you that is great. >> it is monday. my mind is not working yet. >> we start with a fox news alert. honored for their bravery. the three americans that took down a gunman on a packed train heros. >> explaining why they didn't think twice about jumping in to help. katie is live with the breaking developments. >> the french government has been very quick to recognize the action of these three men. french president presented them with a legion of honor. he praised the men for their courage and quick thinking when they attacked a gunman who opened fire on a busy train. >> he never said a word. he basically came in and at that time didn't know if he would do

something or not. >> hit me p on the shoulder and said let's go. tackled him we hit the ground alec came up and grabbed the gun out of his hand while i put him in a choke hold. he just kept pulling out more weapons left and right. he pulled out a hand gun. a box cutter started jabbing at me with that. we let go. all three of us started punching him. >> spencer said he was i am self injured in that fight. he was stabbed in the hand. despite the injury he was able to give life saving first aid to a passenger. three men were able to restrain the 26-year-old more rock man can. he -- moroccan man. had the three men not taken the action they did many people could have died on the train, heather. >> kitty logan live. thank you. we have information about the gunman's back ties to

terror. he is a moroccan national living in spain. he was declared a terror threat after the charlie hebdo attack. he has traveled to syria to fight with isis. el-khazzani was being watched in france, belgium and spain. his attorney is dumb founded by the terror charges he was just trying to rob the train that's all. to the point that he was just trying to rob the train, it doesn't take 8 magazines to rob a train. >> el-khazzahni had a pi-- >> fighting for his life after being shot in the head. good samaritans credited with stopping the gunman from getting the latest for you.

>> louisiana state police say they know how and where a state trooper was shot on sunday. they can't figure out why. saying it makes no sense now. he is battling for his life after being shot in the head. the 43-year-old trooper was responding to a call about a man driving a dodge pickup trucker radically near bell city. the trooper spotted the vehicle stuck in a ditch. as he approached the truck to help the driver. police video shows the man getting out of the truck with a sawed off shot gunfiring at vincent shooting him in the head. >> i can hear him breathing in there. you are lucky. you are lucky, you are going to die soon. that's the words that came out of his mouth. >> police say the ladies and gentlemened shooter is kevin

dagel after good samaritans risked their own lives to detain him. two drivers stop their cars wrestled the shot gun from the gunman they use handcuffs to subdue him and use the trooper's radio to get help. >> the man has a shot gun in his hand and they stopped to help a treerp. i will never forget that. the trooper's licondition is critical and suffered nerve damage from the gunshot. more than anything trooper vincent needs prayer. kelly wright live for us. we will certainly do that. a u.s. army depot in japan lighting up the sky. look. drentsz saying they could hear

multiple blasts in the background. the army in japan saying the warehouse stored canisters like compressed gases like nitrogen and oxygen. no hazardous materials. the cause is still under investigation. a 2,000-year-old city in syria blown to bits by isis. they detonated a huge amount of explosives badly damaging a temple there. they had been routinely demolishing sites in the march across iraq and syria believing any artifacts two the birth of i islam should be destroyed they say. to the leblgs now. jeb combush heads to the comboerder as the immigration debate heats up along gop candidates. chris christie slamming donald trump's plan to deport millions of illegals while scott walker just tries to get it straight

apparently. good morning, rich. >> good morning, heather. a party going into the primary economic job approach is folk can youed on immigration. jeb bush who toured mcallen, texas this afternoon and discussed border security and immigration reform. meanwhile republicans continue to reacting to trump's calls to build a border wall and send mexico the bill and end birth right citizenship to those who come illegally. >> it is costing us billions a year. we don't even know how many illegals. i hear 11 million. i hear 30 million. the government has no idea. >> it is too simplistic the idea of building the wall, kicking everybody else and anti birth right citizenship. it all sounds appealing in some

