Hundreds of emergency workers who responded to the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States have been protesting in the capital, Washington, DC.<br /><br />They say they are angry that it has taken eight years for congress to discuss healthcare now needed for those who have fallen ill as a result of working in the skyscrapers' ruins.<br /><br />Many of those first responders are slowly dying from illnesses contracted at Ground Zero.<br /><br />John Terrett reports from Washington, DC.
