This morning, all eyes were on the leaders of the senate to work out an additional deal. We pretty much know the parameters of this plan.
Downgrade, lowering americas sterling financial status in the world. And all because hard line members of congress have brought the u. S. To the brink. So, what does this mean for a frustrated nation tonight . We have two reports, starting with abcs chief business correspondent, rebecca jarvis. Reporter it is a warning shot to the nation. Fitch, one of the major agencies that judges americas financial health, saying tonight that americas aaa credit, among the best in the world, is now in danger of being lowered because the political brinkmanship could increase the risk of a u. S. Default. A startling warning that, because of the showdown in washington, america may not be able to pay what it owes. The deadline is looming. Rating agencies are talking about downgrading us as early as tonight. Again. Reporter two years ago, when one of the big agencies downgraded america, it triggered one of the worst days for your money in wall streets history. The dow plummeting 635 points. A 401 k worth