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What are your thoughts this morning personally . Its as if it were yesterday. It touches my heart like it does so many others. It was a beautiful, crisp day and now once again here we are 15 years later. The best thing about this is that this city is reviving. There are buildings around here. People live here. They work here. Theres a thriving place and its a tribute to many who lost their lives. Many said this morning that that this proves that the terrorist did not win. Americans dont cower in fear, instead theyre living their lives and living their lives fully and remembering those who died. Willie . Rehema ellis near ground zero, thank you. Turning to the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton forced to apologize after saying that half of Donald Trumps supporters fit into a quote basket of deplorables. Hallie jackson has more. Reporter good morning. Only a partial apology from Hillary Clinton after she made the comments at a fundraiser in front of supporters on friday night. Listen to what she said. You could put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. The raisist, sexist, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. Reporter donald trump pounced on her insulting comments. Hillary clinton had her 47 moment, referencing the remarks from mitt romney that made him seem out of touch. Trump said what a terrible thing that clinton said about so many great americans. After a day of political uproar, hi hillary says she regrets saying half. That was wrong. She wont stop calling out racism and bigotry. She did not apologize for using the word deplorable. She went on with a number of ways that they have been deplorable, referencing the attacks on the gold star family and the support of the birther movement. All of it shows the race tightening in several key battlegrounds. Well get to that in a second. How are the candidates commemorating 9 11 today . Reporter both will be attending that ceremony that rehema was just talking about. Both are new yorkers and both only like so Many Americans have searing memories of 9 11. Thanks so much. Nicolle wallace was Communications Director for george w. Bush. She was in the white house on september 11, 2001, around s she and she later served for the john mccain mccain. Its nice to be here. Im usually watching wearing my pajamas. You can come in in your pajamas the next time. Lets start with the campaign. The basket of deplorables. Now goes into romneys 47 category in 2012 and in 2008, president obama talked about people clinging to their guns and religion. Message to the press corps, fight to get those cameras inside the fundraisers because thats when you hear what the candidates really think of each other. She said it before. This wasnt a slip of the tongue. She doesnt really have a lot of those. She correctly diagnosed the problem with her statement which was that she painted with too broad of a brush. But this is how she feels about some elements of trumps base. She feels hes given voice to the deplorable, altright. I didnt know what that was eight weeks ago but sort of t s this she thinks hes legitimized white supremacy. This is how she feels about some of his base and her error in her view she painted with too broad of a brush. It was in 2008, they get bitter and they cling to guns and religion. Then candidate Hillary Clinton said i was taken aback by the demeaning remarks that obama made about those in small town american, it was elitist and out of town and now people are saying its the same thing about her. This will hurt her. You know, theres someone who is a frequent surrogate for her, Vice President biden, the only person on her side that seems to be able to focus his attacks directly on trump. I think she could take a page out of his playbook and understand that shes not running against donald trump supporters. She actually needs to convert some of them to her cause. These comments do not help her win ohio and pennsylvania. And sort of those rust belt states where this race is much tighter than the clinton camp would like it to be. Halle referenced the new polls. We have arizona effectively tide. Trump 42 and clinton 41. New hampshire 4142. Is this race, nicole, tighter that an lot of people think it is . Listen, you know, ive liketioned him to the storm that goes off to sea and weakens around gains and comes back. Hes picking up strength and bearing down on her. I want to talk about your experience on 9 11. You were in the white house when it happened. What was it like that day . So i was watching we had our meeting at 8 00. So at 8 30 i returned to the office. We were watching the today show. I saw that second plane hit and then i watched the replay. I cannot look away. I remember the secret Service Agents went through all of our offices and evacuated us, and some refused to leave. I said, get up and go. They looked at the agents looked at the women and said, take off your shoes and run. We went running from the white house, reluctantly. I remember calling my dad. He said where are you going . Were running out of the white house. Where are you running to . They said to run for our lives. My whole staff went to my apartment in georgetown and worked from home, but we got the message that night