that was making the way from amsterdam to paris. what we understand is that according to a british national earli earlier, he explained how he tried to help out and how he had to be the fourth person to help out. >> i am relieved that no one got killed. it could have been a real problem. there's no question about that. >> i am really proud of my friend that he just reacted so quickly and bravely. he was really the first one over there after being injured himself. he went to help the other man that was bleeding also. without his help, he would have died. that man was bleeding from his neck. he just went over there and saved his life as he was bleeding himself. >> spencer ran a good ten meters to get to the guy. we did not know that the gun was not working. if anybody would have gotten shot, it would have been spencer for sure. we're lucky that no one got killed especially spencer. >> we called him, and he is doing great. >> he is in good spirits. he is in disbelief that it happened himself. >> okay. so you're listening to two of the

it was a public trip generally including a stop in paris.i'll let dick give some of the color of how we managed to pull that secret negotiation off in paris on our way back. this is before the president announced. >> secret trip to china. >> we stopped off in paris publicly. dick, you might explain how we managed to have a.zñu secret negotiation in paris. >> well, we had henry having dinner with an attractive young lady who was a correspondent in paris, and that provided a cover for our business because since he was having this dinner with this woman, nobody suspected that he might also be having a negotiation with the vietnamese. >> he was wildly criticized. everybody knew that leonard toe was in town. >> and why is henry seeing this woman who was a reporter for "the new york times" or one of these papers, why is henry having dinner with this woman instead of meeting with leonard toe. this is the kind of mood that existed at the time it was crazy. there was one very important point which i think i focused on more than anybody else, though

on friday between paris and amsterdam. in northernopped france with one wounded person being brought out. a passenger contacted by telephone said the the was with a train official. >> italy we had to stop because there was a man with a kalashnikov. witnesses say the shooter was restrained by two u.s. passengers. person seniorred several months ago. apparently his injuries were light. officials are working to find out the cause of the incident. this shows the alleged shooter being carried out by police. the situation has been brought under control at all passengers are safe. tom: we will keep a close eye on development regarding that attack on a paris train and bring you more as soon as we get it. to the latest of elements in europe's escalating migrant crisis. right place in macedonia fired stun grenades to drive back refugees trapped in an immense land between greece and macedonia. -- a no man's land between greece and macedonia. the country said it would grant a limited number to the most vulnerable categories of migrant

paris. thank you, greg. here with me now is john scott, anchor of "happening now," a pilot himself. this was breaking during your show. talk to me about the current and how this would have moved at least one piece of debris that far away from the supposed search site. >> as you know the earth is always spinning and that helps generate currents in the ocean so there is this huge counter clockwise current in the indian ocean. if the plane went down in roughly the area where they think it did, if you look on the ocean graphic maps the currents then travel from that general area north along the west coast of australia, to the indian subcontinent and then back south along the coast of africa. that's where reunion island is and where this piece of debris washed up. >> you're a pilot. talk a little about the flaps on this wing and what we might hear in fact from the french prosecutor about exactly what position that flap was in in the condition that at least they found it when they found that piece

he went to paris at the end of 1918 to engage in the negotiations at the paris peace conference. when he went abroad, he was heralded as a great savior in december of 1918. the crowds in paris and london and rome, all the great cities of europe he visited right before the peace conference, people came out in the hundreds of thousands to greet wilson. he was a real hero. by the time he wound up leaving paris in june of 1919, permanently, he was being scorned and ridiculed and personally he couldn't wait to leave. and when he return eed home, th league and the treaty seemed to have the majority support of the american people, at least judged by newspaper editorials and magazine editorials. but his foes in the u.s. senate assailed wilson's handiwork, the treaty of versailles and particularly the league of nations and impaled him to go on a nationwide tour to drum up support for the league of the nations and the treaty during which; of course, he was strict within a terrible stroke and inka ka pass tated for the rest of his presidency. even in his personal life, wilson was a very con

