On 9/11, ABC News' Jon Karl said he raced out the door to drive to his beat, the U.S. Capitol. As he headed past the Pentagon, he said he could see smoke pouring out and police cars “going everywhere.”

When he arrived at the Capitol, it was under evacuation.

But he still “ended up spending that entire day in and around the Capitol complex,” he said, and he ended the day with a powerful interview with Hillary Clinton, then a new senator from New York.

ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz was reporting from the State Department and her husband, also a journalist, was at the Pentagon on 9/11.

When the Pentagon was attacked, Raddatz said she and her cameraman walked to Memorial Bridge where they saw the flames shooting out of the building.

“By then I knew which side of the Pentagon had been hit, I knew my husband was on the other side. I just felt like I knew he was OK,” she said. “But to watch from Memorial Bridge, where we were all day, and imagine that that fourth plane was going to hit the Capitol, the White House. I could hear the panic in our people from the White House. ... Fighter jets going down the Potomac River and just streams of men and women in uniform crossing into Washington, D.C... to get ready for whatever they needed to get ready for.”

“Good Morning America” co-anchor George Stephanopoulos shared a video from the moment he and other journalists were evacuated while covering the collapse of the World Trade Center.

Former President George W. Bush posted his artwork of several famous images from 9/11 on his Instagram page Friday.

The paintings include a recreation of the image when Bush was told about the attacks during a visit to a school, and the unfurling of the U.S. flag outside the Pentagon on Sept. 12, 2001.

"Twenty-five years ago, the actions of an enemy revealed the spirit of the American people. These and other paintings are my reflections of this solemn anniversary and will be on display all month at [The George W. Bush Presidential Center]," he said in his post.

Bush reflected on the anniversary during a conversation with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday.

"9/11 was a clarifying moment for me and you and others in our administration because they realized that we were vulnerable to attack based upon what we believe," he said.

At the reading of the names at the New York City ceremony, the sister of Marsh & McLennan employee Sal Tieri Jr. said her brother left behind two sons who were ages 7 and 5 in 2001.

“I searched for 10 days in this city, looking in every hospital imaginable, looking for my brother who was my best friend and rock,” she said.

She then pleaded with politicians to recognize 9/11 as a day of remembrance.

“Please, dignitaries who are listening and are in attendance today: We, the family members and U.S. citizens who voted you into office, in our strongest possible voice -- we are demanding, pleading, insisting that the federal and local government agencies, with their respective lawmakers, designate, orchestrate and finally implement … mark this day, Sept. 11, as a day of atonement, recognition, remembrance and reflection for all the souls lost.”

Many in the crowd applauded, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.