pennsylvania field after passengers and crew on board try today regain control from the hijackers and the braver and daring effort to fight back against radical islamic terrorism. hello, everyone, welcome to fox news live coming to you live from the memorial site, we call it ground zero in lower manhattan. ia, arthel. arthel: i m arthel neville. a monohonnorring all the selfless acts on that day. she was flight attendant from flight on north tower. it was also a time where many people acted above and beyond the ordinary as we carried these 20 years forward, i find continuing appreciation, all of those who rose to be more than ordinary people. arthel: we have live fox team coverage bryan llenas in pennsylvania, jennifer griffin is at the pentagon but we begin with laura ingle who is in lower manhattan. laura. ceremonies to mark the 20-year anniversary taking place here in new york and all across the country. paying tribute to those we lost while honoring and remembering th
deadline. it was designed to save american lives. reporter: failing to deliver on this explicit pledge from just 13 days ago. if there are american citizens left, we re going to stay till we get them all out. reporter: biden making clear u.s. diplomatic efforts will be singularly focused on evacuating those americans. and for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. we remain committed to get them out if they want to come out. reporter: but with thousands of afghan allies also still stuck in the country, one clear reality. the u.s. efforts in the country are far from over, even if its military is now gone. i don t think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on. reporter: the fallout from a frenzy, chaotic, and bloody final 16 days is just beginning. congressional hearings and probes slated for the coming weeks on a withdrawal that has drawn sharp criticism from both parties. the administration has
who are still there valiantly carrying on in a horrible situation. here is what the president of the united states said about this shameful tragedy. these american service members who gave their lives, it s an over used word but totally appropriate here were heroes. the lives we lost today were lives given in the service of liberty, the service of security, the service of others. to those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this, we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down. and make you pay. we will not be deterred by terrorists. we will not let them stop our mission. we will continue the evacuation. but how will it be changed to reduce the risk that this happens again? now, not since a chopper crash in 2011 have we seen death on this scale of our own. 13 dead. 18 others injured, some very badly. 60 afghans may have been killed. more than 100 afghans injured as well. we don t know the real numbers because we do
this is one of those stories. watch this. stick with me till the end. okay? here we go. september of 2010, the warren afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. and of course for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war in afghanistan. a lot of our allies joined in the war effort to. for years, for example, the british army had been engaged here, in the town of sank in, in helmand province and that area, helmand province, but that area near sangin was, a cure center for the opium trade. it was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. so on the earlier side of the war, first decade of the war, the british were the ploy there to try to beat back the taliban, prop up support for the afghan government there. that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. by june of 2010, the british had lost around 300 soldiers, total, and all of afghanistan. but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british older skil
i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. thank you for joining me for cnn s special breaking coverage. the afghan people s safety is dwe tear yating with alarming speed. the militant group moves closer to kabul. in fact, just the two major cities of kabul and jalalabad are under the control of the afghan government. since mid april when the president announced the u.s. withdrawal. tonight president biden is sending in another 1,000 troops there, a total of 5,000 now assigned to help summertime personnel escape. as america scrambles to get its allies in kabul, there are those who say their hearts are breaking that those who helped the u.s. are now strandeds a targets of the taliban. now we got to send soldiers back in in harm s way to help evacuate the obinterterms who fought by us side by side and we left tomorrow p them there. the world is watching us, as if this situation compounds hourly. it changes hourly. cnn white house correspondent a let sainz