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(Studio: Aaron Brown) "The Whip" introduced.
(Washington: Kelli Arena; Minneapolis; Candy Crowley; Capitol Hill: Kate Snow) "NewsNight"'s major headlines previewed.
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Page two and a half: more stories previewed.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Washington: Kelli Arena) The reasons for a need to reorganize the FBI reviewed; details given about other "missed signals" before September 11, including the investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui and the "Phoenix memo" about Middle Eastern men training at flight schools. [FBI director Robert MUELLER - says we need the connection of dots and our analytical capability is not where it should be.] [Senator Arlen SPECTER - says there needs to be a change of attitude from a "culture of concealment."]
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with The Village Voice Nat Hentoff about the FBI. [HENTOFF - says the thrust now is to make the FBI an intelligence gathering agency, which was also done in the 1950s, when the agency monitored and infiltrated groups; explains what the FBI is currently doing at bookstores; admits there are terrorist sleepers in the US, but do we give up liberty in exchange for security.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Minneapolis; Candy Crowley) Portrait of FBI lawyer Coleen Rowley, who spoke out about the FBI bureaucracy, presented; details given about her job as an agent in Minneapolis, including her efforts to get a warrant for the computer of "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui. [Rowley neighbor Audrey PACHOLSKI - talks about the Rowley family.] [Former FBI agent Dag SOHLBERG - describes Coleen, including her approach to running.] [July 1997, ROWLEY - talks about the Andrew Cunanan case.] [FBI director Robert MUELLER - thanks Rowley for her letter.]
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Kate Snow) Who will probably be called to testify before Congress about the FBI and intelligence failures reviewed. [Representative Nancy PELOSI - says the aim of the joint inquiry is to prevent another tragedy like September 11.]
9;19:30 Libya / Pan Am Flight 103 / Compensation
(Studio: Aaron Brown) The Libyan government's statement about a proposed settlement to the families of the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing reported.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) A look at Ground Zero in New York City the night before it closes down shown. A photographer's view of Ground Zero presented; photos shown. [Photographer Joel MEYEROWITZ - gives his first impression of the World Trade Center site: a torrent of steel that fell; describes the firefighters and the workers at work in what they called the "pile" or the "zone;" quotes a fireman that "we are gardeners in the garden of the dead."]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with "New Yorker" architecture critic Paul Goldberger about Ground Zero in New York City. [GOLDBERGER - says the city has to decide what to do with this chunk of land and honor the magnitude of what happened; indicates it takes time for the enormity of what happened to think in; says Governor George Pataki holds most of the cards in what happens as well as the Port Authority, which owns the land.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's special liaison for September 11 victims' families Christy Ferer, whose husband died at the World Trade Center. [FERER - says tomorrow will be a thank you for all the workers; states there is not yet a consensus about what should be done next; hopes the memorial process will be done carefully, so the deadlines are flexible.]
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[Dennis Edwards' WIDOW - talks about life with her daughter and husband, who died on September 11.]
(Studio: Aaron Brown) A look at how the Edwards family is doing since September 11 presented; scenes shown from Ground Zero; family photos and video shown. [Edwards' WIDOW - says we are sort of stuck about where to go next and there are thousands of remnants to go through; explains the identification process and how her daughter still misses her father.]
(Studio: Aaron Brown) The scene at Ground Zero shown.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Bob Hope's 99th birthday noted; clip shown from "The Big Broadcast of 1938", the movie in which Hope first sang his theme song "Thanks for the Memories."
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