vice-president joseph biden will speak at the ceremony and it includes a reading of the flight members passengers and crew. >>> and also tara moriarty is in san francisco this morning with more on what the fire department is doing to remember those who died. >> reporter: well, one minute befor 7:00 0 -- we are told the bell on the corner of full son will -- folsom will signify the last ban. they will observe as well a moment of silence. right now the tower is lit up in red white and blue and in about two hours, all 43 firehouses will hold ceremonies to remember those who lost their lives. those who want to honor the people who have fallen are welcome at their fire stations. >> it will be solemn and humbling and it is a tradition in san francisco where we read all the names so, it is a promotional quiet somber moment. >> reporter: now in addition, in san jose there will be a flame lighting ceremony in oak hill memorial park -- and then again at 6:00 tonight. a ceremony is planned in union city in sugar milaning park. for more information -- sugar mill landing park. live in san francisco

bipartisan deficit commission in two thousand and ten but it keeps coming up mitt romney paul ryan joseph biden they've all flung around as a political football in recent speeches or interviews we will talk to a former republican senator a senator and he was the co-chair of the simpson bowles commission alan simpson about the facts and how he proposes to fix the deficit and the august u.s. housing starts number came in below analyst expectations today while mortgage lending declined to its lowest level in sixteen years for two thousand and eleven according to a report from federal regulators also fed ex which is an economic bellwether cut its global growth forecast i could go on the point is this is all more evidence the u.s. economy and any kind of we're covering his slow going at best so how do you sell us deficit reduction as a top priority in this environment plus the u.k. city of bristol launches its own currency and it reportedly is off to a pretty solid start as the u.k.'s largest alternative to sterling we'll talk alternative currencies and loose change let's get to today's capital acco

to take the realm it must come as a surprise to him about his egyptian who heard vice president joseph biden declare that hosni mubarak with the democrats and the jew in our sons was a high tech terrorist it is disrespectful to the dead and to the incarcerated of terrains uprising to claim that united states supported the forces for change that is indeed or that city who can say that it is not what else this is the president concerned to appear to look legally look back on this change the people's change and tries to call it his own and so we can take heart here too because it means that the white house has seen this progress is inevitable in this season of progress the president has saying which way the wind is blowing and he must now pretend that it is the administration who made a lot of very well this is better than the alternative to drift into irrelevance as the world mouzon. so you must be clear here the united states is not the enemy its government is not uniform in some cases good people in the united states supported the forces of change perhaps barack obama personally was one of t

it must come as a surprise to all of those egyptians who heard vice president joseph biden declare that hosni mubarak was a democrat and the jewel in a silence was a high tech terrorist. songes live speech aired during the event which was hosted by aqua dorian foreign minister ricardo patino ecuador of course has granted a songe asylum though he's been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for several months now as he tries to figure out a way to get out of the country without being arrested as and is wanted for questioning in sweden on allegations of sexual assault and has made very clear that he fears going to sweden not because of questioning but because he worries he could then be extradited to the united states just because the director of national security and human rights for the government accountability project she's also the author of the book traitor the whistleblower and the american taliban she joins me now and just let me just get your initial impressions of this speech it was very powerful it was not only chock full of first amendment nuggets but a songe was able t

it was original bound for san francisco vice-president joseph biden will be speaking there at the shangri-la -- shanksville pennsylvania memorial. >>> allie rasmus is live in fremont to tell us how the south bay is marking this day, allie? >>> we are at the veterans memorial in fremont and you can see there is a group of about 35 to 40 people taking part in a can tell light vigil, they are laying roses and this is laid out for blue star moms and the group is having a short prayer service and everyone went through with theiree experiences and emotions. along with honoring the people, people are paying tribute to the thousands of men and women who died in iraq and afghanistan. this is the second year in a row they have organized the memorial here in fremont and an organizer told me over the phone, she said she wanted to have a simple event for people to attend on 9/11 before they got into work. it is supposed to last 45 minutes and the candle light vigil is about to wrap up. they are laying 24 yellow roses at the veteran's memorial in fremont. ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> in the years, sec

judiciary committee was no longer strom thurmond, but was instead, a young senator from delaware named joseph biden. and he engineered a really meticulous examination of bork's record. he engaged senators in the discussion. he thought there was no such thing as a right to privacy in the constitution. in the senate by a vote of 58 to 32, he was voted down and ronald reagan nominated to betsy anthony kennedy and he is certainly no robert bork. he has had a long and distinguished career that really set -- that really do years of the court, which i read about in my last book. you know, when i started looking at the supreme court in a serious way as a writer, i was inspired by a book that i am sure is familiar to many of you called the brethren by scott armstrong and bob woodward. it is really just a great book, the theme was all the justices, regardless of politics, they could not stand weinberger. they thought he was a pompous jerk. that sort of contentiousness has been the rule more than the exception in the supreme court. i don't know how many of you have had the misfortune to hear of injustice that

might, we ask your guidance for those who governorern us, president barack obama, vice president joseph bidensupreme court, and all of those, including governor mitt romney and congressman paul ryan who seek to serve the common good. by seeking public office. make them all worthy to serve you by serving our country. and help them remember that the only just government is the government that serves it's sits sens rather than itself w your grace may all americans choose wigsly as we consider the future course of public policy. and finally, lord, we beseech your benediction on those who depart from here this evening and all those who yearn to conduct their lives in freedom and justice. we beg you to remember those who are not free, and those who suffer for freedom's cause, those who are poor, out of work, needy, sick or alone. those who are persecuted for religious convictions, those still ravaged by war. and most of all, god all mighty we thank you for the great gift of our beloved country for we are indeed one nation under god. and in god we trust, so dear god, bless america. you who live and

president's national security policy are not being debated and i'm sorry, but watching john kerry and joseph bidenhe war in iraq. joe biden was the chair of the senate foreign relations committee and shut down debate about iraq when it was being debated in this country. there's revisionism, jingoism. i'm not thinking about this from a political perspective. i'm talking about life and death issues that cut to the heart of will we follow the constitution when it comes -- >> we should aggregate some of the issues. there's the ending the war in iraq. the status of forces agreement was negotiated by the bush administration that we adhered to. there was some evidence we were trying to get out of it but the end result was the president did end the war. we're going to keep quite a large force of essentially paid mercenaries behind, there's a huge embassy, but combat troops have been brought home. that is in one column. there's extension, the surge in afghanistan. we have 87,000 troops there, and the deadline for that. there's the decision to order the strike against osama bin laden and then there is the m

joseph j.ogren. i love and miss you so very much. until we meet again. >> vice presidential joe biden took part in the service for the 40 people who died when flight 93 crashed in a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. it included a wreath laying, bells tolling, and the reading of the names who lost their lives there. >>> later in the day, president obama visited with wounded troops at walter reid national military center. he met with several service members and their families. now while the president and mitt romney layed off the politics in honor of patriot day, eric canter took the opportunity to call on congress to stave off it. >> the best we can do as people to honor those individuals is to make sure that it never happens again. and we have looming massive defense cuts that this house has acted to substitute. >> unless congress comes to some kind of an agreement, those automatic cuts scheduled to take effect at the end of the year would slash $500 billion from the defense budget. that's on top of $487 billion in reductions already in the budget. lesli. >> on this 11th anniversary