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people, as rescuers race against time to save survivors who might still be trapped underneath the rubble. the secret service agent who was just feet away from jfk during his assassination now breaking his silence, revealing in new detail could rewrite the narrative. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin on the breaking news this morning, kim jong-un appearing to be on his way to russia right now, to meet vladimir putin, a south korean government official tells cnn it looks like the north korean dictator is headed there on a train that departed from pyongyang. >> moments ago, the kremlin and north korean state media confirmed the meeting would happen soon, but would not specify exactly when. you'll remember last week, u.s. intelligence warned that kim was planning to meet with putin to discuss supplying weapons for the war in ukraine, in exchange for satellite and nuclear submarine technology. joining us now, former north korean analyst for the cia, sumi

tari. thanks so much for being here and for your time. this is an incredibly consequential meeting. u.s. officials had been warning about this meeting. now that we know it's in the midst of happening. first of all, i think the biden administration leaked intelligence about their meeting, so we can do that, because we'll have a lot of leverage with north korea, because talks with poyongyang hs completely broken down. what's very concerning is the transfer of technology. not only that north korea is now going to be a supplier of ammu ammunition, it's russia's technology for north korea's missile program. that's very concerning. you know, it is ironic and pathetic in a way that north korea is now resorting to asking aid from, you know, asking north korea's help on this, but i think it's, you know, north korea has a runaway nuclear

program. they need technology for nuclear-powered submarines, for their satellites and so on. so if this exchange, this operation is very concerning. >> i think it's also fascinating and i wonder about the broader impact of this pariah state being needed. it's now needed by russia in its war on ukraine, and how that changes kim jong-un's mind-set, emboldens him, as he gains this new weapons technology from russia. does it make north korea more dangerous? >> it's absolutely right. this is what i was saying about putin. russia is supposed to be a patron of north korea, not asking 198th ranked economy in the world who cannot feed its own population, for help. but north korea loves to play china off russia. so, what's interesting is what china's response is going to be all about this, because it's going to make north korea less dependent on china, if you can also rely on russia for aid and technology and so on. we'll see what china's reaction is. but, yes, kim jong-un is, he

already -- the environment was favorable for north korea, in terms of their nuclear missile program, expanding it, united nations, security council could not do absolutely anything about this, because russia and china refused to help, refused to implement sanctions, and refused to pressure north korea. so, yes, absolutely, kim jong-un is important and there's absolutely no repercussions for his actions. >> can you step back into poppy's great point and question there, kim jong-un leaving the country, not something that happens very often. last time he hung out with putin was in 2019. him leaving, what does this say about him? can you tell people kind of who he is, he's known as a hermit-like leader and a hermit-like kingdom to some degree. >> north korea is one of the most isolated countries in the world and their leaders don't like to leave the country and they don't like to fly. often, they take trains. remember that hanoi summit where kim jong-un rode 70 hours on a train to go meet with president trump and come back. i think it says that he's now feeling a little more relaxed,

right, during covid years, north korea was completely on lock do lockdown. and now he's going out and wants to act like a normal leader of a normal country and we know he's not a normal leader of a normal country. >> we appreciate it. thank you for all of the analysis. >> joining us now is a former european affairs director, retired army lieutenant colonel, alexander vindman, thanks so much for your time. i want to start there before we dig in on ukraine, the idea of what we're seeing and what it means near term and longer term with this meeting between these two leaders. what's your sense of things? >> thanks for having me on, so i wouldn't overstate too much what this meeting means. certainly, it means that putin is in somewhat of a desperate situation, trying to acquire munitions that are severely depleted during this war effort. a lot of this would be have been coordinated ahead of time. it's not entirely clear what the

koreans are getting, probably something in the form of advanced technologies. probably something in the form of hard currency. what's striking to me is that putin didn't attend either the bricks summit, the south africans said that they couldn't guarantee the fact that they wouldn't take action against them. he didn't attend the g-20, but he's meeting, flying all the way from moscow to vladivostok to meet kim jong-un. not a good turn of events for someone who positions himself as a world leader. but i think the fact is that the ukrainians are going to see some north korean munitions arrive in the war effort. >> i would like your take on the language that was agreed on for the communique out of the g-20, which was strikingly different when it comes to russia's war on ukraine last year when there was an outright condemnation. the united states and others supporting that were not able to get that out of the g-20. nikki haley was very critical of

