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cloudy skies. >> ten years ago today the united states and the world changed forever. this morning both president obama and former president bush attended a special service at ground zero to dedicate a new memorial. abc's t.j.winnek is live. we are about to go live to abc's t.j. in new york city. good morning to you, t.j., as we remember on this day. >> good morning. it's a little overcast here in new york right now, but earlier it was absolutely beautiful, much like that horrible day a decade ago. [bells ringing] >> during six separate moments of silence the country paused this morning to honor all of those lost on september 11th,, ten years ago today.

here at ground zero there was music, readings and, of course, the names of the nearly 3,000 killed. all are now listed in bronze around those enormous balances. >> christopher joseph black well. >> and the footprints of where the twin towers once stood and part ever the new 9/11 memorial. >> the lord of hosts is with us, the god of jacob is our refuge. >> for the first time victims' families laid their eyes on the memorial. the pools, each an acre in size, with 30-foot water falls on all sides. the 9/11 museum will open a year from now. the new skyscrapers will be complete in 2015. >> children who lost their parents have grown into young adults. grandchildren have been born, and good works and public service have taken root to honor

those we loved and lost. >> president obama and former president george w. bush together shared poignant moments with those who lost loved ones. there were also services held at the pentagon, struck by a third jet, and shanksville, pennsylvania, where flight 93 crashed after passengers heroically struggled with passengers. >> in addition to ground zero, philadelphia phillies will also visit the pentagon and advantagesville, pennsylvania. he will speak tonight at be a interfaith prayer service in washington. reporting live, abc news. back to you. >> thank you, t.j.. thousands are people have been drawn to ground zero on this 9/11 anniversary. there are others who cannot bair to stay, as wayne freedman reports from new york city. even after ten years there are still a lot of open wounds. >> the 9/11 stories continue. >> for the sake of 3,000 reasons

and millions of interpretations, ground zero in new york city has become a mafnant this week. ten years later curiosity iures people or calls them back. on the anniversary of 9/11, john retires from the fire department. that's fitting. ten years ago he spent days on the roofs of nearby buildings recovering the remains of aircraft passengers. >> the hand with the wedding ring is a lot more than what many were going to get. >> others pull away. >> i don't want to be in new york city on 911. >> because? >> because it's too much. >> we have been following aneata for ten years since the day she moved out of an apartment overlooking ground zero that she could not bring herself to look at. >> i looked out the window, and the thoughts, and the trail of the airplane hitting and saw fire. >> now anita lives in brooklyn.

>> i feel saferrish. >> like many, anita is reconciling the bits and pieces of that fateful day, in her case through the preprogrammed outlet of being an artist and sculptor. >> i kept thinking there was something larger than our own sense of victimization in new york city. >> so the public she installed a few blocks from ground zero comparing new york city with the first-ever bombings in spain, an event forever memorial or allied in this paint big pablo picasso. >> when people are remembering that day, i feel it's important to recognize it in a larger context, and that is that people experience this throughout the world. >> as we look back at september 11th from ten years later, each of us packages the experience in our own way. >> i just deal with it as it was a part of history, something i had experience on. it is what it is. somebody had to do it. >> for anita, somebody had to

say it. when art imitates life, it cannot always be pretty. >> the art work in progress. >> that's good. we all are. right? >> from new york city, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> san francisco native betty ong was a flight attendant aboard the first plane to hit the world trade center. in a way she was one of the first responders who risked her life by alerting the airline that a hijacking was underway. here's her story. >> the cemetery in coma. this is her final resting place. her sister and brother say this september 11th will be no different than any of the others since she died. >> this is the tenth anniversary, but that's just a numerical number. really every year we go through september 11th and we honor

betty, go through the memories. >> my mom lights a candle every day for her since september 11th. we are proud of betty. very proud of her. we just miss her. >> the 45-year-old flight attendant was on american airlines flight 11, the first of two planes that crashed into the twin towers. during the hijacking, ong hid in the back alley, picked up a crew phone and bravely called the airline reservations desk. >> not answering their phone. there is somebody staff in business class and we can't breathe in business class. somebody has mace or something. >> the call lasted 23 minutes. she spoke calmly, giving important details of the chaotic last moments. the 9/11 commission declared ong a hero. >> i think shield kind of blush.

