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Take one.

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The events of 9/11 were devastating
for everybody.

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It's amazing that it's 25 years ago,
'cause I can still feel it, you know?

4
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I'll never forget.
It's, like, seared into my soul.

5
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<i>I heard a plane.
The impact was unbelievable.</i>

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<i>And then I saw a flame.</i>

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I see the towers. We're under attack.

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<i>This looks like it is some sort
of a concerted effort</i>

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<i>to attack the World Trade Center.</i>

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I'm getting chills thinking
about how terrible that was.

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My goodness,
I'm getting those chills again.

12
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<i>The entire building...</i>

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{\an8}<i>...has just collapsed,
and it is not there anymore.</i>

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People start calling,
and the TV goes on, and...

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it all starts to sink in.

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{\an8}<i>As we came downstairs,</i>

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{\an8}<i>we were just dragging people along
with us.</i>

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Everyone that rushed
down there immediately

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and risked their own lives
to help others,

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{\an8}those were the true heroes.

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{\an8}My dad loved being a fireman.

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He's my hero, for sure.

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{\an8}We were all inspired by everyday people.

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{\an8}After September 11th,
players and coaches knew

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they had a responsibility
to be there for the public.

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I wasn't a coach anymore.
I was just an American.

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You wanted to do something.

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Everyone was like, "Okay. Here we go.
Now do your job,

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and you have to make people smile again
and know that we're gonna be okay."

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And we looked at our job as this was
another responsibility to provide joy.

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<i>At the wall! See ya!</i>

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Our job was to give people
something to cheer for.

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And you think, "What can you do?"

34
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And then I was contacted
about The Concert for New York.

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New York City firefighters,
police officers,

36
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tonight is dedicated to you.

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I often make fun of, you know,
who gives a crap about a play?

38
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But we do care about those things.

39
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And when something like this happens,
they matter a lot.

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Celebrities, the-the stars of the show,

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they came here tonight because they wanted
to show us that everything will be fine.

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For all of us
in sports, music, entertainment,

43
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we all realized
that we could all collectively...

44
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help the country heal.

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There's no place like New York City.

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{\an8}Even though I grew up in the South
and I've lived here on the East Coast

47
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{\an8}for more than half my life,

48
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it just gets into your soul.

49
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I was born in New York City.

50
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I grew up in Long Island.

51
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{\an8}It was always a magical time

52
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{\an8}coming over the Long Island Expressway
and seeing Oz.

53
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I grew up in, uh, Greenwich Village.

54
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{\an8}I love New York. I-I'm, uh...

55
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{\an8}I mean, I see why people don't.
You could not love it too.

56
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{\an8}I had never thought
I would live in New York City.

57
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{\an8}This was the furthest place
from my mind

58
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{\an8}when it came to where I'm gonna start
my football career.

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But I was drafted here,
and I fell in love with the city.

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My dad worked at IBM, and they
had some special bus trip to the city.

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{\an8}I remember just falling in love with
the smell of the hot-dog cart and the...

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{\an8}Even the exhaust from the subway,
I remember. And I just...

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{\an8}All that magic, it was just, uh...
It's larger than life.

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<i>Good morning, America. I'm Charles Gibson.</i>

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I'm Diane Sawyer.
And it's Tuesday, September 11th, 2001.

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Michael may be back.

67
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Jordan all but announced that he is coming
back to play NBA basketball.

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<i>Too much rainfall in the Bronx last night,
so the Yankees and Red Sox washed out.</i>

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<i>On ABC's Monday Night Football,</i>

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<i>the Broncos
and 11-point winner over the Giants.</i>

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{\an8}On 9/11, I was actually going to vote.

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{\an8}Vote in the primary.

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<i>It is primary day. Polls are open.</i>

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<i>Lots of races to be decided, including
who will run for mayor of New York.</i>

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We woke up that morning, my wife and I,

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{\an8}you know, feeling the apartment rattle,

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{\an8}not realizing that that was,
uh, one of the planes

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on its way to hitting the towers.

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We want to tell you what we know
as we know it,

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but we just got a report in
that there's been some sort of explosion

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at the World Trade Center
in New York City.

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At that time,
I was living in Montclair, New Jersey,

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and I'm looking
at this great view of Manhattan,

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and the centerpiece
of the view were the Twin Towers.

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And I'll never forget
looking out the window

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and I see the first tower is on fire.

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We lived in SoHo at the time.
Pretty close.

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And so I walked down
on Charlton Street, actually,

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stepped around to 7th Avenue,

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and saw this big, burning hole
at the World Trade Center.

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<i>There is one report</i>

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<i>that</i> a <i>plane has hit
the World Trade Center.</i>

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You know, we didn't know if it was
an accident, if it was on purpose.

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It was very hard to believe
what you were seeing.

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{\an8}We went outside to look over the city and
we could see one of the buildings smoking.

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{\an8}And by the time that we were trying
to figure out what's going on,

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you could hear and feel in your chest
the second building get hit.

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{\an8}- It's another one.
- Oh, my God.

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<i>This looks like it is some sort
of a concerted effort</i>

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<i>to attack the World Trade Center
that is underway.</i>

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I don't know everything
George Bush knew that morning,

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and we do see that look of bewilderment.

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{\an8}What he didn't know for sure
is what was going to happen next.

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<i>This is a plane crash
into the Pentagon.</i>

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{\an8}I was innocently sitting in my office
at the Pentagon

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when there was a jolting blast
on the other side of the building.

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There were so many rumors.

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We're getting reports
of the White House evacuating.

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There has been a crash in Pennsylvania.

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<i>The flight that went down was
United Airlines Flight 93.</i>

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The government has now shut down

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the entire air traffic system
in the United States.

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<i>Take two in two, one.</i>

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This is as close as we can get
to the base of the World Trade Center.

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You can see the firemen assembled here,
the police officers, FBI agents,

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and you can see the two towers, a huge
explosion now raining debris on all of us.

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We better get out of the way!

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I don't care where you were.

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You remember where you were.

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You remember where you were
when you heard or when you saw

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the towers go down.

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- Everybody out!
- Let's go!

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<i>The entire building has just
collapsed and it is not there anymore.</i>

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<i>The whole building
has collapsed?</i>

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<i>The building has collapsed.</i>

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We've all heard the phrase now

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{\an8}that while everyone else is running away
in a disaster,

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{\an8}it's the police and the firemen
who are running towards it.

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It was unbelievable in there.

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There's guys still trapped
we couldn't get to.

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And in that moment on that day,
it seared in my mind on how those men

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and women ran to the disaster
to be there for their fellow man.

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{\an8}I mean we... we go out the door
every morning,

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{\an8}us, the NYPD, the Port Authority officers.

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There's no guarantee you're going home
at the end of the day.

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You might have just hugged your kids
and your wife for the last time.

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You know, call somebody
and tell them you love them.

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It was an overwhelming feeling of

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grief and fear.

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There was not much to say
about what was going on

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'cause no one experienced it before.

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{\an8}Everyone was walking down the streets
in silence, so it was very eerie.

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It's hard to articulate
what the scene was like.

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You didn't know if there was more coming
or-or what was next.

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Oh, no!

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Oh, my God.

147
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<i>Both trade towers have now
been attacked and destroyed.</i>

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It was impossible to imagine
that these two magnificent buildings...

149
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...were now not there.

150
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Keep running!
It's coming down!

151
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{\an8}First of all, you felt that life
would never be the same, okay?

152
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{\an8}Once 9/11 hit.

153
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<i>The landscape
of New York City has just been changed.</i>

154
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<i>And one has to assume
that thousands of lives</i>

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<i>have been extinguished.</i>

156
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You'll be all right.

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New York
was such a colossal loss of life.

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But the loss of life in the Pentagon
was also personal and horrific

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for every person there.

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We were a little bit forgotten
at that time,

161
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and-and in some ways apologetic, like,
"No, no, no, we're fine, we're fine here,

162
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everybody's fine,"
because of the massive loss in New York.

163
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{\an8}<i>We're talking
about massive casualties.</i>

164
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- <i>Hey, Dallas.
- Go ahead.</i>

165
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<i>That guy hit the Pentagon.</i>

166
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- <i>United 93, it hit the ground.
- Yes.</i>

167
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{\an8}Diane, just exactly where are you?

168
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{\an8}We're about four and a half blocks
from Ground Zero.

169
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{\an8}I just picked up this sea
of financial documents.

170
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{\an8}The analysis of someone's budget,
and then there's an analysis

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{\an8}of an insurance filing, and you just keep
thinking how important all of these seemed

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{\an8}to someone 24 hours ago.

173
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{\an8}And I just thought we lost my brother.
I was just sitting there, I was like...

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{\an8}- They didn't know.
- You heard dogs barking.

175
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{\an8}You heard cats meowing
because they didn't come home.

176
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{\an8}There was such hurt.
Then you think, what can you do?

177
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{\an8}The night Broadway reopened.

178
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That was a very communal feeling.
I loved it.

179
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I felt that we had more
of a responsibility than playing baseball.

180
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I remember a policeman giving
me his hat, and I was wearing it.

181
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We're all in this together.

182
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We knew we had to make people smile again.
This is why you do this.

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People need you now.

184
00:11:28,730 --> 00:11:31,608
Twenty-five years later,
we're never gonna stop hurting,

185
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but hopefully we're constantly healing.

186
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{\an8}One of my brothers was in the building.

187
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{\an8}So...

188
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I had three brothers
that are New York City firemen.

189
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And they were all working on 9/11.

190
00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:08,770
Got a call from my father because, you
know, the three of them were down there,

191
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but he hasn't heard if everybody was safe.

192
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Tuesday is our day off in the NFL,
so I had an early dentist appointment.

193
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By the time I got in my car, uh,
the second plane had hit.

194
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My father called me

195
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and told me that Jimmy was there.

196
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Were standing in the street,

197
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and the-the plane,
the first plane came over our heads.

198
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I thought I could have touched it,

199
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{\an8}it was so close to us, but my lieutenant
starts screaming, "Get on the rig!"

200
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{\an8}He just starts following
that plane downtown.

201
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{\an8}I thought it was gonna be
the biggest fall of my career.

202
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{\an8}I was actually psyched,
and I realized how stupid I was.

203
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This way, this way.

204
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I remember we were running into the lobby,
so we started heading up.

205
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So I think we got to, like, 27,
and the other building came down,

206
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and they say your life flashes
in front of you

207
00:13:01,864 --> 00:13:03,950
and it does, completely, in ten seconds.

208
00:13:04,701 --> 00:13:08,413
And my brother Jimmy was in tower one when
tower, uh, two fell

209
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and he was running out of tower one
when it was falling behind him.

210
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The lieutenant just,
she started screaming, "Run!"

211
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And we just dove out the side windows

212
00:13:15,795 --> 00:13:18,631
that were... that were already blown out
from the other building coming down.

213
00:13:18,715 --> 00:13:20,049
{\an8}And we didn't hear from him.

214
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{\an8}We didn't know,
and I just thought we lost my brother.

215
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{\an8}I was just sitting there. I was like...

216
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We didn't know.

217
00:13:29,684 --> 00:13:31,936
{\an8}My other brother
didn't even put out a fire yet,

218
00:13:32,020 --> 00:13:34,063
{\an8}and that was his first day
on the job, and,

219
00:13:34,772 --> 00:13:39,068
{\an8}you know, he-he spent hours
just looking for my brother Jimmy.

220
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I ended up finding Jimmy,
and, uh, this is where it was.

221
00:13:43,406 --> 00:13:44,824
This was the... This was the moment.

222
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I found my brother. Here.

223
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Death, you know, that's how close he was,
and there's no words that need to be said.

224
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To have him still alive
was, uh, truly amazing.

225
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<i>♪ With arms wide open ♪</i>

226
00:14:05,094 --> 00:14:07,764
I can never fathom
what my brothers went through,

227
00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:10,600
but there's many more stories out there.

228
00:14:12,602 --> 00:14:15,354
<i>The Giants retreating
to a red-eye back to New York.</i>

229
00:14:16,773 --> 00:14:19,067
<i>As they start the season 0 and 1.</i>

230
00:14:30,161 --> 00:14:33,456
Coming through the terminal,
we're going out of that terminal

231
00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:37,418
{\an8}when those who lost their lives are coming
into the terminal to get on those flights.

232
00:14:38,544 --> 00:14:40,713
{\an8}And kind of shakes you.

233
00:14:41,881 --> 00:14:43,257
Really shakes you

234
00:14:44,175 --> 00:14:45,218
inside.

235
00:14:46,969 --> 00:14:51,265
Because those are some
of the final moments for people.

236
00:14:52,391 --> 00:14:57,522
You saw what the passengers on United
Flight 93 did, taking over the controls

237
00:14:57,605 --> 00:15:00,316
{\an8}to down the plane in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania,

238
00:15:00,399 --> 00:15:04,278
{\an8}avoiding what might have been
a far more horrific attack.

239
00:15:06,114 --> 00:15:09,283
{\an8}They lost their lives,
so you wish you could go back

240
00:15:09,367 --> 00:15:11,202
{\an8}and in that moment change history.

241
00:15:12,453 --> 00:15:14,372
{\an8}We're going out and they're coming in.

242
00:15:16,290 --> 00:15:21,295
And, yeah, it kind of of played the trick
with your mind, and you feel it.

243
00:15:23,339 --> 00:15:27,385
266 people died on four aircraft today,

244
00:15:27,468 --> 00:15:29,220
the two that crashed
into the Trade Towers,

245
00:15:29,303 --> 00:15:31,139
the one that crashed into the Pentagon,

246
00:15:31,222 --> 00:15:35,977
uh, and... [clears throat] ...the one
that crashed, uh, in Pennsylvania today...

247
00:15:36,060 --> 00:15:41,023
When I got home on 9/11, my son
had watched enough of the coverage that

248
00:15:41,107 --> 00:15:46,279
{\an8}the first thing my son said to me when we
got home is, "I'm not flying anymore."

249
00:15:46,362 --> 00:15:48,573
That's the way a child
would deal with that.

250
00:15:52,702 --> 00:15:55,246
2001, I'm seven.

251
00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:58,958
{\an8}I live in a townhouse
with my mom in Staten Island.

252
00:15:59,041 --> 00:16:01,836
{\an8}I was about 14 years old.
It was the first day of school.

253
00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:06,507
{\an8}Eighteen-year-old Merrill worked in
the mail room of Lehman Brothers

254
00:16:06,591 --> 00:16:10,011
{\an8}at Three World Financial,
in between the two towers.

255
00:16:10,636 --> 00:16:12,471
Loved cartoons.

256
00:16:13,014 --> 00:16:15,266
Um, Rocky.

