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my hometown lost 11 people. >> you know my mom was able to speak to him on the phone. whip able to recover him and bring him home and just thought a lot of people did not get that. >> she has his wedding ring. >> yeah i'm wearing it. >> wow. >> yeah, that's really nice. >> that's incredible. >> that story smith ahead. now, to ground zero after covering 15 years ago and she is there again this morning. >> reporter: good morning. a ceremony today remembering those that died 15 years ago and reading the names of the nearly 3,000 that died. there's six moments of silence to mark the times that the planes hit the world trade

of silence in rebem brans of those that died. >> i mentioned that you were there that day and you rushed down and covered it the days and weeks after wards. what are your thoughts? >> it's as if it were yesterday. it touches my heart like many others. it was a beautiful crisp day and now here we are 15 years later. the best thing is that the city is people live here and work here. there's a thriving place, and that's a tremendous tribute to all of those that lost their lives. many people here said to me this morning that this proves that the terrorists did not win. americans do not cow er in fear. instead they're living their lives and living their lives fully and remembering those that died. willy? >> thank you. turning now to the campaign trail and hillary clinton forced to apologize after saying that

a basket of deplorables. halley covering it for us. >> reporter: only a partial ji after making the comments at a fundraiser on friday night. listen to what she said. >> you could put half of trump supporters into a basket of deplorables. the racists, home islamic phobia. you name it. >> reporter: trump pounced on the comments saying that hillary clinton just had her 47 percent moment and representing the remarks from mitt romney and trump continuing what a terrible thing that clinton said about so many great americans. after a day of uproar clinton

aing that was wrong. she said that she will not stop calling the bigotry and racism in the campaign. she did not apologize for using the word deplorable and list a number of way that is the trump campaign has been deplorable and referencing the attacks on a federal judge and purple star family. the race is tightening in several key battlegrounds. >> yeah we're going to geto how are they common rating today? >> reporter: both will attend an ceremony and both of the candidates are new yorkers and they have sering memories of 9/11. >> okay. thank you and nicole wallace was in the white house on september 11th, 2001.

i usually watch the show while in my pajama's making pancakes. it's nice to be here. >> you can wear the pajamas. we can make that a tradition. let's start with the campaign and the basket of deplorables and to the romneys 47 percent and then obama talking to people cling to go the guns and religion. >> well, message to get the cameras inside of the you hear what the candidates really think of each other. listen, she said it before. this was not a slip of the tongue. she does not really have a lot of those. she correctly diagnosed the problem with the statement in that she painted with too broad of a brush. this is how she feels. there's a voice as to describing

they think that is she legit economized white supremacy. i think that the error and the view is that she painted with too broad of a brush. >> that was in the middle of the primary and they get bitter and clean the guns and then religion. clinton said that i was taken back by the remarks of the small town america. people are now saying st. same thing for her for this line. >> yeah, and comments mp and hurt him. this will hurt her, you know, there's someone that's a frequent sergeant for her and that's the only person on her side that can focus on the attacks. she is not running against don supporters, and has to convert some of them to her cause. these comments do not help

where this race is much tighter than the clinton camp would like for them to be. >> yeah, we have arizona affectively tied and trump 42 and clinton 41 and nevada 44 and 45. is this race tighter than people think it is? >> yeah i would like to see in the week ends and then gain strength and come back. he is picking up strength and you were in the white house when it happened. what was it like that day? >> well, we had our meeting at 8:00. 8:30 i returned to my office, and i was watching the today show and saw the second plane hit. i watched it gain and cannot look away. i remember the secrete service agents walked through and evacuated us.

the shoes and run. we went running from the white house reluctantly. i remember calling my dad and he said where are you going? i said we're running. he is where are you running too. i said they told us to run for our lives. we got a message that night that the president expected us back at the desk at 7:00 in the morning to get back to work. >> and you were there. >> yeah, i was there. >> okay. thank you. wel pj's. three dozen people were taken to the hospital after multiple floors of a campus collapsed. the house was packed with students and authorities saying that it was a miracle that no one was seriously hurt. the woman that was kicked by a sailor in a photograph has died at 92. she was a 21-year-old dental

and kissed in new york times square in 1945 a. it was one of the most enduing images of the ending of the war. a wild play that should not have been. a hail mary and unlateral at the end of the game gave them a 37-20 win. the py happened because central michigan was grounded and a penalty that should have ended the game college football o officials admitted to giving them one more down was a mistake. the nfl season kicks off atoday and the world divided with the san francisco 49ers and kapernick and not standing for the national anthem. it's because of the way that