that the president expected us back at the desk at 7 00 the next morning to get back to work. You were there. I was there. Nicolle wallace, thank you. See you next time in your pjs and slippers. Around three dozen people were taken to the hospital in hartford, connecticut, when multiple floors of a deck collapsed during the off campus house party. It was packed with students at the time of the accident. Authorities now saying it was a miracle no one was seriously hurt. The woman who was famously killed by a sailor has died at the age of 92. Greta Zimmer Friedman was a dental assistant when she was grabbed and kissed during a vj Day Celebration in new yorks times square on august 14, 1945. The photo was one of the most enduring images representing the end of world war i i. She said it wasnt much of a kiss. And Central Michigan pulled off a win on a wild play that should not have been. A hail mary and lateral on the untimed down at the very end of the game gave them a 3027 win. Look at the catch, the toss, the run and the dive into the end zone. But the play never should have happened because Central Michigan had been flagged for intentional grounding on the previous play. A penalty that should have given Central Michigan the win. Central michigan getting the one more down was a mistake. And the sports world is divide over San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his decision not to stand for the national anthem. Its his protest he says against the way africanamericans are mistreated in this country. Saturday, the Seattle Seahawks revealed theyll make a statement of their own today standing together with arms linked before their game against the miami dolphins. Matt lauer sat down with commissioner Roger Goodell over weekend and talked about the controversy. I think a majority of the leagues players are africanamerican. Do you want them to take a leading role in bringing attention to the issues like the one that Colin Kaepernick is bringing attention to . I think our history is that we do. We play a role in society, an Important Role in society. We understand that. Were careful about this because we still believe that at the bottom people come to enjoy this sport. They enjoy they come to enjoy the game. But they recognize the importance that the nfl plays in our society. We have to be responsible for that. Its one of the things that we spend an awful lot of time focused on. Are you proud or Colin Kaepernick for taking this stand . Listen, im proud of those standing out on issues that need to be changed in our society. We dont live in a perfect society, matt. Our players have strong views about things. I support them speaking out about that. But thats what the focus should be on. The changes he should be does it make you proud or nervous when you see it . I think when our players speak out and they feel strongly and passionate about something, i think its a good thing for us. What i do believe is the respect for our country, the people who fought for those freedoms and values and the people who protect us here and abroad, theyre important. You will see it on sunday. Were a patriotic league. Sunday by the way is the 15th anniversary of the attacks of 9 11. A heightened sense of patriotism. Is it more difficult to see if players kneel or sit i dont think so. We encourage our players to be respectful. We want them to do this. But they have rights also. We have to respect that. You may know that youre also in the headlines for some other reasons. Tom brady is going to sit out the first four games of the season. Suspension as a result of what we called deflategate. Can you look me in the eye and tell me as the commissioner of the nfl that you feel 100 certain that you got this right . Yes. Because we went through a very exhausting process with this. We had an independent investigation. We had federal judge who ruled against it. It went to the Appellate Court. The Appellate Court at that point in time said, listen, theres compelling if not overwhelming evidence here. Theres absolutely no question that the destruction of evidence should be considered by the commissioner in the context of this. And that the process was properly followed. We collectively bargained a process for discipline. We went through that. I cant think of an issue thats been more litigated by the way. Yeah. But you think for one of the marquee players of the game, one of the legends of the sport that four games is the appropriate suspension for whatever the violation matt, with all due respect, every player, every team, is subject to the same rules. We dont have rules for marquee players and we dont have rules for marquee teams. And you can catch the patriots taking on the cardinals tonight. The pregame begins at 7 00 eastern right here on nbc. You can see much more of matts interview with commissioner Roger Goodell this wednesday on today. Dont miss that. Lets bring in our good buddy dylan dwyer. Sorry were waking you up. I was missing that 5 00 a. M. Wakeup call. You had big saturday nights fantastic. Pancakes every morning. It sucks you back in. I couldnt resist. Youre a huge patriots fan. As you sat and listened to the good commissioner you had some concerns. Are you ready for life after tom brady . Its just four is games but i feel for garoppolo