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stuart: here are the made headlines for you live from paris. francois hollande welcomes president barack obama's newly announced climate change plan for the u.s., saying it is a major attribution ahead of the climate change conference to be held here in paris. 121,000 acres of land now burns in california as wildfires sweep across the region. thousands of homes have been evacuated. in pakistan, a convicted child killer is executed despite a storm of protests from rights groups that he confessed after being tortured and that he was only a minor at the time of the crime. business news with stephen. at this time yesterday we were telling you about greece, and today another bad day on the greek market. stephen: yesterday we saw the record fall in the greek stock markets. we have seen positive territory this morning, but the composite index was down by 1.3%, as you can see. the head of the greek stock exchange saying this shows the market is now normalizing after that huge fall of 16% monday. greece's banks are still taking another beating. tourism-

neighbors in paris know one another and sleep with their doors unlocked. >> three words to describe parisconservative, agricultural, and small. >> on a mid-summer's night in 1986, the easy calm of paris was shattered by a fire at the home of dike and karen rhoads. inside, firemen discovered the lifeless bodies of the newly wed couple. but they soon realized the rhoads had been killed by something other than smoke and flames. >> dyke and karen rhoads had been stabbed numerous times. what they had on their hands was a murder that attempted to be concealed by arson. >> yesterday, authorities were suspicious. today they are certain. 28 year old dyke rhoads and his 25-year-old wife karen were murdered. edgar county state attorney says they are dealing with more than just a fire. >> this was a horrific crime. it seemed to be a crime of great anger and great passion. >> why dyke and karen rhoads? they're both very clean cut. they both had jobs. there was talk in town that dyke was a bit of a partier, but he wasn't involved in any bad stuff. >> with no clear motive, police struggled throughout th

just for amsterdam and paris from. paris they were going to break off and i was probably going to head back to germany. >> how did you know these guys? >> well, spencer and i have been neighbors since we were four or five years old. we literally have grown up together. our mothers still live next door to each other in the same houses. and anthony met spencer and i in middle school and i mean we have -- spencer and i have been friends for the whole time and anthony as well. it's just we haven't been able to stay in that close of contact lately just because i have been in afghanistan. spencer has been in azors and we just haven't been around sacramento to see anthony. >> okay. whose idea was it to finally get together and go to europe together? >> it was spencer and my idea. i have wanted to do something like that for a long, long time. and coming off the deployment while spencer was in azors seemed like the perfect time to do it. it's like there is no way i'm not going to do this. i'm doing this trip, if you want to com

we are broadcasting live from paris. the german parliament overwhelmingly approved the greek bailout. , 104 votes for against. time police offer a reward of more than 25,000 euros for any information about the bangkok bomber. authorities are still hunting down this man who they believe is the suspect. the number of migrants looking for the european eldorado keeps increasing. last month alone, one in 107,000 people reached the eu border. aurore: the bundestag has given its green light for a third i allowed for greece. german mp's have approved the 86 billion euro rescue package. our correspondent has followed the debate at the german parliament, and he tells us the bailout approval was largely expected. -- 77%, that is what we expected after the debate, where the general consensus was this bailout was far from being perfect, but it was also seen in the bundestag that greece had made a real change of stance, having accepted its responsibility, having seen the need for the reform. -- whatin the bundestag was most significan

the paris council says that the point of paris plages -- to cancel the event would be to give in to radicalization. you can read about it in "the huffington post your." in article lashes out against what it calls knee-jerk reaction against anything related to israel. "let's not makes everything up. a city, tel aviv, is not a state. it is not israel. on top of that, if there is one place in the world where there is a yearning for freedom and peace, it is in fact tel aviv." annette: in ferguson, missouri, it is once again in the spotlight as protesters mark the one-year anniversary of michael brown's death. flo: and there were skirmishes between protesters and police. you can read details in "the washington post." local authorities declared a state of emergency in the ferguson area, that there was fresh violence between protesters and police. "the washington post" talks about a state of emergency and a state of frustration. many locals feel like not enough has changed since august of 2014, when michael brown's death took place. to quote one activist there, "it is like august 2014 all over again." th

