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  1. 14. sep.

    Today is the last day of the effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom. One of the leading candidates opposing Governor Newsom is Larry Elder. In 1997, Morley Safer profiled the controversial conservative talk radio host.

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  2. 14. sep.

    More information on resources for supporting 9/11 survivors and first responders here:

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  3. 14. sep.

    20 years after 9/11, two retired NYPD sergeants, now health care providers, continue to see health challenges among first responders.

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  4. 13. sep.

    Dr. Benjamin Luft began the Stony Brook Medicine World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program as a pro bono service to help sick and injured 9/11 survivors and first responders nearly 20 years ago.

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  5. 13. sep.

    A Stony Brook study found nearly 15% of 9/11 survivors and first responders show early signs of cognitive decline. Currently, compensation for non-physical injuries is not covered by the federal law that aids 9/11 survivors and first responders.

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  6. 13. sep.

    In an hour, we cannot do justice to the 343 firefighters who died on 9/11, nor to the sacrifices of the NYC Police Department, the Port Authority Police, and those who died trying to save lives at the Pentagon and on Flight 93. We honor their memory.

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  7. 13. sep.

    “For everyone that was there that day, it just stayed with them, the sadness. We have plenty of good days, plenty to be thankful for, those of us who survived, but it's a day that'll never leave you,” says Fire Commissioner Dan Nigro about surviving 9/11.

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  8. 13. sep.

    In the 20 years following September 11, 2001, more than 60 children of firefighters who died on 9/11 and in the aftermath have been through the FDNY training academy.

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  9. 13. sep.

    “[After 9/11] my dad's brothers and sisters in the firehouse, they cooked for us…They took us to Six Flags,” says John Palombo, one of 10 children of Frank Palombo, a firefighter who died on September 11. John and his brother, Tommy, are now firefighters.

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  10. 13. sep.

    “It’s not the job that took my father; it was an act of terrorism that took my father. And that made me want to fight even more to protect the City of New York and the citizens,” says firefighter Josephine Smith, whose father died on 9/11.

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  11. 13. sep.

    “Had 9/11 not happened, I would not have been a New York City firefighter,” says FDNY battalion chief Chris Ganci. Ganci’s father, Chief of Department Pete Ganci, died on September 11.

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  12. 13. sep.

    343 members of the FDNY died on September 11, 2001. In a tradition where the job is handed down in families, many lost fathers, sons, and the brothers.

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  13. 13. sep.

    “I try to honor him by talking his name… That's how it is in the African American culture. When you speak the name of an ancestor or... the name of a loved one, then they live,” says firefighter Regina Wilson, whose mentor, John Chipura, died on 9/11.

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  14. 13. sep.

    As the North Tower of the World Trade Center started to collapse, the men of Engine 39 were caught in a stairwell, with more than 100 floors above them. “It took ten seconds for it to come down, but it felt like ten minutes.” Miraculously, they survived.

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  15. 13. sep.

    “I just remember the dust that day, feeling like it was searing your lungs… It felt like you were swallowing glass,” says John Sudnik, who was an FDNY captain on 9/11, recalling the moments after the South Tower collapsed.

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  16. 13. sep.

    When the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed, FDNY battalion chief Joe Pfeifer was 200 feet away in the North Tower. “The lobby goes pitch black,” recalls Pfeifer. “And in the darkness, I wondered if I was dead or alive.”

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  17. 12. sep.

    “Ladder 15 knew how dangerous it was. But we never thought that an entire high-rise building would collapse,” says Joe Pfeifer, who was an FDNY battalion chief on 9/11, about firefighters trying to rescue those trapped above the fire in the South Tower.

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  18. 12. sep.

    “None of us expected the building to come down…. [we thought] if we could just get one route above [the fires] in each building, perhaps we could bring some folks down,” says Dan Nigro, second in command of the FDNY on 9/11. “We just needed time.”

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  19. 12. sep.

    “That’s the kind of person Pete was. He would put people before himself without a doubt,” says Sal Cassano, FDNY tour commander on 9/11, about then-Chief of Department Peter Ganci. Ganci died on September 11, after going into the debris to save his men.

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  20. 12. sep.

    “When I gave the assignments out, I could see the look in their eyes. I remember seeing firefighters hugging each other and heading up [into the WTC towers],” says Peter Hayden, who was the Division One Commander of the FDNY on September 11, 2001.

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