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2:10It's Labor Day weekend. For many of us, it's time to celebrate the unofficial close of summer with family, friends, and fun all across America. But the week ahead will also bring a time of solemn commemoration. Friday will mark 25 years since the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001. It's hard to believe that a quarter century has passed since the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shang's Hill, Pennsylvania became forever linked to one of the darkest days in American history. Nearly 3,000 people perished that day. Still, time marches on. So much has changed since then in America and beyond. Yet for those who live through that day, and especially for those who lost loved ones, the memories remain as vivid as ever. Their voices still matter. The hardest part is, you know, I just lost so many people.

3:15I know my parents wanted like multiple kids, so I think I was supposed to have a bigger family. When you look on that field, it's a cemetery. Reflecting on a quarter century of a change to America. Among those who stood up to help revitalize the city after 9-11, was actor and native New Yorker Robert De Niro. Just weeks after the twin towers came down, he co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival. This morning, he's looking back with Tracy Smith. If New York City had a face, it might look like Robert De Niro. So when his city was attacked on 9-11, he helped start a film festival to save it. The world didn't need another film festival. There are a lot of them too. Did Tribeca need this? Yeah, we did. Film legend Robert De Niro on his city, his festival, and what makes his blood boil coming up on Sunday morning.

4:22The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the mother accused of killing her three children back in 2023, has made national headlines in recent weeks. A mistrial was declared on Friday, and the medical condition Clancy suffered from remains largely misunderstood. Facially explores the issue. A focus of the Lindsay Clancy trial was a rare devastating psychiatric illness. One which Megan Cliffall knows all too well. I experienced this, you know, a decade ago, and it's like, does it have to take a tragedy for you to care about this illness? It just, it feels devastating. Later on Sunday morning, understanding postpartum psychosis. Major Garrett takes us to the elementary school, where former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card gave President George W. Bush the news that the U.S. was under attack on 9-11.

5:28Connor Knighton visits the Canadian town that gave refuge to American travelers that day, and later inspired a musical. Will remember feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem. Adam Yamaguchi checks out a hamburger from a Japanese joint with the grandest of ambitions. Plus, commentary from journalist and former White House speechwriter James Fauss. All that and more on this Sunday morning, September 6th, 2026. We'll be back in a moment. So long ago, and yet it really feels like yesterday. There's a flying line between never forgetting 9-11 and always reminding.

6:34Too much is distasteful, too little, is disrespectful. Nicholas W. Brandemarty. He might think after all this time there's no bell left unbrung, no prayer unsaid, no song that hasn't been sung. After 25 years, most fitting way we can think of to keep that day close, is talking to those who were there. We understand that there has been a plane crash on the southern tip of Manhattan. You could see planes shooting out of all sides of the North Tower. Harry Handler was on the 67th floor of the other time. Two world trade centers.

7:35Building made an announcement that said there's been an incident in one world trade center. If you're in two world trade center, return to your desk. Return to your desk. Return to your desk. I thought this was just a bad idea. 17 minutes later, a second plane hit his tower. Right, oh my god, another plane has just hit another building. He began leaping down flights of stairs 12 steps at a time. And then he stopped. I ran into a woman who was leaning against the banster having an asthma attack. He said, well, let me take you down. She took my arm and even though she was breathing heavily, we went very slowly down the stairs. I'm slammed right into the building. Huge explodes. They had no idea that a third plane had hit the Pentagon. The wounded were rushed to nearby hospitals as the fire spread and an entire section of the building collapsed. Things were not where you would expect them to be.

8:36There was part of a desk that was sort of in the ceiling. There was, look like a safe that was turned sideways and embedded into the wall. Marine Major Dan Penteleil rushed in to help. Nobody told you to, you just went? Yeah. The fourth airplane did not hit its designated target, but crashed in just a half an hour later, the last of the planes, likely headed to Washington, too. Crashed into a field in Schengsville, Pennsylvania. And sources say there is some evidence of a fight for control just before the plane went down. Passengers. Having gotten word of the attacks in both New York and the Pentagon, stormed the cockpit. On that dark day, up. On that dark day, 40 people did something that gave America hope, right?

