school. that day i put my boys on the bus and my friend was calling and she said nick ole, it s a shooting and it s at our school. it was the day after thanksgiving i was in my family s home in chicago. my son was with his father in florid florida. i picked up the phone and there was just this dead silence and i said where is jordan? what happened to jordan? and that s when jordan s dad said jordan has been shot. you re 25 times more likely to die from gun violence in the united states of america than any other developed nation in the world. what does this say about us as americans? we re just willing to let people die because we re afraid of the nra? there is no other single issue in the lobby in the united states that had as much success against the wishes of the majority of the country. gun vie lepsolence is taking at a historic rate. it s only getting worse and worse and we re focused on the right to bear arms and not the right to live. the nra had managed to convin
until the unimaginable happened. the plane has crashed into one of the towers there. innocence lost. a minute of silence. they kept saying a terrorist attack, a terrorist attack. 20 years later you think that day affected your life, who you are today? i wanted to leave sarasota after high school. 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 is 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
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 w. bu
manhattan with wolf blitzer at the pentagon, paula reed in shanksville, pennsylvania where flight 93 went down. at the memorial, two reflecting pools represent the footprints of the twin towers, north and south towers, surrounded by names of the victims of the 9/11 attacks. and also the 1993 world trade center bomb. families of the heroes lost, elected leaders from across the country, including four u.s. presidents past and present attending ceremonies in new york, washington and pennsylvania today. president biden and first lady jill biden arrive in shanksville any moment, will lay a wreath at the flight 93 memorial, there they are moments ago getting off in johnstown, pennsylvania. we heard from george w. bush who was president on 9/11. vice president kamala harris spoke as well. u.s. military leaders led the ceremony early this morning at the pentagon which was also struck, honoring the lives lost, sacrifice of so many families not only that day but in the 20 years that fo
are all online any time, you will be able to see them. coming up next, the film reveals. the film reviewer. hello, and welcome to the film review with me, anna smith. i m filling in for mark kermode to review this week s releases. if you re going to make a movie about an eccentric truffle hunter searching furiously for his stolen pig, then surely you want to cast nicolas cage. whistling. in pig, he plays a disheveled hermit who lives in the oregonian wilderness with his beloved foraging hog. when she s taken in a violent kidnapping, he doesn t stop to nurse his wounds. he heads straight into town. haunting the restaurants and bars of portland, this christlike spectre will stop at nothing to find his pig. he sjoined in his search by alex wolf s truffle dealer, who lives in the shadow of his rich father. pig is billed as a thriller, but i think that s a misleading label. while there s some suspense, this is a gently paced story about the bond between human and animal, and th