CBS TO MARK 25 YEARS SINCE THE 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS WITH EXTENSIVE LIVE COVERAGE AND TWO PRIMETIME SPECIALS

Tony Dokoupil to Anchor the "CBS Evening News" from Ground Zero in New York City

Twenty-five years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, crashed a plane into a field in Shanksville, Pa., and flew another into the Pentagon, CBS will mark 9/11 with extensive live coverage and two primetime specials on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+* on Friday, Sept. 11.

· CBS News coverage will kick off on CBS MORNINGS (7:00 AM), with multiple stories covering the attacks and what's happened since. Co-hosts Gayle King and Nate Burleson will be joined by CBS EVENING NEWS anchor Tony Dokoupil at Ground Zero in New York and 60 MINUTES correspondent Norah O'Donnell reporting from the Pentagon.

· At 8:30 AM, ET, Dokoupil and O'Donnell will anchor a 90-minute CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT covering the 9/11 memorials happening in New York, Shanksville and the Pentagon. CBS News correspondents will report from New York City, the Pentagon and the site of the crash of Flight 93 near Shanksville.

· At 6:30 PM, Dokoupil will anchor the CBS EVENING NEWS live from Ground Zero.

· At 8:00 PM, Dokoupil will anchor a CBS News special from Ground Zero, 9/11: WE REMEMBER, featuring three stories of survival, loss and hope. 60 MINUTES correspondent Lesley Stahl will revisit the first 60 MINUTES 9/11 story, reported by her late colleague Ed Bradley, looking at Summit, N.J., which lost nine residents in the attacks. Stahl reports on a survival story and on how the town is coping with its history. Dokoupil talks with a family that escaped the World Trade Center with their toddler but lost their family patriarch, an FDNY hero. And O'Donnell interviews the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, who shares his experience as a young fighter pilot tasked with potentially shooting down commercial planes on 9/11.

· At 9:00 PM, CBS will present DAUGHTERS OF 9/11. Twenty-five years after the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, Elizabeth Miller, Jessica Trant and FBI special agent Frank Pellegrino confront whether the man accused of masterminding the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), will ever face justice.

· CBSNews.com, Paramount+ and CBS News' YouTube channel will also showcase a selection of 60 MINUTES' best reporting on the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath over the past 25 years.

· CBS New York will have extensive multiplatform coverage, including more than two dozen stories on the attacks and recovery, among them, an explainer from its state-of-the-art Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality-driven studio that showcases the rebuilding of the World Trade Center campus. Kristine Johnson and Jessica Moore will anchor a one-hour special from the 9/11 Memorial on Thursday, Sept. 10. The station will feature anchored coverage of the memorial on Friday, Sept. 11.

· CBS News 24/7 will provide comprehensive coverage all day, beginning at 7:00 AM, ET. CBS News 24/7 will stream the 90-minute special report at 8:30 AM, ET, followed by continuing live coverage from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, ET. Expanding on CBS News' original reporting, CBS News 24/7 will feature interviews with newsmakers, analysts and those impacted by the attacks, to assess the U.S. standing 25 years later and what is at stake globally. CBS News 24/7 will also present 9:11: WE REMEMBER, a CBS News special, the weekend of Sept. 12.

*Paramount+ Premium plan subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service, as well as on demand. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will not have the option to stream live but will have access to on-demand the day after the special airs.