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o' er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave >> i think that says it all. jim cornelson doing a stirring rendition of the national anthem. this ceremony being heard all across the nation, carried live in every nfl stadium and we see the flag, the players, officials, first responders, families, all united started

out sad and it ended resilient. and i think that moment says everything that we can about the special tribute. back to your original programming across fox. what an extraordinary moment. it is almost 1:04 p.m. eastern time. september 11th, 2007. at this exact moment ten years ago, millions of americans were watching president george w. bush speaking saying "freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended. welcome to a special edition of america live. i'm maim. after a decade of grief we are thinking of the heros, of the

families, of the unity that pulled america together that day and in the years that have since passed and reveling in the optimism of the children who today stood in front of the crowd and called out the names of parents they never met including this young man. >> and my father sebastian gorke who i never met because i was in my mom's belly. i love you father. i love you for loving the idea of having me. you gave me the gift of life and i wish you could be here tone joy it with me. >> and then there was this powerful scene. a photograph showing a father overcome with emotion falling to his knees near the north tower pool where his son's name is forever engraved. look at that. at the pentagon, the american flag was unfurlonged over the side of the building at dawn. it will stay there until sunset and? and in shanksville, pennsylvania, visitors embark in front of the wall of names near the crash site of united

flight 93. today is a day to reflect and remember the victims of the attacks and to hear some of the stories that we have not heard until now. in just moments i will speak with sandra kay daniels, the teacher who was sitting next to then president bush when received word that the nation was under attack. also, the mother of flight 93 hero mark bingham who join us to talk about the newly unveiled memorial to the victims and heros onboard that flight in shanksville and we will show you some never before seen images from the search efforts below the ground zero rubble. these are unbelievable pictures. they are haunting images and scenes only scene by a few rescue workers until today. where we have seen so many emotion aol moments today as the nation pays tribute to those lost on 9/11. here are what some of the cameras recorded in new york, washington and pennsylvania.

♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ >> i'm honor to say my brother's name, christopher edmond lundner who with his sparkling blue sighs an eyes ad infectious smiles is greatly loved and deeply missed every single day. >> and my father, we love you, you are my hero. >> donna m. bernoff. >> david w. bernard. >> karl vincent feeney. >> margaret l. benson. >> dominik j.berardi. >> i wish my dad had been there to teach me how to drive, ask a girl out on a date and see me graduate from high school. >> michael carol. >> charles lawrence chann.

>> harvey l. hai harrell. >> evan m. highland,, jr. >> thomas edward heinz. >> walter g. heinz. >> joseph anthony ianelli. >> dutu edith. >> betsy martinez. >> michael a. marty. >> karen ann martin. >> god bless every soul that we lost. god bless the family members who have to ende that loss. d god guide us to our reunion in heaven and god bless the united states of america. >> our own rick levinthal is

live at ground zero today as he was ten years ago today as well. rick? >> and megyn a remarkable contrast from the live images in soldier field in chicago where tens of thousands of people were cheering and celebrating america to the images here where this ceremony at the world trade center just now beginning to wind down. takes more than four hours to read the nearly 3,000 names of the victims who died here and in shanksville and at the pentagon down in d.c. and they are still finishing up right now and near the end of the alphabet. they began just after 8:35 this morning. and, of course, had six moments of silence to mark the times that the towers were hit. the times that the towers fell and also the time the plane crashed in shanksville and the other plane hit the pentagon and we heard powerful moments from family members. we also heard from mayor michael bloomberg. >> they were our neighbors, our

friends, our husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, children and parents. they were the ones who rushed in to help. >> in years past, megyn it was a much more difficult scene here because there was a pit where the towers once stood. it was a massive construction site and the best family members could do is walk down a ramp into the pit and place showers in a makeshift pool at the bottom there. now, they have this beautiful memorial open to the families today and will open to the public tomorrow. and this is where the family members are going after they hear the names of their loved ones. they can walk on grass and walk under trees and walk across the park to the two massive memorial pools that are sur rounded by waterfalls in the footprints where the twin towers once stood and there they can read the names of their loved ones that are engraved in bronze around the sides of the waterfalls. and they can reflect there and they can look up to the future

and see these massive buildings rising from where the towers once stood and where now we have an active construction site but you one that certainly looks a lot more like buildings taking shape. a lot more like the future. and a lot less like pain and the anguish that we all felt ten years ago. >> rick, if you will permit me. i can't let the moment pass without asking you what it is like for you today. because you were a part of history, too. and most of our viewers who have been watching fox and the retrospecktives we prepared have seen the interviews of you and the shots of you back on that day ten years ago and heard some of the fear that you and your crew experienced. what is it like for you today? >> every 9/11 is tough, megyn but this is the best thatky remember because we can look out and see progress and see hope and see the future.

it is really beautiful here now and this is what i think everyone hoped for. a place to come and reflect and actually feel good about the future and that is what i see now. and it does give me comfort. >> good. rick, thanks so much for shareing that with us. rick levinthal, everybody. we are looking back at some of the most heroic stories from 9/11. one especially aboard united flight 93 as one passenger's mother tried desperately to reach him. >> mark, this is your mom. it's 10:54 a.m. the news is that it has been hijacked by terrorists and they are planning to probably use the plane as a target to hit some site on the ground. if you possibly can, try to overpower these guys. >> a mother's last call to her son. mark bingham, who today is remembered as a 9/11 hero helping to prevent what some say could have been a catastrophic attack in washington. his mother joins us live in moments with more on his life and legacy. and video you have not seen or

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11th, 2011. ten years since the 9/11 attacks. we just got this video in of the president and the first lady touring the impact site of where united flight 93 hit in shanksville, pennsylvania. that bowler is part of the memorial that is being established there. it marks the impact site and there are parts around this memorial where only the families will be permitted to walk. the president and the first lady were also permitted to tour the area and did so earlier today in shanksville, pennsylvania. as i mentioned moments ago, alice hoagland, the mother of one of the passengers on that mark bingham will be ma'am my guest in just a short while. please stay tuned for that. the students in florida found out that president bush was coming. he went there to talk about about a national reading initiative. before his remarks the students in sandra kay daniel's second

grade glass were going to show off their reading skills. as the children were beginning their story, white house chief of staff andy card entered the room and whispered in the president's here ear america is under attack. before the day was through, sandra kay daniels would have to teach the second grade students the meaning of the word terrorism. ten years later ms. daniel dans our guest now. thank you so much for being here with us. it is an honor to speak with you. >> thank you. >> take us back there to september 11th, 2001. supposed to be a joyous day to celebrate the accomplishments of the students in the second grade class. when did you first know something was wrong? >> i first knew something was wrong when i saw some man approaching president bush at the time coming towards him and i knew that was totally out of character, that was not supposed to happen. so immediately red flags went up in my head but i didn't know

