Mandated covid vaccines for all adults. Well show you how its working for them. Plus, how an unranked teenaged qualifier walked into tennis biggest stage and won the tournament without dropping a set. We have that story. Live from cnn center, this Cnn Newsroom with Robyn Curnow. It was a somber day across america as the nation stopped to remember the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives on 9 11, exactly 20 years ago. [ Bagpipes Playing ] for the families of the victims, the tragedy remains a vivid memory, undimmed by time. The nations collective loss was captured by a young girl as she spoke directly to the uncle she never met and imagined how he might be today. My Uncle Firefighter Michael christopher. Even though i never met you in person, i still miss you a lot. Mom always tells me the crazy, fun things you did. And im sure if you were here, id probably be doing them with you. This is a look at the 9 11 memorial at Ground Zero in New York. Deep fountains bathed in yellow light w
None of their sting all these years later. [ Bell Ringing ] 20 years feels like an eternity, yet it still feels like yesterday. Until we meet again, my love, rest in peace. [ Bell Ringing ] gather round the River Bend, for death is not the End Cause ill see you in my dreams the most moving and most terrifying, perhaps most meaningful accounts of what happened on 9 11 are of course told by the people who were there, the people who survived. One of those survivors, joe ditmarr, is with me now. Joe, thanks so much for being with us. You were on the 105th Floor of the South Tower World Trade Center 20 years ago today. Unfortunately very few people on floors as high as you were on are with us today. Take us back to that moment that the tower was struck. It was the tower beside you that was struck. What did it sound like, what did it feel like . Did you realize what had happened . What was going through your mind . Thats the incredible part for us, jim. We were in an enclosed Conference Room
Believes there may have been a dozen or so people celebrating in that city that day but thinks trump is is exaggerating. reporter: and trump also claims to have seen it on tv. it was well covered at the time, george. i know they don t like to talk about it but it was well covered at the time. reporter: no media outlooks we found broadcast any images of celebrations on 9/11 here in the united states. where could trump have gotten that idea in the first place? well, video coming out of west bank was broadcast that day. it does show a small number of palestinians cheering in streets but this was far from new jersey. and nowhere near the thousands of people trump referred to. coming to his aid, trump senior adviser shared a wcbs clip from 2001. were told they were cheering on the roof when they saw the plane slam into the trade center. they were called to the
They saw the plane slam into the trade center. police were called to the building by other neighbors and found 8 men celebrating. six o building. the fbi and other terrorist task force agencies then arrived and the investigators on the task force recalled that they had been to this building before eight years ago when the first world trade center attack led them to shake omar abdul rockman whose jersey center mosque lies between the two building getting attention today. now, i played that report for mr. trump yesterday while telling him we could find no other jane germane to the germane to the issue. no other videotape. we looked everywhere. it s just not there but there were people celebrating. mayor giuliani confirms in new york it happened. mr. guzman confirms in jersey it happened, so does the jersey state99&od police. so you were wrong by saying
She saw this morning as she was arriving at work. i heard a loud rumbling. when i walked out on tothe street, i looked out and there was an airplane going into the world trade center. flames were coming out and smoke was just billowing in the air. and tons of people were running down folsom street, running each other over. i made my way back to my office on water street. when i got upstairs, i looked out my window to see what was going on and the second world trade center just went into flames. just from one minute to the next. sylvia, thanks for that eyewitness report. when we saw that second plane slam into the second tower, intentionally, quite clearly, have you to believe this is a terrorist attack. harvey kushner is on the line with us, a frequent guest of ours and a terrorism expert. harvey, is it too early to speculate about suspects? one thinks only that this