a train in paris. a train in paris. at that point i started to freak out. i contacted my brother immediately. it was shortly after the event he did share with me briefly about what he experienced. it was a short conversation and he would go speak to authorities and such. >> how did the three men know each other? >> surprisingly they started in middle school. they went to middle school together beginning in high school they separated and went to three different schools and maintained a close relationship in spite of all of that. this trip was another one of their adventures together. >> the brother goes back to college and hethat's the plan? >> i hope so. i don't know what his life will be like now. it is rest in peace for the life he used to have. i think it's time to embrace what life is going to be at this point. >> as i said to alex' father your brother makes americans so proud to be americans. what they have done. it is ricochetted around the world. everybody knows what they did. i certainly thank him as everybody else does. will you tell him? >> yes, i

local time. >> and you were headed to paris? >> yes. >> what time were you supposed to get there about? >> it was around 6:35, if i remember correctly. >> so what happened? did you hear something? >> well, spencer and anthony were asleep. i heard a gunshot and breaking glass was the first thing that i heard. i didn't realize it was a gunshot at the time. i thought somebody dropped something and broke a window or something like that. i didn't realize what was going on, really, until a train employee ran past us at a full splint. >> >> away from the noise or towards it. >> to the back of the train. >> you guys went toward it. at that point spencer woke up and we saw a guy entering our car with an ak-47 look like he was trying to work the action or something like that. we ducked down immediately. let's go get him. spencer was the first one up. i got up about two or three seconds behind spencer because i actually didn't even know he left until i saw him running in front of me. oh, i better get going. so spencer got to him first, tac

we have cnn's correspondent nic robertson live in paris. about these men coming together today to be honored by the french president, what was it like? >> reporter: it is huge for them. i talked with the british gentleman chris norman after he came out of the meeting. he was still shaking. he said he was so emotional about it that he could not believe this is a huge honor the president has given the three american heroes. the tributes are not higher than what the president paid them. spencer stone led them in. his arm still in a sling and bandaged where the attacker sliced him with a box knife. he said his thumb had to be stitched back on. he was led with friends anthony sadler and alek skarlatos. the french president telling the world they deserve this honor, but what they had done was an inspiration for everyone. they acted and put their own lives at risk. this is how spencer stone described literally taking down the gunman. >> i turned around and saw he had what looked to be an ak-47. it looked like it was jammed or wasn't working. he wa

. >>> new information on the gunman accused in the paris train attack.e are live. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm alison kosik. >> i'm miguel marques. happy to be with you. we begin with donald trump and his combative news conference in iowa. >> who would you rather have negotiating against china, against iran? what a deal that is, okay? you talk about incompetent people. against anybody. jeb bush, hillary clinton, or trump? i think so. i think so. you believe me. >> trump on the attack, hitting opponents and the media, even ordering a univision thrown out of the news conference. cnn politic reporter sara murray was there and hat latest. >> reporter: good morning, miguel and alison. it was a fiery donald trump that we saw on the campaign trail last night and all of the drama started before he even came into the main event. he had a testy exchange in a press conference with hooray ramos and at one point throwing the reporter out before letting his back in to ask hi questions about immigration. let's take a look at that. >> excuse me. you w

he has given another news conference this morning here in paris. in which he has given a couple more details about it himself. he has not confirmed the name, there is a name circulating in the media. but said if the inflation is confirmed, he's a 26-year-old moroccan, who was highlighted to the french intelligent services by the spanish intelligence services. it appears that spain was concerned by the man back in 2014. and when this man moved to france in 2015, they highlighted - flagged him up to the french intelligence services. what he said was if the information was correct, that his understanding is that - and i quote this - is he was a member of the a radical islamist movement. and in relation to the americans, and, indeed, french men who is instrumental in overpowering the gunmen and overting a loss of life in the confined space, the two americans and the french men are being invited by the president to paris to a reception at the presidential palace. not sure when that will take place, but it's clear that french authorities are extremely pr

