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good morning, from new york city. welcome to a special edition of your cnn sunday morning on this september 11th, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. hello to you all. i'm t.j. holmes this morning coming to you from a spot overlooking ground zero. we'll have a lot more for you from here and this morning soledad o'brien will be joining me throughout the morning. she's at riverside park on the upper west side of manhattan. that is where firefighters are gathering to pay tribute to their fellow firefighters who died in the attacks. we check in with her in just a bit. also, ...

Central africa. we don't know what the strategy of going for the big attack, which we always assumed was a core element of the strategy, was delivered by bin laden personally. now that he's gone, there may be an opportunity for others who have different views of the attacks to shape strategically. does that mean where instead of blowing up an airliner, you're bringing simultaneous attacks on different facilities. while this is a big advantage over bin laden, we have to look very carefully at what may be tactical changes in how they move forward. >> are you concerned they didn't capture him ali...

Affiliate tried to blow up and almost did blow up an american airliner with several hundred people aboard. now, that is, i think, a fair approximation of its capacity. once in a while, it could kill hundreds of people. that ought to get our attention, but it need not be the basis for organizing every aspect of our national life or our national defense. >> do you agree with that or no? >> i don't know if i would agree that it's not spreading. i think if you look over the last few years, you've seen a greater presence of al qaeda or an affiliation with al qaeda in north africa, obviously in yeme...

Income a year, so the alternative is to have taxes go up on everyone and the best economic analysis we have is that that would hurt the economy next year. perhaps cut economic growth next year in half. and also, lead to a sell-off in the markets. that would not be helpful. so look, if there's a temporary extension of all the tax cuts, what really matters is what comes next. is there a grand bargain to deal with the deficit and debt long-term that has its core element fundamental tax reform in this country. >> do you think such a grand bargain is possible? is that deal out there? >> i do think ...

Unions. part of the measure of effectiveness of teachers is how the kids are doing. you've got to link that up and this is what duncan has been insistent on and if you do the right things by kids you will see those results and then as a lot of us believe and i think this is what arnie duncan believes those teaches who are doing a great job should get better compensation, more compensation, but stop protecting the 5%, 6%, or 7% who are dragging our kids down. >> do you agree with that? >> i think that mr. bennett has really named the core element that has to be changed if we're going to have sc...