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JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press
JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) —
President Barack Obama praised the new Sept. 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism and helpfulness that followed the attacks.
"It's an honor to join in your memories, to recall and to reflect, but above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11 — love, compassion, sacrifice — and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation," he told an audience of victims' relatives, survivors, rescuers and recovery workers at the ground zero museum's dedication ceremony.
"Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us. Nothing can change who we are as Americans."
TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) —
A man found dead with his wife and two teenage children inside the million-dollar home they rented had bought fireworks days before the house was destroyed in an inferno, and a neighbor told a 911 dispatcher he heard firecrackers as the blaze burned.
Detectives have said they are not looking for suspects in the family's deaths but stopped short of calling it a murder-suicide. Fireworks were found in parts of the house, authorities said. However, it's not known exactly how the family died, who set the fire or what role the fireworks played in the blaze.
MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL, Associated Press
MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) —
People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast in the span of about 24 hours, the latest bout of severe weather that began with tornadoes in the Midwest.