this morning on world news now shooting suspect. what we are learning about the man accused of firing a gun at the offices of a well-known conservative group. and why the security guard wounded in the attack is being called a hero this morning. it s thursday, august 16th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m john muller, in for rob nelson. i m paula faris. i have my highlighter handy. just in case. you didn t win the lottery. you are still here. i didn t win the lottery. trying to find out if some of our relatives did near flint. the winning ticket bought near flint. near flint. okay, so we have new details on the washington, d.c., shooting and the search for a motive in a moment. also this half-hour, we hear the moments of terror. we hear the 911 calls just released from that deadly sikh temple shooting near milwaukee.
mate. that choice, it was determined by the campaign, would be shared at beth myers home. she s a senior adviser to romney, who lives just outside boston. how do you get ryan to boston without being spotted? they did it quite covertly. ryan flew from chicago, we have learned, not to boston but two hours away to hartford, connecticut, where he was picked up in a rented suv by myers teenaged son, then drove for that private meeting that took place in the myers family home. ryan was not detected because he was wearing jeans, sunglasses, and a ball cap. and then on friday, how did they get ryan from wisconsin to virginia for this announcement that nbc news broke in the wee hours? they kept it secret until just hours before the announcement was made. well, paul ryan came home from a memorial service for the victims of the sikh temple shooting in wisconsin. he came home, reporters, including nbc s own embed
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special forces operators and meeting with local officials when the gunman opened fire. it is not the only time that week that supposedly a friendly killed a number of u.s. troops in afghanistan and stay there. we will be live from the pentagon in a moment. and syrian rebels say they are fighting in new neighborhoods and new tactics in aleppo, and this is following what the rebels call a tactical stronghold by rebels, and they were forced by jets and helicopters and tanks. the opposition activists say that 115 people have been killed just today across the country. many of them in aleppo. the british government meanwhile is planning to increase nonlethal aid to the rebels. so now in the absence of diplomatic progress, the united kingdom will do much more. we will expand our support to the syrian people, and the syrian political opposition with an extra 5 million pounds of nonlethal practical assistance. this will help protect unarmed opposition groups, human rights activi
from now on, we re going to look for a brighter fuehrer. we re going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, what happened today in the helmand province? we re told the soldier was part of a coalition force working on stability in the helmand province. they were going to meet some of their local afghan contacts when they were shot and killed. right now the isaf, the u.s. military is looking for the gunman, the man who shot and killed these troops. the taliban claims that the troops were lured in by an afghan police commander under the ruse of having dinner and being friendly when he turned on them