right now. I think hes got a good team behind him. I think the games are going to go fine. But imagine what hes feeling leasing up to the game leading up to the game. He has tough shoes to fill. But he has tom brady coaching him. How about a look at the weather . We have been dealing with humid conditions in the northeast and yesterday was kind of hard to breathe. We have been seeing that humidity in areas across new england and new york and right down into the carolinas. But we have an area of High Pressure in st. Louis. Thats going to help to bring in the crisp, dry air. Thanks to the cold front. Chicago started off at 53 degrees thats where the cooler air is sitting. Once the cold front moves through well start to see that cooler air move back in. We have some heavier thunderstorms. Nothing too severe. Heavy thunderstorms are moving through most of new england, especially New Hampshire and western massachusetts. Once we start to see that clear the area, well see increasing sunshine where it is cloudy right now. Then it will stay sunny through the afternoon and through good sunday morning to you. Meteorologist anthony slaughter. We have a few clouds in the area. Were not completely cloudy like yesterday at this time. 60 in San Francisco. Thats where you are cloudy. Same for oakland. Later this afternoon, the clouds will go back to the coastline like yesterday. We will see a mix of 60s around the coast. 70s around the inner bay. We will hang on to a few 80s across the inland valleys. Temperatures cooling off and the chance for showers by tuesday. Comfy thats comfy chairs you like this . How do you feel about the patriots . Jimmy garoppolo. I think hell do fine. I mean, a hard four games without brady. But i think hes going to do fine. Hes got a good deem behind him. A patriots fan. Who is your sport . I like tom brady hes so cute. Stick around for the highs and lows of the week including the president ial candidate who had us asking the existential question, what is aleppo . And plus a homecoming for the flags at ground zero after the attacks. Well tell you where its been all these years. And the family members of those who died in 9 11 are becoming firefighters themselves. Were coming right back. With quicksilver from capital one. Youre earning unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase, everywhere. Like on that new laptop. Quicksilver keeps things simple, gary. And smart, like you and i like that. I guess i am pretty smart. Dont let that go to your head, gary. Whats in your wallet . What knee pain . . What sore elbow . Advil liquigels make pain a distant memory nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain . Advil. Wiback like it could used to . Neutrogena hydro boost water gel. With hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. For supple, hydrated skin. Hydro boost. From neutrogena tag, youre it. Tag youre it. Tag, youre it. Yes new gogurt writeon tubes. This back to school, say it with gogurt. And im michael howard. We left on our honeymoon in january 2012. It actually evolved into a business. From our blog to video editing. Our technology has to hang tough with us. When youre going to a place without electricity, you need a long battery life. The touch, combined with the screen resolution. A mac doesnt have that. We wanted to help more people get out there and see the world. Once you take that leap, thats where the magic happens. Our buddies, dylan and nicole back with us. One of the proud american symbols of 9 11 returned back home. The flag raised by three firefighters disappeared after this photograph was taken by Thomas Franklin but police began an investigation about two years ago when a man dropped off a flag in a fire station in washington, 3,000 miles from manhattan. He was a marine that serve in iraq and was given a flag. When he heard on tv the flag was missing, he asked the firefighters to return it to new york city. After a forensic investigation, it was determined this is likely the right thing. This week a group of Everett Police officers traveled to new york to participate in a ceremony at National September 11th memorial and museum where that flag will now remain. Isnt that incredible . He was watching a documentary on the History Channel and heard they were looking for the flag and said ive got the flag. The fact it made it all the way there and back. Anonymously dropped at a fire station. Nothing like images like that. Its nice to keep that together. The first low goes to president ial candidate gary johnson as he attempts to climb to the magic 15 polling threshold to get on the debate stage with Hillary Clinton and donald trump in a couple weeks. He did not help himself on an interview on morning joe when he was asked about the city of aleppo in syria. What would you do if you were elected about aleppo, about aleppo. And what is aleppo . Youre kidding . No. Aleppo is in syria. Its the epicenter of the refugee crisis okay. Got it. Got it. If you think that was tough to watch, johnson said quote, i feel horrible. I have got to get smarter. You were sitting there. You cant help but feel bad yeah. This divided people because a lot of people felt sorry for him to be caught in the moment. It was like katie couric, sarah palin as someone that wants to be president of