respects to some folks but it is a complicated problem. >> wisconsin governor scott walker clarifies his position on birth right citizenship. he opposes changing the 14th amendment to have citizenship to those born to parents in the country illegally. last week he supported narrowing birth right citizenship before some what walking that back. >> joe biden throwing more fuel on the 2016 rumors. the president making an unscheduled trip with a private meeting with elizabeth warren. she is considered one of the top democratic endorsements. biden is leaning towards a run if he can put together a competitive campaign. it is scheduled in october. more speculation about a possible biden run. josh alcorn is a close family friend and an advisor for craft biden 2016. he says the vp has a lot of

support but the clock is ticking. >> i have covered the country the past three weeks talking to donors and activists they are enthusiastic to seeing him on the race. having him on the debate tabling is -- stage is an important decision. his time line will be what his time line is. it is not my job to speculate on that. i know beau wanted his dad to be president. he wanted that in 1988 and 2008. the biden family has generally seen first hand -- had a first hand view of what it takes to be president and the strain that it puts on your family. i think the vice president is weighing that as part of his deliberate tive process. >> hillary clinton's drop in the polls is fuelling a possible run. it is not about anything but fwied den.

while you were sleeping world markets plunging as the global selloff continues. china's main index taking a huge hit wiping out this year's gains has investors shaken by the selloff on wall street. oil prices also dropping to $40 a barrel. that's the lowest in six years. all eyes will be on wall street hoping to see the dow jones recover after 530 points on sunday that's the biggest drop in four years. the florida state attorney who gained national attention for casey anthony now in the middle of the ashley madison site. he signed up but claims he never had an affair. he will not be stepping down from the position. the class action lawsuit was filed against ashley madison. >> flying in style on your own

dime. several federal agencies spent an extra $1 million in your money in tax payer money in order to upgrade to first class. this happened between 2012 and 2014 according to the office of the inspector general. while upgrades are okay the agencies like census bureau and trademark office budged their expense reports to get a cushier flight. and we pay for it. >> if you are living on the east coast you need to grab an umbrella today. millions will be getting rained on. maria molina is tracking what we can expect today. >> good morning heather and ainsley. looks like the storm system across the eastern u.s. is going to be a slow mover. over the next few days you will have the risk to see showers and stormss in eastern u.s. the front already cleared through across parts of the plains. take a look at some of the

temperatures. it is much cooler hine the storm. middle 40's in places like rap tid city and 50's in kansas city and chicago. even further south into oklahoma tulsa looking at the temperature of 66 degrees. it feels more like fall out there across parts of the plains. ahead of the storm system feeling like summer in places like raleigh feeling like 90. quiet on the radar but expect the fires and storms to follow up later today. >> the time is 11 minutes after the top of the hour. pokey mond -- pokemon plotted f. >> what happened at the tail end of that race.

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should work toward finding a better with a i to protect the drivers. another tlifrightening cras the same track this one during qualifying run. >> that looks pretty scary, too. charlie kimball goes flying. he walked away with only a cut on his chin. dale ernhardt, jr. saying do i ever want to draw an indy car with an animation of tracy morgan shaking his head. a daring hike ends with two women falling to her death. tyler strandburg and kathleen nicks flipped 200 feet off of one of the tallest peaks. they were well off the normal route we are told. they were not using safety ropes. a friend they were with also slipped but landed on another ledge and called for help. poet women were experienced hikers. they were traveling through

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>> market on edge after the dow plummets. >> stocks are selling off around the world hitting your 401 k yet again. dow futures taking another 400 points. the index down 1,000 points last week. investors are worried about china. what that means for us right here at home. the chinese stock market closing down 8 and a half percent today. europe down sharply. we are watching u.s. futures tumble. 1 in 3 companies in the s&p 500 that's the index your 401 k likely tracks. they are down 20 percent from a recent high. they include apple, wal-mart, ford, general motors to name a few.

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morning. they made violent threats against the pokemon convention center in boston. they tell us 27-year-old james gum bow and 18-year-old kevin norton drove to the convention with several firearms a knife and hundreds of rounds of ammunitions. they posted a photo of the weapons with the caption ready for boston here we come. they posted about killing the competition. once again the two were arrested on friday. they are set to be arraigned here in boston later on today. jessica reyes live. >> another twist in rosie owe donald's run away daughter. >> make sure you know who is going to be the fall guy. >> the shocking words putting hall of famer chris carter in some hot water.

