(11 Sep 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Various of procession carrying US flag saved from the World Trade Centre on stage
2. Wide of ceremony
3. Mid shot of choir singing US national anthem
4. Close of memorial banner reading (English) "I love daddy"
5. Musicians playing bagpipes at ceremony
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor:
"Today marks the sixth anniversary of the day that tore across our history and our hearts. We come together again as New Yorkers and as Americans to share a loss that can't be measured."
7. Mid shot of ringing of bell, marking the moment the first plane flew into the north tower of the World Trade Centre
8. Victims' family members with heads bowed, holding photos of victims during first moment of silence
9. Firefighters at podium reading out names of victims of the attack
10. Pull out from woman carrying flowers and photo to wide of mourners headed down ramp to memorial reflecting pool
11. Close tilt down from mourning woman's face to her hands on photo of victim
12. Wide of people around memorial reflecting pool
13. Wide pan of construction site at ground zero (former site of World Trade Centre)
14. Elderly woman crying
15. Tilt down from cross to flowers floating in pool
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Rudy Giuliani, Former New York City Mayor and presidential hopeful:
"On this day six year ago, and on the days that followed, in the midst of our great grief and turmoil, we also witnessed uncompromising strength and resilience as a people. It was a day with no answers, but with an unending line of those who came forward to try to help one another."
17. Women writing on rim around pool
18. Wide aerial pan of ceremony
STORYLINE
US presidential politics and the health of ground zero workers loomed over the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks as relatives of World Trade Centre victims gathered at a lower Manhattan park to remember the dead.
Under the grim backdrop of grey skies, the ceremony began at 8:40 a.m. local time (1240 GMT) with the sounds of drums and bagpipes, as a US flag saved from the site was carried on stage.
The US national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, was performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus before the first of four moments of silence was observed at 8:46 a.m. local time (1246 GMT), the exact moment the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Centre six years ago.
The second silence marked when the second plane hit the second tower, and two more silences marked when each of the towers fell.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has presided over each of the anniversary events, described 11 September 2001, as "the day that tore across our history and our hearts. We come together again as New Yorkers and as Americans to share a loss that can't be measured."
Firefighters and first responders who helped rescue victims of the attack began the annual recitation of the 2,750 victims' names shortly after the first moment of silence.
Many of those rescuers are now ill with respiratory problems and cancers that they blame on exposure to the fallen towers' toxic dust.
For the first time, the name of a victim who survived the day of the attacks but died five months later of lung disease was added to the official roll.
Felicia Dunn-Jones, an attorney who was working near the World Trade Centre, became the 2,974th victim linked to the attack sites where hijacked airliners hit the two towers.
In past years, the memorial ceremonies for the New York victims have been held at the twin towers' footprints with family members reading the names of the dead.
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