9:38They're faced with the worst thing, and they voted to do something about it, and they did. That sort of bowl there, where the plane was, that was your land. Yeah, there. Yeah. Those streets looked like the brunt of the explosion. Tim Lambert's family had owned that land since the 1930s. And then over time, you saw nature start to take hold again, right? Grass was growing. Wildlife was coming back, but the reminders of what happened there were always constant. One of the names on the Flight 93 Memorial here is first officer, Leroy Homer Jr. His only daughter, Laurel, was 10 months old. I feel like it's something I struggle with a lot still. It's like what my life was supposed to be first. What it ended up being, and just not even knowing who I would have been. Over the years, she attended summer camps, organized for survivors.

10:40But after 25 years, those camp goers are now all adults. I kind of grew up with a level of shame to the whole thing, and I was bullied up points for it. This girl, I wrote D.D. on a paper, and she was like, what does that stand for? And then she said, dead, dead. And then ever since then, I don't think I really had a great place to grieve in a healthy way. Each sees these annual 9-11 observances a little differently. They're all tough. You kind of sometimes I don't sleep well and think, oh, that's right, it's September. You know, it's more people are thinking about it again. There's a lot of emotions. I remember things like all of the American flags on people's houses just popping up all over the place. So I go back to that, and I'm hopeful, but then I also recall

11:44the incredible devastation and destruction and that's a different experience for me. For four days, Dan recovered more than 100 sets of remains from the still smoldering Pentagon, but he also recovered a bit of light, a scarlet and gold marine core flag that remarkably was still standing upright, teetering on the edge of the scar. It was just incredible to see it up there on the fourth floor, pristine, untouched, unfazed by all the destruction around it. It felt like we just couldn't let that flag be another victim. In the midst of the chaos, Dan soon found himself on a lift, inching up to get the flag, still rigging the jet fuel. He brought it down to safety. Much the way Harry Handler brought that stranger down from tower two in New York. I took her to an ambulance and I said, I'll stay with you. You know, this

12:48one of the guys I got in her all the way out of the building and they said no, you have to leave. Minutes later, tower two collapsed. Right on top of the ambulance, where he left the woman, he hoped he'd saved. So I thought I need to find her family. There was an event that the firm held. It was like a happy to be alive event a few weeks later. I was explaining that I was looking for this woman's family and they said she's right over there. I walked over. Her name is Vani Johnson. Harry says he got an email from Vani every September 11th until about 10 years ago when the emails stopped. I looked around and I would search, try to find what happened to her, but I never did. We didn't find her either. After all, 25 years is a long time. As those years passed, the difficult but healing task of designing and building fitting memorials crept a wall.

13:52I understood that this is going to be something. To Lambert ended up donating part of his property in Shakespeare, Pennsylvania, back to the flight 93 families. One of the things that I had vowed was to never take money for those six acres that were part of the crash site. As for that flag recovered from the Pentagon, well, it now sits in a place of honor at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia. I think it became a symbol of our resilience, our refusal to quit. The idea behind we're not going anywhere. We're standing tall. We're standing strong in all this devastation. We're going to still step forward and respond to this. That response lasted for the next 20 years. Within 7,000 US servicemen and women were killed in a rock in Afghanistan. The cost of US taxpayers was in the trillions.

14:53Laurel Homer paid her own price. I'll probably be in therapy for the rest of my life. Still about this. I started therapy when I was three about this. So I'll have good days and stuff. But I don't even know that I've ever been fully happy. And I feel like even on the days that I'm supposed to be the happiest, I still am thinking about who I've lost and what I don't have. Do you think it gets the remembrance and deserves? Probably not. Probably not because we're so focused on what happens right now today. I think sometimes we forget to look back. For many survivors, this 25th observance is really no different than the first, the 10th, or the 20th. Truth is, the story of 9-11 is still being written.

15:57It has been almost 25 years like maybe I need to. We've forward a bit more. But it's still really hard. So I don't know. I don't know. Leroy W. Homer Jr. Bradley V. Horn James P. Hopper And my brother, Brian Joseph Murphy. Now that the school year is officially underway, families are getting a clearer picture of where students are thriving and where they might need a little extra support. It's the perfect time to reinforce what they're learning in class and build confidence along the way. That's where I Excel comes in. I Excel is an award-winning online learning platform that helps kids truly understand their schoolwork. Whether they're building math confidence, strengthening reading and writing skills, or reviewing science concepts. From pre-K through 12th grade, I Excel offers personalized

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19:02Take us back to December of 2015. What was going on in your world? I was back at work. My second baby girl was about eight months old. I had taken out a lot of work stress and not quite feeling like myself, but outwardly I was functioning well. And it wasn't until Friday, December 4th of 2015 when things just dramatically changed for me. On that day, Cliffle says she began to believe she was being surveilled. And from that moment on, I am just lost in a totally deluded, terrifying reality where I believe the entire city is out to get get me. Then Cliffle started to hallucinate. The TV starts to change and it's the face of a male relative of mine. And then he says, if she thinks she's getting out of this alive, she's got another thing coming. As her husband, Colin remembers, the next morning, Megan's crisis engulfed the whole family.