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>> they took on a terrorist in a packed train. now they are honored for their bravery. >> didn't seem like he was ready to fight to the end. so were we. >> why the attacker shouldn't have been traveling in the first place. >> a state trooper as he lay on the side of the road.

>> the good samaritans credited with taking down the shooter. another fan hit by a foul ball carried out of wrigley field on a stretcher. the brand new pressure on mlb to do more to protect our fans. "fox and first continues right now. >> good morning to you and welcome to "fox & friends first". i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. >> honored for their bravery the three americans who took down a gunman receiving the heist honor. kitty morgan is live with details.

they have not the president praised the men for their courage. they tackled the heavily armed gunmen. their actions avoided carnage. >> the gunmen who have been -- in times of terror like that please do something. >> he was stabbed in the hand during the fight. despite the injury he was able to give life saving fist aid to a fellow passenger. >> i went over and saw he was squirting blood at the left side of my neck. i was going to use my wetter first but i stuck two of my fingers in the hole, found what

i thought to be the artery pushed down and the bleeding stopped. said thank god. kept that position until the mare medparamedics dogot there. >> they restrained the 26-year-old moroccan. he is being questioned by anti terror police. nobody knows what could have happened had that attack continued but the belief is those men probably saved many lives. >> kitty logan live, thank you. new information on the background 26-year-old ayoub el-khazzani was being watched by authorities in three different countries in france, belgium and spain. the lawyer is dumb founded by the terror claims he was just trying to rob a train.

one of the heros who stopped him doesn't buy that for a second. >> to the point that he was just trying to rob a train. it doesn't take eight magazines to rob a train. >> he was armed with a rifle, a pistol and a box cutter. his lawyer said he found the weapons in a guard next to the train station in belgium. >> another fox news alert for you now. a louisiana state trooper fighting for his life after being shot in the head during a traffic stop. his attackers didn't get away thanks to heroic good samaritans. kelly wrieblth ght is live with details. >> a 13 year veteran with the state police is battling for his life right now. he is asking why everyone to pray for the critically wounded trooper. steven vincent was shot sunday while responding to a call about

a man driving a dodge pickup truck. the trooper spotted the vehicle and then approached a truck to help the driver get out of that ditch. the police video shows him getting out of the truck with a sawed off shot gun. >> i could hear him breathing. said you are lucky. you are lucky. you are going to die soon. >> the allege sheerter shooter kevin daigle who was arrested at the scene after the heroic efforts of passers by that stopped their cars wrestled the gun away from him and put him on the ground used the trooper's handcuffs to subdue him and used the trooper's radio to get help. they are hoping vincent recovers from his wounds.

>> i held his hands and i just prayed. i didn't know what else to do. i think that's what we need to do right now. >> trooper sin vent has a 9 the-year-old son and is from a law enforcement family. >> oklahoma city restaurant where police say a son killed his own father. mark coulds till low died of stab wounds. his own son attacked him with a steak knife after a heated argument inside the witnesses were able to pounce on the attacker as they rushed in to help him but it was too late. the son remains in police custody this morning. new overnight a police officer worked on new york mayor bill deblasio's security team is shot with a pellet gun outside of the mansion. the officer said she felt a wayne in her lower back as she got out of the car outside of the mayor's residence.

