alec just hit me on the shoulder and said let's go. >> the three americans who helped on a train were celebrated as heroes. they were awarded the highest honor but said they acted out of instinct. >> the gunman would have been successful if my friend spencer had not gotten up in times of terror like that and said, please, do something, don't stand by and watch. wall street open on edge. investors brace for another down day after another big selloff overseas and friday's historic losses. >> oh, come on. >> summer slam becomes stuart slam.

former daily host john stuart hosts and gets in on the action at a wwe event. and double delivery. washington, d.c.'s giant panda gives birth to not one but two cubs. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, august 24th, 2015. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. get ready for another bumpy ride on wall street. this morning stock futures are down again following last week's massive selloff. china's devaluation of its currency two weeks ago triggered a global selloff that's wiped out more than $5 trillion of stock value worldwide. in asia this morning it's being called black monday. the shaping high index dropped 8.5% today, the largest percentage drop since 2007. tokyo's nikkei fell 4.6%. in the words of one analyst, there's no good news.

jill wagner's at the new york stock exchange where investors are on edge this morning as they wait for the opening bell. jill, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. last week wall street suffered its steepest drop in four years. for the week the dow lost 1012 points. the s&p dropped 119 and the nasdaq finished 338 points lower. the price of oil has dropped dramatically. and as cbs business news analyst jill schlesinger points out, this all started with the world's second largest economy, china. over the weekend beijing said it planned to let its main street pension fund downand most economists still believe the federal will raise interest

rates by the end of the year. it could slow down the economy and trigger even lower stock prices. anne-marie? >> jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. >> this morning three americans were awarded france's highest honor for disarming a herbally armed man on a passenger train last week. president francois hollande awarded the honors. brian webb reports. >> reporter: three americans who tackled an armed gunman on a high-speed train in belgium last week were reunited last week. alek skarlatos, spencer stone and anthony sadler were awarded the honors. they along with two passengers risked their lives to disarm ayoub el khazzani.

>> it looked like it was jammed or weren't working and he was trying to charge the weapon and alek hit me on the shoulder and said let's go. >> reporter: skarlatos said they acted mostly out of instinct. >> reporter: cell phone shows the 26-year-old man hog tied on the ground. sadler believes there's a lesson to be learned from the ordeal. >> the gunman would have been successful if my friend spencer had not gotten up in times of like terror like that to please do something, don't just stand by and watch. >> reporter: brian webb for cbs news, new york. >> by tomorrow french authorities must either charge of free the train attack suspect. he's being questioned outside paris. french and paris authorities say he is an islam extremist who may

have spent time in syria. they say he was homeless and was trying to rob passengers on a train to feed himself. and now to politics. there are increasing signs that vice president joe biden is seriously considering a run for the white house. on saturday biden met with massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, a favorite among liberal activists. she has not thrown her support to any candidate. >> i don't think anybody's been anointed. i think what's going on right now is that presidential candidates on both sides, republican and democrat, are laying out their agendas and this is going to give voters a chance to look at them and decide sfwhieden's advisers have been reaching tout potential donors. he's expected to reach a decision by late september. and it's back to work for president obama. the president returned to the white house yesterday following

a two-week vacation on martha's vineyard. topping his fall agenda, preventing congress from blocking the deal with iran's nuclear program. to that end senate democratic leader harry reid is throwing his support behind the nuclear deal with iran. officials in eastern washington state are keeping a close tab on wildfires moving in the direction of a defunct uranium mine. residents are warned to avoid breathing the smoky air. officials in washington say they're making progress against the massive string of fires in okanogan county. the fires have burned at least 337 miles and caused extensive damage. >> it's just a home. we got everything important. it's just a home. >> we got everybody out important to us and we just start and rebuild. >> reporter: there are so many fires occupying so many

firefighters that volunteers are being trained for fire duty. in california firefighters are battling a wildfire that broke out near the big bear ski resort. it's grown to at least 100 acres but is 27% contained. water cannons from the resort used to make snow are being used to fight the fire. schools in the area will be closed today. and tropical storm danny is losing steam as it heads west. now with maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour, the tropical storm watch for puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands has been lifted. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz is tracking the storm and a cooldown for millions of americans. >> we've been keeping a close eye on danny for several days now. at one point a strong hurricane category 3 but a wind shear has been tearing danny apart which is great news for anyone near the virgin islands, the leeward islands south of puerto rico.

