site earlier today. the president and former president took part in ceremonies in new york. and shanksville and the pentagon on this solemn sunday. and fighter jets escorted two commercial airlinessers after reports of suspicious activity. a frontier airlines crew alerted security. f-16 shadowed it until it landed. and another flight was escorted after three passengers locked themselves in the bathroom. police let them go afterwards. now back to the rise of freedom with shepherd smith. there there will be a lot to see at the 9/11 memorial and museum. but there will also be a lot to
stronger. earlier in the day, mr. obama visited with victims families at ground zero, the pentagon and in shanksville, pennsylvania. the number of homes devoured by a central texas wildfire jumping to more than 1500 sunday. 17 people still unaccounted for in the fire but officials think they may just be out of town. the fire has burned more than 34,000 acres and last week winds whipped up by tropical storm lee swept across the drought striken state sparking more than 190 fires and leaving four people dead. i m marianne rafferty. now, back to fox news reporting: the rise of freedom . there will be a lot to see at the 9/11 memorial and museum. there will also be a lot to
have followed the rebuilding of ground zero and we got a look at tower four at the world trade center site that overlooked ground zero. the man in charge of the progress is scott thompson. for him, it is personal. guest: the news flash came on. i saw the tower and i said my brother is in the building. and i watched it, kept watching it. went outside. shepard: his brother died that day and he is rebuilding, part of our reports on the fox report each thursday night, the rise of freedom. 7:00 eastern, 6:00 central, and you can follow the series online at foxnews.com/freedom. the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad wanted to infuriate the israelis and the west, good job. on day two of the controversial
you tomorrow night as on fox report we continue our series the rise of freedom. we hope you ll be with us here for it. all across europe today, large crowds of union supporters gathered to protest in a huge way the cost-cutting measures their governments have made in recent months. many of these moves have cut their pensions and raised their taxes in order to avoid the country s financial collapse. security forces report the demonstrations were mostly peaceful but police in brussels, belgium, say they detained more than 100 people who took part in a sit down protest in the middle of the street while police in dublin, ireland, arrested a man who used a cement truck to block the entrance to parliament. ashley webster is live this morning from london and ashley, these folks seem really upset. yeah, shep. they really are. bottom line, union workers across europe say you know what? we are paying a very heavy price for the recklessness of banks and traders who created the very problems
homeland security asked congress for money to buy this equipment that didn t fit into the inspection lanes. it s either an example of incompetence or misleading congress. either case, it s completely unacceptable. this is a serious problem. homeland security official tells fox the department in no way misled congress. they were fully briefed on the concepts of the programs and when the budget requests were made, they were based on the best information that homeland security at that time, shep. ok, catherine herridge in washington tonight. good to see you. we ve all heard the stories, people who survived the attacks of 9/11 because they missed a flight or decided to go to work late that day much the owner of the world trade center site owns his life in part to a similar twist of fate and the advice of his wife. i recently got to sit down with larry silverstein on part of our series on the rebuilding of ground zero the rise of freedom.