The Brian Lehrer Show

Gale Brewer, NYC Council Member (District 6, Central Park, Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Clinton), former Manhattan Borough President, and Benjamin Chevat, executive director of 9/11 Health Watch, talk about the Mamdani administration's release of city documents related to the health effects of 9/11.
Photo: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference on the release of 9/11 related documents at City Hall on September 08, 2026 in New York City. Mayor Mamdani was joined by elected officials, first responders, family members of loved ones affected by 9/11 related illnesses and advocates as he announced the release of previously unseen documents raising concerns about air quality in Manhattan in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The release resolves a lawsuit brought by advocacy group 9/11 Health Watch, which sued the city for the documents. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Rebecca Florsheim, MD, MPH, environmental health physician at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the World Trade Center survivor's clinic, discusses the health effects of the September 11th terrorist attacks, still ongoing 25 years later.
Photo: Capt. John Gallagher, FDNY (Ret.), right, stands with Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., during a news conference to urge passage of the "James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act" to address the long-standing health effects of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Nov. 18, 2009. Gallagher was a first responder to ground zero on 9/11 and now suffers from a terminal lung disease. (Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images)

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Mike Kelly, columnist for The Bergen Record / NorthJersey.com and author of After Ground Zero: Everyday Americans and the Unhealed Scars of 9/11 (Bloomsbury, 2026), tells the stories of ordinary Americans, including many from New Jersey, who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks, and talks about his related reporting at home and abroad over the past 25 years.
Photo: The Tribute in Light installation is tested over lower Manhattan in New York City on September 9, 2026, as seen from the "Empty Sky" 9/11 memorial in Jersey City, New Jersey. The twin beams shine from dusk on September 11 until dawn on September 12 every year. (Jeremy Weine/Getty Images)

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Listeners call in to pay tribute to the first responders and other people who put themselves in harm's way to save others on 9/11.
Photo: A victim of the World Trade Center attack is tended to by paramedics Septemeber 11, 2001 en route to the hospital in New York City. (Photo by Carolyn Schaefer/Getty Images)

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Hillary Rodham Clinton, former U.S. senator (D-NY, 2001-2009), first lady, secretary of state and the first woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political party (2016), reflects on what's been learned in the 25 years since 9/11.
Photo: Six weeks after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York Senator Hillary Clinton joins family members of the dead for a memorial ceremony at Ground Zero, October 29, 2001 in New York City. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

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