the country, you should know where children are being hurt and killed. Its on the front page of the newspaper every day. The next high, a Florida State University Star receiver travis rudolph. On a visit to a middle school, travis saw an 11yearold u autistic boy eating alone and he sat down and ate with him. They are best pals now. Travis sis surprised beau with the w his own jersey. Travis scored a touchdown at game and Florida State came back to win the game. That officially makes beau the good luck charm. I love that story. We went to school that one day, he had lunch, sat there and his whole life was going to change from that point on. Its incredible. His mother said he became much more popular in the lunchroom. Kindness. The next low, apples hotly anticipated new product seeming terrible but well own it in the next six weeks. Apple unveiled the iphone 7. More sophisticated camera and no jack for the headphones. Now apple informed us were all wearing wireless individual air pods to listen to music and talk on the phones. Critics like the slim new phone but worry about the ipods, chances of you losing them on day one at 93 . Another thing i got to keep track of. Im not going there. I lose the ones with the wire immediately. Youre hopeless. The next, the mom that struggled on donuts with dads day. She was dropping off 12yearold elijah when she noticed a lot of cars and dads at school. Elijah said it was donuts for dads day and she sprung into action. They raced home and put together a dad getup with fake mustache, fake shirt and dab of cologne like that elijah had a wing man for donuts with dad day. Evette posted these saying she seen the sad look on her sons face when father son events pops up. She heard from Single Parents all over the world this week. And instead of another low, its do a bonus high this morning. What could be higher than two people in love dancing like no one is watching . In this case, its bert and carol, an america canouple. He walked into a restaurant and said is there any way we can just order water . Were just here to dance. You want to smile, watch the entire thing on youtube. Uptown funk. He asked the wait stress ress t the couple. Those moves will have their own video game by the end of the week. Absolutely. Acoustic version of uptown funk. Spot on. Coming up next on sunday today a visit to my hometown on th i had a wonderful time tonight. Me too call me tomorrow . Im gonna send a vague text in a couple of days, that leaves you confused about my level of interest. Ill wait a full two days before responding. Perfect were never gonna see each other again, will we . Nono. Wouldnt it be great if everyone said what they meant . The citi double cash card does. It lets you earn double cash back. 1 when you buy and 1 as you pay. The citi double cash card. Double means double. Good sunday morning to you. Its 6 26. Were giving you a live look outside at san jose. Some clouds in the sky, but the sun is rising. Your eyes are not fooling you. Anthony slaughter is here. He was here seven hours ago. Thanks for joining us. Mr. Slaughter has a check of our forecast. You said your eyes what are we looking at . This. Im here, again. And i just left. We enjoy having you. If you are joining us this morning, thank you for waking up with us. We have sunshine filtering in across the south bay. Everywhere else, cloudy skies and really the clouds will fill back quickly leading to a cool day. 79 at the south bay. 62 for San Francisco. 84 for the trivalley. Temperatures cool off over the next couple of days. You wouldnt believe it. I am talking about rain. Wow. Real time rain headed to the bay area. We will talk about that at 7 00 this morning. If you havent heard, its not for everybody. Tune in to make sure who is going to get the rain. Find out where it will be. We will do that at 7 00. Thanks. A local family is in mourning today. Their 3yearold son killed by a suspected drunk driver. This morning, new information about the driver under arrest. We have learned more about the victims of the crash. Elijah dunn was weeks away from turning 4 years old. This is his grandfather. He is numb over the loss of their sweet little boy. He tells us his daughter left his home with their three children. But ran out of gas on 680. Here she pulled over her camry to a wide shoulder out of the way of traffic. Thats where the chp says a female driver in a white suv hit them. People say its nobodys fault. But it is the persons fault who got behind the wheel driving under the influence. The chp arrested 39yearold yarnet malahan of suspicion of driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter. A search indicates shes related to a sheriffs deputy. The two other children in the car suffered minor injuries. Their mother was hospitalized for broken ribs and a fracture in her back. New details in a 20yearold cold case. Investigators say they found what could be human remains in the search for a missing calpoly student this week. 19yearold kristin smart disappeared on memorial day weekend back in 1996. Over the last week, two dozen fbi agents and sheriffs deputies focused their search digging in an area overlooking campus. They found personal items, including remains, during the excavati excavation. It could take months to find out whether