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February 26, 1993, in new york city, it began as a regular day, but at 12:18 p.m., it would make history. >> i was homesick from school that day. i was watching television and was interrupted by breaking news. >> pandemonium at new yorks world trade center after a powerful explosion less than three hours ago. >> there were people being brought out of the building, smoke billowing out of the doors and window, soot covering peoples faces. >> before 9/11, there was another terrorist attack on the w...

And windows, soot covering peoples faces. >> before 9/11, there was another terrorist attack on the world trade center. the 1993 bombing claimed six lives that day and a federal investigation would reveal 10 men had conspired to plan it. one of them was zachs father, sayyid. nearly three years before the bombing he was put in prison following kahanes murder. but that didnt stop him from conspireing with the blind sheik and others to bomb the twin towers. at trial, a federal grand jury charged sa...

Literally we were so close we were craning our necks to see the top and then the top began to crumble down towards us. like so many others, we ran, we were covered with soot. we stayed down there for weeks and tried to get our arms around a story that was so close to us that in some ways it was very hard to connect with the reality for me. my brain saved me from actually terrible depression because i was so busy covering the story that i wasnt necessarily able to grasp it but i was also able to ...

That is strands of blanket. and the black stuff right here is like the soot and stuff in the windows, the black, sticky stuff. all this other material is just bars of soap, broken little pieces and stuff. >> in the short time hes been back in population, draper has traded his sculptures for envelopes to mail motions hes written to his judge. and since he has no money in his inmate account, he talked another inmate into making a phone call to his mother to check on her health. >> they called and ...

Backpacks and school uniforms, covered in blood. after their school bus was hit by a bomb, a crater at the site of the air strike, the smoke of the blast visible from miles away. this little boy covered in soot and surrounded by the dead just minutes after the strike was asked if he was okay. my legs hurt, he said. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have been bombing yemen more than three years helped by intelligence, advice and equipment from the u.s. theyre trying to fight off the houth...

Brownsville, texas, in mcallen, texas, there were dozen of these immigrants that are prosecuted daily in these. soot of questions. the immigratadvocates weve spoken of are very skeptical that this will be able to be irnld out any time soon. >> and one of the few things we can count on that you and i know as sure as the sun coming up tomorrow. if they ever put out the call to volunteers for parents to come care for these kids, to change them, rock with them, care for them, they would be inundated...

Well villages are right on the foothills of the mountains. they had no time because, one, its a thousand degrees, by the way, celsius as far as how hot this glass is and it flows a good 700 hours per kilometer. there is no time to get people out of the way. lets talk more about the additional threats we have ongoing in guatemala on the southern side of the country here. by the way, there is three volcanos here. the fuego volcano, fuego means fire in spanish here, the town that was mainly hit, el...

This will cost yet. 24 hours ago this was a bustling downtown. if you look at an area behind me is a parking lot with a dozen, dozen and a half cars. the crews have cleared all the mud and the soot. and the dozen plus cars from the area. people have been down here looking to see what has happened to the businesses and what has happened to the homes. we talked to one man who started a brewery about 21 years ago and he said he just celebrated that anniversary. three weeks ago he had just finishing...

>> this could potentially affect a huge slew of studies, including some landmark older studies that have underpinned, for example, some of the most basic air pollution rules that we have today, which affect the kind of -- the level of soot that can be emitted from power plants and other burning of fossil fuels like auto emissions. it could affect everything from, say, drinking water advisories across the country in terms of a lake, how much fish you could consume as well as maybe potentially wha...

Can also be made from everyday items. >> thats where usually they will burn soot. theyll take paper and oil and burn on it the bottom. >> burn baby oil or hair oil, hair grease, styrofoam cups back in the day. styrofoam cups, chess pieces. anything that doesnt burn complete. thats what soot is, unburned carbon. put it underneath a desk or in your locker box or something. >> then you put that in your body. >> oh, yeah. >> does it pose any health risks? >> yeah, of course. of course. but so does h...