winds decreasing, so wind not a big story. it could brick beneficial rain. drought rain would be a very good thick without damage from the wind. story in the west, we've got high pressure in control. the winds dying down in the northwest. without a wind smoke hanging in the air. it's going to be a dry week. we're not expecting much rain in helping the efforts. meanwhile some rain in the northeast. 60s and 70s around the great lakes. the u.p. of michigan staying in the 60s. very comfortable for the week. i'm architecture fisher for cbs news. this morning with there was a string of explosions and a large fire at a u.s. army depot in japan. no injuries were reported. the building that was reported was used to store nitrogen, oxygen, and freon. this morning any gauche igs

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washington, the giant began cub bao bao muched on a big birthday cake. she turned 2 years old sunday and it was quite a weekend for bao bao. she became a big sister two times over, her mother delivering a set of twins on saturday in washington, d.c. they're just the third set ever born in the united states, and their births give new hope to those working to save the endangered began population. jericka duncan has the story. >> reporter: 17-year-old may gave birth saturday night. five hours later a second. that's about the same size as a pack of star bursts. zoo director dennis kelly. >> this is very executing news and was a bit of a surprise for us, although we were prepared. >> reporter: for the next several weeks they will

alternate every 12 hours between the incubator and the mother. chief vetd nairian don neifer. >> honestly until the cubs are both out walk around acting normal and being a panda, that's probably when we'll exhale. names for the cuddly cubs have yet to be determined. these recent births give home to the people working to preserve the endangered species. according to the national zoo, there are fewer than 2,000 total p.a.n.d.a.s. captive and wild left in the world. when the pandas at the zoo reach age 4, they will be taken to china. jericka duncan, cbs news, nor. a surprising wedding. he married his fiancee. he was critically injured last year after a deadly highway crash in new jersey and he had to learn to walk again. he achieved the goal of walking his bride down the aisle without

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more than a hundred topless women and men marched in new york city. their protest comes as city officials debate the legality of topless women in times square who solicit payment for photos with tourists. current law allows both men and women to go topless. there were other topless protests across the country including one in minnesota. and scary moments for a pilot with a hydro plane boat in michigan. it went airborne yesterday during a race on the detroit river. the pilot said the wind and rough riverer conditions caused his boat to soar through the air. it landed right side up with heavy damage. the pilot said he injured his hand. and former president jimmy carter is back to teaching bible

class. sunday's talk was his first appearance at his hometown church in georgia since the announcement of his cancer diagnosis. he says he plans to keep working as much as he can. carter hopes to travel to nepal for service work in november if doctors allow him. video games are big business, but it's not just playing games that fans are interested in. video gaming has now become a spectator sport and it's becoming one of the biggest in the world. brian webb reports. >> reporter: madison square garden is home to the new york knicks, but at this championship there's no ball and no basket. instead the sold out crowd is cheering for ten guys sitting in front of computers. this is a league of legends video game north american championship with team solo mid taking on counterlogic gaming for the suminer cup. the fans are passionate and even dress up as game characters.

>> there's no better way to appreciate a character you play all the time than to be the character for the day. >> reporter: mullions watch the broadcasters a home with broadcasters and highlights. the host is coke. how much practice do you put in? >> 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day. >> reporter: there are more than a dozen other video games that are played on the professional level. >> the top pro earns are playing close to a million dollars. >> reporter: dustin beck makes it. he said 27 million people watch the 2014 u.s. world championship match. almost double the world series. after almost three hours, counterlogic came out on top. they now head to the world championship. brian webb for cbs news, new york. well, coming up after your

local news on "cbs this morning," a closer look at those three americans honored today for foiling an attack on a passenger train in paris or to paris, rather. plus, we'll meet an extreme adventurer who goes down into active volcanos. and we'll talk with one of the earliest hillary clinton supporters, amy klobuchar in minnesota. i'm anne-marie green. thanks for watching. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". pennsylvania's top prosecutor heads back to court on perjury charges. we are live at the courthouse where we'll learn if there is enough evidence to move this case to trial. >> also, philadelphia residents in the dark about the upcoming papal visit may get clear understanding, how they plan to release the so-called papal play book. >> the three americans who helped thwart a train attack in paris receives france's highest honor. we'll hear from that coming up. >> good morning, it is monday, august 24, i'm r kay von tiehl. we want your day started when traffic and weather together with katie and meisha. what beautiful weaken. i hope you got out to enjoy. >> oh, i sure d i couldn't go inside. i felt like sad going inside it was so