are more threats than ever. joel, you talk to world leaders and take us inside the tensions in the region. where are we 20 years later? yeah, one of the ways we have to never forget these great heroes tried to protect us, the heroes on flight 11 that brought that plane down as they tried to stop this terrorist attack. we have to make sure it never happens again. ice it with arab muslim leaders. highest levels, chrome princes, presidents and prime ministers. one of the things they tell me is that lights were blinking red on the dashboard again. it s not al qaeda or isis at the moment. those are degraded channels. it s iran. iran has ten times more enriched uranium then it s allowed under the iran nuclear deal from a few
music industry. a lawyer for john hinckley jr. is asking a federal court for permission to move to california. hinckley spent decades in a mental hospital after he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982. right now hinckley lives with his mother in virginia. prosecutors says allowing him to relocate would give the government great cause. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. steve: thanks, jillian. brian: today americans nationwide pay tribute to the nearly 3,000 lives killed on september 11th. those 9/11 attacks 18 years ago. our coverage continues now pete hegseth live at the freedom tower ahead of this morning s ceremony that kicks off in about 45 minutes. steve? pete: it does kick off here as well as at the pentagon and pennsylvania. i will tell you this right at this time 18 years ago flight 11 took off. flight 11 was the first flight to hit the north tower and when you look
members. the trauma really extend to a number of tiny ukrainian villages where people have had not only parts of the plane but everything inside rain down on their houses. the wings, the nose, the landing gear from malaysian flight 11 fell across small villages in eastern ukraine. so too did the bodies of passengers. andre found one in his backyard. the image brings the 78-year-old to tears. i ve been you there war with the germans, famine, he says but this is worse. a child was found near his front yard, number 28. nadya s cell phone is filled with pictures of the dead from her yard, her street, her child s school. after the explosion we ran out to see what happened, she says. they were falling everywhere.
was on board. she was going on a business trip, a one-day business trip to california. at 8:54 american 77 began deviating from its flight plan, first with a slight turn toward the south. two minutes later it disappeared completely from indianapolis radar. the controller who lost flight 77 assumed it crashed. he believed american 77 had experienced serious electrical and/or mechanical failure and was gone. meanwhile in new york, an air traffic control manager tracking united flight 175, tried to report its hijacking to her superiors. she was turned away. the manager tried to notify the regional managers and was told that the managers were discussing a hijacked aircraft, presumably american 11, and refused to be disturbed. finally, another manager from new york soon realized there were several hijacked planes.
bi pilots. and our number five, our first class passengers our first class galley flight attendant and our purser and we can t get into the cockpit. the door won t open. this is operations. what flight number are we talking about? flight 12. no, we re on flight 11 right now. flight 11. i m sorry. who are you, hon? she gave her name as betty ong. at 8:25 a.m. boston controllers realized flight 11 had been hijacked. 13 minutes passed before they called the military s northeast air defense sector to intervene. we have a hijacked aircraft