20:04I thought like I was interacting with a wholly different person. Her behavior in those like acute 12 hours in particular in our apartment was on anything I'd ever seen before. What happened during those 12 hours? It just became this epic battle where she is trying to quote-unquote rescue our girls who are happily in our bedroom playing. I literally have to have my back up against our bedroom door to try to keep Megan out. And then just like that, she turns around and is trying to get to our apartment door because she's threatening to go to the roof. And eventually, it says she punches like Mike Tyson and came out swinging and clocked me twice. Colin called 911 and Megan spent the next two weeks in Bellview Hospital where she was prescribed lithium. It wasn't until two months later that she learned the diagnosis, post-partum

21:10psychosis. Dr. Vera Beringa, a psychiatrist and director for Women's Health at Mount Sinai School for Medicine, has been studying post-partum psychosis for 20 years and says it should not be misunderstood as post-partum depression. She calls post-partum psychosis a psychiatric emergency with symptoms that can be extreme. Amanias, raising thoughts or psychosis, losing reality or depression with psychotic features, being so low that you think everything is your fault or a mixture of these and these symptoms occur within a few months after delivery. How common are cases where a mother with post-partum psychosis harms herself or her baby? Unfortunately, suicide is a major goal of mortality. Infanticide is extremely rare. She said she heard a man's voice telling her that if she didn't do it now,

22:13she would lose her chance. Post-partum psychosis was at the center of the trial of Lindsay Clancy, which has riveted the country. Neither the defense nor the prosecution disputed that Clancy had killed her three children in January of 2023. The issue is whether at the time she killed Korra Dawson and Calvin. She knew the difference between right and wrong and whether she could conform her behavior to the requirements of the law. But Clancy's lawyer argued that her undiagnosed psychosis rendered her legally insane. This was a woman that was suffering from psychosis at the time that she went down to that basement. She had no motive. She loved her children. After deliberating for seven days, the jury could not reach a verdict resulting in a mistrial. And I'm made to clear a mistrial. The condition at the center of the trial is considered rare,

23:15afflicting an estimated one to two women per thousand births a year in the US, potentially affecting up to 9,000 mothers annually. It has been known for thousands of years. It has been described in, you know, by the ancient Greek in all cultures in all times. Yet Bear Hink says there are currently fewer than 10 research groups studying the illness in the US. We don't know how to prevent it yet because there is no research. There's no funding. But then if you make the diagnosis, we can treat it. 98% in our studies really go better within weeks. Postpartum psychosis has no single known cause. Symptoms can shift dramatically over days or hours, and mothers may intermittently appear functional, which can confuse their family and clinicians. Postpartum psychosis is a much rarer presentation in many psychiatrists have never seen a case of postpartum psychosis. Dr. Jennifer Payne is a reproductive psychiatrist and vice chair of

24:21research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She hopes the tragic case of Lindsay Clancy will educate the public and legal system about postpartum psychosis. She notes there has been some change in the nearly 25 years since Andrea Yates was tried for the murder of her five children while suffering from psychosis. However, I don't think the legal system has progressed to handle postpartum psychosis cases. Well, I think that there continues to be an amazing amount of stigma surrounding maternal mental health and psychiatric diagnosis. What kind of progress would you like to see with regard to postpartum psychosis? I would like the legal system and I'm not a lawyer, but when it is clear that a patient has had postpartum psychosis and acted on delusions as part of that illness, that that particular case should not progress to a murder trial

25:23and should instead be relegated to a mental health treatment journey. Three years after her recovery, Megan Cliffall and husband Colin decided to have a third child. The risk of recurrence was one in three unmedicated. I actually didn't want to take medication because I felt like I had done so much work on myself in our life. My husband was heart-known. So I took lithium proflactically, immediately after birth in the hospital until a year after. And then, honestly, it turned out more beautifully than after my first two. I had like so much more joy that third time around. Their son is now six years old. And with all the attention surrounding the trial of Lindsay Clancy, Megan Cliffall felt she needed to share her story. It's a real illness. There's no shame and you can get better. It is a beast and it's hard to to heal from and it warrants time and attention, but take that time because this is a very real

