Williams: In the new war against America everything is now a target -- its greatest icons -- even its most cherished holidays. 02:31
Reporter: Tonights festivities will be heavily guarded with checkpoints on the FDR and all major crossings into Manhattan, theres also a big presence on the waterways 02:43
Williams: Its July Fourth - the first Independence Day celebration since 9/11 -- and Americas biggest city is under siege. 02:55
Powell: There have been a variety of reports coming in, intelligence reports that suggest we should be especially vigilante as we go into the 4th of July season. 03:04
View of city sky line Rice: Yes, it is a time for enhanced 03:15
Rice: vigilance and we would ask the help of the American people in that way. 03:17
NYPD marching band Band music 03:30
Williams: Independence Day represents everything the United States stands for. But this year as the festivities ratchet up, so does the fear. The FBI has warned of potential attacks on parades -- in New York city theyve all been cancelled, except this one. 03:41
Band music
Williams: Staten Islands July Fourth parade is the oldest in the country and organisers refused to be cowed. But they do not refuse the extra security, especially for special guests. 04:05
Tension is also high on the other side of the town. When the planes hit on 9/11 he and fireman Pat Kelly were among the first to reach the World Trade Center. Pat was the only fireman on his rig to survive - seven guys from this squad never came back. 04:29
Kelly: It was a big hit -- 04:50
Kelly: in a way we were lucky that we were so busy afterwards, I think it would have hit us a lot harder. But being so busy it helped ease back into somewhat normalcy. Are we going to forget about it? No. 04:52
Lieutenant Brian Smith suiting up Williams: The commander of Pat's Lower Manhattan fire squad is Lieutenant
Smith: It was devastating. 05:09
Smith: The seven guys we lost were extremely talented men, I mean they were handpicked to come here when we were established in 1998. 05:17
Smith: I know over 100 people, 100 firefighters I knew personally, probably fifty of them were good friends and the closest were the seven I worked with here. 05:26
Williams: A year ago the deaths of his men had Brian boiling with rage he told us then he wanted the hijackers caught and tortured. Has time healed the hurt? 05:51
Smith: Your emotions go back and forth. Sometimes I feel that we should use some of our nuclear weapons that are sitting in silos somewhere and turn part of the Middle East into glass. 06:04
Smith: Sometimes you go from that emotion to sitting back and thinking logically, and of course youd kill thousands of innocent people, youd think wed be above that especially going through it. 06:16
Williams: One year on and New York is still going through it. Ground Zero has been cleared of its seven-storey pile of rubble and transformed into a nearly deserted construction site ready for rebirth. But for many this is now much more than just a prized piece of real estate. 06:37
At Ground Zero today most of the digging and bulldozing has stopped, but there is still much work to be done. For those who knew the 1200 people whose bodies have not been recovered this is hallowed ground and will always be a graveyard. One year after the Sept 11th attacks, New Yorkers and the friends and relatives of those who died here are being told to move on, but for many of them that is proving impossible.
Gabriel: I thought be, you know, as time went on, it would be better, but I find that its gotten you know, its actually you know gotten, you know, worse. 07:32
Wedding photo of Gabriel & and his wife Emerita Williams: Gabriel de la Pena lost his wife, Emerita, in the World Trade Centre attacks. Emerita worked for a finance company on the 90th floor of the south tower with her best friend, Judy. 07:42
Williams: We last spoke to Gabriel just days after the disaster. He was preparing for his daughters first birthday, but holding out hope that Emerita would still be alive to celebrate it with them. 08:00
Since then hes struggled to piece together the last minutes of his wifes life. Gabriel now knows that as the plane hit, Emerita was speaking on the phone to a friend.
