In New York, the 9/11 commission will begin two days of hearings today examining why the city of New York was not better prepared for the Sept. 11 attacks especially in coordinating the rescue effort between the police and fire departments. The panel’s chair Thomas Kean said “We’ll be asking questions that haven’t been asked before, at least not publicly. I think the shock was so great to all of us who lived in the region, and we were so stunned for such a long time, that it wasn’t the time for those questions. Now is the time.’’