what was wrong. >> you had more than a dozen little second graders sitting there in front of you. the entire media is standing in the classroom. and what are you thinking to yourself? >> i'm thinking he better know what he is doing approaching the president because i knew the type of security that was on campus and the type of security that was even in place in my classroom. i couldn't figure out why he was coming forward president bush at the time. i knew i had to continue with the lesson because i did have 16 second graders in front of me. my classroom in the back was filled with the media. and those that couldn't get in were peering through the windows. so i had to continue with the lesson. >> and when did they -- the president obviously stepped out of the classroom after a bit and when did you learn what exactly was happening in the country? >> i learned what was happening in the country he when president bush came out of the

office that was adjoining my classroom and shook my hand and said that he had to leave and that someone would inform me why he had to leave. so i was taken into his office and that is where i was told what happened. >> when the president made his remarks from your classroom and told the nation for the first time that america was under attack, you know, we all saw the faces of the children and parents, the teachers standing in the backroom, did they know at that time already? had it already been announced or were they learning it for the first time as well? >> actually, the announcement came from our media center. he left my classroom and went into our media center and addressed the nation. from my understandg, no one knew at it. i was not permitted to go into media center. he remained in the classroom -- i remained in the classroom with my students. from my understanding no one

knew. that is why there is the shocked look on everyone's face and trying to comprehend what he was saying. >> how do you explain that to a group of second graders? how did you explain what was happening? >> it wasn't easy to do. i had to explain it in terms that a second grader would understand. i had to let them know there was good and evil in the world and what we were experiencing at the time was an evil act that had been done to america and president bush needed to leave us to go and address that. >> i know you had frantic parents coming to pick up children later that day wondering if the elementary school would be a target because president bush had been there. what do you think ten years later when you look back because in your own way you played a role in that day and in the memories we all have of that day because we remember seeing you on that tape. what does that feel like and what perspective do you have on it a decade later? >> we were honored to have

president bush on our campus that day to celebrate the students for the gains that they had made in reading. unfortunately, the day turned to be an awful, awful day that history, americatore i, was under attack and for whatever reasons he was in my classroom at that day, at that time, i don't know. we were thrust into history, yes, but we know that we will advance. we will be -- we will be a better nation now because of what has happened. it made a bond between those of us at our school and the people in new york there is a bond there that i can't explain in words but there is a bond there. >> well, put. sandra, thank you so much. all the best to you. >> thank you. well, ten years after 9/11, much of downtown manhattan has been transformed.

the streets once the scene of horror and now sacred ground. we'll show you what this street looks like today. plus, one new york city firefighter's story inspiring a powerful and growing 9/11 memorial. when we come back, see why 23,000 people are getting ready to retrace the steps of one of new york's bravest. this is an incredible story. live we go now to ground zero. ♪

the sounds of the waterfalls that now stand in the place where the footprints of the former world trade center towers ones were are meant to drown out the ambient noise and street traffic noise here in manhattan so that family members will be able to quietly reflect. and you see the family members etching names of loved ones off of the walls surrounding the reflecting pools. you are struck by the age of some of them. so many young children and as

we opened the show, that one young boy ten years old paying tribute to his father whom he had never met and that is so true for so many children, more than 3,000 children lost a parent on 9/11/2011 and now today they come here to remember and to mourn. one way of reflecting on that day is with the images captured of the horrific events. to do that we have some before and after photos to share with you. here you see some crowds fleeing for safety as the south tower falls. these images have become iconic. their faces say it all. and here is the same street today. look at that. one world trade center rising upward in the background. this here is a subway entrance across from ground zero after the towers fell. every inch covered in thick

soot. look at that. you can see what is left of the walls of the world trade center jutting upward in the background. and today, the street is, once again, bustling. look at it. as the world trade center site is reborn. it is quite something. well, at 9:37 a.m. eastern time back on that fateful day, american airlines flight 77 crash inside the pentagon, killing 184 men, women and children ten years ago today. today an american flag was unfurlonged over the wall where that plane struck. now, we are awaiting the arrival of president obama and the first lady for a wreath laying ceremony there. we will go there live. and earlier vice president joe biden presided over a memorial service there as well. national correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon now.

jennifer? >> hi. an emotional morning here at the pentagon. we are awaiting as you mentioned president obama who will lay a barbecuing bash here at the pentagon.l lay a wh some of the highlights from the morning, certainly one of the more emotional moments is when they unfurlonged the flag at the exact point of impact where flight 77 struck the pentagon. they did that at dawn this morning. the ceremony was carried out with military presix at 9:37, a moment of silence to mark the 184 people who were killd that day. the water under the memorial was turned off for that moment of silence. "amazing grace" was sung. chairman of the joint chiefs admiral mullen and vice president biden both spoke. >> these were the things the terrorists could not eradicate. they could bring down the walls but they could not bring down america. they could kill our citizens but they could not sill our

citizenship. >> those in this building that day knew what they were witnessing. it was a declaration of war by stateless actors bent on changing our way of life who believed that these horrible acts, these horrible acts of terror directed against innocents could buckle our knees, could bend our will, could begin to break us. >> and if you needed any reminder that terrorism is still a threat, you look at the snipers who are standing above that flag on the pentagon roof. they are are on the lookout in case there is anything untoward this afternoon. megyn? >> jennifer griffin, thank you very much. live at the pentagon where we will return in moments.

one of the more remarkable stories of survival from new york on 9/11 involved lauren manning. and if you do not know that name, you need to. she was waiting for an elevator to take her up to her office in the world trade center when the first plane struck the north tower. a massive fireball shooting down the elevator shaft nearly consuming her and others who were waiting for the elevator in the lobby of the building. more than 80% of her body was instantly burned. that story became an incredible one of survival, triumph and refusal to be a victim. lauren manning in her own words, upcoming. and fema releasing never before seen images from inside the rubble at ground zero. we have that for you.

