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Back Stories: Learning Osama Bin Laden Had Been Killed

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- It was the news the nation had waited almost 10 years to hear.

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On May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama announced Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALS. That night, WCBS reporter Peter Haskell went down to ground zero.

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