A crash of that plane into the alcoh capitol. President obama will observe a Moment Of Silence marking the moment the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. Bv moving to the Memorial Ceremony at the pentagon across the river where he will speak. Donald trump appeared alongside Rudy Giuliani at ground zero this morning. Hell visit a firehouse later today. Hillary clinton is also at the site of the attacks. She spoke to chris cuomo about visiting ground zero the day after the towers fell. I went the next day, Chuck Schumer and i. We were one of theery few planes in the sky that day. The 12th. And we landed at laguardia. We were on a fema plane. We took a helicopter. And we went over, circled the burning pile. And when we landed, we met up with the governor and the mayor and went walking toward ground zero. And as we moved further south and we saw this curtain of black smoke that was stretched across the island basically, occasionally it would be broken by a firefighte
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Temporal reminder of the loss of nearly 3,000 people, jake. laura jarrett, thanks so much. paula reed is live in shanksville, pennsylvania, not far from pittsburgh, pennsylvania, western part of the state where president biden has just arrived. paula, tell us what you ve seen. reporter: really an incredible tribute here today at the national memorial to flight 93. flight 93 was one of the four commercial airliners hijacked on 9/11 but didn t reach the intended target, believed to be the u.s. capitol, because the crew members banded together and stormed the cockpit. instead of crashing in washington, d.c., the flight crashed here in a field in rural pennsylvania, and it is that unity that s the theme today. vice president kamala harris and former president george w. bush both gave remarks in tribute to
Just a forgotten part of the story, i mean, people of pennsylvania and families of the survivors, i mean, families of those who perished on flight 93 often feel as though because this took place in a rural area of pennsylvania, not in the media center of washington, d.c. or new york city, it doesn t get the same attention. the story of what happened in shanksville doesn t end on september 11, 2001. some ways it begins. this is where you see a disconnect in the way we mem memorialize it. you talk of it as shanksville. that s not where it crashed. it struck in stone ee creek township, north of shanksville. this is the story of all of somerset county, all of the small communities called together to respond to that crash out of nowhere. remember, in new york, they strike one of the best prepared fire departments in the country. arlington, one of the best prepared fire departments of the
Laying ceremony at the pentagon for lives that were lost there. you will see the president make full circle of this site of the attacks. starting in new york, making it to shanksville, then going to the pentagon. we were talking about where he was on that day. he was here in washington as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee on capitol hill trying to go to his senate office. talking about how he, like so many other people, had that experience of what happened that day and what it looked like for him trying to restore normalcy, trying to have a sense of calm and collectedness. anything but we were feeling in the moment as garrett was talking about, what the woman in pennsylvania felt, this fear of the unknown, given the unbelievable had just happened. i think that s really what you ve seen in this message from president biden today, seeing him there earlier in new york, standing alongside several