Speaker 1: Day nine to eleven, two thousand Year of Our Lord,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan, and this
Speaker 1: is Part two today. I wanted to spend some time
Speaker 1: on the police looking for the killer of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 1: We did that in part one of today's podcast, and
Speaker 1: on part two. I always want to look back on
Speaker 1: nine to eleven. I know it's been twenty four years.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people that are not
Speaker 1: old enough to remember. I was thinking about Charlie Kirk
Speaker 1: in the fact that he was thirty one, and so
Speaker 1: if nine to eleven was twenty four years ago, he
Speaker 1: was seven years old. I doubt that he has had
Speaker 1: a recollection, as most seven seven year olds are not
Speaker 1: going to be paying attention to things like that. So
Speaker 1: if you're in Charlie was thirty one, so if you're
Speaker 1: thirty five, thirty four and younger, you probably do not
Speaker 1: remember what was going on on nine to eleven. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's a lady who's the president of the nine to
Speaker 1: eleven Museum that was talking a little bit about that earlier.
Speaker 2: Today, we find so many people alive today who visit
Speaker 2: us can't remember nine to eleven themselves. One hundred million
Speaker 2: Americans are too young to remember nine to eleven. For them,
Speaker 2: they need to encounter the history and hear from others
Speaker 2: in order to understand what happened. It's recognizing the lives
Speaker 2: and what was lost that day.
Speaker 1: Wow, she said one hundred million, that's like one third
Speaker 1: of our country. I guess that makes sense after twenty
Speaker 1: four years. I have to admit that I am a
Speaker 1: softy when it comes to everything about studying nine to
Speaker 1: eleven and reliving some of the things that happened that day.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that day. I think all of us
Speaker 1: that were old enough will remember exactly where we were,
Speaker 1: what we're doing when we heard about the attack on
Speaker 1: our country. That whole day, it just kept that you
Speaker 1: just didn't know what was going to happen next. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I go back, We've gone to Hawaii to
Speaker 1: and go out of our way to make sure and
Speaker 1: go over to the Pearl Harbor Museum and all of that.
Speaker 1: So I mean it's maybe I'm just a museum and
Speaker 1: history nut, but if you're in New York, the museum
Speaker 1: is a must see. And even if you don't have
Speaker 1: time with the museum, you can go down to where
Speaker 1: the the plaza is down there. I was looking at
Speaker 1: the plaza earlier today from an aerial shot, and I
Speaker 1: remember when they planted all the trees down there by
Speaker 1: the two fountains that mark the footprint of the two buildings,
Speaker 1: and they were just they were just little sticks, like
Speaker 1: new trees are. They are so full the complete canopy
Speaker 1: of shade over the plaza there by the memorial. So
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful place worth going to go see. One
Speaker 1: of the items of note today because of Charlie Kirk's
Speaker 1: assassination yesterday, the Vice President Jeddie Vance and his wife
Speaker 1: were supposed to be at the nine to eleven ceremony
Speaker 1: this morning, and it was kind of the usual group.
Speaker 1: In fact, you know, Rudy Julie Yanni is getting up
Speaker 1: in age and he, I don't know, he looked really
Speaker 1: old today. He was there, and of course Mike Bloomberg
Speaker 1: was there, and so was Zorin Mamdani. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: mixing it up with all the old school New York
Speaker 1: politicians down there.
Speaker 3: So it was.
Speaker 1: A very somber event again where they read the names
Speaker 1: of all the people that died and the number by
Speaker 1: the way of the people that died at in New
Speaker 1: York on nine to eleven on this day two thousand,
Speaker 1: nine hundred and seventy seven, just under three thousand. You know,
Speaker 1: how many people have died from nine to eleven illnesses
Speaker 1: three thousand, seven hundred and sixty seven. And that number
Speaker 1: is still growing. They have something like four eight thousand
Speaker 1: people that have been had cancers that the doctors certified
Speaker 1: were from their exposure to the pile down Lower Manhattan
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one. So it's more people.
Speaker 1: Many more people now have died from the illnesses of
Speaker 1: trying to go into that building and clean things up
Speaker 1: and originally try to look for somebody that was alive.