statement of their own today and standing together with the arms linked before the game with the miami dolphins. sitting down with over the weekend with roger and talking about the controversy. >> do you want the league to take a roll in bringing attention to the one that colin is bring attention to? >> well, the history is that we play a roll in society, and an importanro we understand that. we're careful about that because we still believe that at the bottom people come to enjoy the sport. they come to enjoy the game. they recognize the importance of the nfl players and the society. we have to be responsible for that. it's an important role, and it's one of the things that we spend a lot of time focussing on. >> are you proud of colin kapernick taking a stand.

a stand. we do not live in a perfect society matt. the players have strong views about things. i support the players speaking out against that. that's what the focus should be on, the changes in the society. >> does it make you proud or nervous when you see it? >> well, i think when they speak out, it's a good thing for us. what i do believe is the respect for the country. the peopl the people that protect us here in the broad. i think those are very important. we're going to see it on sunday. we're a patriot league. >> sunday is the anniversary and a heightened sense of it. is it going to be hard to see if players sit or kneel. >> i don't think so.

we have to respect that. >> you may know that you're also in the headlines for other reasons, tom brady is going to sit out the first four games and the suspension and the result of the deflategate. can you look me in the eye as the commissioner and say that you feel 100 percent certain that you got this right? >> yes, because we went through an exhausting process of this. we had an independent investigation. we had federal judge who rul against it. it went to the appeal court and they said listen, there's compelling if not overwhelming evidence here. there's no question that the destruction of evidence should be considered by the commissioner in the context of this. the process was properly followed. we collected the process for disciplined. we went to that. i can't think of an issue that's more litigated in a way.

the legends of the sport that four games is the appropriate suspension? >> matt, with all due respect every player and league is subject to the same rules. >> and you can catch the patriot's taking on the cardinals tonight. the pregame is at 7:00 eastern right here on nbc. you can see much more of matt's interview with roger this wednesday on "today." don't miss now, bringing in dylan. >> i was really missing that 5:00 a.m. wake up call. >> yeah, a night on the town. >> yeah, fantastic pancakes. >> you're a huge patriot's fan. >> yeah. >> are you ready for life after tom brady. >> i might have mumbled a few things. it's just four things but i feel

behind him, but can you imagine what he is feeling leading up to the game. it's a lot of pressure. >> he does have tom brady coaching him along. >> how about a look at the weather. >> okay. we have been dealing with humid conditions in the northeast and yesterday was just hard to breathe. the humidity has been so high, and we have been seeing that in areas across new england and into the carolina's. we have the area of the high pressure and that's going finally bring in the chicago started at 53 degrees. that's where the cooler air is sitting. once it moves in, we will see the cooler air working back in. we do have the heavier thunderstorms and moving through most of new england night and into western massachusetts. once we start to see the clear the area, we will see the increasing sunshine and it's cloudy right now. it will stay sunny through the afternoon and through monday too

that's a look of if weather 4:30 a.m. triple digits one more day at least on the east side and central parts of the valley 100 to 101 degrees with afternoon breezes developing continue overnight southwest 10 to 20 low 70s good news i had pick some windy conditions late monday into tuesday but upper 80s thursday. litt comfy cofy chairs. >> what do you think? >> i think that he is going to do fine. it's going to be a hard core game. he has a good team behind him. >> huge patriot's fan. >> i like tom bray because he is so cute. >> i don't know. >> he is good for the numbers.

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when he heard on tv the flag was missing, he asked the firefighters to return it to new york city. after a forensic investigation, it was determined this is likely the right thing. this week a group of everett police officers traveled to new york to participate in a ceremony at national september 11th memorial and museum where that flag will now remain. isn't that incredible? he was watching a documentary on the history channel and heard they were looking for the flag and said i've got the flag. >> the fact it m way there and back. >> anonymously dropped at a fire station. >> nothing like images like that. it's nice to keep that together. the first low goes to presidential candidate gary johnson as he attempts to climb to the magic 15% polling threshold to get on the debate stage with hillary clinton and donald trump in a couple weeks. he did not help himself on an interview on "morning joe" when

aleppo in syria. >> what would you do if you were elected about aleppo, about aleppo. >> and what is aleppo? >> you're kidding? >> no. >> aleppo is in syria. it's the epicenter of the refugee crisis -- >> okay. got it. got it. >> if you think that was tough to watch, johnson said quote, i feel horrible. i have got to get smarter. >> you were sitting there. you can't help >> yeah. >> this divided people because a lot of people felt sorry for him to be caught in the moment. it was like katie couric, sarah palin -- as someone that wants to be president of the country, you should know where children are being hurt and killed. >> it's on the front page of the newspaper every day. the next high, a florida state university star receiver travis rudolph.

