NYC medical examiner still identifying 9/11 victims' remains: "If there's DNA, we're going to find it"

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 17, 2024. The original video can be viewed here .

This month, against all odds and expectations, the remains of three victims of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center were identified for the first time. After nearly a quarter century, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner announced that it had put names to fragmentary remains using the latest advances in DNA technology. As we first reported last year, not many are aware, but the medical examiner made a promise to identify the lost souls of 9/11. And that work has never stopped because more than 1,000 families still wait for word. You're about to meet two for whom the promise was kept. For Ellen Niven, the moment came in December 2023. She was decorating