257
00:16:15,349 --> 00:16:18,561
Rocky was huge, uh,
in the Davidson household.

258
00:16:18,644 --> 00:16:22,148
Flip phones only, you know.
Internet was pretty much dial-up.

259
00:16:22,231 --> 00:16:24,775
It was a good time.
It was a good time in the world.

260
00:16:24,859 --> 00:16:26,861
I was big
on taking hooky days.

261
00:16:26,944 --> 00:16:29,322
September 11th,
I was at my house in the Bronx.

262
00:16:29,405 --> 00:16:31,240
I just didn't feel like going to work.

263
00:16:31,324 --> 00:16:33,659
I was in Paterson,
New Jersey, at the time.

264
00:16:33,743 --> 00:16:35,828
I remember walking in the homeroom
on that first day

265
00:16:35,912 --> 00:16:37,413
and looking up at the TV screen, uh,

266
00:16:37,496 --> 00:16:40,166
and-and the news being on
and me being like, "What is that?"

267
00:16:41,209 --> 00:16:44,921
There was no Twitter, there was no, like,
"Let me open up an app on my phone

268
00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,298
and see what's going on in the...
in-in the world."

269
00:16:47,381 --> 00:16:49,717
So the only source of information
that I had was the TV.

270
00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:51,552
Because it went in.

271
00:16:51,636 --> 00:16:53,930
If it was a bomb,
it would have gone out, and it went in.

272
00:16:56,057 --> 00:17:01,103
My dad was one of the many, uh, firemen
that commuted down there just to help.

273
00:17:03,064 --> 00:17:05,358
My dad loved being a fireman.

274
00:17:06,150 --> 00:17:07,151
Um...

275
00:17:08,236 --> 00:17:09,445
Like, he-he loved it.

276
00:17:10,696 --> 00:17:13,616
The hardest part was not knowing
if he was okay,

277
00:17:13,699 --> 00:17:15,826
how many more days he was gonna be there.

278
00:17:15,910 --> 00:17:17,870
It was a scary time for a 14-year-old kid.

279
00:17:19,413 --> 00:17:23,042
You know, when you're seven and you're
told your dad's not coming back, like,

280
00:17:23,125 --> 00:17:24,418
you kind of get it.

281
00:17:25,795 --> 00:17:28,047
{\an8}I get it more and more as you get older

282
00:17:28,130 --> 00:17:31,092
{\an8}when, like, you're doing stuff
that you'd want him to be at.

283
00:17:32,677 --> 00:17:33,678
And, um...

284
00:17:35,638 --> 00:17:37,765
He loved Stallone.
Everyone should know that.

285
00:17:37,848 --> 00:17:41,894
He loved Stallone and Arnold
and Bruce Willis, and, uh...

286
00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:46,816
you know, I-I-I...
he's-he's my hero, for sure.

287
00:17:56,951 --> 00:18:00,329
No, because the world changed
after September 11th.

288
00:18:00,413 --> 00:18:04,250
{\an8}So, um, you know,
if you were young at that time,

289
00:18:05,167 --> 00:18:07,169
you may not know
what the world was like before.

290
00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:11,966
There's adults that are still trying
to process what happened.

291
00:18:13,009 --> 00:18:15,261
I was living
in an apartment building in New York City.

292
00:18:15,344 --> 00:18:17,096
It was my first apartment in the city.

293
00:18:17,597 --> 00:18:20,516
{\an8}I didn't realize how many people
that I didn't even know

294
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,561
{\an8}who lived in the building
worked at-at the Twin Towers.

295
00:18:23,644 --> 00:18:27,607
And the reason you knew that
is that you heard dogs barking,

296
00:18:27,690 --> 00:18:31,986
you heard cats meowing, you heard their
pets because they didn't come home.

297
00:18:33,696 --> 00:18:37,199
And that was really hard.
That was really hard to be, you know,

298
00:18:37,283 --> 00:18:40,953
in that environment and knowing
that people that you didn't really know

299
00:18:41,037 --> 00:18:44,874
but you probably saw in the elevator,
uh, they didn't make it home.

300
00:18:46,167 --> 00:18:47,543
It was pretty awful.

301
00:18:47,627 --> 00:18:51,255
{\an8}I lived right by St. Vincent's Hospital,
and that was

302
00:18:52,506 --> 00:18:55,509
{\an8}where they had meant to bring
survivors who never showed up.

303
00:18:56,969 --> 00:19:00,931
There are all these doctors and nurses
hanging out for hours and hours and

304
00:19:01,891 --> 00:19:03,976
no trucks pulling up, no ambulances.

305
00:19:05,645 --> 00:19:06,896
So that was scary.

306
00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:12,693
{\an8}We are a nation now on high alert,
not just militarily, but psychologically.

307
00:19:12,777 --> 00:19:14,737
Shaken on every level.

308
00:19:21,577 --> 00:19:26,207
{\an8}Early morning of the 12th, packed up some
stuff, went down to, uh, Ground Zero

309
00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:28,668
{\an8}and just began working,
whatever we could do.

310
00:19:31,253 --> 00:19:32,254
We're trying.

311
00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:33,839
It's too...

312
00:19:34,340 --> 00:19:36,759
It's too... It's too much.
The rubbles is too much.

313
00:19:38,386 --> 00:19:41,597
First responders are those who wore
the uniform and the patch and the badge.

314
00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:43,808
Um, would never disrespect them.

315
00:19:44,725 --> 00:19:49,230
The unions, the trades that went
to Ground Zero, were responders.

316
00:19:50,398 --> 00:19:54,068
You needed plumbers to turn off water.
You needed electricians to get power up

317
00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:56,737
so we can work at night and get lights up.

318
00:19:56,821 --> 00:19:58,656
We needed carpenters to build bridges.

319
00:19:58,739 --> 00:20:01,575
We needed those
who can operate heavy machinery.

320
00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:09,917
It gave me an appreciation
for anonymous individuals performing

321
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,045
daily functionality for the rest of us.

322
00:20:13,129 --> 00:20:17,425
{\an8}It's like in <i>The Matrix,</i> when all of
a sudden Neo can see the zeros and ones.

323
00:20:17,967 --> 00:20:22,763
{\an8}It's... You can see kind of what holds
this thing together, what's the fabric.

324
00:20:24,473 --> 00:20:26,809
We ate there, we slept there,
we cried there, we worked there,

325
00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:28,602
we went to the bathroom there.

326
00:20:28,686 --> 00:20:30,354
{\an8}You could be working on the pile

327
00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:34,358
{\an8}on one end,
and you couldn't even see where it ended.

328
00:20:35,067 --> 00:20:36,485
You know, it was everywhere.

329
00:20:39,113 --> 00:20:42,032
<i>We will still conduct ourselves
as a rescue effort</i>

330
00:20:42,116 --> 00:20:44,034
<i>as well as a recovery effort.</i>

331
00:20:44,660 --> 00:20:49,832
{\an8}But we don't have any substantial amount
of hope that we can offer to anyone

332
00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:52,251
that we're going to be able
to find anyone alive.

333
00:20:53,711 --> 00:20:58,007
You watch shows now like these zombie
dystopian shows where they put up...

334
00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:00,885
there's on a fence, and everybody's
pictures are up on the fence

335
00:21:00,968 --> 00:21:04,555
of the people that are missing
and all those, and it's sort of a-a trope.

336
00:21:06,307 --> 00:21:08,392
But that's what downtown Manhattan was.

337
00:21:08,476 --> 00:21:13,606
It felt dystopian, and there was
a certain vertigo to it

338
00:21:13,689 --> 00:21:17,151
that you didn't feel you were
on-on solid ground.

339
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,489
Where we live,
in Monmouth County,

340
00:21:21,572 --> 00:21:24,742
that was the hardest-hit county
in New Jersey.

341
00:21:25,326 --> 00:21:30,372
{\an8}All of our friends and neighbors
who commuted and worked in Manhattan,

342
00:21:30,456 --> 00:21:32,124
these were our people.

343
00:21:33,751 --> 00:21:37,880
But whether it was your friends
and neighbors or on a grander scale,

344
00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:44,637
strangers that you would eventually meet,
9/12 was one of the most beautiful days

345
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,972
when the world came together
and said, "We are one."

346
00:21:50,267 --> 00:21:52,728
{\an8}<i>The National Football League
is deliberating what to do</i>

347
00:21:52,812 --> 00:21:55,272
{\an8}<i>with week-two games
scheduled for Sunday and Monday.</i>

348
00:21:55,356 --> 00:21:57,775
{\an8}You're going to tell us
that we have to play, well, then,

349
00:21:57,858 --> 00:21:59,068
{\an8}we're not going to be there.

350
00:21:59,151 --> 00:22:03,364
{\an8}I'm hopeful that you can laugh
and also be moved and, um, be together.

351
00:22:03,447 --> 00:22:05,908
There were lots of tears in the audience.

352
00:22:12,456 --> 00:22:15,376
Just being in the city
for those few days afterwards,

353
00:22:15,459 --> 00:22:19,839
{\an8}we were so confused and it was such
an upsetting time and so devastating.

354
00:22:19,922 --> 00:22:23,968
Everybody just was trying so hard
to do whatever they could to help,

355
00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:25,386
and nothing else really mattered.

356
00:22:25,469 --> 00:22:27,263
<i>Broadway shows
were canceled.</i>

357
00:22:27,346 --> 00:22:30,307
{\an8}<i>Times Square today was virtually empty.</i>

358
00:22:31,225 --> 00:22:33,853
And for the first time in my life,
sports didn't really matter.

359
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,147
Sports is an afterthought.
We fully appreciate that.

360
00:22:37,231 --> 00:22:40,359
We know that you do as well.
Still, there is news to report tonight.

361
00:22:41,068 --> 00:22:43,487
<i>All Major League Baseball games
have been postponed tonight.</i>

362
00:22:43,571 --> 00:22:47,449
<i>It is the first time in 56 years
that baseball has postponed</i>

363
00:22:47,533 --> 00:22:50,244
<i>all Major League games
for a reason other than a work stoppage.</i>

364
00:22:50,786 --> 00:22:54,874
{\an8}Baseball, to its credit, understood
right away what it needed to do.

365
00:22:54,957 --> 00:22:59,962
{\an8}I think other sports, the NFL just comes
to mind, weren't quite as immediate.

366
00:23:01,130 --> 00:23:03,465
{\an8}<i>The National Football League
is deliberating what to do</i>

367
00:23:03,549 --> 00:23:06,093
{\an8}<i>with week-two games scheduled
for Sunday and Monday.</i>

368
00:23:06,176 --> 00:23:09,138
{\an8}Some said that with the owners
and the commissioner and everyone else,

369
00:23:09,221 --> 00:23:12,057
{\an8}they're going to huddle up
and decide on Thursday.

370
00:23:13,017 --> 00:23:14,810
And I said, "What's the decision?"

371
00:23:15,895 --> 00:23:19,523
{\an8}People in this locker room have neighbors
who are missing, um, you know,

372
00:23:19,607 --> 00:23:24,028
{\an8}our-our-our children's friends in schools
don't have dads and moms anymore.

373
00:23:25,654 --> 00:23:28,866
<i>We had heard that the Jets
were planning on not playing</i>

374
00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:31,744
{\an8}regardless of what the decision
was coming down to,

375
00:23:31,827 --> 00:23:35,414
{\an8}and there was a lot of discussion in our
locker room about doing the same thing.

376
00:23:36,832 --> 00:23:38,751
{\an8}We didn't want to play football.
We didn't care about football.

377
00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:42,588
{\an8}How can I focus on playing
when I'm seeing what's happened

378
00:23:42,671 --> 00:23:44,757
{\an8}just right there on our doorstep?

379
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,843
I think New York City and the country
needs to be behind everybody

380
00:23:47,927 --> 00:23:51,013
with the effort of trying to save
as many people as possible

381
00:23:51,096 --> 00:23:53,849
and trying to get the city
back on its feet.

382
00:23:53,933 --> 00:23:55,434
There were some cities that,
"Yeah, we'll play."

383
00:23:55,517 --> 00:23:57,770
I don't think they really understood
and felt it

384
00:23:57,853 --> 00:24:01,815
as much as you may have felt if you were
in New York, if you were in DC,

385
00:24:01,899 --> 00:24:06,070
if you were in some of these other areas,
but we were adamant, like, okay.

386
00:24:06,779 --> 00:24:11,367
Um, we voted no, and a lot of teams just
said, "Hey, if they say no, we say no."

387
00:24:12,368 --> 00:24:13,619
We're not going to be there.

388
00:24:13,702 --> 00:24:16,997
You have two New York teams
who I really gained a lot of respect for

389
00:24:17,081 --> 00:24:18,666
saying, "We weren't going to play."

390
00:24:21,627 --> 00:24:23,462
<i>For the first time
in its history,</i>

391
00:24:23,545 --> 00:24:26,090
the NFL has canceled
all of its games this weekend.

392
00:24:27,132 --> 00:24:30,010
And because of the push
of two players who played in New York,

393
00:24:30,094 --> 00:24:33,222
Michael Strahan and Kevin Mawae
loved New York

394
00:24:33,305 --> 00:24:35,432
and cared about
what New York was going through.

395
00:24:35,516 --> 00:24:37,768
They made it a point to make sure there
would be no football that week,

396
00:24:37,851 --> 00:24:40,562
{\an8}which I think was genuinely heroic
on their part.

397
00:24:41,230 --> 00:24:43,232
{\an8}I can't imagine the horror
that people have gone through.

398
00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:45,025
I can't imagine the horror
that the families

399
00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:48,529
who are looking for their loved ones
are going through right now.

400
00:24:51,782 --> 00:24:55,828
As much as we may be
caught up in the emotions of the moment,

401
00:24:55,911 --> 00:24:57,788
in the fear of the moment,

402
00:24:57,871 --> 00:25:02,292
{\an8}there has to be some way
of returning to some kind of normal life.

403
00:25:02,876 --> 00:25:05,504
Tonight, Broadway reopened.

404
00:25:06,088 --> 00:25:09,341
{\an8}It's kind of astonishing
that two days after 9/11,

405
00:25:09,425 --> 00:25:11,510
{\an8}when it was a war zone in New York,

406
00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:14,096
{\an8}that the show came back up in two days.

407
00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:16,473
{\an8}I mean, it was great for the city,
I think,

408
00:25:16,557 --> 00:25:20,227
{\an8}and it was great for us
because we suddenly had, like, something...

409
00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:22,646
a little teeny thing
we felt like we could do.

410
00:25:22,730 --> 00:25:24,565
Let's come and do this play.

411
00:25:24,648 --> 00:25:29,778
<i>The Producers</i>
started in April of 2001,

412
00:25:30,362 --> 00:25:33,115
and that was the centerpiece show
for Broadway.