that in her interview with jake yesterday. she called it a win for russia and china. is she right? >> i think it's interesting -- it's definitely not optimal with regards to russia, ukraine, it is the most critical geopolitical challenge the u.s. faces. but the fact is that the u.s. has global interests. it is looking long-term to balance against china and this was in a lot of ways a very successful g-20. a lot of other business being handled. what they decided to do was not spoil long-term objectives with a communique that could have derailed, you know, the rest of the bargains that were struck. so it is somebody that watches russia and ukraine very closely, i would have expected to see a much, much firmer stance. but in terms of substance, there was a lot that the president delivered, and frankly, the u.s. continues to provide support. the west continues to provide support. the language itself probably

shouldn't have been the obstacle to the agenda. >> so it's worth it, net/net, is what you're saying. what he got out of the trip is worth it, even if you can't get these words? >> i think it is a -- probably an indication of the fact that the u.s. wasn't in as dominant a position as it may have been historically. some of the power has shifted to other members of the g-20. the u.s. is still the most important player in that organization. so i would have liked to see a much stronger language. i think we probably could have gotten away with it, but i think we did okay. i think we did quite well on balance. the relationships -- the strengthened relationships with vietnam, the kinds of bargains that were struck with the indians, probably makes its on balance, worth it. >> i was struck yesterday by general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff putting a timeline in the middle of the counteroffensive, in the middle of the summer, that different weather, a different climate is coming soon in the war in ukraine, saying about 30 to 45 days left before

rainy weather patterns start to hamper the ongoing counteroffensive. what does that mean to you? >> you know, it's interesting that we tend to think about campaign seasons. somewhat of a bit of an antiquated notion about when it's effective to fight, when it's not effective to fight. a lot of our leadership have experienced campaign seasons in the wars in iraq and afghanistan. there are winter lulls. i don't know if i would expect that much of a lull in the fighting between russia and ukraine. i think in the northern and eastern parts around car active area, luhansk, it does get -- it's going to get probably a little bit more difficult to fight. i think in the south, that is an area that tends to be drier. we could very well see a fairly high level of fighting all the way throughout that scene. i wouldn't overstate the amount of time left. i think it's probably somewhere -- i've been in this region, i think it's probably somewhere closer towards, you know, the very tail end of this year, before really weather kind of seeps in and bogs down

armored vehicles. but it's also not an armored vehicle fight. this is light infantry assaulting across fields. i think the fact is there will still be a high degree of fighting. >> i want your take while we have you, lieutenant colonel, about a senator tubberville is doing in terms of holding up the confirmation of hundreds, you know, around 300 really critical military positions. we heard the house foreign affairs chair mike rogers, mike mccall, tell jake tapper that it is, quote, paralyzing. we heard how nikki haley responded to it, as well. you have said that this makes your blood boil. those are your words. explain to people why. >> sure. this definitely is a personal topic for me. i was forced out of the military because my promotion was politicized. i decided i was not going to be the reason that we held up promotions of colonels and i did not want to subject my peers to basically, you know, all of this unpredictability. as long as i was going to be on that list of president trump and

his henchmen were going to keep me off. tubberville is doing the exact same thing. he is politicizing promotions, he is having a disastrous effect on readiness. by the end of this year, it's going to be over 75% of general officers and flag officers will be on hold. imagine a football game in which the head coach is out for a season, because we've already been eight months into this. no leader, it's going to be for the joint chiefs, for elements of the joint chiefs of staff, chairman of the joint chiefs. it has an impact. for a little while, you could cruise on. but eventually, it has an impact on readiness. it has an impact on how it interacts with the rest of government. i was up in d.c. visiting with friends, military officers serving in the pentagon. it cascades down to the colonel level and below. it has a major effect on readiness, an effect on retention. and this is, this is an attack on u.s. national security. and it's not just senator tubberville. it's the entirety of the republican establishment that refuses to challenge him. this needs to end.