Speaker 1: Many more have died from that than they did on
Speaker 1: that particular day. General Jack Keene weighed in. He was
Speaker 1: active duty military at the time, and this is his
Speaker 1: observation of what we should remember on one to eleven.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I mean, it's like a wound,
Speaker 4: it doesn't heal. And it was such a tragedy for
Speaker 4: America on that day. You know, they the al Qaida
Speaker 4: strategically were trying to attack our symbols of our economic prosperity,
Speaker 4: World Trade Center, and military power at the Pentagon and
Speaker 4: the Capital, which the operation failed, the democracy itself. And
Speaker 4: we know from interrogating all of al Qaeda's top leaders
Speaker 4: that the intent was that bin Laden actually believed that
Speaker 4: succeeding at that operation and it was tactically successful, that
Speaker 4: it would force the United States to turn inward not outward,
Speaker 4: that we would be collapse into ourselves. He had people
Speaker 4: who were working for him that advised him to the
Speaker 4: contrary that no, you don't understand America. America would likely
Speaker 4: respond to come for us, and he overruled them. He
Speaker 4: was based on the fact that they took down our
Speaker 4: two embassies in Africa in ninety eight minimal response, took
Speaker 4: down the USS coal two thousand, no response. He thought,
Speaker 4: based on that he could have his way, and it
Speaker 4: led to what it led to the strategic value of
Speaker 4: al Qaeda as a global organization, not that they don't
Speaker 4: have elements that are dangerous, but they're a mere shadow
Speaker 4: of their former selves, and it woke us. We stopped
Speaker 4: thinking as terrorism as a law enforcement problem. We took
Speaker 4: it for what it really is, something Israeli has always believed.
Speaker 4: It's an act of war, and we responded in kind
Speaker 4: and dealt with them rather handily, as we should. And
Speaker 4: George Bush said it and others have said it, Since
Speaker 4: you kill Americans, we're going to be in pursuit of
Speaker 4: you for as long as it takes, and we have
Speaker 4: proven that to the American people that kind of determin issue.
Speaker 4: I think radical Islam is still out there and it's
Speaker 4: still a threat, but we learned the valuable lesson from
Speaker 4: nine to eleven that impacted our military and impacted US policies.
Speaker 4: That's transcendent presidents, and that is you cannot permit these
Speaker 4: radical Islamic movements that have aspirations to hurt us, to
Speaker 4: magically and tactically, to have a sanctuary. Afghanistan was a sanctuary.
Speaker 4: We knew they had there. We knew they had training
Speaker 4: camps there. They knew that's where they could prepare and
Speaker 4: plan and rehearse operations, and we stopped that from happening.
Speaker 4: We don't chase down radical Islam all over the world.
Speaker 4: We only chase those who have aspirations to hurt us.
Speaker 4: That was Iraq and Syria, it was in Yemen and
Speaker 4: also in Eastern Africa. They all have aspirations outside the
Speaker 4: region to hurt us. So we focused our policy on
Speaker 4: that and deny them the kind of sanctuary they need
Speaker 4: to prosper as an organization and be successful like al
Speaker 4: Qaeda was because we did not deny them that sanctuary,
Speaker 4: and we should have taken that sanctuary away after they
Speaker 4: dropped through those embassies in Africa and also damage the US.
Speaker 4: And we focus on only those who are going to
Speaker 4: hurt us. I mean, the movement is worldwide now. If
Speaker 4: people want intelligence from US or maybe some assistance in
Speaker 4: training in another movement that doesn't have aspirations that's trying
Speaker 4: to hurt their government and their people, we likely assist
Speaker 4: in some of that. But where our focuses and we're
Speaker 4: going to use military action is against those who are
Speaker 4: trying to hurt us, and as such we have kept
Speaker 4: that down. There has not been a foreign terrorist attack
Speaker 4: in this country. And that's because of the digilance that
Speaker 4: we have showed through many presidents. Rather than Democrats or Republicans,
Speaker 4: they've all agreed on that same policy. We got to
Speaker 4: stay focused on those who are trying to hurt us.
Speaker 4: We learned that lesson and it's been invaluable to us
Speaker 4: in protecting the American people. I'll tell you. One more
Speaker 4: appointment when our guys went to Afghanistan just weeks after
Speaker 4: nine to eleven and we took down the Taliban very quickly.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget talking to the special force of soldiers
Speaker 4: who did it, and also the pilots who flew them
Speaker 4: in dealing with the Northern Alliance. We had spent a
Speaker 4: decade helping other people in Panama and Desert Storm, liberating Kuwait, Basia, Herschelglovina,
Speaker 4: Samaya Haiti. You were porting on all of this. In Afghanistan,
Speaker 4: it was different. The soldiers just willingly confronted me and said, so,
Speaker 4: this is about the American people. This is about taking
Speaker 4: care of our people. They always had high morale conducting operations,
Speaker 4: but their determination and they resolved and their commitment was
Speaker 4: really something special.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jack Keene was four star general at the time and
Speaker 1: very much in charge of the military move that we made.
