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Gross’ lawyer, Jared Genser, told The Associated Press that Gross has formally petitioned Cuba’s Supreme Court to be allowed to return home temporarily to visit his elderly mother, who is dying of cancer|A short-lived thaw following President Obama’s inauguration has stalled and American diplomats say no progress in possible as long as Gross remains behind bars|Gross was on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested at Havana’s Jose Marti airport|But officials in Havana have become increasingly insistent that Gross’s plight be linked to that of five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States|(AP) HAVANA – The wife of imprisoned American Alan Gross said Tuesday she has returned from a trip to Cuba to see her husband, and is fearful he will not survive his long incarceration}

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(AP) HAVANA – The wife of imprisoned American Alan Gross said Tuesday she has returned from a trip to Cuba to see her husband, and is fearful he will not survive his long incarceration. Judy Gross said her husband has developed a mass behind his right shoulder blade, and suffers from degenerative arthritis and other ailments. The 63-year-old Maryland native, who was obese at the time of his arrest in December 2009, has lost 105 pounds while in custody and now appears gaunt in photos released from a Havana military hospital where he is being held. “I am devastated by his appearance,” Judy Gross wrote in the statement. “While his spirit remains strong, I fear he is not going to survive this terrible ordeal.” She begged Cuban President Raul Castro to “put an end to our anguish and let Alan come home.” There was no immediate reaction from Cuba’s government to Judy Gross’s plea. Official: 김천출장마사지 Cuba ready to talk about Gross caseNY rabbi meets with jailed American in CubaLeahy and Shelby meet with Raul Castro in...

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Ling Young, a Chinese woman badly burned while at work in one of the towers, is lucky to be alive

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(CBS) Notable among the films, documentaries, TV movies and literary works created in the wake of Sept. 11 is “Rebirth,” a documentary slated for release just days before the tenth anniversary of the event that devastated the lives of thousands and forever changed the way we view the world. Directed by Jim Whitaker, the documentary tracks for nearly a decade the journeys of five individuals whose lives were shattered on that day in 2001. Complete coverage: 9/11 anniversary Whitaker lost his mother six months before Sept. 11 and it was following a visit to ground zero a short time after the attacks that the idea of “Rebirth” was galvanized. Out of the carnage and remnants of twisted metal came the notion of renewal and regeneration, the idea that a site immortalized for the horror that unfolded there might one day become associated with new life and new beginnings. Ling Young, a Chinese woman badly burned while at work in one of the towers, is lucky to be alive. The documentary followed her painful surgeries to treat massive burns to her face and body. Nicholas is a teenager who lost his mother, an employee at Lehman Brothers. His journey is to learn as much as he can about what his mom was like and to chronicle the impact of her death on the family she left behind. In one of...

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Trump will meet with South Korea’s President Moon at the sidelines of the General Assembly meetings: “I can tell you that obviously the U.S

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The U.S. ambassador 황금성 게임 다운로드 to the United Nations says President Donald Trump will chair a Security Council meeting on Iran during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York this month. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday that the meeting will address “violations of international law and general instability Iran sows throughout the entire Middle East region.” She accused Iran of supporting terrorism and destabilizing activities in Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. She says Iran’s leader could speak at the council meeting if he chooses to. Haley was speaking to reporters at U.N. headquarters. She outlined the agenda for the United States’ monthlong presidency of the council during September. The council is the top decision-making body at the U.N. Haley also said that Mr. Trump will chair a high level event for world leaders on September 24 on counter-narcotics.  In response to a question by CBS News, Haley confirmed that Mr. Trump will meet with South Korea’s President Moon at the sidelines of the General Assembly meetings: “I can tell you that obviously the U.S. and South Korea continue to have a strong relationship, a strong working relationship, as we continue with Japan on this issue,” Haley said the North Korea sanctions were important because, “unfortunately, it was the only way we could get the attention of North Korea,” CBS News’ Pamela Falk reports, and she said that...

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Gross’ lawyer, Jared Genser, told The Associated Press that Gross has formally petitioned Cuba’s Supreme Court to be allowed to return home temporarily to visit his elderly mother, who is dying of cancer|A short-lived thaw following President Obama’s inauguration has stalled and American diplomats say no progress in possible as long as Gross remains behind bars|Gross was on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested at Havana’s Jose Marti airport|But officials in Havana have become increasingly insistent that Gross’s plight be linked to that of five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States|(AP) HAVANA – The wife of imprisoned American Alan Gross said Tuesday she has returned from a trip to Cuba to see her husband, and is fearful he will not survive his long incarceration}