it is affecting the u.s. national security, it's affecting soldiers' lives, it's affecting soldiers' families and children and it needs to stop. >> i will say, we did hear a bit of a challenge on nikki haley from it, but i hear you when you're talking about republican elected officials -- >> that is not appropriate, yeah, that is not appropriate. she's saying that the department of defense was the root cause. that is not true. the department of defense was taking care of soldiers. women that have reproductive health care needs have the ability -- under this current policy, have the ability to have their travel expenses paid. it doesn't have anything to do with the medical care itself, it's the department of defense taking care of families and it is not the responsibility of the department of defense. it's the politicization by senator tubberville, by other fellow republicans, of a military promotions. there are other ways to handle this. legislation. if senator tubberville felt so strongly about it, he could have

handled this through legislation. he did not. he took the coward's way out and he's affecting military readiness. it needs to stop, and frankly, this is a passion project for me, and i'm going to press all the levers i can to do whatever i can to help lift that hold. >> we're glad you're here this morning. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, thank you very much. we're glad you're here this morning. so there are also new developments this morning in the search for the convicted killer who escaped 12 days ago from that prison in california. danelo cavalcante was spotted almost 20 miles from the area where they had focused their search and has a new look. on the left of your screen, you see before and the photos now with a shaved face. he's described as cleanly shaven, wearing a green hooded sweatshirt. chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller has been following all of this and is with me us now.

so many things happened. he has a new look, he's shaved, h he has a new van. now it's the other end of the cou county. >> now he's probably trying to put real distance between himself and that box. he's certainly exceeded my expectations. if you go by past experience, most escaped prisoners from an actual prison or a jail are caught within 24 hours. most within two miles. i know he's exceeded the expectations of investigators. but you also have to remember the stakes are different for him. he's sentenced to life basically without parole. and he's out, which means, you know, he is desperate and willing to really play his hardest, because if he goes back, he's going to a place where he's not getting out.

>> just to ask the obvious, non-expert question, how is this possible? how did law enforcement let him through kind of the net, through the search area, let him get to this point? it seems astounding to me. >> so part of it is terrain. which is, this is farm country. these are large houses, far apart from each other. these are roads with woods on both sides. when we've seen him, it's either been a piece of video on a trail camera or that part of the woods that skirts the border between somebody's backyard while he's looking for a house to break into, to get that change of clothes, to find an electric razor to shave, to do all the things he's successfully done. but when you're in that kind of terrain, it's not like in the grid system of a city, where people are walking around, that picture is fresh in their mind and they're calling every minute. they use drones over the woods at night, they're seeing deers and raccoons, you know, as heat signals. during the day, it's too hot for the thermal stuff to work. there's a lot of challenges for

them. >> so you don't see this as a failure or they're dropping the ball, this is just the reality of this dynamic? >> i mean, i know my fugitive hunt hunts. i was in the fbi after we found eric rudolph. that was five years ago in the forest with somebody who was trained by the military to survive. back in pennsylvania, though, we had the mike bernam case just in july, ten days on the run, also found in the woods. we're rounding that period now in this case. but in pennsylvania, you had, i think, 2014, the eric frine case, this was a domestic terrorist, 48 days on the run, and that ended in a shoot-out where a trooper was killed. so this is not unusual in the scope of a desperate criminal in a rural environment exploiting the terrain. but it is a case where they want to get him back, they have to get him back, and of course, from his point of view, he's got to keep going. >> surpassing expectations to

some degree in terms of his ability. it's been a remarkable story. john miller, appreciate it. as always. >> we'll stay on it. well, the death toll in morocco rising this morning. nearly 2,500 people are now dead after a powerful earthquake. we are live on the ground, that's next. you are also now, take a look, these are live images of the youngest and most active volcanos on the island of hawaii. that erupting right now. we'll have details, ahead. but, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. (vo)o) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. ♪ with fastsigns, create custom graphics that get tails and tongues wagging. ♪ fastsigns. make you.

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this morning, the death toll in morocco is rising. nearly 2,500 people are now confirmed dead after friday's catastrophic earthquake. right now, rescue teams are in a race against time to save survivors.

the critical 72-hour window to find people alive in the rubble is closing quickly. cnn's seniorsam kylie is in a devastated mountain village. sam, what are you seeing on the ground right now? >> reporter: well, phil, here we are in asny, where the moroccan armed forces, who have a specialist unit designed for catastrophic interventions, emergency interventions worldwide have now managed to establish a presence. so they have a radio logical tent, laboratory testi ing facilities. they've got surgeries, they've got a whole series of specialist tents. they have 24 doctors -- 25 doctors, 48 nurses already, a capacity of this field hospital is 30. but as we've seen when we've been up into the hills, the numbers of people injured are climbing, because these mountains up there are where the need is greatest, phil and poppy. and they are highly