Speaker 1: I apologize for a little bit of the You could
Speaker 1: hear somebody speaking in the background. It was some of
Speaker 1: the speeches that were taking place at the Plaza nine
Speaker 1: to eleven Plaza. Well, Jack Keane was speaking. So again
Speaker 1: I go back and I go down a rabbit hole
Speaker 1: every year about everything regarding nine to eleven, and I
Speaker 1: thought I would play this for you. It is is
Speaker 1: it excerpts from the news of the day from the
Speaker 1: people that I worked with over at Fox. They were
Speaker 1: on the scene reporting as everybody was on that day.
Speaker 1: And if you want to transport yourself back to this
Speaker 1: day twenty four years ago, I'll play this for you.
Speaker 1: And if anything will do it, this will do it.
Speaker 5: This is ten ten weeks.
Speaker 6: You give us twenty two minutes, we'll give you the world.
Speaker 7: Good morning, sixty four degree is at eight o'clock.
Speaker 8: It's Tuesday, September eleventh.
Speaker 4: Time, Lee Harris.
Speaker 5: Here's what's happening. It's primary day and the polls.
Speaker 9: Are open in New York City.
Speaker 4: Voters are deciding among about two hundred and fifty candidates
Speaker 4: for mayor, city council and assorted other positions.
Speaker 9: American eleven five maintain a level three five zero, American
Speaker 9: eleven most American eleven. If you here Boston Center, right
Speaker 9: DN Is it that American eleven trying to call that
Speaker 9: into the air board? A fifteenth double the Pona going
Speaker 9: to Hampton climbing and on American eleven are you trying
Speaker 9: to call everything?
Speaker 10: Was litkay, it's nice to make it anymore. But then
Speaker 10: on the airplane that's say tied.
Speaker 11: Hey thirty eight y if you guys heard anything from
Speaker 11: American No, okay, we think there might be somebody in
Speaker 11: the cart berry now taking it over.
Speaker 5: We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York.
Speaker 10: So we need someone to scramble semmes sixteens or something
Speaker 10: up there.
Speaker 9: Help us out.
Speaker 10: This is this real world or exercise?
Speaker 9: No, this is not an exercise manifest.
Speaker 12: So I noticed on battle station yea does the tensrist
Speaker 12: with an active air that scrambled for word stanta four
Speaker 12: or five for six time one two or six authentic?
Speaker 12: Say just an X ray scramble immediately, Hey.
Speaker 6: Drake on American eleven seven fifty seven foxible hijack or
Speaker 6: do you believe.
Speaker 10: He's of the descent?
Speaker 13: Come hold the world, Frank. It was a music closure.
Speaker 10: And every available an everything.
Speaker 14: Now we have a very tragic alert for you right now.
Speaker 14: An incredible plane crash into the World Trade Center here
Speaker 14: at the lower tip of Manhattan.
Speaker 15: It's believe the seven thirty seven is crashed into this
Speaker 15: speculation at this point, but at least three floors taken
Speaker 15: out crashed into the side of the building joining us
Speaker 15: right now.
Speaker 5: One of the producers with Fox Report, Owen Morgan, on
Speaker 5: the scene. Owen, what do you know? What do you see?
Speaker 11: Where are you Ryan, I'm on the roof of my building,
Speaker 11: which is about five blocks to the south of the
Speaker 11: World Trades that are.
Speaker 6: I'm looking.
Speaker 11: I'm looking right now at the World Trades that are.
Speaker 11: There's a massive gaping hole on the second tower. It's
Speaker 11: about fifteen stories from the roof. It's it's just unbelievable
Speaker 11: to look at it.
Speaker 5: It looks like something out of a movie.
Speaker 16: There is a huge hole in the side of Tower
Speaker 16: number one.
Speaker 13: I just did not believe this is.
Speaker 17: Happening on fire.
Speaker 11: It looks like a plane was a stamming forster blooming
Speaker 11: so look like it was a Parnel All law unit.
