again from neighboring fort hood back in november of 2009 when he stormed into a soldier processing center wielding two happened guns. witnesses allege they heard him el al law akbar which is arabic for, god is great and they opened fire on our innocent soldiers. back to you. alisyn: do they think abdo was close to pulling this off? absolutely. authorities during a press conference yesterday had it not been for courageous and quick actions after local gun store employee who noticed what he described as abdo s strange behavior asking him i want to buy buy six pounds of smokeless gunpowder how do i use it? when he noticed red flags he notified authorities. because of that, authorities say this outcome was much different. alisyn: thank goodness for him and for alerting authorities. absolutely. alisyn: kris gutierrez, thanks for the update. we re also getting new details today on an epic story of survival.
according to people on the inside, mr. boehner is apparently meeting with mcconnell. they have spoken with mr. biden. they are talking about if at the very last minute, nothing is solved, short term deal. yeah. 30 days, could be 60 days. coming up later on the show, maybe we ll talk about this 14th amendment, too, and will the president have to pull that trigger? this story maybe hasn t gotten as much attention as it should have because of the whole debt ceiling discussion in the last couple of days but do you know there was another plot to attack fort hood allegedly by this member of the u.s. military right here. he is a muslim man named naser abdo. he went in to buy a bunch of ammunition. smokeless gunpowder and thanks to the employee who worked at this guns galore store in kilene, texas he was a retired police officer and didn t think something was right. he called authorities and helped to thwart this attack.
so you are used to having keen observations. what did you notice on that day? it was something from the very beginning, right? i think our first concern or what drew our attention to the young man was the fact that he arrived at the business in a commercial taxi. why was that odd to you? it just seemed out of place. we don t often have people come to the store in taxis. it wasn t a major issue at the moment. we just through the surveillance system at the store, we re able to see the taxi pull in for the lot, the driver got out. he was kind of milling around the vehicle and we just thought it kind of out of place. right, then you got the sense that he probably didn t know exactly what he was buying because he asked you for smokeless gunpowder. why would that be a red flag?
a soldier processing center wielding two happened guns. witnesses allege they heard him el al law akbar which is arabic for, god is great and they opened fire on our innocent soldiers. back to you. alisyn: do they think abdo was close to pulling this off? absolutely. authorities during a press conference yesterday had it not been for courageous and quick actions after local gun store employee who noticed what he described as abdo s strange behavior asking him i want to buy buy six pounds of smokeless gunpowder how do i use it? when he noticed red flags he notified authorities. because of that, authorities say this outcome was much different. alisyn: thank goodness for him and for alerting authorities. absolutely. alisyn: kris gutierrez, thanks for the update. we re also getting new details today on an epic story of survival. pilot michael trapp cheated death twice. first when his plan crashed
it was something from the very beginning, right? i think our first concern or what drew our attention to the young man was the fact that he arrived at the business in a commercial taxi. why was that odd to you? it just seemed out of place. we don t often have people come to the store in taxis. it wasn t a major issue at the moment. we just through the surveillance system at the store, we re able to see the taxi pull in for the lot, the driver got out. he was kind of milling around the vehicle and we just thought it kind of out of place. right, then you got the sense that he probably didn t know exactly what he was buying because he asked you for smokeless gunpowder. why would that be a red flag? well, the majority of people that reload their own ammunition