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innocence lost. join me in a moment of silence. he kept saying a terrorist attack, a terrorist attack. 20 years later. so you think that day affected your life, who you are today? not many people would have thought i would have become a cop. i ve had my stumbles, you know, i ve been to prison twice. it s always going to be a part of our lives. there was only 16 of us with him. we get to be the people that tell the story. tonight, their stories in a cnn special report. front row to history, the 9/11 classroom. hello, i m victor blackwell. most of us remember where we were on september 11th, 2001. i was in college, and i remember clearly walking into class and seeing my professor fixated on a tv. his hand was over his mouth, and i looked at the tv, and i saw smoke billowing from a skyscraper. at that moment, that was all i knew. i also remember seeing the president surrounded by young school kids that morning. we later learned that president george ....
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 ....
announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with robyn curnow. exactly 21 years ago, no one could believe that commercial airliners could become weapons of war but that s exactly what happened in the horrific attacks of 9/11, changed the course of history. in the coming hours, americans and indeed people around the world will pause to remember the enormous loss that day and reflect on what happened since. in new york, the epicenter of the attacks, the missing twin towers are now replaced in the manhattan skyline by beams of white light. this year s anniversary also coincides with the u.s. ending its 20-year war in afghanistan that followed those attacks. earlier, president biden reminded americans of the resolve that emerged in the aftermath. we also saw something all too rare, a true sense of national unity. unity and resilience, the capacity to recover and repair, in the face of trauma, unity in service, the 9/11 generation stepping up to serve and ....
good morning and welcome to your new day. i m boris sanchez. i m christi paul. it s saturday, september 11th. we are so grateful to have you with us this morning as always because today we re all pausing to mark this grim day. 20 years since the september 11th attacks. it s hard to believe that it s been two decades and it s hard to really over state just how impactful this day has been in american history. last night the tower of light lit up the sky from lower manhattan where nearly 3,000 people lost their lives. this morning there s a similar tribute over the pentagon. we watched just moments ago as the pentagon unfurled the american flag over the west side of the pentagon, a tribute to those lives that were taken there. 20 years have passed since terrorists hijacked planes crashing two of them into the twin towers of the world trade center and one of them into the pentagon. passengers on a fourth flight fought back forcing them to crash into a field in penns ....
everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. today marking 20 years since september 11th, 2001. 2,977 people died on that day in the deadliest terror attack in history. in ceremonies at all three attack sites this morning, victims names were read aloud. in new york, people came together to mark this solemn day. children placing flowers for loved ones. they never got to meet. men and women in tight embrace, mourning those they lost. and three presidents and first ladies were on hand for the memorial in lower manhattan. tolling bells followed by moments of silence marked to the minute when the planes hit the two towers and when each of them fell. at the pentagon, an american flag was draped down the side of the building before the names were read there. jay joseph ferguson. amelia v. fields. and in shanksville, pennsylvania, the president and first lady laying a wreath in the memory of the everyday heroes who took down flight 93 and stopped i ....