the north tower collapsed on top of them. he survived inside a pocket of stairwell b where the only way out was up and tim and dave join us live near in new york today. good morning both to of you. dave, as the evacuation was going on. there was one woman who was having trouble and you said you know what? i m going to stay here and help you, tell us about her: well, i was in tower 1 in b stairwell as you just said and i was coming down with a lot of people from my own job, the port authority police, and i saw harris, this woman sitting on the steps on the fifth floor. and the ladder company six and nine were inside looking for a chair to put her in to bring her downstairs she couldn t get up. myself and billy butler picked
ground zero where it was heavily damaged. the white spots turned gray. it had rips and tears. all this year jeff and his group, new york says thank you, have been going around the country repairing it spot by spot with flags that have flown over other disaster sites and things like that. this portion of the flag flew over pearl harbor when it was bombed. this section right here, this flew at martin luther king jr. s funeral. that was the georgia patch. you can see on the far side there there s active duty military people. they are sewing a part of the flag that flew over the pentagon on september 11th. and, you know, the spirit here, nobody here is talking about terrorists or war or anything. everybody here is talking about the day after september 11th when we saw so much unity and so much bravery by first responders. and that s really the spirit i think that what they want to do is reclaim that from history and be able to have that be as much a part of the story as terrorist