Inside Ground Zero's Underground: The Perilous Cleanup Months After 9/11

Months after the towers fell, the work of reckoning continued in the darkness beneath lower Manhattan, where few cameras followed and fewer words were spoken. The collapse of the Twin Towers was not merely a surface catastrophe — it drove steel, concrete, and ruin through multiple underground levels, demanding a recovery effort as deep and relentless as the destruction itself. 60 Minutes bore witness to this invisible labor, where workers moved through contaminated, unstable basements, clearing debris piece by piece, carrying the full weight of the disaster in spaces the world above could not