het is right there. take a shot live here in the studio. there it is. joining me now aspiring new york firefighters matt and hisk brother karl. s their dad karl senior died that day nine years ago and he is one of the 15 portrayed in the wonderful painting. which one is your dad? bottom right. bottom right. geraldo: can you get a shot of that. pan in. that is your dad? how long had he been in. 14 years. geraldo: did you aspire to be firefighters prior to the 9/11. yes. didou always want to grow up to be firefighters. always as kids. geraldo: how much did he love his job? he used to take us there when we were kids and stuff like that. for the picnics and christmas events. geraldo: how did you find out that he perished that day? a loud discussion between the adults in the t house. i was 12 a the time and i think i heard a fireman calling
of san bruno and the people of california that we are moving quickly to find the cause. it is very, very important to all of us. we have eight investigators on the scene currently. they are going to rule out everything and trying to find the source of the ignition. geraldo: source of the for the current toll from the ignition. cowen explosion claudia live at the scene. we had various reports. you there are, what do we know? we know several people still unaccounted for. late today we got word that investigators had located the remains of two more people down in the fire zone which brings the official deatholl to six, geldo. late today, 700 people packed into a town hall meeting at a local church to try to get answers and assurances from city officials. it was by and large a civil rised meeting but some people
from 9/11 has not yet been completed. pakistan is a victim of terrorism itself. we have had 5,000 deaths at the has of terroris. so we understand how it feels to be victims of terrorism and i think everybody needs to take a deep breath, not score points but try to figure o a way in which passions are not in flamed and america lives up to its reputation is as the city on the hill. and the muslim world also rises to the occasion and says we have to stop being seen as extremists.ed by so the geraldo: as arguably the secular leading from the mlim world in this country and i m talking about you, would you personally feel that the way to lower the
a way of bringing us back to the real consequences of violent islamic extremithsm in the world and that flag is torn and tattered with you still there. we have to remember the people who died under rubble like ndhat. geraldo: died under rubble like that and looking at one way hey areeing honored here. how many is that again, 12, 13, 14, 15f the 33 firefighters from ba a battalion nine. their pictures painted by supe artists thanks to darryl lynn, founder of hero portraits. how are the portraits funded? funmy wife and i fund them completely. we funded the entire project. geraldo: how nice of you. we started this a year and a half ago and we wanted to give back and we have been searching how to give back and this is the way to do it. o beautiful.
my mom and tell her. i don t remember if sheried to hide it to us or ease it to us. geraldo: what is that metal there?at my fher s badge. 7963. geraldo: when do you think you will be activ duty? t to take theai test coming up in january. geraldo: how old are you now? i m 21. i m 2 an 22 and i took the t already and i m waiting to hear back. geraldo: the founder of a group called hero portraits. nice to see you. these are eerily life like the paintings. some in the foreground also. the artists are terrific. how many have you done the portraits of? today we are up to 20 firefighters which we started four months ago. and how many gis? up to probably 200 plus and the asks come in daily. geraldo: how did you get the