Good morning, everyone. Im Carolyn Tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, august 23rd. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. Hi, carolyn. Good morning, everyone. Still a lot of gray out there. A little bit of sun break at sfo but still delays offed minutes there. San jose waking up to cloudy skies and temperatures at around 60 trees. 64 Mountain View, and oakland at 62. Also at San Francisco and the coast. Today at the coast you may get some sunshine here with the temperatures in the 60s to near 70. Looking at midand upper 80s inland. We will detail the mini warmup coming your way in a few minutes. Thank you, lisa. This morning sharp questions are being asked about how a man flagged with terrorism charges in france was able to border a train. Three american men stopped the attack and they are now International Heroes. French Authorities Say if not for the action of these three friends, who grew up together in have died. Melanie woodrow has
Hurricane. The fearness pilots trying to understand the massive storm by gatt. Rg data from hurricane hurricane danny. And stop that ball, an unusual scene in ohio. Onlookers chasing a giant red ball rolling through the streets. What set it off . Today, saturday, august 22nd, 2015. From nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im peter alexander. Its the ball that has a lot of people talking today. Youre that guy chasing after it. Im wondering what you think youre going to do at that point. Its like seinfeld. And youre thinking where are the cameras . Its candid camera, what is going on. And theres your clue. Its made out of the same material that they use for rubber lycra. Our top story this morning is the americans who came to the rescue on a train bound for paris. Thart Authorities Say it could have been an unspeakable tragedy if these men hadnt stopped the gunman. Were learning more about how it all happened this m
A train full of people. Anthony sadler, Spencer Stone and alex are from the sacramento area. Sadler also lived in the bay area in pittsburgh for a while. Spencer stone is seen leaving the hospital. He was stabbed yesterday in the struggle. Chuck, these three men are now telling us exactly what happened on that train. Thats right. We are learning that it took Situational Awareness and split second reflexes to stop what could have been a deadly disaster from boarding that plane from amsterdam to paris. The high speed train full of passengers could have been a massacre if not for the immediate action of three young men who grew up together in carmike who saw a man later that scind as an islamic radical, known to authorities armed with an Assault Rifle running down the aisle. I looked over at spencer and said lets go. I ducked down and my feet, alex got up. Alex actually looked at what was happening. Spencer looked at what was happening and he said go get them. Spencer stone, airman first
Lifethreatening situation. Family of the young men hailed heroes cant wait to see them. Im so proud of him. He is such a good kid. The hay speed train could have been a massacre. The three young men grew up together in carmichael. Saw a man later described as an Islamic Radical known to authorities, armed with an Assault Rifle running down the aisle. I looked over at spencer and said, lets go. Go i ducked down on my feet, and alex looked at what was happening. Spencer looked at what was happening. Alex said to spencer, go get him. 23yearold Spencer Stone, air force Airman First Class tackled the gunman. Alex, 22yearold National Guardsman wrestled the gun away. The three beat the gunman with his weapon until he was unconscious. I came it see my friends on our first trip to europe and we stopped a tourist. Crazy. No one did anything to help even after they subdued the guy. He said it was frustrating that they attacked the guy, get him to the ground and subdue them and then help the other
It is burning through dead grass and dried brush and causing a lot of panic. This is happening west of clearlake. 20 miles west of where the rocky fire burned thousands of acres. At least three helicopters are dropping water on the fire hoping to stop the flames before they get out of control. It is unclear if officials have ordered evacuations. You can see it is burning close to homes. We talked to woman one not waiting for word from officials and she showed up to gate friends horse out it of the way. We have seen three huge fires lately. It is scary for peoples property, the animals, very concerned. Of course no word yet on how the fire started. They are looking in to that as they fight the flames. Weather playing a big part in this fire fight as it does in all fire fights. We heard word about some winds. Lets bring in rob right now. We have seen changing conditions and the third mayor fire in the area so far this summer. Right now 67 degrees. The High Temperature today was 91 degree