Theme Music (church bells ringing) Bell Music (church bell ringing) On this day of prayer and remembrance, church bells tolled at noon all over the nation.

Millions of people paused to pray and reflect on the week's tragedies.

Good evening, I'm Allison McNair, and welcome to New Hampshire Outlook.

President Bush attended an interfaith service at the National Cathedral in Washington today.

Governor Jeanne Shaheen read a poem to an overflow crowd at Saint Paul's Church in Concord.

(church bell ringing) It's fitting that we began today's services with the tolling of the beautiful bells here at Saint Paul's Church.

The English poet John Donne wrote centuries ago, no man is an island entire of itself.

Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

No American is untouched by Tuesday's tragic events.

No New Hampshire citizen is untouched.

We've lost family, friends, and neighbors.

We've lost a part of ourselves.

But hope remains as it should.

Our nation and our hearts are wounded.

But the last few days have shown that America is stronger than those who attacked us recognize.

Today we are saddened, but we are united as one nation.

I ask you all to join with me in silent reflection for the victims, their families, the brave men and women who are involved in the search efforts, and for our country.

Speaking at the Washington service today, President Bush said this conflict will end in a way and at an hour of our choosing.

The president then traveled to New York and toured what's become known as Ground Zero, the site where the World Trade Center Towers once stood.

Rescue crews greeted the president with chants of USA as he thanked them for their hard work.

4700 people remain missing tonight in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

4000 people hospitalized.

The House and Senate today overwhelmingly approved $40 billion in emergency spending.

The president has also signed an order to allow up to 50,000 military reservists to be called up.

Tonight, defense measures are being planned to create patrols of U.S.

airspace.

Logan International Airport is scheduled to open tomorrow morning.

The stock market is also expected to resume on Monday.

This has been one of the most extraordinary weeks in memory.

Many people first reacted to the attack with shock.

For some, there came anger.

Earlier, I spoke with journalists from around the state who shared their perspective on the week's unprecedented events.

From Concord, Guy MacMillin joins us from the Keene Sentinel.

Hello to you, Guy.

Hello, Allie.

And Kevin Landrigan is here from the Telegraph.

Kevin, nice to see you.

Hi.

Thanks for coming in.

And then in the studio we have Theresa Kennett, correspondent for Outlook.

Great to have you here, Theresa, thanks so much.

And also Roger Wood who is with the Action News Network and also New Hampshire Public Radio.

Thanks for coming in, Roger.

Thank you Allie.

You know, we thought about how to start the discussion this week.

And I mean, with so much that's gone on, it was tough to just really focus in.

But Kevin Landrigan, I know the service was held in Concord today.

You were there.

Can you tell us what it was like?

Sure.

It was.

It was amazing.

Amazingly moving.

It was brief in time, only about 35 minutes long.

But this thing was put together, as you know, with less than a day's notice and a number of prayers and songs by members of clergy from all denominations.

And what was really amazing was the turnout.

I mean, the church only holds seated 550 people.

There were well over 700 people in the church, and as many as another 800 people outside the church trying to get in.

And what was fascinating about that was the people outside actually conducted their own service that was parallel to the service going on inside.

So we people would be singing My Country Tis Of Thee inside, and you could hear God Bless America echoing in the outside.

Was that orchestrated, Kevin, or was it - ?

It was just, It was very impromptu and some, some, some adjunct clergy helped out in terms of starting some of the prayers and songs outside.

Contrast that with the scene at Market Square in Portsmouth at noontime, with a single bell tolling, about two dozen people out with umbrellas in the rain, and after about five minutes of silence, some dispersed and some went into the North Church to pray.

Anything in the North Country planned for today, Theresa?

Oh, absolutely.

I drove through Conway at about noontime to get here, and all of the churches that are in the center of Conway were full of people walking in and no parking spaces to be had on the outside.

So everybody was going to be there to pray.

Guy, what about in Keene, or were you en route to Concord at that time?

I was on route.

I was actually listening to the national service that was broadcast on almost all the radio stations.

There are, of course, a lot of ceremonies going on in Keene over the next few days, and we've got lists of them in the newspaper, but I wasn't a part of any of those today.

The images this week.

This is one of these times where, you know, for the rest of your life, you're going to remember either getting a phone call from someone saying you're not going to believe what's happened, or maybe you were listening to the radio or watching TV and and they're images that just are going to be with us for a lifetime.

There are too many images and too many reminiscence, but I have one that pops right into my head when you mentioned that.

And that was Tuesday when I went over to the Pease Air National Guard Base to find it in a very secure situation.

But I was talking with the public affairs officer, Captain Bill Davis, and he said, you know what?

Today is my birthday.

It's just but it's just one that springs to mind.

Well, you know, I actually I called our town manager just to see what kind of activities the town was putting together.

