NBC to mark 9/11 with Giuliani, survivors
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – NBC and its networks will provide a full-court press of coverage on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, calling on current NBC News journalists as well as former anchor Tom Brokaw and former “Today” co-host Jane Pauley.
“Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer will broadcast live from the site of the World Trade Center and will be joined by Brokaw, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, survivors of the attacks and emergency personnel who were at the scene.
At 8 p.m. September 11, Pauley will update her “Dateline” report broadcast in 2001 on United Flight 93, which crashed in a field near Pittsburgh as passengers tried to regain control of the plane from hijackers. New interviews and audio tapes will accompany Pauley’s report.
NBC will reach into the vault September 9 to replay Brokaw’s “America Remembers: 9/11 Controllers” at 8 p.m. Brokaw had interviewed 20 air traffic controllers who dealt with the four hijacked planes that day. Then “Dateline” will have a special that aired in 2001 called “The Miracle of Ladder Company No. 6,” a Stone Phillips report of the firefighters and an office worker who were rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center’s North Tower after it collapsed.
MSNBC will have coverage beginning September 10 with Chris Matthews anchoring from the site at 8 a.m. ET and a special live “Hardball” at 7 p.m. with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. MSNBC’s “9/11: The Day That Changed America” will feature NBC coverage as it aired that day as well as interviews with former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Robert Redford.
CNBC will cover the impact of the attacks on the financial community, including interviews with correspondents as well as how New York has recovered since then. Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo will have special coverage as well.
Meanwhile, new “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric will interview President Bush for an hour long primetime special that will air September 6 called “Five Years Later: How Safe Are We?” It also will feature Lara Logan, Byron Pitts, David Martin and Jim Stewart.
CBS also will air an updated version of the award-winning documentary “9/11” on Sunday evening.
ABC News hasn’t formally announced its plans, though Charles Gibson will anchor a special “Primetime” on the September 11 anniversary that will begin shortly after 10 p.m. at the conclusion of the second part of ABC’s four-hour miniseries “The Path to 9/11.” The special will look at the country’s security and also why Osama bin Laden has yet to be caught. ABC’s “Good Morning America” will broadcast live from St. Paul’s Chapel across from the site of the World Trade Center, and “Nightline” and “World News” also will have coverage.
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