you are watching live from paris. the top stories this hour -- scores killed and wounded after a huge explosion at a warehouse holding toxic chemicals in china. have beenin tianjin overwhelmed by the number of injured, the government sending experts to monitor the environmental fallout. a massive truck bombing at a busy market in baghdad. the attack struck a major shiite neighborhood. and greek lawmakers on the third international bailout. 85 billion euros over three years. members of the prime minister's parties say they will vote against the deal. ♪ anchor: first, and explosions so massive that it could be seen from space, at least 50 people killed after a blast at an industrial plant in china's northern city of tianjin. hundreds were injured and hospitals have been struggling to cope. promised ant has thorough investigation into what happened. residents were filming the port going up in flames when suddenly -- >> whoa! reporter: a second explosion, this one much bigger. estimated to be the equivalent of 21 tons of

this played out on a high speed train from amsterdam to paris. the americans, alek skarlatos and spencer stone and anthony sadler. they subdued the gunman who french authorities say has ties to radical islam. >> i feel our training mostly kicked in after this assailant was already subdued, frankly. when it came to medical care and things like that and providing security making sure there wasn't another shooter. in the beginning, it was mostly gut instinct. one of survival. >> our senior international correspondent nic robertson joins us in paris. nic, good to have you with us. nic, tell us about today. i'm sure this is a day these men will never forget. >> reporter: i'm sure it won't be. they went in to the presidential palace here just behind me. spencer stone led them with his arm still heavily bandaged in a sling from where the attacker used a box cutter to attack his hand. the french president wanting to thank these men before they went home to their one country. spencer stone has described the graphically way they brought down the attacker a

laura: we have a big paris summit at the end of the. are you hopefully deal will be signed and do you think the other polluters in the world will come on board? guest: last november, the u.s. and china signed together a common declaration saying they want to really lay their role in paris and reduce emissions. china is also moving. many countries are moving, and china is moving because of air pollution concerns. it's not only climate change. they understood burning so much coal as they do not only affects the climate that produces a lot of air pollution which is directly affecting the health of their citizens. many countries have understood that kind of thing and that's why i am optimistic there will be a deal in paris. we will have to see whether that agreement will be ambitious enough to really solve the problem and maintain the warming below the two degree target, the warming limit that has been agreed to two years ago. it will be important to have in this it treatment -- in this agreement, to prove ambitions so emissions can be prod

last friday you were in the train between amsterdam and paris.ristopher, you were going home. after a business trip. three americans and one englishman. that you were -- by chance, you were all in the same coach. but friday -- last friday night, an individual decided to create havoc in a -- and to attempt murder in a coach. he had enough weapons to create ultimate carnage and this is what he would have done had you not overpowered him, taking extraordinary risks, including risking your own lives. first of all i want to think of the french passenger who was the first to cross the path of the terrorist as he was living the toilets, having already decided he would shoot people, our french compatriot launched himself against this man and then let -- and let the others know. it's not possible to give his name today, but i want to say thank you. then ayoub el khazzani started to shoot and harmed the man i was talking about who is in the hospital, a franco-american who is still having to find courage to overcome his injury because he, too, got in the wa

this happening on a train headed to paris.arlatos to come out in front of this police station and they can speak, as well. let's go back to -- all of his . i intervened to hold his right arm. there was a frenchman who i think was the train controller who came and took his left arm. and in this way, we managed to overpower him and then after that we were able to put him on the ground, immobilize him on the ground. and then alexander went to see elsewhere in the train if anybody else was -- if there were any other terrorists. and we saw at that moment somebody was injured. blood was coming out of his side of his neck. then spencer stone who was already badly wounded himself, he had nearly lost his thumb and he was cut two or three times at the nape of the neck with the box cutter. and it was him that came and intervened and said that he was a medic. and it was he -- it was him that he was able to stop the blood flowing. train staff were not in the wagon with us. they ran up the aisle. but i really must salute the courage of the

