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65-year-old warshiper mohamed a hero to his community. >> translator: he acted immediately when the shooter entered the room, sat on top of him. after a while the board member came and helped holding him down. then police arrived and arrested the man. >> reporter: afterwards the suspects home was searched by police. and another terrible discovery made. the body of a 17-year-old woman, the gunmans stepsister. police say the man is a suspect in her murder. the mosque shooting is being investigated...

Rafiq a hero to his community. >> translator: muhammad acted immediately when the shooter entered the room. he toppled the shooter and pinned him to the floor, sat on top of him. after awhile, board member mustak came and helped holding him down. then police arrived and arrested the man. >> reporter: afterwards, the suspects home was searched by police and another terrible discovery made. the body of a 17-year-old woman. the gunmans step-sister. police say the man is a suspect in her murder. the...

Investigators descended on the area at 2:00 a.m. and gathered evidence in and outside of the unit and but thes up behind the omar mofshg which he reportedly teameded. locals saw sayfullo saipov talk to people between the apartment and mosque and no one knew him. he only move it some mosque members that we talk would to said they had not seen him and they are comparing note and see who knew him at any time. and that act >> from. peoplingin are snef it is something. you wake up and lookament the n...

Our victor blackwell has the details. >> reporter: the security guard saw the fire from miles away. >> i pull up to the intersection, turn left, and theres a huge plume of smoke. a mushroom cloud. >> reporter: someone threw an incendiary device at the mosque. the fire burned the front doors and spread to the lobby before everyone got out. mosque members were forced to pray on the streets outside. >> can you see the brothers over there praying? thats one of the obligations we have. thats what we ...

At the store in queens, neighbors have gathered in support of the stores owner and inundated him with cards and flowers. a 7-year-old boy donated the entire contents of his piggy bank to the mosque members. theres been a rise in anti-muslim and anti-sentiment recently but we shouldnt forget such hatred has long been simmering. a sick man was murder by a gunman who said he wanted to kill a muslim in retaliation for attacks. in 2012, six people were killed at a sikh temple by a white supremist. th...

>> shook his head no and then looked at the ground. >> our reporter joins me from outside the courthouse in colorado. i just dont know how those family members and those victims can sit through so much of this testimony. then there were the photographs. the photographs that have been paraded out of the crime scene, of blood spattered on the movie screen itself. whats happening in there today? because its morning where you are. >> its been less emotional today and really more technical. its still...

Three years before he tried to shoot up a texas event designed to offend muslims, elton sampson described his religion as a weapon to be used against satan. listen to this. >> a form of weaponry to go out in the real world and use that weaponry to shield you against the tricks of shaton. >> shaton is the devil or satan. the fbi is interviewing fellow mosque members, family members, friends and associates of both men. some of those people are openly sharing what now looks very much like warning s...

killing three soldiers in the countrys southern helmand province. >> cnns chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? >> well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to k...

good morning, everyone. im in today for carol costello. we begin this morning with disturbing new attacks on american forces in afghanistan and the chilling effect they could have on brings the troops home. the latest ambush just hours ago. a man wearing an afghan military uniform shoots to death three americans in the volatile helmand province. according to reuters, the americans were killed by an afghan police commander and several of his officers. the afghan leader had invited the a...

>> larry: shoshana johnson, who made it back, will be with us in a couple of moments. lets spend them with anderson cooper hosting "ac 360" at the top of the hour. more follow-up to the speech, i would guess. >> well definitely discuss the presidents speech on iraq, the end of combat operations there, whats next for the people of iraq. also tonight and what were leading with is the controversy about a mosque being built. this time its hundreds of miles away from ground zero in murphysboro, tenne...