413
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:34,199
This is the big hit.

414
00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:38,871
<i>The Producers</i>, you know, when it opened,
it was like, people were crazy for it.

415
00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:41,290
<i>It's the show everyone's buzzing about.</i>

416
00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:43,542
Everything about the show is sensational.

417
00:25:43,625 --> 00:25:45,169
To get a ticket was very hard.

418
00:25:45,252 --> 00:25:46,920
{\an8}Those tickets are going
for a hundred bucks a pop.

419
00:25:47,004 --> 00:25:48,714
{\an8}A hundred bucks a pop,
and that's the list price.

420
00:25:48,797 --> 00:25:49,798
{\an8}- Yeah.
- Yeah.

421
00:25:49,882 --> 00:25:51,425
Wipe that smile off your face.

422
00:25:52,593 --> 00:25:54,219
This is serious business, Bloom.

423
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,765
We were in some ways
the symbol for Broadway.

424
00:25:58,807 --> 00:26:02,644
But 9/11 happened, and we were all
told to come to the theater,

425
00:26:02,728 --> 00:26:04,146
the whole cast and the crew,

426
00:26:04,229 --> 00:26:07,399
we all sat in the auditorium
and on the stage.

427
00:26:07,483 --> 00:26:09,526
Our producer, Rocco Landesman,

428
00:26:09,610 --> 00:26:13,197
said all the producers had been called
by the mayor and told,

429
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,491
"You have to go back on right away."

430
00:26:15,574 --> 00:26:19,411
{\an8}If you were planning to come to New York,
come here now.

431
00:26:19,495 --> 00:26:21,497
Come to enjoy Broadway.

432
00:26:24,792 --> 00:26:28,087
It was scary to get to
Times Square and do this play.

433
00:26:28,170 --> 00:26:31,215
You know, even getting to Times Square,
going through checkpoints,

434
00:26:32,674 --> 00:26:34,176
there were police.

435
00:26:34,676 --> 00:26:38,847
I remember you had to bring
a piece of mail with your address on it,

436
00:26:38,931 --> 00:26:43,977
but we made it to the theater,
and God bless the 200 or so people

437
00:26:44,061 --> 00:26:49,108
who said, "[bleep]. I'll go see, uh...
I'm gonna go see a musical comedy."

438
00:26:49,691 --> 00:26:51,276
It feels like the right place to be.

439
00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:54,238
I mean, the arts are what supports
our spirits in times like this.

440
00:26:54,321 --> 00:26:57,282
You've got to go out tonight
and make people laugh.

441
00:26:57,366 --> 00:26:58,617
Is that gonna be hard?

442
00:26:59,201 --> 00:27:04,706
Um, I'm hopeful that you can laugh
and also be moved and, um, be together.

443
00:27:05,249 --> 00:27:09,253
They came, and we thought,
"Will they laugh at anything?"

444
00:27:09,336 --> 00:27:10,879
But they did, I think.

445
00:27:10,963 --> 00:27:11,964
I'm fine.

446
00:27:14,591 --> 00:27:18,095
It was a wonderful night,
that first night back.

447
00:27:18,679 --> 00:27:21,181
Wonderful for us
and, I think, for the people there.

448
00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:28,814
Bringing this show that was
pure happiness back to the stage quickly...

449
00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:33,735
We were all holding in
all this anger, emotion, fear.

450
00:27:33,819 --> 00:27:35,070
It was this

451
00:27:36,113 --> 00:27:37,197
release.

452
00:27:39,116 --> 00:27:43,704
We had been told to sing
"God Bless America" at the curtain call.

453
00:27:44,413 --> 00:27:46,582
Which I did not know the lyrics of,

454
00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:50,085
so I spent a lot of the day
trying to make sure I wouldn't forget.

455
00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:54,172
You know, we're all lined up on the stage,
and we sang "God Bless America,"

456
00:27:54,256 --> 00:27:56,383
and the audience sang too.

457
00:27:56,967 --> 00:28:01,555
And I remember there were
lots of tears in the audience.

458
00:28:02,556 --> 00:28:04,558
And probably on stage too.

459
00:28:06,810 --> 00:28:09,104
That was a very communal feeling.

460
00:28:09,187 --> 00:28:11,273
Like, I loved it.

461
00:28:22,242 --> 00:28:23,827
<i>I want you all to know.</i>

462
00:28:23,911 --> 00:28:24,995
<i>Louder!</i>

463
00:28:25,495 --> 00:28:29,124
<i>I want you all
to know the nation sends its love.</i>

464
00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:31,710
Thank you for your hard work.

465
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:34,463
Thank you for making the nation proud.

466
00:28:35,130 --> 00:28:36,632
And may God bless America.

467
00:28:39,134 --> 00:28:41,345
Looking at President Bush's speech,

468
00:28:41,428 --> 00:28:43,263
{\an8}there's, like,
some national pride in that.

469
00:28:43,347 --> 00:28:45,724
{\an8}It was like,
"Yeah, we're gonna come back from this.

470
00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:47,643
We're gonna be resilient.
We're gonna fight."

471
00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:49,436
And it did make you want to be involved.

472
00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:50,938
It made us want to get involved.

473
00:28:51,021 --> 00:28:52,689
<i>The Giants' practice bubble</i>

474
00:28:52,773 --> 00:28:55,317
<i>has become a staging area
for disaster relief.</i>

475
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,320
<i>Washington players
stocked with Redskins paraphernalia</i>

476
00:28:58,403 --> 00:29:01,073
<i>visited victims at
Washington Hospital Center's burn unit,</i>

477
00:29:01,156 --> 00:29:03,075
<i>intensive care unit, and MedStar.</i>

478
00:29:03,158 --> 00:29:07,412
{\an8}After September 11th,
players and coaches absolutely knew

479
00:29:07,496 --> 00:29:10,457
{\an8}that they had a platform
and a responsibility

480
00:29:10,540 --> 00:29:12,250
to be there for the public,

481
00:29:12,334 --> 00:29:15,504
and I think in so many ways
really did help heal people.

482
00:29:15,587 --> 00:29:18,340
<i>The Steelers, Friday,
were in Somerset, Pennsylvania,</i>

483
00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:20,217
<i>80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh</i>

484
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:22,427
<i>at a memorial service
for those who perished</i>

485
00:29:22,511 --> 00:29:26,223
<i>in the crash of United Flight 93
in nearby Shanksville, PA.</i>

486
00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:29,101
The Steelers certainly
are heroes on the field,

487
00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:32,396
but somewhere in that field
lay some true heroes.

488
00:29:33,021 --> 00:29:35,524
For me, it was very simple.

489
00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:39,152
{\an8}I took the coach's hat off
when this happened.

490
00:29:39,236 --> 00:29:40,737
{\an8}I wasn't a coach anymore.

491
00:29:41,363 --> 00:29:42,656
I was just an American.

492
00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:48,328
And as an American,
you wanted to do something.

493
00:29:48,829 --> 00:29:51,373
What were we gonna do?
You know, sit at home?

494
00:29:51,456 --> 00:29:53,375
No, we wanted to collectively get together

495
00:29:53,458 --> 00:29:57,671
and offer whatever kind of assistance
that we could at Ground Zero.

496
00:29:58,714 --> 00:30:02,592
We just wanted to be there to show them
that there are people out there

497
00:30:02,676 --> 00:30:04,428
who appreciate them most of all

498
00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:08,515
because they're doing something
that we weren't capable of doing.

499
00:30:08,598 --> 00:30:12,352
That's the biggest show that we wanted
to give them was a show of respect.

500
00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:22,154
That trip to the armory,
I was a little sensitive about going in

501
00:30:22,237 --> 00:30:28,118
{\an8}'cause this is where family members
were waiting for results from DNA.

502
00:30:28,201 --> 00:30:30,537
{\an8}Uh, results about their loved ones.

503
00:30:31,413 --> 00:30:35,917
{\an8}I was there, but I don't think I was
emotionally ready to go inside

504
00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:41,131
{\an8}because I'm seeing the scene outside,
where people have posters and signs

505
00:30:41,214 --> 00:30:44,301
and looking for loved ones,
and they're completely crushed.

506
00:30:44,384 --> 00:30:48,180
You know, I-I didn't know what to say.
I wouldn't know what to do.

507
00:30:48,764 --> 00:30:51,141
And Bernie Williams,
and I'll never forget this...

508
00:30:51,224 --> 00:30:55,729
Bernie Williams went up to this one woman
and looked at her.

509
00:30:55,812 --> 00:30:59,399
He says, "I don't know what to say,
but you look like you need a hug."

510
00:31:01,234 --> 00:31:03,361
Members of other families came over,

511
00:31:03,445 --> 00:31:07,199
and they had these photos
of their loved ones

512
00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:10,577
wearing, like, a Yankee cap
or a Yankee T-shirt,

513
00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:13,914
and it was at that point that I felt that,

514
00:31:13,997 --> 00:31:17,334
you know, we had more of a responsibility
than playing baseball.

515
00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:23,882
The loss and the grief of that day,

516
00:31:23,965 --> 00:31:28,762
{\an8}you have to adjust back to what really is
an overused phrase, which is "new normal,"

517
00:31:28,845 --> 00:31:30,388
but it was a new normal.

518
00:31:30,472 --> 00:31:35,310
You can go to work, but you cannot get
that horror out of your head.

519
00:31:35,393 --> 00:31:37,896
<i>Millions of Americans
mourned and prayed.</i>

520
00:31:38,688 --> 00:31:40,232
{\an8}And tomorrow we go back to work.

521
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,572
For the first time
since the terrorist attacks,

522
00:31:47,656 --> 00:31:49,491
Major League Baseball resumed last night,

523
00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:52,160
so we sent Robin Roberts
out to Pittsburgh.

524
00:31:52,244 --> 00:31:53,620
The Mets were playing
the Pirates out there,

525
00:31:53,703 --> 00:31:55,247
a game that was supposed
to be played in New York,

526
00:31:55,330 --> 00:31:58,500
but Shea Stadium
is still being used as a staging area.

527
00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:06,925
I've never been to
a sporting event that was so somber.

528
00:32:09,094 --> 00:32:10,637
Even though there was a postponement,

529
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,559
{\an8}it was so soon after 9/11
and to be in Pittsburgh

530
00:32:15,642 --> 00:32:20,897
{\an8}and knowing that one of the planes
went down not far from there.

531
00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:24,943
{\an8}One of the hijacked planes crashed
just 80 miles from here in a field.

532
00:32:25,652 --> 00:32:28,530
And I think that really was
on the minds of a lot of people.

533
00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:32,742
I was gonna be with people to sing
"The Star-Spangled Banner" tonight,

534
00:32:32,826 --> 00:32:34,619
and I needed to do that.

535
00:32:34,703 --> 00:32:37,789
It's such a fine line that we walk,

536
00:32:37,873 --> 00:32:42,210
because you want to honor
those that were fallen, that were killed.

537
00:32:43,211 --> 00:32:49,551
But also you want to honor them by living
your life to the fullest in their memory.

538
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:51,469
USA! USA!

539
00:32:51,553 --> 00:32:54,014
I don't know about you.

540
00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:58,518
But as for me,
the question has already been answered.

541
00:32:59,019 --> 00:33:00,896
{\an8}Should we be here?

542
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:02,230
{\an8}Yes.

543
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,033
We had all been trying
to process everything that had happened

544
00:33:13,116 --> 00:33:17,370
for that week or so,
and it felt unbearable,

545
00:33:17,454 --> 00:33:22,167
{\an8}like if I don't lance this, uh, you know,

546
00:33:23,043 --> 00:33:25,337
I-I will... I will burst.

547
00:33:30,383 --> 00:33:33,386
A sober and visibly shaken
David Letterman

548
00:33:33,470 --> 00:33:37,307
was the first of the late-night hosts
to return to the airwaves.

549
00:33:38,558 --> 00:33:41,603
The first person to calm me down
was David Letterman.

550
00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:45,982
{\an8}He said there's only one requirement
of all of us, and that is to be

551
00:33:46,066 --> 00:33:47,275
{\an8}- courageous.
- ...courageous.

552
00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:52,614
Because courage, as you might know,
defines all other human behavior.

553
00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:54,199
And he also said, "Pretending to be

554
00:33:54,282 --> 00:33:55,533
- courageous"--
- ...courageous

555
00:33:55,617 --> 00:33:58,203
- is just as good as-as the real thing.
- ...the real thing.

556
00:33:58,286 --> 00:33:59,746
That really stuck with me

557
00:33:59,829 --> 00:34:02,207
because I don't think
these first responders

558
00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:04,793
and these firefighters
and people that showed up

559
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:06,962
thought about,
"I'm going to be courageous."

560
00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:08,838
They just were.

561
00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:11,466
Obviously,
Letterman's return was the big one.

562
00:34:11,549 --> 00:34:14,594
It was sort of that feeling of like,
"Well, if Daddy is gonna come home,

563
00:34:14,678 --> 00:34:18,556
I guess... I guess the rest of us...
You know, it's-it's probably okay."

564
00:34:20,475 --> 00:34:25,188
When I was thinking about
what we would do on the first show back,

565
00:34:25,272 --> 00:34:29,567
I cannot stress enough
how much of it was just about caretaking.

566
00:34:29,651 --> 00:34:32,988
{\an8}There's no other way, really, to start
the show than to ask you at home

567
00:34:33,071 --> 00:34:36,908
the question that we asked the audience
here tonight, and that is, "Are you okay?"

568
00:34:36,992 --> 00:34:41,746
{\an8}He was the one who gave us permission,
Jon Stewart, at that moment,

569
00:34:42,539 --> 00:34:43,540
to go forward,

570
00:34:43,623 --> 00:34:46,876
but with a deep understanding
of what had just happened.

571
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,463
The main reason
that I wanted to speak tonight

572
00:34:50,547 --> 00:34:53,800
is I wanted to tell you why I grieve...

573
00:34:57,804 --> 00:34:59,889
...but why I don't despair.

574
00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:02,726
You're still left dealing
with your own emotions...

575
00:35:02,809 --> 00:35:03,810
I'm sorry.

576
00:35:03,893 --> 00:35:07,522
...and if you just stick to the specificity

577
00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:14,529
of your own upset, fear, and resilience,
those things,

578
00:35:14,613 --> 00:35:17,907
that if-if you can find a way
to express that honestly,

579
00:35:17,991 --> 00:35:19,826
that maybe there'll be some value in that.

580
00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:23,580
Any fool can blow something up,
but to see these guys,

581
00:35:23,663 --> 00:35:28,960
these firefighters, these policemen,
literally with buckets, rebuilding,

582
00:35:29,044 --> 00:35:30,670
that's extraordinary.