and she says, no, that's not me. that was her job. her first duty flying an airplane is to protect her plane and to protect her passengers. >> harry ong is not surprised what his sister did. betty grew newspaper china town. she once worked at the family store when it was being robbed. >> betty simply said we are being robbed, dad, i'm not going to get any money from these people and they actually held a gun to her head. >> her family said she was not only strong, but selfless. they remember one of the last things she said on the phone before the plane hit the tower. >> betty asked for prayers not only for herself, she said please pray for us all. >> nine family members will fly to new york for the ceremonies. >> i just feel that being in new york will be being close to her. >> close to her, yes. but closer is not part of the family's vocabulary. >> closer is a word that is so

thrown about so randomly and happen hazardly. it's never to be obtained. first, we never really had a chance to say good-bye to betty. >> a loving and caring person. >> and an american hero. vic lee, abc7 news. >> every year 43 san francisco fire station hold a memorial for those who die on 9/11. [bell ringing] >> this morning firefighters rang a bell three times with three chimes each time, signifying the last alarm. they observed a minute of silence and then read the names of the 343 new york city firefighters who died as they responded to the 9/11 attacks. they say fire department flags throughout san francisco will remain at half staff for the rest of the day.

the aftermath of 9/11 saw the largest deployment of search dogs in u.s. history and a few made an appearance this weekend in san rafael. they were part of the pet fair and adoptathon at the marin county fairgrounds. the force three was called to ground zero in october, 2001. the dogs helped recover remains of several of the 9/11 victims. their handlers say that recovery allowed many of the victims' families to have some kind of closer. while the wreckage of the september 11th attacks was still smoldering, a bay area team of structural engineers, search and rescue crews and mel experts got a call from washington to go to ground zero. ten years later one key is remembering how that changed them. here is abc7s eric thomas. >> this is the view of 9/11 seared into our memories. the horrific pictures of america

under attack, 3,000 miles from the bay area. and this is as close as most of us would ever get. >> put it right here. >> but a 60 member task force of firefighters, engineers, medical professionals and search teams from the bay area got this close to the still smoldering, collapsed twin towers. this video was provided by the menlo park fire department. >> i made two passes and couldn't get my head around the side of it. >> he said he thinks about the sights and sounds of ground zero all the time, and the smells, the smells of smoke and dust, and the smith of death. >> the smell of the site, those things, they never leave you. there are things you come across once in a while that recreate that and make you think about it. >> but when they got to the scene just days after the attack, there was no room for emotion. crews snapped into action searching for hotspots and looking for survivors and then

recovering bodies. >> you learn to not be -- become emotionally attached, but you are certainly attached to what you are doing. >> shirley hammond searched for bodies at ground zero with her specially-trained dogs. her husband is an engineer that tries to determine what is safe and what is not for the teams. later, during down time, the hammonds thought about what surrounded them, the planes slamming into the buildings, the thousands of lives lost and they were glad they were not a part. >> my answer to that is we have each other so eats a shared experience. >> the experience shared everyone, both firefighters and civilian search teams made new friends in new york. they also learned how resilient people can be in the wake of disaster. but some also brought home breathing problems. chief rione and this person both take medication for it. regardless, they say they would do it all again. >> i will always be proud that i