Gabriel: That morning, I think around 20 to nine, 08:28
Gabriel: he had started talking to my wife and my wife was telling him about the preparations we were making for my daughters first birthday. And a couple of minutes later there was a loud noise and one of her girlfriends came over and said that there had been an explosion upstairs and for them to run out, to go. 08:31
Its tough because I wasnt there so the little bits and pieces that I hear and that people tell me, its like trying to recreate a story, but a story that means a lot to you. 08:49
Usually when somebody dies you receive a body. If a person dies in a car crash for example, you get a body you can bury, you get a plot, you can go grieve at that plot. They never found my wifes body, so
Gabriel : I cant go somewhere and pray over a plot, you know, I cant ever go take her flowers, you know. 09:12
Gabriel and daughter walking outside
Williams: Is that something you feel you could do at the site? Gabriel: No. Not at all. I've only been to the site three times the most since last September. 09:18
Gabriel: I was there that day. I saw some of the stuff that happened. I had too had to run from that, so its just like, I try to stay away from the site. It just brings back too many bad feelings, bad memories. 09:28
Williams: Its much the same for Monica Iken, but she forces herself to come to Ground Zero this is where she feels closest to her husband Michael. 09:46
Monica: This is the only place where we actually feel connected. And every time, no matter what, 09:58
Monica: I feel this energy. And it's like hes here. It's like this is where they are. And we need to acknowledge that and honour that. 10:04
Williams: Michael Iken was on the 84th floor of the same tower as Emerita de la Pena, and like Emerita, Mikes body has never been found. 10:10
Monica: It is very hard to say goodbye to a picture and acknowledge that someone went to work one day, said Ill see you later, I love you and then never came home. 10:20
Monica So its like he went poof one day and where is he? So every time I come here I'm always like, Where are you? I know youre here somewhere, where are you." 10:29
Williams: In Michaels memory, Monica now heads a group fighting to ensure that a fitting memorial is built at Ground Zero for the 2800 who died here. Without it -- like Gabriel -- she wont be able to move on. 10:42
Monica: There's not closure for us, there isnt going to be any closure 11:00
Monica : because every day, as I said, we see 9/11, I see buildings falling down and I see in my mind people suffering the most horrific deaths possible. I mean, some of these people suffered horribly. 11:04
Monica: We have to heal, and in order for us to heal we have to have a place to go. I didnt choose this for my cemetery and I know my husband didnt either. But this is the reality and the reality is this is the only place we have. 11:16
Williams: But this is New York, and there are those who simply want to the site restored to what it was a key commercial property. 11:31
Breslin: I dont want any granite statue to people that got killed. We know they died it was a terrible thing it hurt very much -- fine -- now go to work. That's the name of the city of New York is a place where people work 11:40
Williams: Tabloid columnist Jimmy Breslin is the veteran voice of New Yorks tough working class. 11:54
Breslin: You look out the window here, you see the Queen's borough bridge, the lights flashing as they're coming in to start work. That's this city. This city isnt a park where people grieve - no. 12:00
Monica; Well it is our cemetery. Unfortunately were not going to be able to put tombstones on it. But it is a cemetery and we have to acknowledge that. Because if we lose sight of that, then we lose sight of the loved ones who we lost and who are still here. Theyre souls are here. This is their final resting place. 12:13
Breslin: I live in the City of New York and I have just as much right as she does and I dont want a memorial. 12:27
Williams: Jeweller Joel Kopel represents the middle ground -- those who want to respect the dead, but also need to make a living. Last September 11th he was scooping up jewels from his stores display as fast as he could. 12:34
Renee on phone Upstairs his wife, Renee, was trying to do the same. 12:51
Footage of the shop just after 09/11 A block away the World Trade Center had just been struck and they were desperately trying to get the store closed. 12:55
When we talked to them a few days after the disaster their shop had been looted and they were trying hard to get back on their feet -- one year later they still are.
