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
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 morning, one
French town of arah, the gunman taken away in bare feet is now in french custody. The french mayor handed out medals for bravery and president obama hailed their, quote, heroic actions. In the aftermath, we saw that a mans throat had been slit and he was bleeding profusely and spencer, who has some paramedic training, just clogged up his neck so he wouldnt die because he was losing a lot of blood. Another attack that could have had a different ending. He leaves here a young man on an excursion and he comes back a Frances National hero. Still wrapping my head around that. Spencer stone, his friend is still in the hospital this morning. Hes expected to recover and so is the frenchamerican passenger e he helped to save. Just in the past few minutes, the French Interior minister has spoken out saying they are not ready to identify the suspect, but they believe he may be a 26yearold o 26 26yearold moroccoen origin. Kelly, thank you. There was a similarly scary scene, this one in new york ci
Right now we know of at least 116,000 homes without power. Those numbers will obviously change. But i just want to hit home this point, that everything about sandy is huge. You see the system. This is on your screen here. The wind field, this is something well talk to chad about, the wind field roughly 900 miles wide, 60 Million People all the way from North Carolina to maine could be affected by this hurricane. About 61,000 National Guard troops have been deployed. The president making the point that a lot of the resources, as best as they can, have been prepositioned in anticipation of this storm. 87 billion worth of homes reportedly at risk. And in manhattan, the New York Stock Exchange closed today and we know it will be closed tomorrow. Also shut down, amtrak, subways in new york, washington, d. C. , philadelphia, and in boston. And at the top of the hour here we can tell you now that new yorks holland tunnel and the brooklyn battery bridge are shutting down, closing. No traffic t
Concert venue. One Aviation Fuel tank was hit, that fuel tank is along the airports western perimeter. From our calculation its about 766 yards away from the gunmans position at the mandalay bay hotel. He fired first, they believe hefired first at that fuel tank before he fired at the concert venue, that fooul tank we believe is 766 yards away from his position. The spokesmans for the airport tell us two rifle rounds did hit the fuel tank and one over the rounds went inside the tank but did not cause any explosion. The spokesman reiterating that gun shots do not ignite jet fuel, so it did not cause an explosion. That was a 43,000 barrel tank, john, this shooter took aim at before he fired on the concert venue. A source telling us about a note found in the room, it contains only numbers, not letters or words. Theyre analyzing that tonight, only numbers on that note no letters or word according to our source. We now know about the timeline lieding up to the shooting, what do you know abo