rick leventhal has this report on the brave warriors. >> reporter: when the u.s.rst on the ground. >> we weren't going to let anybody come in our country do what they did to us and get away with it. >> highly trained at bases across the u.s., including florida, the special tactics forces, execute pararescue mission in combat zones. >> target is 1-4-0. >> they direct airstrikes from the battlefield. gather weather data in hostile environments and navigate traffic when control towers aren't an option. >> they are all air force special tactics to be a small agile force to plug and play with whatever is needed on the battlefield. dropping bombs on the enemy to protect the civilian population. >> it's brutal. flipping tires, climbing rop ropes. stress testing under water. and plenty of hand-to-hand combat. making them some of the most physically fit members of the armed forces and the equipment is constantly upgraded from the weapons to electronics. >> now the gps are the size of my watch. everything is getting lighter and smaller. which makes us faster and more lethal

rick left that -- rick leventhal is live at one world financial center. >> reporter: these ceremoniesttacks. it is important to look back and remember what happened on that terrible day 10 years ago. i want to play a particular piece of tape with a young man who i stopped in the street who had just witnessed the most horrific thing that i -- that any of us could imagine. >> i was passing the hudson hotel when me and a couple of guys saw the plane come overhead low and loud. we looked up and said where is that going? next thing you know it crashes into the building. then we kept walking, we were near water street and you saw the second plane come into the building. >> >> reporter: that young man is john miller with me right now, 10 years later. do you think about that day? do you get chills like i do and what do you remember of it? >> i think about it everyday. i work down here former little lynch, my office looks down into what was the pit for a couple years, construction site and now the memorial. >> reporter: how difficult was that for you to go back to work everyday and look down t

rick leventhal is back at ground zero, this morning.d important day for our nation. good morning, rick. what goes through your mind on this incredible day? >> rick: it is tough to narrow it down, martha. we are on the tenth floor balcony of the world financial center across west side highway from the the world trade center site and we can hear the names of the victims, being read by family members and they float through the air up to our ears here. very moving and somber ceremony as you guys have talked about, especially, when they read the names of their loved ones, and deliver personal messages to them, and, then as you said, we're also seeing some of the family members now heading out towards the memorial and that is the most dramatic difference we have seen. in years past it was the frustration at the lack of progress at the site and now, instead we are seeing 400 trees and two beautiful waterfalls and footprints of the towers and new towers rising around them so people who mourn can look up and see the future. and, i think the main

rick leventhal is suited up. >> they didn't actually come to blows. bill: minutes away from the opening bell on wall street. the dow closing down about 100 points yesterday. lawyers for john edwards asking a federal judge to throw out the criminal case against him. they say the charges that he used campaign dollars are constitutionally vague. tropical storm lee brought leftovers from the bp oil spill. alisyn: three days from now america will remember 9/11 10 years later. er pilots now stand guard 24/7 defending the homeland. rick leventhal got a ride on an f-15. tell us what these fighters do? >> reporter: it was one of the coolest thing i have ever had the opportunity to do. these pilots have been on alert every hour of every day since 9/11. they are standing by in their flight suits and they have their fighter jets fueled and ready to launch at the first sign of trouble. they are ready to scramble to the skies to intercept suspicious aircraft. the goal of course is preventing another terror attack. >> reporter: your job is to protect america >>it is

jon: rick leventhal in our newsroom, thanks.enna: fox news alert hearing from the pentagon that the pentagon says it is raising its level of alert at u.s. military bases ahead of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. the pentagon saying this is not a response to any particular threat but they are doing it as a precautionary measure. more on that as we get it. in the meantime a football coach will tell you you've got to keep your head on a swivel. one cheerleader learning that the hard way. in south carolina junior rallying the crowd you can see when she becomes the center of attention for the wrong reasons, a wide receiver crashing into her on the side lines, taking her out. she says she never saw this coming. >> i have never been tackled, and i would never recommend for anybody to be tackled. i heard my name being called but i wasn't paying attention, and then when i looked at the guy then he just came and swept me off my feet. i forgive you, it's okay. it really is. >> you got framed. jenna: she didn't have any padding on. she survive

jon: it really is remarkable, rick levun thall -- rick leventhal, thank you. down there yesterday and people were taking flags, flowers, mementos and putting them into those names, because there are actually voids in the bronze plaques and people are sticking things in there, it's a living museum, almost. jenna: that's beautiful. that's why they were able to trace names, right? 's engraved. jon: they etched their names on to the papers and programs just like the vietnam memorial. it's amazing. jenna: i can't wait to go see it. rick said mostly the month is filled up but doesn't mean it's impossible, so -- you were able to sneak in down there! appropriately so, doing some reporting. jon: with media credentials! >> jenna: obviously. we thank rick of course for his report thaopb and as always, some of his great reporting he's done over the last several days on the memorial. in the meantime, we have this story we wanted to share with you, former imf chief, dominic strauss-kahn, facing serious allegations in his native country of france. why french police are now t

rick leventhal down in lower manhattan today.news alert under this new terror threat that has authorities so concerned in places like new york city and washington d.c. neil cavuto just finished an interview with new york's top man, mayor mike bloomberg. we'll be hearing from neil in just a bit. we do have neil i'm told. there he is. >> reporter: hey, jon how are you. jon: good, good i'm happy you could be with us. you just talked to the mayor. these must be tense times. you have the marking of 9/11 coming up ten years after, juxtaposed against that this new terror threat. what is the mayor's reaction. >> reporter: the mayor was very sort of calming about it. he's obviously aware of the 10th anniversary that this would have happened, this kind of threat would be out there. it's something that osama bin laden has written about for years wanting to plan something for the ten year anniversary, something that would directly hit new york and washington. the elements were there, the threat was out there and long suspected. they were hea

rick leventhal is there live this morning, good morning to you. ning to you, bill and we're going to give you a bird's eye view of the 20th floor of the one world trade center, the building, obviously still under construction but we can see from up here, just how dramatic this 8-acre memorial plaza is. you can see two pools built in the footprints of the towers where the waterfalls, 30 feet high, 200 feet long pour constantly and the people on the plaza, the first day the general public can actually get in and walk around this site which was for so many years a pit and a pile and a short time ago, we speak to joe daniels, the director 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 --

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