Joel: I think there isnt a day that goes by where people 13:18
Joel: cant think about what happened that day. So I dont know if it is more of a sombre feeling or if it is maybe just more sombre in Lower Manhattan, but it definitely in everybodys minds about what the next step could possibly be as far as terrorism. 13:21
Outside shop and street scenes Williams: The Kopels estimate 180,000 people a day used to pass through the World Trade Centre -- their absence means business across Lower Manhattan is down by forty percent. 13:38
Renee in shop They believe the best way to honour the victims is to build big towers that will help business bounce back. 13:52
Joel: They made money, they bought money, they sold money, they traded money 14:01
Joel: and theyre capitalists, and I think they wouldnt want an entire memorial to take up 16 acres, because I think they would feel in their heart that we gave in. 14:05
Renee working Renee: My feeling was maybe something on a 50/50 -- half of it of some 14:21
Joel and Renee Renee: beautiful long-lasting tribute and memorial, and the other half, even if it became some form of commercial space is still a memorial to those people. 14:26
Monica: Well, you know, it would be really nice to have the whole site be a memorial park. Is that reality? Not. That is not reality, so if that is then we need to do it correctly. We have to make sure that we do it right. I think that, you know, is the key to heal and the only way that we are going to be able to heal every day is for us is 9/11, is to know that we have a beautiful place to go to honour our loved ones in the most respectful, dignified way possible. 14:35
Williams: With such difficult competing interests, getting it right is what this meeting is all about. 15:06
Woman: Hopefully what we do here today will be one more step on the long road of healing. 15:12
Williams: Today, five thousand New Yorkers have gathered in downtown Manhattan to confront the delicate challenge of what should replace the fallen towers. 15:21
Woman: We will take a lot of steps 15:30
Williams: But it's a delicate debate. 15:33
Williams: Business wants to rebuild exactly the same amount of commercial floor space that was in the World Trade Center, while the relatives want a large open space where they can go and grieve in peace. In an hour the citys six new designs will be unveiled. 15:34
Monica: My name is Monica Iken, I lost my husband, Michael, in Tower 2 and I started a foundation called Septembers Mission where all I focus on is on the memorial. 15:55
Williams: It is at times loke these Monica feels her loss most sharply. But the hopes of other relatives have steeled her determination not to be pushed aside by real estate agents, business, or even the organizers of this meeting who clearly fear her influence enough to try and stop us filming. 16:06
We can't do this. If this is going to happen, and I'm going to try to make it not, we can't do it. This is exactly what the organisers don't want. I got to stop this, because it's exactly what they don't want. 16:29
Williams: Monica isnt the only one who knows the pressure is on today. 16:46
Bob Yaro on stage speaking Williams: Bob Yaro is an influential city-planner. He believes the debate over what to do with the site is central to New York's healing. 16:52
Ground zero Music 17:01
Yaro: Everybody in the world saw it on television, but most New Yorkers saw it in person, and it is a devastating thing to see happen to your city. 17:14
Yaro: So weve all gone through that, we all need to restore our sense of wellbeing and the citys sense of wellbeing. 17:23
Man: If we put the plan up, I'm going to talk to you about the plans 17:31
Williams: Finally, the moment everyones waited for has arrived -- the unveiling of the governments options. 17:34
Man: it does build on the footprints and it treats the memorial space quite differently. 17:40
Williams: They have the right names -- memorial square, memorial promenade, memorial park -- but they lack the soaring statement many seek. Theyve been designed like this for one reason -- to retain exactly the same rental floor space as before. Big business it seems has won -- and the relatives of the dead are devastated. 17:47
Woman: It doesn't seem that they really care about what the family members want, as you can see from these plans. Nothing that Monica Iken of September Mission has worked for for the last several months seems to be incorporated into any of these plans. And why is it called Memorial Park when the memorial aspect is the smallest part of what theyre building here. It should be commercial promenade, commercial park, retail space 18:09
Monica: I want to be able to go in there and not having people watching me as I pay my respects to my husband we need that. 18:35
Facilitator: This is what Ive heard so far --not enough space for memorial park, dont like the fact that it is a transit hub, and you feel that the process has been rushed 18:41
Williams: It will take months for a final decision, 18:51
Williams: but despite the differences, Bob Yaro still believes a compromise is possible. 18:55
Yaro: There is a middle ground. And I think most people are in the middle suggesting that what we really need 19:01
Yaro: is to have a dynamic new area of the city that does honour to people who died, 119:04
Yaro: but that also sets new standards in urban design and environmental design and transportation and so forth. 19:09
Gabriel: Whos that? Who's that?Daniella: Me! 19:24
Williams: Whats finally built at the World Trade Center site wont be 9/11s only legacy. 19:28
Ten thousand children lost a parent. One of them was Daniella de la Pena. Now, Gabriels mother has become Daniellas as well -- and even though they repeat Emeritas name, they are yet to explain to Daniella why her mum has never come home.
Gabriel: Who's that, Daniella?
Daniella: Mommy.
Gabriel: That's mommy, right. Whats mommys name?
