september 11 2001 attacks

New rules governing police surveillance can be traced from 9/11 all the way back to the Black Panthers 50 years ago.

After the attacks, the NYPD moved rapidly to develop its own global intelligence and counterterrorism capabilities.

The names of nearly 3,000 people who died in the 1993 and 2001 attacks will be read this morning.

Here are some official and unofficial milestones so far, as construction continues on.

"The lights will be on beginning at sunset on September 11, 2013 and fading away at dawn on September 12th."

"No reasonable observer would view the artifact as endorsing Christianity," wrote Judge Deborah A. Batts. "The cross does not create excessive entanglement between the state and religion."

He also said, "My most dramatic memory of the day is watching a man throw himself from the 100th floor, 101st hundred floor."

Despite repeated warnings, the Bush administration allegedly believed "Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat."

The Tribute of Light appeared once again last night, as New Yorkers remember 9/11.

Someday the $1 billion National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. You'll see. And when that day comes, it's still going to be wickedly expensive.