>> reporter: but the italian reporter didn't think the joke fell flat. he thought it was a great success, that only one other outcome could have been better. >> the more is if george would have kissed me in the mouth. >> reporter: tell that to clooney's date. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> don't forget "the situation room" tomorrow 6:00 p.m. eastern. until them i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." up next lou dobbs. kitty pilgrim sitting in for lou. tonight the coast guard promises a full review after it sets off a security scare in washington. also president obama's strategy in afghanistan grows more complicated. the senate top democrat says he's against sending more troops there. and a bank foreclosure scandal like no other is the incredible story of a bank official, a $12 million beach house and a couple devastated by a wall street crook. and caught on tape, a.c.o.r.n. workers allegedly

getting advise as a pump and a prostitute. tonight another tape and more firings. the coast guard caused a security scare in washington, d.c. today by conducting a training exercise on the potomac river. it took place as president obama and his motorcade crossed a nearby bridge. law enforcement agencies were not told of the exercise and scrambled to the river's edge. now ironically, the coast guard is part of the department of homeland security, which was created after 9/11 to make sure law enforcement agencies share information. jean meserve reports from washington. >> reporter: as president obama attended ceremonies at the pentagon commemorating the largest terror attacks ever on u.s. soil, a camera picked up boats darting and dodging in the nearby potomac river and this traffic was picked up on a coast

guard radio channel. >> if you don't stop your vessel you will be fired upon. stop your vessel immediately. if you don't slow down and stop your vessel, and leave our zone you will be fired upon. bank, bank, bank. we have expended ten rounds, the vessel is operating at stern. we're going to reassess the situation. >> reporter: with coast guard headquarters providing no explanation, cnn plan reporting what it saw and heard. local and federal agencies responded to the scene at nearby reagan national airport, air traffic controllers shut down flights for about 20 minutes as a precaution, until the word came, this was a drill. >> no shots were fired, there was no suspect vessel. there was no criminal activity. this was a preplanned, normal training exercise. >> reporter: but there had been no notification to federal, state or local agencies, even the secret service. although the president's motorcade crossed over the adjacent memorial bridge as the exercise was underway.

>> oh, my god. >> reporter: in april, a no notice flight over new york city by a plane used as air force one cent panicked new yorkers into the streets and it turned out only to be a photo shoot. fran townsend is a cnn consultant. >> let's be clear, there was no excuse for having done this when they did. second to the extent they did do it, they didn't do it competently. they didn't follow their own procedures, they didn't notify other agencies as best we can tell, they certainly didn't notify the media. >> but robert gibbs said that if anyone was unnecessarily alarmed based on erroneous reporting that denoted that shots had been fired, i think everybody is apologetic about that. >> senator susan collins, ranking minority member on the senate homeland security committee says she'll be looking into the times and locations to

see if this was the wrong time and wrong place for a routine exercise. kitty, back to you. >> jean meserve. well, felony stupidity is now a coast card commandant said this event could be described. here's more from fran townsend who served as homeland security advisor to president bush and is now a national contributor for cnn. >> as i once said about the flyover over manhattan, it would be pure stupidity if they decided to do a fly over at the same time that the president was at the pentagon. it is inconceivable that any branch of the government would have approved a training cooperation on this day. president obama caught in the middle of a fight over health care is now at the center of another battle within his own party. it's the war in afghanistan. and today the top democrat on the senate armed services committee, senator carl levin,

says he's against sending more troops to afghanistan. levin's statement complicates matters for the president. the defense secretary robert gates said last night, he's considering sending more troops there. dana bash reports. >> reporter: a stark warning from a powerful voice in the president's own party, hold off on sending more troops to afghanistan. >> the larger our own military footprint there, the more our enemies can seek to drive a wedge between us and the afghan population. >> reporter: senate armed services chairman carl levin who just returned from afghanistan says general stanley mcchrystal is poised to ask for a troop increase for combat and training that the president approved in march. levin said no more american combat forces should be sent to disrupt the taliban and al qaeda

new mexico there's -- >> more trainers, a larger afghan army, more equipment to afghanistan now for about six months at at least. this is -- these are the steps that i believe that we need take before we consider additional combat forces. now only 24% support it, a stunning 74% of democrats oppose the war. >> can we trust the afghan army and police?

