wednesday. followers have ashes rubbed in fore heads in the sign of a cross symbolizing a repettance of sins. rob: 40-day period combines fasting and prayers in preparation for easter sunday, first time since 1945 that ash wednesday has fallen on valentine s day. jillian: interesting. top officials agree one thing about russia, twisted plot to target america s elections. rob: democrats working overtime to flip the house and senate in upcoming midterms but which party is really in the hot seat, scott breaks down the races to watch and why the left might not be able to deliver. jillian: and this had to hurt, the super model making waves with hard landing caught on camera. ouch.
vehicle and ibrahim al asiri, they believed at the time that he might have been amongst the militants. a fire fight ensued. dna tests are being done. while there is skepticism about whether ibrahim al asiri was killed, they feel a lot more confident that he possibly was killed in one of the strikes. that would be a huge blow to the aqap in yemen. but top tier targets have been taken out in the past and that hasn t made a change to the organization. what kind of blow would it have to the training centers, the recruitment. how important is it to go after these high value targets? you kill some of them and others are going to spring up. i think it s really important. you saw on the video where they said that they were trying to stir up the followers and target america. if that s true, then you have to go after them.
wrong. there is no room for any middle ground here. julie: commemorative ceremonies are taking place around the region and across the river and hudson river in jersey city, liberty state park they unveiled a memorial honoring the over 700 victims who pr issued on 9/11 from jersey. the two footprints where the world twin towers once stood. here any moment they will be unveiling a massive american flag hanging overhead. it s been quite interesting to watch the preparations underway. we ve actually heard choir singing i don t know if you can hear that. but that is a choir singing on a loud speaker and they ve been testing the intercom system all day long. i m going stop talking to see if you can hear it. you can watch as the american flag is slowly being draped by men standing up above us.
a goose chase. here is part of the reason why they are saying that. the timing may not work out. the routings how the people were to get to the u.s. may not make sense. the u.s. search has plane s manifests, they have been searching plane manifested going back to last december through this august to anybody who might be setting off warning bells, quote, nothing is turning up. that doesn t mean they will not continue to look. you have seen the security measures that have been taken around the country, especially new york and d.c. to prevent any kind of attack or protect against it. in the meantime, the f.b.i. is turning over every rock, looking over every rock to try to find anything that would make sense with this threat. you remember the information came from what we were told was a credible c.i.a. informant overseas who has been reliable in the past who provided this information about three would-be
tragedy. i was on the streets of manhattan. i worked a grand central station right across the street. there was an office window where i could see the tower on the right. i didn t just see it on television. i watched outside that window. you know, never forget it. but a hole in the building as time went on the flames i actually saw it. i hope we never experience again i ll never forget it. i did call my family and let them know that i was okay and the phones went out. there wasn t much contact but had had to hunker down and just wa. eather: judy? it s obviously a seminal moment for america. it was very important moment for me. i was downtown near the world trade center, trying to vote when i looked up and saw we had