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they will learn that individual choices make a difference. that love and sacrifice can triumph over evil and hate. and that what happened above this pennsylvania field ranks among the most courageous acts in american history. >> that was president bush yesterday at the dedication of the flight 93 national memorial in shanksville, pennsylvania. one of the 40 passengers and crew who fought the hijackers aboard that plane on september 11th, one of the stories that has become well known is the story of mark bingham. he was one of the passengers who decided to storm the cockpit and he made that decision even before getting this fateful phone message from his mother. this is his mother, alice hoagland calling her son, mark, on september 11th, 2001. >> mark, this is your mom. it's 10:54 a.m. the news is that it has been hijacked by terrorists. they are planning to probably use the plane as a target to hit some site on the ground so

if you possibly can, try to overpower these guys if you can because they will probably use the plane as a target so i would say go ahead and do everything you can to overpower them because they are hell bent. i will try to -- try to call me back if you can. >> joining me now, alice hoagland who was there in shanksville to hear volleyball volleyball yesterday and is there again today. alice, such a pleasure talking to you. i have such admiration and respect for you, every year you are so incredibly eloquent as we hit this date every year. and i listened to you on that phone message and i see the same incredible woman. i hear the same incredible composed woman who must have been going through the most tragic -- >> you are very gracious. i made a couple mistakes in the call. it was not 10:54. it was 9:54. it was just a few minutes before mark and his little gang

of buddies in the back were thrust into the ground. the plane hit the ground at 600 miles an hour out here buried in the ground. there was nothing much left of it when the emt people came along. i'm so grateful that president george w. bush said those words yesterday and so grateful to be able to talk to mark for just a couple of minutes before he was killed and i'm really grateful that he had a good bunch of talent back there. tom burnett, jeremy glick, todd beamer. tall athletic guys used to forming a pickup team and making a run. >> you know, i heard a commentator just the other day saying they were onboard that flight, you know, speculateing that your son and the others were onboard that flight and likely at the end knew that they were going to die and that the terrorists were going to die but they were going to die on their own terms and not on the terms of the terrorists. >> that's right. that's right. they grabbed whatever impromptu

weapons they could and stood together and died on their feet together. and weren't able to save their own lives or lives of any one on the airplane but saved a lot of lives on the ground. the ugly guy who masterminded the mess on 9/11 has admitd that the target was the u.s. capital building and senator mccain has said i may very well 'ole m oh my life to marke others who stood and fought. i miss my son every day but you it is wonderful to know that he and his little pickup team of guys in the back of that doomed 757 were able to make a difference that day. >> how do you -- how do you avoid bitterness because you don't seem bitter at all? >> well, like every other one of the flight -9d 3 family members that i was privileged to see today, i am on a continuum. nothing tide did tidy about g.

i miss mark every day. i wish he were with me. i hope that we can eradicate terrorism and i hope that we do not become complacent and forgetful as a country that there are forces and personalities and elements within our borders that mean to do us harm and will rise up and strike us again at the first opportunity. we need to be constantly vigilant. we need to improve our aviation security. we need to eradicate terrorism whereever it is and i will go to my death saying that. >> do you think that ten years later americans have become more complacent because thankfully there hasn't been another attack on the homeland? >> well, i'm glad you asked. i'm afraid that after this 10th anniversary 9/11 may become just sort of a last hoorah. we last our focus and we need to gain it. get over the political

correctness and multiculturalism that us.brookes uhobbles >> you say that as somebody who has been i think bending over backwards to try to be understanding of muslim culture and not be too hash muc harsh l but have a message for americans on that score. >> i have been a great admire are of daisy dhan who was the wife of fazul abdul. i have to say that going back to new york city and washington, d.c. and sharing time and discussion with some of the firefighters who lost their friends by the hundreds i appeal to mr. algamal who is the developer of his park 51 project, please reconsider. reconsider. no one argues with your legal right to build your mosque where you like to but please consider that it is a moral

wrong to build a test ament to islam two blocks from where nearly 3,000 people were killed in the name of islam. it is an ugly reality that all people who are muslims are not all peace loving and i cherish and i applaud the peace loving muslims among us and i condemn in the most harsh terms those who are not peace loving, those who mean to promote islam over the bodies of the people who died on september 11th. >> alice hoagland. it is always so impactful hearing you speak. i thank you for giving us any time at all on this day. your son mark was a hero and the nation is indebted to him. taken from us too soon. as president bush put, it one of the lessons of 9/11 is that evil is real and so is courage. >> yes. thank you. >> you and your son. an exercise in that. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> in the years since 9/11 we have seen a lot of fighting and

we have seen some powerful acts of faith. just ahead, we will show you what the churches in the shadows of the twin towers are today doing to mark this anniversary. plus, when the plane first hit the towers, a firefighters made a heroic run into harm's way. his story and the amazing effort it has inspired since, when we come back. sam higgins? you have frequent heartburn, right? yeah. well we're the two active ingredients in zegerid otc. i'm omeprazole. and i'm sodium bicarbonate.

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the new york fire department lost 343 members to 9/11, each one a hero. one of those heros is steven siller. he had just tip initiale finiss overnight shift when heard the first reports of a plane hitting into the twin towers. he called his wife and headed back into manhattan. when found the tunnel blocked he got out of his truck and strapped on his 60-pounds of gear and started to run. he would make it to the towers that morning but he would never make it home. and his friends and family were searching for a way to honor steven's memory. they decided to organize a run that retraced his route from brooklyn to ground zero.

look at that. this is video from the towers to tunnel run two year guys and when they hold the 10th annual run two weeks from now, they expect some 25,000 people to take part. that is inspiring. joining me how is frank sied ller, chairman of the tunnel to tower foundation and he is steven siller's brother. thank you so much for being here. steven has an incredible story. he was ten years old when your parents died and you and your brothers and sisters raised him. he became a fireman. his shift was over. he was going home to his family, five children, when the call of duty came and he answered it. >> he answered it because he was that type of person. allfirst responders, they have this makeup of courage and when they are faced with that kind of adversity they step up to

the plate and they do it. >> but the thing is, it is not just that eeoc turned around and he drove to the site. he couldn't get there. the tunnel was shut down. you know, the universe was telling him no, you can't and he was telling the universe, yes,ky. to strap on the gear. to run through the tunnel. to run with that kind of gear on all that way just to try to help his fellow human beings. did it surprise you at all? were even you floored to hear that story? >> i was floored to hear it because he is my brother and when we didn't know for sure how he got there but we had no doubt that he got there. >> how did you find out it was in that way? >> well, we went around to different firehouses and talked to different firefighters and he was seen at the tunnel running through. his truck was parked right at the entrance of the tunnel. as a matter of fact, somebody who comes to the run said that he saw him come up to a screeching halt, get out of his truck, calmly put his gear on