the remains are human and if so who they belong to. Coming up at 7 00 on today in the bay tailgaters at mondays 49 ders game will have new service. We will tell you how to get food delivered to you in the parking lot. That plus your top stories and weather at 7 00. Right now, we will send you back to today. Having our citys institutions up and running sends a message that new york city is open for business. Saturday night live is one of our great new york city institutions and thats why its important for you to do your show tonight. Can we be funny . Why start now . That was new york mayor Rudy Giuliani flanked by the citys finest and bravest Opening Saturday night live on september 29, 2001. And giving the country permission to laugh. It was the first snl after the attacks of 9 11. Those attacks killed nearly 3,000 innocent people from the World Trade Center to the pentagon, to a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. 12 of those victims lived in ridgewood, new jersey, my hometown. To the world, they were numbers in a staggering death toll that meant america was going to war. But to the residents of a town of 25,000 people, they were family and friends who suddenly and inexplicably were not coming home. 15 years on, i went back home to visit some old friends. One who lost his dad, another who lost her mom. Lori steinberg was the first kid i met when i moved from chicago to new jersey halfway through kindergarten. She lived next door. So this is the cutthrough. It was this easy to get from the geist house to the steinbergs house. I went to her house for piano lessons we were not good. Not good at all. I felt like we were we didnt dedicated to the cause. We werent. Her moms big laugh would carry across to our house. I was talking to my dad this morning, he said he could sit inside his house, closed doors, closed windows and hear your moms laugh. Hes like she had the best laugh. Loris parents were rarely seen apart because they were rarely apart. Mike and gina met as kids in poland. Reunited and fell in love in brooklyn. Moved to ridgewood, new jersey, to raise their family and car pooled together into new yorks financial district where they worked. She was a professional woman. She wasnt like a lot of the moms on our street or our town. She was up early going to work. She was unbelievable. Up early. Worked a full day and then would come home and like tote us around for errands and other things in the evenings. By september of 2001, lori had long since moved out of the house and waliving in the city. She could see the twin towers from her street. [ sirens ] by the time i went outside the towers i saw were on fire, you know . They hadnt fallen yet. They were still there. But they were on fire. Fires that could be seen 25 miles away in ridgewood, where residents gathered at the view. It seemed like everyone in town knew someone in the towers. But back in manhattan, lori was focused on only one person. Her mom. I started calling her office phone. I started to call her cell phone. There was never never an answer to either one. So went through sort of like an arc of emotions of being like, okay, the north tower got hit. I hope she works i didnt know which building she worked in. You didnt know which one . No. She loved the fact she worked on the 96th floor. She loved it because she was above the cloud line. The 96st floor, the middle of the impact zone of flight 11. My father would say he knew right away. When he saw the papers like you know, he worked on wall street. When he saw all of the debris and papers flying past his window that he knew right away. Just four stories below ginas office was another of my neighbors and family friends. 44yearold john bandandeber. But he was able to call home. My dad had been in contact this morning. And the phones were over there and i picked up. You know, he could hear my voice. He was saying my name on the line. I didnt really speak to him. You could hear sirens in the background. That was the last phone call that had come through. Johnny was just 14 that day. In his first week of high school. I remember my uncle tom coming in and opening the door to my class and he said, johnny, we have to go. His Little Sisters janie and molly were 9 and 5. Their dad, a fixture around town. I talked to some people before i came over and just what i remember of your dad. And the one thing everyone said was he was there. He was he was at everything. He worked in the city. He got out after the market closed at 4 00, 4 30, so he was home at 5 30, 6 00 for the practice. This is my dad. This is the man he ran the trading desk with. This is chris, one of the young guys on the desk. Up on the floor . Yeah, up on the 92nd floor of tower one. My birthday i used to asked if i could skip school and be with him. He was killed and his body was found two weeks later. As terrible as we were in this position that we were in, we kind of got lucky with everything and how it played out, you know, my mom was able to speak to him on the phone. We actually were able to recover him and bring him home. And just the thought that a lot of people didnt get that. Shes got his wedding ring. Im wearing it. Wow. Yeah. Which is actually really nice. Thats incredible. The kid i used to babysit is now married with a daughter named