we're told that they're going to be going to paris really soon. we're outside trying to talk to them if they want to say something and half an hour drive away spencer stone is injured in the tack and took the lead in the attack to bring down the attack er. his hand is badly injured and thumb severed and he has undergone surgery at a hand clinic to repair the damage. whether or not he will have to spend another night in the hospital is not clear as moment. >> okay. in credible detail on that. nick, appreciate that from france. >> all right. so the heros have a huge story in deed to tell. cnn is joining us from new york, so polo what more do we know about the young men? i spoke with the father of alek that says that they go back to middle school and like brothers and wanted to have a good time together. >> that's right. from the conversation now with him they say that basically the instincted kicked in for the three guys and they quickly switched into survival mode and you can call them tourists turned heros and not only the rest of the country but

french officials say el- khazzani, armed with an ak-47 and a luger pistol, boarded an amsterdam-to-paris train in brussels with a backpack full of ammunition. an attorney assigned to represent the gunman-- seen here after he was subdued and tied up by passengers-- said he merely intended to rob passengers, not kill them and that he does not belong to any terrorist group. >> ( translated ): asked him about his motivations, if he had received instructions, if there was a sponsor. these are the first questions i asked him based on the nature of this case. he told me, 'no'." >> larson: three young american friends on vacation stopped the attack-- spencer stone and alek skarlatos, both in the military, and anthony sadler, a college senior. stone, who tackled the gunman and was stabbed by him, told reporters in paris today how the friends responded when they saw the gunman on the train. >> alek just hit me on the shoulder and said, "let's go!" and ran down, tackled him. we hit the ground. alek came up and grabbed the gun out of his hand while i put him in a chokehold. it seemed like he just ke

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 agend

let's go to back as we wait to see what happens in paris. you heard what the prime minister had to say. did he add anything to the suggestion that this plane went down for any other reason other than a tragic accident? >>reporter: it was certainly a very short presentation by the prime minister. it's 2:00 a.m. local time here in malaysia. most people will most likely wake up to this news first thing on thursday morning. but in terms of what the prime minister did say, he was very careful. there were certain things that i noted in what he said. one of the issues that he mentioned was however tragic and painful, it will at least bring certainty. obviously, nobody really knows where the train it. there have been wild conspiracy theories for several months now pertaining to what happened to the plane. families have always said or thought that the government were hiding the facts or they knew what was going on on the plane or the cockpit and that they're not getting full information. of course the government and airline always deny they know no m

nowhere else to go, the migrants who have taken over a school in paris. >> haitians get the chance to make their voices heard in the countries election. >> hello, there, thank you for joining us. it's been a year since a u.s. led coalition began airstrikes against isil in iraq and then later in syria, as well. the group's rapid advance prompted iraq's government to ask for international help to flush them out. the u.s. coalition includes bahrain, jordan, qatar, the united arab emirates and saudi arabia. on the ground, 3,000 u.s. soldiers are training iraqi troops, as of may, the combined operations have cost the u.s. $2.44 billion. on average, the u.s. is spending almost $9 million a day on its fight against isil. muhammed is in baghdad, where many of doubtful that the anti isil strategy is actually working. >> with hopes as faded as the pictures that surround them, it's a mournful atmosphere for the patrons of the cafe. here, they sit and smoke what small comforts are provided. not even these decaying mementos of iraq's glorious past are enough to counter all the reminders of its dan

we start here in paris as the ambassadors week is underway. it is an annual meeting work french ambassadors around the world rather in capital to meet with the french president and his foreign affairs minister. they focused a lot on terrorism. he mentioned the failed attack on the train last weekend he said terrorism has never reached such a level of our verity, the world should prepare for further attacks. first to beity is insured within our borders, and this is the reason why we launched the sentinel operations . this is why we have reinforced our television services and modernized our legislation, the better to act. international affairs reporter has an following the speech for us. he joins us live from the palace . he talked about the global terror threat outside of different orders. what point did he make? >> this is not the first time he has spoken about terrorism. much a sense in this year's address that it is becoming a growing preoccupation of the french authorities, a growing concern. they are really up against the wall in many resp

