CNN announced its coverage plans for the fifth anniversary of 9/11…

CNN will pay tribute to the nearly 3,000 people who died in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as it provides worldwide memorial coverage.

With anchors and correspondents positioned in New York City, Washington D.C. and around the world, CNN will provide comprehensive coverage on Monday, Sept. 11, five years after the attacks. During the coverage, CNN/U.S. will list all of the names of those who died during the crisis, as well as an on-going timeline of events from that day.

In addition, CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s on-demand broadband video service, will be offered free for the anniversary date and will replay CNN’s entire coverage from that day in time with how it happened five years ago. CNN.com also features its own September 11 memorial to serve as a record of those who died. Created five years ago, the memorial appears at http://us.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/index.html.

CNN/U.S.’s on-air coverage begins at 6 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 11, with American Morning. Soledad O’Brien will anchor from New York City, and Miles O’Brien will anchor from Washington, D.C. American Morning airs from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.

During prime-time, Paula Zahn will anchor Paula Zahn Now from Ground Zero in New York City. Zahn’s career with CNN began on Sept. 11, 2001, with her offering continuous on-scene coverage of the attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York. In the course of that reporting, she interviewed multiple rescue workers, survivors, dignitaries and officials, including Jordan’s King Abdullah, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, N.Y. Gov. George Pataki, former U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, to name a few. Paula Zahn Now airs from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Larry King will anchor Larry King Live from New York City for the day, with an extensive panel of guests that includes New York Gov. George Pataki and a dozen women left widowed by the attacks. King also interviews Michael Hingson, a blind man whose guide dog Roselle navigated him down 78 flights of stairs to safety, and Greg and Lauren Manning, who chronicled her recovery from severe burns she suffered from the attacks. Larry King Live airs from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Online, CNN Pipeline will replay CNN’s coverage from Sept. 11, 2001, in time with how it happened five years ago. Offered free on Monday, the coverage begins at 8:30 a.m. (ET), minutes before the first news reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center in New York City.

Additionally, CNN Pipeline will feature live reports from memorial services in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. For live reports, CNN Pipeline anchor Richard Lui will report from Ground Zero. CNN Pipeline will also provide video on demand of reports filed by CNN anchors and correspondents around the globe.

CNN.com’s in-depth special section, which appears at http://www.CNN.com/September11 and launches Wednesday, Sept. 6, includes articles about how life in America changed since the terrorist attacks, a CNNRadio podcast that provides a narrative montage of events starting from the attacks to the start of war in Afghanistan, image galleries from Sept. 11 and from the war in Afghanistan and an image gallery/timeline detailing reconstruction efforts in New York City.

In addition, CNN.com will solicit “I-Reports,” user-generated text, images, audio and video, for possible use on-air and inclusion on CNN Exchange, a comprehensive user-generated content destination on CNN.com that features user-submitted audio, video and text and also allows users to interact directly with the site’s news reports, commentaries and polls. Viewers can submit material through a “Send Your I-Report” link at CNN.com or by e-mail at ireport@cnn.com.

In the days preceding the anniversary, CNN Presents will re-air In the Footsteps of bin Laden, an oral history about Osama bin Laden based on 21 first-person accounts from the people who knew him best. The two-hour special will re-air on Saturday, Sept. 9, and Sunday, Sept. 10, at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. both days.

In the Footsteps of bin Laden is partially based upon the book, The Osama bin Laden I Know by Peter L. Bergen. Bergen, who is featured in the CNN Presents documentary, is a CNN terrorism analyst and a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. An audio podcast regarding Bergen’s experiences meeting bin Laden also launched today and is available for free download at www.cnn.com/podcasting and on iTunes. A companion online site to In the Footsteps of bin Laden appears at www.CNN.com/binladen.

For its affiliates, CNNRadio plans to provide everything they need for their coverage, including an archive of sound from its coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The network also will provide two full hours of special programming with the first hour focused on the attacks themselves and the second hour to the five years since that day. Affiliates will have live access to CNNRadio correspondents positioned in New York and Washington, D.C., on the anniversary date as well as to clean feeds of planned live events.

CNN Newsource correspondents Sumi Das and Keith Oppenheim will be available for affiliates from New York City, while Brianna Keilar will provide reports from the Pentagon.