and ran through the tunnels. >> there had to be that moment back ten years ago today when you obviously saw it was happening on the television and there had to be at least a moment of hope, you know, that maybe he hadn't answered the call of duty, maybe this was one day where he thought of himself instead of others. >> well, we knew steven and we knew he would be there and, as a matter of fact, when the first tower came down, i turned around to my mother-in-law and i said nancy, i think i just lost my brother. i know that was a barbecuing of life at that time. we didn't know how much. it was a great recovery by so many firefighters and first responders. it was unbelievable day. we are so proud of him that we had to make sure that we honored what he did that day. >> right. and so now, this is happening not just in new york, this run. 5 k run. now, this is not just happening here. it is happening over several cities. >> yeah. we have almost 50 different

cities. we have one in pearl harbor that is pretty incredible, right. >> and you are raising money. where does the money go? >> we do many different things. i hear my echo. >> you can take it out. >> beautiful. we do many different things. we help children who have lost one or both parents. that was the first beginning of the mission. now, we are helping the children of our men and women making the ultimate sacrifice. the children left behind. over 6,000 service men and women have given their lives since 9/11. we are doing that. there is over 45,000 people, men and women in uniform that have been injured since the war on terror started ten years ago. and now we are building homes for these severely wounded service men and women. there is three quadruple amputees. we competed the first one with the help of so many people and different organizations. todd nicely from missouri.

i was with him at nascar yesterday. they honored him and my brother over there. and i was able to start the race and great message from rue die giuliani, good friend. chairman of the tunnel to towers run, actually. and the third is john peck, corporal john peck from illinois and we are doing him. we just made a commitment. friday night we had a ten year concert and tribute to heros and we have come together with all the board members and all 2500 volunteers that we have that help us every year and we said we will build 38 more houses for the triple amputees out there. >> a test ament to the inspiration that your brother's acts provided not just you and us sitting here but the nation. i want to ask you one thing before you go. your family. steven's nephew is now a firefighter. >> yes, robert. a lieutenant. >> and you said he carries --

>> every year at the tunnels of towers run when you come out of the brooklyn battery tunnel, there are 343 firefighters standing there with pictures, large sized pictures of their fallen brothers. and when you come out and you see that, the number sounds like a lot but when you line them all up it as lot. and my nephew carries my brother's picture. he is honored to carry it and he is carrying a torch like so many firefighters are this day. >> five kids doing okay? >> the five kids are remarkable. they bring us so much joy. my sister-in-law is another hero. she has done a beautiful job with the kids. it is easy just to not want to get out of bed and not want to face what it was. i will tell you what steven taught us all that day. you don't run away. run at your problems. do what you are supposed to do. he wants to make sure that we don't die. he is gone and paid big

sacrifice but doesn't want us unhappy and that is the way that we beat these guys. rudy giuliani said it the other day. they can't beat us. the americans are tull of spirit and live and they didn't expect the heroism that was shown not only that day but since. >> thank you so much. stark images of 9/11 like this one of a mcdonald's in lower manhattan injuries the windows blown out by the tower's collapse. look at that. thick soot clogging the air. we will show you what life looks like here, ten years later, next. >> a new memorial honors the heros of flight 93. we will head to shanksville, pennsylvania, for a live report and tribute there. >> for as long as this memorial stands we will remember what the men and women aboard the plane did here. we will pay tribute to the courage they showed, the sacrifice they made, and the lives they spared.

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welcome back. our continuing coverage continues now. we have been showing you before and after images taken around the 9/11 attacks. the pictures offering a glimpse back at the devastation and how america has regrouped in the decade since. this is a mcdonald's in lower manhattan on that fateful day, the entire street coated in soot. the windows blown out. the air so thick with dust you can't even see across the street. look at it ten years later. the mcdonald's goes on.

not even a hint of the devastation is visible. it is not about a burger shop. it is about americans who refuse to let something as small as a burger shop be compromised in terms of their way of life. life has gotten back to normal in virtually all ways near new york and you can see it in the tourists who continue to come through this town and in the vibrancy of lower manhattan which continues thriving from wall street on up. and on a day folks where religion had no official role in the memorial ceremony at ground zero, some are remembering a small beautiful historic church that still exists and once sat in the shadows of the world trade center. on 9/11, trinity church transformed, becoming a triage center for the victims. religion correspondent lauren green is live in the newsroom with more on that. lauren? >> well, the chapel is still in

the shadows but now of the freedom tower. on september 11th, 201, st. paul's chapel became a first responder. one of three, one of a handful of areas serving recovery crews and firefighters and police officers in the weeks after the attacks. a stone's throw from the towers, the st. paul's historic cemetery was strewn with debris. the without iron fence a make shift memorial. the ebusines serving all faith. >> they fed us. got us clothes. when your boots were burned down because of the hot steel, you got another pair of boots. >> i'm roman catholic and coming here a little bit close to heaven. and then you go out back there to hell. that is what it was like. it was like hell out there. >> today instead of the debris at st. paul's, the spire

dwarfed by the freedom tower. and this weekend a reunion, some 600 first responders returned to be honored with a special service and picnic. it was a reminder that some of the recovery crews traveled from some other parts of the country to help out. st. paul's chapel had concerts and prayer services all week long leading up to today and continues to be a focal point for first responders and others when 9/11 is remembered. >> thank you. a powerful part of the 9/11 story is told by the children who lost parents that day. jack dembrowski's daughter lost h her father. we will hear from her. and unveiling of the memorial at ground zero. we will speak to one of the people behind its planning. >> and my dad michael justin mccabe, mom cassidy, liam and i

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manhattan. one of the sites are people today are mark the ten year anniversary of the attack. it would be days before we fully understood the 40 people who died in the burning wreckage of flight 93 did so in defense of their nation and their fellow americans. fighting off terrorists who hijacked their flight even as the plane made its fatal descent. laura ingle joins us live from shanksville, pennsylvania. laura? >> a tremendous sense of pride in the air all weekend long as all 40 passengers and flight crew members have been honored in a variety of different ways. we had the dedication ceremony yesterday and today, of course, the memorial service. and these people being called citizen patriots. we heard that all weekend long who fought the first battle in the ongoing war against global terrorism. we heard that from former president george w. bush. today, though, president barack

obama and the first lady arriving at the memorial to place a wreath at the newly unveiled wall of names. the white marble structure with the names of each of those who lost their lives today. president obama greeted with applause. one man yellg out from the crowd thanks for getting bin laden, praising the mission that took ow out the al-qaeda leader earlier this year, of course. today more somber as family members read the names of their loved ones as the remembrance bells rang out. >> jeremy logan glick. >> of the youngest passenger onboard, diorabodley told me the memorial was more emotion that will than the dedication. seeing the children and passengers growing up and getting bigger, reading those names without their family members by their side. former pennsylvania governor

and first secretary of homeland security tom ridge was here. he spoke and told the thousands gathered this is a signal to all the world americans do not live in fear, we live in freedom. >> we pledge to you that we will ensure that future generations know your names and your remarkable story just as we have been privileged to do. we are honored to share the legacy men and women who made a difference. and now that president barack obama has left the site, security has reopened and has allowed the public to go up to the wall of names. you see them there as we give you a live look. people going up to pay respects. leaving flowers, touching the wall of names. many family members here will return again tomorrow. there will actually be a private funeral service.