583
00:35:32,464 --> 00:35:35,842
Jon Stewart that night,
he had the perfect tone.

584
00:35:36,343 --> 00:35:38,970
It was healing with responsibility.

585
00:35:39,054 --> 00:35:41,890
In many ways, it's the same thing
George Bush was trying to do

586
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,559
in his own very different way.

587
00:35:44,643 --> 00:35:46,436
{\an8}My fellow citizens.

588
00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:50,690
{\an8}For the last nine days,
the entire world has seen for itself

589
00:35:50,774 --> 00:35:54,527
{\an8}the state of our union, and it is strong.

590
00:35:58,198 --> 00:36:02,243
Our president,
I felt what he was feeling,

591
00:36:02,327 --> 00:36:06,456
{\an8}and I wanted to be a lieutenant
in his army.

592
00:36:08,249 --> 00:36:12,045
He knew that baseball
needed to be played again,

593
00:36:12,128 --> 00:36:14,547
and it needed to be played in New York.

594
00:36:15,674 --> 00:36:17,926
{\an8}There are bigger things than baseball,

595
00:36:18,009 --> 00:36:20,387
but, um, even though it may not be much,

596
00:36:20,470 --> 00:36:22,138
baseball is a way to try to help.

597
00:36:23,473 --> 00:36:27,352
You're seeing the Braves
and the New York Mets, archrivals,

598
00:36:27,435 --> 00:36:30,397
kind of salute the people of New York,

599
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:35,318
and there was a camaraderie that existed
that was very uncomfortable for Met fans

600
00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:38,321
because we have to despise these people.

601
00:36:39,656 --> 00:36:43,284
And you sort of figured
the game would be sort of ancillary,

602
00:36:43,368 --> 00:36:44,911
but this baseball game,

603
00:36:44,994 --> 00:36:49,499
it was a game filled with
all the grand emotions

604
00:36:49,582 --> 00:36:51,543
that is the best of sport,

605
00:36:51,626 --> 00:36:57,424
including the kind of hero moment
that you almost never get to see.

606
00:36:58,007 --> 00:36:59,300
It was a big time in the game.

607
00:36:59,968 --> 00:37:02,721
<i>And here's the man
the Mets want up in this spot,</i>

608
00:37:02,804 --> 00:37:04,305
<i>down a run late in the game.</i>

609
00:37:06,558 --> 00:37:11,730
When Mike hit that ball, it was
the loudest home run I've ever heard.

610
00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:15,942
It was just a spectacular sound.

611
00:37:17,026 --> 00:37:18,945
<i>And it's in deep to left center.</i>

612
00:37:19,028 --> 00:37:21,948
<i>Andruw Jones on the run.
This one has a chance.</i>

613
00:37:22,031 --> 00:37:23,116
<i>Home run!</i>

614
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:26,703
<i>Mike Piazza and the Mets lead 3-2.</i>

615
00:37:27,537 --> 00:37:33,126
You saw an explosion of emotion
from the stadium

616
00:37:33,209 --> 00:37:40,216
that was a catharsis that can only occur
through unexpected exploit.

617
00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:45,430
<i>A two-run home run,
and this place exploded.</i>

618
00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:49,309
In these tragedies,
something gets muted.

619
00:37:49,392 --> 00:37:52,061
It's like when a TV goes
from color to black-and-white.

620
00:37:52,145 --> 00:37:54,522
Like, there's this little switch
that goes off

621
00:37:54,606 --> 00:37:57,817
that takes you into this weird gray scale,

622
00:37:57,901 --> 00:38:01,237
and when Piazza hit that ball,

623
00:38:01,321 --> 00:38:05,950
it was like that scene in <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>
where it all goes into Technicolor again.

624
00:38:06,034 --> 00:38:09,913
That's just what it felt like.
It was that black-and-white movie...

625
00:38:11,331 --> 00:38:13,208
...that all of a sudden got light.

626
00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:16,503
And part of the recovery
is reminding ourselves

627
00:38:16,586 --> 00:38:22,008
that we still possess
the totality of our humanity.

628
00:38:22,091 --> 00:38:24,093
<i>Why is baseball back?</i>

629
00:38:24,177 --> 00:38:29,307
<i>Those firefighters smiling
because of a baseball game in Flushing.</i>

630
00:38:31,518 --> 00:38:36,940
{\an8}So many celebrities were leaving New York.
McCartney stuck around.

631
00:38:38,858 --> 00:38:44,447
{\an8}It was shortly before the concert
that he curated at Madison Square Garden.

632
00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:48,868
{\an8}Being on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>,
we were all just kind of nervous

633
00:38:48,952 --> 00:38:50,537
and looking around, like, "What do we do?"

634
00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:53,206
We're entertainers,
and our biggest job

635
00:38:53,289 --> 00:38:56,960
is to try to take the world's mind away
from certain daily routines.

636
00:38:57,961 --> 00:39:02,966
Sports always has seemed
to find a way to transcend any tragedy.

637
00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:06,845
For us, it was hockey.
It was the Rangers. It was Mark.

638
00:39:07,428 --> 00:39:09,931
All of us were struggling
for the right words,

639
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:12,475
and maybe what we had needed
was the right sounds.

640
00:39:14,519 --> 00:39:17,772
The Who, when they're singing
"I Won't Get Fooled Again,"

641
00:39:18,982 --> 00:39:22,735
Madison Square Garden was shaking.

642
00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:24,320
It was shaking.

643
00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:29,534
This was a moment for all of the police,
fire, emergency workers

644
00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:31,119
to let their hair down.

645
00:39:34,497 --> 00:39:41,087
I've worked
in entertainment journalism for 45 years,

646
00:39:41,170 --> 00:39:43,631
{\an8}and at every moment in those 45 years,

647
00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:46,759
{\an8}whoever the most famous person
in the room was was a big deal.

648
00:39:48,177 --> 00:39:52,557
After 9/11, if you were famous,
you didn't matter.

649
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,643
There was only one sort
of important person:

650
00:39:56,394 --> 00:40:02,150
a rescuer, a first responder,
or a victim and a victim's family.

651
00:40:06,613 --> 00:40:11,701
Joel Gallen, who had been
my, uh, executive producer at MTV

652
00:40:11,784 --> 00:40:12,994
for a good while,

653
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:16,497
called me up and said
that this telethon was coming together.

654
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,379
They were going to have
musicians play music

655
00:40:23,463 --> 00:40:28,009
and actors read accounts of heroism

656
00:40:28,092 --> 00:40:33,306
by firefighters, police officers,
ordinary civilians.

657
00:40:33,389 --> 00:40:37,393
The idea was for it not to be
about the celebrities,

658
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:40,480
but to be about the stories
they were telling.

659
00:40:41,147 --> 00:40:43,858
{\an8}He arrived at Ground Zero
before the towers fell,

660
00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:46,653
{\an8}as fires raged around him.

661
00:40:46,736 --> 00:40:51,908
Will Smith and Muhammad Ali were paired,
and, you know, also spoke.

662
00:40:51,991 --> 00:40:55,787
{\an8}This man might be
the most famous person in the world.

663
00:40:55,870 --> 00:40:58,247
{\an8}He's one of the greatest heroes
of our time.

664
00:40:58,831 --> 00:41:00,083
And he is a Muslim.

665
00:41:00,166 --> 00:41:04,671
Will explained how, you know, there was
no way that we could allow

666
00:41:04,754 --> 00:41:07,632
any kind of discrimination
against Muslim people.

667
00:41:07,715 --> 00:41:09,676
And then Ali began to speak.

668
00:41:19,852 --> 00:41:24,816
Ali came through
in a way that was powerful

669
00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:26,651
and in a way a little unexpected.

670
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,572
Music was part of the unifier.

671
00:41:31,656 --> 00:41:35,201
Bruce Springsteen did a song
that almost no one had heard at that point

672
00:41:35,284 --> 00:41:37,245
called "My City of Ruins."

673
00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:39,998
<i>♪ My city of ruins ♪</i>

674
00:41:40,081 --> 00:41:42,792
It was done in a somber way.

675
00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:46,337
He had a backup choir
that was enormously powerful.

676
00:41:46,421 --> 00:41:49,215
<i>♪ Come on, rise up ♪</i>

677
00:41:49,298 --> 00:41:51,718
<i>♪ Come on, rise up ♪</i>

678
00:41:51,801 --> 00:41:56,222
{\an8}He was able to encapsulate
the pain that we were all feeling,

679
00:41:56,305 --> 00:41:58,391
{\an8}but the hopefulness of-of what may come.

680
00:41:58,474 --> 00:42:04,981
<i>♪ Come on, rise up ♪</i>

681
00:42:05,064 --> 00:42:09,902
Bon Jovi doing "Livin' on a Prayer"
was a suitably powerful moment.

682
00:42:09,986 --> 00:42:14,866
<i>♪ We've got each other
And that's a lot for love ♪</i>

683
00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:17,952
"We got each other, and that's a lot."
That's what it is, right?

684
00:42:18,036 --> 00:42:21,873
In that moment in time,
when you felt helpless,

685
00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:28,629
to have a lyric that is about
just simple unity and-and-and faith.

686
00:42:28,713 --> 00:42:32,675
<i>♪ Whoa-oh
Livin' on a prayer ♪</i>

687
00:42:33,301 --> 00:42:35,511
All of us were struggling
for the right words,

688
00:42:35,595 --> 00:42:38,431
and maybe what we had needed
was the right sounds.

689
00:42:38,514 --> 00:42:45,480
This was everybody doing their part
to help elevate a people in despair,

690
00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:48,399
and it sounds trivial
when you think about it

691
00:42:48,483 --> 00:42:51,319
along the sides of-of-of music
and art and those things,

692
00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:52,695
but it wasn't.

693
00:42:56,824 --> 00:43:00,620
The NFL heads back to work.
It's good to be back.

694
00:43:00,703 --> 00:43:03,372
The NFL is implementing
its tightest security measures

695
00:43:03,456 --> 00:43:05,583
since Super Bowl XXV during the Gulf War.

696
00:43:05,666 --> 00:43:09,170
{\an8}You could feel tension
because you realize

697
00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:11,923
{\an8}there's so many people
in one concentrated area.

698
00:43:12,006 --> 00:43:15,051
{\an8}It was always a-a scary thought.

699
00:43:16,427 --> 00:43:20,014
<i>While the Giants are in
Kansas City, the Jets are in Foxborough.</i>

700
00:43:20,098 --> 00:43:22,391
Both the New York teams
were out of town that weekend.

701
00:43:22,475 --> 00:43:26,437
{\an8}It mattered, obviously, to them, being
able to go back into action and play.

702
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,567
{\an8}There were more American flags,
there were more...

703
00:43:31,651 --> 00:43:34,362
{\an8}it was like everything was like, "Wow."

704
00:43:35,238 --> 00:43:37,281
{\an8}<i>Patriot right guard
Joe Andruzzi's thoughts</i>

705
00:43:37,365 --> 00:43:39,700
{\an8}<i>certainly involved his brothers,
Billy, Jimmy and Mark,</i>

706
00:43:39,784 --> 00:43:43,913
{\an8}<i>who are all New York City firefighters,
all honorary captains, for today's game.</i>

707
00:43:43,996 --> 00:43:47,416
{\an8}You know, probably the most
butterflies I had in my belly that day

708
00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:49,794
{\an8}was me running out there.

709
00:43:49,877 --> 00:43:52,171
{\an8}The cheering of the crowd was
pretty amazing,

710
00:43:52,255 --> 00:43:56,092
{\an8}especially when they introduced
my brothers who were out there

711
00:43:56,175 --> 00:43:59,095
and, you know, representing
for what they stood for.

712
00:43:59,178 --> 00:44:01,722
{\an8}<i>They represent not only New York City,</i>

713
00:44:01,806 --> 00:44:03,891
{\an8}<i>but also all of America today.</i>

714
00:44:04,809 --> 00:44:08,020
They wore their uniforms,
and the-the chills,

715
00:44:08,104 --> 00:44:10,940
you know, knowing that
they stood out there for not themselves,

716
00:44:11,482 --> 00:44:14,026
they stood out there
for what they did as a job,

717
00:44:14,110 --> 00:44:18,614
and that's, I think, when people learned
that they risked their lives every day.

718
00:44:18,698 --> 00:44:21,784
{\an8}You kind of get a little timid.
You're like, "This is overwhelming."

719
00:44:21,868 --> 00:44:24,829
And then for some reason, I just took
my helmet off and I raised it up,

720
00:44:24,912 --> 00:44:27,915
and then the whole crowd went bananas.

721
00:44:35,548 --> 00:44:38,968
You felt the vibration
of the screams through your body.

722
00:44:39,051 --> 00:44:40,219
It was crazy.

723
00:44:41,596 --> 00:44:46,517
{\an8}It was an interesting time because you did
see so much patriotism around the country

724
00:44:46,601 --> 00:44:48,686
{\an8}in support of what was happening
in New York.

725
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:56,736
{\an8}We're entertainers, and our biggest job
is to try to take America's mind

726
00:44:56,819 --> 00:44:59,572
{\an8}and the world's mind away
from certain daily routines,

727
00:44:59,655 --> 00:45:01,991
especially during these times.

728
00:45:03,075 --> 00:45:05,161
Just seeing people come together

729
00:45:05,244 --> 00:45:08,831
and seeing sort of
the generosity of spirit.

730
00:45:08,915 --> 00:45:11,792
I don't remember a time
ever feeling that kind of unity.

731
00:45:11,876 --> 00:45:15,463
<i>♪ God bless America ♪</i>

732
00:45:15,546 --> 00:45:17,340
We just want to go back to living our life

733
00:45:17,423 --> 00:45:21,761
and showing people, whoever did this,
that they're not going to keep us down.

734
00:45:21,844 --> 00:45:26,682
USA! USA! USA!

735
00:45:26,766 --> 00:45:29,810
{\an8}There was definitely
a united sense of purpose,

736
00:45:29,894 --> 00:45:31,604
{\an8}a pride in being American.

737
00:45:31,687 --> 00:45:33,648
It really did bring us together,
didn't it?

738
00:45:39,028 --> 00:45:42,198
{\an8}Being on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>,
we were all just kind of nervous

739
00:45:42,281 --> 00:45:45,618
{\an8}and looking around like, "What do we do?"
and "What is the first step?"

740
00:45:45,701 --> 00:45:48,287
{\an8}How do you entertain through all this?

741
00:45:48,371 --> 00:45:50,456
When is it okay to talk about this stuff?

742
00:45:51,499 --> 00:45:53,167
They didn't mess with your feelings

743
00:45:53,251 --> 00:45:56,212
about what had happened on 9/11,
but they did make you laugh.