was one of the responders to 9/11. i know all of our people would tell you the same thing. >> abc7 news, eric thomas. >> one of the unrecognize the groups that performed heroically in the aftermath of 9/11 was the volunteers. they put their lives on hold to respond to the disaster. and while the focus of news coverage ten years ago was largely victims and cleanup, volunteers were virtually forgotten. a registered nurse from san jose said she and others set up relief stations just one building away from what was called the pile. >> a lot of the people that were working on the pile, firefighters, police officers, fbi, secret service, they would come in and they would say, why are you here? this isn't your city. and they didn't seem to understand that we are all u.s. citizens. we are all victims, even though it didn't happen in our city. >> she said it was the greatest honor of her life to serve helping those in need after 9/11. during the next couple of hours we will bring you more

local angles as america remembers the attacks of 9/11. but up next some of today's other stories. including the shocking discovery made by firefighters in oakland this morning, after they put out an apartment fire. fires continue to burn around the state since lightning storms hit on friday. we will update the efforts to put them out. lisa says there's a chance of more thunderstorms today. yes, we honor the bay area victims of 9/11. here are the people who lost their lives in the collapse of the world trade center. ♪

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>> an early morning fire in oakland travis triggered a homicide investigation. firefighters discovered two bodies burning in an apartment above an acupuncture business on coolidge, avenue. one victim is believed to be a woman. the other is so badly burned it will take a while to identify. the fire was extinguished in about 15 minutes. while it hasn't been determined to be arson, investigators say a witness reported seeing several suspects running away from the building after that blaze began. seven people in san francisco are looking for places to stay after their apartment building more than in noe valley. the fire began in the back of a three story building on 24th street shortly before 4:00 yesterday afternoon. firefighters quickly doused the flames. no one was hurt, but the building is now uninhabitable. arson investigators are looking into the cause of that fire. lightning strikes have ignited at least six wildfires in northern california since

friday, including one that burned 33 acres of parkland near mount diablo. another fire burned sneer stockton. crews have those blazes contained this morning. but they are still battling dozens of wildfires near bakersfield, sparked by lightning storms yesterday. more than 50 wildfires were reported in kern county. officials say three major fires continue to threaten hundreds of homes. some residents have been evacuated as a precaution. another fire has closed down about 15 miles highway 178 through the sequoia national forest. forecasters expect the storms to continue throughout the day near bakersfield. you are a forecaster. is that what you are saying? >> yes, that's right. with the heating of the sunnening things could get more intense. plenty of low clouds out here. we are talking about some sunshine on the way, a cooler day today and the look ahead

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>> tropical storm nature has weekend as it heads toward mexico. it has maximum winds of 60 miles an hour. it's a slow-moving storm. many fishermen say they have lost five days of work watching and waiting for that storm. lisa knows about that and our bay area weather. >> yeah, we have delays at sfo, 51 minutes out there due to low

clouds and fog. sunshine, there as well. as we head outside right now you will notice it is awfully gray out there. all sorts of clouds this morning and still unstable air in the vicinity. so we are looking for a chance of showers. possibility of a thunderstorm. best chance down around monterey, and also the diablo range and the further east you go toward the sierra nevada. waking up to 50s, also a few 60s out there. the fog has allowed for two miles visibility in santa rosa. 59 there. good morning. and southwesterly winds have been blowing, transporting the cooler air to the delta. so look at that gust of 30 miles an hour. yesterday, a pretty nice day. we have a breeze, and once again today it will be breezy at times with some rain and thunderstorm develop in and around the bay. not so much in the bay. more of the perimeter. i'll show you where in a moment. the low fog and clouds the main feature to start out. thunder possibility.

