1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. So during the holidays, I went 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: to New York with Jack and Lene, with my two sons, 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: and one of the main one of the big things 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: I wanted them to come to with me was the 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Nine to eleven Museum. And I've been there once before. 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 1: I've been to New York not long after nine to 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: eleven and where it was still so raw and people 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 1: had posters up have you seen my father, my mother, 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: have you seen my colleague? People were missing in the thousands. 10 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: And then I went to New York not long after 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: the museum opened, and when nine to eleven happened, Liam 12 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 1: was a few weeks old in my arms, a few 13 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: months old in my arms, and it's an incredible part 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 1: of my lived history, but not theirs. But I wanted 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: them to see this incredible memorial. And if you haven't 16 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: been there, I urge you to do it. It's it's 17 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: not jingoistic by American standards, it's not rara. It is 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: so moving. And to see the power of that fire, 19 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: to see what it did to fire trucks. There are 20 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 1: fire trucks that are bent and twisted. There are columns 21 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: that are bent and twisted. Just to show you the 22 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: force of what that fireball was on that day. You 23 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: pick up phones and you hear the last phone calls 24 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: of people to their loved ones. You hear the flight 25 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: attendants trying to get in touch with air traffic controllers. 26 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Something's going on here. 27 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: They chart the history of what led to the politics 28 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: of that moment, and the displays of the fallout of 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: things they have found on the ground of apartments down 30 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: the road, what they looked like in the days after. 31 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: It's chilling. It is incredibly chilling, and I was I 32 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: read a story just recently that someone has just recently 33 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: been identified from their DNA. So one hundred and three 34 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: victims at ground zero have never been identified. On the day, 35 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: two thousand, seven hundred and fifty three people were killed 36 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: in the twin towers. One thousand, six hundred and fifty 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: have been identified, but so over a thousand is still unidentified. 38 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: But the fact that they're still working on this is extraordinary. 39 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: So John Ballentine Niven, a forty four year old of 40 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: Oyster Bay, Long Island, was on one hundred and fifth 41 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: floor of the South Tower when he was killed on 42 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: that day, leaving behind a wife and an eight month 43 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: eighteen month old son. So this two decades later, thanks 44 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: to groundbreaking new technology, he's been identified and his wife 45 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: gets closure. I think it's hard to understand the power 46 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,399 Speaker 1: of closure to healing and to moving on. We think 47 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: does it matter, But if you're in that moment, if 48 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: you're that person, yes it does. She said. It was 49 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: certainly emotionally His widow has said it certainly emotionally emotional 50 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: for me to hear twenty three years later that John's 51 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 1: DNA has been found. We had no idea these efforts 52 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: were still underway, so she said, especially given how many 53 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: years have passed, we're all the more appreciative of the 54 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: city of New York and the devoted teams working behind 55 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: the scenes. So what's happened is that we now have 56 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: different kinds of DNA sequencing technology that we didn't have then, 57 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: along with a mitochondrial DNA analysis and other procedures that 58 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,399 Speaker 1: have been refined since two thousand and one. So they're 59 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: still working on this stuff. And this allows special fragments, 60 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: specific fragments of DNA to be plucked from a larger, 61 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: often deteriorated sample to be analyzed. So all these years later, 62 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: they are still working on identifying one hundred and three 63 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: victims of Ground Zero. Amazing and if you do get 64 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: a chance to go to the memorial, it is so 65 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: moving but so interesting. If only we could get the 66 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: DNA of the people that cause all these things to 67 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: begin with, just get them to stop doing that. Wouldn't 68 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: that be great? Wouldn't it wouldn't that be great?