. >> lorain g. bay. >> reporter: hundreds of locals, loved ones and dignitaries making the trip to the site where united flight 93 crashed. >> if they had any chance of survival, they had to attack not only to save themselves but to save hundreds if not thousands of their fellow citizens and is to to show the terrorists that they would never defeat us. >> reporter: across the nation and the world remembering what happened this day eight years ago and how it's changed the nation forever. in new york, rick leventhal, fox news. >> our coverage of the 9/11 anniversary continues throughout the hour. still ahead, eight years since the attack. where is osama bin laden? >>> plus, we'll take to you a local middle school honoring a acher and student lost in the tragedy. >>> and how hundreds dedicated this day to helping others in our community. >>> police in prince georges county are trying to track down the driver in a deadly hit and run. happened last night on route 450. the police say the driver hit and ki

lorain from texas was born in canada, lived there 40 years and she is now a proud american citizen. she worries, though, about the quality of care of a government-run health care system. what it's going to provide, if it's going to provide enough. as she said and again i quote, i love this country and pray that socialized medicine never comes to this place. i have seen how destructive it can be. well, as a former canada resident, she certainly did see that problem. unfortunately in their attempts to participate in the domestic democratic process, americans like doris and nancy and lorain have been maligned by politicians and they've been criticized by the press. they've been described as angry protestors, town hall mobs, no less than the leader of the house of representatives has called them un-american. they are not un-american. and they will not be stopped. because they are interested in getting a better system and keeping it under our own control. so today is their day. today is the day that the congress is going to hear their voice. a voice from 1.3 million americans that say fr

>> ford, if you look when you start looking at atlanta, you look at wicksham, north folk, edison, lorainere's a lot of assembly plants that have been closed down.& that's very dramatic. >> reporter: ron gettlefinger is president of the u.a.w. >> it's hard on families. it's hard on communities. it's hard on states. it reduces the tax base. puts a lot of people in unemployment lines. all those things are very difficult and challenging for us. we stepped up and we tried to find a way to help ease the pain by offering buyouts. >> reporter: and wage concessions and reduced benefits. the union has taken over retiree health care. at the beginning of restructuring, ford's labor costs were $70-$80 per worker for combined wages, benefits and retirement costs. now ford says they're almost down to toyota's $50 an hour. >> this is the new.... >> reporter: of course, there's still the problem of building cars people want to buy and making money doing it. especially given the recession. ford's most profitable vehicles are still heavy duty pick-ups, fully loaded which according to some estimates can mak

workers from lorain to wilmington,o zanesville deserve a government that does more and does better for them. today, president obama and many of us in congress are working to ensure workers be justly rewarded for their labor. as ohioans understand, manufacturing recognizes the valu of an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. we know manufacturing is a ticket to the middle-class and we know a strong middle-class makes a stronger nation. that's why americans deserve a manufacturing policy that works for them. manufacturing accounts for more than 10% of our entire economy and nearly we three-frths of our natios industrial research. manufacturing jobs pay 20% more on average than service jobs. for every massi auto plant you see driving from east to west along the oo turnpe from youngstown past toledo there are dozens of manufacturrs who make component parts and services for emerging industries in clean energy and aerospace and biothnology. i applaud the administration's decision to tap ron bloom to dirct a national strategy to lp manufacturers transitioto the 21st century economy. it's