southern monterey county and perhaps the diablo range and a little bit of cooling throughout the beginning of the week. here's the way it's going to turn out temperature-wise today. we will see numbers cooler, into the 80s. we saw some upper 80s yesterday in concord. with the partly cloudy sky, and that sea breeze more intact we will see more 60s and 70s around the bay. the warmest locations are inland east bay. still partly cloudy conditions. live doppler 7 hd shows the san valley. and the wrap around moisture in the vicinity up the south bay perhaps today. here's the plan for the rest of the afternoon with the spine of the sierra nevada looking at the best chance of thunderstorms from the southern sierra. and really partly cloudy skies up through lake tahoe. so in terms of the numbers then, held on a little bit. 83 yosemite. 71 in big sur. sacramento 89. back home we will see more 70s

here. 77 san jose under partly cloudy skies. slight chance of a thunderstorm there. 72 in san mateo. san francisco, a couple degrees cooler for you at 64. in the north bay we are looking at 72. petaluma, and a mixture of clouds and sun. 68 oakland with mid-70s in fremont and up out over the hills. about a 20% chance of a thunderstorm from antioch. 84 livermore. and down by the monterey bay, the best instability remains here with 63 in monterey. after today we get back into a more stable pattern with some upper 80s, low 90s in the inland valley. pretty typical for mid-september coming up. >> looks good. thank you, lisa. next at 8:30, shanksville, pennsylvania has a new memorial. you are looking at live pictures there. bay area families remembering lost loved ones who died aboard united flight 93. we will take a look at how the attacks dramatically change the

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>> welcome back, everyone. it is september 11th. on this somber anniversary, governor jerry brown is pro claiming this patriot day in the state of california. he's ordered flags on state buildings flown as half and urging others to follow the same to commemorate the lives lost and the bravery of those who responded. for many bay area residents the memorial arial for their loved ones was actually dedicated yesterday. but there is still a service going on this morning. this is a live look, more than 4,000 people are gathered in pennsylvania where flight 93 crashed into a field ten years ago. abc7s lilian kim is in

shanksville. >> thomas e burnett, junior. [bell ringing] >> nicole carroll miller. [bell ringing] >> the reading of names has become tradition at 9/11 come memorial rations. now the passenger and crew of flight 93 have a permanent place near the spot with their plane crashed to the ground. it's part of the flight 93 national memorial near shanksville, pennsylvania. unveiled to the public one day before the tenth anniversary. >> i think of my mom and i think that she would be horrified her name was so public. she was just a very private person that way. >> carroll was supposed to pick up her mother from sfo the morning of 9/11. hild da was flying out to live with her. now her name and 39 others stand as a beecon for future generations. >> i still get sad about it but i'm also happy they are going to be remembered and honored and that will be there forever.

♪ i will remember you >> vice president joe biden and former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton reminded people that the people of flight 93 went down fighting. passengers tried to regain control of the plane and by doing so changed the course of history. they were on course for washington d.c., most likely on their way to the u.s. capitol. >> many passengers called their loved ones to say good-bye, then hung up to perform their final act. one said they are getting ready to break into the cockpit. i have to go. i love you. another said, its up to us. i think we can do it. >> they saved the capital from attack, they saved god knows how many lives. they saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of american government. >> it's hard to see his name etched in stone like this. >> her son, mark, was one of the heros of flight 93.

she said ten years haven't changed much. >> the wound is still raw for me. grief is something that you don't really ever get over. i don't want closer. it's an empty concept for me. i want my son back and i'm never going to get him. >> there will be a second ceremony later today followed by a visit by president obama. he will fly in and lay a wreath after taking part in ceremonies in new york. lilian kim, abc7 news. >> let's go back live now to shanksville, pennsylvania, where people are gathering as part of this come memorial rags of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. the family of the captain of flight 93 is there in shanksville this morning marking that anniversary. his son is making his first trip there. abc7's corina rusk has that family's story. >> this is a haunting new image of what happened when flight 93 crashed into a pennsylvania field on september 11th. the man you hear on tape has

since died and his family has released the recording wishing to stay anonymous. >> saw the smoke come up and the explosion shook the house clear over here. >> when i heard it, it seemed -- it was like you were back there again. you are getting a fresh report. kind of brought it all back, too. >> carroll has plenty of memories from that tragic day. her brother was united airlines pilot captain jason dahl. flight 93, bound for san francisco, was the only plane hijacked by terrorists that did not reach its intended target. 40 good people and 4 terrorists died when passengers heroically stormed the cockpit. >> a great lesson from losing jason is that you live every day and sometimes it might turn bad, but you live every day and embrace life. >> jason's son, matt, was just 15 when his father was killed. now for the first time since

