My hometown lost 11 people. You know my mom was able to speak to him on the phone. Whip able to recover him and bring him home and just thought a lot of people did not get that. She has his wedding ring. Yeah im wearing it. Wow. Yeah, thats really nice. Thats incredible. That story smith ahead. Now, to ground zero after covering 15 years ago and she is there again this morning. Reporter good morning. A ceremony today remembering those that died 15 years ago and reading the names of the nearly 3,000 that died. Theres six moments of silence to mark the times that the planes hit the world trade of silence in rebem brans of those that died. I mentioned that you were there that day and you rushed down and covered it the days and weeks after wards. What are your thoughts . Its as if it were yesterday. It touches my heart like many others. It was a beautiful crisp day and now here we are 15 years later. The best thing is that the city is people live here and work here. Theres a thriving place, and thats a tremendous tribute to all of those that lost their lives. Many people here said to me this morning that this proves that the terrorists did not win. Americans do not cow er in fear. Instead theyre living their lives and living their lives fully and remembering those that died. Willy . Thank you. Turning now to the campaign trail and Hillary Clinton forced to apologize after saying that a basket of deplorables. Halley covering it for us. Reporter only a partial ji after making the comments at a fundraiser on friday night. Listen to what she said. You could put half of Trump Supporters into a basket of deplorables. The racists, home islamic phobia. You name it. Reporter trump pounced on the comments saying that Hillary Clinton just had her 47 percent moment and representing the remarks from mitt romney and trump continuing what a terrible thing that clinton said about so many great americans. After a day of uproar clinton aing that was wrong. She said that she will not stop calling the bigotry and racism in the campaign. She did not apologize for using the word deplorable and list a number of way that is the Trump Campaign has been deplorable and referencing the attacks on a federal judge and purple star family. The race is tightening in several key battlegrounds. Yeah were going to geto how are they common rating today . Reporter both will attend an ceremony and both of the candidates are new yorkers and they have sering memories of 9 11. Okay. Thank you and Nicole Wallace was in the white house on september 11th, 2001. I usually watch the show while in my pajamas making pancakes. Its nice to be here. You can wear the pajamas. We can make that a tradition. Lets start with the campaign and the basket of deplorables and to the romneys 47 percent and then obama talking to people cling to go the guns and religion. Well, message to get the cameras inside of the you hear what the candidates really think of each other. Listen, she said it before. This was not a slip of the tongue. She does not really have a lot of those. She correctly diagnosed the problem with the statement in that she painted with too broad of a brush. This is how she feels. Theres a voice as to describing they think that is she legit economized white supremacy. I think that the error and the view is that she painted with too broad of a brush. That was in the middle of the primary and they get bitter and clean the guns and then religion. Clinton said that i was taken back by the remarks of the small town america. People are now saying st. Same thing for her for this line. Yeah, and comments mp and hurt him. This will hurt her, you know, theres someone thats a frequent sergeant for her and thats the only person on her side that can focus on the attacks. She is not running against don supporters, and has to convert some of them to her cause. These comments do not help where this race is much tighter than the clinton camp would like for them to be. Yeah, we have arizona affectively tied and trump 42 and clinton 41 and nevada 44 and 45. Is this race tighter than people think it is . Yeah i would like to see in the week ends and then gain strength and come back. He is picking up strength and you were in the white house when it happened. What was it like that day . Well, we had our meeting at 8 00. 8 30 i returned to my office, and i was watching the today show and saw the second plane hit. I watched it gain and cannot look away. I remember the Secrete Service agents walked through and evacuated us. The shoes and run. We went running from the white house reluctantly. I remember calling my dad and he said where are you going . I said were running. He is where are you running too. I said they told us to run for our lives. We got a message that night that the president expected us back at the desk at 7 00 in the morning to get back to work. And you were there. Yeah, i was there. Okay. Thank you. Wel pjs. Three dozen people were taken to the hospital after multiple floors of a campus collapsed. The house was packed with students and authorities saying that it was a miracle that no one was seriously hurt. The woman that was kicked by a sailor in a photograph has died at 92. She was a 21yearold dental and kissed in New York Times square in 1945 a. It was one of the most enduing images of the ending of the war. A wild play that should not have been. A hail mary and unlateral at the end of the game gave them a 3720 win. The py happened because Central Michigan was grounded and a penalty that should have ended the game College Football o officials admitted to giving them one more down was a mistake. The nfl season kicks off atoday and the world divided with the San Francisco 49ers and kapernick and not standing for the national anthem. Its because of the way that statement of their own today and standing