america remembers. this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. reporting from ground zero. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. just a few hours from now it will be september 12th and we ll be beyond this awful day on the calendar for another year. it s a gray evening here in new york city. of course, this september 11th was different. it s now been a full decade since the morning when hell rained down on earth from the sky and changed all of our lives forever. so today in the places where it happened back then, here in new york and in washington and pennsylvania, tens of thousands of people gathered to mark the darkest day in modern american history. that field in pennsylvania has regrown. the pentagon was fixed a year later. here in new york, however, it still looks like a bit of a crater even though now this space at least contains a proper memorial that the families got to visit just today. and tha
calendar for another year. it s a gray evening here in new york city. of course, this september 11th was different. it s now been a full decade since the morning when hell rained down on earth from the sky and changed all of our lives forever. so today in the places where it happened back then, here in new york and in washington and pennsylvania, tens of thousands of people gathered to mark the darkest day in modern american history. that field in pennsylvania has regrown. the pentagon was fixed a year later. here in new york, however, it still looks like a bit of a crater even though now this space at least contains a proper memorial that the families got to visit just today. and that s where we begin our coverage of this day s events with lester holt. what a day it was here. what a day, brian. 2,983 names are read aloud here at ground zero today. that was the combined total of those who died on 9/11 and in the 93 world trade center bombing. the reading of names interrupt
this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. reporting from ground zero. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. just a few hours from now it will be september 12th and we ll be beyond this awful day on the calendar for another year. it s a gray evening here in new york city. of course, this september 11th was different. it s now been a full decade since the morning when hell rained down on earth from the sky and changed all of our lives forever. so today in the places where it happened back then, here in new york and in washington and pennsylvania, tens of thousands of people gathered to mark the darkest day in modern american history. that field in pennsylvania has regrown. the pentagon was fixed a year later. here in new york, however, it still looks like a bit of a crater even though now this space at least contains a proper memorial that the families got to visit just today. and that s where we begin ou