744
00:46:04,095 --> 00:46:05,846
Being on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>...

745
00:46:06,681 --> 00:46:09,642
we were all just kind of nervous
and looking around, like,

746
00:46:09,725 --> 00:46:12,186
{\an8}"What do we do,"
and "What is the first step?"

747
00:46:12,270 --> 00:46:16,732
{\an8}How do you...
how do you entertain through all this?

748
00:46:20,486 --> 00:46:26,033
I think Lorne had a perfect idea
to have first responders and firefighters

749
00:46:26,117 --> 00:46:28,202
on stage with the mayor.

750
00:46:28,286 --> 00:46:31,664
<i>The mayor of New York City,
Rudolph Giuliani.</i>

751
00:46:34,292 --> 00:46:38,296
I think Mayor Giuliani really eased us
back into, "Okay, we're gonna be okay."

752
00:46:38,379 --> 00:46:41,382
But even as we grieve for our loved ones,

753
00:46:42,049 --> 00:46:45,386
it's up to us to face the future
with renewed determination.

754
00:46:45,469 --> 00:46:50,016
And then it was Lorne who had the idea
of the line of, "Can we be funny?"

755
00:46:50,099 --> 00:46:51,517
{\an8}Can we be funny?

756
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,896
{\an8}Lorne Michaels has produced <i>SNL</i>
for almost all of its 50 years,

757
00:46:56,605 --> 00:46:58,941
{\an8}and he will never have written
a better joke

758
00:46:59,817 --> 00:47:02,445
{\an8}than the one that Giuliani delivers
at that moment.

759
00:47:03,154 --> 00:47:04,613
Why start now?

760
00:47:07,366 --> 00:47:10,745
And that was--
that was kind of the icebreaker

761
00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:14,707
that everyone was like,
"Okay, here we go. Now do your job."

762
00:47:16,584 --> 00:47:20,254
And then
the show begins, and <i>SNL</i> is back.

763
00:47:21,922 --> 00:47:27,136
{\an8}And you begin to understand
how comedy will deal with 9/11.

764
00:47:27,845 --> 00:47:31,307
The way to do comedy was to sort of go in
through the side door,

765
00:47:31,390 --> 00:47:35,394
and that's what Tina Fey
and Jimmy Fallon did on Weekend Update.

766
00:47:35,478 --> 00:47:38,356
US officials continue the search
for Osama bin Laden.

767
00:47:38,439 --> 00:47:40,649
Reports suggest that bin Laden
is most likely hiding out

768
00:47:40,733 --> 00:47:43,402
somewhere remote and barren,
where he will not encounter others.

769
00:47:43,486 --> 00:47:47,740
They didn't mess with your feelings
about what had happened on 9/11,

770
00:47:47,823 --> 00:47:49,658
but they did make you laugh.

771
00:47:49,742 --> 00:47:52,995
The FBI has begun searching
theaters showing the movie <i>Glitter</i>.

772
00:47:54,372 --> 00:47:58,167
And you have to make people smile again
and know that we're going to be okay.

773
00:47:59,085 --> 00:48:00,836
No one's gonna take our spirit away.

774
00:48:01,837 --> 00:48:04,215
People need you now. You got to show up.

775
00:48:05,508 --> 00:48:10,012
I think that's what New Yorkers did.
You know, Broadway showed up.

776
00:48:11,263 --> 00:48:13,099
Our musicians showed up.

777
00:48:14,392 --> 00:48:16,060
Our athletes showed up.

778
00:48:23,442 --> 00:48:24,443
Two division winners,

779
00:48:24,527 --> 00:48:26,904
the two teams with the best road record
in the league last year

780
00:48:26,987 --> 00:48:30,449
and it's all a forgotten footnote when
the Saints visit Giants Stadium today,

781
00:48:30,533 --> 00:48:33,452
eight miles away
from where the Twin Towers once stood.

782
00:48:33,536 --> 00:48:37,915
{\an8}We're in New York City,
the hardest-hit city with the attacks.

783
00:48:37,998 --> 00:48:41,377
{\an8}Yesterday, the Giants were
brought another step closer

784
00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:43,045
{\an8}to the events of September 11th.

785
00:48:43,754 --> 00:48:48,676
{\an8}They invited the children of some of the
fallen firefighters and police officers

786
00:48:48,759 --> 00:48:51,053
{\an8}to join the annual team photo.

787
00:48:52,179 --> 00:48:56,517
And to have these kids come out
who were affected by all of this,

788
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:57,810
it meant the world.

789
00:48:58,310 --> 00:49:01,188
Saying, "Hey, this is bigger
than just us as football players.

790
00:49:01,272 --> 00:49:02,815
This is us as a community."

791
00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:12,700
I was doing an interview for <i>GMA</i>.

792
00:49:12,783 --> 00:49:16,954
Now to our <i>GMA</i> cover story
with pop sensation Ariana Grande.

793
00:49:17,037 --> 00:49:21,792
She kept saying,
I want you to meet my guy, Pete Davidson.

794
00:49:22,376 --> 00:49:25,254
Now, I was a big fan of his
at that time, on <i>SNL</i>.

795
00:49:25,337 --> 00:49:27,756
I'd be just as happy
if there were no hurricane

796
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,301
and Staten Island just fell into the sea.

797
00:49:31,051 --> 00:49:33,345
Oh...

798
00:49:33,429 --> 00:49:35,055
So he comes in,

799
00:49:35,139 --> 00:49:38,893
he said, "Do you remember 9/11
and the first game back?

800
00:49:38,976 --> 00:49:40,895
You had a kid on your shoulder"...

801
00:49:40,978 --> 00:49:44,482
{\an8}I was like, "You remember that kid
that you put on your shoulders?"

802
00:49:44,565 --> 00:49:45,608
{\an8}And he goes, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."

803
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:47,318
{\an8}I go, "You're looking at him."

804
00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:52,907
Now, you talk about chills.

805
00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:56,285
- You [bleep] me? Are you [bleep] me?
- What?

806
00:49:56,368 --> 00:49:58,662
No, I'm gonna freaking cry now.

807
00:49:58,746 --> 00:50:01,040
- No, that was Pete.
- You can't have me crying

808
00:50:01,123 --> 00:50:02,208
up in here, man.

809
00:50:06,003 --> 00:50:07,880
Like, whoa.

810
00:50:08,464 --> 00:50:10,466
Well, he's not the same size
he was back then,

811
00:50:10,549 --> 00:50:13,219
- I'll tell you that.
- No, he's definitely not.

812
00:50:13,302 --> 00:50:16,430
My grandpa went with me.
I remember I was wearing a leather jacket.

813
00:50:16,514 --> 00:50:21,435
I was really into <i>Grease</i>
because my grandpa liked musicals,

814
00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:24,355
and I wanted to be John Travolta.

815
00:50:25,606 --> 00:50:28,943
'Cause when I was seven,
I was like, "That's what a man is."

816
00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:30,778
Seriously, I'm over here getting chills,

817
00:50:30,861 --> 00:50:32,780
- 'cause I remember that.
- And I was like seven or eight,

818
00:50:33,489 --> 00:50:34,698
Pretty sick.

819
00:50:34,782 --> 00:50:35,783
Oh, my God.

820
00:50:35,866 --> 00:50:38,285
When you're a fan of a team
and you're going through something

821
00:50:38,369 --> 00:50:39,995
and they deliver for you,

822
00:50:40,079 --> 00:50:41,497
it feels personal.

823
00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:43,249
You know, you're a part of something.

824
00:50:43,332 --> 00:50:45,834
It was really... it was a special moment.

825
00:50:45,918 --> 00:50:48,379
It's even more special now
'cause he's a good friend of mine.

826
00:50:53,133 --> 00:50:57,137
{\an8}Sports, movies, moments,
they're very meaningful.

827
00:50:57,221 --> 00:50:59,807
- Congratulations.
- Oh, thank you.

828
00:50:59,890 --> 00:51:05,062
And, you know, we needed that.
Well, you need that in life.

829
00:51:05,145 --> 00:51:06,939
You need moments like that.

830
00:51:11,610 --> 00:51:14,154
<i>NHL action Sunday night.
Rangers hosting Buffalo.</i>

831
00:51:14,238 --> 00:51:17,157
<i>The Rangers and Sabres uniting
to wear New York jerseys</i>

832
00:51:17,241 --> 00:51:20,536
<i>that will be auctioned off to benefit
charities of the World Trade Center.</i>

833
00:51:20,619 --> 00:51:23,414
We had the FDNY and NYPD at the game.

834
00:51:23,497 --> 00:51:26,667
{\an8}There was probably a handful of times
in my career over 26 years

835
00:51:26,750 --> 00:51:29,712
{\an8}that something was more important
than that game at that time.

836
00:51:29,795 --> 00:51:32,423
This is one of those games
that felt secondary

837
00:51:32,506 --> 00:51:37,094
to acknowledging what these folks had done
in the face of adversity.

838
00:51:38,512 --> 00:51:40,306
So I was working that day in the Bronx.

839
00:51:41,307 --> 00:51:44,226
The general manager
for the fire department hockey team called

840
00:51:44,310 --> 00:51:47,396
and said the Rangers are inviting
us down for the home opener.

841
00:51:47,479 --> 00:51:51,442
{\an8}"Bring your sticks, bring your gloves,
bring your skates and bring your jersey."

842
00:51:51,525 --> 00:51:53,319
I'm like, nobody said anything
about bringing our helmets.

843
00:51:53,402 --> 00:51:55,654
It's usually, fire department,
you wear your helmet.

844
00:51:56,447 --> 00:51:58,824
I mean, the helmet is a staple
of a fireman, right?

845
00:51:58,907 --> 00:52:00,284
That's the only thing that separates you

846
00:52:00,367 --> 00:52:02,202
from other rescue workers,
it's the helmet.

847
00:52:04,038 --> 00:52:07,249
There was a picture of Chief Downey
in the firehouse, so I made a copy,

848
00:52:07,333 --> 00:52:09,376
put it on the front of my helmet
and brought it down,

849
00:52:09,460 --> 00:52:11,211
thinking, "Okay,

850
00:52:11,295 --> 00:52:14,089
if I get a chance, I'm gonna sneak this
on the ice and wear it."

851
00:52:15,007 --> 00:52:17,468
Chief Downey was a legend
in the fire department.

852
00:52:17,926 --> 00:52:19,053
He was the guy you wanted.

853
00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:23,098
At any tragedy, you wanted Chief Downey
there because he was gonna get it done.

854
00:52:24,183 --> 00:52:26,268
He just loved the FDNY.

855
00:52:27,811 --> 00:52:30,481
But his number one passion
might have been ice hockey.

856
00:52:31,982 --> 00:52:35,986
So after 9/11, Chief Downey
should have been at the command post

857
00:52:36,070 --> 00:52:37,946
for the entire operation.

858
00:52:38,781 --> 00:52:43,494
But he was in the building with his men
when the collapse happened.

859
00:52:45,746 --> 00:52:48,624
So I go down to the garden
with the helmet

860
00:52:48,707 --> 00:52:50,209
and the picture of Chief Downey.

861
00:52:50,292 --> 00:52:51,710
I snuck it in.

862
00:52:52,294 --> 00:52:54,254
Put it on as we were going out on the ice.

863
00:52:54,338 --> 00:52:57,132
USA! USA!

864
00:52:57,216 --> 00:52:59,134
- And the Rangers started to come out.
- <i>Number 11...</i>

865
00:52:59,218 --> 00:53:01,845
- Mark was last.
- ...<i>Mark Messier.</i>

866
00:53:03,472 --> 00:53:08,102
Let's go! Let's go!

867
00:53:08,185 --> 00:53:11,438
It just happened
that Mark did not have a helmet on,

868
00:53:11,522 --> 00:53:16,360
and on a whim,
I just said to my co-captain,

869
00:53:16,443 --> 00:53:19,363
I'm gonna skate over
and ask Messier if he'll wear the helmet.

870
00:53:19,446 --> 00:53:21,699
He goes, "What? That's not a good idea."

871
00:53:23,617 --> 00:53:26,036
I thought he was just
coming over to shake my hand,

872
00:53:26,453 --> 00:53:28,706
and he got over there,
and he did shake my hand,

873
00:53:28,789 --> 00:53:32,543
but then he said, "We would love you to
wear Chief Downey's helmet in memory."

874
00:53:33,335 --> 00:53:36,255
He said to me, "They don't know
you're doing this, do they?"

875
00:53:36,338 --> 00:53:40,676
And I said, "No."
He goes, "Oh, my God, I love it.

876
00:53:45,305 --> 00:53:47,516
And at that point, I'm thinking to myself,

877
00:53:47,599 --> 00:53:49,810
"Am I worthy of of putting
that helmet on?"

878
00:53:52,312 --> 00:53:55,524
He goes, "No, no, no, put the helmet on.
We would all really appreciate that."

879
00:53:56,650 --> 00:54:00,154
Here's this legendary hockey player
who's got six Stanley Cups,

880
00:54:00,237 --> 00:54:03,115
and who could have expected that?

881
00:54:04,742 --> 00:54:07,453
Haven't seen Mark in 25 years.

882
00:54:10,289 --> 00:54:12,916
- Mark.
- Hey!

883
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,460
- Oh, my God. Good to see you.
- Hi.

884
00:54:14,543 --> 00:54:17,254
- Been a long time. 25 years.
- Twenty-five years.

885
00:54:17,337 --> 00:54:18,338
Long time.

886
00:54:18,422 --> 00:54:20,382
Oh, my goodness. Look at this.

887
00:54:20,466 --> 00:54:22,092
We haven't been together
in that long.

888
00:54:22,176 --> 00:54:24,303
Seeing him here, it's emotional.

889
00:54:25,554 --> 00:54:27,723
- The chief.
- Yeah, great guy.

890
00:54:27,806 --> 00:54:29,057
It turned out to be a moment

891
00:54:29,141 --> 00:54:32,269
that will last forever,
and I'm glad to be a part of it.

892
00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:34,521
- I'm glad to represent.
- You were the right guy for it.

893
00:54:34,605 --> 00:54:36,231
- Oh, thank you. Thank you.
- You were... you know?

894
00:54:37,274 --> 00:54:41,278
I think there are certain people
in your life that are great reminders

895
00:54:41,361 --> 00:54:43,405
about the importance of giving back.

896
00:54:44,072 --> 00:54:46,325
Chief Downey was an amazing guy.

897
00:54:47,242 --> 00:54:49,244
I wish he was here.
He would have loved meeting you.

898
00:54:49,328 --> 00:54:50,454
Oh, my goodness.

899
00:54:50,537 --> 00:54:52,372
- That would have been amazing.
- It would have been amazing.

