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You before, it is it is so painful to hear the audio in se the video from that day. but you were there, take us through that scene when you arrived. >> thank you, laura for having me on here. i cant believe its 20 years like you said before. when we got it at the firehouse when i first got to the firehouse, of all the hundreds of people i saw my father right away and he was looking for me and he says mike michaels working, michaels working grea i said im going to go over there now and im going t...

Was a lieutenant in the new york city police department. i recall that day at ground zero where we saw the ground was smoldering. many of the military personnel, firefighters, police officers were covered in soot. it was a challenging time for our country. but i believe the day we should really acknowledge is september 12th. on september 12th, we got up, teachers taught, builders built, retailers sold their goods and services, and it showed the resilience of our country during a significant time...

Going to shut counsel. i was petrified. >> you could see the two plumes of smoke coming from the towers. >> people getting off the train covered in soot. covered in dirt came by a fire company. >> i chose to join the fire services. >> i distinctly remember going down, seeing all the people out there, thanking the first responders, unfortunately, once you got to ground zero, the realization was pretty evident that there was probably nothing we could do. >> we lost 17 residents and it really impac...

Dirt and soot off the grass. >> reporter: the storm spawned at least ten tornadoes in the northeast, including the one that destroyed troy thomass home in mullica hill, new jersey. >> the sound of it, is what ill just, i will never get out of my head, is the sound of just, everything sounded like cracking and breaking. >> reporter: in new york city, officials are rewriting emergency protocols after nearly a dozen people died in flooded basement apartments. the storm arrived in the northeast afte...

Seat. they would do anything, they would break any rule or norm or precedent to get a conservative republican appointed justice in that vacant seat. and honestly, to get an anti-abortion justice in that vacant seat. and, of course, they didnt have to hold that seat open for more than a year. donald trump won the election in 2016. and they let him fill that seat they held open for a year soas to deny president obama the right to fill it. that was on the abortion and he got a soot and trump got to...

An ordinance expert and trainee told me looking at the available photos of the scene show a lack of soot on the lawns, relatively little amount of shrapnel. a tree knocked down with the foliage intact. after viewing these things, you know, what -- do you still stand by with a high degree of confidence there was a significant explosion and not something like a gas tank explosion or something like that that may misdirect a secondary explosion? >> we know there was a secondary explosion. assessed w...

Me that the photos of the scene show a look of soot on the walls, so relatively little shrapnel. so after viewing these things, what is your feeling, do you think it was a significant explosion and not something like a gas tank explosion or something like that they may have been there and what would be used in a high profile attack. i dont have details on the investigation that youre talking about there. but we will continue to assess

E.o.d. tech from the publicly available photos of scene show a lack of soot on the the walls, relatively little amount of shrapnel, there is a tree that was knocked down that was -- with the foilage still in act. so after viewing these things, do you still stand by with a high degree of confidence there was a significant explosion and not something like a gas tank explosion or something like that that may misdirect the evidence of a big secondary explosion? >> we know that, as i said earlier the...

The mother of three wasnt surprised. she, her son and two grandchildren had asthma too so gordon began researching the health impacts of pollution. >> every workshop, congress, symposium i attended. >> she found black soot inside her home. >> in my mucus lining and throat. >> reporter: she began to connect the dots. >> we have so much pollution. we have three freeways that surround a black community. we have the ships, the trains and the trucks 24/7. thank you very much. >> reporter: she co-foun...

Questions they asked you, how they treated? you >> they asked me about catherines whereabouts, if they she had anywhere friends at the time, who would be in the house, and utilities in the house that wouldve had a problem, things like that. >> the interview was routine, but the investigation was not. firefighters cannot figure out what ignited the blaze. they check the wiring, the appliances, the pilot stove, the propane tanks, nothing conclusive. but then, things changed. the da brought in a sp...