together with the arms linked before the game with the miami dolphins. Sitting down with over the weekend with roger and talking about the controversy. Do you want the league to take a roll in bringing attention to the one that colin is bring attention to . Well, the history is that we play a roll in society, and an importanro we understand that. Were careful about that because we still believe that at the bottom people come to enjoy the sport. They come to enjoy the game. They recognize the importance of the nfl players and the society. We have to be responsible for that. Its an important role, and its one of the things that we spend a lot of time focussing on. Are you proud of Colin Kapernick taking a stand. A stand. We do not live in a Perfect Society matt. The players have strong views about things. I support the players speaking out against that. Thats what the focus should be on, the changes in the society. Does it make you proud or nervous when you see it . Well, i think when they speak out, its a good thing for us. What i do believe is the respect for the country. The peopl the people that protect us here in the broad. I think those are very important. Were going to see it on sunday. Were a patriot league. Sunday is the anniversary and a heightened sense of it. Is it going to be hard to see if players sit or kneel. I dont think so. We have to respect that. You may know that youre also in the headlines for other reasons, tom brady is going to sit out the first four games and the suspension and the result of the deflategate. Can you look me in the eye as the commissioner and say that you feel 100 percent certain that you got this right . Yes, because we went through an exhausting process of this. We had an independent investigation. We had federal judge who rul against it. It went to the appeal court and they said listen, theres compelling if not overwhelming evidence here. Theres no question that the destruction of evidence should be considered by the commissioner in the context of this. The process was properly followed. We collected the process for disciplined. We went to that. I cant think of an issue thats more litigated in a way. The legends of the sport that four games is the appropriate suspension . Matt, with all due respect every player and league is subject to the same rules. And you can catch the patriots taking on the cardinals tonight. The pregame is at 7 00 eastern right here on nbc. You can see much more of matts interview with roger this wednesday on today. Dont miss now, bringing in dylan. I was really missing that 5 00 a. M. Wake up call. Yeah, a night on the town. Yeah, fantastic pancakes. Youre a huge patriots fan. Yeah. Are you ready for life after tom brady. I might have mumbled a few things. Its just four things but i feel behind him, but can you imagine what he is feeling leading up to the game. Its a lot of pressure. He does have tom brady coaching him along. How about a look at the weather. Okay. We have been dealing with humid conditions in the northeast and yesterday was just hard to breathe. The humidity has been so high, and we have been seeing that in areas across new england and into the carolinas. We have the area of the High Pressure and thats going finally bring in the chicago started at 53 degrees. Thats where the cooler air is sitting. Once it moves in, we will see the cooler air working back in. We do have the heavier thunderstorms and moving through most of new england night and into western massachusetts. Once we start to see the clear the area, we will see the increasing sunshine and its cloudy right now. It will stay sunny through the afternoon and through monday too thats a look of if weather 4 30 a. M. Triple digits one more day at least on the east side and central parts of the valley 100 to 101 degrees with afternoon breezes developing continue overnight southwest 10 to 20 low 70s good news i had pick some windy conditions late monday into tuesday but upper 80s thursday. Litt comfy cofy chairs. What do you think . I think that he is going to do fine. Its going to be a hard core game. He has a good team behind him. Huge patriots fan. I like tom bray because he is so cute. I dont know. He is good for the numbers. Week and the president ial candidate that had us asking the question what is aleppo. And then after the attacks. Where has it been all of these years. And then the families of First Responders signing up to become cops and firefighters themselves. Sunday today is coming right back. Members of those who died in 9 11 are becoming firefighters themselves. Were coming right back. Imited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase, everywhere. Like on that new laptop. 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Our buddies, dylan and nicole back with us. One of the proud american symbols of 9 11 returned back home. The flag raised by three firefighters disappeared after this photograph was taken by Thomas Franklin but police began an investigation about two years ago when a man dropped off a flag in a fire station in washington, 3,000 miles from manhattan. When he heard on tv the flag was missing, he asked the firefighters to return it to new york city. After a forensic investigation, it was determined this is likely the right thing. This week a group of Everett Police officers traveled to new york to participate in a ceremony at National September 11th memorial and museum where that flag will now remain. Isnt that incredible . He was watching a documentary on the History Channel and heard they were looking for the flag and said ive got the flag. The fact it m way there and back. Anonymously dropped at a fire station. Nothing like images like that. Its nice to keep that together. The first low goes to president ial candidate gary johnson as he attempts to climb to the