900
00:54:52,456 --> 00:54:54,041
- Maybe he is over here with us...
- Yeah, he is.

901
00:54:54,124 --> 00:54:55,459
- ...in spirit, for sure.
- He's looking down for sure.

902
00:54:55,542 --> 00:54:56,585
Absolutely.

903
00:54:56,668 --> 00:55:01,965
Sports always has seemed to find a way
to transcend any tragedy.

904
00:55:03,342 --> 00:55:07,137
There's just something about sports,
whatever sport, you know?

905
00:55:07,221 --> 00:55:09,681
For us it was hockey,
it was the Rangers, it was Mark.

906
00:55:10,557 --> 00:55:11,558
It meant a lot.

907
00:55:20,984 --> 00:55:23,278
Once things got moving again,

908
00:55:24,780 --> 00:55:28,367
there were discussions about, you know,
what we were going to do at <i>Rolling Stone.</i>

909
00:55:28,450 --> 00:55:31,912
{\an8}It seemed a little ridiculous
to sit around and talk to somebody

910
00:55:31,995 --> 00:55:36,667
{\an8}about their new album or whatever
when 9/11 had just occurred.

911
00:55:38,335 --> 00:55:43,298
But the artists that I speak to
all had plenty of interesting things

912
00:55:43,382 --> 00:55:44,633
to say about that.

913
00:55:45,092 --> 00:55:49,471
One of the most memorable interviews I did
around that time was with Paul McCartney.

914
00:55:51,056 --> 00:55:55,602
That was the time when
so many celebrities were leaving New York,

915
00:55:56,895 --> 00:55:59,356
whereas McCartney stuck around.

916
00:56:02,693 --> 00:56:04,236
I met him at his office.

917
00:56:05,070 --> 00:56:07,322
And it was a beautiful October afternoon

918
00:56:08,156 --> 00:56:10,826
and we were going
to do the interview at a restaurant.

919
00:56:11,910 --> 00:56:15,289
But I remember so distinctly
Paul McCartney saying, "Well,

920
00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:16,873
why don't we just walk to the restaurant?

921
00:56:16,957 --> 00:56:19,626
Let's walk and let's talk.
Let's do the walk.

922
00:56:20,252 --> 00:56:23,839
We walked, like, three or four blocks
up 6th Avenue.

923
00:56:26,133 --> 00:56:28,802
- And it was really just extraordinary.
- Thank you.

924
00:56:29,428 --> 00:56:31,346
- What's up, Paul?
- Okay, okay.

925
00:56:31,430 --> 00:56:34,600
People just couldn't believe it.
They were so happy to see him.

926
00:56:34,683 --> 00:56:37,477
Paul McCartney's here. I can't believe it.

927
00:56:37,561 --> 00:56:41,273
He was just very casual,
like, "Hey, great to see you."

928
00:56:41,356 --> 00:56:43,025
- Hey, how are you?
- I'm all right, man, yeah.

929
00:56:43,108 --> 00:56:44,359
How are you doing? Are you okay?

930
00:56:44,443 --> 00:56:45,777
- All right.
- Sure, all right.

931
00:56:45,861 --> 00:56:51,158
I really feel like McCartney
wanted to send a message that he was here.

932
00:56:52,451 --> 00:56:57,831
It was shortly before the concert
that he curated at Madison Square Garden.

933
00:56:58,415 --> 00:57:03,420
I always think about that time,
and I think about the McCartney lyric,

934
00:57:05,005 --> 00:57:07,633
"Take a sad song and make it better."

935
00:57:07,716 --> 00:57:11,511
I think McCartney felt he needed
to do that for New Yorkers.

936
00:57:17,184 --> 00:57:18,810
The Yankees were in the playoffs.

937
00:57:18,894 --> 00:57:20,354
Paul was at the game.

938
00:57:20,437 --> 00:57:25,067
<i>Very American moment for
Sir Paul McCartney as a big Yankee fan.</i>

939
00:57:25,150 --> 00:57:30,364
There was such incredible belief
in New York, in the Yankees.

940
00:57:30,447 --> 00:57:35,077
{\an8}As a New Yorker,
we all rally around our teams, right?

941
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:36,578
Sports is like a unifier.

942
00:57:36,662 --> 00:57:39,956
You could be a Dominican
18-year-old kid from the Bronx,

943
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,877
you could be a 46-year-old
Italian construction worker from Queens,

944
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:45,462
but we're both Yankees fans.

945
00:57:45,545 --> 00:57:50,801
{\an8}And it's only something like baseball
that can cure things sometimes.

946
00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:52,135
{\an8}It was ours.

947
00:57:53,220 --> 00:57:56,473
{\an8}The Yankees had won
three World Series in a row,

948
00:57:56,556 --> 00:57:59,393
{\an8}but they had a rocky start
to the playoffs.

949
00:57:59,476 --> 00:58:01,269
We lose both games at home.

950
00:58:01,353 --> 00:58:04,940
{\an8}Now I'm packing my bag
to go west,

951
00:58:05,023 --> 00:58:09,778
{\an8}with 9/11 just right there,

952
00:58:09,861 --> 00:58:13,615
{\an8}where we're all affected by it,
it doesn't go away.

953
00:58:14,574 --> 00:58:15,617
<i>Never before</i>

954
00:58:15,701 --> 00:58:19,371
<i>in a best-of-five series has a team lost
the first two games at home</i>

955
00:58:19,454 --> 00:58:21,123
<i>and come back to win that series.</i>

956
00:58:21,206 --> 00:58:23,500
So when we got to Oakland,

957
00:58:23,583 --> 00:58:28,088
I just said, "Guys, you need to win
one game. Just win one game."

958
00:58:28,171 --> 00:58:29,589
If they lose that game, they go home.

959
00:58:30,507 --> 00:58:33,552
<i>Ready, here's the set
and the pitch, swung on,</i>

960
00:58:33,635 --> 00:58:36,304
<i>smashed down the first baseline,
base hit in the corner.</i>

961
00:58:36,388 --> 00:58:39,683
<i>Jeremy around second, going to third.
Spencer digs it out.</i>

962
00:58:39,766 --> 00:58:41,643
And that was the great Jeter flip play.

963
00:58:41,810 --> 00:58:43,937
<i>They're gonna try to score him.</i>

964
00:58:44,020 --> 00:58:46,815
<i>The ball rolls. Here's the pitch by Jeter.</i>

965
00:58:46,898 --> 00:58:49,109
<i>And he gets the out at the plate!</i>

966
00:58:49,192 --> 00:58:53,989
<i>Derek Jeter with one of the most
unbelievable plays you will ever see</i>

967
00:58:54,072 --> 00:58:55,490
<i>by a shortstop.</i>

968
00:58:55,574 --> 00:58:57,909
I always looked at it
as I was just doing my job.

969
00:58:58,452 --> 00:59:01,496
{\an8}If you do your job,
you can always bounce back.

970
00:59:01,580 --> 00:59:04,249
I think New Yorkers are built like that,
you know?

971
00:59:04,332 --> 00:59:06,752
New Yorkers, even when they're down,
they bounce back.

972
00:59:07,377 --> 00:59:10,297
That play that Jeter made
sealed it for me.

973
00:59:10,380 --> 00:59:11,715
I was like, "This is it."

974
00:59:11,798 --> 00:59:14,551
We're going all the way
to achieve our destiny.

975
00:59:15,218 --> 00:59:18,013
It became more than just playing baseball.

976
00:59:18,096 --> 00:59:21,516
Our job was to bring joy,
especially to New York at that time.

977
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:27,647
<i>Ball game over.
Yankees win. The Yankees win!</i>

978
00:59:30,108 --> 00:59:33,820
It was so interesting
to watch that series.

979
00:59:33,904 --> 00:59:38,992
It was some joy for the city, but, you
know, it was still smoldering downtown,

980
00:59:39,659 --> 00:59:42,496
and there was such hurt.

981
00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:47,167
Then you think,
"All right, What can you do?"

982
00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:52,130
And then I was contacted
about the concert for New York.

983
00:59:56,384 --> 00:59:58,637
It was 20-something-thousand people there.

984
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:03,058
Everybody that you could imagine
wanted to be there, had to be there.

985
01:00:03,141 --> 01:00:04,851
{\an8}It was an amazing night.

986
01:00:04,935 --> 01:00:09,439
{\an8}New Yorkers come together and just showing
that fear is not going to stop us.

987
01:00:11,775 --> 01:00:15,111
I remember I was backstage.
I saw Billy Crystal and Adam Sandler,

988
01:00:15,195 --> 01:00:19,157
Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi.

989
01:00:19,241 --> 01:00:21,785
{\an8}Every door was open,
every dressing room was open,

990
01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:25,455
{\an8}Everybody was,
you know, hanging out together.

991
01:00:27,707 --> 01:00:33,088
Opening the show was David Bowie
with this incredibly haunting version

992
01:00:33,171 --> 01:00:35,924
of "America,"
the Simon and Garfunkel song.

993
01:00:36,007 --> 01:00:42,013
<i>♪ They've all come to look for America ♪</i>

994
01:00:42,097 --> 01:00:43,849
But then of course he played "Heroes."

995
01:00:43,932 --> 01:00:50,230
<i>♪ We can be heroes just for one day ♪</i>

996
01:00:50,313 --> 01:00:55,360
And that served as a kind of tribute
to the firefighters and policemen

997
01:00:55,443 --> 01:00:58,572
and all of the other first responders
being honored that night.

998
01:00:58,655 --> 01:01:01,741
We have 6,000 special guests.

999
01:01:05,370 --> 01:01:09,249
That was the single
hardest thing I've ever had to do

1000
01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:11,126
because you walk out there...

1001
01:01:12,294 --> 01:01:14,129
...all I saw were signs.

1002
01:01:14,212 --> 01:01:15,589
"Have you seen my father?"

1003
01:01:15,672 --> 01:01:17,465
"Have you seen my mother?"

1004
01:01:17,549 --> 01:01:20,760
"Have you seen my brother?"
"Have you seen my uncle?"

1005
01:01:20,844 --> 01:01:24,973
{\an8}Have you seen, have you seen,
have you seen, have you seen?

1006
01:01:29,394 --> 01:01:33,023
Well, it's amazing that it was
25 years ago, 'cause I can still feel it.

1007
01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:38,028
You know? You can still feel their hurt,
you can still feel their pain.

1008
01:01:39,529 --> 01:01:41,197
It's something I'll...

1009
01:01:41,281 --> 01:01:43,742
...I'll never forget.
It's like seared into my soul.

1010
01:01:45,243 --> 01:01:49,789
We were sad, but we were also exhilarated
because we just felt like,

1011
01:01:49,873 --> 01:01:52,375
"Okay, we've been to hell and back again
and we're still here,

1012
01:01:52,459 --> 01:01:54,544
we're the ones that are here.
Okay, let's go."

1013
01:01:54,628 --> 01:01:58,840
And we went on as the first band,
just all...

1014
01:02:02,969 --> 01:02:06,848
<i>♪ This ain't a song
For the broken-hearted ♪</i>

1015
01:02:06,932 --> 01:02:10,644
The energy of Madison Square Garden--
again, and I'm just, wow...

1016
01:02:10,727 --> 01:02:12,354
I just got chills again thinking of it.

1017
01:02:13,521 --> 01:02:15,482
Yeah, I remember
a policeman giving me his hat

1018
01:02:15,565 --> 01:02:17,901
and I was wearing it
for a good portion of the song.

1019
01:02:18,652 --> 01:02:20,820
We're all in this together.

1020
01:02:20,904 --> 01:02:22,948
I remember The Who coming out that night

1021
01:02:23,031 --> 01:02:26,493
and just, that was the release valve
that we all needed.

1022
01:02:30,330 --> 01:02:32,707
When they're singing
"I won't get fooled again..."

1023
01:02:32,791 --> 01:02:34,459
<i>♪ We don't get fooled again ♪</i>

1024
01:02:35,585 --> 01:02:38,171
Madison Square Garden was shaking.

1025
01:02:38,254 --> 01:02:41,049
It was shaking.

1026
01:02:41,132 --> 01:02:43,551
There was a... [screams] ...when he screamed.

1027
01:02:48,306 --> 01:02:49,891
Everyone was screaming.

1028
01:02:50,892 --> 01:02:55,105
This was a moment for all
of the police, fire, emergency workers

1029
01:02:55,188 --> 01:02:59,526
to let their hair down,
to be alive, to turn it up again.

1030
01:03:00,276 --> 01:03:02,904
And they did. It was glorious.

1031
01:03:04,531 --> 01:03:06,449
Thank you very much.

1032
01:03:06,533 --> 01:03:12,622
{\an8}Everybody had one purpose,
and that was to show resilience and hope.

1033
01:03:12,706 --> 01:03:14,874
Adam Sandler was out there.

1034
01:03:14,958 --> 01:03:18,670
{\an8}<i>♪ Osama says he's tough
Osama says he's brave ♪</i>

1035
01:03:18,753 --> 01:03:22,173
{\an8}<i>♪ Then tell me why Osama
Is [bleep] in a cave ♪</i>

1036
01:03:27,846 --> 01:03:30,807
Usually they have a hard out
at the Garden, like 11 o'clock or...

1037
01:03:30,890 --> 01:03:32,183
they have to shut it down.

1038
01:03:32,267 --> 01:03:34,436
But not that night.
That night they just said, "No.

1039
01:03:34,519 --> 01:03:37,105
Let's go until, until...
let's just put on a show."

1040
01:03:38,732 --> 01:03:42,569
Paul, truth be told,
really was at the middle of all of this,

1041
01:03:42,652 --> 01:03:46,031
and whether it was Paul McCartney

1042
01:03:46,114 --> 01:03:49,909
or David Bowie,
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards,

1043
01:03:50,618 --> 01:03:53,246
they were all Americans that night,
they were New Yorkers that night.

1044
01:03:53,329 --> 01:03:56,166
We were one people of this one world.

1045
01:03:56,249 --> 01:03:58,334
We did it.

1046
01:03:58,418 --> 01:04:03,381
You know, there was a moment immediately
after 9/11 where people were saying,

1047
01:04:03,465 --> 01:04:07,260
"How can you listen to music
or go to the theater or any of it?"

1048
01:04:07,343 --> 01:04:09,262
That's why we have art.

1049
01:04:11,014 --> 01:04:12,307
At moments like that,

1050
01:04:12,390 --> 01:04:18,021
you want artists who are going to help us
come to terms with the things in our lives

1051
01:04:18,104 --> 01:04:22,317
that are the most frightening things.

1052
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:28,740
This is what we do,
and what better time to do it than now?

