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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 re told casualties could have been far worse. french officials say a man opened fire with an automatic weapon in what s being called a possible terrorist attack. nbc s keir simmons is on the story. reporter: the attack left three passengers injured including two americans. at least one of them a member of the u.s. military. a woman s bag is left splattered with blood after a gunman reportedly opened fire aboard a high-speed train from amsterdam to paris. the french interior minister at the scene said the two injured americans intervened to stop the attacker, who was reportedly ar
New-yorkUnited-statesMacedoniaAlabamaMuncieIndianaChinaMinnesotaChanhassenSyriaWashingtonDistrict-of-columbia spread to his brain. nightly news begins now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. reporting tonight, erica hill. quick thinking and gut instinct getting the credit tonight as the three americans who helped tackle a gunman on board a paris-bound train described in detail together for the first time how they were able to subdue the shooter. a man we re learning was known to three european countries prompting at least one warning to french officials about possible extremist ties. kelly cobiella has our details tonight. kelly, good evening. reporter: good evening to you. these three americans all in their early 20s started their trip on a different part of the train because they couldn t find their ticketed seats. this all could have ended much differently had they not moved before the attacker started shooting, and they say the gunman never said a word during the struggle. the man tied up and stripped of an ak-47, a pistol, a blade a
Lake-chelanWashingtonUnited-statesNevadaAustraliaChinaBeijingCaliforniaJamaicaDistrict-of-columbiaMoroccoBelgium ordering its troops to be ready. and president obama laying out his case for the iran nuclear deal in the letter to congress in a new op-ed. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. it is friday, august 21st. 4:0 a.m. in the east. breaking news this morning. kim jun-unhas ordered his troops. turning now to kathy novak in south korea. kathy, what is the latest here? reporter: according to kcna, kim jun-uncalled his army to be prepared for operations from around now. south korea is on high alert. the president has been visiting a military base and update on the latest situation in the south korean defense ministry is promising to retaliate from north korea. it is preparing tomorrow. that is because north korea set a deadline to south korea. it said south korea must stop broadcasting propaganda messages using loud speakers on the dmz by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. north korea will launch military action. kathy, thank you. keep us posted as tensions rise on the bor
New-yorkUnited-statesPyongyangP-yongyang-siNorth-koreaJapanAlabamaAustraliaTianjinChinaNew-hampshireIran g kim jong-un is opening up a war time state after the exchange of fire with south korea over the demilitarized zone. kathy novak has the latest for us. tensions running high here. reporter: absolutely, christine. strong rhetoric. the couple try ntry is edging c the brink of war. kim jong-un ordered the army to be ready to launch attacks. this as the united states and south korea is in training missions here. what is happening is this is coming with the combination of the fact that south korea for the first team in more than a decade relaunched the program of psychological warfare. it has been broadcasting messages along the border. on the weekend, pyongyang was threatening to blow up the speakers and threatening indiscriminate strikes on south korea if it did not stop the campaign of psychological warfare. tensions ramped up on the border. north korea was targeting the speakers and pyongyang has issued an ultimatum. if south korea does not stop broadcasting by 5:00 p.m. to
New-yorkUnited-statesCharlestonSouth-carolinaPyongyangP-yongyang-siNorth-koreaJapanAlabamaAustraliaTianjinChina today to half-staff in honor of three firefighters who died yesterday in the battle against a wildfire in washington state. more than 100 fires are burning uncontained across the west. the governor of washington calls it an unprecedented cataclysm. danielle nottingham is on the fire lines. danielle. reporter: charlie, heat and drought have combined to make this one of the worst fire seasons and here in washington state, more than 330,000 acres have burned so far this year. all night and all day, huge flames tore across a fire-weary washington state as news spread about the three firefighters who lost their lives. this is really hard. it s not an easy thing at all. reporter: dan calvert is a baseball coach in twisp and knew one of the fallen firefighters overrun by flames. nobody s going to be able to replace these kids. so reporter: okanagan county s sheriff called it a hell storm with wind blowing in every direction. residents of twisp and winthrop were ordered t
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