live from paris. the malaysian prime minister has confirmed this debris is from that ill-fated malaysia airline 370. anthony, you know i can't even imagine what family members go through in something like this. i mean it's horrific. in many ways everybody's worst nightmare. what is nightmare, to not know for 18 months, what had happened. there were many conspiracy theories, lots of ideas what might have happened. now at least they're getting closure. >> it is absolutely terrible. my heart goes out to these people. there is sense of closure that we found something. from the intelligence side there is sense of closure that this is not a weapon somewhere. a lot of people as i said earlier didn't think it was but at least we can put that to bed as well. as to someone that lost a loved one on plane like this, i remember how back in 9/11 how painful it was in new york, my heart goes out to these people. trish: tom sullivan joins us on set. we learned malaysian airline debris that was discovered there off of

whether it's to the sound of a drum or the crow of a rooster regardless of what paris says. al jazerra reunion. samura to find out. >> for centuries the tribes of this country lived together without tribal atrocities, and nothing like the rwandan genocide ever took place.

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he honored the men as a ceremony today in-patient paris. charlie d'agata reports. >> reporter: france's biggest heroes bestowed the biggest honors. specialist alec scarlet, spencer stone and anthony sadler, three ordinary guys who did an extraordinary thing. spencer stone described for the first time the moments he and his friends faced a heavily armed gunman, head on. >> i saw he had looked to be an ak-47. alec came up and grabbed the gun out of his hand. i put him in a chokehold. he kept pulling more weapons left and right. took out a box cut and started jabbing at me with that. >> reporter: jabbing that cut spencer's left thumb clean to the bone and yet, so badly injured, he then helped save the life of another passenger. the suspect denied a terror attack, saying he just wanted to rob passengers. >> it doesn't take eight magazines to rob a train. >> reporter: anthony sadler, the man you saw at the friend, summed it up best when he said hiding or sitting back is not going to accomplish anything in times of terror. don't just sit by and w

he convinced the star to let them to paris. when he went to paris, he went with his wife, hadley. they met in chicago. he married her. she had a trust fund income of several hundred dollars a month in the 1920's. that afforded him to be able to live and basically do nothing but write and socialize. people criticized him for those years. all you do is write and socialize, you don't do work. who he associated with, as scott fitzgerald, gertrude stein, helped form a generation. they become very best friends. pauline steals ernest hemingway away from hadley. he divorced hadley after having a son, john, and he marries michelle. after that, they go to key west and come on board in march of 1928. he fell in love with fishing. he fell in love with clarity of his writing how fast he was producing work. he knocked out the first rough draft of "a farewell to arms" in two weeks at key west. he thought, i need to write here. i need to finish here. -- fish here. they found a house for sale and body or $8,000 in 1931 and pauline converted this hayloft into his first formal writing studio. prior

you just heard that press conference in paris. what grabbed you? they were very humble in taking this praise from the french people. it was quite extraordinary. >> sure. and certainly there has been a lot of praise from the french people and this not being able to wake from the magnitude and this being like something out of hollywood. until they come out of the french presidential palace, not just the president, but the prime minister and the transport minster and interior minster and the belgian minster, this is an unreal experience for anyone. what they have seen and witnessed themselves, driving out of the police station the few brief minutes out on the streets in france have seen people clapping and applauding them. what grabbed me there is their description of this attacker. about 5'10", tall, about 165 to 170 pounds. not saying a word through all of this, but determined to continue to fight and continue to fight. some reports have been circulating here in france that maybe the assailant was on drugs. everything they are saying is that no, he

that was making the way from amsterdam to paris.according to a british national earli earlier, he explained how he tried to help out and how he had to be the fourth person to help out. >> i am relieved that no one got killed. it could have been a real problem. there's no question about that. >> i am really proud of my friend that he just reacted so

