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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

All right, it is a Tuesday, September 11th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

Today marks the 17th anniversary of September 11th.

Americans are commemorating 9-11 with somber tributes, volunteer projects, and a new monument to victims after a year of two attacks demonstrated the enduring threat of terrorism in the nation's biggest city.

Thousands of 9-11 victims, relative survivors, rescuers, and others are expected at Tuesday's

anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center, while President Donald Trump and Vice President

Mike Pence will head to two other places where hijacked planes crashed on September 11, 2001,

in the deadliest terror attack on American soil.

The president and first lady, Melania Trump, planned to join an observance at the September 11th

Memorial in a field near Shanksville. I'm sorry, Shanksville, right? Yes. Yes. Okay. And then where there's a

tower of voices, it's a new tower of voices was dedicated on Saturday. Pence is attending a ceremony

at the Pentagon.

Trump, a Republican and Native New Yorker, took the occasion of last year's anniversary to issue a stern warning to extremists that Americans cannot be intimidated.

Nearly 3,000 people died on the attacks on 9-11 when international terrorism hit home

in a way it previously hadn't for many Americans.

September 11th still

shapes American policy, politics, and everyday experiences and places from airports to office

buildings. A New Jersey couple under investigation after a homeless man accused them of dipping

it to some of the $400,000 in online donations they raised for him as likely to be indicted.

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