magic 15 polling threshold to get on the debate stage with Hillary Clinton and donald trump in a couple weeks. He did not help himself on an interview on morning joe when aleppo in syria. What would you do if you were elected about aleppo, about aleppo. And what is aleppo . Youre kidding . No. Aleppo is in syria. Its the epicenter of the refugee crisis okay. Got it. Got it. If you think that was tough to watch, johnson said quote, i feel horrible. I have got to get smarter. You were sitting there. You cant help yeah. This divided people because a lot of people felt sorry for him to be caught in the moment. It was like katie couric, sarah palin as someone that wants to be president of the country, you should know where children are being hurt and killed. Its on the front page of the newspaper every day. The next high, a Florida StateUniversity Star receiver travis rudolph. Autistic boy eating alone and he sat down and ate with him. They are best pals now. Travis sis surprised beau with the w his own jersey. Travis scored a touchdown at game and Florida State came back to win the game. That officially makes beau the good luck charm. I love that story. We went to school that one day, he had lunch, sat there his whole life was going to change from that point on. Its incredible. His mother said he became much more popular in the lunchroom. Kindness. The next low, apples hotly anticipated new product seeming terrible but well own it in the next six weeks. Apple unveiled the iphone 7. More sophisticated camera and no jack for the headphones. Now apple informed us were all on the phones. Critics like the slim new phone but worry about the ipods, chances of you losing them on day one at 93 . Another thing i got to keep track of. Im not going there. I lose the ones with the wire immediately. Youre hopeless. The next, the mom that struggled on donuts with dads day. She was dropping off 12yearold elijah when she noticed a o elijah said it was donuts for dads day and she sprung into action. They raced home and put together a dad getup with fake mustache, fake shirt and dab of cologne like that elijah had a wing man for donuts with dad day. Evette posted these saying she seen the sad look on her sons face when father son events pops up. She heard from Single Parents all over the world this week. And instead of another low, morning. What could be higher than two people in love dancing like no one is watching . In this case, its bert and carol, an america couple. He walked into a restaurant and said is there any way we can just order water . Were just here to dance. . . You want to smile, watch the uptown funk. He asked the waitress to film the couple. Those moves will have their own video game by the end of the week. Absolutely. Acoustic version of uptown funk. Spot on. Coming up next on sunday today a visit to my hometown on i had a wonderful time tonight. Me too call me tomorrow . St. Ill wait a full two days before responding. Perfect were never gonna see each other again, will we . Nono. Wouldnt it be great if everyone said what they meant . The citi double cash card does. It lets you earn double cash back. 1 when you buy and 1 as you pay. The citi double cash card. Nunley here at news 3 local headlines metal homicide investigators did by suspect the shooting death of a man friday morning just east of the strip. Police say should be considered armed and dangerous. Enter the approach him. The shooting happened just before 10 30 a. M. Body morning and the area of desert in and maryland parkway. Investigators say there was an argument just before that shooting anyone who can help police with information on out your were going to have another one 101 today in central east valley. Mid90s overrun having our citys institutions up and running sends a message that new york city is open for business. Saturday night live is one of our great new york city institutions and thats why its important for you to do your show tonight. Can we be funny . That was new york mayor Rudy Giuliani flanked by the citys finest and bravest Opening Saturday night live on september 29, 2001. And giving the country permission to laugh. It was the first snl after the attacks of 9 11. Those attacks killed nearly 3,000 innocent people from the World Trade Center to the pentagon, to a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. Ridgewood, new jersey, my hometown. To the world, they were numbers in a staggering death toll that meant america was going to war. But to the residents of a town of 25,000 people, they were family and friends who suddenly and inexplicably were not coming home. 15 years on, i went back home to visit some old friends. One who lost his dad, another who lost her mom. Lori steinberg was the first kid i met when i moved from kindergarten. She lived next door. So this is the cutthrough. It was this easy to get from the geist house to the steinbergs house. I went to her house for piano lessons we were not good. Not good at all. I felt like we were we didnt dedicated to the cause. We werent. Her moms big laugh would carry across to our house. I was talking to my dad this morning, he said he could sit inside his house, closed doors, moms laugh. Hes like she had the best laugh. Loris parents were rarely seen apart because they were rarely apart. Mike and gina met as kids in poland. Reunited and fell in love in brooklyn. Moved to ridgewood, new jersey, to raise their family and car pooled together into new yorks financial district where they worked. She was a professional woman. She wasnt like a lot of the moms on our street or our town. She was up early she was unbelievable. Up early. Worked a full day and then would come home and like tote us around for errands and other things in the evenings. By september of 2001, lori had long since moved out of the house and was li