horrible murders. recently two law enforcement officers in louisiana on two different days, 2 two young tv journalists in virginia. news can be pretty tough to stomach. but then suddenly you read about the good samaritan who tackled a man suspected of killing a louisiana state trooper, or you meet people like alex skarlatos who helped stop a terror attack on a train in france, and you re suddenly overtaken by the basic goodness and decency. and you re reminded, you know what? there is a lot of good out there. there are people who do a lot of the super human stuff like alex. he pulled out a handgun. i it was right in front of me. so i just grabbed the handgun immediately, pried it out of his hand. yes, that s the superhuman stuff. but there is also probably you doing a simple favor for someone, going out of your way, which you might not think a big deal, but it really is.
be like now. i think it s kind of rest in peace to the kind of life that he has. it s time to embrace what life is going to be at this point. arissa, as i said to alek s father, your brother makes americans so proud to be americans. it ricocheted around the world. everybody knows what they did. i thank him as well as everybody else. will you tell him? yes, i sure will. thank you so much for having us. arissa, thank you. straight ahead, a heavily armed man with ties to radical islam tackled to the ground opens fire on a train, then tackled to the floor by brave americans. what happened minute by minute. alek skarlatos is back and joined by his very proud family as a special on the record continues.
there. what was going on in the train? were people screaming. were any of the conductors or anyone on the train helping you or just basically the three of you and the brit and there was another unidentified a man named damiedamien, i think. the unidentified man, he actually did a lot more at the beginning. apparently we talked to him right after it happened, and he told us that he was waiting for the bathroom, and when the guy came out with the ak, they just stared at each other for a few se started to choke him. and apparently a train employee i don t know if it was the same one that ran past me or not, came back and broke them up thinking it was just a regular fight. when he broke them up, that s when he came into our cabin and shot mark in the neck. that s when we node hticed him. how is mark, do you know? i talked to him right before i left france. he seemed to be doing great.