the paris prosecutor said the terror suspect is facing terrorism charges. authorities say he premeditated and attack. ayoub el khazzani is thought to have watched a jihadist video before his assault. reporter: these are the first images of ayoub el khazzani since his attack on a train was supported last week -- was thwarted last week. france announced it was formally opening a terrorism investigation. translator: these attempted onders concern every person the train from amsterdam to paris. reporter: prosecutors made the move based on a number of grievances including saying that el khazzani has potential ties to terrorism. the amount of weaponry he had for the attack and non-credible excavations as to how he acquired the weapons. he said he found them in a bag the night before he took the train and investigators say the attack appears to have been premeditated. evidence was found on el khazzani's mobile phone that he watched a jihadis video on the train minutes before he carried out his own attack. translator: i would call his plan sensible. it involved rob

in paris, 8:00 p.m. in palmyra, syria. wherever you're watching from around the world thanks very much for joining us. we begin with breaking news. >>> a prosecutor has just laid out multiple terror charges against the heavily armed gun nan last weekend's attempted attack in a high speed train. the prosecutor said there is clear evidence of a terrorist intent on the part of ayoub el khazzani who was stopped, subdued and hog tied by fellow passengers. we're also learning much more about this suspect. prosecutors now say khazzani went to a mosque known for its radicalism and was known to spanish police for drug trafficking. he boarded the plane -- the train with about 200 rounds of ammunition, a bag full of weapons including an assault weapon. the paris prosecutor said he was trying to kill a train full of people. and getting inspiration from terror web sites. >> translator: looking at his internet usage on the phone, ayoub el khazzani was looking at -- whilest he was on the tran on youtube on which a jihad -- there were jih

live from paris. indonesian search and rescue teams are combing a possible crash site of suspected wreckage from a passenger plane. it has been found. want the chinese government to rebuild their homes that were destroyed in a series of blasts of a chemical factory. residents could be exposed to toxic gases. south sudan rivals hold talks in ethiopia in a bid to end the 20-month civil war. if salva kiir and riek machar do not reach an agreement, -- indonesian authorities say suspected debris from a missing plane has been spotted in the remote mountainous couple of -- puathe remote mountainous pa region. there is no indication the pilot made a distress call. our correspondent tells us about the search and rescue operation. >> the search and rescue teams were already on their way to the possible crash site. officials announced they had located debris but could not confirm whether or not it was part of the missing plane. >> only a single from the location. the important thing is that we have the approxima

summit in paris. they're working to create the foundation for the treaty. rich countries must outline how they will deliver on the promise to mobilize $120 million a year to help poor and developing nations. then there is the question of how legally binding that treaty will be. all 193 countries need to submit their plans of how they will reduce emissions but so far only 50 countries have done so. many analysts predict the combined commitment to reduce the global temperature rise to the targeted 2-degree celsius beyond pre-industrial levels. it is feared that the world is headed to more drought, more flooding and more weather events. let's go to martin kaiser from greenpeace joining us live from bonn. i assume you're following the talks very closely. how close are negotiators to finalizing the agreement that will then be taken to paris? >> i'm here in bonn, and a lot need to happen 20 make a paris agreement possible. here in bonn the negotiators now have to draw a vision for the energy sector to phase out coal, oil and gas, and to bring in 100% renewable en

a gunman armed with an assault rifle opens fire on passengers on a high-speed train to paris. a dramatic takedown by americans on board. a u.s. military service member among the wounded. also a major freefall on wall street. stocks plunge 500 points. over 1,000 in a week. fears of a global economic slowdown triggering the worst sell-off in years. >>> state of emergency. a deadly fire disaster growing rapidly tonight as we learn about the young firefighters lost on the front line. >>> and the crowd goes wild for donald trump. tens of thousands expected tonight. so many people they had to move the event to a football stadium. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. we'll get to the impact of that big sell-off on wall street in a moment. but right now we've got details coming in from france where two americans are injured and are being called heroes in a shooting attack aboard a high-speed train from amsterdam to paris. without the intervention of the americans we'r

