tonight, i can report to the american people into the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> osama bin laden has been the most wanted man since the attacks on american soil on september 11, 2001. u.s. basis are on high it were tonight following this dramatic development. >> on nights like this one, we can say to the families who have lost loved ones to al qaeda's terror that justice has been done. >> u.s. basis around the world are on high alert following this news. was the mastermind behind a deadly plot that 10 hijackers to the u.s. they took over four passenger planes and crash them into the world trade center at buildings in new york city. passengers buyback in pennsylvania against the hijackers. almost 3000 people were killed in the attacks and bin laden is blamed for other attacks in the u.s. and the allies. that 9/11 attacks led to u.s. into war in afghanistan and invaded the country back on october 7 of 2001. u.s. forces have been engaged in a brutal war. nearly 2500 american and coalition forces have been killed as well as numerous afghan people. the u.s. had led to start withdrawing forces and are now looking at pictures of the attacks back on september 11, the reason why we are at war in afghanistan. they threaten a new offensive against forces and is unclear how his death will impact the effort. we want to recap how it broke late on this sunday evening. it was shortly after 7:00 p.m., pacific time, that we got word that the president was going to make a statement. the white house did not rebuild the topic. it is highly unusual for a president to be the nation late on a sunday night. we knew it had to be very important. where they doubt that the news was that osama bin laden was dead. >> even before the president made his way to the lectern, crowds gathered outside the white house to cheer the expected news. it is a little difficult to hear, but they are chanting usa, usa. they are also thinking and waiting a lot up american flags. this is a jubilant crowd -- crowd. many are college aged. a large group our university students from george washington university. we have been monitoring the situation over the last hour and it is clear that the crowd is growing. hundreds gathered outside of the white house in washington and at ground zero in new york city. >> here in the bay area, news is seeking in for the families who lost loved ones, including passengers on united flight 93 that was a plane bound for san francisco. we have reaction from a man who lost his wife on 9/11. >> reporter: we are in a little part -- little park. she was one of the 44 passengers and crew who lost their flight on united three -- 93 many with bay area roads. >> i never had my doubts. justice is served got one way or another. >> he stood in his home as stunned as anyone, watching the president delivered the news. >> think about all the people who were lost because of this man and people affected by that and all the people, globally, who have continued to be affected by terrorism -- it is a big, beautiful day and a step in the right direction >> reporter: his wife was one of the heroes in the flight who rushed the cockpit trying to overcome them and kept them from their intended target on 9/11. it has been almost 10 years since that day and it weighs heavily on the family. he had finally been killed and a light that we might. >> it is a big relief. it will never. >> the end of terrorism. we hope that you will end someday. this, certainly, it's a day for many of the us who have waited a long time. >> the news is still so fresh. he has not connected with other flight 93 families in the bay area. there are many from san ramon to san jose and it expected thanks to the military, the persistence of the military teams for finally getting to this day and for the president for saying that personal loss of the families have never been forgotten. >> such an emotional day for so many people. the killing of osama bin laden comes months before the ten- year anniversary of the september 11 attacks. i was working at a station in new york city on that day and in the coming month i met rosemary cain. her firefighter son, george, were still rushing into the world trade center to save others. i spoke with her tonight where she expressed shock and complete joy that the man who killed her son has finally faced the same fate. >> i kept thinking, thank god, thank god, thank god, i am glad he is dead. i am eternally grateful to our military and so glad there is one less evil person walking the earth tonight. it is good news. i think it sends a message to the world that we will hunt down evil. evil will never win out over good. >> 41 new york firefighters were killed during the attacks including george cain was 35 years old. despite her happiness with the news tonight, she said tomorrow she will still wake up deeply missing her son. she feels some justice was done this evening and repeatedly banged the u.s. military, especially those who sacrificed their lives in this effort. she is grateful to u.s. military refused to give up in the search for bin laden. sheet volunteers at ground zero and gives tours. we will give you a live look at what it looks like tonight. we have those pictures. there are lots of people who have flocked to ground zero to celebrate the news of osama bin laden's death. president obama gave a few details about how the u.s. was able to track down and kill osama bin laden and said it began with intelligence received last august. the break came just last week. >> today, at my direction, the united states launched a targeted operation against that compound in pakistan. a small team of americans carry out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. no