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Both CBS and ABC had their anchors introduce extended clips of the memorials at Ground Zero and elsewhere. CBS' Katie Couric indulged in purple prose: "As if heaven itself were weeping, rain drops began to fall on lower Manhattan this morning just as the first of the 2,750 names was being read." ABC's Charles Gibson observed simply that "the sadness and the tears are still right beneath the surface." ABC had David Muir close its newscast with six-year-on vignettes of three people who were featured in 9/11 photojournalism: Melodie Homer, the widow of a United Airlines pilot; Mike McCormack, who found the flag that flew over the World Trade Center's North Tower; and Shama Pathan an eleven-year-old girl whose Boston mosque suffered two dead.
ABC also sent Dan Harris (subscription required) to Ground Zero, which last year was "an empty construction site. Today it is alive with activity. It is amazing." A $16bn complex is scheduled for completion in 2012: the 1776-foot-tall Freedom Tower, a memorial with twin reflecting pools on the footprint where the Twin Towers once stood, a railroad station with opening wing roofs and three commercial high rises. "Architectural critics say the buildings are nice enough--but by no means visionary."
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