three were just 11-year-old sixth-graders as well as their the pentagon and think about teachers traveling to california that day? do you often go to lower manhattan and visit the memoria from nearby dallas airport having won a prize from national geographic. memorial? the youngest victims on board all the time. bill: it is a remarkable were sisters, just three and eight years old. place into those who are watching you have not done it, i there family missed the connecting flight. strongly encourage you to make a 105 people were killed inside trip to new york, it s a great the pentagon. on any given day roughly 20,000 excuse to come to manhattan. it s a remarkable place. military personnel and civilian i find myself when i am there, i employees were cured. one of the largest office buildings in the world. don t think the right phrase is the plane struck at side of the to enjoy the moment but i think pentagon under renovation. normally over 4,000 people would be working in the win
saved foosh sele saved for the americans. the thing is having a memorial at the cathedral. it is a special place and a day. it is. i want to send it back to wolf in the studio. dana, we will have extensive live coverage of all of these important events. jamie gangel, you have been doing reporting on what we might be hearing from these former presidents. there is no doubt about why he pecked these men, a democrat and a republican. i think there will be funny stories that he will tell, that they will both tell about him. but there is no question that both of these men know why john mccain asked them to be there today and i don t think you are going to have to read too far between the lines. it s going to be about bipartisanship, civility,
lives. john mccain was held captive five.5 years. over the past few days, there are many people that made the point they appreciate that service a great deal, even though many did not always agree with his politics. clearly here today as she comes to honor those lost in the war. they have come to connhonor her. can you see the family and the motorcade there and her husband. you see they ve already gathered. they re awaiting the u.s. military honor guard the body bearers. they will take the casket down those stairs and into the casket. the motorcade will then head over to the vietnam veteran s memorial. our presidential historian doug las brinkley is watching this. give us some historic am perspective. you know we play a quip a minute a go where john mccain said i have no quarrel with god.
the left. there are several hundred. it s ha ready to get a good sense of it. even on this dreary day they have shown up for this one part in some ways is the citizens memorial today for all the dignitaries from california and from new york and from the deep south and from parts all over the mid-west with came here specifically at the last moment because they wanted to have a moment to pay their last respects. even on this damp dreary day they gathered out here where cindy mccain pays respect to the american lives. they are here to pay respect to one of the survives who became a great champion for veterans rights, which ki tell you people in this crowd very much appreciate whether or not they agree with his politics. tom foreman, thank you so much. here with me are two people who served with john mccain in the
washington. thank you, susan. that motorcade from capitol hill with the hearst in the motorcade of the casket of senator mccain will head over to the vietnam veteran s memorial. once again, cindy mccain and other family members will head over and pay tribute with a wreath laying ceremony, tom foreman is over there at the vietnam veteran s memorial. tom, set the scene for us. reporter: wolf, it s a short distance from here to the capitol, but it is a world away in the sense that they invited dignitaries. these are important people in washington and the world. this is one place where normal citizens can pay their respects. they have been gathering here for more than an hour now in this dreary wet morning to stand and watch as sen dimccain goes forward and places a wreath at the wall commemorating the 58,000 people that lost their