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Queer years ahead is our values. exactly 20 years later to the minute where the american flight 77 hit the side of the pentagon on the first floor, penetrating three of the outer rings into the building. 20 years to the minute later after that was a moment of silence with the ceremony here wrapped up. many made their way over my right shoulder behind us, survivors, first responders, and loved ones of the fallen, to the memorial garden, where there are 184 memorial benches, each with an engraved ...

At the white house ceremonies began this morning with a moment of silence and the president and first lady headed to the pentagon where flight 77 hit where president trump laid a wreath and had this message for those who lost loved ones in 2001. >> for the families who join us, this is your anniversary of personal and permanent loss. its the day that himself replayed in your memory a thousand times over, the last kiss, the last phone call, the last time hearing those precious words i love you, b...

For everywhere you go, expedia has everything you need, all in one place. tonight we remember. we remember 2,977 lives lost 18 years ago in the september 11 terror attacks. youre looking right now at a live picture of the beams of light. the youngest who died was just 2. the oldest 85. they were daughters and sons, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, and grandparents and aunts and uncles, and cousins, military members, and firefighters and police officers. citizens. our fellow country m...

Americanairlines, that it had two aircraft in this tragedy. 81 passengers and nine flight attendants. flight 77, a boeing 757 him operating from washington dulles to l.a., thats from our henkle, one of the guys in the dallas area from americanairlines. >> now we know the identity of two of the flights involved. that leaves at least one more and a report of the crash in pittsburgh is accurate, that leaves two more. >> heres the first confirmat n confirmation. one of the flights crashed. flight 93...

States. so begins the 9/11 commission report on what was about to become a day filled with dark skies. >> the fest event happened not in washington, boston, or new york, but here in portland, maine, at mike dewys ticket counter. it was just before 6:00 a.m., and tuey had just hecked in the first commuter flight to boston. >> i stepped on to the side walk and had a smoke. just as soon as i stepped over-the-counter, i look up and see the two fellows standing there, and theyre looking around. >> in...

It, didnt i? i checked them in. >> it would take touhey days to return to work full-time. for alex it would be months before he could return to dulles. >> it had to have been hard to go back to work. >> where he. im not going to kid about it. the paranoia, obviously. was the next person you checked in going to do something horrible again? or was the next passenger you checked in going to die on a flight that you worked? so it was stressful. >> you went into a real tailspin after this, didnt you?...

Out. we knew -- we thought is that where its going? it kept coming. then at one point we got under a minute, and i said its about 30 seconds out. faa control manager mike mccormick is on a teleconference call listening helplessly to a similar countdown. >> think started counting down ten miles to the white house, nine miles to the white house, eight miles to the white house. seems like more than 30 seconds. what do you got? >> we dont know. it dropped off our radar. >> american flight 77 did not...

Area b so it could be with the controllers, be with the supervisors and look at the radar display. >> you wanted to see that plane? >> absolutely. walked up to the radar screens right in here, and went back and forth between the radar screens looking at the activity and take appropriate abbings and make the right decisions. >> with flight 11 not responding, controllers turned to other eyes in the sky asking other commercial airline pilots if they could spot the american airlines jet. one of the ...

They were hijacked. >> supervisor rich was working one last day before leaving the earl for a new job. >> drinking my coffee, and just realizing this is the last day, and it was kind of bittersweet, and i hear a commotion or someone talking about something hit a building in new york. i go, oh, thats odd. >> at that moment one of his workers catches his attention. belme is now footnote 81. >> he is white as a ghost and i could tell something is wrong. he says i just got a call from 175. the crew ...

I turned around to my trainees and i said flight 77 watch, you know? its going to be the last two. >> the passengers? two of that flights five hijackers. brothers. they, too, were running late, missing flight 77s official check-in deadline by mere minutes. >> is at that point i said to the agent ill tell you what. let me show you how to do this because heres the passengers that are running late, but im sure we can get them on. >> the younger fellow is standing sort of off to the right and behind...