and trapped in their car under 4 feet of snow for almost two days. tonight, how one family survived. they got it done. that s from president obama after signing a bill to extend the payroll tax cut. there it is. now millions of americans will not get a new year s day takes hike. it would have cost the average family about 40 bucks per paycheck. the bill also extends long-term unemployment benefits of about $300 a week. it s the right thing to do because more money spent by more americans means more businesses, hiring more workers. and that s a boost for everybody. and it s a boot that we very much need right now. i do want to be clear though, we have a lot more work to do. jamie: that s because it s only a two month extension so we get to go through this all again when congress gets back from the holidays. mike emanuel live on capitol hill for us tonight. mike, democrats clearly happy about the deal. what are they saying tonight? well, jamie, they are acting like they f
here. the daughter ray fors interviewed hundreds who with it the curators interviewed hundreds who witnessed, survived and lost loved ones. it is called the listening station. when we started the oral history program in 2006 we didn t know whether it would be easy to convince family members to record, people s responses have been across the board. amy weinstein the curator and oral historian. she and the team have the difficult task of recording interviews with families and friends of almost all 3,000 people killed in the 2001 attacks. they also interviewed more than 400 survivors, first reponders and city officials. there are some people who were very eager to record and did so on their own initiative. others 10 years later still are not ready. many find it tough to get through the recording.
here. the daughter ray fors interviewed hundreds who with it the curators interviewed hundreds who witnessed, survived and lost loved ones. it is called the listening station. when we started the oral history program in 2006 we didn t know whether it would be easy to convince family members to record, people s responses have been across the board. amy weinstein the curator and oral historian. she and the team have the difficult task of recording interviews with families and friends of almost all 3,000 people killed in the 2001 attacks. they also interviewed more than 400 survivors, first reponders and city officials. there are some people who were very eager to record and did so on their own initiative. others 10 years later still are not ready. many find it tough to get through the recording.
buildings. we had to build a memorial for those who died on that record day. that made the rebuilding necessary. there was a competition for the design. more than 5,000 people applied from 49 states and 63 nations. it became one of the largest design competitions in history. the winner, israeli-american architect who personally witnessed the attacks. . i was at home in the east village that morning. i heard on the radio that a plane had hit the tower. i walked up to the roof of my apartment building and i saw the south tower get hit. michael learned he won the contest for the memorial in 2004. he says he began thinking about how to honor the victims long before the competition was announced. the sites the sights, sounds and emotions of that day had been seared into his memory. my wife was working downtown at the time. i just headed down there. were on water street you could hear this noise. could you hear this wave of panic sweeping through the crowd. they said it is
architect who personally witnessed the attacks. . i was at home in the east village that morning. i heard on the radio that a plane had hit the tower. i walked up to the roof of my apartment building and i saw the south tower get hit. michael learned he won the contest for the memorial in 2004. he says he began thinking about how to honor the victims long before the competition was announced. the sites the sights, sounds and emotions of that day had been seared into his memory. my wife was working downtown at the time. i just headed down there. were on water street you could hear this noise. could you hear this wave of panic sweeping through the crowd. they said it is falling, i didn t know what they were talking about. i left home the towers were standing. i came home and they were gone. his design is called, reflected absence. with waterfalls in the footprints of the former towers. i imagine these two enormous voids in the hudson. i do these two square holes t