Introducing: 9/11: Two Decades Later

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, sixty four degree is at eight o'clock. It's Tuesday,
September eleven. Here's what's happening against primary day and the
polls are opening. September eleven, two am, the beginning of
another day along the eastern seaboards, where we could be
in for a solid open to the trading day. Stock
index futures point to some buying for the broader market
and for text. Then one minute later, six am, New

(00:24):
York City. This justin. You were looking at obviously a
very disturbing live shot there that is the World Trade Center,
and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane
has crashed into one of the towers of the World
Trade Center. American Airlines Flight eleven crashed into the World
Trade Center's North tower. Minutes later, United Airlines Flight one

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slammed into the Trade Center's South tower. We're gonna take
a look at videotape just moments ago of the second
plane hitting the World Trade Center. That is spectacular pictures.
Met two was a passenger plane. For HAPs some type
of navigating system or some type of electronics would have

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put two planes, you know, the World Trade Center within.
It looks like about eighteen minutes of each other. Within
the hour, an American Airlines flight struck the Pentagon, the
United Airlines flight goes down near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and both
World Trade Center towers collapsed. In just under two hours,
two thousand people were killed and some thousand more were injured.

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Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed
into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack
on our country. I have spoken to the Vice President,
to the Governor of New York, to the director of
the FBI, and I've ordered that the full resources of

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the federal government go to help the victims and their families,
and and to conduct a full scale investigation to hunt
down and to find those folks who committed this act.
Terrorism against our nation will not stand. I'm investigative journalist

(02:19):
Steve Gregory. The attacks of nine eleven forever changed to America.
It also marked the beginning of the War on terror,
with it the creation of new agencies like the Department
of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, which implemented
sweeping changes to how Americans would travel. Join me for
nine eleven. Two decades later, an exploration of decisions made

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to make Americans safer? Do airport checkpoints work as the
Patriot Act made us more secure? Did Americans even understand
the color coded terror alerts. We'll talk with those behind
the scenes, those who were there in the inner sanctum
of agencies that made life changing decisions, and we'll attend
to answer the question is America safer today than twenty

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years ago? H