the remains that have been left -- that have been over at the coroner's office for the last ten years there will be a service here tomorrow morning for the family members. this is not over yet. megan, we will send it back to you. >> thank you so much. and yesterday at that same site in shanksville a lasting tribute to the heros aboard flight 93. the wall of names unveiled. the memorial consisting of vertical slabs of stone with the names of each of the 40 heros etched on an individual slab. >> lauren. [bell tolling] >> an unborn child. >> yesterday's tribute included two ringing of the bells for each victim who died in the crash. also on hand, american leaders past and present including vice president joe biden, former president george w. bush, and

former president bill clinton. president clinton comparing and contrasting what happened in that field ten years guy to two other historic last stands, the alamo in texas and one involving the spartans 2500 years ago. >> this is something different for at the alamo they were soldiers. they knew what they had to do. your loved ones just happened to be on a plane. >> the former president went on to say that those heros aboard flight 93 every day americans saved countless others with their bravery. well, right now, a remembrance taking place for another group of victims who died in the 9/11 attacks. an interfaith service for the 84 port authority employees killed when the twin towers fell. many of them first responders. for those who do not live in

the new york airy arks the port authority is the government agency that helps manage and secure the bridges, tunnels, airports and transit in the city and northern new jersey. eric is live at ground zero, not far from where this tribute is taking place. eric? >> hello, megyn. we know about the police officers and first responders who work for the port authority. but there are other people. the administrative assistants and executives of the agency that manage the world trade center and owns the actual ground here. 8 were killed in 2001 and also in the first attack. and right now as you can see, the special ceremony honoring and remembering them is ongoing at st. peter's church. among those killed was the executive director of the port authority neal levin who was 46 years old. john o'neill, an al-qaeda expert who quit the fbi and the government partly in frustration over its nonpursuit of al-qaeda. he became the director of security for the world trade

center and was also killed on that day. also being remembered, the six victims who died in the 1993 bombing of the world trade center. that is when islamic extremists drove a bomb filled van into the basement of the building and exploded it. they hoped that one of the towers would be destroyed and topple on to the other tower to bring them both down. it was because that was not successful that the alleged mastermind ramsey yusef at that point tried to work on the plan that eventually was successful in 2001. the names of those who died in 1993 have been add to the majestic waterfalls here at ground zero. the names along the granite footprint of the two towers. the gentle waters here bring solace and comfort in what has been an overwhelmingly emotional day. a reminder and tribute to those who died here and a reminder to all of us of the threat that still exists but the hope that canemanate from that tragic and

terrible day. >> tom estrada was only 41 years old when the plane hit his 104th floor office in the north tower. his remains never found. now, ten years later his wife and three children remembering their dad. >> loni j. stone. >> jimmy nevil story. >> timothy stout. >> thomas strada. >> well, their little boy justin thomas was just four days old when his father died. joining me now is ernest, thomas' dad. thank you so much for being here. >> my pleasure. i appreciate the opportunity. >> your son was working for cantor fitzgerald a firm which had a devastating hit on 9/11. he had three children including one who was only four days old when was killed. and his young daughter has been

writing messages to her dad. she is now 14, katelyn has been writing messages to her dad since his death including this one. i love you forever. i miss you. i think about you every day. you will never be foregotten and i love you so much. what does it do to you to hear that? >> they are exceptional children. we are very, very proud of them. i'm extremely proud of tommy's wife terri who has done a great job with the children in his absence. i can't thank her enough. the children have grown. tommy the oldest boy is a young adult. and you can see by what katelyn writes the kind of young lady she is and justin is just like his dad. he is full of life in spite of having been plagued with a brain tumor since he was five. it has been a tough you struggle for terri.

>> is it hard to keep his memory alive and make sure the children know him and don't forget? >> it is easy, he lives with us every day. he lives with my family every day with his brothers and sisters, his mom and all his friends and with his children, terri has pictures of him around the house. the boys are learning to play golf. tommy's fished. justin has been fishing with me he this summer. >> he loved to fish. >> he was a great fish. wanted to give up the job at cantor and go fishing. >> he longed for the day he could retire on go on the pro circuit 5-he would have done well because he was that talented. we have found a great joy in the children. a great joy. katelyn has the love of horses just like her granddad did. terri's father george was a harness driver in the hall of fame. she has a love for horses. life goes on but it is very, very difficult. >> he was just 41 years old.

that is so, so young. we heard that story in some cases. i know you said many times i asked why it wasn't me and not him. i have lived a life and he had not. >> i had lived 71 years. i'm going be 81 this year. and ten years have passd that i have continued to enjoy being on this earth. tommy has evaporated from it. it is just not fair. it wasn't fair. in one instance he was here and in another instant he is completely gone as if he never existed but he will always be with us. he will always exist in our eyes and our hearts and our souls and in everything we do and everything we plan. i don't think there is a time that we are together as a family that he doesn't come up and he is the topic of discussion. >> and that is how you keep him. >> absolutely. >> i know like so many of the family members you never had a body to bury. you weren't granted that honor. but they did find a car service

card imprinted with his name. something from his wallet, you believe. >> i was very fortunate. i will say this publicly, two weeks after the event i had the good fortune to go to the site with a political delegation. i was then mayor of the village and the senators who represented me took me down and i brought with me a plastic bag. one of the construction workers who i introduced myself to was good enough to take me to the site of the north tower, the crane was inactive and i was able to take two scoops of ashes from that site to bring home with me. that gave me a little bit of a closure. gave me something to hold on to. many, many parents and many, many surviving family members did not have the good fortune to do that, although, the day after -- that day i met mayor giuliani and i told him what i

had done and he said to me did it make you feel good and i said yes, it did. the next day in the newspaper he offered to all of the surviving family members an opportunity to pick up something and get some ashes if they wanted it. >> wow, wow. >> so that helped me. we were able to ente inte travn a family grave and terri and the children brought balloons with messages and let the balloons go that day into the heaven where their daddy was. >> your composure and the love you had for your son and family is obvious. i thank you for sharing your story. >> i thank you for giving me the opportunity. >> all theest to you and to his family. >> thanks very much. >> stay well. well, in the ten years since the attacks left a gaping void in so many families, we have witnessed a rye birth on the grounds where the twin towers once stood. wait until you see the incredible time lapse images taken over the last ten years.