26:24devastating illness. It was the whisper marking the very earliest moments of that bright September day, 25 years ago. It fell to President George W. Bush's chief of staff, Andy Card, to walk into a classroom of second graders, to tell the president about the horrors unfolding in New York City. Major Garrett was with the president that day. It was a beautiful start of the day. He was light. Oh, yes. He was light and he was approachable. President George W. Bush arrived at Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida on a clear September Tuesday to celebrate a surge in reading scores. Teacher K. Daniel's second graders were eager to meet him. Mom said, Don Hares and uniforms were pressed and everybody was excited. The children were about to read to President Bush when the light began to turn.

27:27Mr. Card came up in whispered in the president's ear and my whole being just froze because I knew that was not supposed to happen. And then something happened to the president's attitude. He left us for a moment, not physically, but I could tell he left us for a moment, but he came back and I'm wondering what was that moment about? The president read the assigned book, The Pet Goat, for a few moments. The president read the book. Then briefly addressed the nation with few hard facts. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. That is a part of me that will never go away because it's a part of me.

28:32Just like breathing is a part of me. That day is a part of me. Me too. I'll never forget it. This is a familiar walk. Look at this. President Bush's chief of staff Andy Card now 79 can never forget either. Though it has been 25 years since he was inside the classroom, it all came flooding back. That day I promised myself I was going to be cool, come and collected and help the president. So what do you tell him? I decided I would tell him two facts and make one obvious editorial comment. 60 on page 153. A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack. And I was praying that the president did nothing to demonstrate fear to those second graders. He didn't prompting later criticism for appearing in decisive. When you look back on that tape,

29:33what did you see in his eyes? What did you see in his demeanor that maybe the critics miss? First of all, I'm offended of people think he was doing it wrong because if he was doing it wrong, I had done it wrong. So I'll take the blame. We didn't know much about what was going on at all. I do think it was the moment that he realized what the real job of being president was. The flow of information that morning to and from the president was jumbled. And the governor of New York, okay. Reporters like me scrambled for scraps of facts as we prepared for live reports. Did Andy notify him first? Did you ever feel afraid? I had fear. I wasn't, I'm not sure that I would call myself afraid. Okay. I felt very mission driven. Cards Whisper is now an enduring image of a moment America changed. I feel guilty that that photograph, which is iconic and defines an error, includes me. Why do you feel guilty about that? Because I'm not iconic at all. I tried to help

30:35a president do a job. I can be, I'm sure there are millions of Americans that would stand up and do the same thing that I did that would help the president to do the right thing. My conscience is clear, but I also know maybe I didn't do some things right. This spring card in Daniels reunited for the first time since 9-11 at a commemoration held at Booker Elementary. May they never do forgotten. For those who suffered up close 9-11 carries a sacred obligation. Never forget. It's the anthem of 9-11 and a mission to educate those two young to know. Part of that mission now includes a steel beam recovered from the south tower on a nationwide tour marking 25 years. The steel roughly 22 feet and 17,000 pounds conveys the

31:40enormity of destruction with the gravity of loss. This steel represents so, so much. A loss few no better than Steven Siller Jr. His father, Steven, in New York City firefighter, was off duty when he heard the distress call on 9-11. So he grabbed his gear, threw it in his truck, and drove to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. When he got there, it was shut down. So he grabbed his gear, put it on his back and ran to the World Trade Center where he ultimately lost his life. Siller travels the country with the steel truck to honor his father, part of his work with the tunnel to Towers Foundation. We want people to go up to it. We want people to pray over it. My father's body was never recovered, who he is, is ingrained into that steel. And for those Americans who have no living memory of this, what do you want them to know? Well, I'm one of them. I was nine months old on September 11th, so I completely understand growing up without the depth of knowledge of what occurred that day. People that are 25 today don't know what it is that we promise no it'll forget.

