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Robert? >> tom, within minutes of the first explosion, thousands of doctors and nurses and hundreds of hospitals around the new york city area, responded with emergency plans to the biggest medical crisis the city has ever faced. at the scene of the explosions and building collapse, emergency workers set up triage sites, to put the date aside and move the most critically wounded to area hospitals. the closest from the center to the world trade center is st. vincents in new yorks greenwich villag...

At top an observation deck, the trade center could drop 90,000 additional visitors on a busy day. today, the twin towers, many of those inside gone. thats just one of the many reasons of course that today will be remembered as one of the worst days in the nearly 400-year history of the great city of new york. nbcs path dotson has been on the streets of new york, very near the world trade center during most of the day, he has witnessed the hurricane rescue efforts that were affected there today, ...

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On new york and washington. commemorations will be taking place in manhattan and across the united states, to remember all those killed and injured. our correspondent neda tawfik has been hearing how the lives of emergency workers and victims�* families have been shaped by the horror of that day in new york city, when the twin towers were attacked and fell. the rebirth and transformation of lower manhattan has become an emblem of the city�*s resilience. and though much has changed here, for ...

>> neil: looking back, just all the lives lost, but particularly stunning the 147 emergency workers that were killed on that day. the overwhelming majority firefighters just trying to save people in the process. we all remember well how they were running into buildings while everyone else was running out. its in their dna. new york firefighters lost his dad, tim, on 9-11. brennan, thanks for coming. >> thanks for having me, sir. >> neil: i dont want to make this painful, but you could relive tha...

Generator in the aftermath of hurricane ida. with many people still without power, my next guest is warning about an uptick in calls related to carbon monoxide poisoning as emergency workers are responding to calls that are, quote, 185% above the norm. emily nichols is the director of the new orleans emergency medical services. emily, obviously this has become a huge issue in the wake of the storm because people still dont have power. they are relying on generators and clearly a lot of people ar...

For they say on an ongoing basis, filling the air with the mist that would typically cause snow in order to keep down any possibility of flames and when we spoke to the general manager of the hotel over there to just ask what is it like to see a place where so many families have made memories for so long shut down on labor day weekend, heres what he said -- >> it hurts. you know, everybody i meet they all have some root back to lake tahoe in the early days wherever they were. to see this town em...

Junked. the water got up to five feet. if you look at that yellow backpack, thats how high the water got inside. needless to say everything here is going to have to be junked. emergency workers in westchester going house to house by boat rescuing people from their homes. the devastation left behind after ida dumped several inches of rain in some parts of the northeast including new york and new jersey, some spots getting up to nine inches. we believe the storm took 43 lives in the northeast. som...

Chesky. he has been in louisiana all week. morgan, where you are, theyre still reeling. we are four days out from rain hitting where you are and damage is still devastating. talk us through what the recovery is like. is everybody accounted for? >> steph, as of now we believe that is the case. governor john bel edwards told me when i joined him in a fly along that every community impassable had been contacted by emergency workers or those with the state and that people that needed to get out had ...

>> yeah. well, john, we wish you nothing but safety and best of luck getting home. we appreciate you joining us. be well. >> thank you, don. >> thank you so much. thank you very much. so tlhere you have it. stuck in his car for five hours and thats kind of the story of whats going on here. you have people who are still out stuck in the subways in new york city. they dont know how they are going to get home. the folks who work for the mta say they are going to eventually get people out there, but...