Speaker 13: Every oh God, to this position, I'm all said.
Speaker 11: You can see u lurgency vehicles carrying to the south
Speaker 11: and the west side.
Speaker 5: Highway heading towards the team.
Speaker 10: Uh. There are tons of people in the streets.
Speaker 11: There, there are papers, things fluttering out. I can't see
Speaker 11: any evidence of what it.
Speaker 17: Was that could have crashed.
Speaker 11: Well I can see is that this is massive keeping
Speaker 11: in the hole with bunds of blacksworths flowing out, falling
Speaker 11: out of the dooring.
Speaker 10: We have several in did people on Watch Street here.
Speaker 18: Even more number one zero six, numerous people trapped one
Speaker 18: number one little thing of course, the vision one, the
Speaker 18: advised Italians two Advadi have jumpers.
Speaker 10: Plumb the roll twice center.
Speaker 13: Okay, oh my god.
Speaker 16: The plane obviously went in on one side and came
Speaker 16: out the other.
Speaker 5: There's debris all over then.
Speaker 16: Exactly, and as you can see, it affects perhaps ten
Speaker 16: floors of the World Trade Center building. It is over
Speaker 16: one hundred stories tall. This time of morning is when
Speaker 16: people pour into that building and it's usually next to full.
Speaker 16: We got to also remember this is near the financial
Speaker 16: district on the tip of Manhattan.
Speaker 5: There are so many people at.
Speaker 16: This hour who are in that neighborhood that got all
Speaker 16: the police and the fire department and the emergency technicians.
Speaker 5: Are headed to that area. This is horrible.
Speaker 15: All we can do is stare aghast at these pictures.
Speaker 15: At this point you are looking at the north building
Speaker 15: of the twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Speaker 15: These are coming to you live now. Debris raining down
Speaker 15: from one hundred and ten floors up. As you can see,
Speaker 15: this is a clear blue sky day in Manhattan. If
Speaker 15: this was an accident, it would be a needle in
Speaker 15: a haystack kind of accident. Our Wendell Goler is traveling
Speaker 15: with the President John the President is here promoting a
Speaker 15: reading initiative on the second day of a two day
Speaker 15: trip to Florida.
Speaker 10: Anyone's seventy five. Recircle your transferer squore code of one
Speaker 10: four to seven zero.
Speaker 6: You know it.
Speaker 10: One's seventy five New York? You know anyone's seventy five?
Speaker 10: Do you read New York. I can't get a hold
Speaker 10: of the United one seventy five at all right now,
Speaker 10: And I don't know where you went to.
Speaker 12: Can you see God about four thousand feet about five
Speaker 12: ye field right now? All looks like he's yeah, I
Speaker 12: damn you think that look?
Speaker 6: Is he the same for the building?
Speaker 19: Also?
Speaker 10: Is it ending really quick too?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well that's five.
Speaker 13: Hundred feet now.
Speaker 12: I just ad top eight hundred feet like one three?
Speaker 15: Yes, there was another one. We just saw. We just
Speaker 15: saw another one. We just saw another one apparently go
Speaker 15: another plane just flew into the second tower.
Speaker 10: I mean stakes.
Speaker 18: Advising a second plane didn't put the world fight, then okay,
Speaker 18: no planet and all day.
Speaker 5: This has to be deliberate.
Speaker 15: Folks, we just saw on live television as a second
Speaker 15: plane flew into the second tower of the World Trade Center. Now,
Speaker 15: given what has been going on around the world, some
Speaker 15: of the some of the key suspects come to mind.
Speaker 15: Osama bin Laden, Eric Sean is with us.
Speaker 8: First, I apologize for being out of breath because I
Speaker 8: was walking down Fifth Avenue, which is close to our studios,
Speaker 8: and I heard a jet flying low, unusually low, over
Speaker 8: Fifth Avenue and it made a right toward the towards
Speaker 8: the building.
Speaker 5: This is clearly deliberate.
Speaker 8: Chilling, chilling, horrible scene that we just saw. I think
Speaker 8: is attack not just in the World Trade Center, but
Speaker 8: at the very soul, in the very heart of our nation.
Speaker 20: John.
Speaker 5: It is a tragedy. It is abhorrent, It is disgusting.
Speaker 8: Obviously, it takes a lot of training and expertise to
Speaker 8: fly a complicated, sophisticated aircraft. These are not little sasna's
Speaker 8: and little pipers, So there is you have to wonder
Speaker 8: what was going on in the cockpit.
