Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the United States department of defense, we welcome you to the annual september 11th observance to honor and remember the 184 lives lost on American Airlines flight 77 and at the pentagon at 9 37 a. M. On september 11th, 2001. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the National Anthem performed by Staff Sergeant adam strube and the invocation delivered by deputy chief of chaplins chaplin Brigadier General william green. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . Please bow with me on this important day in ou
County, pennsylvania to visit the flight 93 National Memorial and take a tour of the Visitors Center which details the events of september 11th 2001. The memorial is the final resting place of 40 passengers and crew whose decisive actions prevented four al qaeda hijackers from crashing a United Airline 757 into the likely target, the u. S. Capitol building. This program is just under an hour. Hi. Im Adam Schaefer and im a park ranger at flight 93 National Memorial. Today well take a look inside the flight 93 Visitors Center which was dedicated in september 2015. We are currently standing out at the end of the flight path overlook. So were standing on the shadow of the flight path that flight 93 would have been on just before impact in the ground behind me and the reason were standing here is because this orientation for visitors is central to the design of the Visitors Center itself. The walls of the Visitors Center shield the visitors view of the landscape around us here and the enorm
Hi, im adam shafter. Im a park ranger at flight 93 National Memorial. Today were going to take a look inside the flight 93 Visitors Center which was dedicated in september 2015. Were currently standing out at the end of the flight path overlook so were standing on the shadow of the flight path that flight 93 would have been on just before impact in the ground behind me. The reason were standing here is because this orientation for visitors is central to the design center, itself. The walls of the Visitor Center shield the visitors view of the landscape around us here and the enormity of the landscape. And only frame the flight path as you approach the Visitor Center entrance so as youre coming off the parking lot you have to walk the flight path that this plane was on just before it crashed and the tall walls help to frame the last piece of sky that flight 93 passes through before impact here. One of the first things visitors notice as theyre walking the night path from the plast to at
Aloft on or orange wednesday yesterday you started to detect it more and more as you step outside. This morning even worse yet as definitely hazy and also a little foggy there at the coastline. You notice that some of our worst air quality is right up and down the coast, not just for inland valleys and theres a reason for this. Lets look a look take a look at this satellite imagery from noaa right here you can see just a few days ago that smoke that was blanketing the entirety of the west coast here. Now what youre also noticing is those oregon wildfires, wheres that smoke heading right out in the pacific. Its now being pushed right into the coast. Thats why some of our coastal areas in the bay itself. Actually has some of the worst air quality this morning and thats only making for more smoke pushing into the bay as compared to what we already had on top of us which is blocked out sunlight for a couple of days now so very poor air quality and for 2 reasons California Wildfires and tho
Borne disease after sudans worst flooding in a century. And the destruction of an Aboriginal Heritage site in australia forces the resignation of the head of one of the worlds biggest mining companies. Hello everyone our top story hundreds of refugees on the greek island of less boss are demanding to be allowed to leave and go to the mainland. The police had arrived earlier on friday as tensions heightened with the families to spend yet another night without shelter and little food after fire destroyed europes largest refugee camp the government will not allow them on to the mainland and is working to house them in tents or on board chartered ships earlier 10 e. U. Countries did agree to take in 400 unaccompanied minors from the morea camp germany and france say theyll take in most of them John Psaropoulos our correspondent whos there john how close are these people to not spending another night outdoors with no shelter and little food. Well unfortunately the further away than they wou