inaccessible. so at the same time, the military is already sending significant numbers of helicopters up into the areas that have been cut off, in order to bring people down and get them treatment. if people have been sadly killed, then they will be left in place for the time being, because the purpose of this moroccan emergency operation right now is triage, is to find the people who can and should be helped get the most injured immediately to the established hospitals, stabilize them here. they can expand this facility if they need to. they're also building just beyond these tents, a very substantial accommodation area, refuge camp, effectively, of tents to accommodate people who are coming down out of the hills. many of them also are people staying up in the hills. so the next phase for the military may well be to try to get accommodation tents and other support up to people into those more isolated hill areas. but quite naturally, the moroccan people, in the initial

stages, particularly in that 72-hour period when people stuck under buildings have a chance of survival, have been angry about what they said was the slow response of the moroccan government to their predicament. the reality is that the roads have been closed by this earthquake, accessing their needs is really paramount. but now they are getting underway. >> sam kiley, thank you to you and your team on the ground. we'll get back to you soon. well, this morning, hurricane lee rapidly reintensifying to a major hurricane over unusually warm ocean waters. the storm has strengthened back to a category 3 on sunday with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. now it's expected to ramp up to a category 4 later today. lee is expected to slowdown considerably and spend the next several days sending hazardous beach conditions, as it inches closer to the east coast. forecasters warn the dangerous high surf and life-threatening rip currents as the storm moves up the atlantic. happening now, hawaii's

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>> china's been practically preparing for war with us for years. yes, i view china as an enemy. how much more has to happen for biden to realize, you don't send cabinet members over to china to appease them. you start getting serious with china and say, we're not going to put up with it. >> there's also a new cnn polling that shows haley leading president biden by six points in a hypothetical general election matchup, making her the republican candidate posing the greatest risk to president biden at this point. haley says it shows americans are ready for change. >> i think the majority of americans know we need a new generational leader. that we need to leave the negativity of the past behind us. the majority of americans don't want to see a rematch between trump and biden. that's been very clear. >> our eva mcken following all of this and joins us now. i thought it was a really fascinating interview that jake did with her yesterday.

they got to so many issues that affect everyday americans, and she gave a lot of very straight answers on exactly how she feels on this stuff. and it seems like voters may be responding to her calls for change. >> well, poppy, if you are ambassador haley or her team, you are encouraged by this polling data. and what we've seen is her on the campaign trail really seizing on this, her notion that she may be the best one to confront president biden in a general election. but context is really key here. she still lags far behind trump in support among republican voters, well behind desantis as well in many polls. but her messages has been consistent. she has long argued that there is a need for a new generation of leadership. that it is time for folks to pass the baton here and she's been out for months sounding this alarm. she was the first person to announce her candidacy after trump. she maintenance a majority of

americans don't want to see this rematch between trump and biden. and poppy, something i've heard in recent days that has caught my ear, she's doubled down on her hawkish foreign policy position. she's called china the enemy in that interview with our colleague, jake tapper. i'm curious to see if that resonates with primary voters, since we've seen a growing number of conservative voters really favor a more isolationist view. >> eva, can i ask you another issue that the ambassador weighed in on was tommy tubberville, the senator from alabama, who has these holds on hundreds of flag officers in the united states senate right now. what'd they have to say? >> well, to be clear, there's just one man, senator tubberville, you know, holding up this process. she was a little bit wishy-washy on this particular answer. she immediately started blasting the abortion travel reimbursement policy and didn't

seem to have a huge appetite to take on the senator directly. she advocated that democrats should vote person-by-person to advance these promotions. let's take a listen. >> i'm not saying senator tubberville is right in doing this, because i don't want to use them as pawns. but if you love our military, if you are so adamant about it, then go and make congress, republicans and democrats, have to go through person by person. >> so tshe seems more intereste in attacking the department of defense than the intransigence of senator tubberville. >> very important point. head football coach tucker has been suspended without pay following accusations of sexual harassment. we'll speak to the investigative reporter who broke this story, coming up next. and a new development in the case of the former president of the spanish soccer federation following weeks of fierce criticism, after he kissed a player without her consent. that's next.

