for joe daniels, the president of the ground zero memorial and the 9/11 museum, the challenge is how represent that defining moment for an entire city. an entire nation. before daniel got the job to build the 9/11 memorial, he was a lawyer who worked near ground zero. he was there the moment the first plane hit. >> after seeing people jump that's when the south tower was hit by united 175 saw this massive glass of flame and ran with everybody else. >> you were right underneath? >> yeah. it was a scary situation overall, because it just felt like some general attack. >> surrounded by chaos and horror, daniels made it back home safely. he said what he saw that morning and the days after, changed his life. >> i remember going past national guard troops. having to show my id to get to my apartment this is america. you never had to do that. who would expect to see troops checking for id with machine against? it really changed things. it is hard to communicate that. >> a few years later the city made plans to build a memorial and museum at ground zero. having witnessed the destruction danie

for joe daniels, the president of the ground zero memorial and the 9/11 museum, the challenge is how represent that defining moment for an entire city. an entire nation. before daniel got the job to build the 9/11 memorial, he was a lawyer who worked near ground zero. he was there the moment the first plane hit. >> after seeing people jump that's when the south tower was hit by united 175 saw this massive glass of flame and ran with everybody else. >> you were right underneath? >> yeah. it was a scary situation overall, because it just felt like some general attack. >> surrounded by chaos and horror, daniels made it back home safely. he said what he saw that morning and the days after, changed his life. >> i remember going past national guard troops. having to show my id to get to my apartment this is america. you never had to do that. who would expect to see troops checking for id with machine against? it really changed things. it is hard to communicate that. >> a few years later the city made plans to build a memorial and museum at ground zero. having witnessed the destruction danie

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around this site which was for so many years a pit and a pile and a short time ago, we speak to joe daniels of the 9/11 memorial. >> this is a place that brought people together, before 9/11, and after 9/11, people rushing in from across the country and now, that we are opening the memorial, every, single country, economic class, political stripe will be standing side by side and is doing what was tried to be destroyed that day. it is bringing people together. >> reporter: i also spoke with the designer, architect of the -- who said that it turned out even better than he had hoped, bill. bill: i hope that that is the case, and, we talked to family members yesterday, and what did they tell you about the reaction to the memorial? >> reporter: you know, it is pretty powerful, and, some of them have actually been moved to tears, many of them, in fact, moved to tears, when they have come down here, not just to reflect on those who they have lost, but, to celebrate their life as well and there are places to do that, under the oak trees and on the grass, and in the grass around the two pools that

. >> reporter: as head of the 9/11 memorial and museum, joe daniels has witnessed every step of the transformationtime in ten years the public has had access to this place. what do you expect that to be like? >> i think it's going to be pretty special. i think so much of the public from around the world has those last images in their mind of the towers falling and that ninth-month recovery period that was hell on earth here. to come back and know you were standing in the very spot where the recovery took place and it's been transformed into a place really of beauty, i think people will really have a special feeling about it. >> reporter: where the world trade center towers once stood, there are now two massive granite reflecting pools. >> it doesn't make a sound until the water hits 30 feet below. when you're over there you really don't hear it. it's when you step up to the names you feel like there's this envelope of white noise around you and it really helps reinforce that separation that you're in a special place when you hear the sound of the water falling. >> reporter: in the center of the pl

get your dream ticket, simpson-bowles, mitch daniels-joe lieberman. jack welch-david petraeus.cess in all 50 states, they're going to come. people talked about people from the private sector coming up. howard schultz, the ceo of your sponsor is speaking out. no labels is sponsoring a conversation with him next week where he'll talk with america about bringing jobs to america. there's a lot happening out there. this is a different dynamic. i know people are talking about people like him stepping for barred from the private sector because government and government officials can't handle it. >> gene? >> i think if americans elect want to build a party, want to build a movement that is sustainable, that is broad-based and can elect a president, they should get at it. but i don't think they're going to do it in a year. i really don't. >> you don't need a party to do it, you just have a ticket. it's a unity ticket. >> that's what the founding fathers thought. they thought you didn't need parties. they didn't like parties. they were factions. they should people should just run. it doe

joe vazquez, thank you. >>> today president obama was in north carolina trying to generate support for his jobs plan. the proposal has been a hard sell to both republicans and the rest of the country. danielleottingham reports on the president's latest attempt to try to win over the public. >> reporter: president obama put the spotlight on helping small businesses during a visit to raleigh, north carolina, to sell his jobs plan. >> it will lead to new jobs for young people, for construction workers, for teachers, for veterans, for the unemployed. >> reporter: the proposal would slash taxes for small businesses like the one the president visited wednesday. speaking to more than 9,000 cheering supporters, he had a message for his critics. >> can you've got some republicans in congress, they like to talk about how we're in favor of america's job creators. well, you know what? if you are in favor of america's jobs creators, this is your bill. >> reporter: the president is pushing hard for congress to act now and pass his plan but some gop lawmakers see the proposal and the president's road trip as pure politics. >> he knows how to give a speech. what he doesn't know how to do is lead. >> report

rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable joe manchin, a senator from the state of west virginia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: danielouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business, senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. there will be no votes today, and the next vote will be on monday, september 19, at 5:30. we begin we'll begin consideration of the trade adjustment assistance bill on monday. we're working on procedures to get to that today. we have a lot to do. next friday, we have to have a continuing resolution passed in this body. we had a good week this week. we were able to get the highway bill extended for six months, federal aviation administration for four months, and of course we were able to have that significant vote on the fema legislation so vitally important to the entire country. it's interesting to note that the president has had emergency declarations of disasters in 48 states. the presiding officer's state is one of those that did not have one,