>> some liberal democrats like senator russ feingold are even calling for a timetable to bring troops home from afghanistan, that's the approach levin and other democratic leaders took on iraq when there was a republican in the white house. now there's a democratic president who is working on stabilizing afghanistan and the main political fight for now is over whether to add more troops, not withdraw. >> john mccain, now the senator's top republican on military matters is called to hold off on afghanistan. the lesson of iraq should be an order to clear out extremists, in this case, the taliban and al qaeda. for much more on the war in afghanistan, tune in to a special "anderson cooper 360" tonight from the battle zone. that's at 11:00 p.m. eastern? a democratic shift, the united states will now enter into direct talks with north korea. a state department spokesman

immediately denied that it was a break through, insisting there is no policy shift. but previously it was only policy to -- contradiction saying that if a bilateral discussion will lead us back to the six-party process, why would we not do that? the last meeting of six party talks was in december 2008. coming up our continuing series about health care around the world and health care in the south american country of chile. also a bank executive, living in a foreclosed mansion and could be another example of banks using your tax dollar money for their benefit. also medical malpractice, it's a major cause of rising health care costs so why are malpractice caps all but ignored in the health care overhaul.

members of congress are battling over the cost of overhauling the nation's health care system. but one major cause of skyrocketing medical costs is malpractice lawsuits and it has received very little attention in proposed legislation. a report from the congressional budget office found that caps on malpractice lawsuits could save more than $4 billion over the next decade. >> reporter: dr. lewis rose has been an orthopedic surgeon for about three decades. he practices in the bronx and

claims to pay more than $150,000 a year in malpractice insurance. >> as things become more expensive to have, whether it's malpractice or otherwise and your reimbursement and constraints obviously are going down, it becomes very difficult to consider staying in practice. >> reporter: dr. rose believes omitting tort reform from the health care debate is a mistake. >> medical malpractice t cost makes up such a significant component of the care, i don't think that without extreme consideration that you could take off any option for containment of medical malpractice off the table. >> reporter: but consumer advocates couldn't additidisagr more, they say tort reform won't reduce health care costs. >> claims have fallen dramatically since the year 2000 for example, only one in eight people who are injured by malpractice even file a climb for compensation.

there is an enormous amount of malpractice that nobody is being held accountable for. >> both sides of the debate have lobbied congress about it. in 2008, health professionals, pharmaceuticals and insurance companies spent over $162 million on campaign contributions to federal politicians. the legal and law firm industry spent almost $234 million last year. the business of medical malpractice is cyclical. in 2008 it was profitable with at least $12 billion in premiums earned and $7 billion in bayout litigation. trying to gain republican support, president obama proposed looking at certain programs to curb malpractice lawsuits. we continue with our coverage of the health care systems around the world. tonight the quality of health

care in chile and how it compares to the health care system in this country. health care in chile is focused on illnesses. it's system is seen as a success. life expectancy in chile is 78 years. the prosperous latin-american country of chile offers private insurance to it's nearly 17 million people. 25% are insured with a private uncher. >> the public insurance and it has also reduced some of the kinds of problems that people have had with private insurance. it's made the private insurance companies more open to not excluding people that had prior conditions, and has encouraged them to make better offerings. >> reporter: those employed in

chile, apparently a large part of the population, pay 7% of their income for insurance, either a public or a private plan. a general tax republican knvenu the unemployed and the poor, but they must enroll in a public system. in the past five years, chile has taken extraordinary measures to change the way it focuses resources for health care. there are currently 56 health conditions and diseases ranked as having the highest burden on the country. they include end stage renal failure, hiv/aids, heart conditions and many forms of cancer. those conditions are completely covered by insurance and treated by a set of protocols set by the minister of health. >> the protocols are the -- diagnosis. and that's a guarantee. then you get the treatment that

is the best available for the chilean standards, of course it's not the best standard in the world. but it's an average treatment that provides effectiveness and cost effectiveness. >> this protocol system has helped provide quality in treatment in general medical care. >> the surveys of patient satisfaction and public satisfaction with the program have been quite good. so people feel that they're working. and we had worried that the -- that the doctors would be unhappy with the protocols. doctors tend to want to practice as they have been taught. so we were afraid that they would feel that they were -- that their own independent judgment was being limited. and that's not happening. >> reporter: life expectancy in chile matches that of the united states at 78 years. there was concern that concentrating on the list of 56 health conditions might lead to