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construction from its early stages to completion ten years after disaster struck. and this is what we see today. but construction at the site is far from over and security concerns, of course, linger. david lee miller live at ground zero. again, david lee, you are another reporter here at fox news channel who was back at ground zero today as you were ten years ago. >> indeed, i am. right now, i'm on the 20th floor of one world trade center and this is a building, megan, that when it is complete is going to be the tallest building not just in the united states but the western hemisphere. i'm told from the top floor, 104 stories you are going to be able to see the curve auteur of the earth. this building is going to encompass 2.6 million square feet of office space and also be one of the most secure office buildings in the world.

lieutenant talk for a moment about the view you out this window. he you can see the reflecting pools that honor the memory of those who died here and serve as a reminder what have happened. i was here as you mentioned ten years ago. i was trying to interview first responders. i was trying to talk to survivors when suddenly the unthinkable happened and that is when i filed this report. listen. >> the scene is horrific. one of the two towers literally collapsed. i was making my way to the foot of the world trade center. suddenly while talking to an officer who was questioning me about my press credentials we heard a loud blast, an explosion. we looked up and the building literally began to collapse before us. entire perimeter debeen a literally including myself which is why i'm out of breath to run for our lives. >> it was a uniformed police officer. i don't know if he was with the new york city police department or port authority.

but he stopped me from entering the twin towers. i showed him my press credential and argued with him and he said it was not safe. that is when the towers collapsed. i never got his name and i don't know who he is but i can say in all candor that i owe that man my life. >> thank you so much and thank you for sharing that with us. >> ten years ago as the world trade center burned, first responders across new york city ran to the twin towers. some, of course, lost their lives saving others. and some heros lived to talk about what they saw and what they felt. those stories, when we come back. plus, one woman's amazing store i of resilience. lauren mannings in entire body was engulfed in a massive fireball on 9/11. she was in the lobby of one of the trait towers as it was hit. the one thought that kept her going despite the unimaginable pain. >> there was this tremendous quaking feeling, the whole

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well, this morning we saw the children of some 9/11 victims visiting the new memorial at ground zero. jack was the father of two girls, jacqueline and emily.

ten years ago today he was at work on the 103rd floor of the north tower. 12-year-old jacqueline was sitting in her 7th grade english class in new jersey when two students came into the room saying planes had flown into the towers. jacqueline tried to find out what happened but the students didn't know much else and it would be two days before she and her family would find out what happened to jack. jacqueline is now 22. she and her mother karen are here with me now. thank you both very much for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> jacqueline, you think about -- i think about you 12 years old sitting in class geting that news. you knew your dad worked in there. >> my dad worked there. i hoped maybe the students were wrong or i misheard them and i asked them after class and they told me they heard it on the radio earlier that morning. i tried to use the phone at

school to see if they were okay. i went to the principal office and my neighbor came to pick me up and took me home. >> my sister didn't find out until she got home from school. >> she was two years younger than you. you didn't want them watching tv. >> did i not. i was on my way to work and i was able to see the towers and the smoke coming out of one world trade. tried calling my husband. no answer. called his cell. no answer. called his father saying jack is at work, something happened there. i'm about five minutes from my office, see if you can get ahold of him. by the time i got to my office, everything had happened. >> i know that incredibly he actually made it out of the tower. >> we assume that. we are, you know, just because he was found so soon. >> because his body was found and returned to you. >> yeah. >> the assumption is that he was killed by debris falling from the tower. does that make it worse in some

way? >> i am happy that we were able to find him because i know there are so many families that have found nothing of their loved ones who were tragically killed that day. and it is hard knowing that he was so close but at the same time i'm happy that we have him and that we were able to kind of get him back and know that, okay, we have some closure as to where he was and. >> a place to go and grieve. >> a place to go and grieve. >> i know that you talk about what your dad taught u and it is tough when you lose a dad that young, 12 years old to try to hold on to the memories and remember what he taught you and what kind of a woman he wanted you to be. but i love the story of the number one lesson you take away with you and the advice he gave you when picking teams. tell us. >> he always said, he was our coach every year for softball and his number one thing is who

are the girls who are going to get picked last and he would pick them first. he always wanted everyone to be involved in a team. wanted everyone to feel welcome in every sort of athlete community that they were part of even if they were left out maybe in school and didn't have a lot of friends he wanted them to be part of the team and wanted them to be like involved and learn. it didn't matter whether we won, lost, it was just as long as everyone had fun. >> and just to build in that empathy in you for people who are maybe weak or struggling or feeling ross stra ostred acize. >> i know i need to love every human being and show them respect. >> how did v. you done it now. you had two daughters to raise. obviously not only lost your h husband two children to raise on your own and in still the

values that you and he shared. >> we have a lot of good family and friends always around us, always helping us and we had some tough days but we got through it and they he wanted to have life as normal as possible and that is the way jack would have wanted it. >> he would not have wanted you to fold up tent. >> absolutely not. there were times i said no, he wouldn't agr to this. he would make the girls keep in sports, do their activities, go on, go forward. >> i know the rest of the nation moves on and we remember it on this day. it is something you live with always and something as a young woman you will live with when you get married and have your children and he is not physically there. >> he is always there with us and now here at this memorial forever. he is always attached to the city and always here at ground zero. i like that his name is there. people will know he is there. >> i'm glad you both said you liked the memorial. >> we did. >> i know there is a lot of planing that has gone into it.

all the best to both of you. thank you for being here. >> thanks so much. >> the federal emergency management team tries to learn from each disaster it handles. it sent camera crews into ground zero in the days after 9/11. the video was just released last week and we will take you through it, just ahead. >> also, preparing for a rush of casualties that never came in on 9/11. our next guest remembers working at a hospital, ready to aid the emergency responders who went into the twin towers but never came out. her powerful story from that day, upcoming. >> it was a war zone. this is all of the trade towers left on the ground. i couldn't concei this as a heart attack.

