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. suddenly the first tower falls. and i remember knowing at that point, at least a good portion
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 falling, i didn t know what they were talking about. i left home the towers were standing. i came home
stakeholders that have legitimate things to say about this site. of course, the family members, absolutely. something like 40% of all the families, 1100 families never got remains back to bury. that s what this site is. they never recovered his remains. it s one of the hardest things. once they finish the memorial, i ll feel more of a closeness, i guess you could say, to dad, to my father. one of the women i interviewed worked for the port authority in the world trade center had her walkie-talkie. she talked to me at the beginning of her interview how she heard rocco on the walkie-talkie, and she couldn t get his name out without crying. come over to southeast. when i see that walkie-talkie, i think of rocco. reporter: amy weinstein
any time, the winds could really come and whip things up again. you mentioned 10 percent containment. firefighters did say they re starting to get a line on the fire, however, these winds could really make it more dangerous and make them have to actually pull back. we are about 6 miles from the fire line behind me there, over those ridges. you can kind of see the cloud and some of the haze. that s where the fire is being fought at this time. we re at the incident command center, this is the base of operations for firefighters, and you can see this is where they sleep, where they get their briefings and where they head out to go to the fire lines. jenna: with 10 percent containment, that s a fire that s essentially burning out of control but we understand they re letting some residents go back to their homes? reporter: yes. sheriff joe pelly of boulder county did announce last night to residents that hundreds of them will be able to go back into the area. it s not all the ev
when i see the walkie-talkie, i think of rocco. amy weinstein records oral histories and gathers the museum s physical artifacts. we hope to record oral histories with a family member or friend of everyone who was killed. when we acquire a wallet that was returned to a family member, we have a responsibility to care for that, in perpetuity, in the public trust, so as long as our civilization exists, it will be here. so this is the original wall, the day of 9/11, played a rouge hoe in that it held back the hudson from flooding lower man mann. the river it right there. it runs through battery park and the water comes up against it. one complexity the museum finds itself up against how to present a event that is not history. whether the slurry wall or the first responder vehicles so damaged by the collapse, that