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Today is Wednesday April, 24th 2013, a day one city says goodbye, and another still struggles for closure. It¡¯s the verge¹ of psycho-religious to, you know, leave a 6 hundred yards of landfill with potential human remains² and just leave it there year after year after year.

A day some states tell the Fed to step aside on some big issues.

Other states are moving forward on all these issues that you see great lock in Washington. And a day we introduce you to the brains behind the beats for JZ.

I remember J having a meaning and being waiting for me to get there just start to meet. That¡¯s when I was like, OK, he values my opinion.

I¡¯m Talmy Andreas, and this is CNN Radio News Day.

The somber³ tone of bagpipes⁴ and police in uniforms saluted⁵ MIT officer Sean Collier at his memorial service in Boston today. More than 10,000 mourners line the streets of MIT¡¯s campus to pay their respect. And though the crowd was massive, there were moments when the only sounds that could be heard were the breeze blowing, the faint chirping⁷ of birds, and the city contemplating⁸ one of the worst weeks in its history.

Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing⁹ to pay your respect for MIT police officer Sean Collier badge number 179.

Police officers from across the country came to pay their respects to the officer who investigators¹⁰ say was gunned down in this squad¹¹ car by the suspected Boston bombers¹².

Vice⁶ President Joe Biden was also on hand and delivered comforting words to the Collier family.

And mom, dad and Joe, my heart goes out to you. I hope you find some solace¹³ in this moment of extreme grief, looking around this field and listening to what has been said and written, the response of the people of this country and around the world about your son.

It was a day for a family to say goodbye, a city to start moving on, and a country to face a newly evolving reality, one that began to take root on September 11th 2001, that day 12 and a half years ago marked a turning point that every American felt. But believe it or not, many of families who lost loved ones on 9/11 still don¡¯t have a closure that the Collier family was given today. That's because the remains of more than 1,0009/11 victims are still missing.

After all these years, some family members of those victims hold out hope the construction debris¹⁴ collected from the sitein recent years will eventually yield something as small as a bone fragment.Something - anything that can finally bring them closure. CNN¡¯s Steve CastingBowen brings just their story.

It¡¯s been a long time since anything here at the World Trade Center site visually reminded people of the attacks that took place on 911. Construction continues here around the clock. In fact, one World Trade Center, the new skyscraper¹⁵ is almost completed. But the relatives of more than 1,000 victims of the terrorist attacks who never had any remain sreturned to them are dealing¹⁶ with a haunting reminder¹⁷ of what happened to their loved ones. Five hundred and ninety cubic yards of construction debris pulled from this site as recently as 2011 is yielding smallbone fragments. Twelve and a half years after the attacks took place, some people are wondering if their phone is about to ring, and someone is going totell them, that a tiny piece of their husband or wife, father, mother, son or daughter has been positively¹⁸ identified.

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