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lovely people I'm koi hoping your
weekend was wonderful and you're feeling
refreshed and ready to rock this Monday
we have just 16 Mondays left in 2023
each one offering a new beginning and
chance to shine so let's make them count
shall we we're going to start today in
the North African nation of Morocco a
6.8 magnitude powerful earthquake shook
Morocco's High Atlas mountain range
shortly after 11 pm local time on Friday
Rescuers in Morocco are still searching
for survivors tragically at the time of
this recording at least 2 000 people had
lost their lives 1400 others in critical
condition the worst damage and
Destruction has been in isolated
Mountain areas which are difficult to
access residents have described entire
Villages suffering damage with Rescuers
unable to reach those in need Morocco's
worst earthquake of modern times was in
19 160 when at least twelve thousand
people died but the scale of this
weekend's quake and the impact is still
becoming clear more now from
meteorologist Allison chinchar who has
more on the details of the earthquake
and its aftershocks we know the original
Quake was a magnitude 6.8 at a depth of
about 11 miles for geological standards
that is it considered extremely shallow
now after that main Quake just 19
minutes after that they had their first
Aftershock a 4.9 magnitude and 4.9 may
not sound like that much but after
having the dad the 6.8 keep in mind
you're going to have a lot of those
buildings a lot of the homes that are
now structurally compromised so even
something like a 4.9 can cause
subsequent damage it was felt the
original Quake was felt as far away as
neighboring countries of Algeria and
Portugal but again to show you how rare
it is for this region to experience such
large Quakes just since 1900 there have
only been maybe a handful of quakes at a
magnitude 5 0.0 or higher so again it's
very rare in this area now we had the
original Quake at a 6.81 since
Aftershock of 4.9 we really don't know
how long it's going to be before there
could be another would there be multiple
in a row each earthquake is different
but on average statistically speaking
there could be one an Aftershock of at
least a 5.8 and even say a 4.2 a 4.5
even though it's a much smaller number
it could still cause a tremendous amount
of additional damage just because those
buildings especially the older ones have
already been structurally compromised by
the initial quake
all right thank you Allison and more now
on how this tragic earthquake is
impacting the people of Morocco here's
CNN senior International correspondent
Sam Kiley
Morocco's King Muhammad has declared
three days of national mourning here in
Marrakech and that is because his
country has been completely devastated
by an extraordinary earthquake totally
unexpected in cities like this Marrakech
this has been the scene here in the
Medina the most ancient part of this
ancient city here a building clearly
ripped away by this earthquake but the
scenes have been even worse in the
interior of the country where one woman
who was trapped for some 12 hours was
pulled from Rubble in a remote village
now there are 13 people dead here in
Marrakech across the country more than
1300 people have died and the
authorities here expect those numbers to
climb with some rapidity their problem
though is getting out into the areas
that are worst affected the epicenter is
about 45 miles south of Marrakesh but
the areas that have been really badly
devastated according to the local
authorities have been villages in the
foothills of the Atlas Mountains
the people of Morocco will need
assistance in the days weeks and months
to come organizations are on the ground
responding to the disaster right now and
CNN's impact your world has ways to
support relief efforts for more
information about ways to help you can
visit CNN's impact Your World website
this just in you were looking at
obviously a very disturbing live shot
there that is the World Trade Center and
we have unconfirmed reports this morning
that a plane has crashed into one of the
towers of the World Trade Center CNN
Center right now is just beginning to
work on this story obviously calling our
sources and trying to figure out exactly
what happened but clearly something
relatively devastating happening this
morning there on the south end of the
island of Manhattan that is once again a
picture of one of the towers of the
World Trade Center
today is Monday September 11th and it
marks the 22nd anniversary of the
attacks on American soil the day caused
chaos Terror and death when the al-Qaeda
terrorist group carried out coordinated
attacks against America nearly 3 000
people were killed when terrorists flew
commercial airplanes into the World
Trade Center in New York City the
Pentagon in Washington DC and a field in
Shanksville Pennsylvania today on the
anniversary of the worst terrorist
attack on U.S soil President Joe Biden
is scheduled to observe the moment at a
military base in Alaska with service
members and their families First Lady
Joe Biden will lay a wreath at the 911
memorial at the Pentagon and vice
president Kamala Harris is scheduled to
participate in the annual ceremony at
the national September 11 Memorial
Museum in New York we'll go inside that
museum with our Kate Baldwin now as the
nation pauses to reflect and remember
those who lost their lives on that
tragic day these tridents were from the
North Tower they were recovered in the
aftermath of the attacks we brought them
back here and basically built the museum
all around them Joe Daniels is president
and CEO of the 911 memorial you're not
whitewashing it this is the raw dirty
material exactly I mean this is the
steel that bore the attacks the museum
is built almost entirely underground
some 70 feet down it sits in the precise
footprint of the World Trade Center so
this is exactly where the south tower
started and went up 1350 feet a striking
display of the sheer scale of the
destruction with poignant reminders of
the tragedy at every turn I mean this
this is unbelievable
this is actually the front of this fire
truck this is the cab I wouldn't know
wouldn't know and it's it's completely
burned out and destroyed then there's
the retaining wall that remarkably held
strong even when The Towers fell
when the towers came down all that
debris that was here right in this space
provided bracing for that wall and when
that debris was clear there was a big
concern that the wall would breach would
flood Lower Manhattan it could have been
so much worse
but this will help under all of that
pressure visitors will also walk
alongside the Survivor stairs used by
hundreds of people as the buildings are
crumbling running from the dust cloud to
escape to safety and uh it's for all our
visitors to understand the Story of
Survival and likely one of the most
emotional stops in the museum this art
installation mimics the blue sky on that
fateful morning behind it the still
unidentified remains of 9 11 victims the
move met with mixed emotion from their
families a still shocking statistic is
at 1100 family members never got any
human remains back to Barry never got to
go through the the ritual of laying
their loved ones to rest it's not a
public space at all only family members
are allowed back behind the wall right
next door a room dedicated to the lives
of those lost exactly that room is in an
area called in memoriam and it's a
photographic portrait of each and every
one of the 2983 victims you see pictures
a father coaching his son's Little
League team a wedding you see the lives
that were that were lost that day and
not just about how they died it's who
these people were throughout the museum
chilling reminders of the day handmade
flyers for the missing a cross emerging
from the wreckage everyday items simply
left behind we help through these
artifacts and images tell that story of
just it was panic and while the museum
is vast one small exhibit has been the
biggest source of controversy its focus
the terrorists themselves including a
film criticized for not making a clear
enough distinction between Islam and
Al-Qaeda there's been a lot of criticism
why give any time
to the terrorists you know it's it's one
way to look at it is you don't build a
holocaust museum and not be very clear
that the Nazis were the ones who
committed those atrocities Al Qaeda was
an extremist terrorist group but no one
will come through this exhibit and in
any way think that we are indicting an
entire religion which we in no way are
it seems very appropriate that you end
here at the last column and it again
goes right back to resiliency seeing
those messages of Hope and Remembrance
on this very tall column that's still
standing strong
around 30 million people Mark September
11th on their calendars each year and
participate in charitable activities
around the country to learn more you can
head to CNN's impact your world site to
find volunteer opportunities and other
ways to support those impacted we'll put
links to that and ways to support the
Morocco earthquake relief efforts in the
description of this video on our YouTube
channel I'm Coy wire thank you for
spending part of your day with us we'll
see you right back here tomorrow