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it out alive. >> i thought everyone i ever imagined working with ever had been killed. >> he attempted his own life. he tells us how he rebuild his business and his life over the dust of ground zero. and a woman whose life went up in flames on that terrible day. >> out of the elevator shaft blew a wall of fire that enveloped me. >> she had an 8% chance of living through it. this is a special edition of "piers morgan tonight." good evening, tonight new york city is a city on edge. we hear more about the terror alerts from 9/11. communications from a known al qaeda operative in pak...

also mitt romney's preemptive strike on jobs, the republican unveils his plan days before the president's big speech. this hour political leaders zeroizer zeroing in on issue number one. do any have a plan that will really work? and texas wildfires destroying more than 700 homes in 48 hours. a massive blaze growing closer to the state's capital is growing bigger and more destructive every minute. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." i've covered dick cheney for many years as a defense secretary and certainly as vice president of the united states. today i found him t...

That bin laden was more directly involved in trying to lay out the network's plans for the future. and he was obsessed, still, with mass transit. in this case, rail. and he has been obsessed with planes in the path and whether this will take us to the next step of operators to take them out. >>shepard: and they are leading us to believe he did not leave that house in six years. that does not sound like much of a life. >>reporter: what struck me officials say there are many pieces that pointed to bin laden but some missing pieces especially in terms of the security that did not make sense at th...

That's not true in yemen or somalia. >> from your knowledge of al qaeda, do you think they're more fearful of us being in afghanistan or more fearful of the drones that we use even without 100,000 of our troops in afghanistan? which has done more arm to them, both within the jihadist community and their infrastructure? >> they'd like to have afghanistan back. and they're quite frightened of the drones that are attacking them in pakistan. but i think these are either-or pakistan. if we weren't in afghanistan, the taliban would come back in the southern part of the country and bring al qaeda bac...

Why does he keep saying over and over again, the mindset issue? >> the mindset issue is this. prior to 9/11 you look at way the clinton administration tried to bring people to justice from the first world trade center bombing. after 9/11 we realized al qaeda has been at war with the united states not just before 9/11, you could go all the way back to 1979. you could go forward to the khobar towers. the united states needed to wake up and recognize that islamic terrorists sought to kill american terrorists. 9/11 was the big wake-up call and now you seem to have a pre- 9/11 mindset where this ad...