Daniella: Emmy. 19-58
Gabriel: Its not so much explanation now, because she's young, at such a young age that she doesnt really understand what happened. 20:04
Gabriel: But when she gets older, I mean Ill tell her. Shell see it on TV, shell read about it and Ill tell her that her mother was involved in this and that her mother died. 20:10
Gabriel: Who's the most beautiful girl in the house?
Daniella: Me! 20:22
Gabriel: My future is seeing that Daniella gets raised as a young beautiful respectable lady. Thats my future. 20:25
Gabriel: Seeing that Daniella gets to what she wants to be. 20:32
Williams: Back at the fire station its been a quiet day, but these guys more than most are the new front line defenders of their city. Squad 18 is a hazardous materials unit. If there is a biological, chemical or nuclear terrorist attack, these men will be the first to face it, and they know that attack could come at any time. 20:40
Kelly: You get an explosion -- is it a dirty bomb, does it have chemical in it as well, does it have radiological. That is a big worry right now. 21:06
Williams: As we speak Pats called out. This one turns out to be a false alarm, but Pat has no doubt that one day hell be racing to another 9/11.
Kelly: Is it more likely than it was before? I would say yes. 21:37
Kelly: Something is going to happen. What scope, whats it going to be, you always have to think about the worst-case scenario. 21:40
Breslin: What are you going to do? I live in the city of New York. Im not going leave and Im not going to spend my life under the bed or in the closet. Im going to lead a normal life. If something happens, so be it. Thats it. 21:50
Monica: I dont have a fear any more. Im ready to go. I mean it doesnt even faze me, because I know I have the best angel waiting for me and most of the families feel that way. We dont have a fear any more. 22:00
Williams: For some the fear may be gone, but New York, like America, has had its sense of security shattered. 22:26
Williams: For New York the patriotic hoopla of this July 4th is an attempt to heal the hurt and get back to business. For many in this city its the only way they can fight back in a new war that has made them the target. 22:40
Credits: NEW YORK Reporter: Evan WilliamsCamera: Geoffrey LyeEditor: Simon BrynjolffssenProducer: Dugald Maudsley 23:09
Reporter: Tonights festivities will be heavily guarded with checkpoints on the FDR and all major crossings into Manhattan, theres also a big presence on the waterways 02:43
Williams: Its July Fourth - the first Independence Day celebration since 9/11 -- and Americas biggest city is under siege. 02:55
Powell: There have been a variety of reports coming in, intelligence reports that suggest we should be especially vigilante as we go into the 4th of July season. 03:04
View of city sky line Rice: Yes, it is a time for enhanced 03:15
Rice: vigilance and we would ask the help of the American people in that way. 03:17
NYPD marching band Band music 03:30
Williams: Independence Day represents everything the United States stands for. But this year as the festivities ratchet up, so does the fear. The FBI has warned of potential attacks on parades -- in New York city theyve all been cancelled, except this one. 03:41
Band music
Williams: Staten Islands July Fourth parade is the oldest in the country and organisers refused to be cowed. But they do not refuse the extra security, especially for special guests. 04:05
Tension is also high on the other side of the town. When the planes hit on 9/11 he and fireman Pat Kelly were among the first to reach the World Trade Center. Pat was the only fireman on his rig to survive - seven guys from this squad never came back. 04:29
Kelly: It was a big hit -- 04:50
Kelly: in a way we were lucky that we were so busy afterwards, I think it would have hit us a lot harder. But being so busy it helped ease back into somewhat normalcy. Are we going to forget about it? No. 04:52
Lieutenant Brian Smith suiting up Williams: The commander of Pat's Lower Manhattan fire squad is Lieutenant
Smith: It was devastating. 05:09
Smith: The seven guys we lost were extremely talented men, I mean they were handpicked to come here when we were established in 1998. 05:17
Smith: I know over 100 people, 100 firefighters I knew personally, probably fifty of them were good friends and the closest were the seven I worked with here. 05:26
Williams: A year ago the deaths of his men had Brian boiling with rage he told us then he wanted the hijackers caught and tortured. Has time healed the hurt? 05:51
Smith: Your emotions go back and forth. Sometimes I feel that we should use some of our nuclear weapons that are sitting in silos somewhere and turn part of the Middle East into glass. 06:04
Smith: Sometimes you go from that emotion to sitting back and thinking logically, and of course youd kill thousands of innocent people, youd think wed be above that especially going through it. 06:16
Williams: One year on and New York is still going through it. Ground Zero has been cleared of its seven-storey pile of rubble and transformed into a nearly deserted construction site ready for rebirth. But for many this is now much more than just a prized piece of real estate. 06:37
At Ground Zero today most of the digging and bulldozing has stopped, but there is still much work to be done. For those who knew the 1200 people whose bodies have not been recovered this is hallowed ground and will always be a graveyard. One year after the Sept 11th attacks, New Yorkers and the friends and relatives of those who died here are being told to move on, but for many of them that is proving impossible.