two 19-year-olds were taken into custody for questioning. deblasio was not home at the time of the incident. the man found with rosie o'donnell's missing teenaged daughter in new jersey now under arrest. 25-year-old steven sheerer is accused of sending sexually explicit messages to 17-year-old chelsea o'donnell. investigators found the messages when throsie gave permission to search her phone. sheerer faces obscenity and child endangerment charges. he is also a drug offender. this comes over a year after a tractor trailer slammed into morgan's limousine on the new jersey turnpike. his friend james mcnair was killed in the crash. teen hearts are breaking this morning. one direction is going in four

directions. >> our floor director is very upset about this. the british boy band is taking a break. starting next march all four of them will allegedly take at least a year to focus on solo projects. the band has been together for five years. breaking hearts. oh. there will be a comeback tour. >> late summer storms are popping up along the east coast. >> maria is in the weather center with more. >> the front we are tracking is quite a strong one. behind it we are noticing a big drop in temperatures and also a big drop in humidity levels. you can see the numbers 50's didn't minneapolis, chicago and down into cakansas city.

feeling more like fall than august. you will feel the humidity and also temperatures climbing into the 80's and 90's for some of you. otherwise seeing below averages across the great lakes region and parts of the upper midwest with high temperatures in the 60's and 70's. early this morning we don't have a lot of activity on the radar. you can see we have showers across southern parts of new mexico and extreme western parts of sex at thats. as t -- western parts of texas. you will see showers across the eastern midwest. not only today but as we head into tomorrow. we will keep you updated with that. i want to take you to the tropics. we have been tracking storm danny now still a prop cal storm. the welcome news is it will be bringing in areas of rain to areas experiencing drought across puerto rico and other areas through the caribbean.

heather and ainsley? >> the time is about 20 minutes until the top of the hour. harsh advice from governor mike huckabee. >> the dumbest thing is candidate can do right now... >> the one thing he says his republican rivals have to stop doing. indy car driver is in a coma after a wild crash at pocono raceway. what sent him spinning right into that wall. >> a high schoolan is barred from performing a christian hymn. how the fans respond will warm your heart this morning. ♪ how great thou art ♪ how great thou art when i went on to ancestry, i just put in the name of my parents and my grandparents. and as soon as i did that,

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>> gop candidates are jockeying to make their positions known. donald trump making his stance clear while scott walker keeps

changing his mind. good morning, rich. >> good morning, heather. gop frontrunner donald trump continues setting the gop discussion agenda prompt comments and clarification on their position. scott walker appeared to agree with trump the u.s. should narrow the birth right citizenship and stop granting to those born in the u.s. they walk that back before ultimately disagreeing with trump. >> my point is any discussion that goes beyond securing the border and enforcing laws are things that should be a red flag to voters out there who for years have heard lip service for politicians and are understandably angry because the politicians haven't been committed to following through on the promises.

>> this morning jeb bush will go to the border town of mcallen, texas. bush has been at odds with trump over immigration and several other issues. he's calling trump's immigration plan a too simplistic approach to a complicated problem. heather? >> rich edson live for us. presidential can dant and former governor mike huckabee telling his rivals what he thinks is the dumbest thing they can do for their campaigns. you don't worry about donald trump. he's a force to be reckoned with. you don't reckon with him. i quit answering donald trump questions. he's getting 10 times the amount of coverage that any other candidate is getting. the dumbest thing candidates can do is give him more coverage by answering the trump questions. i know what i am doing. i am talking about my campaign. my issues.

the things i am i am standing for. in time that's what's going to be more important than simply reacting to any other candidate. >> hall of famer coming under fire for giving this advice to rookies if they should get any legal trouble. >> if ya'll got a crew you got to have a fall guy in the crew. if you are gonna have a crew one of those fools need to know he's going to jail. >> we will get him out. get him out. >> the video from the 2014 rookie symposium surfaced after a recent espn story the nfl condemning the comments. seeing the video made me realize how wrong i was. i was brought there to educate young people instead i gave them very bad advice. a tennessee school district defending itself after backlash from students after a ban on all flags including the american

flag. this comes after the confederate flag controversy this summer. some students display the confederate flags on hear cars. if you want to fly a confederate flag, or a rain bow flag, it's a freedom of expression. i don't think you should be able to take that from us. >> in a statement to fox news they have said the total ban is not true. the flag is prominently displayed at ever rye school in our county. it is displayed in many of the classrooms. we will continue to fly and respect the flag. united stands. coming together after the high school ban is barred from performing it. >> ♪ then sings my soul my savior god to thee ♪ ♪ how great thou art ♪ how great thou art