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welcome back to our special coverage of the ten year mark since the 9/11 attacks. are it is 2:32 here in the east and we are awaiting president obama's arrival at the pentagon. he is expected to arrive within the next hour. the president will lay a wreath at the memorial there in tribute to the 184 people killed when a plane crash inside that building a decade ago. >> it was american airlines

flight 77 bounded from washington's dulles airport to los angeles that crash inside the pentagon on 9/11. barbarae victims, wash bra olson, a fox news contributor whose husband ted represented george w. bush in the supreme court battle over the 2000 election results. frothey joined in new york tody meet with some of the people who lost loved ones in that attack. mr. bush read from a letter abraham lincoln wrote to a woman who lost five sons in the civil war and president obama read from the 46th psalm. >> god is our refuge and strength. the very present help in trouble. therefore, we will not fear. even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its

waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. >> later in shanksville, pennsylvania, the president and first lady placed a wreath at the memorial to the 40 passengers and crew among 93 whoairlines flight 9340 rushed the hijackers and crashed the plane to keep it from reaching its intended target thought to be either here at the white house or down the street at the capital. yesterday the obama's visited section 60 of the arlington national sem teary reserved for the men and women killed in the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it is the first anniversary of observance since osama bin laden was killed. about an hour from now the president will place a wreath in memory of another group of 9/11 victims. he has no formal remarks scheduled. he will attend what is being called a conference for hope tonight. will speak there, the event being held at the kennedy

center after last month's earthquake damaged the washington cathedral. >> thank you. well, roughly two hours and 15 minutes passed between the time the first plane hit the first tower and the time mayor giuliani ordered the evacuation of lower manhattan. during that time, new york's hospitals got ready for what they thought would be a massive wave of trauma patients. beth was an emergency department nurse at beth israel medical center. it was her day off but she lived only a mile from ground zero so when she saw what was happening she rushed to the emergency room to wait and to help. most of the patients were those who had gone to ground zero to help, however. and not those who had been in the building. beth joins me here live on the set along with her husband morris. he was scheduled to be at work at an office on the 70th floor of one world trade that day. what a story the two of you have. beth, we were just talking about steven siller, the fire

officer who was offshift, heard about the tragedy, ran through the tunnel and was killed at the tower. you also were not supposed to be working as an er nurse but heard the reports and knew what you had to do. >> my children had to know that their father who worked in one world trade center was safe also before i could continue on what i knew how to do which i knew how to do bes to go to the emergency department. at the present time i'm working in the emergency room now for 25 year. being an experienced nurse i could expect anything coming through that door. unfortunately, the worst part of the day was whatever came was simle little sprains and eye washes and small things they wanted to be treated and go back out and see what they could do to help other people. >> the horror even for those of us at home, seeing the emergency medical professionals lined up in front of the hospitals just waiting, empty gurneys, just waiting.

and when did it dawn on you that no one was coming? >> a few hours. we couldn't understand why ambulances were coming with nobody. unfortunately, some of the burr anies were out there just waiting for bodies. nothing was happening. it was -- everyone came down to prepare. the entire hospital came down the emergency department trying to help out in any way, fashion that they can. volunteers off the street came to the emergency room and said let me help teach a person how to walk with a cane and help find a family member. >> and lines for blood donation. >> lines were extremely long. we knew toward the end of by 3:00, 4:00 in the afternoon that nobody was coming. that was it. >> morris, do you consider t just an act of god or an act of faith that you did not go to your office that day and you were not sitting in your office building that day? >> it definitely was. several years before i had been in a bad accident.

a community activist andmunity volunteer as a volunteer paramedic. auxilliary police officer. >> exactly the kind of thing you would have been doing. >> as a matter of fact, rescue work. you know, we actually formed because of 9/11 we formed an organization called the auxilliary police supervisors association which i'm spokesman and vice president for. and it was just that day, you know, i became -- i got involved in rescue work because nye father had a heart condition and that is why he stayed in the auxilliary program because of that and, of course, just like my wife, you know, as a matter of fact, when we first met she thought i had called her up and she thought i was offering her a job, i was all nervous about it. i'm an emt, you are nurse and such. so that day and so i had been bringing a patient to beth

israel hospital, as a matter of fact, as a paramedic. i was treating them for a heart attack. and a fire truck was returning from a call and went through the light and obliterated our ambulance and i thought i was blinded. i thought i was going to die any moment because i felt blood gushing. and the other people in my ambulance were hurt. and very seriously. it was very bad timing. and then we went on and no one could figure out, you know, people in the neighborhood said how could something happen to somebody like that who is doing something good and we found out why. it took three years. took 9/11 to find out why. >> beth county i know that you tell the story of in the days after where relatives have come in and just be looking desperately for the names of loved ones. >> that was the hardest thing. they would come in with a person's name and we would have the same name, like a john doe,

we would have the same name but a different date of birth. we tried. >> the trauma even on some of the elderly patients in the hospital. why was that? >> trauma on the elderly patients because they had been what is going on in new york. how could this be happening. just in general, everything. even the days past 9/11 a lot of patients were coming into the emergency department asking us for medication. they can't get to their homes and get their medication. the reality sunk in afterwards. i think the commitment that i have to my job and my husband has to his rescue work has really helped. my daughter is now a registered nurse and hopefully she will be able to h help out, too. >> we appreciate you both being here. all the best to you. >> thank you. >> for the past ten years ground zero here in lower manhattan has been one of the biggest physical scars on the attack on american soil and our sense of security. today a sculpture of air and

water flows over the site where the twin towers were taken down. >> and my father, mark, dad, i wish you were here with me to give me advice. to be on the sidelines when i play sports with all of the other dads but most of all because i love and miss you. i wish we had more time together but i know you are watching me from heaven. i hope i'm making you proud. nicki and mom love you, too. goodbye. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] unlike some car companies, nissan is running at 100%, which means the most innovative cars are also the most available cars. nissan. innovation for today. innovation for all. ♪

