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September 11, 2001, was firefighter Rob Serra's first day on the job with the FDNY. He rushed toward the disaster that fateful morning to try and save his...
>> your, right now, as is not often the case -- we're going to see it from ground zero -- the pentagon has a beam of light that they're shooting up that they shot up for people. and i always wonder, one of you guys, i forget who, but one of the advocates and brother who had been down there said when that beam of light, when you see it, we shine it as a reminder but it is also supposed to be about what we're shining it on. from the pentagon shooting up into the sky, but if you want to focus people on things focus on what matters. and taking care of the people who took care of us matters. rob, i...
Well, brother. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> rob serra. now, this is the first 9/11 since we ended the war in afghanistan. we have good news on that front. remember, you want to come together in a crisis. we got to get americans home. we got to get allies home. and we are. i have a story for you about an afghan family that escaped, one son had to be left behind. but he just made it to america. how? next.
Dedication to public service. it kind of like restarted my life. like, we've always talked about a before and after 9/11. i think after that day i realised how important, a, community is, and, b, service is. kids now learn about 9/11 as a moment of history. they see the shocking videos, but do not have the lived experience. still, all around them are haunting reminders that the tragedy is not over. when the twin towers collapsed, lower manhattan was blanketed in a toxic cloud. and for months first responders and those who worked, studied and lived here, breathed in that air — air contaminate...
Jun 29, 2021 / 11:43 AM CDT SURFSIDE, Fla. (NewsNation Now) — The search for survivors is now on its sixth day after a 12-story condo collapsed in south Florida. 150 are still missing and 11 bodies have been found among the rubble. It’s a grueling yet delicate task on a massive pile of twisted concrete and steel. The scenes playing out in Surfside are eerily reminiscent of ground zero in New York after the September 11 attacks nearly 20 years ago. Several first responders, paid the ultimate price when they responded to the 2001 attacks. They have faced, not only the dangers of that day b...