paris prosecutor did not say that.hing about how they reached that conclusion. he didn't talk about part numbers, serial numbers that might have been found on the wing flap. he didn't talk about the paint that malaysian airlines had to use. i mean i'm not saying this is not a very big thing and the french are in some way casting doubt on this but the difference was quite interesting, thomas. >> you're right about this semantics of the words and the strong presumption that it belongs to a 777 boeing. not using mh-370 and also bill if i heard correctly, the suitcase, the discussion about the suitcase as well. >> reporter: yes. so the aircraft part is in the lab behind me. the suitcase that was found on that beach near the aircraft part by johnny bagu is taken to paris and it is going to be investigated by french police by forensic teams to try to see if there's anything in that suitcase that matches up with the dna of any of the 239 passengers or crew. so that's a sort of separate center of excellence that wouldn't be ap

ambassador's residence in paris. they are scheduled to meet with the french president monday morning. anthony sadler, spencer stone and alex skarlatos are from the bay area. sadler also lived in the pittsburgh area for a while. chuck, i understand these three are now speaking publicly about what happened. >> that's right. what we are learning from them is the ability to recognize what was happening and then react immediately and forcefully. it is something that you hope from people, especially young men in a military in a

the president of france honored three americans who helped subdue a paris gunman on a paris train. they jumped into action to save other passengers from the heavily armed suspect beating him until he was unanxio anxiocd tieing him up until authorities arrived. this is really a remarkable story. these three men just received france's highest honor for their heroism. >> reporter: yes, after the all the praising from all over the world, finally a reward, and what a reward. the legion of honor is the highest honor anybody could get here in france. very few french nationals get it, let alone foreigners who need to do something extraordinary to receive that special medal. and what an extraordinary act that was. these are guys who were just out here on holiday and they ended up stopping a terrorist and preventing from president holland during that ceremony called a blood bath or carnage, betty. >> quite incredible. congratulations to them. thank you so much, claude yoe. over the weekend, the men who were honored this morning, they described what it was like overpowering the gunman on that

the suspected gunman on the train to paris.s and bring in correspondent jim bittermann. at the forefront of people's minds is how safe are we on trains worldwide? >> reporter: there are all sorts of plans out there and conversations about what can be done. one suggestion this morning was in fact you establish the same security you see at airports with magnetic detectors and that sort of thing. that is not practical given the train stations in france and the volume that take the train every day. another suggestion is the police carry the firearms 24/7. they have to hand them in at the end of their shifts. and el khazzani has been questioned for the last 46 hours. we will hear some time in the next few hours what charges will be leveled against him. alison. >>> jim, thanks for that. >> let's look at what is coming up on "new day." chris cuomo joins us now. we had an eventful day. are you there? >> i like you delayed the shot. i was getting my makeup done. >> i'm eating. >> oatmeal and getting my hair done. >> it takes a village.

kind of crazy. >> reporter: they heard gunshots on board the high speed train from amsterdam to paris, then saw a againman with an ak-47. >> i just looked over at spencer and said "let's go. go." >> reporter: the two took down the gunman with the help of their friend anthony sadler. a british businessman helped to tie up the suspect. >> what else is there to do? either you sit down and you die or you get up and you die. we've seen enough of these kinds of attacks to understand that they will kill everybody once they get started. >> reporter: one man was shot in the neck and is expected to survive. stone has had surgery on his hand for a cut. as for the suspect, french t french interior minister said they're not ready to identify him or talk about a motive but he did say the attacker was armed with an automatic rifle, nine magazines, a handgun, and a knife. he's now in police custody and is believed to be a 26-year-old moroccan who was flagged for involvement in islamist groups. back to you. >> kelly cobiella. >>> it's been a deadly day in afghanistan where a suicide bomber attacked a