Gabriel: I thought be, you know, as time went on, it would be better, but I find that its gotten you know, its actually you know gotten, you know, worse. 07:32
Wedding photo of Gabriel & and his wife Emerita Williams: Gabriel de la Pena lost his wife, Emerita, in the World Trade Centre attacks. Emerita worked for a finance company on the 90th floor of the south tower with her best friend, Judy. 07:42
Williams: We last spoke to Gabriel just days after the disaster. He was preparing for his daughters first birthday, but holding out hope that Emerita would still be alive to celebrate it with them. 08:00
Since then hes struggled to piece together the last minutes of his wifes life. Gabriel now knows that as the plane hit, Emerita was speaking on the phone to a friend.
Gabriel: That morning, I think around 20 to nine, 08:28
Gabriel: he had started talking to my wife and my wife was telling him about the preparations we were making for my daughters first birthday. And a couple of minutes later there was a loud noise and one of her girlfriends came over and said that there had been an explosion upstairs and for them to run out, to go. 08:31
Its tough because I wasnt there so the little bits and pieces that I hear and that people tell me, its like trying to recreate a story, but a story that means a lot to you. 08:49
Usually when somebody dies you receive a body. If a person dies in a car crash for example, you get a body you can bury, you get a plot, you can go grieve at that plot. They never found my wifes body, so
Gabriel : I cant go somewhere and pray over a plot, you know, I cant ever go take her flowers, you know. 09:12
Gabriel and daughter walking outside
Williams: Is that something you feel you could do at the site? Gabriel: No. Not at all. I've only been to the site three times the most since last September. 09:18
Gabriel: I was there that day. I saw some of the stuff that happened. I had too had to run from that, so its just like, I try to stay away from the site. It just brings back too many bad feelings, bad memories. 09:28
Williams: Its much the same for Monica Iken, but she forces herself to come to Ground Zero this is where she feels closest to her husband Michael. 09:46
Monica: This is the only place where we actually feel connected. And every time, no matter what, 09:58
Monica: I feel this energy. And it's like hes here. It's like this is where they are. And we need to acknowledge that and honour that. 10:04
Williams: Michael Iken was on the 84th floor of the same tower as Emerita de la Pena, and like Emerita, Mikes body has never been found. 10:10
Monica: It is very hard to say goodbye to a picture and acknowledge that someone went to work one day, said Ill see you later, I love you and then never came home. 10:20
Monica So its like he went poof one day and where is he? So every time I come here I'm always like, Where are you? I know youre here somewhere, where are you." 10:29
Williams: In Michaels memory, Monica now heads a group fighting to ensure that a fitting memorial is built at Ground Zero for the 2800 who died here. Without it -- like Gabriel -- she wont be able to move on. 10:42
Monica: There's not closure for us, there isnt going to be any closure 11:00
Monica : because every day, as I said, we see 9/11, I see buildings falling down and I see in my mind people suffering the most horrific deaths possible. I mean, some of these people suffered horribly. 11:04
Monica: We have to heal, and in order for us to heal we have to have a place to go. I didnt choose this for my cemetery and I know my husband didnt either. But this is the reality and the reality is this is the only place we have. 11:16
Williams: But this is New York, and there are those who simply want to the site restored to what it was a key commercial property. 11:31
Breslin: I dont want any granite statue to people that got killed. We know they died it was a terrible thing it hurt very much -- fine -- now go to work. That's the name of the city of New York is a place where people work 11:40
Williams: Tabloid columnist Jimmy Breslin is the veteran voice of New Yorks tough working class. 11:54
Breslin: You look out the window here, you see the Queen's borough bridge, the lights flashing as they're coming in to start work. That's this city. This city isnt a park where people grieve - no. 12:00
Monica; Well it is our cemetery. Unfortunately were not going to be able to put tombstones on it. But it is a cemetery and we have to acknowledge that. Because if we lose sight of that, then we lose sight of the loved ones who we lost and who are still here. Theyre souls are here. This is their final resting place. 12:13
Breslin: I live in the City of New York and I have just as much right as she does and I dont want a memorial. 12:27
Williams: Jeweller Joel Kopel represents the middle ground -- those who want to respect the dead, but also need to make a living. Last September 11th he was scooping up jewels from his stores display as fast as he could. 12:34
Renee on phone Upstairs his wife, Renee, was trying to do the same. 12:51
Footage of the shop just after 09/11 A block away the World Trade Center had just been struck and they were desperately trying to get the store closed. 12:55
When we talked to them a few days after the disaster their shop had been looted and they were trying hard to get back on their feet -- one year later they still are.
