heroes who stopped that terror attack on a french train to the oval office. later today the three head to the pentagon for an awards ceremony hosted by secretary of defense ashton carter. spencer stone will receive a purple heart and the airman s medal. alec skarlatos will receive a medal. congratulations to them for what they did. after his story lit up social media, support pours in for ahmed mohammed, a texas student arrested for bringing a home-made clock to school. he built this digital clock at home and brought it to school to show off to his engineering teacher. when the clock s alarm sounded in one of his later classes, school administrators called the police saying they feared it was a bomb. ahmed described what happened next to msnbc s chris hayes. they told me i was under arrest.
clear. alec skarlatos, spencer stone and stay tuned anthony sadler, are credited with thwarting a deadly attack, along with british passenger chris norman. the group tackled and hog-tied the gunman with neckties while passengers recovered. checked on him. i had the tray table over my head and i thought, am i next? he told his afteria that it could have been much worse. you should not be alive at all, and he saved every person s life on that train, including the man who was shot in the neck. reporter: according to europe one, that man is french-american mark gugulian, an author a mu size seen here on social media, who was teaching english in paris. in an interview, he told a station that he helped before
president hollande honored spencer stone, alec skarlatos, and college student anthony sadler. not only did they and a british man subdue a subject, but spencer stone helped to save mark, a french-american profe professor, who was shot in the neck. the suspect had enough, and now they re digging into his past to try to determine if he had links to terrorist groups. martin? reporter: it really was a remarkable day here in paris. it was one of those days for three americans, three days ago, they couldn t possibly have imagined. dramatic cell phone video captures. the heavily, bloodied and restrained. hi intentions were pretty
their sons had been through and this is what they had to say. we re still settling in as far as the reality and what he shared. it just didn t seem real. it was totally unexpected. it wasn t on any of their radar. they were just out touring europe and having a great time together for the past week and a half. astonishing that all three of them were together. one comes back from afghanistan unscathed and they go on vacation on a train and that s when the real action happens for them. first you heard from anthony, the father of anthony, and then you heard from emmanuel, the father of alek there. so polo, what more do we know about why the two military gentlemen are needing to stay in europe? they re going to be going to germany. is that for further debriefing with the military, even though they were off duty. but because they are active duty or at least armed servicemen, is that why they have to now go to
tomorrow they get to meet french president francois hollande before this individual returns to the united states. both spencer and alek will likely remain overseas for quite some time, eventually be reunited with their family. you can only imagine the hero s welcome that waits for them here in the u.s. incredible. for anthony this is his first trip to europe and all of them kind of were in agreement during that press conference saying this is all so surreal. they couldn t really imagine anything like this happening. the kind of attention that they re getting. they even said that they didn t realize the magnitude of it until many hours passing. so earlier, polo, you mentioned that they will be eventually reunited with their family. earlier on our air, we did get a chance to talk to the father of anthony sadler, and i got a chance to talk to the father of alek skarlatos and all the information they have learned over the past few hours and what