september 11th he plans to attend the annual anniversary in shanksville. >> matt is now 25, a college graduate, and married. at the memorial he will be surrounded by family. >> being together is going to be the strength. knowing that matt has not been there before, we all want to be there for him, as he experiences it for the first time. >> it took ten years for this new video of flight 93 to surface. and for some, reaching milestones in the healing process can take just as long. in hollister, corina rusk, abc7 news. >> and our thoughts are with them today. those attacks on 9/11 not only shook the nation, but left a lasting effect, especially on the way we travel. this morning abc7s johnathan bloom takes an in-depth look at what's changed and why the next battle front on the war on terror is close to home.

>> the senior government official speaking on condition of anonymity said both planes were hijacked. >> they will target the highest priority target. it used to be that airlines were the soft target. they aren't anymore. >> he recalls that ten years ago there was no tsa and flying was much less of a hassle. but when the unthinkable happened that morning, it changed air travel forever. >> that's where tsa came from, out of 9/11. >> the tsa was founded with two missions, to keep the skies safe and to reassure the traveling public. over the past ten years both have occasionally been a challenge. passengers were forced to remove their shoes after the al-qaeda shoe bomber made it through security. then the tsa banned liquids from carry-ons after threat of a new threat. and then the civil liberty called it a naked scanner.

it didn't eliminate concerns overren truce i have pat downs. >> if you such my junk, i'm going to have you arrested. >> right now the terrorists are winning when it comes to this security situation to make us accept intrusiveness. but it's a necessary intrusiveness. >> traveler rights attorney said this case he believes the right to privacy comes second. >> there are those out there that want to kill us and i would rather fly protected. >> nothing is truly protect when had you fly anymore. automated x-ray machines now check every checked bag and instantly pull it off the line if something looks fishy. >> this is the side of airport security you don't usually see. deep inside the san francisco airport, any bag that looks suspicious on an x-ray, is sent down to be opened up and inspected by hand. >> once a bag arrives. federal employ's look inside and search for explosives. bags aren't the only place the

tsa looks for bombs. soon you will see more dogs around the airport making sure that terminals are safe, as well. >> not everybody likes dogs. but everybody respects the dog and its mission. >> now officers have a new mission, too. spotting suspicious people using behavior analysis. both in person and from a new high-tech surveillance room. >> we found hundreds of various prohibited items and other things that shouldn't be on an aircraft through the various techniques we are using in behavioral observations. >> experts say all the tools really have made air travel safer but now intelligence suggests that terrorists have a new target. >> when bin laden was killed, the papers that were captured targeted u.s. rail systems. >> it's a threat bart police have taken seriously. like the airport, bart built a new state of the art surveillance center, added bomb-sniffing dogs and now trains officers to spot a terrorist. >> it's not an attack on bart,

it's not an attack on the bay area, it's an attack on america and we are part of the defense and protecting america's critical infrastructure. >> sitting in the train station that's named after him, ron pointed out there's more being done that you can't see. >> as you go through many of the turnstiles now there are everything from scanners, x-ray scanners to visual scanners to sniffers. >> it's all technology that wasn'tness back when this station was built. he said he misses those days. >> i hope that we go back to a very open, welcoming society that we had been in the past. >> will that ever happen? >> i hope. >> in san jose, california, the united states of america, johnathan bloom, abc7 news. >> well, take a look at the weather forecast, seems pretty calm. >> yeah, it's not bad. we had some activity around us. the higher elevations could see the risk of a thunderstorm. right now golden gate bridge, some fog. two mile visibility up the coast and partly cloudy skies on the

