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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So let's go down to the World Trade Center site
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  Speaker 1: where our own Natalie Migliore is there before the commemoration starts. Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: can you paint a picture of what's transpiring now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I am sitting literally in the shadow of
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  Speaker 2: the Oculus and the Freedom Tower here in Lower Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm watching people. I've been watching them all morning
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  Speaker 2: walk up because there is a huge security presence. probably
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  Speaker 2: larger than years past. Of course, it's 25 years, so
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  Speaker 2: there's more presence expected and there's more security this time around.
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  Speaker 2: But all morning, I've been watching people walk up to
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  Speaker 2: the metal barricades, just staring at the Freedom Tower, at
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  Speaker 2: the area, either nodding their heads, reflecting, kind of looking
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  Speaker 2: at looking around in a sense of, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: quieter down here this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you said the security is extremely tight and that
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  Speaker 3: the whole area is cornered off at this point. So
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  Speaker 3: anybody that wants to go down there is going to
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  Speaker 3: be kept away for a while, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no cars in this area. That closed down about
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  Speaker 2: an hour ago to traffic. Pedestrians are still flowing, but
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  Speaker 2: there's just a slew of police officers. And there's a
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  Speaker 2: pedestrian plaza that's typically open, even on previous anniversaries for 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: It sits right under the Oculus. And a couple years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I watched actually nuns give sort of this prayer service
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  Speaker 2: this prayer ceremony during the 9-11 commemoration ceremony outside of it.
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  Speaker 2: That won't even be able to happen today because that
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  Speaker 2: space is not open. People are not allowed in to
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  Speaker 2: that space.
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  Speaker 1: So the advice to anybody listening is don't come down
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  Speaker 1: to the World Trade Center site. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: get anywhere near it until later on in the day. When, again,
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  Speaker 1: you can come and pay your tribute to those who
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  Speaker 1: have passed, you know, at the museum site where all
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  Speaker 1: the names are listed. But don't come down there now.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's not going to open until about 3 o'clock in
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon. So you definitely got some time where this
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  Speaker 2: area is pretty paralyzed to traffic, to pedestrian, to even
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  Speaker 2: if you want to go down to pay your respects,
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  Speaker 2: you got to wait.
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  Speaker 3: Have you had a chance to talk with anybody down there?
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  Speaker 3: And if so, who were they and why are they there?
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  Speaker 2: I spoke to a gentleman who was in from California.
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  Speaker 2: He told me he lost his brother 25 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: You could see it in his face as he was talking.
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  Speaker 2: You could see, first of all, that he really maybe
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to talk, especially in the beginning. But you
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  Speaker 2: could see that 25 years later, it just doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: any easier for these families. And he couldn't even, he
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  Speaker 2: choked up even trying to tell me about who his brother,
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  Speaker 2: you know, who he was as a person. So it's
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  Speaker 2: sort of, you can see just 25 years later that
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  Speaker 2: that pain is, It just doesn't dissipate. It doesn't go away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I can understand that. Did he fly in
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  Speaker 3: from California just for today, just to be there today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he did. He was staying in the area.
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  Speaker 2: He flew in. This seems to be deeply important to people.
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  Speaker 2: It is 25 years, a long time to unexpectedly lose somebody.
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  Speaker 2: so tragically in such a way.
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  Speaker 3: But for it to be so fresh, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: you to be able to see that in his eyes,
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  Speaker 3: that the fact that he is still tearing up after
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  Speaker 3: all this time, I, I think this day is bringing
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  Speaker 3: that kind of memory back and those emotions back for
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people. Uh, Natalie, good, good work. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: for sharing that story with us. And I know we're
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  Speaker 3: going to be checking in with you all morning. Really,
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  Speaker 3: really appreciate your time down there today. I, I know
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  Speaker 3: it can be tough for you, too. I mean, your
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  Speaker 3: memories have to not be as fresh as everybody else's
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  Speaker 3: because of how young you are, but you're still a
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  Speaker 3: New Yorker.