americans were harmed. they took care to avoid civilian casualties. after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. >> the president did not say anything about what will happen with his body. >> the first time that bin laden's name first surfaced with in 1994. he bankrolled islamic militants. it is the lead he became radical by the soviet invasion of afghanistan. later, he began targeting the united states and was linked to the bombings in africa in 1998 and the next year, the attack on one of the u.s. shuts in. he as it troops in afghanistan and we have been trying to track him down ever since then. we will have more on the latest of the death of osama bin laden. nearly 3000 citizens taken from oz, leaving a gaping whole in our hearts. on september 11, 2001, in our time of grief,- >> that was president obama speaking from the white house at about 8:42 night. let's look at the tremendous action taking place in washington, d.c. tonight. >> usa, usa, usa. >> lots of smiles and plenty of chairs outside the white house. even before the president spoke tonight as word leaked out that osama bin laden was dead, crowds pressed against a fence outside the white house. many of you see here that they are carrying flags and cheering the news. >> the news of his death is raising security questions at sensitive facilities including airport. we are live at oakland airport where we are trying to find out how this is affecting operations there. any changes? >> reporter: i can tell you i have talk to managers here and when i asked them about any extra security measures, the answer from both people was not yet. that certainly indicates they are aware of the situation and thinking it could change. i can tell you that the u.s. state department has issued a worldwide travel alert. that was really shortly after president obama made his comment to the nation tonight about the death of osama bin laden. the state department has put all u.s. embassies on alert and has warned about the enhanced potential for anti- american violence. as we show you live pictures at oakland international, people arriving from their flights waiting to be picked up, it is interesting because i have run across a mix of people who have not heard the news at all. moments before i was telling a couple about the news and had no idea. they were floored to hear it. i talk to a flight attendant moments ago who said the captain came on over the overhead in like to announce that osama bin laden had been killed. for flight attendants, knowing what happened on september 11, that meant a lot. we are still talking with passengers. people are excited to hear the news and others are waiting to hear it from us. as we get more information about security, we will bring it to you. former president george bush said he congratulated president obama after hearing about but al qaeda's leader's death. >> he also said the u.s. has sent an unmistakable message, no matter how long it takes, justice will be done. >> we want to get more reaction now from our reporters in the field providing the coverage. we have into stanford talking to an expert and is now live in fremont that has got one of country at the largest afghan communities. >> what have we are on fremont blvd. outside the afghanistan house. this is one of the businesses owned by people of the 18 descent. we spoke with the owner and his reaction is that it is about time. we have been talking with a number of customers here. here is what one of them had to say. >> what bakke called it good news to knock down the terrorist and is hopeful for piece. earlier this evening we were in the stanford area speaking with the middle east professor, history of the middle east and had some interesting perspective. we watched of the speech with him and he said there was one noticeable thing missing. he noticed that there was one message about pakistan's intelligence or the government, if there was any collaboration. that is important because pakistan is a key ally. they have been a difficult ally, as he said. they have their own interests, as well as. he said that the death is symbolic and said that osama bin laden has not been the leader, per se, for a while the calls is a blow. we have been talking to a few people inside. we have more reaction coming up shortly. >> thank you. we now want to go live on the phone to congresswoman spear. are you in washington right now? congresswoman, can you hear me? congresswoman spear, are you there? >> i am here at. >> are you in washington right now like. >> i am in the peninsula. >> and is it on the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence. tell me your reaction. >> this is phenomenal news. we have briefed from time to time on some top-secret information that has not given us a lot of hope. this is a remarkable turn of events. it says volumes about the president and his national security team and the men that went in there under very difficult circumstances and not only survived, but were able to capture bin laden. it appears one of the helicopters had to be disposed of their. it was a really risky undertaking and to be completed with such great success is really remarkable. >> congresswoman, as you are speaking, we are seeing pictures from a huge crowd gathered outside the white house, people waving american flags and showing their enthusiasm and support are what has happened there. you are on the subcommittee and had no advance knowledge of what was going on. it took months of planning and the president authorized it some time ago. you are out of the loop on this, is this how it works quite. >> i think it does, especially when you are engaged in this kind of high risk kind of an undertaking. we will be briefed on