And he or if the state had contacted them to let them know what the procedure should be.

And he said no, quite frankly, we have gotten nothing from from Concord.

However, as we were watching the news break this morning, at about a quarter of ten, we got out all of our emergency manuals, we located all of our emergency personnel, and we just did what we thought we had to do to be ready for whatever, because it was looking very, very strange.

And I think that really captures the feeling that we all had, all of us who turned on the television at 10:00 in the morning or sometime before.

It was just unreal.

Guy, what about you?

Did you hear via the wire service at work or?

No.

Actually, I heard somebody say there's been an explosion in the World Trade Center.

And I went over to the television, which was on, and I saw it, and I said to one of the other reporters at the paper, I hope this was an accident.

I mean, I was thinking in a kind of global terms, and I actually was watching live when that second plane came in, and we all knew at that point that it couldn't possibly be an accident.

You know, Guy, I've heard from a lot of people speaking of that image, that it's being rerun too many times on television.

And I'd like to take, if you don't mind, slightly opposite tack on that.

That that image reinforces what this country must do now to keep that image before us for all time, to remember that we must move on this.

I think there's so much more involved in this than trying to help the TV networks arrange their graphics, but I would say that the NBC network, I don't think, needs to show a loop of the World Trade Center collapsing as they interview people in a little box on the screen.

I think that's just distracting and it's ridiculous.

Actually, I agree to the extent I agree with you as well, Roger, though, I think that we need to to have seen this and to have this thing engraved in our minds.

It is it was very easy on Tuesday to look at it in terms of the stage management, you know, how graphic and and spectacular it all was.

Kevin Landrigan, what about you?

Were you at work or?

Yeah, I was at work in the pressroom as a number of us were and and actually someone came in and had just heard it on the radio that the first plane had struck the Center.

And the first wire report suggested that it was a small plane, so, much like Guy, I thought, well, maybe it is just a crazy, tragic accident.

And we, many of us went to television sets and others to live audio and video on, on the computer and saw that second plane strike.

And it just, just thinking about it sends a chill through my spine and I think through every American's as well.

You know, speaking of the media coverage, we actually had a call-in show the other night and surprised to say that we heard from young people, young people that have been watching in school, but also maybe have been watching some of the live coverage.

And this actually was the first call we got from a 14 year old.

And just want to take a listen and get your reaction to this.

I am only 14 years old and I just wanted to speak quickly about two issues I just wanted to talk about.

Sure.

One being that I know I can't say the network I saw this on, there was a certain channel of news that I saw this on.

I saw people, of course, on TV that were, after the plane hit, I think it was the first tower, people that were overcome by the flames and, had to jump from the building, obviously, to their deaths.

I just really don't think that stuff needs to be shown on TV.

Like, I just, I mean, we know, of course, and we're saddened by that.

Some of these people had to have, jumped to their death, but I don't I really don't think people need to have the images put into their mind.

We actually have read since then that some of the networks said, gee, this was a mistake.

We didn't mean to to put this on air or they caught it live.

But still, this youngster was pretty eloquent at the at the point.

Allie, at the risk of picking a fight with a 14 year old boy, I think he's just wrong.

I would say my own personal reaction to this thing, I don't think it really hit me the, the, the human tragedy of this thing as opposed to the national embarrassment, and is this war and all that, but just the human aspect of this, until I saw the New York Times the next morning that had a picture of a man falling out of the building, and another picture of people trapped in upper stories of the building unable to get out.

It was at that point, I think, that I really lost my breath, and I don't know what I was thinking the day and evening before, but this really brought it home.

I think the network, by the way, that the young man said he couldn't say was CBS.

Oh, you can say that.

I know, I can say it.

So could he have, too.

I know.

I'll weigh in with the young viewer, if you don't mind, as New Hampshire Public Television, because I believe that the image of a person falling from a building is too personal.

There could have been any of the relatives who were on the grounds relative.

Now, not that the image of a plane striking a building is less personal because everybody lost their life in it, but it just strikes me as being too personal.

I agree, I think that they should not have shown people jumping or falling from the building.

And I do think that because the coverage has been so intensive that all the networks have to know that there are young people that are watching and unfortunately, some of their parents cannot be with them as they watch.

So we in the media have to be very respectful of that.

I do, however, think that it is important for us to continue to see how New York evolves from this, and so that the images we continue to see are very important for us, because as we go back to work and to our routine, we should not forget what people in just a few states away from us are going through, and that we have to continue to be their support and to support each other.

Right.

There was a scroll going across the screen today saying that the rescue workers need hot food, they need raincoats, because the conditions have really gotten pretty hideous with the weather down there.

So, you know, the needs do continue.

And I think we're going to be seeing these images, at least the attempt to get things back to order for for weeks to come.

