a story that sound like something out of a hollywood thriller that stars three very we ll american heroes. one is an air force airman, another an army national guards man and a third is a pal from california they were traveling with on a train from anthony amm to paris. that s when the three americans jumped into action. charlie d agata picks up the story. reporter: video that appears to be shot inside the train shows the suspect face down and tied up. you can see a rifle he was carrying and one of the american men who brought him down after seeing a french passenger first confront the gunman, 22-year-old national guardsman alek skarlatos and his two friends moved in. i saw a guy entering the train with an a.k. and a handgun, and i just looked over at spencer and said, let s go, go. and he jumped up, and i followed behind him by about three seconds. reporter: u.s. air force airman first class stone tackled the gunman, and skarlatos knocked him unconscious with the but
tonight. good evening and thank you for joining us on this saturday. i m cecilia vega. we begin with that heroic moment on a high speed train, two american servicemen and their friend on vacation in france praised for stopping what could have been a mass killing. tonight this video inside that train. there s the attacker tied up. those americans beating him with his own rifle. one of them seriously hurt in the takedown, and we are learning more about these heros, their quick decision to act. today president obama calling each of them to thank them for their courage. abc s ron claiborne leads us off. reporter: spencer stone waved as he left the french hospital tonight where he had been treated for cuts to his neck and hand sustained in a furious struggle with the heavily armed suspect on that high speed train. this video showing the dramatic scene on the train. stone, shirtless and bleeding, tending to another passenger. his attacker, the gunman, tied up a few feet away, n
a story that sound like something out of a hollywood thriller that stars three very we ll american heroes. one is an air force airman, another an army national guards man and a third is a pal from california they were traveling with on a train from anthony amsterdam to paris. that s when the three americans jumped into action. charlie d agata picks up the story. reporter: video that appears to be shot inside the train shows the suspect face down and tied up. you can see a rifle he was carrying and one of the american men who brought him down after seeing a french passenger first confront the gunman, 22-year-old national guardsman alek skarlatos and his two friends moved in. i saw a guy entering the train with an a.k. and a handgun, and i just looked over at spencer and said, let s go, go. and he jumped up, and i followed behind him by about three seconds. reporter: u.s. air force airman first class stone tackled the gunman, and skarlatos knocked him unconscious with t
good evening and thank you for joining us on this saturday. i m cecilia vega. we begin with that heroic moment on a high speed train, two american servicemen and their friend on vacation in france praised for stopping what could have been a mass killing. tonight this video inside that train. there s the attacker tied up. those americans beating him with his own rifle. one of them seriously hurt in the takedown, and we are learning more about these heros, their quick decision to act. today president obama calling each of them to thank them for their courage. abc s ron claiborne leads us off. reporter: spencer stone waved as he left the french hospital tonight where he had been treated for cuts to his neck and hand sustained in a furious struggle with the heavily armed suspect on that high speed train. this video showing the dramatic scene on the train. stone, shirtless and bleeding, tending to another passenger. his attacker, the gunman, tied up a few feet away, not moving.
i m jim axelrod. we begin tonight in france with a story that sound like something out of a hollywood thriller that stars three very we ll american heroes. one is an air force airman, another an army national guards man and a third is a pal from california they were traveling with on a train from anthony amm to paris. that s when the three americans jumped into action. charlie d agata picks up the story. reporter: video that appears to be shot inside the train shows the suspect face down and tied up. you can see a rifle he was carrying and one of the american men who brought him down after seeing a french passenger first confront the gunman, 22-year-old national guardsman alek skarlatos and his two friends moved in. i saw a guy entering the train with an a.k. and a handgun, and i just looked over at spencer and said, let s go, go. and he jumped up, and i followed behind him by about three seconds. reporter: u.s. air force airman first class stone tackled the gunman, a