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Jumped to escape the flames and smoke. >> that is a horrible thing that the terrorists forced people to make that choice. the conditions inside the buildings were so bad they had to step out knowing they were jumping to their deaths. >> making the decision to include these images was not easy. >> the question of whether we show that in the museum, those issues are tough, because they are so graphic. at the same time if you dont show it you are not telling the full story. >> when visitors return ...

That one is safe but a lot of buildings, a lot of homes are at ground level and that is the bad news. there has been a great deal of flooding. i would say at the height we had something like two feet of water rushing across these parking lots, rushing across broadway there and into the homes that line the entire stretch of that road. so a lot of people are going to come back now and find out that they have a great deal of water damage. officials are going door to door now to try to assess exactl...

When? >> yesterday. >> what time? >> around noon from a private number. >> what did your daughter say to you? >> hi mommy. >> thats it? >> she started telling me a story talking about her shoes and books. >> did she say anything to you after you went through this scenario? >> yes what did she say? >> at that time, she told me that she had not seen caylee in 31 days. that she had been kidnapped. >> did go to the apartment from what i could view from ground level as well at the stair level, the bl...

When? >> yesterday. >> what time? >> around noon from a private number. >> what did your daughter say to you? >> hi mommy. >> thats it? >> she started telling me a story talking about her shoes and books. >> did she say anything to you after you went through this scenario? >> yes what did she say? >> at that time, she told me that she had not seen caylee in 31 days. that she had been kidnapped. >> did go to the apartment from what i could view from ground level as well at the stair level, the bl...

2,700 homes, t.j., took some kind of damage. right now theyre still in the assessment phase, going through various streets trying to clean up power lines, trying to get power restored and make some of these streets passable. for the first time today were told some of the homeowners will be allowed back in to start going through the rubble and see if they can claim some of their belongings. but really an enormous task in front of them. two themes are emerging here with the story. you have what ha...

California that have been called upon in so many tragedies, will be moving out into the stricken towns. an indication just how desperate the japanese are for aid, in the 1995 earthquake there where 6,000 people died, the japanese refused most foreign aid. this time they are accepting aid from even rivals like china and south korea. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >> that is certainly telling. now, at ground level, as you can imagine, it is hard to exactly take in the size and scope of th...

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At the ground level on the states on taxes and on unions from andrew cuomo to jerry brown. mike barnicle, its not just chris christie and john kasic saying, enough, with paying our publy money. you have cuomo and brown saying weve got to protect tax papers now. >> maine, arizona. >> the interesting case in new york, newly elected governor andrew cuomo now having to seek an alliance with the republicans in the legislature to get this done. same thing has happened in new jersey. big piece in "the ...

This is from the organization, the united states senate. gives you the longitude and latitude, the city and state, atlanta, georgia. up here you can see the spot on google map. if we zoom in, right here, thats the office building used by senator chambliss. now take a look at what it looks like on ground level. we sent a crew there tonight hoping to talk to someone or at least be able to see how many people are inside using computers, but it was after hours and no one was there. earlier we called...

For one thing, when youre picking beans, you have to spend all day bending over. it turns out and i did not know this, most soil is at ground level. if we can put a man on the moon, why cant we make the earth waist high? where is the funding? >> there is dana bash, our senior congressional correspondent. she joins us now from the hill. im looking through his prepared notes. i didnt see any of that. what was the react from the people in the room? >> reporter: im not sure what could you see on tel...