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on that day, near south tower one world financial there was machine recording telephone calls coming into a trading floor. hello. you got people running i said people are dying. i just want to let you know a plane just hit the world trade center. what? this is the first time we ve heard these voices in 20 years,. did you want it just happened again, jay. the story of the machine begins in texas with man named ric harrell. yeah. you realize . unbelievable. people i saw people running on fire, through the streets. bill: in 2010 ric purchased a machine from man selling used computer parts hopes of reselling for a profit. my name ric, found the machine i knew him from school, a bunch of them, that was only one with something on it. tell us what you 300. not knowing exactly what he but a ric told machine home plumbered it in turned it on. i sat there listened to it it was just shocking totally shocking. oh, yeah, it was ra ....
ring of silver bell marking moment of silence as hundreds gathered in memorial in new york city. among them president biden and the first lady along with former presidents barack obama and bill clinton. ceremonies also held at the pentagon and in thanksville, pennsylvania where a fourth plane crashed in an empty field after passengers fought back against hijackers. on this day of refer reins many are sharing the stories and how the attacks changed their lives forever. baseball legend roger clemens was schedule today pitch for the yankees on that faithful day, he will join us later this hour. first, though, fox team coverage and bryan llenas, but we begin with laura ingle in new york city. laura. so many came to step right in the spot where the twin towers stood as they honored and remember those lost 20 years ago today. approximately 8500 people attended the ceremony at the national 911 memorial and museums. bells tolled at the exact moment each tower was struck and ....
we re about a block from the reflecting pool where the twin towers of the world trade center once stood. president joe biden arriving at this moment in lower manhattan. he and jill biden will visit all three memorial sites today. starting here at the museum on this site. vice president kamala harris will speak in shanksville, pennsylvania later this morning, that s where united flight 93 was forced down. she and second gentleman, doug emhoff, will then join the president and the first lady at the pentagon. nicolle wallace, as i always say, for millions of americans especially anyone in the tri-state area, this is the saddest place on earth. there s no way to walk by this spot if you re on jury duty a few blocks away, on an errand or going somewhere else that you don t feel gutted by what was lost here. our day job is to cover politics, what you have in this place and what you have in this remembrance is heroes. heroes who ran into towers. i think 20 years later that m ....
next week. and as americans commemorate 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, are we any safer from terrorists than we were on that day when the towers fell and the nation changed forever? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden pushing back hard at republican critics on his new covid-19 strategy. our chief national affairs correspondent is at the white house for us. jeff, the president appears undaunted by the backlash. the white house does believe it is on solid legal ground here saying it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide a safe workplace and protect workers. now, these actions this week have gone much farther than president biden has gone before. in fact, a reversal from previous pledges not to issue mandates. but he said he never expected the resistance to be so fierce. that s why he s taking these steps and leaving the do ....
exceptions for rape or incest. we will bring you the attorney general s comments as soon as he starts. we re also watching the white house, where this afternoon president biden will unveil his new six-part strategy to try to curb covid. the plan includes his executive order that requires all federal workers and contractors to be vaccinated with no opt out for regular testing. today his chief medical advisor dr. fauci said the pandemic is under not even modestly good control. the u.s. is averaging 150,000 new cases every single day with the delta variant preying on the unvaccinated. we have an average of 1500 americans a day dying from the virus. compare that to the fourth of july. the case average was about 12,000, deaths were at 200 a day. right now nearly 100,000 americans are in hospitals with covid. also, at the same time the president is set to speak, los angeles unified school district will hold its meeting where it s expected to approve a vaccine mandate for ....