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35:05Pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday. She was 92. Steinem was known for many things. Her advocacy, her books, and of course the publication she co-founded. Ms. Magazine. A few years ago, our Rita Braver helped Steinem mark the 50th anniversary of Ms. We thought this might be a good time for a second look. As the women's liberation movement was picking up steam more than half a century ago, feminism, the idea of equality for women, was a new and controversial idea. What do you think that word seemed to threaten people, the word feminism? Two reasons. One, because they didn't understand it. And two, because they did understand it. Gloria Steinem was a thirty-something columnist for New York magazine when she joined with a group

36:06of other journalists to create a new magazine aiming to push feminism into the mainstream. Even the title, Ms. A newly emerging designation for those who didn't want to be bound by Mrs. for a married woman, or Ms. for a single woman, was an issue. As I understand it, even the New York Times wouldn't call you Ms. Gloria Steinem. Oh no, no, I'm so glad you know that it was so annoying. Because for years and years I was Ms. Steinem of Ms. Magazine. Ms. would not offer household hints or fashion chips like traditional women's magazines. We wanted to be able to write about trying to make an equal marriage, or to write about abortion. We didn't want to just focus on women's outsides, but also our insides. In fact, Steinem says she became an activist as well as a journalist while covering

37:09an abortion hearing. Suddenly I realized, wait a minute, I had an abortion when I was in London. And why is this common experience not been spoken about? So in the very first issue of Ms. we had a massive petition signed by you know all kinds of people saying I have had an abortion. Deep prominent women signed it. I have had an abortion and I demand that it become safe and legal. And of course we're still fighting this battle in some states. I mean, theorist about how Ms. would be received, Steinem's boss, legendary New York publisher Clay Felker, volunteered to publish a sample issue within the pages of his magazine. Steinem and the Ms. team hit the publicity circuit. And when I got to California, somebody called the radio show I was on it said you know we can't find it. And I called Clay Felker an panic and I said it didn't

38:12get her and it turned out it had sold out. That was a moment of recognition that you know it had an audience. An audience that's lasted more than 50 years. This is from the early 70s. Catherine Spiller, executive editor of Ms. spent two and a half years compiling an anthology. They all want to make you just dive in. Yeah, right. It's immodestly subtitled the Pathbinding Magazine that ignited a revolution. It started trends and it amplified the trends. A lot of articles about men and marriage and relationships and child rearing and politics and violence against women and you can keep coming back and it shows the endurance of this movement but also the endurance of our opponents. Published monthly, there were lots of wonder woman covers and stories about women's emerging

39:13political clout. One of the most popular features has been letters from readers. Here's a great one. It's very funny. My husband says I used to be a bitch once a month but since I subscribe to Ms. Now I'm a bitch twice a month. The letters often end with the word click inspired by one of the earliest articles by Ms. Co-founder, Jane O'Reilly describing the moment a woman realizes she's experiencing sexism. It's really become part of a vernacular even today. It's an automatic connection to other women who are suffering the same injustices. Long before the Me Too movement, Ms. was writing about sexual harassment on the job. The editors at the time had to use a doll because it would have been two outrageous over the top to have a real woman there. Exactly. And as it was, a lot of news stands pulled this off refusing to sell the issue but it absolutely

40:13represented what way too many women in the workplace experienced then and now. And selling advertising for a women's magazine that covered these issues became a challenge. You describe a lunch with a head of a major cosmetics company in which he told you that women who read Ms. didn't buy blush or make up. Right. It took me to lunch to tell me that, yes. Car manufacturers didn't want to advertise because they didn't think women bought cars. And that it would devalue a car to see a woman driving it. I mean they told me that and destroyed. I didn't not make it up. In 2002 Ms. started being published by the Nonprofit Feminist Majority Foundation. Today Ms. is a quarterly and still inspiring young women according to Ilyana McDonald who works for the foundation. So to the question that some people have

41:15which is hey is this 50 plus magazines still relevant? What's your answer? Absolutely. It's relevant now for the same reason. It was relevant back in the 70s because it's providing a platform. It's encouraging discourse that still needs to be encouraged. It has been 50 years but we still have a lot of work to do. All of us must stand up together and say no more. Ms. Co-founder, glorious dynam, couldn't agree more. Are you still optimistic about the push for equality? Yes, we have to imagine something before it becomes reality. So yes, I am a hope of a like. Americans from coast to coast are firing up their grills this weekend. But what if we were to tell you that the world's best burger might not be made in America? Adam Yamaguchi offers us a taste of Tokyo. The Sensoji Temple in Japan is the oldest in Tokyo and a favorite spot for tourists.

