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Next week, the Sept. 11 commission will release a report that portrays a government and country ill-prepared for a terrorist attack. Sources say the findings fault the CIA, FBI and Bush and Clinton administrations for ignoring signs of threat, failing to share information, miscalculation and inaction. Hear NPR's Pam Fessler.

One day before the Sept. 11 commission's report becomes public, the body's leaders brief members of Congress and key members of President Bush's staff. Commissioners gave Congress advance word of some of their recommendations, but not an advance look at the entire report. NPR's David Welna reports.

The majority of people in Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan say they do not believe Arabs carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A majority of British Muslims and 46 percent of French Muslims also share this view. And in Pakistan, the number is 41 percent.

The Sept. 11 Commission issues a follow-up report on how the White House and Congress have responded to the their recommendations. The panel issued advice last year on how to avoid another terrorist attack, but members say the results have been disappointing.

Ground will be broken at the Pentagon on Thursday for a memorial to the victims who died there on Sept. 11, 2001. There will be 184 benches lining the path American Airlines Flight 77 took before smashing into the Pentagon.

On the anniversary of 9/11, veteran Patrick Dowdell remembers his firefighter father who was killed on that day. An item of his father's recovered from the rubble was almost lost due to Sandy.

The first of three major Sept. 11 remembrance sites was dedicated Thursday outside of Washington. The Pentagon Memorial is a two-acre park built along the path of the American Airliner that crashed into the building, killing 184 people.

Two years ago, trucker John Holmgren turned his 18-wheeler into what he calls the Rolling Memorial. The truck is decorated with tributes to those who died in the terrorist attacks... and it attracts a crowd wherever Holmgren goes.

Though many of the immigrants entering the U.S. are from Mexico, others come from Central America, China, the Philippines and India. And while many do enter the country illegally, as many as 40 percent have simply overstayed their visas.

Here is this week's coronavirus news for Immokalee residents.