people were rooted to the spot. >> i remember starting to walk up greenwich. and then the tower was gone. >> i just saw like the top just started to like crumble and fall. >> and then we started running. >> and then i was told to just run. so i ran. >> we were fiscally running up greenwich with the dust cloud on our heels. >> it was summer. the windows were open. we didn't have air conditioning. anybody... it was like a giant communal scream. and the kids are saying to me what's happening? what's happening? what's happening? and what i said to them was, there are people that are dying. that was the truth. that there were people that were dying. i said but you are all going to be okay. >> we had to evacuate to ps-3. so we all came down through these steps. and by the time we were exiting, the chunks of the building were starting to come down. >> when we left to go to ps-3, i mean, we were not on a sidewalk 10 seconds and the second tower fell. >> did you hear the building? >> you could hear it like (making a noise) like scraping against, you know, the concrete.

i live at 2143 joined street -- jones street, near greenwich. i've been swimming in aquatic park for over 50 years. many other locations in san francisco de. after finishing swimming at stanford, years ago, i found this very receptive place. there is no other location in the entire san francisco bay area that is protected as aquatic park is for swimming. i have personally participated in the rescue of a swimmer who was done in by a tugboat. it was not a pleasant experience. i would like to see the eir address the recreational use of aquatic park, which does not address. i even have the knowledge of the 1900's of city beautiful development of the area, which designated the aquatic park area for recreational use. even though i decided to support the idea of the america's cup, i am very skeptical of their commandeering for the nine weeks of the summer season, which is the only time the water gets up over 60 degrees for swimming. at least that should be addressed and limitations to the use of power boats and other craft in that area, which is so uni

then at 80 greenwich avenue, we will have a film maker who won their first interdependence film award. we will have the president of ireland, mary robinson, the president of bard college. after that, we will have a hip- hop concert with artists from england and the united states. if you go to independencemovement.org, you can make reservations. we are open to the public, but there is limited seating. it will be an exciting program. tavis will be headlining there. tavis: stop, stop. i want to add quickly because we travel around the world. this year, we call this the 10th anniversary sadly of 9/11 and we will be in new york and we hope you will be there to commemorate and celebrate independence day. ben barber founder of this wonderful worker and i will see you in a matter of days. >> see you this weekend, tavis. we continue our look 10 years later with scholar reza aslan. he is a religious scholar. as we approach the 10th anniversary, he is also a member of the council on foreign relations. it is always good to have you. >> it is free to be back. tavis: this is certainly possible in t

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you can only be a slow cowboy if you are also secretly a greenwich aristocrat. it doesn't work if you are one thing. perry's legacy may be to humanize mitt romney. it needed to be done. it takes a wax cowboy to humanize the general motors robot. in fighting rick perry, romney won. it didn't as bad as the booed of the immigrant tuition question and he seems electable. this is exciting. he would be a great candidate. >> i get the sense that foreign policy bores perry. >> he definitely -- you can tell he is someone who is only vaguely acquainted with an atlas, and that's not good. >> let's get to the important question from last night. didn't fox do an awesome job hosting the debate? >> we were amazing. did you doubt it for even a moment? >> no. teaming up with google, it was the best debate. interactive media and the youtube thing it worked well. in fact they had a great . of following up with candidates and a shout out to the second dier candidates who got air time. >> we don't do shout outs on this show. >> oh, sorry. this was a big moment in the debate. rick pe

i stood in a crowd of people on the corner of chambers and greenwich street. nothing to see. there was a cyclone fence covered with a scrim of canvas, smoke rising in the distance. i took my lycra and put it to my eye and a woman police officer said no photographs, buddy. this is a crime scene. one never knows when the road of your life will divide. when she said that to me, i had a sudden current of energy come up thinking this is impossible. the crime scene was in there and i was on the public thoroughly -- thoroughfare and i thought why can do it. if you don't do that, i'm going to take that camera away. no fundraiser allowed. something happened. the thought appeared to me. i know how i could be helpful. i could find my way inside ground zero and make an archive of the efforts of all those men and women who had immediately run to ground zero to help construction workers, firemen, policemen, iron workers. anyone who could do something, went there out of a kind of generosity of spirit that seemed just waiting to be tapped. and i thought i could make a small contribution. i w

