Following the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death, Celeste Headlee is reporting live from Ground Zero this morning, where family of 9/11 victims and others have gathered to celebrate. Jared Ring, a New York City paramedic supervisor who left Eastern Long Island at 1:30 am to come to Ground Zero, speaks with us. Also, Miranda Nichols, a student from St. Johns University. In his speech last night, President Barack Obama said that the U.S. government received intelligence as long ago as last August about the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich gives us the nuts and bolts of the operation and how it all went down.
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