Joel: I think there isnt a day that goes by where people 13:18
Joel: cant think about what happened that day. So I dont know if it is more of a sombre feeling or if it is maybe just more sombre in Lower Manhattan, but it definitely in everybodys minds about what the next step could possibly be as far as terrorism. 13:21
Outside shop and street scenes Williams: The Kopels estimate 180,000 people a day used to pass through the World Trade Centre -- their absence means business across Lower Manhattan is down by forty percent. 13:38
Renee in shop They believe the best way to honour the victims is to build big towers that will help business bounce back. 13:52
Joel: They made money, they bought money, they sold money, they traded money 14:01
Joel: and theyre capitalists, and I think they wouldnt want an entire memorial to take up 16 acres, because I think they would feel in their heart that we gave in. 14:05
Renee working Renee: My feeling was maybe something on a 50/50 -- half of it of some 14:21
Joel and Renee Renee: beautiful long-lasting tribute and memorial, and the other half, even if it became some form of commercial space is still a memorial to those people. 14:26
Monica: Well, you know, it would be really nice to have the whole site be a memorial park. Is that reality? Not. That is not reality, so if that is then we need to do it correctly. We have to make sure that we do it right. I think that, you know, is the key to heal and the only way that we are going to be able to heal every day is for us is 9/11, is to know that we have a beautiful place to go to honour our loved ones in the most respectful, dignified way possible. 14:35
Williams: With such difficult competing interests, getting it right is what this meeting is all about. 15:06
Woman: Hopefully what we do here today will be one more step on the long road of healing. 15:12
Williams: Today, five thousand New Yorkers have gathered in downtown Manhattan to confront the delicate challenge of what should replace the fallen towers. 15:21
Woman: We will take a lot of steps 15:30
Williams: But it's a delicate debate. 15:33
Williams: Business wants to rebuild exactly the same amount of commercial floor space that was in the World Trade Center, while the relatives want a large open space where they can go and grieve in peace. In an hour the citys six new designs will be unveiled. 15:34
Monica: My name is Monica Iken, I lost my husband, Michael, in Tower 2 and I started a foundation called Septembers Mission where all I focus on is on the memorial. 15:55
Williams: It is at times loke these Monica feels her loss most sharply. But the hopes of other relatives have steeled her determination not to be pushed aside by real estate agents, business, or even the organizers of this meeting who clearly fear her influence enough to try and stop us filming. 16:06
We can't do this. If this is going to happen, and I'm going to try to make it not, we can't do it. This is exactly what the organisers don't want. I got to stop this, because it's exactly what they don't want. 16:29
Williams: Monica isnt the only one who knows the pressure is on today. 16:46
Bob Yaro on stage speaking Williams: Bob Yaro is an influential city-planner. He believes the debate over what to do with the site is central to New York's healing. 16:52
Ground zero Music 17:01
Yaro: Everybody in the world saw it on television, but most New Yorkers saw it in person, and it is a devastating thing to see happen to your city. 17:14
Yaro: So weve all gone through that, we all need to restore our sense of wellbeing and the citys sense of wellbeing. 17:23
Man: If we put the plan up, I'm going to talk to you about the plans 17:31
Williams: Finally, the moment everyones waited for has arrived -- the unveiling of the governments options. 17:34
Man: it does build on the footprints and it treats the memorial space quite differently. 17:40
Williams: They have the right names -- memorial square, memorial promenade, memorial park -- but they lack the soaring statement many seek. Theyve been designed like this for one reason -- to retain exactly the same rental floor space as before. Big business it seems has won -- and the relatives of the dead are devastated. 17:47
