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York governor kathy hochul signs legislation meant to help world trade center responders. the series of bills signed just today to mark the anniversary, fred. it's supposed to basically expand the criteria for those who responded to the world trade center site and make it easier for them to apply for benefits online. there's so many americans that participated in rescue and recovery efforts, really following the events that took place 20 years ago today. >> polo sandoval, thank you so much, in new york. today, former president george w. bush drew a parallel between the extremism that drove t...

(brother) that's a cat. wait, just hold madi's headpiece. (sister) no. seriously? (brother) his name is whiskers. (bride) what happened to you? whose cat is that? (brother) it's a long story. (sister) oh my gosh. (farmer) whiskers! there you are! (avo) the subaru crosstrek. the adventurous s-u-v for adventurous people. love. it's what makes subaru, subaru. 20 years after terrorists crashed planes in the twin towers, the man who helped check in some of the attackers at an airport in maine reflects now on that morning. >> mike tui was a ticket agent at the portland international jet port where...

Temporal reminder of the loss of nearly 3,000 people, jake. >> laura jarrett, thanks so much. paula reed is live in shanksville, pennsylvania, not far from pittsburgh, pennsylvania, western part of the state where president biden has just arrived. paula, tell us what you've seen. >> reporter: really an incredible tribute here today at the national memorial to flight 93. flight 93 was one of the four commercial airliners hijacked on 9/11 but didn't reach the intended target, believed to be the u.s. capitol, because the crew members banded together and stormed the cockpit. instead of crashing in...

Course, what happens tonight tribute in light, the twin beams that reached 4 miles in the sky will go on tonight for the 20-year mark, eric and arthel. arthel: thank you very much for the report there from lower manhattan. eric. eric: well, arthel, president biden and the first lady attended a wreath-laying ceremony in the last hour in shanksville, pennsylvania, flight 93 crashed into the field near a coal mine after the 40 heroic passengers and crew members on board they voted to rush the cockpit in an attempt to overtake the armed hijackers sealing forever their defiance against terror evil....

[ applause ] this is not mere nostalgia. it is the truest version of ourselves. it is what we have been and what we can be again. 20 years ago, terrorists chose a random group of americans on a routine flight to be collateral damage in a spectacular act of terror. the 33 passengers and 7 crew of flight 93 could have been any group of citizens selected by fate. in a sense, they stood in for us all. the terrorists soon discovered that a random group of americans is an exceptional group of people. facing an impossible circumstance, they comforted their loved ones by phone, braced each other for a...