autistic boy eating alone and he sat down and ate with him. they are best pals now. travis sis surprised beau with the w his own jersey. travis scored a touchdown at game and florida state came back to win the game. that officially makes beau the good luck charm. i love that story. >> we went to school that one day, he had lunch, sat there his whole life was going to change from that point on. it's incredible. >> his mother said he became much more popular in the lunchroom. >> kindness. the next low, apple's hotly anticipated new product seeming terrible but we'll own it in the next six weeks. apple unveiled the iphone 7. more sophisticated camera and no jack for the headphones. now apple informed us we're all

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were going to have another one 101 today in central east valley. mid-90s overrun having our city's institutions up and running sends a message that new york city is open for business. "saturday night live" is one of our great new york city institutions and that's why it's important for you to do your show tonight. >> can we be funny? >> that was new york mayor rudy giuliani flanked by the city's finest and bravest opening "saturday night live" on september 29, 2001. and giving the country permission to laugh. it was the first "snl" after the attacks of 9/11. those attacks killed nearly 3,000 innocent people from the world trade center to the pentagon, to a field in shanksville, pennsylvania.

ridgewood, new jersey, my hometown. to the world, they were numbers in a staggering death toll that meant america was going to war. but to the residents of a town of 25,000 people, they were family and friends who suddenly and inexplicably were not coming home. 15 years on, i went back home to visit some old friends. one who lost his dad, another who lost her mom. lori steinberg was the first kid i met when i moved from kindergarten. she lived next door. so this is the cut-through. it was this easy to get from the geist house to the steinberg's house. i went to her house for piano lessons we were not good. >> not good at all. >> i felt like we were we didn't dedicated to the cause. >> we weren't. >> her mom's big laugh would carry across to our house. >> i was talking to my dad this morning, he said he could sit inside his house, closed doors,

mom's laugh. he's like she had the best laugh. lori's parents were rarely seen apart because they were rarely apart. mike and gina met as kids in poland. reunited and fell in love in brooklyn. moved to ridgewood, new jersey, to raise their family and car pooled together into new york's financial district where they worked. >> she was a professional woman. she wasn't like a lot of the moms on our street or our town. she was up early >> she was unbelievable. up early. worked a full day and then would come home and like tote us around for errands and other things in the evenings. >> by september of 2001, lori had long since moved out of the house and was living in the city. she could see the twin towers from her street. [ sirens ] >> by the time i went outside the towers i saw were on fire, you know?

>> fires that could be seen 25 miles away in ridgewood, where residents gathered at the view. it seemed like everyone in town knew someone in the towers. but back in manhattan, lori was focused on only one person. her mom. >> i started calling her office phone. i started to call her cell phone. there was never -- never an answer to either one. so went arc of emotions of being like, okay, the north tower got hit. i hope she works -- i didn't know which building she worked in. >> you didn't know which one? >> no. she loved the fact she worked on the 96th floor. she loved it because she was above the cloud line. >> the 96st floor, the middle of the impact zone of flight 11. >> my father would say he knew

you know, he worked on wall street. when he saw all of the debris and papers flying past his window that he knew right away. >> just four stories below gina's office was another of my neighbor's and family friends. 44-year-old john bandandeber. but he was able to call home. >> my dad had been in contact this morning. and the phones were over there and voice. he was saying my name on the line. i didn't really speak to him. you could hear sirens in the background. that was the last phone call that had come through. >> johnny was just 14 that day. in his first week of high school. >> i remember my uncle tom coming in and opening the door to my class and he said, johnny, we have to go. >> his little sisters janie and molly were 9 and 5. their dad, a fixture around

came over and just what i remember of your dad. and the one thing everyone said was he was there. he was -- >> he was at everything. he worked in the city. he got out after the market closed at 4:00, 4:30, so he was home at 5:30, 6:00 for the practice. this is my dad. this is the man he ran the trading desk with. this is chris, one of the young guys on the desk. >> up on the floor? tower one. my birthday i used to asked if i could skip school and be with him. >> he was killed and his body was found two weeks later. >> as terrible as we were in this position that we were in, we kind of got lucky with everything and how it played out, you know, my mom was able to speak to him on the phone. we actually were able to recover him and bring him home. and just the thought that a lot of people didn't get that.