a lack of attention to many other types of illnesses but that has not been the case. what has happened in chile is that the investments and improvements in diagnostics and facilities to treat these 56 diseases has spilled over into other types of medicine. meanwhile the chilean government is in the process of expanding the list of covered conditions. coming up, a security scare in the nation's capital, it turns out to be a security exercise. also more ac.o.r.n. employees in trouble tonight for allegedly giving advice to undercover filmmakers pretending to a pump and a prostitute. and a bank executive living it up in a foreclosed beach front property. we'll have that story next. we can do the small things, the big things, just about everything... right inside your gm dealership. find out more at goodwrench.com.

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tonight our continuing series, dobbs and jobs now. the federal deficit soared to a new record, almost 1.4 trillion, and that could slow job recovery even more as the nation pulls out of recession. the country has lost more than 6.5 million jobs since the recession began. and the total number of

americans out of work is estimated at $30 million. but there is good news for midweste american workers. gm made salary cuts last spring as it tried to raise cash before it went into bankruptcy protection. gm emerged from bankruptcy in july. the company said it needed to bring it's pay scale back in line with competitors. the federal government has given gm $5$50 billion. thousands of homes in this country sit vacant and vandalized after foreclosure by many banks. and many banks simply ignore the property. this is not the case for one california beach front property. the owners lost the home to wells fargo bank, the bank that received $1 billion in taxpayer

bailouts. and now an executive for the bank is reportedly using the home as a playground. >> this exclusive malibu colonies is surrounded by walls and a security gate. forcing them to turn the house over to wells fargo to satisfy a debt. but instead of selling the house, a wells fargo executive moved in with her family on weekends. neighbors say they entertained guests and even held a party where people were ferried to and from a yacht offshore. >> you definitely don't need bank executives living and enjoying repossessed property. >> reporter: these photos are from the website of irene due van palmer who tried to lease the home for the former owners before it went into foreclosure in may. she says she had a customer interested in -- she says the

bank wouldn't show the property. sandro is her son and business partn partner. >> we had a nice offer but did not get a response back. >> a senior vice president in charge of foreclosed commercial properties moved in on weekends, she was even issued a homeowners parking pass by security guards raidsing the suspicion of neighbors. >> generally speaking everyone knows what everyone e8s is up to. >> linda living stone is head of malibu's pepperdine university's school of business. she says it's likely the case is already being discussed in class. >> it certainly could be very poor judgment on the part of an individual, it could be issues related to how the company has laid out its policy and the extent to which they have actually enforced the policy in the past. >> wells fargo said it would not comment on geithner's actions for privacy reasons.

it also said in a statement, wells fargo's code of ethics and business conduct handbook instructs team members to avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest in their personal and business activities. the bank added that it will be conducting a thorough investigation. wells fargo also says the house was kept off the market for a period of time because of an agreement with the previous owners and that it would be put up for sale soon. >> everyone will be reading that handbook very closely this weekend. >> absolutely, you would expect so. >> thanks very much casey wian. this isn't the first time wells fargo has seemed to show little regard for the taxpayers that kept the bank afloat. we reported back in february that the bank was planning a trip to las vegas. wells fargo had a long tradition of very pricey junkets and they

included horse back riding in puerto rico and a jimmy buffett concert in the bahamas for more than 1,000 employees and guests. a reminder to join lou on the radio, go to lou dobbs.com for local listings and to subscribe to the daily podcast. you can also follow lou dobbs on twitter.com. another controversy surrounding the left wing activist group a.c.o.r.n. what are the chances of a bipartisan deal on health care. we'll hear from both sides. and is this track star who she really says she is? we'll have new information on that controversy next.

