you might have been what were you, 1 or 2 years old when september 1 september 11, 2001 happened. yeah, 1, 1 1/2. how much of the story did you know about 9/11? i knew he crashed into the twin towers and he crashed into the pentagon that was going to washington. but they landed in the pennsylvania field. a farm. so when you heard that, in fact, the united states had killed usama bin laden on sunday night, what did you decide to do? well, my mom and my mom thought about putting an american flag, u.s.a. and date. and yeah, so we painted on the face. i thought it was a good idea. so we painted it on my face. jennifer, how did you come up with the idea? we were just so happy in the morning when we woke up. we heard it sunday evening during the phillies game. so monday morning, we were still, you know, freshly excited about it.
and we were simulcast on cnn and cnn international, as you know. and i started getting tweets, started getting emails from viewers all over the world. if you follow twitter, cnn was trending on twitter. wolf blitzer was even trending people were watching. they were so, so happy. sure, there are some elements who are not happy. but a tiny little fringe element out there who support bin laden and al qaeda. but the whole world was thrilled, especially american in new york, here in washington, pennsylvania. this was a moment that so many people perhaps thought they would never see or hear. but it did happen. and we re only now beginning to appreciate the enormity of this historic situation. all right. wolf blitzer, so much more to will to this story as we learn, this is just day two. a lot of details coming up. i m sure you are going to be having lets of details in the having lots of details in the situation room. thanks for joining us.
extraordinary courage and capability. no americans were harmed. they took care to avoid civilian casualties. reporter: this will help him politically because it helps americans psychologically. their moment is his and vice versa. jim lost a brother-in-law and cousin on 9/11. it helps. it won t bring him back, but it helps. reporter: bob lynch just got back from duty in afghanistan. i was awe struck, i was relieved. part of this that started so long ago is over. reporter: it was as though ten years of grief, anger and frustration were given some relief, a moment that produced a rock concert atmosphere near ground zero in new york city, pennsylvania and outside the white house gates. however heinous the person, there is something distonic, uncomfortable about celebratinging a death. it was the mixed moment for the mother of a fallen fireman. it s good to see an evil person receive justice, but it s
i think it s just a wonderful thing to have that happen. we have all been waiting on some justice to be done. i think it s a victory for us, a victory for peace and a victory for justice. it is final retribution for all the victim s families from 9/11, both here in virginia, in pennsylvania, across the united states and in new york. i think it s a great die fay america, i think it s a time to celebrate and rejoice that he s gone. folks outside of the 9/11 memorial outside the pentagon reacting to the death of osama bin laden. i want to show you that picture that the white house released a still photo, this is from the white house situation room yesterday, when this mission was underway, 40 minutes on the ground, delta force navy
ground by passengers. that is the fourth plane that did not reach its target on 9/11.that is the fourth plan did not reach its target on 9/11.ground by passengers. that is the fourth plane that did not reach its target on 9/11. instead it hit the field in shanksville, pennsylvania where they re building a permanent memorial. jim acosta is there today. i imagine people are visiting there today with varying feelings about what happened to bin laden over this it weweeken. reporter: that s right. it s a mixed bag of feelings before people streaming into this site here at shanksville to remember the lives lost on night 93 as you mentioned. were it not for the passengers and crew aboard that aircraft, the 9/11 commission concluded that it would have perhaps hit the u.s. capitol in washington, d.c. instead it hit this ground here. so we ve seen people streaming in to this site which is now a national park service site all morning long. not only expressing their feelings for the victims of s