it now, but i would venture to say there were a handful of people that really knew about this. the fact it went on for six weeks and were no leaks is fairly extraordinary. the president has been somewhat upset from time to time, because he has felt there have been leaks within the administration. this was not the case. if there had been, it would have cost for a failed operation. this has just taken extraordinary effort by those who have been in the authority to make decisions. you have to give the president incredible kudos. this was a very risky undertaking and recognized the ramifications with pakistan. i would venture to say that pakistan had no idea this was happening. >> as someone who is privy to some intelligence information, what do you think this says about the military's efforts and roles not only to seek out those who harmed the u.s., but to not give up? >> oftentimes we are very critical, and rightly so of the cia .co operations. this is a set of circumstances where the cia and military, our special forces planned the attack, practiced it and have executed it in perfect fashion. it is something to harold. one thing we must. >> very aware of and i must underscore this, terrorism in the world continues. the al qaeda network is on the internet. in the arabian peninsula, they are of great concern to us and we are not out of the woods by any stretch. this is a huge step forward. >> congresswoman spear, thank you, very much for spending time with us on the telephone to give assurance thoughts on what is truly historic news tonight on the death of osama bin laden. we want to get on the telephone with senator boxer. can you tell us how you heard the news and your reaction? >> it was quite something. i was on an airplane coming back to the capitol and as soon as the plane landed, my telephone at a text message. it was my staff and then the pilot came on the intercom and told us what happened and the whole plane erupted into cheers. this is quite a moment. it is 1:20 back here. there are a bunch of screaming people at the white house. >> senator boxer, we had a little problem in hearing what you were saying it. can you describe what you are seeing in washington right now? >> i passed by close to the white house. i got home and had my television on and am looking at what you are looking at now right in front -- i live on capitol hill, a little bit away, but we passed by it on the way back from the airport. the pilot announced it on our plane when we landed. i came from los angeles into dulles. the people on the plane broke out into cheers. i have to say for me and everybody knows where they were, i was at the capitol and actually saw the pentagon on fire from the capital windows that day and we learn together, the horrible attack and how osama bin laden bragged about it and he killed all those people. he got justice at the hands of the american. i can say that my heart is so full. it is so full because today the world knows that he paid the ultimate price. >> senator boxer, we are looking at live pictures of ground zero and a lot of crowds have gathered there at the former world trade center site, lots of people with cameras, you can see lots of american flags and people celebrating. you describe how you are feeling. what do you think the overall message is of the death of osama bin laden? >> the messages that you don't attack america, and if you do, no matter how long it takes, we will come after you and we will get you. we cannot allow attacks on innocents. it is a critical message at this time. there are others who will try to pick up the slack, but osama bin laden was the top of the heap, but talk man. i think it is an unbelievable -- just an unbelievable moment here for us. i really do want to say to this president, i thank him for his determination and the way he carried this out. apparently, there were many meetings that no one knew. he was going through all this other stuff with birth certificates and everything else. here, he had this on his mind night and day. it for the brave members of our armed forces that risked everything to carry out it mission of justice. of course, our armed forces and intelligence people all over the world that put their lives on the line -- back where do we go from here? practically speaking, you referred to it. we had a stanford professor talk about this that osama bin laden, in recent years, had been more of a figurehead, a symbolic leader instead of an actual hands-on leader that it is now splintered into different groups in different parts of the world. looking forward in our battle against terrorism around the world, where do we go from here? that threat is out there without osama bin laden? >> i don't know if you have ever read -- peter bergen has read and written many books about osama bin laden. his declaration is he believes that this is the end of osama bin laden, per se -- can carry these kind of missions out. that being said, there are people who will still want to get americans. i think we need 24 hours -- we are not going to let down our guard. we are smart. we have homeland defense. we know what we are doing. today is a day to say that justice has been done. we cannot bring back the people who died and the pain of their loved ones. that is something we cannot do. as stated from the senator from new york, this is definitely closure for many people. this is justice. >> looking at the pictures here, senator boxer, we see young people with big budweiser beer cans in their hand waving american flags and to echo what you have said, there is serious talk of discussion ahead of us talking about threats, but at least we can take a few moments to have a timeout and celebrate something that took almost 10 