and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. you re taking a live look at ground zero in new york city. a little later today president obama will honor the nearly 3,000 victims who died there on 9/11/2001. he ll meet with victims families as one way of marking the death of osama bin laden. the president can also expect to face some questions about the choice not to release photos of bin laden s body. straight ahead we ll hear from the president on the reasoning and also on some who think it was the wrong decision. we re going to begin with new developments in pakistan. ann curry is there. ann, good morning to you. reporter: good morning to you, meredith. pakistan is on the defensive. the front page headlines of o all four english-speaking newspapers quoting the whole world is to plame for not finding osama bin laden sooner. amid the images emerging from inside osama bin laden s hideout, a yemeni passport apparently belon