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Shock. >> david: you are from a firefighter family. you know what you are talking about. >> its hard to cut ventilation holes through the solar panels to get the fire out. we are talking about the structural collapse. these are massive 300-square feet projects that is a challenge for the firefighters. the problem here is quality, too. you have bad defective solar panels up on the roofs. "new york times" even reported up to a fifth of them have defects, the solar panels. watch out. some of the pa...

>> what happened to the flag? >> i dont know what happened to the flag. i think its been all over the country. pinpointing where it went, couldnt tell you. >> they didnt connect the boat with this until like weeks later. when i was talking to that "new york times" guy, he saw them take the flag and he took a picture of it and ive never been able to figure out who he is. theres some hope that the flag will be found. i just cant believe anybody -- >> were going to see this guy soon. >> who is he? ...

Building. you could go to lunch. you could go to dinner, you could walk home afterwards. it was very simple. its sad. every time i think of how nice life was then. >> in new york this flag has found a new home. it was hoisted by firemen over the world trade center rubble on september 11th hours after the twin towers were destroyed by terrorists. today, a few blocks away, it was raised over city hall. in between the flag has flown over seven military ships, including the uss theodore roosevelt wh...

The flag. i think its been all over the country. pin pointing where it went, couldnt tell you. >> they didnt connect the boat with this until like weeks later. when i was talking to that "new york times" guy, he saw them take the flag and he took a picture of it and ive never been able to figure out who he is. theres some hope that the flag will be found. i just cant believe anybody -- >> were going to see this guy soon. >> who is he? >> weve just tracked him down. >> hes got a flag in his hand....

Anything you needed was in the building and you could go to lunch, you could go to dinner, you could walk home afterwards and it was very simple. you know, its -- its sad every time i think about how nice life was then. >> in new york, this flag had found a new home. it was hoisted by firemen over the world trade center rubble september 11th just hours after the twin towers were destroyed by terrorist, a few blocks away it was raised over city hall. its thrown over seven military ships including...

A lot of firemen over there. the flag. its gone. so its gone the first day. its gone within the first six hours. >> they always assumed that this happened after the picture was published. the picture was first published on the 12th in new jersey, and on the 13th in "the new york post." >> correct. >> so then the question is, who took it and why? >> i cant seeing anybody climbing out there and grabbing

Thick fog cut visibility to almost nothing. >> and lets have a look at what is trending right now around the world. this is in china, a 16-year-old like most teens couldnt imagine losing his playstation, so he dropped it down a narrow gap between two walls and naturally he tried to give it and he slipped and got wedged between the walls. >> of course he did. if you look closely to the right of the policemans white helmet you can see the little kids face. it was pretty serious. the team was begin...

♪ ♪ >> there was a prayer for america. i insisted admiral, because he was my partner from ten minutes in to the end, i insisted that he be in the program. >> admiral robert natter. >> these images of our history are now joined for eternity with the actions of three new york city firemen determined to erect a flagstaff and hoist our colors over the rubble that was the world trade center. >> michael brady, bob natter do you have a minute? >> i sure do. >> okay. i got you on speaker phone and w...

World financial center and looking at this devastation and the firemen and the relief workers, and there was this flag right below me, and i remember photographing it because it was there. to me, it was part of the scene out the window. but not particularly significant. i dont think i ever connected my flag picture with the flag in that other picture in the sense that i wasnt aware that this was to become an iconic picture. >> seeing this picture like over the years, i almost just assumed that i...

Because its a relic of the day. >> what happened to these firemen and where are they? >> you know, i think they never wanted this attention in the first place. they never anticipated that this would become -- >> everybodys first reaction who is a hero is to say im not. >> my name is bill eisengrind. im the firefighter on the right. on the left is george johnson. on the left is dan mcwilliams. it was literally over in just a few minutes. we found a spot and raised the flag. the three of us looked...