9/11 Tribute in Light: Live from Lower Manhattan

Matt Roush says...

A day of solemn remembrance starts in the morning, with all major networks and news channels covering ceremonies in Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, commemorating the thousands of lives lost 25 years ago on September 11, 2001. In primetime, the networks continue their coverage with news specials.

• 9/11 Tribute in Light: Live from Lower Manhattan (8/7c, ABC): Few sights are more haunting than the annual “Tribute in Light,” when blue lights pierce the sky where the Twin Towers once stood. In collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, anchors David Muir, Robin Roberts, and Diane Sawyer reflect on the events and impact of that terrible day. This special will be simulcast on National Geographic and streamed on Disney+ and Hulu. Followed by a replay of 9/11: United We Stand — 25 Years Later (9/8c), which explores how the nation recovered from the tragedy through music, sports, entertainment, and late-night humor.
• 9/11: We Remember (8/7c, CBS): Tony Dokoupil anchors a special featuring reports by 60 Minutes‘ Lesley Stahl and Norah O’Donnell, who interviews Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Dan Caine, and Dokoupil’s profile of a family who escaped the collapse of the World Trade Center but lost their patriarch. Followed by Daughters of 9/11 (9/8c), a two-hour documentary following two women who lost their fathers on 9/11 as they enlist FBI special agent Frank Pellegrino in their crusade to seek justice against accused mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
• Facing Ground Zero: A Dateline Special (10/9c, NBC): Lester Holt anchors a special edition featuring archival material from the day, some of it never before seen, in profiles of New Yorkers captured in real-time footage as they reflect on how the day changed their lives forever.

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