Overview

• The Fox News correspondent shared the news during live 24th‑anniversary coverage from Lower Manhattan.
• He said he has two diagnoses through the World Trade Center Health Program, including a cancer confirmed this year and respiratory illness.
• Shawn noted that anyone who was south of Canal Street was likely exposed to the dust as he was while reporting at Ground Zero.
• CDC figures cited in the coverage list about 48,000 reported 9/11-related cancers, with nearly 10,000 new cases in the past year.
• More than 3,700 first responders have died from post‑9/11 illnesses, including roughly 2,300 with cancer, as the federal program treats survivors across multiple states.