>> my wife told me that one of my senior partners was alive and living in greenwich village. i thought, all right, i could just walk there. i could walk there to his house. not realizing it was a 45-minute walk. i was walking up. i got to his apartment. i rang the bell, i opened the door. he was covered with blood, steven. i grabbed him. i said, you okay, you okay? he says, yeah. i said where did the blood come from? he said i was in the elevator of the tower. i said, are you all right? he goes, yeah. are you bleeding? no. i said whose blood is it? he said, i don't know. we were having this crazy out of body conversation and he said, you know, we should call london. the minute he said we should call london, i think it was news to me that i had 1,000 people who worked for me in london. i had thought that when everybody was gone, literally everyone who had ever worked for me had been killed. we spoke to the guys in london. they were in crisis mode. they were hard at it trying to figure out who was alive, what to do. i said, oh, we have to shut the firm. and in london they're sa

you didn't ever go to that nightclub in east greenwich, did you? >> no.ft when i was 13. >> that could have been very awkward. i'm suddenly having flashbacks. how extraordinary. you're literally raised around the corner from me. >> i used to tell people. you go on the 822 and brink, you will miss it. >> how bizarre. we need a break after that. when we come back, i will bring in your tv love interest, not the husband, but josh charles, dashes josh charles. i want to know how that last scene ended in the last season. man on tv: ...rbis and 36 homers. swings at the first pitch and fouls it deep back into the stands. [ding] [fans whirring] announcer: chill raw and prepared foods promptly. one in 6 americans will get sick from food poisoning this year. check your steps at foodsafety.gov. >>> there's no doubt he'd be living a great life right now except for that he's dead. because when you're 14 years old, all you ever really want to be when you grow up is your 16-year-old brother. in my case, that meant smoking a lot of dope. >> that was josh charles talking o

you didn't ever go to that nightclub in east greenwich, did you? >> no.13. >> that could have been very awkward. i'm suddenly having flashbacks. how extraordinary. you're literally raised around the corner from me. >> i used to tell people. you go on the 822 and brink, you will miss it. >> how bizarre. we need a break after that. when we come back, i will bring in your tv love interest, not the husband, but josh charles, dashes josh charles. i want to know how that last scene ended in the last season. [ beeping ] ♪ hush, little baby ♪ don't you cry ♪ soon the sun ♪ is going to shine ♪ [ male announcer ] toyota presents the prius family. ♪ walk if i want, talk if i want ♪ [ male announcer ] there's the original one... the bigger one... the smaller one... and the one that plugs in. they're all a little different, just like us. they're all a little different, my grocery bill isn't wasteful spending. my heart medication isn't some political game. our retirement isn't a simple budget line item. i worked hard. i paid into my medicare. and i earned my social sec

>> i was pushing my son who was then 2 months old around in greenwich village. a mile and a half away we see a building burning and are told, don't worry they're filming a movie there. we head home and by that time it's on every tv screen and just -- at trite as it sounds, a stage you'll nerver fert. >> fegt. >> forget. you can see john's work on sportsillustrated.com. >>> i'm don lemon, live for the cnn debate happening monday. we begin with a report for moammar gadhafi, crumbled empire in libya, his son, we're told, saadi, a former playboy fled to niger. we'll be joined now by cnn's ben we'dman with the latest on that. ben what can you tell us? >> reporter: yes, don. we know from the justice minister of niger, saadi, the third son of moammar gadhafi, 37 years old, traveled into that country with eight other so-called minor libyan officials. they were granted refuge there on a humanitarian basis. so saadi is not really the big fish that libyan officials are hoping to catch. they're most interested in saif islam the other brother and the man they call the big fi

you didn't ever go to that nightclub in east greenwich, did you? >> no. that could have been very awkward. i'm suddenly having flashbacks. how extraordinary. you're literally raised around the corner from me. >> i used to tell people. you go on the 822 and brink, you will miss it. >> how bizarre. we need a break after that. when we come back, i will bring in your tv love interest, not the husband, but josh charles, dashes josh charles. i want to know how that last scene ended in the last season. the postal service is critical to our economy-- delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet they're closing thousands of offices, slashing service, and want to lay off over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains 5 billion a year from post-office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. is best absorbed in small contin

my apartment's in greenwich village and american airlines flight 11 flew directly over our apartmentmy wife's office which was on the 97th floor of tower one, the north tower. so that was -- but my life with katherine before that had been wonderfully interesting. we were best friends. she was also my business partner. she was a graduate of the royal college of music of london. she was a rehearsal accompanyist for the trumpeter that played at the wedding of prince charles to diana. she came here, married me, eventually left the music world and eventually worked as an executive assistant for top executives in several corporations before she took this job on august 20th. >> just one of so many lives changed. is this anniversary any different with the killing of osama bin laden? does that make it any easier? >> well, since -- the tenth anniversary itself makes it different because of the intensity of what's going on, the wall-to-wall coverage, the programs that are happening on television, all those sorts of things. it makes it different right there. so it's hard to compare. but there is

