9/11

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke with the statewide president of the United Faculty of Florida about the Board of Governors' decision to ban undocumented students from enrollment at the state’s public universities. Plus, we remember the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and a look at how PACs are spending money in Florida’s midterm elections.

Pinellas Park High’s School Resource Officer was at Ground Zero in 2001.

Journalists, an aviation executive, a robotics rescue expert, a college professor — and several deeply affected callers — share their experiences from the day and describe what has changed for them since.

Events will take place across the greater Tampa Bay region this week marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.

Teaching a new generation and volunteering to help others is a way of life for some retired New York City firefighters who lost colleagues, friends and relatives 25 years ago in the World Trade Center attack.

Sarasota is one of those cities that will always be connected to the events of 9/11 because the president was in town when word of the attacks came.

Classes at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism began just a week before Al Qaeda hijacked airplanes and crashed them into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. WUSF's Kerry Sheridan was among the students there learning how to be a reporter.

It's the second year that Florida public schools were required to provide at least 45 minutes of instruction on the events of 9/11.

Hundreds of volunteers gathered at the Yuengling Center at the USF Tampa campus to package meals that will be distributed to Tampa Bay area residents experiencing food insecurity.

Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined New York politicians and mourners at a 9/11 memorial ceremony at ground zero.

Under the new law, middle and high school students must learn about 9/11 for at least 45 minutes in their social studies class.

Sept. 11 memorial events are happening across the greater Tampa Bay region in honor of the 22nd anniversary of the terror attacks that killed almost 3,000 Americans.