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(AP) HAVANA – The wife of imprisoned American Alan Gross said Tuesday she has returned from a trip to Cuba to see her husband, and is fearful he will not survive his long incarceration. Judy Gross said her husband has developed a mass behind his right shoulder blade, 담양출장업소 and suffers from degenerative arthritis and other ailments. The 63-year-old Maryland native, who was obese at the time of his arrest in December 2009, has lost 105 pounds while in custody and now appears gaunt in photos released from a Havana military hospital where he is being held. “I am devastated by his appearance,” Judy Gross wrote in the statement. “While his spirit remains strong, I fear he is not going to survive this terrible ordeal.” She begged Cuban President Raul Castro to “put an end to our anguish and let Alan come home.” There was no immediate reaction from Cuba’s government to Judy Gross’s plea. Official: Cuba ready to talk about Gross caseNY rabbi meets with jailed American in CubaLeahy and Shelby meet with Raul Castro in...

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Pictures: New view of 9/11 attacks ___ Reflecting back 10 years later, that day still seems surreal for NBC News’ chief anchor Tom Brokaw. “For those of us on the air, we were out there without a net of any kind,” he said. “We had no idea what was going to happen next. No one else did either.” As the twin towers burned, Brokaw remarked on camera that they would have to be demolished when the fires went out. He wondered whether he had gone too far. Minutes later, the first tower collapsed on its own. “It took everything I knew as a journalist and as a father, a husband and a citizen to get through that day,” Brokaw said. “And I was very grateful for the fact that I was 61 years old when it happened, to be given the responsibility that I had, because it took everything I had ever learned to get through that day. If I’d been 40, who knows?” Most Americans learned what happened on Sept. 11 and the ensuing days through three men: Brokaw of NBC News, Peter Jennings of ABC News and Dan Rather of CBS News. All three anchors were veteran reporters with two decades of anchoring experience and uniquely suited for the roles they had to perform. Brokaw is now semiretired, making documentaries and occasionally offering onscreen wisdom during big news events. Rather left CBS unpleasantly following a bungled story about George W. Bush’s military service. Jennings died of cancer in 2005. On the rainy night of Sept. 10, 2001, Brokaw attended a reception for a blind mountain climber. Later, the event’s organizer told him that it had been rescheduled because Brokaw was unable to make the original date. That was to have been Tuesday morning, Sept. 11 – at the Windows on the World restaurant on top of the World Trade Center. ___ Nicole Rittenmeyer remembers screaming at Brokaw on Sept. 11 – though not him personally. Seven months pregnant and with a toddler under foot, she was watching the coverage in Chicago and saw the first tower crumbling into a cloud of dust and a tangled mass of steel and concrete. Brokaw didn’t see it as quickly, and perhaps Rittenmeyer figured yelling at the TV set might get his attention. She’s seen that collapse countless times since. Starting with the “Inside 9/11” documentary she made for National Geographic in 2005, the filmmaker estimates she has spent five years working on projects about the terrorist attacks. Her latest, a sequel to the memorable “102 Minutes That Changed America” film that focuses on the days after Sept. 11, premieres on the History network on Sept. 10. Hundreds of hours exist of attack footage. Rittenmeyer suggests it was the most filmed news event ever, and there’s probably much more hidden away in drawers. What does watching so much of 9/11 do to your mind? “There’s a process that you go through that automatically puts up a kind of barrier, because you’re working on it,” said Rittenmeyer. “There are certain pieces of footage that make the hair on my arms stand up or bring tears every time and probably always will.” One was shot by two college students who started filming out their window without really knowing what was going on, and caught the second plane colliding into the World Trade Center. They freaked out, an experience so visceral “it’s like you are them and they are you and you’re reliving this experience,” she said. “I feel like it’s really a privilege to have had that experience of reliving something like that, as awful as it is, through hundreds of people’s eyes,” she added. “Nobody gets that opportunity. It’s one of the reasons I do what I do. I’m clearly drawn to history and that kind of epic moment.” ___ Dan Rather had little time to think about it when David Letterman asked him to be part of the first “Late Show” since the attacks. The night turned out to be one of the memorable television moments of the weeks after the attacks. The idea of resuming life had become a delicate issue in itself, with events such as the resumption of Major League baseball and a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden important milestones in that journey. The tone was particularly important for a New York-based comedy show and Letterman nailed it with the raw anger of his opening monologue. During 9/11 coverage, Rather worked hard to keep his emotions in check while on the air for CBS News. It was a grueling stretch that had the veteran anchor, then 69, awake for 48 hours at one point. But with Letterman, Rather briefly broke down in tears twice. “The combination of being off of my own turf and the emotional hammer to the heart that was 9/11 that hit most people while it was unfolding just suddenly descended on me,” he recalled. “I was surprised, maybe even astounded, at how it went. “I was just engulfed, consumed by grief,” he said. “I’ve never apologized for that – didn’t then and I don’t now. Because, one doesn’t apologize for grief.” Rather, who said he hasn’t seen a