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definitely call ahead out there. low 60s from redwood city, hayward and mountain view. more fog to the north around santa rosa. this morning we are starting out with a little bit of sun inland. also the gusty, westerly winds. that's transporting the cooler air. today, as we move throughout the afternoon, numbers will be cooler, mainly in the 60s and 07s around the bay with some 80s, the warmest location. the low clouds and fog with us. the chance of thunderstorms, the best chance around monterey, and san benito county. and even the diablo range and maybe sneaking into parts of the south bay right on through the evening hours. then things will settle down. we are looking at the cooler weather to stick with us throughout the first part of the work week. here are the numbers today. after the fog begins to lift we are left with partly cloudy skies. 60s and 70s. the san joaquin valley looking

at moisture, not much. but it will creep into the parts of south bay. with that we run the risk. perhaps getting wet in some spots. overall most of the moisture is from the northern to southern sierra. 90 fresno. 74 should do it today in sunyvale, 77 san jose under partly cloudy skies. we will look for the numbers to be in the the upper 60s closer on the peninsula. 68 there. 78 palo alto. san francisco 64, being partly cloudy. in the north bay breezy at times. cooler today and 74 in san rafael. 72 vallejo. looking at the east bay, 64 richmond, 27 hayward. pretty cloudy now. we are look at a few breaks in the cloud deck. today cooler afternoon, and 84 livermore. down by the monterey bay, yes, maybe the risk of a thunderstorm. 78 in hollister. so really the higher elevations today you could see the chance of thunder.

a little bit unstable. a little breezy out there. we will get back into a more typical pattern. a little bump up in temperatures by the end of the week. >> all right. thank you, lisa. >> major security changes have taken place all over the nation and in the bay area since the september 11th attacks. abc7 cheryl jennings spent the day with the san francisco police department and got an inside look at their new safety measures. >> the san francisco police department's homeland security units are as prepared for emergency as money and training can provide, ten years after the september 11th terrorist attack. >> whether it's on land or see. the marine units patrol the bay 7 days a week around the bridges, the port, and the shoreline. >> a sub surface remote operated vehicle. >> the marine unit has a new tool to search underwater for threats. >> it gives us the capability to search quicker a larger area and to mitigate the issue underneath the water. >> the marine unit for the

san francisco police departments not only respond to a variety of emergencies, but they also have the capability onboard to detect radiation threats. they don't want to reveal anymore other than they are able to detect sources of radio logical and nuclear sources on routine patrol. >> we are training every week as much as we can, of course, around our other duties. training is a huge part in this program, keeping the dogs proficient. >> this is one of the dogs in the newly expanded canine unit. they are highly trained to detect explosives. >> i will give the dog a command to search the vehicle and we will search around the vehicle and you can kind of see how he does it. do you want to find it? hey, come here. see? >> his handler is officer chris hayes, who works with the transportation security administration. >> we concentrate on being down in the mass transit system and all the transportation systems within san francisco, which

include train stations, bus facilities and all other transportation facilities. >> the bay area is probably one of the better-secured locations on the west coast. >> bomb squad commander sergeant john sime showed us the newest equipment to render explosive devices safe. a total containment vessel. >> this ball is capable of holding a specific explosive amount to where when we detonate it inside, nothing escapes. >> they have a special evidence recovery system to draw on vapors and fumes and misting liquid. >> we can close the sil inder, release it at a certain couple of giants, and send this to a laboratory and have it analyzed. >> the sergeant said his team has the equipment need today protect themselves in a variety of situations where the air is contaminated. >> if there's a large-scale collapse in the tunnel and the bart tunnel, we can go into that environment and work, if necessary, on recovery or rescue