marlowe and another on the way with wife mallory. He followed his dad into finance. Johnny credits his big family with getting him here. My two uncles really made it clear that, you know, look, this has happened but were getting back to normal life. This isnt going to be the defining factor for you of the rest of your life. You know, things will go on from here. A National Tragedy to most of us, but a very personal one for lori and johnny. They feel it in big ways on big days. And in small ways every day. If i see someone and we say goodbye i wonder if thats the last time ill see them. Which is just because of what i have been through. In my office at work, i actually have, you know, like a flashlight, kind of strange things like that i dont think anyone really thinks of. But for whatever reason in my mind, i think i have to have this. How has it changed you . I mean, theres like a responsiveness to phone calls that i think i and my family have that maybe not everybody has. Like phone calls from my dad and my sister dont generally go unanswered. Lori now works in a field similar to her moms. And shes a doting aunt to her sister julies young children. Do you talk about your mom at a moment like that when babies are born and family milestones . No, no. We dont do a lot of talking about my mom. I talk about my mom with other people. I do not spend a lot of time talking about my mother and reminiscing with my immediate family. Reminiscing still can be too painful. You know me sister and i talk about it every once in a while. After a few glasses of win, it comes up and well pick each others brains. I havent done that with molly yet. I dont know how she feels about it. She would be wanting to talk about it. I dont know what she really remembers if anything. With a small memorial at the center of town, ridgewood remembers the day that altered johnny and loris lives forever. John and ginas names listed with ten others who kissed their families and went to work. John was a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. Another trait he passed on the his kids. Springsteen personally autographed a program from the Memorial Service and bruce sent her flowers. Lori said the loss brought her closer to her dad who has since remarried. And she has the loudest laugh in the tristate area. I guess she got it from her mom. Next on sunday today, following in the footsteps. First responders living up to the legacy of their relatives. The heroes of 9 11, after this break and your local weather. Meteorologist anthony slaughter here. We are waking up to sunshine across parts of san jose this morning. We have clouds in there as well. Overall, the clouds not as thick as yesterday. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s for the most part. A cooler day this afternoon. High temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Inland valleys will reach into the low 80s. Cooler weather for the week ahead. Ed to do something nice back. Maybe your aunt sent you a crocheted scarf, you sent a thank you note. And the crochet just kept on coming. Well, at carmax, you dont have to return the favor. Theyll buy your car even if you dont buy a car from them. Because feeling obligated is uncomfortable. And tight. In places it shouldnt be. Carmax wont make you feel that way. Lucky you. I feel like a quilt. 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Reporter that changed when his beloved uncle george leahy the Police Officer in precinct 6 who used to dress up to scare the kids on halloween ran into tower one. He wound up leaving a message, tell the boys im fine, two planes hit the building. I should be out shortly. Reporter not far away, Port Authority Office George howard who had the day off ran in to help. His son christopher was 18 years old. I went to my grandmothers house around 2 30. She said your dad we cant find him. You know, no way to get in touch with him. Reporter howard and leahy were two of First Responders to die that day. 23 from the Police Officer. 37 from the Port Authority police and 343 from the fire department. Everybody went there that day with the idea in their head that theyd get everybody out of that building. Thats why they went in. Thats why they went out. No one said that were not going to be able to do this. Reporter that commitment to heb others was in large part was the inspiration for them to follow in the footsteps of the men they loved dearly. He put others before himself. Thats the definition of the first responder. Reporter you work in the same precinct as your uncle. Yeah. Reporter why . I wanted to live that experience of working the same place that he did. He got along with everybody and everybody loved him. You know, everybody said how much of an honor it was that i was working there. Reporter for howard, it was about fulfilling his dads life long dream. My dad wanted to be a fireman. He started out with a d. C. Fire department when he was 18. Reporter the year after 9 11, howard had a chance to be a firefighter himself. His fathers friends there to guide him. They were firemen. They were saying the same thing you have to take that job, its the greatest job in the world youll never look back. My helmet, i keep a sticker for my dad. Reporter for both men, it can trigger painful memories. You meet