>> i'm wearing it. >> wow. >> yeah. which is actually really nice. >> that's incredible. >> the kid i used to baby-sit is now married with a daughter named marlowe and another on the way with wife mallory. he followed his dad into finance. johnny credits his big family with getting him here. >> my two uncles really made it clear that, you know, look, this has happened but we're getting back to normal life. this isn't going to be the defining factor for you of rest of your life. you know, things will go on from here. >> a national tragedy to most of us, but a very personal one for lori and johnny. they feel it in big ways on big days. and in small ways every day. >> if i see someone and we say good-bye i wonder if that's the last time i'll see them. which is just because of what i have been through. in my office at work, i actually

flashlight, kind of strange things like that i don't think anyone really thinks of. but for whatever reason in my mind, i think i have to have this. >> how has it changed you? >> i mean, there's like a responsiveness to phone calls that i think i and my family have that maybe not everybody has. like phone calls from my dad and my sister don't generally go unanswered. >> lori now works in a field similar to her and she's a doting aunt to her sister julie's young children. do you talk about your mom at a moment like that when babies are born and family milestones? >> no, no. we don't do a lot of talking about my mom. i talk about my mom with other people. i do not spend a lot of time talking about my mother and reminiscing with my immediate family. >> reminiscing still can be too painful. >> you know me sister and i talk about it every once in a while.

comes up and we'll pick each other's brains. i haven't done that with molly yet. i don't know how she feels about it. she would be wanting to talk about it. i don't know what she really remembers if anything. >> with a small memorial at the center of town, ridgewood remembers the day that altered johnny and lori's lives forever. john and gina's names listed with ten others who kissed their families and went to work. john was a huge bruce springsteen fan. another trait he passed on the his kids. springsteen personally autographed a program from the

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burning buildings to save strangers. they awed all of us and as stephanie gosk explains inspiring some of their own families into service. >> reporter: the day left an indelible mark. the country wouldn't be the same. but on the anniversary we are reminded that for thousands the national tragedy was also a personal one. their lives wouldn't be the same and nypd officer joe was a sixth grader at the time. you didn't want to be a police officer? >> i wanted to grow up to play baseball. >> reporter: that changed when his beloved uncle george leahy the police officer in precinct 6 who used to dress up to scare the kids on halloween ran into tower one. >> he wound up leaving a message, tell the boys i'm fine, two planes hit the building.

>> reporter: not far away, port authority office george howard who had the day off ran in to help. his son christopher was 18 years old. >> i went to my grandmother's house around 2:30. she said your dad -- we can't find him. you know, no way to get in touch with him. >> reporter: howard and leahy were two of first responders to die that day. 23 from the police officer. 37 from the port authority police and department. >> everybody went there that day with the idea in their head that they'd get everybody out of that building. that's why they went in. that's why they went out. no one said that we're not going to be able to do this. >> reporter: that commitment to heb others was in large part was the inspiration for them to follow in the footsteps of the men they loved dearly. >> he put others before himself.

>> reporter: you work in the same precinct as your uncle. >> yeah. >> reporter: why? >> i wanted to live that experience of working the same place that he did. he got along with everybody and everybody loved him. you know, everybody said how much of an honor it was that i was working there. >> reporter: for howard, it was about fulfilling his dad's life long dream. >> my dad wanted to be a fireman. he started out with a d.c. fire department when he was 18. >> reporter: the year after 9/11, howard had a chance to be a firefighter himself. his father's friends guide him. >> they were firemen. they were saying the same thing you have to take that job, it's the greatest job in the world you'll never look back. my helmet, i keep a sticker for my dad. >> reporter: for both men, it can trigger painful memories. >> you meet a bunch of different guys who worked with my dad. one guy was with my dad and he survived. he never saw him again. >> not a day goes by that i