missions. >> the vehicle can enter into a hot zone or a chemical environment. >> the captain shows us the department's new armoured vehicle that can rescue hostages and get his people in and out of dangerous situation. he fights for the money homeland security dollars for the most current resources. >> certain things have expiration dates. some of our protective equipment for our chemical environments, they have shelf life and we have to continue to renew. >> the sfpd was criticized for it's ant quited computer equipment but things are improving. >> working on interoperable communications between our various regional partners. that's something that was identified all the way back in 9/11. >> is san francisco better prepared now than we were ten years ago? >> yes, definitely. we have the equipment, the response, the planning. but more than that, we have the communication among the region. >> deputy chief jim dudley heads operations that oversees the homeland security unit created

after the september 11th attack. his teams work closely with many bay area agencies and share equipment and resources. >> we consider not only police and security, but fire and ems services, crowd control, traffic. everybody is brought to the table. >> the tenth anniversary of the september 11th attack happens on a day with many security demands. the giants and 49ers are playing in town. >> we take into consideration that san francisco has a lot of assets and that we would like to protect them and make all events enjoyable and safe for people. >> cheryl jennings, abc7 news. >> still ahead, the new al-qaeda. how the terror organization is still a very real threat, even after the death of osama bin laden in.jñjñ

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officials are calling al-qaeda 2.0. >> just days after the deadliest terror attack on american soil we have a new public enemy none one, osama bin laden and his al-qaeda organization. >> i want justice. there's an old poster out west that i recall that said, wanted, dead or alive. >> it took almost a decade but the pursuit paid off. in may navy seals killed bin laden when they stormed his compound in pakistan. al-qaeda was dealt a serious blow. >> it's probably been a bigger blow than we thought it would be because he was more engaged in the running of the organization than we had thought he might be. >> a trove of information recovered revealed an organization already on the ropes and in disarray. cia drone strikes in pakistan has killed more than a thousand militants in recent years. including just last month the

terror group's second in command. bin laden successor, egyptian is in hiding. many believe it's a less cohesive organization. >> we've eliminated or captured scores of senior leaders. we've driven them more and more to be worried about their own safety than to attack us. >> in fact, military and intelligence leaders feel so confident about the fight against al-qaeda, defense secretary lee on pinet two said recently that with the killing or capture of ten to twenty key leaders, the a attack of al-qaeda could be within reach. >> if we can go after them i think we can strategically defeat al-qaeda. >> others warn even if al-qaeda central is dismantled, there's a growing threat from al-qaeda 2.0. dangerous groups based in yemen and somalia.

>> it has really become like a vehicle with a lot of different heads. my theory is as the younger generation comes up, we may find they are more dangerous because they are no longer locked into the strategies we have grown accustomed to facing but they will have new strategies. >> strategies involving recruiting more westerners for jihad. and attacks with chemical or biological weapons that still yield massive results. >> their goals have not changed. attacks will be smaller but they will still create a great psychological damage to the populations of this country and of other countries. >> so ten years into the fight against al-qaeda, do intelligence officials believe the west is winning the war? >> we haven't gotten everything right, but we've gotten a lot of things right and we certainly have al-qaeda on the back foot. >> there are still plenty of terrorists out there, and we

continue to have plenty to do in that regard. i think we've made important progress, but the story is not over. >> and likely won't be over anytime soon. cheryl jennings, abc7 news. and as we continue, we have three more bay area victims who died at the pentagon on 9/11. here are their names. ♪

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the victims of the attacks by encouraging people to spread good will. as a board member of the nonprofit group "my good deed i. >> i'm very grateful to americans for remembering the heartbreak and the loss that day and i'm very grateful to "my good deed" and "hands on bay area" that they have partnered with so we can channel all is that grief into something beautiful and constructive. >> if you would like to be part of the my good deeds tribute movement, log on to abc7news.com and click on see it on tv. the group is holding a 9/11 tribute and service at san francisco war memorial veterans building at 9:30 this morning. our coverage of 9/11, america remembers, continues at nine. we will show you this morning's ceremony held by san francisco firefighters as they salute all emergency responders. and this is a live look at

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