Employees got fired. Lets talk, live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning, im carol costello. North korea says its carried out its most powerful nuclear test yet. The explosion registering the force of a 5. 3 earthquake. Kim jonguns government now claiming it can make Nuclear Warheads small enough to fit on to missiles. World leaders are strongly condemning the apparent test. With President Obama saying just moments ago there will be serious consequences. He also said, and im just getting his statement right now, that north Koreas Nuclear test is a grave threat. He says to be clear the United States does foot and will never accept north korea as a nuclear state. We have Suzanne Malveaux on this story. Shell join us in a little bit. Lets head to tokyo now for north koreas side. Will ripley has that. Hi, will. Hi, carol. That brandnew statement from President Obama comes after he was very busy during the overnight hours speaking on the phone separately with the japanese Prime Minister shinz
Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the pentagon, as old as 85, as young as just 2 years old. Lights illuminated the sky, though, Late Last Night in tribute here. Theyre going to be turned on again this afternoon in honor of the people who died. For a lot of people involved the wounds have not healed even 15 years after. Its the sight of the twin towers collapsing is too painful for many to watch. Victims without graves, now memorialized as names on that permanent memorial that i know so many people have seen there in new york. Most people when they lose someone, they have a grave to go to and that brings them closer to that person. But for us, this is our parents grave. So it brings us closer and makes us feel connected to that parent. A lot of our parents bodies werent found after 9 11. So that literally could be where our fathers bodies lay to this day. It is a memorial, but its our grave. We can go there and communicate with
continues. this flag which has flown over seven ships is ready to be turned to the city of new york. this mission is complete too. when the carrier came back, we brought it back. we had a ceremony there are people that still swear that is not the flag. somewhere between 9/11 and the yankee stadium ceremony, the flag went missing. how can a flag just disappear off the face of the earth? we ve heard all kinds of strange stories, like somebody cut it up and was selling pieces of it. but i don t think that s true. we had a kickoff event last year in front of the star spangled banner at the smithsonian. and oddly enough, pieces of that flag have been cut off and sent to veterans to be buried with them.