years that was a painful, painful part of our lives and can now say that we got this part of the job done. >> tomorrow we will take a deep breath and move forward. again, we are not letting down our guard. this is a message to the world that would america says, whatever it takes, we will do the people who did this to our country, we are serious. >> what do you think the reaction will be around the world and the fact that american forces were able to make it happen? >> i will let the world speak for itself but tonight i want to speak for myself and as i can for the people i represent, the people of california. we lost people that day and their loss has been felt by all of us. all i can say today is that justice was done. this is the man that bragged about being the mastermind. this is the mastermind who built his reputation on meds and made him the greatest. he is now gone. >> anything on the agenda for tomorrow that you are aware of related to what is happening tonight? >> i don't know. remember, we were closed for business. it is still sunday -- well, it is early monday. we will get back together. we have votes tomorrow. i remember well when we all stood on the capitol steps on 9/11 and valid that we would not give up and would do everything we could for justice. i think it would be appropriate if we did that, but that is the leadership company call. i know they will do something. i will be ready to partake. >> i think we all remember the day when you all stood outside on the steps of the capitol and said douglas america. >> that is right. >> it was a powerful day. thank you so much for spending time with us. we appreciate it and know you have a big day ahead of you tomorrow. let's celebrate what happened here today. >> absolutely. thank you, so much. >> thank you, senator, for your time. osama bin laden has been killed in pakistan and will have live coverage, continuing coverage coming up in just a moment. you are looking at a live picture of ground zero in new york city. keep in mind it is about 1:32 in the morning in new york city. there are a lot of people outside, standing on light poles, waving american flags, shaking bottles of champagne and spraying the foam across the crowd. ground zero, of course, is the site of the two towers of the trade center that both collapsed after plains, taken over by hijackers, on orders from osama bin laden flu into those towers and killed almost 3000 people. at osama bin laden, the man who ordered those attacks, the man who destroyed the two buildings were these people are gathered, is dead tonight. >> we want to get more reaction now about the breaking news from people living here. we talk with an expert at stanford and are light in fremont. that is home to one of the country's largest afghan communities were back it is starting to get quiet, but we have talk with several people. the overall sentiment are saying that this is good news including the owner of this resident -- restaurant. you will see a that the flag is flying tonight. just down here, two doors down, there is a pakistani restaurant. the owner said he welcomed the good news thing about osama bin laden's death and calling him a bad man. we talk with some of the customers. one of them likened his death to hitler and timothy mcveigh. another told us it is about time. visits with another customer had to say. >> he did not mention once any cooperation with pakistani government. and indicated to me that there was not any collaboration on this. historically, there have been links between the pakistani inter- services intelligence agency and al qaeda. that is joel who is a professor of middle east history at stanford and watched the speech with him earlier tonight. he said while the debt is a blow to would-be terrorists, he said it is mostly -- mostly symbolic and said that was the important piece missing from the speech. he also says, as you probably have heard tonight that this does not mean that terrorism is overt. there could be retribution. we will continue to talk to some people to get more reaction. overall, we get a large group of people tonight, they did seemed jubilant and are cheering for what this will mean to the country and hopeful that this chapter has now ended. the united states is a much different country today than it was before 9/11. the best evidence of that is going to your local airport. all the pix security changes that have taken place there sends 9/11. we are at oakland airport and talking with people getting off light, talking to airline employees who have definitely had some personal reflections on what happened on 9/11. what have you learned? >> especially talking with pilots and flight attendants, he was just reading it on his phone as i was talking with another flight attendant who was so excited to hear about these news. if you fly much, they have learned -- lived with the reality of extra security and what osama bin laden lead back on september 11, 2001. when you come to the airport you see it. i just talk to the manager on duty. he said they have not received any specific orders as to security here at oakland. for now, everything is business as usual. we reported at the top of the hour that the state department did issue a worldwide travel alert for everyone to be on guard with the possibility of retribution after this news about the death at osama bin laden. moments ago we talk to some passengers and you will hear of that one man was finding out about this huge development from. >> work that president obama announced that osama bin laden has been killed and the u.s. as his body. >> i am stunned. i am stunned to hear that. it is good news, but i want proof. >> we are kind of glad. we hold our troops can come back and