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The teachers union president is here for an exclusive interview. >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. the presidential candidates put their campaigns on hold to mark the somber anniversary of the terrorist attacks. president obama spoke this morning at a pentagon memorial ceremony where one of the hijacked planes crashed 11 years ago today. >> we know that somewhere a son is growing up with his fathers eyes and a daughter has her mothers laugh, living reminders that those who died a...

Is caught on camera. twot planes were actually temporarily stuck together one of them forced to make an emergency landing right on the beach. the other landed safely at the airport. amazingly no one hurt. finally in london workers at a motorcycle dealer fighting off armed robbers two suspects wearing helmets tried to walk out of the showroom with two expensive motor cycles but the workers battled back taking them out of the store. >> we mark 11 years since the terrorist attacks. >> we are joined...

At battery park at new york city, not far from the world trade center itself. but as it turned out i was in washington, d.c. to meet with members of congress about the preparations for the security of the upcoming olympic winter games. a colleague and i were working in an offers we had in the ronald reagan building a few blocks from the white house. someone rushed into our office and said a plane had hit the world trade center. i turned on the small tv on our desk and watched in shock as the fla...

From downtown new york. good morning to you, mayor. >> good morning, steve. how are you? >> steve: fine, thanks. 11 years. that was fast. >> it sure was. i mean, sometimes it seems like yesterday. particularly when i come down here examine think about what happened that day and all the terrible things i saw, other people dying, people get hit by en the heroism of theg out of firefighters, police officer, construction workers, which was above and beyond the call of duty. so its hard. its worst da...

New york, they have asked a lot of people at 30 rockefeller plaza to leave. its another high rooiz canise building in new york. i came down the length of manhattan and a lot of people were simply unaware of what happened. you do you know in in the radio they began to get it. it is election day here in new york. >> primary day. >> what we have is something most americans thought could never occur. >> and larry johnson that i spoke with a few moments ago, the former deputy director of the state de...

In terms of air travel today. we dont know where it goes from here. >> i later said that to get through that morning and that day and all the days that followed took everything that i knew as a journalist, as a husband, as father, as a human being. >> that is, of course, tom brokaw recalling what it was like to report the news on that morning of september 11th, 2001. today is the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 civilians and resulted in the united states fighti...

Terrorist attacks that could be planned either in new york or elsewhere. this is absolutely the worst case scenario for the counter terrorist planners because apparently, according to -- scrambling the u.s. military, it would be for protection for the time being and not necessarily even thinking right now about any kind of retaliation. >> david gregory is now on the phone. >> where hes following the president. >> thats right. david? >> yes, katie, the president is about to begin an education eve...

Firefighter sources that the building was in danger. engineers were on the scene and they say that the building was structure structurally very weak. >> all they did was come to work that moirpg. that morning. they didnt come to do battle. >> the people who went to vietnam knew what that they were doing. they were trained for that. you dont expect that, going to work at the pentagon in an office. >> he was already very focused and calm. it was remarkable to me. he was not shaken in that sense. t...

Kids today. thanks so much. now to your headlines. big development overnight in afghanistan. the united states officially handing over formal control of bagram prison to afghanistans government. the prison houses hundreds of prisoners suspected of fighting for the taliban. the u.s. reportedly fears afghan authorities may just let some of those detainees go. so the u.s. will retain custody of nearly 50 of those inmates accused of fighting for the taliban. the plant in michigan will open its doo...

>> terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but cannot touch the foundation of america. these acts shattered steel but they cannot dent the steel of american resolve. none of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. >> what is t did was reaffirm t me this is a country worth living in and these are people worth defending and there are things in this world that you had to be willing to die for. >> i l...