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spanish soccer federation president luis rubiales has resigned after weeks of intense backlash after an unsolicited kiss of one of spain's soccer stars, jeni hermoso. he says the kiss was con sen wall, hermoso says it was not. a coach told investigators

that miss tracy's extortion of our mutually consensual relationship into allegations of sexual exploitation has really affected me and i'm having difficulty forgiving myself getting into this situation, but i did not engage in misconduct by any definition. the miscondinvestigation into t misconduct was first investigated by kenny ma kobe. the suspension yesterday came in the wake of your reporting. what's your sense of why nothing happened to mel tucker, the head coach, before this became public, because of your work? >> yeah, these are very complicated situations. this case has been going on for about nine months now and the university did face a lot of criticism yesterday for its decision to suspend mel tucker,

only after the allegations became public. it is complicated. if the school were to have suspended him at the onset of the investigation, they do risk potentially drawing attention to the case, which is not always what victims in these sorts of ca cases want. >> the context of this also comes with the fact that you have a number, larry nasser, having previously worked there, et cetera. given that context, i thought it was notable that the interim president, teresa woodruff said, this morning's news, meaning what you broke, sounds like the msu of old. it was not, and she went on to say, it is not the same because an independent, unbiased investigation is and continues to be conducted. what is your response, given all of your reporting, hearing that? >> yeah, you know, there is deep mistrust on the msu campus from students, from employees, from alumni and in the east lansing

community after the betrayal that was the larry nasser scandal. and they repeatedly missed opportunities to stop one of the most prolific sexual burss in american history. so, these -- when msu takes this long to suspend the coach without pay, people tend to think of that as, they're covering this up. and that doesn't sit well with most of these people. >> i think the date everyone is pointing to right now is october 5sth, when there's going to be hearing. what are the stakes at that hearing and what do we expect from that hearing? >> so they're going to be -- both sides, mel tucker and brenda tracy will have the opportunity to prevent evidence, question witnesses, and the crux

of the investigation is that mel tucker during a phone call in 2022 made sexual comments and masturbated without tracy's consent. so at this hearing, there will be a neutral hearing officer who will listen to the evidence, and at the end of it, make a determination as to whether mel tucker violated the school's sexual harassment policies. there's a lot at stake here. for mel tucker, he two years ago signed one of the most lucrative coaching contracts in u.s. history, a ten-year, $95 million deal. it came fully guaranteed unless he is fired for cause. and so if he is fired for cause after this, he could lose out on the potentially $80 million left on his deal. meanwhile, brenda tracy, you know, has a career in advocacy. she runs a nonprofit called set the expectation. her career entails traveling the country to athletic departments and professional and college and high school teams and hegting athletes and coaches about

sexual violence and the way that mel tucker has portrayed her as someone who files false reports and has personal and professional relationships with coaches is pretty damaging to that reputation. so she really fears that he will undo her legacy. >> there's a lot to watch going forward. he was on honorary captain at the spring game. we were showing that photo last year. this is really important and we'll continue following with you, kenny jacoby with "usa today," thanks so much. >> thank you. ahead for us, a former secret service agent with new details on the assassination of jfk. we have some of that reporting, ahead. and today marks 22 years since the september 11th terrorist attacks have changed a nation and a world. look at where the war on terror stands. that's ahead. (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. but my old internet, was not letting me run the show.

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showing you live images right now of ground zero as new york city is about to observe a moment of silence, the moment the first plane hit the north tower. let's listen in. ♪

>> joining us now is cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, john miller. john, as we watch all of this play out and you think of what a poignant and formative moment, not just this is today, but also 22 years ago, in so many people's lives, despite the fact it's more than two decades ago, it was also extraordinarily -- it changed the face of counterterrorism. it changed the face of law enforcement, of homeland security. do you think change has been effective? >> i know it has, because i know what it was before. you know, i sat in a cave with osama bin laden in 1998 for an hurry, where he described declaring war on america. he predicted a black day for america, after which the states would no longer be united. he said, we would understand the meaning of this when we were

bringing the bodies in boxes and coffins in our defeat. so that was the thing that led up to what we call the intelligence failure of 9/11. we needed to see that coming. since then, we've seen the formulation, as the secretary told you earlier today, of the department of homeland security, the director of national intelligence, the change in the culture of the fbi, to not just figure out who did it, but make sure it didn't happen in the first place, a tremendous challenge. so it's changed markedly. our big risk is to not fall back to where we were before, because that failure would be bureaucratic in form, but human in nature, when people just start to compete, collaborate less, you know, take credit, allow the dots not to get connected, because they're keeping them from each other. and that's always going to be a fight. >> we remember what former president obama said ten years ago about the war on terror.

