university of michigan professor jonathan marwil teaches a history how the september 11th remembered. the class discussion revolves around this is a depress photographs of a 9/11 victim falling from the world trade center. okay, let s begin. so far, but we have been focusing on, first of all, was the film, and the images in the naudet film done by the two brothers. french brothers, 9/11. so, we looked at, what? images of the buildings, and noticeably images of firefighters because they were the main focus of the film. and last week, we started talking about the 9/11 commission report that is how, was the event investigated, and we are going to continue on with that on thursday of this week. what we have it looked, at what you might think is, in some ways, not appropriate to look at, are the dead. and the dead of this event, if you think about it, and if you thought about it very much, they are in a rather unusual position vis-à-vis the dead of other either terrorist attack
9/11. so we have looked at what? images of the buildings and noticeably images of firefighters because they were the main focus of the film. and then last week we started talking about the 9/11 commission report. that is, how was the event investigated? and we re going to continue on with that on thursday this week. what we haven t looked at and what you might think is in some ways not appropriate to look at are the dead. and the dead of this event, when you think about it, if you have thought about it very much, they re in a rather unusual position vis-a-vis the dead of other either terrorist attacks or attacks by political regimes or armies on populations, and that is, they re not visible. we have no bodies. you think about it. almost all the bodies in new york were incinerated. they took out parts of bodies afterwards and one or two whole bodies they found, believe it or not. there are no bodies at shanksville, pennsylvania. and i have not seen pictures of the bodies injur
us. it s december 26th, 7:00 a.m. claudine wong. as you can see there thick powder covering slopes. something visitors have been missing for several years. that resort is family owned. and managers say they ve been dreaming of a white christmas since the start of the drought. we ve been praying for this christmas for a long time. and this is absolutely vital to our season. reporter: beautiful out there. officials at donner ski ranch say they got 4 feet of snow and it s really, really nice day. a little cold. you re right, but beautiful if you had a jacket. and it s going to be the same for today. we actually start out this morning with a freeze warning like claudine mentioned. giving you a live look there over the skyline. temperatures just as chilly, even chillier in inland locations. some of us are actually starting out a little warmer than we were yesterday morning in any case. let s take a look at this freeze warning in place until 9:00 this morning. issued by
and good evening. i m rebecca jarvis. in for david muir tonight. and we begin with one of the world s most high profile terror suspects accused of directing the attackers in benghazi the night the u.s. ambassador and three other people were killed. ahmed abu khattala, grabbed in libya earlier this month by u.s. special forces, and today, delivered to the u.s. federal court in washington. the tightest security on hand, armed guards standing watch outside. abc s senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny leads us off tonight, reporting from outside the courthouse. reporter: ahmed abu khattala stood before an american judge for the first time this afternoon. he raised his light hand, speaking softly with the help of an interpreter. as his public defender entered a plea of not guilty. he was fingerprinted and photographed like any other suspect. but the tight security and rare weekend appearance at federal court highlighted the importance of the case. before dawn, abu khattala
does is designed to make a grandiose statement. the deals, the hotels the reality show and his presidential announcement speech was no exception, the donald jumping in for real this time. even taken a shot at jeb bush s intelligence. good afternoon, everyone. i m jake tapper. the prison seam stress arrested for his connection to that elaborate escape plot got a visit from her husband in jail today. yes, the relationship between joyce mitchell and richard matt was sexual but also matt and his accomplice intended to kill her husband after she helped secure their freedom. it s been 10 days since they escaped from that new york prison and all the searching since seems to have sadly been for naut. many of the towns look like one giant active crime scene, a deluge of agents and canines have brought police no closer to finding matt. assuming they did not jump a freight train or steal a car. the killers could be far, far away from where they escaped. these two fugitives cover three