think about him. my shield number is 18949. >> reporter: every anniversary the family visits the memorial. it is remarkable what this area has turned into, isn't it? >> yeah. like 15 years ago you would never thought that we'd rebuild and have such a beautiful memorial down here. >> reporter: when the list of victims is read every year, the family waits in silence to hear his uncle's name. james patrick leahy. >> reporter: for anniversary means retelling his father's story. his name and badge made famous by george w. bush in the days following the attack. >> it is the police shield of george howard. who died at the world trade center trying to save others. >> that makes me more and more proud to share my father's story so he doesn't get forgotten. no one gets forgotten because really that day has shaped where we are today as a nation. >> reporter: the same way their lives were shaped by their loss. >> he gave his life on one of

i feel like i have big shoes to fill, you know, being in the sixth precinct. >> i just want to make my dad proud. you know? i want to live my life in the way that i think he would have wanted me to live it. never do anything that tarnishes his name. >> and stephanie gosk joins me now, live. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning. >> there's the biological family. they look up to the hero, fathers and uncle and the larger families of cops and firefighters that all l >> they talk about it a lot. that support system from the department and the friends and the colleagues was so important to them in their lives as kids and continues to guide them today. >> since they lost all the guys, there's been a lot more loss for the fdny and nypd to people who breathe things in at that site, they're losing as many people today as then. >> those guys went and stayed there. in a lot of cases they were recovering their colleagues and

there for weeks. and now they are suffering the health effects from it. by very, very conservative efforts more than a thousand people who worked in the debris field has die and the number is much higher than that. on top of that, you have the illnesses, 12% of the first responders developed asthma in the five years after that. >> and they'll be covered until 2090 in the a remembrance. where we a hmmmmmm..... hmmmmm... [ "dreams" by beck ] hmmmmm... the turbocharged dream machine. the volkswagen golf gti.

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how is it an incident so seared in our memory can seem to have happened yesterday? and at the same time, in some distant past. for days, we couldn't look away. we were glued to the coverage. the stories of those lost. the heroism of the first responders. the heroics of ordinary people. who grieved, and we grieved. the why and the how rattled our nerves. destroyed our sense of security. the dots became clear. but why were they not connected? >> we have a plane -- >> for a while, we as a people were united in a way we hadn't

and the world felt as we did. there was comfort in knowing we were not alone. when the first anniversary came, we relived it all. the wounds both physical and psychic were still fresh. >> katherine -- >> jerome baptist. >> we listened to the names and wept again as we had the year before. we did the samth but less so over time. and that solidarity, we were so proud of, splintered apart as the war in iraq began. >> the dictator of iraq and his weapons of mass destruction are a threat to the security of free nations. >> the danger from baghdad had been oversold. we as a people were underprepared for what unfolded thereafter.

many lives. just what had we gotten into? time doesn't heal all wounds. and there really is no such thing as closure. but we do move on. except for those directly affected, 9/11 is quickly becoming history. the stuff of archives. someone else. although isn't it interesting on this 9/11, we feel it a little more than we have in some year past. maybe it's because of san bernardino. because of orlando. because of nice, because of paris. we know that what happened then is still very much -- very much with us. >> yeah. 15 years ago we started a war.

history to us, a piece of the archives but i think about my kids who are 9 and 7. they have no concept. it will become a page in the history book. >> 40 million americans now were not alive or not living here when 9/11 happened. 40 million more americans. it's becoming very much like as a kid, when we were kids, we would see the newsreel footage of the bombing of pearl harbor. >> sure. >> that was something of history. >> it is now for a lot of young kids. ne'it comes with a pen so you can write as you please this mac doesn't have any of that it's less useful like a hat for your cat surface has touch and a beautiful screen you can see things like they've never been seen this mac doesn't quite compare it's slower, heavy, and a bit square fold it in half, hello when you start lighter than air, you can doodle a heart yes it's plain to see the surface pro 4 is made for me

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stay tuned to nbc this morning for "meet the press" where chuck todd will talk to homeland security chief jeh

later. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. our thoughts today are with the men and women whose lives were taken in full view of the world 15 years ago this morning. both the people who were just going to work on a tuesday morning and the brave heroes who rushed in to try to save them.

from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday evening. this morning a huge american the attack there. in lower manhattan, observed a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. eastern time, marking the moment when the first plane flight 11 flew into the north tower of the world trade center. immediately afterwards, as they do every year, relatives began reading the names of the victims of the attacks at the world trade center.