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is it possible for democrats and republicans to get together on this? we'll start with you. >> it should be. but i'm sad to predict that i think they won't in the end. the reason it should be is that if you look at what obama laid out this week at his speech, by taking the public option, essentially to the side, saying that that's probably not going to be part of any final deal, what that leaves him doing is essentially embracing mitt romney's plan for massachusetts, because that's basically the model for what the big health forum is and he's going to fund it in part using john mccain's idea from the presidential campaign which is to limit the tax exclusion on employer provided care. if republicans can't embrace a kind of romney-mccain health care plan, it's hard to know what they would embrace. i think the republican party's made the calculation, just like they did in '94 in the clinton era, that it's not good politics for them to let obama and the

democrats have such a big victory on health care and they're going to do everything they can to foil it. >> i actually think that president obama has agreed to a complicated type of excise tax on expensive insurance plans. that's not really the ideal way of doing that. the idea embraced is high risk insurance pools. think the cost might be worth it and the public might appreciate it if we leveled a bit more about how much it's going to cost. >> we have seen more on the public option this weekend, and that took everyone by a bit of surprise, what other points really need to be compromised. what are the real sticking points on this? >> i think a really big issue is, when you're telling the private insurers that they're not allowed to risk selection, which is something that you need to do, it's something that republicans and democrats agree on, you have to give them something in return. it's something along the lines of reinsurance.

there's talk about this, but it's something very, very vague. >> the one thing i say is that on the cost, it sounds like a lot, 900 billion over dplrz years. the fact that obama can't afford to do this when obama's committed to paying for it offset with savings elsewhere, it's not what we did with the big increase in medicaid prescription drugs, it's not what we did with the bush tax cuts back in his term. i think it's totally affordable and the idea that it's something we can't afford to do as a country just doesn't make sense. >> that's the thing, i don't think that we can't afford health care reform, i think we need to be more open and honest about what the costs are. that $900 billion number relies on a lot of assumptions, if it

costs more than that, let it cost more than that. i think after eight years of president bush, the public felt lied to. if president bush said we need to provide health care for everyone but we also need to pay for it, you would not have seen the town halls and the republicans would be in a much tougher position trying to make the case against health care reform. >> you said that the democrats have framed this argument wrong all along, that they focuseded too much on covering the uninsured because certainly that seems to be one of the biggest issues here. >> it's a big issue, but what the president began to do this week is for the americans who don't have health coverage if you have preexisting conditions you can lose it so health coverage is very insecure and there's a lot that's been agreed

to in terms of the insurance reform. to place the kind of cash -- all that stuff t insurers themselves have agreed to is part of the deal that obama's talking about and i think most republicans would buy into that as well. again, there's room for a bipartisan deal if we could change a little bit of the political dynamic. >> we have new numbers on the census about the number of people that are covered by employer based coveraed and tha number as gone down. employer provided coverage has 20 go and president obama would have served us all if he had been open about that. >> the truth is i think that brian and i agree that we moved beyond ecmployer based health care. mccain didn't want to do the

insurance reforms you would need to make sure people got group coverage at the same time. but if we start with what obama's talking about, people will get coverage outside the employer setting, that can set in motion a move beyond the employer based system which is good for all of us. >> your party, what type of political fallout might we see from this and especially with the midterm elections? >> the 2010 elections are going to have a lot of angry seniors coming out to vote and not a lot of the younger people that came out for obama last time around. i think it's a long term loser for the republican party if they don't come up with a workable solution. >> and the down side risks for the democrats? >> the risk is in not doing anything, and all the republicans know that. there's some question on the details, i think the odds are we're going to get a major health reform that's very good for the country, very good for people who are insured, it will give them more security, it will give people access to more

coverage who don't have it today. they'll all have to come back year to year to figure out what to do with the costs because that's something we're going to be living with. inez for ray now has an update. the coast guard is promising a thorough review tonight after a training exercise caused a security scare in our nation's capital this morning. the exercise involved a coast guard vessel in the potomac stopping a boat that was passing through the area. the training exercise included reports on police scanners of shots fired. other agencies were not notified of the exercise in advance, including the secret service which protects the president. a single dose of swine flu

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there is more trouble tonight for the left wing activist group a.c.o.r.n. two more employees have been fired after the release of a second videotape showing workers giving illegal advice to

filmmakers posing as a pump and a prostitute. bill tucker has our report. >> reporter: for the second time in as many days, a video has been posted on the internet of a.c.o.r.n. employees appearing to give illegal tax advice to a prostitute who's looking to establish a brothel using underaged prostitutes from el salvad salvador. this is at the washington office of a.c.o.r.n. it was announced that the employees in the video had been fired. quote, we have fired them and are initialling an internal review of practices reminding all staff of their obligations to uphold the highest legal and ethical standards. on thursday, a similar scenario was shown in a video shot in the baltimore office of a.c.o.r.n.

