victory over atlanta? for me, i remember during the pre-game ceremony i started getting emotional and i just really, just a lot of prayer and i remember praying, please, help me get through there. god, help me get through this. not a home run, but yeah, it was so difficult because, you know, just to play baseball and to play at the level we had to play it s difficult and when you have this emotional sort of burden as you said the anxiety not knowing if we should be there, i didn t felt like it was at the time we didn t know, whatever was the right time. so it was a lot of anxiety and for me, it was just really, it was tough, tough to get through. brian: so, i was there when you got in the world series and the mets won the world series and in 86 as a fan. there s something special going on in your dugout and in the stands. can you describe what the difference was? cause you brought the team to the subway series the year before you, but it wasn t like that?
names being read and view this sight which has changed so dramatically over the past ten years, guys. rick, as we look back at ten years since the attack, i think of you, because you were carrying a lot of the coverage out in the the field and everyone did some tremendous work. curious, your thoughts this morning as you talk about rebuilding and looking back ten years, does it seem like ten years to you? well, it doesn t and it does. so much has happened in the last ten years, we ve done so much coverage on those war on terror, so many trips overseas to follow our men and women as they fight to try and secure us here the at home by taking the fight to the enemy overseas and you know, it was for years, there was a lot of frustration and anger over the progress at the site and finally, now, as we look down there, we see the progress and feel the pride and that s what you hear from the people working down there, that they have come a long way, that they are now actually creating somet
thought the morning of course we have our reporters. they re in place across the east coast this morning. peter doocy specifically is at the pentagon, but first issue want to go over to rick leventhal at ground zero where he spent a lot of time on 9/11/01. anywho comes to mark observance of 9/11 should be prepared to pass through many layers of law enforcement, checking i.d. s, checking their bags, making sure that they are safe and secure and prepared to come through those check points and make it down here to pay their respects. there is a lot of security on the ground. the actual ceremony at the september 11th national memorial that s been built here begins at 8:35 a.m. and through 1 this afternoon. the ceremony will include the names being read of every single victim of the 9/11 attacks and will also include the six people killed back in 1993 here at the world trade center. we ll give you a look now at
and you have quite a story to tell aside from being a religion story as well. it could have been you on the plane. a lot of people had stories and i was in boston airport leaving boston the early morning the same time na the planes took off the very next day, and on september 11th, as i saw this going down and we all did on television, i was actually trying to get back to the airport to come back to new york and i thought you know, yesterday morning i was there with just so many other people, we re all trying to wake up with their coffee and there were terrorists on those planes getting on with people just like me, the day before. and they are he going to do a terrible thing. and today, walking ten years later, walking on the streets here, just the last hour, things were so dark and there was a somber feeling of, remembrance, but there was also as i was walking guy, hello father, hello. there was a spirit, too, of saying, now what, we re here,
coming outvery year and gretchen you ve been here every year, and i thought the story would be, sadly, how little was done, but once everybody got on the page, it s all about construction rather than wondering what s happened to the possibility of new york working with new jersey, working with the port authority to get something done. now, in terms of 1 world trade also known as the freedom tower, it looks fantastic, but it s not going to be done yet, gretchen. it s due to open in late 2013 which will be here before we can believe it and end up being new york city s tallest skyscraper now at symbolic, 1776 feet, the antenna on the top of the building and the light of the original tower, and a lot of that, i think has already been leased out. yeah, i think they re doing pretty good leasing it and for a while, got off to a slow start. but, now what? i can t wait to get in and can t wait for people coming