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0:00Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home or on the road, you already have what you need. It's like having an urgent care and pharmacy at home. Say $45 with code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue urgent care kit dot com slash blue. From CBC News, the world this hour on like miles today marks a quarter century since the terror attacks of 9 11 thousands died after hijackers crashed multiple planes in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Chris Reyes has more on the somber ceremony at ground zero and the list of victims that continues to grow. As it has for 25 years now, bells will mark by the minute, the moments that change the world forever.

1:01Six moments of silence marking the exact times when hijack planes struck the world trade center towers, the Pentagon and crashed near Shang'sville, Pennsylvania. And then when each tower collapsed, this year a seventh moment of silence will honor those who died from illnesses and injuries linked to the aftermath, including the toxic air from ground zero. Among those most affected hundreds of firefighters who kept returning to the pile, a group that FDNY union president, Lieutenant James Brozi still fights for what we learned was the air was as toxic as we said it was. What we learned is that the city knew it. At ground zero firefighters and other first responders will be among the family members and friends of those who died as each victim's name is read aloud. Chris Reyes, CBC News, New York. In Newfoundland today, people are recalling the kindness shown to the thousands of passengers stranded there 25 years ago. Many Americans have returned to remember.

2:02As Peter Cowan tells us, they're not letting the current tension between the two countries affect their friendship. We are heartbroken. Sue Ricardelli and her wife, Maureen Murray, are from New Jersey. They don't like seeing how their government is treating Canada. 25 years ago, they were among the almost 7,000 people who were stranded in Gander on 9-11 when their planes were forced to land. Strangers clothed and fed them, took them into their homes, but soon became friends. And that's what we need to get back to. There has been some backlash. Gander Mayor Percy Farwell says not everyone is happy American ambassador Pete Hoxtra will be at today's commemoration. More than 200,000 have signed a petition to kick the ambassador out of the country. Farwell says the invitation was protocol, not politics. The people he represents are our friends and neighbors that we were calling to action to support. However, people in Gander feel about the U.S. administration, they say plane loads of Americans today would get the same food, shelter and friendship. They offered 25 years ago. Peter Cowan, CBC News, Gander, Newfoundland.

3:03A former firefighter now living part time on P.E.I. is reflecting on where he was 25 years ago today. Sheamus Conley was a member of Ladder Company 105 stationed in Brooklyn. He was on a golf trip with some colleagues the morning the planes crashed into the World Trade Towers. The crew rushed back to find every other member of their company had been crushed when the South Tower came down. It looked like the end of the world. Like it was such that the area was so big. You can't imagine how big the era was. It was just piles of rubble and smoke and steel. And it was crazy. And just hearing all the fire department, like when you were in the air, there's a lawn on your mask and it's such beeping. All you could hear was beeping all the fire, all the masks. Conley says he and others spent months digging in the rubble trying to recover remains. And he's still in touch with the wives and children of those lost that day. Because being there for those families helped him keep going. A Hong Kong court sentenced two pro-democracy activists to seven years in prison.

4:05Lee Chok-Yan and Shao Hang-Tong were convicted of incitement to subversion for organizing annual candlelit vigils to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Elizabeth Tang is Lee's wife. He looks calm. Yeah. Of course, he has prepared for the worst. So I believe he is fine. But it is not okay. The third activist who pleaded guilty earlier this year received a sentence to five years in two months. The annual Tiananmen vigil was once a staple of Hong Kong's political freedom. But authorities spanned the events in 2020 under a sweeping national security law. That is the world this hour for news anytime. Visit cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. I'm Mike Miles.