>> your business is a performing arrestist. which you are, so you are not lying, we'll play on words. but you're a performing artist, okay? so stop saying prostitution. >> reporter: the two employees in that video were described as part-time by the head of the a.c.o.r.n. office in baltimore. they no longer work for a.c.o.r.n. >> the two employees that were filmed in the video were immediately dismissed because they did not follow the protocol of this organization. >> reporter: a.c.o.r.n.'s legal council says the woman in the video denies ever giving tax advice to a pimp or a prostitute. the spokesman says our position is that this film is doctored and is not an accurate portrayal of what happened in our baltimore office and .

a.c.o.r.n. who's active in 21 states claim that the two activist filmmakers responsible for posting the videos tried the same thing at their offices in san diego, los angeles, miami, new york and philadelphia and failed. a.c.o.r.n. gave cnn a copy of the police complaint filed against a.c.o.r.n. in philadelphia. jils was a no-show for an agreed to interview with cnn. congressman steve king of iowa wants a federal investigation of a.c.o.r.n. zplvmt we have got to audit them completely, every single affiliated corporation that they have. there should be a department of justice audit complete forensic investigation. we need to do congressional investigations and we need to shut off every dime of funding.

>> reporter: arrest warrants for 11 voter registration workers were thrown out on charges of registration fraud in florida in an investigation that a.c.o.r.n. did help niinitiate. in nevada ac.o.r.n. -- base on the number of voters registered, which is illegal under nevada law. a.c.o.r.n. has called those charges political grandstanding by the secretary of state and the attorney general will, who both happen to be not republicans but democrats. bill, tonight we're also learning that the census is cutting ties with a.c.o.r.n. for the 2010 census. >> a letter went out from the president of a.c.o.r.n. announcing that they no longer wish to be affiliated with them. a.c.o.r.n. responded saying there was never any funding at

stake in this, there were no progr programatic relationships and they're going to encourage people to participate in the census. but this has got to be another big blow to a.c.o.r.n., kitty, it's been a rough week for good reason and it ends with the census bureau saying thanks but no thanks. joining me now from washington is ron christi, he's the president of christi strategies and former special assistant to president george w. bush. here in new york, republican strategist and cnn contributor ed rollins and ed was also white house political director under president reagan. news columnist earl lewis and robert zimmerman. gentlemen, thanks for being with me. thoughts on a.c.o.r.n. and the whole saga that's evolved over the weekend. >> i can't speak to the quality or the integrity of these

filmmakers and i certainly couldn't say that a.c.o.r.n. is representing job growth or job development. the bottom line is these are serious issues and a.c.o.r.n. does not do itself any service when they're not straight forward or candid, for example when they came on this program and denied there were any investigations they were facing until lou dobbs set them straight and laid out the record. so their lack of candor and they lack of transparency is truly hurting any potential hope they have to in fact establish credibility. >> ron, i'll go to you next. >> i agree with robert on this. i think that they have been less than candid in some of their dealings not only with the federal government, but with the state governments around the country. and these are very, very serious charges that bill outlined in these report previously. you're talking about people who have been arrested for voter fraud and now an organization that's helping people be federal housing and poor people that are in need of housing.

i think we do need a forensic audit and a full investigation. >> as a taxpayer, i don't know if i'm outraged. you certainly should investigate any instances of wrong doing. but when i hear the representative saying we have to shut them all down, it sounds to me like what i know has gone on and what has gone on for 50 years, if you go out and register a lot of poor people, there's a lot of powerful interests that are going to shut you down. that kind of overstepping, the notion that you would shut down an entire national organization based on what looks to me like a prank that they tried in a bunch of states and found three or four workers out of hundreds or even thousands of workers nationwide, i think this needs a little bit of a cooling off so that we can think through what's going on and have people respond to it appropriately and responsib responsibly. >> a.c.o.r.n. has been under investigation for a long time, there's hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money. most of them do good work and