I guess the next place to go would be what will this country do to respond?

And Guy, I'll toss it to you.

What do you think?

Well, I have some thoughts on it that I probably can't express in a few minutes.

I will say this.

I have a great deal of sympathy for the president and the administration in the dilemma that they face.

We saw an enormous tragedy on Tuesday, and after it happened, I didn't hear any Americans say, well, I guess we learned our lesson, or I guess we've got to change our ways or we need a new foreign policy.

What we saw was a universal anger and determination to fight back, retribution.

I share it, I sense it, and I and I don't think that there's anything to be ashamed of.

On the other hand, if our retribution takes the same shape or similar shape to this action.

In other words, if a lot of people in some other country or society who have nothing to do with politics or war or anything else, if they die as a result of this, we can expect the people in that country, in that society to react exactly as we did.

They are not going to say we got ours.

They're going to say we're going to get back again and again.

And this just breeds this retribution.

So I think the president has a real challenge here.

We need wisdom and intelligence to fight against insanity.

We all have a big challenge, Guy.

I think what we're looking at is the preservation of our way of life.

And I don't mean to maximize this, but I think that we are looking at an epic struggle here that we all, as Americans, have to put our shoulders to the wheel, if you don't mind my saying so, no matter how that is, I can't be down in New York picking through rubble and trying to find live people.

I might want to be.

I’m not sure I can go overseas and fight the battles either.

I can do a small amount as an American, and I will do whatever I can as an American, and that's not being jingoistic.

I spent most of the week either riveted to the television or paralyzed, wondering what I could do.

I found some things I could do late in the week, but I think that we do have to support President Bush in whatever decision he and his policymakers make, and I am prepared as an American to do that.

But I think I think one of the things the president's been emphasizing in the last couple of days is, as Guy said, it's going to be a long and difficult campaign.

And this isn't a traditional war that we're going to be fighting with this enemy, because the enemy, at least right now, does not have a defined nation, doesn't have defined borders, has real skills in terms of communications and intelligence as far as hiding from its pursuers over periods of decades now and by all elements of society.

I mean, some of these terrorists have committed acts against Muslim people, against Islam nations, as well as against Western European nations and of course, the United States now.

So we all know this enemy, but it's a very difficult one to hunt down.

And again, as Guy said, you have to be extremely careful not to perpetuate the cycle in the sense of you want to avoid, if possible, killing innocent people, because then the anger is just going to fermit, form, foment and continue, if I can talk.

I think the president at the National Cathedral today, and I was driving again as I was listening to it, said two things that struck me as profound.

The first was that he mentioned that in adversity we meet ourselves.

And so over the last four days, what we have seen as a nation really coming together and sometimes, and particularly New Yorkers, tend to be thought of as these steely, self-obsessed people.

And clearly they are not.

They are helping each other, they are desperate.

And this nation has pulled together for for the people in New York and Washington.

The other thing he said was that, and I cannot quote him exactly, but it was something about we have not got the distance of time in our hands yet, to put history in perspective, however, history tells us what our response must be.

And he said something to the effect that we must rid this world of this kind of evil.

But ridding the world of evil and becoming evil are two very different things.

And so I am sure, and I am hopeful, and I'm praying that we will be very wise as as we approach this as a nation and develop a strategy to rid the world of evil, and that it doesn't mean helter skelter bombing in Middle Eastern countries.

Roger, you had mentioned ways to help.

And I mean, I think New Hampshire has been so impressive.

Kudos to WMUR TV that held that telethon, they raised at last count that we heard today, $870,000 for the Red Cross.

I know efforts on the Seacoast, you were involved this morning with a four hour fundraiser that raised quite a bit of money.

Well, $20,000 in a couple of hours through our Clear Channel station, WERZ, and I brought my own Bush rebate check down, because the other night, my wife and I looked at each other and said, we can't spend this on a trinket or something to make us happy, and we have to spend it on on other people at this point.

It's a small gesture, but I think as I like to hark back, Americans have to make some small gestures.

Go ahead, Guy.

I've got one other suggestion here, and I'm working on this for the Sentinel on on Monday.

The consumer spending in this country takes up 66% of the economy.

If consumer spending goes down in the wake of this, because we're demoralized, the economy is going to go down.

We're going to be in a recession.

And the terrorists were going to, are going to win again.

So one other thing you can do that is not painful, not much of a sacrifice if you can afford it, spend some money, buy something.

Get out there in the economy.

The stock market opens up on Monday.

We could do it to ourselves, what they did to us on Tuesday.

And can I say just one thing?

Sure, go ahead.

If anybody sells their American company stocks on Monday when the stock market opens, they're crazy.

Shame.

Yeah.

Well those are some great points.

You know, I think too we need to look at how will life change or what will we need to do in order to at least feel more safe.