Speaker 15: Let's bring in David Lee Miller our correspondent, David Lee,
Speaker 15: what can you tell us?
Speaker 7: Good morning, John. I'm a few blocks in the World
Speaker 7: Trade Center right now. As you would expect, all the
Speaker 7: roadways are pretty much cut off. The only way to
Speaker 7: get near the buildings is on foot. Right now, the
Speaker 7: scene is absolutely a horrific one. You have people streaming
Speaker 7: out of the area. You've got people literally in tears
Speaker 7: and shot.
Speaker 15: Harvey Kushner is on the line with us. He's a
Speaker 15: frequent guest of ours and a terrorism expert. Harvey, is
Speaker 15: it too early to speculate it that.
Speaker 21: You look outside the Fox studios?
Speaker 9: Look how clear it is?
Speaker 21: I mean, how could you miss the trade towers? Not
Speaker 21: just one, but two planes. No matter how this turns out, Oh,
Speaker 21: this is going to be a day that's going to
Speaker 21: live in infamy, and you know it's going to cause
Speaker 21: changes in terms of security like this country hasn't ever
Speaker 21: seen before.
Speaker 15: Let me bring into the conversation, David Asman, my colleague, Yes, John, David,
Speaker 15: what can you tell Let's just want to give you
Speaker 15: some late breaking information. All of Manhattan has been sealed off.
Speaker 15: The Hudson River bridges and the tunnels have been sealed
Speaker 15: so Manhattan is in a lockdown. One can only guess
Speaker 15: that the US Armed Forces is now in a state
Speaker 15: of high alert. We are a city under siege right now,
Speaker 15: and the United States of America is is warding off
Speaker 15: any further terrorist threats on the city of Manhattan.
Speaker 13: The city is closed. We cannot leave the city.
Speaker 10: United ninety three.
Speaker 6: United send three Patterson have been now with then I
Speaker 6: just say, it looks like you descended there, and I said,
Speaker 6: you're not. In ninety three three thousand, get out of
Speaker 6: ninety three birfire in platable three five zero of good
Speaker 6: added ninety three equivalent yet added ninety three Cleveland Center.
Speaker 15: I dad, please, President Bush is about to speak. He's
Speaker 15: in Florida. That was what was supposed to be a
Speaker 15: joyous event at an elementary school. Let's listen in today,
Speaker 15: we've had a national tragedy.
Speaker 22: Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in
Speaker 22: an apparent terrorist attack on our country. I have spoken
Speaker 22: to the Vice President, to the Governor of New York,
Speaker 22: to the director of the FBI, and I've ordered that
Speaker 22: the full resources of the federal government go to help
Speaker 22: the victims and their families and to conduct a full
Speaker 22: scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks
Speaker 22: who committed this act terrorism against our nation will not stand.
Speaker 22: And now if you join me in a moment of silence,
Speaker 22: May God bless the victims their families in America.
Speaker 9: Thank you very much.
Speaker 15: You just got to wonder what reaction happens next. Let's
Speaker 15: find out from a former special agent of the FBI.
Speaker 15: This is Joseph Kantemsa, and the federal government simply shut
Speaker 15: down the airspace and keep all airplanes on the ground.
Speaker 17: Well, of course, any legitimate aircraft can be controlled totally
Speaker 17: through the FAA and the various control centers and towers. However,
Speaker 17: a hijacked aircraft that is under control of.
Speaker 15: I want to interrupt you for just a minute. The
Speaker 15: White House is being evacuated. That comes to us from
Speaker 15: one of our Fox producers in Washington. The White House
Speaker 15: is being evacuated the Pentagon as well.
Speaker 13: Everybody back, everybody best, let's go.
Speaker 15: Mm hmm.
Speaker 11: Any unit responding to check the area the Pentagon advice
Speaker 11: on Channel one coming from that.
Speaker 17: Area high and.
Speaker 15: I don't want to incite any undue panic, but there
Speaker 15: is a report, a report only of another aircraft that
Speaker 15: has crashed David Asman is joining us from Fox Central.
Speaker 5: David, what do you have John?
Speaker 23: We are hearing right now another explosion that has taken
Speaker 23: place at the Pentagon. We have the heart of the
Speaker 23: financial district of America being attacked. Now we understand that
Speaker 23: there is an explosion. There has been an explosion in
Speaker 23: the Pentagon, the heart of the military command center of
Speaker 23: the United States of America.
