News: New York remembers 9/11 victims
Two moments of silence have been held in New York at the exact time 14 years ago that the two planes struck the towers of the World Trade Center.
Families of victims of the 2001 and 1993 World Trade Center attacks read out their names at Ground Zero, where the towers fell.
The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people, including more than 2,700 in New York.
A flag was raised at a ceremony at the Pentagon in Virginia, where a third plane crashed, killing 184 people.
In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where a fourth plane crashed, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson is to speak.
At Ground Zero, Nereida Valle carried a photo of her daughter, Nereida DeJesus, who was 31 and working on the 98th floor of the south tower when she died.
"I feel her every day," she said.
The American flag flew at half-staff over the White House, where President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama held a moment of silence on the South Lawn.
Later the president will meet members of the armed forces at Fort Meade in Maryland Vice President Joe Biden will deliver remarks at a 9/11 memorial event in New York.
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