On Thursday, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey said there were "not any specific or credible threats" tied to the anniversary of the attacks but that analysts were closely watching for threats from Al Qaeda or the Islamic State terrorist group. Within two hours, both towers had collapsed, engulfing lower Manhattan in acrid dust and smoke and debris that burned for days. The first plane slammed into the North tower at 8:46am, followed by a second plane hitting the South tower at 9:03am. Next to the 16-acre site where the Twin Towers stood is the newly opened 1 World Trade Centre, the tallest skyscraper in the Western hemisphere. Also, the planned trip by the President to Schenectady, New York, on Tuesday, January 11, to the General Electric energy division is postponed. Today, the President has signed a proclamation calling for flags to be flown at half-staff. The day also honours those who were killed in 1993, when a car bomb tore through one of the parking garage of one of the towers. The moment of silence will be pooled press. In New York, the buzz of increased commerce from new residential and business towers has returned a large degree of normalcy to the area, known after the attacks as Ground Zero. The passengers are believed to have fought back against the hijackers, who crashed the plane upside down at nearly 900 kilometres per hour. Relatives of the 40 passengers and crew members who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 gathered at the newly dedicated Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville. The New York ceremony, where politicians past and present mixed with families but gave no speeches, was punctuated by moments of silence to mark the times when each of the four planes crashed and the towers fell.ĭefence secretary Ash Carter led a remembrance ceremony for relatives of those killed at the Pentagon. Hijackers crashed two other commercial jets into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. "No remains were ever found, so basically this is his cemetery. The crowds keep getting less, but my wife and I, as long as we're breathing, we'll be here," said Tom Acquaviva, who with his wife Josephine, lost their son Paul when the towers fell. Relatives of the victims read their names in a solemn and poignantly familiar pattern.Įmblematic of the generations affected, children who were not old enough to remember their late relatives or had yet to meet them participated in the roll call. We will #NeverForget our loved ones and first responders," current New York mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter. "Emotions and memories of 9/11 are with us so vividly today and always. In New York, police and relatives of those killed in the World Trade Centre began the annual reading of the names of the victims at Ground Zero, which is now the site of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama return to the White House after leading a moment of silence for the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting.
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