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ABC News goes inside 9/11 Memorial & Museum
ABC News has gone inside the 9/11 Memorial & Museum to witness the hallowed space that's dedicated to making sure people never forget.
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9/11 25th anniversary live updates: Families gather for ceremonies at World Trade Center, Pentagon, Shanksville
Ceremonies were held Friday in New York City, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Friday marks 25 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, which claimed the lives of 2,977 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Another 9,000 people have died from 9/11-related illnesses over the last 25 years.
Victims' families, first responders and politicians gathered for annual remembrance ceremonies at the memorials in downtown Manhattan, the Pentagon in Virginia, and Shanksville, as Americans across the country pause to remember and reflect.
"9/11 Tribute in Light: Live from Lower Manhattan," a one-hour ABC News multiplatform live special, premieres on Friday, Sept. 11, at 8:00 p.m. EDT across ABC, Disney+, Hulu, National Geographic, ABC Owned Television Stations livestreams and ABC News Live.
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ABC News' Jon Karl recounts covering Capitol Hill on 9/11
On 9/11, ABC News' Jon Karl said he raced out the door to drive to his beat, the U.S. Capitol. As he headed past the Pentagon, he said he could see smoke pouring out and police cars “going everywhere.”
When he arrived at the Capitol, it was under evacuation.
But he still “ended up spending that entire day in and around the Capitol complex,” he said, and he ended the day with a powerful interview with Hillary Clinton, then a new senator from New York.
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ABC News' Martha Raddatz reflects on reporting from DC on 9/11
ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz was reporting from the State Department and her husband, also a journalist, was at the Pentagon on 9/11.
When the Pentagon was attacked, Raddatz said she and her cameraman walked to Memorial Bridge where they saw the flames shooting out of the building.
“By then I knew which side of the Pentagon had been hit, I knew my husband was on the other side. I just felt like I knew he was OK,” she said. “But to watch from Memorial Bridge, where we were all day, and imagine that that fourth plane was going to hit the Capitol, the White House. I could hear the panic in our people from the White House. ... Fighter jets going down the Potomac River and just streams of men and women in uniform crossing into Washington, D.C... to get ready for whatever they needed to get ready for.”
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George Stephanopoulos shares video from 9/11
“Good Morning America” co-anchor George Stephanopoulos shared a video from the moment he and other journalists were evacuated while covering the collapse of the World Trade Center.