42:24But just a few steps away down on Aero Alli is a much newer monument to Japanese culture. This is Wagyu Brothers, a tiny place with a big ambition to make the best hamburger on earth. There's no grinder here. Co-owner Wataru Kikuchi is hand-trapping Wagyu beef, a very high-grade meat that can cost as much as $300 a pound. Sometimes it's hard to imagine that hamburgers used to be humble. The hamburger as we know it today started more than a hundred years ago as German ethnic food. In the very beginning it was something very very simple and it was nothing more than ground beef cooked somehow and served on bread. That was it. I'm George Motz. Author and restaurant tour George Motz is known as one of the top hamburger experts in the country. He's also big on social media.

43:28And so are a lot of other people who are out to make and sell a better burger. You think social media has in turn made a better burger? I think yes, I think because there's now more burger knowledge out there. There's a lot of knowledge out there and whatever you have knowledge you have you have power and you have a power to make real choices about food for sure. It's no surprise the Wagyu Brothers are also big on social media and they say the ultimate burger starts with the ultimate cow. Wagyu beef cattle are specially bred in a clean calm environment. Instead of roaming the range these cows are hand fed and pampered for up to 30 months and the result is very fatty, very tender meat that makes a great steak or burger. People often say that hamburgers don't require high quality beef. You've got sauces and

44:32cheeses and whatnot. Why waste this on a burger? There are a lot of foreign tours here. I want to show them the highest quality beef and serving it in a burger is the best way to express that. Each patty is very carefully grilled and for the final touch, a slab of Wagyu steak cut into shapes like jenga game pieces and stacked on top. The finished product will cost you about 25 US dollars and you know there's just one way to tell if it's worth it. Oh my god. Seems blasphemous to say that one of the best burgers you've ever had was in Japan. This just might be it. And once you taste one of these or some others you can find on social media, there's probably no going back. It's going to hurt to sell someone a frozen patty these days.

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47:41He's lived or worked here in Lower Manhattan for years. So for film legend Robert De Niro, the attacks on 9-11 hit especially close to home. What's your memory of that day? Well, I was just about to fly to California. I was at a meeting midtown and we said we were in the airport. I came back down here. And so the North Tower, the small coming out, so on. And then saw the South Tower fall. I couldn't believe it. I looked to my left where I had a big television and so confirmed it on CNN. You had to look on TV to confirm what you were seeing. I was seeing my own eyes. It was weird. And in the weeks that followed, he saw his old neighborhood become a ghost town. Walking out here, can you envision what it was like in those days after 9-11?

48:43The thing I remember most is right up here was with the dust that was wet down. As I say, every every day, every few hours maybe with the sanitation or water trucks to keep that stuff down, you know. In fact, most of Lower Manhattan was covered in the dust from nearby ground zero, a poisonous plague that drifted through the air and into people's homes and lungs. I taped up the windows. I'm trying to have a working just with worry that that was that the dust was toxic. Yeah. And it was. Yeah. But when the dust finally began to settle, DeNiro and his longtime business partner producer Jane Rosenthal started to look for ways to pull Lower Manhattan out of the ashes. I was a mother of two little girls. I was scared what's going to happen again. I mean, it's just all those feelings, but it's also like, okay, how can we help if we can help if we can do something, then something good will come of it. They'd kicked around the notion of starting a film festival in

49:48Tribeca before, but after 9-11, it took on a new urgency as a way to help heal a shattered city. The festival was kind of an act of defiance. We had 120 days, 1300 volunteers, no money, no blueprint, just an idea and a neighborhood that needed people back in it. In May 2002, only eight months after the attacks, the very first Tribeca Film Festival opened, drawing big crowds and even bigger names like Nelson Mandela. We invited Nelson Mandela to open the first festival. He really gave us a way forward. I know that a media will continue to bring the world closer together allowing us to share in the lives and cultures of others. A new documentary about the festival, Tribeca 25, premieres on Netflix this coming Friday, September 11th. Did you have something that went through your mind as you're putting this together?

50:52No, I just seemed like the right thing to do. How do you give your neighbors something to look forward to? How do you give your neighbors a hug and say this is going to be okay? How do you say to everybody? Okay, we need something to look forward to. And for the 150,000 plus people who lined up for the first festival, that's exactly what it was. DeNiro says he never had a doubt. Did you have moments where you thought, I'm not sure we can pull this off? I wasn't thinking I was just being, we're going to do it. We're going to do it. Yeah. And it must do something to your heart to see that. Like we tried to pull this off. We wanted to get a crowd down here. Yeah, they came. He's gone. He's gone. They're whacked up. The **** are whacked. Robert DeNiro is famous for bringing a certain level of passion to his film roles. And he's just his fiery off screen when it comes to politics.

