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two teenagers will face each other in the us open final. 18 year old briton emma raducanu will battle 19 year old canadian leylah fernandez for the women s title on saturday. hello and welcome to our special coverage here on bbc news, as we mark the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks on new york and washington that killed nearly 3,000 people attacks that have forever been known by the date on which they happened 9/11. commemorations will be taking place in manhattan and across the united states, to remember all those killed and injured. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has been hearing the stories of three people impacted by the horror of september 11th and a warning his report does include footage of the attack on the twin towers. the one thing that time hasn t dulled is just how profoundly shocking the sights and sounds were that tuesday morning two decades ago. screaming newsreel: breaking news story to tell you about - this terrorist attack changed the ....
and amanda carpenter. good to see you, john. president biden announcing new vaccine mandates that could affect 100 million americans. what are you hearing from the white house? reporter: in terms of why they didn t go further is the biggest proposal i ve heard from people like our colleague jonathan rainer who you have on your show a lot, the doctor has said he should have mandated air travelers be vaccinated. the white house says they didn t do that because they think it would jam up airports and impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a high proportion of air travelers are already vaccinated and all that much much covid is not spread because of good air filtration systems on plaeps. in terms of how it works is what joe biden is counting on here is the threat of fines on businesses applied through occupational safety and health administration to impose vaccine mandates on large businesses affecting tens of millions of ....
about what it means to her. thank you for being here, everybody. we do begin this hour with president biden stepping up his war against the coronavirus. more man dates, more political and legal battles ahead and likely more in vaccinations because of it. in an impassioned speech, the president s frustration with americans still resisting gettin g expected to that is up ten poibs from a year ago soxts think about where we were a year ago and now we see an increase. an think that sentiment is driving why his overall approval on handling the virus is down a little bit and exactly those worries and concerns that the president is aiming to address last night and today at school when you see them talking about this now. and the numbers nationally and 400,000 were dead when he took people have died from covid-19 when he took office. 250,000 people have died since he has been in office. that is the national numbers and then as you re saying when you look at people s c ....
concentrate, we cannot hallow this ground, the brave men and women living and dead who struggled here have concentrated it far above our power to add or detract. and so it is today, because at the pentagon, and willie is at ground zero. a location every bit as sacred to americans as gettysburg or the edmund pettis bridge or the waters surrounding the u.s.s. arizona and, of course, the patch of land in shanksville, pennsylvania where the heroes inspire us still. let s go to willie. joe, good morning. on this september 10th, you think about this day 20 years ago and as you put it well, this is the last day before everything changed, september 10, 2001. we know at 8:46 when the first plane hit the north tower behind me, our world changed, america changed, but the globe changed as well. we re now at the end of a 20 year war that was launched because of the attacks at that day. here, at the pentagon where mika is and shanksville, pennsylvania. i have to say coming here i ....
to protect those already vaccinated, keeping schools open, increasing covid testing and mask requirements, economic recovery and improving care for covid patients. our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly starts us off this morning. reporter: as president biden heads into what his top advisers are calling a major speech on the pandemic, he is really doing it with dual purposes. one on the policy front, no question amidst the delta surge more than 1,000 deaths per day, more than 150,000 cases on average per day, there needs to be policy changes or in this case of the white house policy advancements. officials say the president will focus on vaccine mandates both for the public and private sector, also particularly on kids going back to school. millions of kids going back to the classroom, the president with a focus on safety and testing. all of this underscores recognition inside the white house of the very real problem the delta variant has opposed, pot jus ....