tape of the appearance in years, did apologize in a way at the time. During the second breakdown, the old-school newsman asked Letterman to go to commercial break and upon their return he said, “I’m a pro and I get paid not to let it show.” ___ Growing up in New Jersey, Nathaniel Katz could see the World Trade Center from the windows of his best friend’s house. But on Sept. 11, 2001, Katz was significantly farther away, studying for a semester in the Australian capital of Canberra. It was shortly before 10 p.m. in Canberra when a friend brought him to a student lounge so he could watch “The West Wing” for the first time. The series was interrupted to show what Katz thought was a private plane crashing into the trade center. He watched as other images filled the screen. About 30 other people quietly streamed into the lounge behind Katz, the only American. To the others in the lounge, it seemed like a Hollywood movie. To Katz, it was home. He broke down and cried uncontrollably. “I pride myself on having a fair bit of self-control and I completely lost myself in this situation,” said Katz, now a ministry fellow at Harvard University. “I could feel all these eyeballs in the back of my head. But I didn’t care.” His friends told him he might hear some ugly things in the coming days and he did; some folks suggested the United States deserved what happened. Katz didn’t return to the United States until December, missing the surge of patriotism that happened after the attacks. ___ There was silence on the other end of the phone line during a recent interview. Ashleigh Banfield had become so practiced at pushing aside memories of Sept. 11 – “it was a bad day” was her stock answer, before changing the subject – that being asked to recall specifics brought some tears. She was working at MSNBC that day, and disregarded a suggestion that she go to the network’s New Jersey headquarters. Instead, she headed downtown in a cab as far as it would take her and then on foot. Banfield was close enough to be enveloped in the black cloud created as the second tower collapsed. A companion kicked in a nearby building’s door and she sought refuge with a police officer who was also looking for a safe place to breathe. She emerged when the cloud began to lift and flagged down a nearby NBC truck that could film her as she gave reports into a cell phone. “For whatever reason, I thought all of the buildings were coming down,” she said. “If these two were coming down, what was next? I was so scared. So many people said you were so brave to do that reporting that day and I think just the opposite. I was just so childishly scared.” For the next couple of years, Banfield said she couldn’t go on an airplane without weeping. She sought counseling to talk it through. She’s proud she was a part of covering such a defining moment, but it also taught her about some limits to endurance. Banfield, now at ABC News, got married and had two children in the past decade. She said she would react differently today. “I think of how much I’ve changed and how I wouldn’t do (what I did) right now with two little kids,” she said. “I took enormous risks, probably didn’t know how big the risks I was taking were. I probably wouldn’t run those 50 blocks against a sea of fleeing people. Stupid would have kicked out and pragmatic would have kicked in.” ___ Work brought rock guitarist and singer John Hiatt to New York from his Nashville, Tennessee, home on Sept. 11. He had a new album being released that day, and a round of interviews set up to support it. A glance at the television that morning and he knew all bets were off. “My wife called me in my hotel room,” he recalled. “As I was watching it, she was watching it. She was terrified. We were trying to figure out how to get out of town.” His appointments all canceled, Hiatt spent much of the day walking the New York streets. Later, he walked from his midtown hotel to Penn Station and boarded a train south. Within the next two weeks, he wrote a song about his feelings from that day, “When New York Had Her Heart Broke,” and performed it when he appeared in the city later that fall. Otherwise, he shelved it. Writing the song was largely a way to work through his feelings and he figured there was enough musical material coming out in response to the attacks, some of which felt a little tawdry to him. Now, 10 years later, he recorded the song for an album that was released this month. “Hopefully, there’s enough distance,” he said. “In the tradition of a tragic folk song, maybe it helps.” ___ Knowing the location of his wife Katherine’s office and the trajectory of the first plane to hit the World Trade Center, Charles Wolf eventually became convinced she was killed instantly on Sept. 11. He never heard from her that morning. For most people, television that day was a way to experience a terrible story that did not yet involve them. For Wolf, it was a lifeline. TV is where he got his information, learning areas that were set up for possible survivors or places to find out about victims. “You’re looking for shreds of evidence of whether she’s alive or dead,” he said. He watched the coverage for hours, even though deep down he knew Katherine’s fate when he saw the north tower collapse. “I stood up and said, ‘I guess I have to start my life over,'” he recalled. What grew excruciating was when networks played key footage over and over, particularly of the second plane hitting the south tower. He called ABC News to complain about the repetition; the network later said it would curtail use of the footage, in part because children couldn’t understand they were not seeing something new. He has no interest in watching 10th anniversary coverage, which he calls “made-for-ratings television.” Instead, he will attend a public memorial at ground zero. Television, he said, “is for everybody else. … Television has given them the ability to participate in something when they can’t really be there.”

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