He's a good man. I was lucky enough to work with him at ABC. He's strong, he's smart. He'll be missed.

One of the best. JB, have a good weekend. I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime.

We promised we would never forget 9-11. Now this is not a topic that I like to talk about,

but tonight we have to. I think we have to talk about what never forget meant because it wasn't

a call to simply remember the event or who was lost or how many 2,977 most here in New York.

Too many never even found. To never forget who did it, who could forget? I am haunted still

every time I look at the sky downtown. I still see the collapse. I feel what went through my body

as the towers came crashing down, being covered in pulverized powder, what filled my eyes, ears,

overwhelmed all my senses. It was a day that you could never forget. In fact, to kind of remember it,

I keep some of it. I actually forgot it tonight, but I keep some of it right next to my desk.

My senior producer Terese just handed it to me. I keep it because not just simply to remember,

but because of what is in here, of what it meant, of what it meant about us, but the people I would

never find, the people I would never see again, the people I would never forget. I remember it all

so many of us do, but never forget the call was for more than what was lost. We would never forget

what was found. This reminder is so important right now that is worth discussing, because I'll

tell you the kid that you're going to see in these scenes from the reporting that I did in the

days and weeks after. I don't even recognize him. I don't even know what I would say to him.

What we were trying to capture was not the uniqueness of the threat,

but the uniqueness of the response 9-11 was a horrible day. 9-12, 9-13, and the weeks thereafter,

that's what we need to never forget. That's what we need to remember now. America showed her best

during the worst, the quiet city, because so much of the horns of frustration and right anger was

quiet. The interdependence was evidenced, sure to sure. You were all New Yorkers. You all hurt for

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