This is just a horrific scene and a horrific moment. The large plane crashed this morning north of the somerset county airport, which is in western pennsylvania, not too terribly fall from pittsburgh. The most tragic thing that has happened to america by far. The last time i spoke to my father was tuesday morning before he went to work. I told him have a good day at work and i haven t heard from him since. There are so many pictures. There are so many people who are still missing. Thousands of lives were suddenly, in these evil despicable acts of terror, none of us will ever forget this day. God bless the soul of those who have lost their lives this morning in new york, in washington, and near pittsburgh, in pennsylvania. Good morning, and welcome to cnn s special coverage of the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. 20 years ago today, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the worst terrorist attack to ever strike the united states. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, firefigh
We re about a block from the reflecting pool where the twin towers of the world trade center once stood. President joe biden arriving at this moment in lower manhattan. He and jill biden will visit all three memorial sites today. Starting here at the museum on this site. Vice president kamala harris will speak in shanksville, pennsylvania later this morning, that s where united flight 93 was forced down. She and second gentleman, doug emhoff, will then join the president and the first lady at the pentagon. Nicolle wallace, as i always say, for millions of americans especially anyone in the tristate area, this is the saddest place on earth. There s no way to walk by this spot if you re on jury duty a few blocks away, on an errand or going somewhere else that you don t feel gutted by what was lost here. Our day job is to cover politics, what you have in this place and what you have in this remembrance is heroes. Heroes who ran into towers. I think 20 years later that means more today tha
after learning about the travel ban. iraq is one of the banned countries. we re afraid. we don t know the details of the order. her dad has cancer, and she went to meet him and she hasn t been there in so long. reporter: now, we did see some passengers aboard that flight quickly made it out of passport control and customs and they were reunited with their families pretty quickly as well, but other travelers have taken a little bit longer. i just got word from the family members of that woman traveling here from iraq, they tell me that she just walked out of customs a few minutes ago so they have had a very happy reunion. for those people who are taking a little bit longer, there is a legal clinic that has been set up downstairs in case anyone needs legal advice. of course there are more international flights that arrive daily here at san francisco international, so they re going to be here at least for several days to continue monitoring the situation. reporting live at
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the entire fire so they are hoping that they have it under control. and no helicopters flying under the zone. but we are not out of danger yet appeared in the main problem is that winds are picking up. because the wind is picking up there are parts of the fire we definitely to not want those hot spots to kick out of the perimeter. so we have crews out there that are working on fire all day long. reporter: they are beginning to release fire fighter crews and sending them back to their home bases. they want to remind everyone that they re still dry conditions across the state and other fires to pop up any time. there could be several months left in this fire season this year. pam: now let s a check on theas crews try to get full diablo fire. our chief meteorologist jacqueline bennett is standing by with the latest. jacqueline. jacqueline: well look to a plea humanity remains high in surrounding areas. only 2500 deep and the summit of mt. diablo is about 4,000 ft. per th