And war. A man about to go on a killing spree stopped in his tracks. I came to see my friends and my first trip in europe and we stopped a terrorist, its kind of crazy. American heroes on a train. We didnt know his gun wasnt working or anything like that. Spencer just ran anyway. They tell their story. Those three americans given credit for their role in stopping a suspected terrorist attack. They overran a man who was had a rifle and an ak 47. President obama said i wanted to thank the two brave individuals for preventing more tragedy staying place on this train, two reasons why on duty and off, ours is the finest fighting force the world has known. Airman first class Spencer Stone was stabbed, when he confronted the gunman. College student Anthony Sadler were all invited by Francois Hollande to the elysses palace on friday. The man had been confronted first by a french passenger then overpowered by a group of american travelers including off duty u. S. Military personnel. Their frien
Katrina devastated new orleans and the gul gulf coast, we lookt the deaf of devastating part of history. Im Charlie Angela. Every inch has become a stage. And we begin tonight in france where three american men will be recognized for their act of bravery, french president Francois Hollande will recognize them. Three people were injured when the gunman opened fire on a train from belgium to paris. The attacker was a 26yearold more onak man. Intelligence services had beck n tracking his movement, since last am. John terret has more. When most of us would run a, spencer, alec, and anthony, ran into the line of fire. Ambassador jane hartley brimming with praise over three Young Americans who stopped a french attacker. Spencer stone and his boyhood friend alex are being lauded as heroes in france along with a third american friend anthony and two other passengers, one british, one french. They noticed the gunman trying to fire an ak. 47 in their train car. Tackled them, we hit the ground, a
Katrina, a look back at the storm that devastated new orleans and part of the gulf coast. We begin night with unease by Global Investors as stocks start in the red. Markets in hong kong and china are dropping. Japans nikkei is dropping another amount as well. Slowing economy, the wall street journal says that chinese is pumping money into the markets to ease drops there. Week saw major lasts that followed 530 point drop. U. S. Markets havent tropped that far that quickly in four years. Were going to have much more on this story, coming up a little later in our broadcasts. We go to france where three american men are going to be recognized for acts of bravery, french president Francois Hollande will present them a medal of bravery, this man they subdeed wasubdued had hundreds s of ammunition. When most of us would run away, spencer, anthony and alex ran in. Is. It was either do something or die. Reporter Airman First Class Spencer Stone and alex scarlatos, are being recognized as heroes
This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Global markets are reeling this morning at chinese stocks take another plunge. U. S. Futures falling sharply now with the dow poised to open down about 3 . Lets look at the numbers. The shanghai composite wiped out all gains for the year, its largest fall in that market in eight nears. The nikkei tumbled four and a half , hitting a five month low. Australia had its worst one day sell off in four years, markets plunging wiping some 40 billion u. S. Dollars off the books there. European stocks are hurting, too, in london, down two and a half , germanys Main Exchange is off 3 . Adrien brown has more on whats behind this from beijing. It is another turbulent day for asian stock markets. Shanghai, the worst performing is down more than 8 , the biggest single day drop in many months. The government before the market opened has said that it was going to use billions of dollars from a state pension fund to p
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Investors seem to be catching their breath this hour. Reversing earlier huge losses on u. S. Stock exchanges. The dow right now is down 177 points. A big change from the open where the dow fell more than a thousand points. It was in response in part to the sell off in china. Oil prices plummeting, too, theyre now at a sixyear low. Ali velshi joins us to try to put son context and perspective on this whole thing. Down more than a thousand points. Now down 150normally we would not be talking about a dow that is down 1 . There have been a string of down days, that would make us want to talk about this, but when the market opened it opened in such velocity. Now as you said it was in response to what happened overnight in shanghai and asian markets. In america the dow closed down more than 500 points. I could tell that it was closing with such velocity and heading down that it was only the closing bell that would stop