. >> martha raddatz, pierre thomas and charlie gibson remember that tragic day and reflect on the toll of america's longest war. >> announcer: from abc news, it's "this week." here now george stephanopoulos. >>> good morning and welcome to "this week." as we head into labor day the country is marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11 this week, still absorbing the heart breaking scenes from the chaotic exit from america's longest war. >>> hurricane ida's trail of devastation turned our focus inward this week. exposed a country clearly unprepared for this harsh new climate reality. >>> after the supreme court's conservative majority allowed texas to enact the most stringent abortion ban in the country roe v. wade is facing its biggest challenges ever. president biden experiencing the lowest poll numbers in his presidency. we'll cover it all beginning with cedric richmond. mr. richmond, thank you for joining us this morning. let's begin with the devastation left by ida. i know you're coming to us from new orleans this morning. you were with president biden on friday. what's the latest on the

our friend, former "gma" anchor, "world news" anchor charlie gibson joins us now. the tower. >> "good morning america" was in but we're joining the network to show you the picture of the world trade center. obviously a major fire there and there has been some sort of explosion. we don't fully know the details. >> we just saw another plane coming in from the side. so this looks like it is some sort of a concerted effort to attack the world trade center that is under way in downtown new york. >> charlie, nothing could prepare you for a moment like that. >> no, george, you're right. i've heard michael say a couple of times now "gma" is remembering 9/11 20 years later. i don't think there's a day that goes by that i don't remember. it's so etched in your memory and, everybody, of course, can tell you without hesitation where they were when they learned about it, what they did. we were as you and i have discussed we were in the commercial at the time. stu schwartz was our producers. we had gotten the 30-second cue we were about to go back on the air and fill a couple of

charlie gibson and i are live on the air september 11th, 2001. >> i'm diane sawyer. , september 11th, 2001. >> it was an everyday kind of morning on "gma." charlie and i were casually talking about commuting to work. >> it is now 48 minutes after 8:00. >> a commercial pause. >> stick with us. >> and then, as we're coming back on the air, the breaking news. >> we want to tell you what we know as we know it. but we just got a report in that there has been some sort of explosion at the world trade center in new york city. >> thank you for coming in. >> over the next days, charlie and i would talk to the families of the nearly 3,000 people who died that day, and that's when we first met so many very young women, a lot of them newly wednesday. now new widows who were also pregnant. we followed these women as they desperately searched for the one person who was their whole life. we were with them as they grappled with the mystery that the father of their baby seemed simply to have vanished. for so many, there would be no remains. >> we still hope that they'll find something

we will hear from charlie gibson, sharing his memory from being on set that day.we will have a special performance from a broadway hit. the cast is in times square. ♪ well well well, what have we here? ♪ ♪ a magical place... that's lookin' to get scared! ♪ (laughter) halloween time is back in disneyland and disney california adventure parks! drew: the time is 6:24 a.m. a lot of you were saying i got a quick downpour. this is early morning rain from alameda. we saw 100, to a couple hundredths of an inch of rain. we are lucky some of the lightning came with rainfall to lower the threat of new fires starting. the local view live doppler 7, no lightning strikes in our vicinity. on street level, there are some showers from redwood city to palo alto. in the next 90 all out of here. later on today, nothing but sunshine. kumasi: thank you. today is the deadline for state lawmakers to extend the covid-19 policy that gives california workers two extra weeks of sick leave. it expires september 30. the state legislature would need to pass an extension by the nm today. lawmake

coming, martha raddatz, pure thomas and charlie gibson will join virg stephanopoulos -- george stephanopoulos and reflect on 9/11. you can watch the full interview at 8:00 this morning right here on abc 7. at least 67 people have been killed across eight states in the aftermath of hurricane ida. it has become the deadliest tropical system to hit the united states in the last four years. in louisiana, cleanup efforts continue a week after ida came ashore as a category or storm. president biden toured some of the damage on friday. he thanked hard-working power company employees were trying to restore electricity. there are still hundreds of thousands of power outages across the state. biden: 25,000 linemen from the correctional cause -- across the country have come to help. crews from 32 different states are helping. two of them lost their lives in the process of trying to get power back up. kate: president biden will travel to new york and new jersey tuesday to survey storm damage in those states. mayor bill de blasio announced he is forming a new weather response task force to prepare for fut

charlie gibson and i are live on the air, september 11, 2001. i'm diane sawyer. sday, september 11, 2001. it was an everyday kind of morning on "gma." charlie and i were casually talking about commuting to work. it is now 48 minutes after 8:00. >> a commercial pause. >> stay with us. >> and as we're coming back on the air, the breaking news. >> we want to tell you what we know as we know it. we just got a report that there has been some sort of explosion at the world trade center in new york city. and when the second plane hits, that's me gasping, my god. oh, my god. my god. once we're off the air, i start walking from times square down through the city to the world trade center. night falls. there's no light, there's no electricity, and see silhouetted firemen, silhouetted ems workers. around me, the paper from decimated offices. a kind of mournful foliage. you just keep thinking how important all of these seemed to someone 24 hours ago. thank you for coming in. over the next days, charlie and i would talk to the families of the nearly 3,000 people who died that

will have more of this powerful interview, plus diane sawyer revisits the children of 9/11 and charlie gibson with your gma first look, i am gop need to come abc news -- i am gio ben julian: tomorrow abc will air program, 9/11, abc remembers. you can watch it tomorrow from 9:00 to 11:00. kumasi: piers the countdown 20 polls open at 7:00 tuesday morning. every voter should have got a mail-in ballot because of the pandemic. president biden will be campaigning with governor newsom. yesterday governor newsom and the top republican candidate trying to replace him made a pitch in fresno. >> the recall process has been weaponized. it has been perverted. they cannot wait a few months? literally a few months. >> droughts are god made but shortages are man-made. kumasi: the central valley has become a battleground for the recall effort, with both democrats and republicans hoping to win over latino voters. join us tomorrow night for abc 7's california recall program. we are breaking down the current recall race and they present our documentary total recall, which chronicles the 2003 recall election when