they should clear their name. but at the end of the day, when there's accusations of voter fraud, you need to look at it hard before you continue to put federal money into their pockets. >> let's move on to another controversy this week and that is joe wilson, he's now come out with a video. let's listen to a quick clip of that. >> on these issues i will not be muzzled, i will speak up and speak loudly against this plan. >> congressman wilson's problem is not the need to be muzzled, he needs to be medicated and it's not just his outburst that's the issue, it's that he represents exactly why the right wing has destroyed the integrity and the kpeblt credibility and integrity of the republican party. we had former speaker newt gingrich sever to sonya

sotomayor as a -- maybe the way to deal with this national health program is to put federal funding in there for anger management and put the gop at betty ford because they truly are a party that's become controlled by the lunatic fringe that's voied their credibility and their effectiveness. >> let's get ron in on this. >> i think representative wilson acted inappropriately and he apologized for his comments and the president accepted that and the president wanted to mover on. what i final troubling is that the democrats are trying to make political hay out of this, they conveniently forget that harry reid calls president bush a liar on national television, not once but twice, there was no left vef outrage. i think the republicans need to convince the american people that it's in their best interests rather than continue to score partisan points. they need to move on. >> has this moved the debate on? >> it's actually perfectly timed to illustrate the president's

point, right at the point of the speech where he's saying members of congress are acting like talk show hosts, that they're being reckless and irresponsible. there you have congressman wilson bringing the point home. it's a god send, they'll be using it to raise money for a couple of years. and it's clear to independents, anybody who was on the fence. i have been watching presidential addresses going back to nixon, and it's never happened before. people don't want to be associated with this. ust about . right inside your gm dealership. find out more at goodwrench.com.

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we're back to our panel now. >> it's an outrageous comment to

which he quickly apologized. but now if he promises -- you know, he's found great popularity back home but i don't think the behavior was proper behavior and to a certain extent we need to start talking about the issues. there's a big difference between us. >> we have very little time left. i'd like to go to each of you and ask you, where do we go next in this process? >> obviously they've got a battle among themselves. i think there will be a bill and it will be called hr 3200 and to be conditioned at the end of it because they are not going to finish what they want here but i think they are definitely going to end up with something. >> i think the white house will put out something. if they don't like it, they ride over them and put out their own plan. >> all right. ron? >> i think the democrats have to give president obama a victory in health care. he's put so much of his political portion this in this that at the end of the day the somewhere in the 700 trillion --

billion range. >> and robert? >> i predicted many months ago there would be a health care legislation passed by the democratic congress and what you have is a real philosophical dedivide but they are coming together because of the urgency of the matter. as the congressman pointed out, it was not done for several years and so this is really an important first step and this piece of legislation is the beginning of the process and i think it's going to be an historic achievement. >> thank you very much. still ahead, heroes to unite the story of the most dangerous duties in a war zone. stay with us. ♪

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and now heroes, he has served three terms in iraq over the past decade. he performs an extremely dangerous duty as an explosive

technician. here is his story. >> the ied -- >> it's a catch phrase in afghanistan. before the wars most people couldn't tell you what that acronym stood for. >> reporter: the first explosive ordinance explosive company, first marine logistics group. >> the explosive device is only limited to the imagination and the creativeness of the bomb maker. >> reporter: the explosive ordinance unit safely explodes these ieds sometimes using a robot. >> whether it's a nonexplosive ordinance or to find a large amount of explosives in a cache, that's where we come in. >> reporter: in 2008 he went to iraq to the city of falluja. he risked his life.

he armed two ieds by hand. >> all of our tools, because of the terrain and the time of day and the location, they were not feasible locations. the first thing that happened to me, i usually hum the last song on the radio. i try it like it's nothing there. it's either gone off or -- i've been luck see so far. >> he's been awarded the bronze stall. >> there's a lot of ordinances and means thaw need to know to get your job done. >> our techs have done a lot of research. >> training is essential these days. as they prepare for deployment to afghanistan. >> different country, different war. so day to day we're given classes, whether it's a cultural

awareness class or things that we need to know. >> cnn. >> our very best wishes to sergeant small. he was married last month and we thank sergeant small. remembering the heroes of september 11th. a crowd gathered at a field where 40 passengers and crew of united airlines flight of 93 died. those victims are honored for fighting their hijackers and preventing the plane from reaching our nation's