And I know we're looking at airport security changing over at Manchester, we spoke to Kevin Dillon over there who said, hey, you know what, you're going to have to come two hours early now and you're going to not be able to do curbside check in, and you won't be walked to the gate by family or friends.

And so we're going to have to make some changes.

And, you know, I think that those are very small sacrifices to make.

And I did hear somebody say, oh, in a few weeks, Americans will be impatient again about air travel.

I don't think that any American who is alive today, or who is old enough to remember what happened, will ever be impatient with that again.

But we've got to get smarter.

I mean, The Boston Globe every two years does a study of security at Logan Airport, finds it's full of holes, laughable.

And we read it and we cluck, cluck, cluck.

And now, look, you know, you can't let the airlines conduct their own security.

You have to have trained people, not minimum wage workers reading a comic book while your bag goes by.

We've all been through this, and we've been to Europe, at least I have, and it's much tougher there, much more focused, and you get a little interview when you go into an airport in Europe, and I bet you this would not have happened there.

Well, I think we learn from our mistakes.

If there's anything that this can teach us is how to be better, how to do better, I think we had not had a hijacking in this country for ten years.

And so I think not, you know, we shouldn't be exceedingly critical of what we had in the past.

We just know that we need to change it and be better.

The other issue is air marshals.

We may see a return to those, at least in some limited circumstances.

Even if terrorists have the idea that there are non-uniform people with weapons, perhaps on their airplane, they'll think twice about carrying out such brazen acts as they did so successfully on Tuesday.

The crazy thing about this was that they were suspended 15 or 20 years ago because it was too expensive, right?

Can you imagine, in the wake of this, how silly that decision looks?

Now I'm curious to see too, if crossing the border is going to be getting a little more difficult in light of these events and the thoughts that - You know what we need, we need uniform immigration and and screening, Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

We have a free market, free trade.

We also ought to have an immigration pact that does not allow people to come into Canada or Mexico and then come through our nice open border up here and get in.

I don't know whether that happened in this case, but it could have.

You know, we'd like to maybe get a final thought from each of you before we wrap up our chat for this week.

It's certainly a different one than we probably anticipated when the week began.

And Theresa, I'm going to start with you.

Well, you know, I just have a couple of things to say.

There are some activities going on in Mount Washington Valley on Sunday night.

There is a candlelight vigil that will be held in the Walmart parking lot.

And for folks that are near that and want to go together to, as the coordinator, Lisa Webster put it, to pray, for prayer, for patriotism, and for healing, that would be a good place for them to go.

I just also want to remind everybody that teachers have played an integral role in helping our children get through this, and so to them, we owe some thanks.

Great, Roger?

I just offer this thought, this idea.

I would like to see the World Trade Center rebuilt.

There are many who don't.

I would like to see it rebuilt by international agencies and protected by NATO or an international force in perpetuity, so that people are not afraid to work there.

Because if we don't rebuild the WTC, they win, in my opinion, they the terrorists.

Kevin Landrigan, over to you.

Sure.

I hope, and it sure looks as if this whole sad event this week has made us all come together closer as a community and reach out to one another more.

And that's what's impressed me most, and I hope people continue to do.

If you thought of someone you haven't spoken with in a long time, even if they're not at all connected to New York and Washington, but needs to hear you’re safe and you're okay, reach out.

Guy MacMillin, you have the final word tonight.

Well, all I can say is that we have been dealt a blow by people who are not our friends and not part of our nation.

We will have to raise ourselves up ourselves, and I think we're capable of doing it.

We can't get demoralized or dispirited.

We've really got to get on with it.

And in addition to dealing with this issue, get back to life as we knew it.

Well, I want to thank you all for joining me this week in the studio.

Theresa Kennett, thanks so much.

Roger Wood, thanks to you.

And over in Concord, thanks to Guy MacMillin and Kevin Landrigan.

Good night.

Good night.

Well, it looks like showers that went through some areas of the state have ended, and the weekend should be okay, although there might be some frost overnight tonight.

We checked in for details with meteorologist Nicole Plette at the Mount Washington Observatory.

She also had a look at conditions on top of Mount Washington.

The summit had a high today of 34 degrees and is currently in the fog.

Visibility is zero and winds are out of the northwest at 26mph.

And how's it looking around the state for the weekend, Nicole?

Statewide tonight will be clear with patchy fog developing late and frost is likely.

Lows will be around 30 degrees with a light north wind.

Statewide tomorrow, we can expect partly cloudy skies with highs in the mid 60s.

Winds will be out of the north at 5 to 10mph.

Statewide for Sunday, we can expect partly sunny skies with highs around 70 degrees.

This is meteorologist Nicole Plette reporting from the Mount Washington Observatory.

For Outlook tonight, have a good weekend.

I'm Allison McNair.

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