51:53Because we're going from the streets to the ballot box and because we all deserve a country with no kings. The Tribeca Film Festival was created as a reaction to real world tragedy, the night 11 attacks. And the founders say they're still on a mission to use art as an antidote to what they see as real trauma in America. The documentary and the festival in general does not shy away from politics. You're very clear about how you feel about this current administration. Why do you feel that was important to include in the documentary and to make part of the festival? We're a festival that was started because of an act of war. It was to say to the rest of the world, we're still here. Yeah, Bob, you've called this festival an act of defiance. What do you mean? Well, it is. It is. And we felt that if anyone was going to start coming at us and doing coming up with a nonsense,

52:56we're going to be ready for it. And we now see more and more how insane this administration is, how insane Donald Trump is. And he has to be gotten out. And we've got to get back on track with this country. That's all. So however we can do something with this festival to propose him and all the destruction he's responsible for, we're there. The administration, their usual response to you is that you have Trump derangement syndrome. Trump derangement syndrome is because of what he's done. They reverted. He reverts things and inverts them and twists them around. There's a lot of silly nonsense. A three year old could do it. So it's just a way to deflect and we all love that. So the point is things being said now here have to be allowed to be said. De Niro is a little less willing to talk about all he's done to bring downtown back. But the city

54:00speaks for itself. Did you fear for a while it wasn't going to come back? I never, I always felt that we'd come back. It could never not come back. It's just like anything it just takes time. It's funny because we took those old towers for granted, you know, because we saw them all the time in the skyline. You'd look out your window every day and see them, right? Yeah. Yeah. Today Robert De Niro is taking nothing for granted and that includes the Tribeca Festival. In 25 years it's brought thousands of films and millions of dollars to Lower Manhattan. Helped launch the careers of directors like Ryan Kugler and Damien Chazelle, among others. And yes, it also helped revive a city. How important is this to you? What you've created here? Well, it's, I'm very proud of what we've done. That's all. The world didn't need another film festival.

55:04There are a lot of them too. Did Tribeca need this? Yeah, we did. I think. Yeah. From the darkness of 9-11 emerged more than a few streaks of light, moments of hope and humanity. Among the brightest of those moments was a celebrated musical, inspired by the people in one very unlikely corner of the world. Here's Connor Knighton. For all aircrafts on a frequency due to a recent development in the United States, US Airspace has been closed. We have been instructed to have all aircraft land as soon as possible at the nearest airport. The small Canadian town of Gander isn't near much. Located on the

56:05island of Newfoundland, Gander is home to around 12,000 residents. Even fewer people lived here on September 11, 2001, when Gander's far northeast positioning made it an ideal landing spot for grounded flights. Once you leave your opinion tomorrow, when you get athletes across the nearest airport Gander. Claude Elliott was mayor of Gander on 9-11. By the end of that day, 38 planes had landed at Gander's airport. I can't imagine this is something you have a contingency plan for. No, we have an emergency plan every municipality has it, but there's nothing in that plan to tell you what to do with 7,000 people if they decided to drop him for four or five days. Once it was clear that the planes wouldn't be taking off anytime soon, Gander had to scramble to figure out what to do with its influx of temporary visitors from all around the world. Elliott declared a state of emergency. Calls went out for supplies, churches and schools

57:05became shelters, even at the local hockey rink was put to use. We got truckloads of food and we put it all in the community center on the ice surface and we used it as a refrigerator to keep the food cool. There's something that's just so Canadian about hockey to the rescue. I guess right, we have our number one sport with no question. Locals referred to the new arrivals as the plane people, offers to help start a depot in. The greatest asset that your community has is his people and we had our people. Everybody came out. One of those volunteers was Gander resident Bula Cooper. I said thank God they're coming here because I know they will be looked after. Cooper volunteers at the Royal Canadian Legion in Gander, which housed 67 people from an Air Lingus flight. She brought sandwiches, shuttles, stranded passengers to pay phones around town, even invited some to sleep and shower in her home. A lot of people when they see a tragedy of

58:07that magnitude, it's easy to feel helpless. You want to know what you can do? Was it helpful for you to be helpful? Oh my gosh, it does so good in here to know that you're doing something to help somebody. And that's what I'm not a bit with anyway. My name is Bula. Washrooms are just down the hall and there's food over there if you're. Cooper's one of the people who provided the inspiration for characters in the musical come from away, which premiered on Broadway in 2017. It tells the story of how Gander rallied together to help, which former Mayor Elliott didn't initially think was going to make for much of a story. I had to confess I had never seen a musical. Never seen any musical? I had never seen any musical. But I in my mind, I'm trying to visualize how are you going to make a musical, add sandwiches, soup, blankets, boxes, pillows. But the seemingly small story resonated in a big way. Come from away, want a Tony award.

