Families plead to mark 9/11 at Ground Zero

A group of family members of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, outraged by city plans to move the commemoration ceremony, filed a request today asking to hold the annual event at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.

The city has said that ground zero, now undergoing reconstruction, is not safe for the large annual gathering and it plans to move the recitation of the names of victims to a nearby plaza. The site has been used in past ceremonies.