this was him in 2013. let's listen. >> we must define our effort not as a boundless global war on terror, but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten america. in many cases, this will involve partnerships with other countries. >> what effect has that had in the ten years after we heard him say that? >> you know, that was the president talking to the defense university about the shape and future of war. and i think his message was, in the war on terrorism, it's not one country's uniform's on another country's fighting other uniforms. this is intelligence-led war that has to be guided by precision strikes. that means more intelligence, more use of defined special

forces and strategic hits. the idea of sending the big green machine, you know, to take over a whole country, i think we've learned in the last two or three instances, has been expensive, costly in terms of treasure, but more importantly, blood. and with results that have been uncertain. we were able to dismantle al qaeda and isis, through precision strikes and captures. when you look back, to that exact point. when you look at the military operations that followed the you look at the cost in terms of blood, in terms of treasure, not just americans but worldwide, do you think the right lessons were learned from that experience, kind of to your point, in terms of operationally? >> i think what we learned is in war today victory doesn't look like what it used to. it's hard to define what it looks like in the -- in the old model somebody came with a sheet of paper and a form of surrender

and it was signed by everybody and we went forward. in this case we're talking about wars that went on longer than any other wars in history. we are talking about victory, which you invade afghanistan to rout al qaeda and the taliban and you leave with the taliban in control again and al qaeda able to regain sanctuary. i think that's a lot of what president obama was trying to say which is those who don't study history are doomed to repeat t we have to study our history and adjust our future. >> john, because we have you at the table and given your role here in new york city before you were one of our colleagues, i just want to give you a moment to reflect on this day, this city and where we have come since then. >> you know, i drive by there all the time and you can't go by there without reliving a piece of that day, but i was also

there on saturday, sunday, with 9/11 victims' families reflecting on the past and what's needed for those victims, but also, you know, rob casain from the fbi, he was a bond trader on 9/11, destined to live a life and make a lot of money, he is the head of counterterrorism today at the fbi's office. rebecca whiner had come out of harvard and harvard law, she is in my old job as deputy commissioner for counterterrorism and intelligence. you saw terry tobin, the chief in the nypd talking about swearing in the children of people -- cops who died on 9/11, children who weren't born yet. >> right. >> when their fathers and mothers died. so we see probably the largest since pearl harbor of a move towards service, sacrifice, dedication to make sure that that history is not repeated and

it was inspiring, again. >> and the voices of those children as our colleague on the bro ground told us earlier reading some of the names today as they are honored and remembered. go ahead. >> i was going to ask with that in mind you think constantly generationally how many people move towards service, how many people's life's decisions were made on that day in terms of their paths. what concerns you in terms of these new generations, those 21-year-old's who weren't alive when this happened. >> it's interesting. in the nypd i started out with a team that had survived 9/11 and knew what they were fighting for and then over time, you know, today in the nypd 6% of the police officers and analysts who are there were there on 9/11. that means the largest percent know it from the history books but not as a life experience and

yet when i talk to those young analysts, when i see the cases they are working on, when i see the hours they put in and why, they still know what we're fighting for. >> i was thinking about all of the families that all of us have through the years had the honor of meeting and reporting on and the ways that they have honored the lives of those they lost, today i always think about a couple liz and steve alderman whose son was killed and the foundation they went on to create and how they dedicated their life to that work ever since they lost their child and pouring that trauma into something to make the world a better place. i mean, that is also the history of 9/11 that we hold on to so closely. >> you know, spending tweekend with a couple that lost their

son and started the voices of 9/11 which is not the voices of 9/11, it's just the voices, it's for victims because they realized that people in trauma and loss are going to need what they've learned from this tragedy. and so when the newtown school massacre happened they reached out to those parents and said we've been where you are, not exactly the same place but the same feelings and here is how we can help. it's a legacy that has just taken people to make sure that those who died from the effects of working in the rescue effort on the pile and others are taken care of by the government and not forgotten. >> not forgotten. we really appreciate hearing your time, your remembrances as we continue to throughout the course of this day. john miller, thank you. "cnn news central" starts right now.

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♪ good morning, everyone. i'm kate bolduan alongside john berman and sara sidner. today the nation marks the somber anniversary of the day america will never forget. the nation is commemorating 22 years since the attacks of september 11th. across the country americans are pausing to remember and reflect. it remains the deadliest terror attack on u.s. soil, it's also an important moment to honor the nearly 3,000 lives lost on that day. >> right now what you are seeing is the names of the fallen being