Nation remembers 9/11 terrorist attacks

A somber nation spent Saturday holding events, nationally and locally, remembering the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 people and changed the country and the world.

Terrorists hijacked four airliners Sept. 11, 2001, crashing two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth, believed to be targeting the White House or U.S. Capitol, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew fought the hijackers.

President Joe Biden, a U.S. senator at the time of the attacks, released a recorded m...