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Bob Hennelly, general manager of WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York, broadcast live during the September 11 attacks in 2001 and has been covering developments ever since. He says officials rushed to reopen the city after the disaster, despite the health risks from toxic air and debris around ground zero. There was no Zoom back then," Hennelly says. People were ordered back to their desks in Lower Manhattan, which turned out to be a death sentence."