1053
01:04:30,992 --> 01:04:32,452
So President Bush is in there,

1054
01:04:32,535 --> 01:04:35,663
and I say, "Hey, I hear
you're throwing out the first pitch,

1055
01:04:35,747 --> 01:04:37,624
and then when I walked out,

1056
01:04:37,707 --> 01:04:39,542
I turned around and said,
"Don't bounce it."

1057
01:04:39,626 --> 01:04:42,462
I said, "'Cause they'll boo you.
This is Yankee Stadium."

1058
01:04:45,632 --> 01:04:49,219
<i>At Yankee Stadium tonight,
game three of the World Series.</i>

1059
01:04:50,678 --> 01:04:55,016
{\an8}<i>At Madison Square Garden,
the NBA return of Michael Jordan.</i>

1060
01:04:55,600 --> 01:05:00,021
New York City law enforcement
is having a very visible show of force.

1061
01:05:00,105 --> 01:05:02,232
9/11 changed a lot of paradigms.

1062
01:05:02,315 --> 01:05:03,691
What do you got here, boss?

1063
01:05:04,150 --> 01:05:07,362
{\an8}It was a month and a half
after the attacks

1064
01:05:07,445 --> 01:05:11,116
{\an8}and at that point,
as a nation we want to be protected.

1065
01:05:12,992 --> 01:05:15,286
I was at game three.

1066
01:05:15,370 --> 01:05:17,914
And as we're approaching the stadium,

1067
01:05:17,997 --> 01:05:21,709
there were police and there
were gunmen on the roof of the stadium.

1068
01:05:22,794 --> 01:05:24,796
Helicopters all over the place.

1069
01:05:24,879 --> 01:05:28,299
{\an8}And I remember you had to go through two
metal detectors to get into the stadium.

1070
01:05:28,925 --> 01:05:32,095
President Bush was coming
to throw out the first pitch.

1071
01:05:32,178 --> 01:05:34,722
{\an8}I remember when the president walked
into the locker room,

1072
01:05:34,806 --> 01:05:37,517
{\an8}he had a bulletproof vest on,
and he went to warm up.

1073
01:05:38,768 --> 01:05:42,522
{\an8}Jeter took him down in the batting cage
and, uh,

1074
01:05:43,064 --> 01:05:44,691
{\an8}I think he made his life miserable.

1075
01:05:46,651 --> 01:05:49,779
So President Bush is in there
and I say, um, "Yeah, I hear you..."

1076
01:05:49,863 --> 01:05:51,948
you know,
"You're throwing out the first pitch."

1077
01:05:52,031 --> 01:05:54,951
{\an8}And he says, "You think I should throw it
from the mound or in front of the mound?

1078
01:05:55,034 --> 01:05:57,912
{\an8}I said, "No,
you gotta throw it from the rubber."

1079
01:05:57,996 --> 01:06:00,081
I mean, you know,
president of the United States.

1080
01:06:00,165 --> 01:06:01,499
And then when I walked out,

1081
01:06:01,583 --> 01:06:03,209
I turned around and said,
"Don't bounce it."

1082
01:06:03,293 --> 01:06:06,462
I said, "'Cause they'll boo you.
This is Yankee Stadium."

1083
01:06:11,718 --> 01:06:15,722
I've never divulged
what came from him, but, uh...

1084
01:06:16,389 --> 01:06:18,099
He did look a little nervous though.

1085
01:06:18,183 --> 01:06:23,688
<i>Please welcome the president
of the United States.</i>

1086
01:06:25,899 --> 01:06:31,487
He went out on the field, proud as can be,
went to the mound, the top of the mound

1087
01:06:32,488 --> 01:06:33,865
and threw a strike.

1088
01:06:38,369 --> 01:06:43,958
In that particular moment, whether you are
a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent,

1089
01:06:44,042 --> 01:06:45,668
I don't care what religion you are...

1090
01:06:45,752 --> 01:06:47,962
Very nice throw, Mr. President.

1091
01:06:48,046 --> 01:06:49,839
...at that moment in time,

1092
01:06:50,882 --> 01:06:53,801
President Bush
represented us as a country.

1093
01:06:53,885 --> 01:06:55,595
And as far as unity,
here it is.

1094
01:06:55,678 --> 01:06:57,680
You look around, and it shows unity.

1095
01:06:57,764 --> 01:07:00,808
There's no more unity in the world right
now than right here at Yankee Stadium.

1096
01:07:03,019 --> 01:07:06,689
<i>The Yankees, down two games
to none to the Arizona Diamondbacks,</i>

1097
01:07:06,773 --> 01:07:08,691
<i>have Roger Clemens on the mound tonight.</i>

1098
01:07:09,901 --> 01:07:13,446
I felt like you almost had a little help
that, you know, when I'm out there.

1099
01:07:13,529 --> 01:07:16,407
I wasn't the only one on the mound.
I really believed that.

1100
01:07:16,908 --> 01:07:20,370
We all have angels,
and we had a ton of angels with us.

1101
01:07:20,453 --> 01:07:25,083
It was Roger pitching game three.
He got us on the right track.

1102
01:07:25,166 --> 01:07:27,335
We were off and running, and then, uh,

1103
01:07:27,418 --> 01:07:31,547
we went through probably the most exciting
three games at Yankee Stadium

1104
01:07:31,631 --> 01:07:34,300
in postseason that I can ever recall.

1105
01:07:36,386 --> 01:07:40,265
{\an8}Both game four and game five
were extraordinary baseball games.

1106
01:07:40,348 --> 01:07:41,349
{\an8}These are both games

1107
01:07:41,432 --> 01:07:44,227
where the Yankees were
an out away from-from losing.

1108
01:07:44,310 --> 01:07:46,562
<i>Fly ball, center field.</i>

1109
01:07:46,646 --> 01:07:48,856
<i>It is way back. At the wall.</i>

1110
01:07:48,940 --> 01:07:51,025
<i>Home run! Home run! Home run!</i>

1111
01:07:51,109 --> 01:07:55,321
<i>Tino Martinez with two outs
in the bottom of the ninth.</i>

1112
01:07:55,405 --> 01:07:59,158
<i>He drills a game-tying two-run home run.</i>

1113
01:07:59,242 --> 01:08:01,327
This was, uh, game four,

1114
01:08:01,411 --> 01:08:04,372
and you know, everybody was on the edge
of their seat. Derek comes up.

1115
01:08:05,581 --> 01:08:09,919
<i>Drilled to right field.
Going back... On the track. At the wall.</i>

1116
01:08:10,003 --> 01:08:12,505
<i>See ya! See ya!</i>

1117
01:08:12,588 --> 01:08:13,840
<i>See ya!</i>

1118
01:08:15,675 --> 01:08:19,137
A lot of people, I think, have hit
walk-off home runs in the World Series

1119
01:08:19,220 --> 01:08:21,347
{\an8}and they've been special
for their fan bases,

1120
01:08:21,431 --> 01:08:24,392
{\an8}but the circumstances here were different.

1121
01:08:24,475 --> 01:08:28,938
And I'm sure there were people in there
that didn't plan on cheering that day

1122
01:08:29,480 --> 01:08:31,649
that were cheering
and screaming and emotional.

1123
01:08:31,733 --> 01:08:34,861
There's a... It's a lot of emotion
that was in that stadium.

1124
01:08:34,944 --> 01:08:37,572
<i>And on a cool
November morning,</i>

1125
01:08:37,655 --> 01:08:41,367
<i>Derek Jeter ends a long,
thrilling night of baseball.</i>

1126
01:08:41,451 --> 01:08:44,912
Really is tough to explain
because if you're watching it,

1127
01:08:44,996 --> 01:08:47,290
it's like no way that
just happened, right?

1128
01:08:47,373 --> 01:08:50,418
Okay, move on to the next night,
and then it happens again.

1129
01:08:51,085 --> 01:08:55,256
<i>That one hit in the air
into left field. Do you believe it?</i>

1130
01:08:55,340 --> 01:08:57,133
<i>Goodbye. Home run!</i>

1131
01:08:57,216 --> 01:08:59,469
<i>They have done it again!</i>

1132
01:08:59,552 --> 01:09:01,304
<i>I don't believe it.</i>

1133
01:09:03,181 --> 01:09:05,433
It's like it's a higher power that's...

1134
01:09:06,017 --> 01:09:08,770
that's helping us out there,
is what it seemed like.

1135
01:09:11,689 --> 01:09:13,483
The interesting thing is,

1136
01:09:14,859 --> 01:09:18,154
when you run into a lot of Yankee fans,

1137
01:09:18,946 --> 01:09:23,868
they will mention games three,
four and five in that World Series,

1138
01:09:24,494 --> 01:09:26,621
but will never mention the outcome.

1139
01:09:26,704 --> 01:09:30,124
<i>Diamondbacks win!
They're the world champions!</i>

1140
01:09:30,208 --> 01:09:32,668
Still, um, bothers me today

1141
01:09:33,294 --> 01:09:36,255
that we lost that World Series.

1142
01:09:36,339 --> 01:09:40,259
But our job was to give the people
something to cheer for.

1143
01:09:41,386 --> 01:09:43,805
{\an8}I think what the Yankees
were able to do in those games

1144
01:09:43,888 --> 01:09:47,058
{\an8}by just sort of summoning
something deep inside of them

1145
01:09:47,141 --> 01:09:49,519
{\an8}and knowing that those wins
weren't just for themselves

1146
01:09:49,602 --> 01:09:51,687
{\an8}but for millions of other people too,

1147
01:09:52,939 --> 01:09:55,233
there may be something
that was inside of them

1148
01:09:55,316 --> 01:09:57,276
that I think
everybody was feeling as well.

1149
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:58,903
New York really needed it.

1150
01:10:04,659 --> 01:10:06,911
{\an8}There was gonna be a weight
put on the shoulders

1151
01:10:06,994 --> 01:10:10,540
{\an8}of whoever we're gonna perform
at this halftime, and it was U2.

1152
01:10:11,708 --> 01:10:14,127
{\an8}They were a great voice in this moment.

1153
01:10:14,210 --> 01:10:18,673
Bono opening up his jacket
and having an American flag sewn into it.

1154
01:10:18,756 --> 01:10:21,217
That was very, very, very powerful.

1155
01:10:24,345 --> 01:10:28,141
America watches the spectacle
that is the Super Bowl.

1156
01:10:28,224 --> 01:10:29,892
Security outside the stadium,

1157
01:10:29,976 --> 01:10:32,228
tighter than
any American sporting event in history.

1158
01:10:32,311 --> 01:10:35,356
The Super Bowl that year was
the first Super Bowl I ever went to

1159
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:36,899
as a spectator.

1160
01:10:36,983 --> 01:10:42,363
{\an8}To watch fittingly a team named
the Patriots with a... a young quarterback

1161
01:10:42,447 --> 01:10:44,699
{\an8}who no one thought much of at the time.

1162
01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:47,910
It was very fitting for the whole year.

1163
01:10:47,994 --> 01:10:50,246
Pats 14-point underdogs.

1164
01:10:50,329 --> 01:10:52,373
We were a bunch of nobodies.

1165
01:10:52,457 --> 01:10:55,251
{\an8}But as my brother Billy told me
prior to the game,

1166
01:10:55,334 --> 01:10:59,005
{\an8}he goes, "Yeah, it's destiny.
You're a red, white and blue team."

1167
01:10:59,630 --> 01:11:02,925
{\an8}They are American colors,
red, white and blue.

1168
01:11:03,009 --> 01:11:04,135
{\an8}The Patriot.

1169
01:11:04,218 --> 01:11:08,264
{\an8}It was just... it was like a-a script
that was written

1170
01:11:08,347 --> 01:11:09,640
{\an8}that they were supposed to win.

1171
01:11:10,641 --> 01:11:14,437
I remember that ball going through
the uprights and winning that game.

1172
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:17,982
<i>The Patriots
have won Super Bowl XXXVI.</i>

1173
01:11:18,733 --> 01:11:22,987
You know, I wasn't thinking about, you
know, anything but looking for my family.

1174
01:11:25,615 --> 01:11:28,826
I jumped on the field,
gave the hugest hug.

1175
01:11:28,910 --> 01:11:32,121
I couldn't believe it, and I told him,
I said, "I told you, I told you."

1176
01:11:35,291 --> 01:11:37,877
Who have you personally
dedicated this win to?

1177
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:39,128
My brothers.

1178
01:11:40,129 --> 01:11:43,674
The FDNY and everybody out there,

1179
01:11:43,758 --> 01:11:47,094
you know, with that Trade Center...
the tragedy.

1180
01:11:49,263 --> 01:11:53,309
What we were doing as a team
was pretty amazing and comforting

1181
01:11:53,392 --> 01:11:57,814
and knowing that sports helped people
through that and helped people heal.

1182
01:12:01,108 --> 01:12:04,278
What was so special
is that I have my whole family.

1183
01:12:04,362 --> 01:12:05,655
{\an8}All my boys are there.

1184
01:12:09,867 --> 01:12:14,705
I'll never forget watching that
game and being inspired as a fan,

1185
01:12:14,789 --> 01:12:18,501
and also the U2 halftime show was

1186
01:12:19,836 --> 01:12:21,295
insane.

1187
01:12:22,922 --> 01:12:24,674
The halftime is a coveted spot.

1188
01:12:24,757 --> 01:12:27,969
{\an8}There was gonna be a weight put on the
shoulders of whoever we're gonna perform

1189
01:12:28,052 --> 01:12:30,471
{\an8}at this halftime, and it was U2.

1190
01:12:31,222 --> 01:12:33,975
They were a great voice in this moment.

1191
01:12:34,058 --> 01:12:37,520
You know how sometimes these
halftime shows are great on television,

1192
01:12:37,603 --> 01:12:39,564
but they're not great in the house?

1193
01:12:39,647 --> 01:12:41,774
{\an8}This was unbelievable.

1194
01:12:41,858 --> 01:12:44,068
{\an8}And then they did
"Where the Streets Have No Name."

1195
01:12:44,610 --> 01:12:47,530
<i>♪ Where the streets have no name ♪</i>

1196
01:12:47,613 --> 01:12:51,742
And on the screen behind them
is this roll of victims of 9/11.

1197
01:12:51,826 --> 01:12:53,744
<i>♪ Where the streets have no name ♪</i>

1198
01:12:56,581 --> 01:12:59,709
And I remember so well
Bono opening up his jacket

1199
01:12:59,792 --> 01:13:02,378
and having an American flag sewn into it.

1200
01:13:02,461 --> 01:13:04,547
That was very, very, very powerful.

1201
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,217
That was an amazing
halftime show. It really was.

1202
01:13:08,301 --> 01:13:09,510
{\an8}Yeah, they had the names going.

1203
01:13:09,594 --> 01:13:12,096
{\an8}I'm just trying to find names
that... of everyone that we knew.