>> everyone was more than happy to join in singing "how great thou art" at the brandon high school star. this is after they were fined for playing the hymn because a judge ruled the band was promoting christianity. that didn't stop the fans from fighting back in their own way as you can hear. >> that was wonderful. the time is about 10 minutes after the top of the hour. a mound of pressure after another fan is hit with a flying foul ball. the star pitcher calling for safety changes. where hunters caught a nearly,000 pound gator. that is scary. steve doocy joining us with what we are talking about on "fox & friends." tastes like chicken but a really chew we chicken. coming up on fox and friends,

two republican presidential candidates are here life. carly fiorina joins us and so does donald trump. stick around for that. plus we are kicking off back to school week for the hottest gadgets for kids that you send to school. there are things that will not break the bank. you can get a computer for 150 bucks. she has a new book out on paper back. we are celebrating national waffle day on the plaza. that's all ahead on this monday morning live from new york city. we will see you in about 12 minutes on your channel for news. "fox & friends first".

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a mound of pressure on the mlb after another fan is hit with a flying foul ball.

this time in chicago. >> we got a lot of dragon flies in the ballpark. the ball hammered by swharmer. hopefully everybody is all right. >> a woman was hit in the head in a line drive. she was sitting a few roads from the field at the braves-cubs game and at the tigers. a total of nine people have been hit this season raising questions about fan safety in the stands. tigers starter justin verlander tweeted more protective measures need to be taken place in all ballparks. players are sick of seeing injuries that could easily be avoided. mlb should make changes before

it's too late. an indy driver suffering a severe head injury after this nasty crash at pocono raceway. >> gone! . >> that's a hard hit right there. >> driver justin wilson hit by a large piece of debris which broke off another driver's car. it hit wilson and flew into the air. he was airlifted by a helicopter. he is now in a coma. the death toll now rising after a horrifying crash at a british air show. 11 people now dead after a vintage plane plunged on to a highway and burst in flames. officials still combing through and removing debris today. the pilot is still fielting for his life in critical condition. a british tourist alone in the australian outback is safe

thanks to a desperate message. see the word help scrawled into the sand to an australia beach. it is what brought search crews to the 63-year-old's location. he was hoisted to safety, treated for exhaustion, dehydration and cuts to his face. you can call this a miracle. a joy ride turns into a nightmare. it all began when a rented plane suddenly had to make an emergency landing on a beach down in florida. the pilot who was flying with another passenger saying the engine stalled. they were able to land on an empty section of the beach. very lucky. a record-breaking catch down south, scott evans and jeff and justin gregg hauling a 920 pound alligator in alabama.

the biggest weight over 1,000 pounds. they plan to mount it for display. >> oh, my gosh. that's huge. >> just his head is huge. it's six minutes till the top of the hour. fears of a free fall, how the global markets are reacting this morning after a wild week on wall street. and the plan to let visitors swim with the tigers. i don't see anything wrong with that. ♪ ♪

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why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. it is about two minutes before the top of the hour. before you leave the house, here's what's happening for you today. three american heroes who stopped the paris train gun man receiving france's highest honor tonight. the suspect claims his intent was robbery not terrorism. all eyes on wall street has stocks sell off around the world hitting your 401(k) again. u.s. futures tumbling. time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. >> michael jordan donating nearly $9 million awarded to him in a lawsuit. a super market had to pay him for using his image without

permission. the usda says the zoo is treating the animals. he forcefully opens an emergency door and insists on boarding. that wraps it up. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> today is monday, august 24th, 2016. iex anna kooiman. it's a fox news alert, the american heroes receiving the nation's highest honor this morning and now they are telling us exactly what happened. >> his intentions were pretty clear. >> we were ready to fight till the end. >> it was either do something or die. >> the gunman saying it wasn't terrorism. a live report ahead. >> yeah, wait till you hear what it was. and you are going to