everything will get back to normal >> reporter: as we come back live, i can tell you passengers were told they were just finding this out, even as either the captain announcing it or as they landed. this is the center of where this is giving very crashed. with security we will stay on top of it. we do expect that all points of interest, including airports, will be on some degree of high alert as business starts to circulate. we will monitor it here and bring you more as soon as we can. we are live here at oakland airport. >> thank you. senator boxer talk about that when her plane landed at dulles airport outside washington, d.c., the people erupted in cheers that the pilot announced that he was dead. >> that is how she found out. we have much more coverage of the death of osama bin laden coming right up. another live look at new york city. we are not getting the audio right now, but you can see that people are cheering, yelling and screaming, apparently celebrating. this is ground zero, the site where the world trade center towers stood in lower manhattan in new york. people have gathered there about 1:40 in the morning east coast time. it looks like a lot of young people celebrating what happened today with the news that osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda was killed today, or at least the announcement came that he was killed and his body is now in the hands of u.s. authorities in pakistan. president obama made the announcement that osama bin laden is dead. >> during his speech tonight, he reflected on how the country united after the terrorist attack. >> american people came together. we offered our neighbors a hand and offered the wounded our blood. we reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country. on that day, no matter where we came from, what god we pray to or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one american family. >> the president also went on to say that americans were united in their resolve to protect the nation from another vicious attack. we just got video in from pakistani tv and the announcer say that shows the attack on the compound where osama bin laden was killed. this is about 62 miles from the capital. as you can see, there are flames, a high walled. we are told this was a mansion and that helicopters were involved in the attack. people have made assessment that puts the night in the lawless border between pakistan and afghanistan. that was not the case. his killing in pakistan will raise questions about how long he was in that pakistani city and how he managed to elude capture. these are the first pictures we are seeing from the location where osama bin laden was killed in pakistan. we are told u.s. forces went in there and have heard there were navy seals who flu in by helicopter. they have been practicing this mission and went in there and were able to take out osama bin laden. the first pictures from pakistan showing the location of where osama bin laden was killed. >> we expect to learn more about exactly how this went down and the military operation perhaps later on tonight or early tomorrow morning. we want to shift gears and get to our weather. let's check in. temperatures have been warming up a bit over the past couple days. we are talking some warm to hot numbers. what i can show you, we have a few high clouds moving into the northern part of the state and also the bay area, associate it with a week system that will cool us off a bit, a little bit of a halt to the warming trend as we head into your monday. we do have this partly cloudy sky with partly to mostly sunny. we will hold off the dry weather pattern and temperatures will be cooling off into the weekend. bursting tomorrow morning you can see the coolest locations in the upper 30s out towards napa and santa rosa right around 41 degrees, san jose 47. and satellite, once again here is the badge of high clouds moving into northern california. the main system is up to our north that could generate a few sprinkles and south to crescent city and eureka. for your monday, we will cool things off. tuesday will be a bit warmer and will set the stage for a very warm day on wednesday with temperatures up. this will be the range around 75 and the warmest locations in one to reach the 90-degree mark by wednesday with some cooling, a little bit by thursday, more significant cooling expected by the weekend. here is our clout and rainfall forecast. you see if you showers up towards the oregon border and tonight maybe a few high clouds moving into the bay area. clear and cold temperatures about 4050 degrees in the morning and by 12:00 mostly sunny skies with upper 50s -60s. the mid- 60s -mid- 70s later. this is coming down from today. it is still pretty nice and you can see the 70s for santa rosa. there are upper 65 and lower 70s and livermore tops out around 76. morgan hill is in the upper 70s, right around 77. there could be some patchy fog tomorrow morning and an increase in sunshine. remember, a few high clouds will approach the bay area. tomorrow, for tuesday morning, some patchy bought for the beaches. we begin to warm things back up again with 68-82 degrees on wednesday. that will be interesting. we will have some warm and hot numbers out there. a good portion of the bay area will be in the 80s" things off on thursday and friday and look ahead towards the weekend, a partly sunny theme and temperatures cooling off into the 60s and lower 70s. on wednesday -- we are not used to this kind of heat especially with what we have been dealing with you will notice that they changed. >> if not, we will. on this night of significant importance for american's fight against terrorism, more coverage coming up. coming up next is sports.