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life opens up when you do. when the planes struck the towers on 9/11 they didn't just cause chaos on the top floors of the world trade center. the initial impact of flight 11 into the north tower sent fireballs shooting down the building about's elevator shafts. lauren manning, a wife and

mother was standing right in front of one of those elevators in the lobby of the building. the next thing she knew, a fireball completely engulfed her in what she describes as a blast from hell. in mannings in new book unmeasured strength she he tells the story of what happened next and over the past ten years as she dealt with life as a 9/11 survivor. i had the honor of speaking with lauren manning a new days ago and her story is unforgettable. >> take us back to that day ten years ago when you were just showing up to do your job. worked at cantor fitzgerald. you were in the lobby of the building and what happened. >> i turned the corner to the elevator bank, having just passed two other women and there was this tremendous quaking feeling. the whole building seemed to

move and it was followed by this loud piercing whistle. a moment later a fireball or wall of fire blew out of the elevator shafts, enveloped me and i was whipped around to see the two women who had been standing there now covered in flames, as i was myself. and the fire was drawing me back into it, into itself. and then the backdraft released as i was struggling to get out the doors and i pushed my way out and ran across the street. >> do you remember that feeling? do you remember what it was like to have fire engulfing your body? >> in visceral detail. it was extraordinary. i mean you can imagine you burn your finger on the stove or water that is too hot. having your entire body encased in flames was as if boiling water was being poured over and

over again. and even once the flame was put out it continued to burn. i was there nearly 50 minutes before a wonderful man who helped me get on the ems truck got me there and i was off to my first stop that day, st. vincent's. >> what do you remember next? i know you were put in a drug induced coma. >> five hours later i was put into an induced coma where i would remain for almost two months. and a coma is not a place where you suddenly enter a dream world. all of the stimuli of the outside world are there. it was a place of incredible hardship and pain as i struggled through what were a lot of dire complications. >> and we have the pictures of you while you are in the burn unit recovering. i know you say that the one thing that kept you going at the time was your ten ten month old son tyler. >> it was because of tyler and

really the vision i had of him when i was running across the street when it would have been far easier to go under and just relent to the pain was that i hadn't had him long enough and i did not want to leave him and so over two months later when i was finally abl to see him, once again, probably the most jayous day in my life, he walked down the hall. i was afraid he wouldn't recognize me, i was so different. and alas he did and smiled and we were reunite. >> was there that thought that you wanted to surrender the pain was so bad but you had something to fight for? >> yeah, i think that i did not even believe that death would release me from the pain and laying there on that grass when the second plane hit it was apparent that they had come back for us and i was incredibly angry and i wasn't going to be taken that easily. >> you say that that day that

your life is about so much more and your experience has been about so much more than that day. what do you mean by that? >> september 11th was a day and it was probably the most difficult day certainly in my life but my experience is about really understanding that we have all endured hardship, illness or disease, either ourselves or our families and that although i have really been touched by it, i was able to refuse to be held by it. my story is one of resilience, finding that strength where you think you might have it, you are not quite sure, and pulling it forward. and knowing that even as i struggled to breathe, not knowing what the next few minutes or hours would bring, that i took it as a win that i could breathe at all and i could move forward and little by little i began to succeed in my battle to come back. >> you look incredible.

you look incredible. i mean this obviously is a test ament to your own resilience and the doctors who helped you recover. >> you have 24 months within which most of the healing occurs and when you suffer from a burn as i did you wear pressure garments. i wore a silicone mask and figured out quickly this was my new job so i began to. >> heal. >> to understand this is what i need to do. i'm going to give it my best shot and i did everything i possibly could in terms of therapy and maximizing the opportunity while i was still in the early stages. >> you talk in your book a barbecuing bash lot about refusing to be a victim. tell me more about that. >> i think very strongly that unlike so many of my friendsnd colleagues that day that never had an opportunity to fight, that i was not a victim. i had been given a shot. i was going to take it. and most importantly, i think that i felt if i saw myself as

a victim poor me, you know, the pity party begins and ends with the person who starts it, i refused to be defined by this. this is not who i am. it is not who i will be. and so by refusing to be defined as a victim hopefully i have succeeded in being what i was to begin with. a mom. someone who likes to work hard and proud to be here at all. proud to be a new yorker and an american. >> i want to leave our viewers with a quote from your book. you write "i would not surrender to the terrorists. i would not permit them to define me or take one more moment of my life. some might look at me and see a profoundly injured person lying in a hospital bed. they might define me with a label such as a helpless woman, burn survivor or terribly injured mom. those are all synonomous with

victim. i would never surrender or hide. i would stand tall in this world. lauren manning you are a beautiful person and a strong one and thank you so much for coming on and telling us your story. >> thank you very much. >> the book is unmeasured strength. check it out. lauren manning now has two boys. most of us go on with our daily lives and only on marks like today do we think back. not so for folks like lauren manning who is an inspiration to us all. up next, the president arriving at the pentagon. live cover edge, ahead. captioned by closed captioning services, inc.

it is 6 minutes before 3:00 p.m. in the east and we have live pictures of air force one just touching down at andrews air force base. the president arriving back in washington and will take part at a wreath laying ceremony at the pentagon in about a half hour. we will bring that to you live right here when it happens. u.s. troops in afghanistan also marking ten years since 9/11 and nearly ten years of war. today, paying tribute to the victims of 9/11. many of the brave men and women hearing the call of duty when terrorists attacked the homeland. enlisting and putting on a uniform. serving their country and fighting the war on terror. conor powell is live to us from afghanistan now. conor? >> all across afghanistan today there were events to mark the 10th anniversary of september 11th. they happened in places like kandahar and places that americans have never heard of before september 11th and now are locations and hall of fames we are all too familiar with.

and one event near kabul, the u.s. ambassador said that he knows that americans are tired of war but they are working steadily to try to end the war to stablize afghanistan. and many american troops here in afghanistan are on their second and third, sometimes even their fourth and fifth deployment if you count iraq and afghanistan. a truly remarkable experience here. they talk about when you discuss 9/11 with them about how they still feel there is a lot to do in the country not just to help afghanistan but also to protect the united states from another attack. >> we are here because we need to be here. now, you look ated kids running around and you see the afghans moving forward and progressing and that kind of motivates you. the purpose that we are here for is not just to help the afghan people but also to fight ourenmies. the taliban are here. and we are taking it to them every day. >> now, in a real reminder that the war continues here in and the violence is ever present

danger in afghanistan there was a suicide attack last night that killed four afghans and wounded more than 70 american troops. none were serious injuries. nonlife threatening oh cording to u.s. officials but still a daily reminder of how violent and unstable afghanistan remains ten years after american troops landed here. >> thank you. and it is a real testament to america that we he have not been attacked inside the homeland in ten years. a very powerful argument that you can thank the folks in afghanistan and for that matter those who fought for us in iraq, upcoming in our next hour. also, president obama expected shortly at the pentagon. mr. obama will be laying a wreath honoring the 184 americans killed when a hijacked jet slammed into the pentagon ten years ago today. we will watch that right here together. captioned by closed captioning services, inc.

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