Channel One & the WB Host Teen Town Meeting
Teen based special on the Disaster Tuesday terrorist attacks and the aftermath set to air Sunday, September 30, 2001.

Channel One and the WB are teaming up to bring you a Channel One News Special set to air on Sunday, September 30, 2001 at 7pm ET/PT on WB affiliate stations nationwide. Join Lisa Ling, former Channel One News anchor and current co-host of ABC's The View, for an in-depth look at the U.S. conflict in the Middle East. Sit in on a teen town hall meeting that asks the tough questions that every teen is thinking: How will this affect your world? What should the U.S. do? What does this mean for the future of all free and democratic nations... of our way of life? Go within the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and find out where Muslim teens and young military personnel think we should go from here. Don't miss this important opportunity to get some straight-up facts and hear from your peers.

About the Reporters

Lisa Ling:
Lisa Ling has traveled to Afghanistan twice in recent years, both before and after the Taliban came into power. The stories to be featured on Sunday's show provide history and perspective about this little-known country and what life is like under the harsh Islamic fundamentalist rule.

Gotham Chopra:
Also reporting from the frontlines, Channel One anchor-reporter Gotham Chopra previously visited the Madrasas in western Pakistan where many of the suspected terrorists are trained as young people before joining terrorist groups like Al-Queda.

Janet Choi:
Showing how recent events are continuing to have repercussions on American soil, Channel One's Janet Choi visits a U.S. military base in San Diego where marines are training and waiting for orders to be shipped out to the Middle East. She will talk to these men and women about how they are feeling about the conflict and their thoughts on possibly going to war.

Derrick Shore:
One of Channel One's recent additions to its anchor-reporter team, Derrick Shore, travels to the University of Michigan, where the school's large population of Arab-American students is feeling the affects of the attacks uniquely in light of the recent wave of discrimination.