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give our trigger pullers on the ground the kind of latitude they would need to crush isis? that's a scary thing to think about. >> are you speaking as a military member? what's the heart of our military right now and what our men and women are willing to do? >> well, they -- you saw the g-20, also. the basically used the troops as an excuse for inaction. i go to walter reed, of course that's in the heart of any commander in chief. but he basically said i don't want to do this when i come back wounded. when you ask vets about why they serve, they do it because they love it. they believe in it. they believe in this country. they're willing to give their lives for something -- >> when you see a military person serving over there, they are preventing people from jumping out of the 76th floor of the next world trade center. because there is the coordination. because the longer we leave this problem the greater the threat and the more damage they're going to do here. they've established a country while we watched. >> a terrorist nation. a rat cal islamist terrorist caliphate under our nose. no one wants to just throw troops at a problem. that's not what any vet --
i heard a banging noise inside the 81st floor and said to the fellow beside me we should help this person, not knowing who it was, a stranger. as the two of us went in on the 81st floor, the rest of the group was convinced by the lady to go up and they all died that day. tragic. >> we went in on the floor, my coworker ron was overcome with the smoke. he went back to the stairs. i carried onto find this stranger. dug him out of the rubble. and he and i returned to the stairway. i guess that was the fateful step. i pointed the flashlight down through the smoke. i wanted to test. i believed the lady, but we wanted to see for ourself. on the 76th floor we broke into fresh air, got down with four minutes to spare.
but the world is also different in a positive way where we are more fully informed. >> it's good you say that. because your story has positive aspects to it. you met who came to be your very close friend. bring us through what happened that day. you're on the 84th floor. what happens? >> i knew in that split second it was terrorism because we had been looking up nine floors to the building next door wondering what was going on. but knew something was amiss more than a small plane, that's for sure. the room fell apart. i had been asked to be a volunteer fire marshall and the world trade center provided me with a flashlight and a whistle and everything else. i had that with me at the time and led a group of six people off our floor to stairway a. we were stopped by a woman coming up and said, you can't go down. there's flames below us.
cross. >> this cross was in the rubble. it came we believe from building 6. it just provided a bit of spirituality under conditions unimaginable. >> reporter: it's a huge space, 110,000 square feet down below the memorial. it's really the foot print of where the towers once stood. if you want to help out, they are working through this. you can go to 911 memorial do - memorial.org. >> even all these years later, obviously, it's impacted our foreign policy in such a terrible way over the past 12 years, but, you know, i was with a friend in my hometown a couple weeks ago, i found out not from him but somebody else he was on the 76th floor having a meeting
pay attention it can be quite deadly. jenna: dr. manny, always nice to see you. >> thank you. >> dr. manny, i was in yosemite back in june. i may have to schedule an office call. but i wasn't in the tents. >> i will keep an eye on you. jon: please do. prince andrew giving new meaning to the royal highness. he scaled a skyscraper in london to raise money for two different charities. it is called the shard and now the tallest building in europe. looking back from the descent from the 76th floor, it is a hell of a long way, so understated. a statue of president obama is getting a lot of attention. not cast in bronze or made of marble but sand. the statue is 25 feet tall. it sits a few blocks from the convention hall. commissioned by officials in myrtle beach, south carolina, to attract tourists their way.