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From the Newshole… The special six-year anniversary of 9/11 edition of Countdown…

Some of what we’re working on for tonight…

Tonight Keith broadcasts live from ground zero, in the footprints of where the World Trade Center stood until this date 6 years ago. We have some special guests lined up for the evening, including Tom Brokaw on the political decay that has taken place over the six years since the attacks. 

Keith will also speak to a guy you’ve never heard of before.  A guy named Frank Silecchia…one of the brave workers who spent months at ground zero, sifting through wreckage and debris…only to suffer dire consequences for his heroic effort. His story is written up in the Bergen Record…here’s an excerpt:

Frank Silecchia says he has good news on this sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack.

He’s not dead.

The bad news is that Silecchia, a construction worker who virtually traded his Little Ferry apartment to labor for months at Ground Zero, can barely walk a block without wheezing. Like hundreds of other Ground Zero workers, Silecchia breathed too much toxic dust and is now paying for it.

“I’m dying a slow death,” he said on Monday from his new home — a trailer parked on a patch of a friend’s yard not far from Coney Island in Brooklyn.

Also, from Stephen Hadley to Condi Rice to Osama Bin Laden and more, Keith will have a special “6 Years Later: Where Are They Now” update.

Plus, we’ll have all the news on the Petraeus/Crocker testimony before the senate, including more on the exchange between Crocker and Joe Biden recounted in the NY Times.  An excerpt can be found after the jump.

Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose Democratic chairman and ranking Republican were openly skeptical of progress in Iraq, that although many challenges lie ahead, the situation is “slowly improving.”

“In non-diplomatic speak, what does that mean?” asked Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the chairman of the panel, in a session that invoked memories of Vietnam and the 9/11 attacks.

“Neither of us believe we can see beyond next summer,” Mr. Crocker replied, alluding to Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, who was sitting next to him.

Pressed by Mr. Biden, who is running for president and who said he is doubtful about success in Iraq after talking to rank-and-file troops in several visits there, the ambassador said he thought it would be “well beyond the end of next summer” before a stable, self-sufficient Iraq would be a reality.

From Stephen Hadley to Condi Rice to Osama Bin Laden, Keith will have a special “6 Years Later: Where Are They Now” report as he comes to you live from ground zero tonight.  Also…Tom Brokaw joins KO to