and here in new york city 80 years later. here we have the president and first lady walking through the american cemetery and laying the wreath and honoring the heroes who made history on d-day. we ll take you through the next couple of hours together on this. welcome to america s newsroom, i m bill hemmer, dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, viewers and you these historical moments are important. 80 years since that day. so we have the first lady and the president in normandy. the president and first lady in france. we have a lot of the ceremony to come and you are going to have a chance to hear from macron as well. bill: we have a lot of great guests to get to relive the moments from 80 years ago with you. thank you for being here as we begin our broadcast. dana: we had just witnessed an extraordinary ceremony and a military band playing taps in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. [tap
military band playing taps in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. [taps being played] bill: so that was from earlier. this is live now. a live look at omaha beach where the allies landed on this day. reading through all the information from earlier today and seeing the raw numbers of men and might and planes and boats, it is just extraordinary the mission that was launched, delayed at first because of bad wets and they chose this day on june 6th. this was from a ceremony a few moments ago. earlier the president spoke to a crowd of veterans and world leaders who were honored to be gathered there today.