a bunch of different guys who worked with my dad. One guy was with my dad and he survived. He never saw him again. Not a day goes by that i dont look at it and i dont think about him. My shield number is 18949. Reporter every anniversary the family visits the memorial. It is remarkable what this area has turned into, isnt it . Yeah. Like 15 years ago you would never thought that wed rebuild and have such a beautiful memorial down here. Reporter when the list of victims is read every year, the family waits in silence to hear his uncles name. James patrick leahy. Reporter for howard every anniversary means retelling his fathers story. His name and badge made famous by george w. Bush in the days following the attack. It is the Police Shield of george howard. Who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. That makes me more and more proud to share my fathers story so he doesnt get forgotten. No one gets forgotten because really that day has shaped where we are today as a nation. Reporter the same way their lives were shaped by their loss. He gave his life on one of the most important days in america. American history. I feel like i have big shoes to fill, you know, being in the sixth precinct. I just want to make my dad proud. You know . I want to live my life in the way that i think he would have wanted me to live it. Never do anything that tarnishes his name. And Stephanie Gosk joins me now, live. Good morning. Good to see you. Good morning. Theres the biological family. They look up to the hero, fathers and uncle and the larger families of cops and firefighters that all look out for each other. They talk about it a lot. That support system from the department and the friends and the colleagues was so important to them in their lives as kids and continues to guide them today. Since they lost all the guys, theres been a lot more loss for the fdny and nypd to people who breathe things in at that site, theyre losing as many people today as then. Those guys went and stayed there. In a lot of cases they were recovering their colleagues and their friends and they were there for weeks. And now they are suffering the Health Effects from it. By very, very conservative efforts more than a thousand people who worked in the debris field has die and the number is much higher than that. On top of that, you have the illnesses, 12 of the First Responders developed asthma in the five years after that. And theyll be covered until 2090 in the health coverage. Good to see you. Coming up, harry smith with a remembrance. Where we a hmmmmmm. Hmmmmm. [ dreams by beck ] hmmmmm. The turbocharged dream machine. The Volkswagen Golf gti. Named one of car and drivers 10best, 10 years in a row. You may be muddling through allergies. Oned with. Try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. 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We have a plane for a while, we as a people were united in a way we hadnt been since world war ii. And the world felt as we did. There was comfort in knowing we were not alone. When the First Anniversary came, we relived it all. The wounds both physical and psychic were still fresh. Katherine jerome baptist. We listened to the names and wept again as we had the year before. We did the same the next year. But less so over time. And that solidarity, we were so proud of, splintered apart as the war in iraq began. The dictator of iraq and his weapons of mass destruction are a threat to the security of free nations. The danger from baghdad had been oversold. We as a people were underprepared for what unfolded thereafter. Chaos and conflict. And more american lives lost. Many lives. Just what had we gotten into . Time doesnt heal all wounds. And there really is no such thing as closure. But we do move on. Except for those directly affected, 9 11 is quickly becoming history. The stuff of archives. Something that happened to someone else. Although isnt it interesting on this 9 11, we feel it a little more than we have in some year past. Maybe its because of san bernardino. Because of orlando. Because of nice, because of paris. We know that what happened then is still very much very much with us. Yeah. 15 years ago we started a war. We couldnt imagine wed be covering it 15 years later. Its hard to think it would be history to us, a piece of the archives but i think about my kids who are 9 and 7. They have no concept. It will become a page in the history book. 40 million americans now were not alive or not living here when 9 11 happened. 40 million more americans. Its becoming very much like as a kid, when we were kids, we would see the newsreel footage of the bombing of pearl harbor. Sure. That was something of history. It is now for a lot of young kids. 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We appreciate you joining us. Im kira klapper. Meteorologist anthony slaughter has a look at our forecast. Still a little warm in san jose. Cool in San Francisco. Much the same today. Yes. Its going to cool off more today. Want to show you a beautiful sunrise this morning. Just gorgeous here. We have a good mix of sun and clouds. Its not completely foggy everywhere. The cloud cover is going to be the the story, at least for first half of today. 60 is where we are at across most of the bay area or close to