1204
01:13:13,097 --> 01:13:18,436
It capsulized what so many
people's takeaway from 9/11 would be,

1205
01:13:18,519 --> 01:13:21,898
which was
how many people lost their lives.

1206
01:13:25,568 --> 01:13:28,696
I mean, it's a tragedy
that it continues to unfold.

1207
01:13:28,779 --> 01:13:33,200
{\an8}We lost more people post 9/11
than we lost during 9/11.

1208
01:13:35,703 --> 01:13:38,539
I'm retired now,
and we get called down every year

1209
01:13:38,623 --> 01:13:40,541
to do our, um, 9/11 medicals.

1210
01:13:40,625 --> 01:13:42,710
You know, you get a little worried
every time you go.

1211
01:13:42,793 --> 01:13:46,213
There's people I know that-that, you
know, have come down with stuff and...

1212
01:13:46,797 --> 01:13:49,008
and unfortunately have perished.

1213
01:13:49,091 --> 01:13:51,677
I think we're up to 700
and something firemen, right?

1214
01:13:51,761 --> 01:13:55,932
Yeah, yeah, they send us emails
every time there's a 9/11 funeral.

1215
01:13:56,432 --> 01:13:57,642
Yeah, it's something you think about.

1216
01:13:57,725 --> 01:14:00,394
You just don't wanna be,
you know, go out that way at least.

1217
01:14:01,062 --> 01:14:02,855
But would you do it again?

1218
01:14:02,939 --> 01:14:04,023
- Yeah.
- You have to.

1219
01:14:05,316 --> 01:14:09,362
{\an8}So many good men, so many good women--
uniform and non-uniform--

1220
01:14:10,112 --> 01:14:13,366
{\an8}have suffered deeply from 9/11.

1221
01:14:13,449 --> 01:14:17,662
We were exposed 24-7 to those toxins.

1222
01:14:17,745 --> 01:14:23,250
The federal government had the audacity
to challenge us and say we weren't sick.

1223
01:14:24,001 --> 01:14:26,754
{\an8}There is one thing that Washington
did fail to pass:

1224
01:14:26,837 --> 01:14:29,632
{\an8}the bill to help those firemen
and rescue workers

1225
01:14:29,715 --> 01:14:31,717
{\an8}who raced to the scene on 9/11.

1226
01:14:31,801 --> 01:14:35,638
People on TV don't necessarily have,
uh, a ton of options.

1227
01:14:35,721 --> 01:14:38,099
But the one monkey trick
we can pull off is,

1228
01:14:38,182 --> 01:14:41,143
uh, we can get some cameras focused
on something when we need to.

1229
01:14:41,227 --> 01:14:45,815
Now you see the, uh, the Senate
is filibustering, uh, uh, the bill.

1230
01:14:45,898 --> 01:14:47,650
What-What's going through your mind

1231
01:14:47,733 --> 01:14:49,568
as you're watching this process go down?

1232
01:14:50,069 --> 01:14:54,281
Uh, we're-we're, uh, we're disgusted,
we're disappointed, and, uh...

1233
01:14:54,365 --> 01:14:56,200
and, uh, unfortunately we're hurt.

1234
01:14:56,283 --> 01:14:58,285
We watched <i>The Daily Show</i>

1235
01:14:58,369 --> 01:15:03,124
and saw the guys and what he did, and, um...

1236
01:15:05,501 --> 01:15:06,711
it moved the needle.

1237
01:15:24,937 --> 01:15:31,902
{\an8}Jon Stewart, like really no one else,
he was there as often as he could.

1238
01:15:31,986 --> 01:15:35,197
{\an8}He would not be silenced.

1239
01:15:36,157 --> 01:15:39,493
John is the first celebrity

1240
01:15:40,411 --> 01:15:44,874
who rolled up his sleeves
and got embedded with us.

1241
01:15:50,421 --> 01:15:52,548
{\an8}I welcome everyone
to today's hearing on the need

1242
01:15:52,631 --> 01:15:55,968
{\an8}to reauthorize the September 11th
Victim Compensation Fund.

1243
01:15:56,886 --> 01:15:59,096
{\an8}When everybody sat down
and Jon went...

1244
01:15:59,180 --> 01:16:00,306
{\an8}Mr. Stewart.

1245
01:16:01,057 --> 01:16:06,062
...he delivered nine minutes with dignity
and passion and compassion.

1246
01:16:06,145 --> 01:16:07,480
Sick and dying,

1247
01:16:08,147 --> 01:16:10,066
they brought themselves
down here to speak.

1248
01:16:11,817 --> 01:16:17,156
Your indifference cost these men and women
their most valuable commodity:

1249
01:16:18,115 --> 01:16:19,283
time.

1250
01:16:19,867 --> 01:16:25,998
What Jon Stewart did
came from anger, came from love.

1251
01:16:26,082 --> 01:16:28,709
They responded in five seconds.

1252
01:16:29,877 --> 01:16:31,378
They did their jobs.

1253
01:16:34,632 --> 01:16:37,760
Eighteen years later, do yours.

1254
01:16:38,677 --> 01:16:43,265
Anger and love
are the most powerful emotions.

1255
01:16:43,349 --> 01:16:44,350
Thank you.

1256
01:16:44,433 --> 01:16:48,938
When you put them together, embrace
the love and do something about it.

1257
01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:51,107
{\an8}And Jon Stewart did that.

1258
01:16:51,732 --> 01:16:55,152
{\an8}Now to a huge victory for 9/11
first responders,

1259
01:16:55,236 --> 01:16:58,364
{\an8}the Senate passing a bill that
will permanently fund their health care,

1260
01:16:58,447 --> 01:17:00,908
{\an8}a battle that was championed
by Jon Stewart.

1261
01:17:00,991 --> 01:17:02,952
{\an8}The bill is passed.

1262
01:17:04,954 --> 01:17:09,250
{\an8}We hugged and we cried,
and I think it was me exhaling

1263
01:17:10,543 --> 01:17:11,836
of so much...

1264
01:17:13,170 --> 01:17:15,673
...so much pain.

1265
01:17:19,135 --> 01:17:20,553
And I think Jon...

1266
01:17:22,096 --> 01:17:26,725
...was the only one, uh,
who can bring it out of me.

1267
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:28,853
I'm hopeful that today

1268
01:17:30,229 --> 01:17:34,733
begins the process of being able to heal
without the burden of having to advocate.

1269
01:17:49,665 --> 01:17:55,087
I mean, uh, I gained some
incredible friendships.

1270
01:17:56,422 --> 01:17:58,007
Those same people that I talk about

1271
01:17:58,090 --> 01:18:01,760
that kind of are the fabric
of what holds us,

1272
01:18:01,844 --> 01:18:03,929
kind of tethers us to this world.

1273
01:18:11,437 --> 01:18:15,107
But, um,
I would certainly give all that back.

1274
01:18:16,650 --> 01:18:20,029
If I could have the knowledge that
they were just still with the families,

1275
01:18:20,112 --> 01:18:21,906
watch the Islanders or...

1276
01:18:24,909 --> 01:18:27,870
Jon bled with us.
Nobody else bled with us.

1277
01:18:27,953 --> 01:18:29,705
Sorry.

1278
01:18:32,416 --> 01:18:37,671
You know the expression, "He set the bar
high for others to embrace and emulate"?

1279
01:18:37,755 --> 01:18:39,089
Jon is the bar.

1280
01:18:41,467 --> 01:18:42,760
He's the bar.

1281
01:18:51,227 --> 01:18:54,063
People were afraid
to go downtown.

1282
01:18:54,730 --> 01:18:58,484
People were worried about the air.
People were worried about toxicity.

1283
01:18:58,567 --> 01:19:01,612
People were worried about,
"This doesn't feel right."

1284
01:19:02,154 --> 01:19:04,031
All those people died down here.

1285
01:19:04,615 --> 01:19:08,285
But the arts are healing.

1286
01:19:08,369 --> 01:19:13,207
Hollywood stars are in New York
this weekend for a brand new film festival

1287
01:19:13,290 --> 01:19:14,959
that actually begins tomorrow night.

1288
01:19:18,629 --> 01:19:21,840
In the wake of 9/11,
Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro

1289
01:19:21,924 --> 01:19:27,972
created the Tribeca Film Festival as a way
to restore that part of town, you know,

1290
01:19:28,055 --> 01:19:30,099
that had been the site of so much tragedy.

1291
01:19:30,182 --> 01:19:32,017
{\an8}Because of what's happened
in September 11th,

1292
01:19:32,101 --> 01:19:33,852
{\an8}so that sort of galvanized everything

1293
01:19:33,936 --> 01:19:36,772
{\an8}and made us feel
that this is the time to do it.

1294
01:19:36,855 --> 01:19:38,691
{\an8}It's very important for many reasons.

1295
01:19:38,774 --> 01:19:41,277
{\an8}I think it means a lot for Tribeca
just to get people back down here,

1296
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,195
{\an8}'cause for this part of New York,
it's been hard.

1297
01:19:43,279 --> 01:19:47,408
It was really exciting to see
that people embraced it

1298
01:19:48,450 --> 01:19:51,245
and let the creative people
do what they do

1299
01:19:51,328 --> 01:19:52,997
and brought beauty to downtown.

1300
01:19:55,499 --> 01:19:59,628
Tribeca Film Festival reflected
the renewal, the resilience,

1301
01:19:59,712 --> 01:20:02,631
the creative energy that
New York was always known for.

1302
01:20:05,259 --> 01:20:08,012
It's been amazing.
I've seen the whole thing.

1303
01:20:08,095 --> 01:20:11,765
And I think leaving the footprints

1304
01:20:11,849 --> 01:20:15,269
of the Twin Towers was a great tribute.

1305
01:20:20,941 --> 01:20:25,195
You know, there's not a day
that I've driven by the Trade Center now...

1306
01:20:29,825 --> 01:20:34,038
and not stopped
to say a prayer for the fallen.

1307
01:20:37,291 --> 01:20:40,419
It's a spectacular place
of remembrance.

1308
01:20:46,258 --> 01:20:49,345
When you walk past the burnt-out truck...

1309
01:20:52,431 --> 01:20:56,935
when you see the wall
that held the river back...

1310
01:20:59,104 --> 01:21:02,775
when you walk down that staircase
that survived...

1311
01:21:10,199 --> 01:21:13,118
and then when you leave and you see this...

1312
01:21:14,328 --> 01:21:17,414
this amazing city
in this amazing part of town flourishing...

1313
01:21:19,625 --> 01:21:22,878
then you understand
what America is and can be.

1314
01:21:25,672 --> 01:21:28,300
It's hard to believe
it's been 25 years.

1315
01:21:28,384 --> 01:21:32,679
Because in some sense,
it is still fresh in my mind. Um...

1316
01:21:34,098 --> 01:21:36,767
But how we heal?
I mean, we're still healing.

1317
01:21:52,616 --> 01:21:55,744
It's a big question: "How has this changed
you?"

1318
01:21:56,745 --> 01:21:59,581
Oh. 9/11 changed the way I see,

1319
01:22:00,249 --> 01:22:02,543
you know, society, life.

1320
01:22:02,626 --> 01:22:04,545
I was a very immature 18-year-old.

1321
01:22:04,628 --> 01:22:09,299
That made me kind of like zoom out
in a way that I had never done before.

1322
01:22:10,426 --> 01:22:12,094
It made me a better person.

1323
01:22:12,761 --> 01:22:15,681
Because I, too, was one of those
that was in New York

1324
01:22:15,764 --> 01:22:18,684
and kind of got
too busy to make eye contact.

1325
01:22:18,767 --> 01:22:20,352
Not after that.

1326
01:22:20,436 --> 01:22:23,897
I think the biggest thing
that we learned is that it's compassion.

1327
01:22:23,981 --> 01:22:30,320
I'd never seen the level of unity
that we had during that time.

1328
01:22:30,404 --> 01:22:35,033
You know, to think back and to realize
that that unity has not survived

1329
01:22:35,117 --> 01:22:38,912
the intervening 25 years
is-is-is one of the most heartbreaking,

1330
01:22:38,996 --> 01:22:41,623
uh, consequences of the 9/11 attacks.

1331
01:22:47,921 --> 01:22:50,466
My dad loved being a fireman.

1332
01:22:51,133 --> 01:22:54,178
I'm not glad this happened at all,

1333
01:22:54,261 --> 01:22:58,640
but he got to go out doing something
that he loved with his buddies.

1334
01:23:00,476 --> 01:23:03,270
I'm glad he was, uh, with his buddies.

1335
01:23:09,109 --> 01:23:12,696
Engine 54,
ladder four on 8th Avenue.

1336
01:23:12,779 --> 01:23:15,991
That was my neighborhood,
and man, I'm so grateful for them

1337
01:23:16,074 --> 01:23:20,496
and for everybody that lost their lives
and all the families that were affected

1338
01:23:20,579 --> 01:23:23,373
uh, by that, you know...
...we'll never forget.

1339
01:23:25,292 --> 01:23:27,252
It gave me gratitude...

1340
01:23:28,003 --> 01:23:29,379
for the first responders.

1341
01:23:29,463 --> 01:23:30,839
It's a selflessness

1342
01:23:30,923 --> 01:23:34,176
that goes into being a firefighter
that you're doing something for others.

1343
01:23:34,259 --> 01:23:38,055
I'm so proud to have been able
to represent all the FDNY in that moment...

1344
01:23:38,138 --> 01:23:40,557
- Thank you. Thank you.
- ...and certainly Chief Downey.

1345
01:23:41,308 --> 01:23:43,685
For New York,
if we didn't have the Rangers winning,

1346
01:23:43,769 --> 01:23:46,063
if we didn't have Messier
with Downey's helmet,

1347
01:23:46,146 --> 01:23:49,274
if we didn't have, um, Piazza hit that
game-winning home run,

1348
01:23:49,358 --> 01:23:52,027
how many people were standing,
cheering for 20 minutes?

1349
01:23:52,110 --> 01:23:56,073
And for what the city was going through,
it was a different kind of feeling

1350
01:23:56,156 --> 01:23:58,450
that you have that connection, you know?

1351
01:23:58,534 --> 01:23:59,535
Yeah.

1352
01:24:00,494 --> 01:24:06,750
Whatever gifts anyone has,
all of them using their talents

1353
01:24:06,833 --> 01:24:08,627
and their skills...

1354
01:24:11,046 --> 01:24:13,715
to bring the best of themselves...

1355
01:24:16,134 --> 01:24:18,512
then to rise to the occasion

1356
01:24:20,055 --> 01:24:23,100
so the country can feel better...

1357
01:24:28,021 --> 01:24:30,857
was truly a gift to us all.