this is a street memorial in new york's greenwich village.e of our ireporters sent us these pictures. the day after the attacks, people started making tiles and hung them from a fence surrounding a parking lot. ten years later, that memorial is still standing. >>> just like many other new yorkers, jeff parness was moved by the support the city got. he established a non-profit that sends volunteers from new york to rebuild other communities hit with disaster. now, more than 10,000 people nationwide are part of the effort. for that, jeff is a cnn hero. >> september 11th was a very tough time for the fire department. i lost some friends. guys i went to the academy with. day afterwards, people came from everywhere to help us out. you knew you weren't alone. >> the outpouring of kindness was more powerful than the terror that happened. that really changed me. >> i'm jeff parness. i just want to show the world that new yorkers will never forget what people did for us following 9/11. every year on the 9/11 anniversary, we take volunteers from new yo

snob from greenwich, connecticut, called hunter herst helmsley and it became triple h and we stuck withied into the family. you have job security as well as being -- >> oh, no, there's no job security. vince will fire anyone. yes. >> but he can't. he needs you too much. before we talk about your new movie, that's so exciting, especially when you see what the rock has done with his career, the toll that wrestling takes. you have something to fall back on. i want to talk about 9/11. people were talking about the mets coming back and what the yankees did and president bush's first pitch. but after 9/11, you were the first organization to get back in two days after. you guys still had a show. how tough was that within your organization? >> i'll tell you, a lot of people debated it and really, the answer came from one person really at the end of the day and that was vince and vince mcmahon is a very big patriot and believes in this country immensely and, you know, he was just hell bent on saying we're not going to let these guys dictate how we live. that's what they want. they want us to shu

. >> location, location, location in greenwich village. that tells you everything, right?that narrow. whatever. that's new york for you. >>> here's a very sad story. ukrainian man, 77 years old, wins a dumpling-eating contest. what he gets for this? he wins a jar of sour cream. after all this, he dies. so, investigators are looking into whether he died from the dumplings, from the sour cream or something else. 77 years old. geez, i mean -- >> that's a tough way to go. at least he was full. >> yeah. >>> america's most caffeinated city. what do you think here, based on the number of starbucks in the city? from number five to number one. l.a. is fifth most. san francisco the fourth. seattle, naturally, the third. new york, which is one on every corner, starbucks, number two. >> we're not number one? >> we're not number one. but guess who is? the folks in windy city ranked the most caffeinated city in the country. >> i guarantee you, they are not more caffeinated than we are right now. >> nope, not on this shift. >> show them your cup, rob. >> our fancy mug. and a special anni

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greenwich, connecticut, still needs power, by the way.ma will visit paterson, new jersey on sunday. and we're getting closer look at the damage left behind in places like vermont and upstate new york. entire neighborhoods there completely levelled. and in washington, d.c., irene caused even more damage to the washington monument. officials found brand new cracks and water at the monument. raging wildfires forced two people out of their homes in north texas. more than three dozen homes have been destroyed already. and now the flames making their way towards some farms there, planes and helicopters being brought in to battle the heavy flames. dry, windy conditions still making it difficult to fight. the fire is only 30% contained. and firefighters tackling flames in oklahoma as well. the fires threatening homes there. this is oklahoma city. several more homes were destroyed yesterday. 33 have already been wiped out. the fire also threatening interstate 40. some people now returned home and they're sifting through the ashes. no word of what

greenwich, connecticut. you are on book tv. >> high. i have two questions.e first one is, have you written anything about slavery and new york and the surrounding areas of new york? would you consider doing so if you haven't? >> color, what is your second question? >> my family goes back to the early 1800's in key west, florida. i have heard that there was not any slavery in key west. is that true? >> all right. slavery in new york, have not actually written on slavery in new york, although i did assist the new york historical society when they had two excellent exhibits some years ago on the history of slavery in new york. many people don't even realize there was slavery in new york. we tend to associate slavery purely with the south, which is not correct to at least until the 19th century. and it is a great subject. i can't stand to be a telex bernanke west. probably not true that there was no slavery, but key west was basically an american naval base at that time. i would guess there were some slaves. i don't see any reason why there would have been. flor