59:12It's toured around the world and it's created at least one new musical theater buff. How many times do you think you've seen the show? I've seen it 139 times. Wow. I've seen it in six countries, Canada, United States, Australia, London, Madrid, Spain, and New Zealand. And most recently, right here in Gander. They're looking for blankets and bedding and maybe some food. You know what they need? I need something to do because I can't watch the news anymore. Come from away has come home with a professional production staged during the summer months at the local arts center. It's the only cast where Newfoundland characters are played by Newfoundlanders. So that authenticity of the show is really there and felt here. Actor Peter Halley, born just a few hours away in St. John's, plays Mayor Claude in the Gander production. Gander Town Council declares a state of emergency. The plays title come from away as a reference to people who visit Newfoundland. You're just coming to see us and to experience the province and you are from away and you've come

1:00:14from away. So, it's CFA is just an expression that we I think I've known forever. And now, thanks to the show's global popularity, Gander sees a lot more CFA. The Aviation Museum in town has an exhibit that highlights those days after 9-11. Featuring thank you notes written by grateful passengers. Metal beams from the twin towers were sent to Gander. The Legion regularly hosts screech ends for tourists. A tradition portrayed in the musical and which visitors can become honorary Newfoundlanders by taking a shot of strong rum and kissing a codfish. Pula Cooper is usually on hand to help out. She's still getting used to her celebrity status.

1:01:17But ordinary people stepping up in times of crisis is exactly why the story of what happened in Gander resonates. Come from away considers itself a 9-12 musical. It focuses on the acts of kindness that happened the next day. You talk to people like you like to be spoken to and you treat people like you like to be treated and if you see somebody that needs help you can help them you better do that. Now thoughts on the legacy of 9-11 from journalist and former White House speech writer James Fowles. We live through history's turning points but with no idea which way history will turn. December 7th, 1941 the attack on Pearl Harbor a date which will live in infamy marked the end of US isolation and the beginning of permanent engagement around the world. And September 11th, 2001 at the time

1:02:20it seemed to change everything. But on this 25th anniversary here is my sense of changes we might have hoped would be permanent but weren't and others that future generations may strive to change back. The worst of times can bring out the best in people. We are all Americans as the French newspaper Le Monde put it. For the only time in NATO's history its member countries all voted to come to a strict and allies defense. In the US people honored our first responders and ordinary brave fellow citizens. President George W. Bush who had been caught unaware as by the attack went just days later to Washington's Islamic center there he reminded the entire country that while the attackers were Muslim Islam itself was not the enemy. In our anger and emotion our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect. Too much of that unifying sentiment faded too fast and too little

1:03:26of what lastingly changed in America has received the awareness and scrutiny it deserves. Before 9-11 there was no Department of Homeland Security no TSA no ICE those functions were carried out more modestly with less overreach. Before 9-11 there was no Patriot Act and barely any of the modern structure of the surveillance state. Before 9-11 local police in the US were not kidded out in combat gear as if fighting in fluja. That is because before 9-11 there was no war in Iraq for which 9-11 was the excuse though no Iraqis were involved and nothing like the forever wars that have followed. Much of it was bipartisan most of it was step by step and as we look back we see a country that survived an attack and avoided a repetition but it is also a country whose daily life

1:04:26and civic culture those attackers managed to change. The US has had other hinges of history that turned in the wrong direction. In the late 1800s were the turn against reconstruction and equal rights after the civil war. In the 1920s and 30s when the US closed its doors to the world even as Nazis and fascists rose to power elsewhere. Let us hope that 25 years from now the US has reckoned more seriously with who we are and who we want to become than we have done so far. I'm Lee Cowan thanks for listening and please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning. It's 5 o'clock your employees are heading home but you're still updating spreadsheets switching

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