parents. parents are suffering without children. husbands and wives had to find ways forward without their partners in life. brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, loved ones awith a hole n their heart. no matter how much time has passed these commemorations bring everything painfully back as if you just got the news a few seconds ago. cnn s laura jarrett is live from what is now forever known as ground zero. 20 years, laura. i know that there are these commemoration events today. there are still so emotional, especially for either people who were there or even people who just watched it through a screen. what is it like there this morning? what s expected? reporter: christi, good morning to you. as you said, i am standing here
around september 11th. we do not expect to hear from him today as he attends those trio of events. so in this video he honored the victims, both those who lost their lives but also those who loves their loved ones. he described a grim outcome from the attack which is the attacks of hate perpetrated against muslim americans since then. so today the president and first lady will awake in new york. they will attend the ground zero ceremony where we are likely to hear moments of silence and reading of the victims names as he sits along the other presidents and then he heads to shanksville, pennsylvania and to the pentagon to lay a wreath. i must note, christi, this day comes two weeks after the u.s. withdrew from afghanistan ending a 20-year war as the outcome of 9/11. that didn t happen before a