Woman: It doesn't seem that they really care about what the family members want, as you can see from these plans. Nothing that Monica Iken of September Mission has worked for for the last several months seems to be incorporated into any of these plans. And why is it called Memorial Park when the memorial aspect is the smallest part of what theyre building here. It should be commercial promenade, commercial park, retail space 18:09
Monica: I want to be able to go in there and not having people watching me as I pay my respects to my husband we need that. 18:35
Facilitator: This is what Ive heard so far --not enough space for memorial park, dont like the fact that it is a transit hub, and you feel that the process has been rushed 18:41
Williams: It will take months for a final decision, 18:51
Williams: but despite the differences, Bob Yaro still believes a compromise is possible. 18:55
Yaro: There is a middle ground. And I think most people are in the middle suggesting that what we really need 19:01
Yaro: is to have a dynamic new area of the city that does honour to people who died, 119:04
Yaro: but that also sets new standards in urban design and environmental design and transportation and so forth. 19:09
Gabriel: Whos that? Who's that?Daniella: Me! 19:24
Williams: Whats finally built at the World Trade Center site wont be 9/11s only legacy. 19:28
Ten thousand children lost a parent. One of them was Daniella de la Pena. Now, Gabriels mother has become Daniellas as well -- and even though they repeat Emeritas name, they are yet to explain to Daniella why her mum has never come home.
Gabriel: Who's that, Daniella?
Daniella: Mommy.
Gabriel: That's mommy, right. Whats mommys name?
Daniella: Emmy. 19-58
Gabriel: Its not so much explanation now, because she's young, at such a young age that she doesnt really understand what happened. 20:04
Gabriel: But when she gets older, I mean Ill tell her. Shell see it on TV, shell read about it and Ill tell her that her mother was involved in this and that her mother died. 20:10
Gabriel: Who's the most beautiful girl in the house?
Daniella: Me! 20:22
Gabriel: My future is seeing that Daniella gets raised as a young beautiful respectable lady. Thats my future. 20:25
Gabriel: Seeing that Daniella gets to what she wants to be. 20:32
Williams: Back at the fire station its been a quiet day, but these guys more than most are the new front line defenders of their city. Squad 18 is a hazardous materials unit. If there is a biological, chemical or nuclear terrorist attack, these men will be the first to face it, and they know that attack could come at any time. 20:40
Kelly: You get an explosion -- is it a dirty bomb, does it have chemical in it as well, does it have radiological. That is a big worry right now. 21:06
Williams: As we speak Pats called out. This one turns out to be a false alarm, but Pat has no doubt that one day hell be racing to another 9/11.
Kelly: Is it more likely than it was before? I would say yes. 21:37
Kelly: Something is going to happen. What scope, whats it going to be, you always have to think about the worst-case scenario. 21:40
Breslin: What are you going to do? I live in the city of New York. Im not going leave and Im not going to spend my life under the bed or in the closet. Im going to lead a normal life. If something happens, so be it. Thats it. 21:50
Monica: I dont have a fear any more. Im ready to go. I mean it doesnt even faze me, because I know I have the best angel waiting for me and most of the families feel that way. We dont have a fear any more. 22:00
Williams: For some the fear may be gone, but New York, like America, has had its sense of security shattered. 22:26
Williams: For New York the patriotic hoopla of this July 4th is an attempt to heal the hurt and get back to business. For many in this city its the only way they can fight back in a new war that has made them the target. 22:40
Credits: NEW YORK Reporter: Evan WilliamsCamera: Geoffrey LyeEditor: Simon BrynjolffssenProducer: Dugald Maudsley 23:09