Speaker 15: John, it can't get much worse than this. Let's hope
Speaker 15: it has happened again. Another large airliner, perhaps hijacked, perhaps
Speaker 15: part of some widespread plan, apparently slamming into at least
Speaker 15: the area around the Pentagon.
Speaker 11: I got them like a.
Speaker 17: Quebecable god to a half hours demands man Quiet Church.
Speaker 6: United ninety three callings ca Nighted ninety three understand of
Speaker 6: a bomb on board to her head, We like to
Speaker 6: nine fifty sick. Did you understand that transmission? Hey for
Speaker 6: a loan the pizza that the bomb on board All
Speaker 6: of the easterns of the beach just turned to the east,
Speaker 6: also United ninety three to hear Cleveland Senate, were just
Speaker 6: lots of target on that aircraft.
Speaker 15: We now understand that the Federal Aviation Administration is shutting
Speaker 15: down all airport airline takeoffs nationwide. Planes that are in
Speaker 15: the air right now are going to be diverted to
Speaker 15: the closest airport as soon as possible, because in a
Speaker 15: situation like this, the authorities don't know where the next
Speaker 15: one might come from.
Speaker 19: Age game is original lab one of the tollways throw
Speaker 19: to the Majors losion and what appears to be a
Speaker 19: complete collapse around the Manatire area.
Speaker 7: There is an Asian collab to the tower to commute.
Speaker 13: I say it about here, it's available. Oh my god,
Speaker 13: it's been a huge explosion.
Speaker 10: Everyone's running in the other direction.
Speaker 12: Thing did it?
Speaker 24: We're on We're on Church Street. We're not sure what happened.
Speaker 24: There's been a huge explosion. Everyone's running for their lives literally,
Speaker 24: police media. I see a woman pushing a baby carriage.
Speaker 24: It's unclear what happened, if if the tower collapsed or what.
Speaker 24: But I think we better get out of this mess, dude,
Speaker 24: I think we better get out of this. Here comes
Speaker 24: the smoke.
Speaker 13: Jus.
Speaker 10: Well, you know it's on the way and it's a
Speaker 10: sign take stop. I have charge and fire men.
Speaker 5: We have medical emergencies, losful heart attack.
Speaker 13: Where we this week, which way to go? Just stay quick, stay.
Speaker 25: Quick's yea, everyone is like covered, thousands of people down
Speaker 25: right now.
Speaker 5: David Lee Miller is uh is still with us, David,
Speaker 5: What can you tell us?
Speaker 20: John?
Speaker 13: The scene is horrific.
Speaker 20: One of the two hours literally collapsed. There's uh debris falling.
Speaker 20: People within the entire perimeter. Began literally myself. That's why
Speaker 20: I'm out of rest to run for our lives.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, yeah, forgot stop.
Speaker 15: It appears that the building simply collapsed of its own weight.
Speaker 15: That there was so much damage from the heat of
Speaker 15: the fire, the steel will melt. That was the building
Speaker 15: that was hit by the second plane. That plane seemed
Speaker 15: to come in at a lower altitude. It hit the
Speaker 15: building lower down, and there was that tremendous fireball. So
Speaker 15: the damage to the building came at a point where
Speaker 15: there is much more weight on top of it, and
Speaker 15: those steel girders, strong as they are, had a lot
Speaker 15: of weight to support. And apparently I'm just I'm not
Speaker 15: a structural engineer, but I'm just guessing now that they
Speaker 15: gave way, the loss of life here is going to
Speaker 15: be enormous.
Speaker 8: May I'd help those who are there and the victims
Speaker 8: and their families and old the souls that are lost today.
Speaker 15: Rick Leventhal once again with our producer Carlos van Meek,
Speaker 15: is in Lower Manhattan. You cannot even see the sky
Speaker 15: there because of the soot, the ash, the crumbled concrete
Speaker 15: that is continuing to rain down.
Speaker 13: This is Church Street. It looks like a snowstorm hit.
Speaker 13: There's thick ash on the ground, lots of it. Pandemonium here.
Speaker 3: How you doing, sir? A little shoved up. I went
Speaker 3: through Tet Vietnam, and I never seen anything like this.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. How close were you to the building? When
Speaker 3: I was in front of the door of five World
Speaker 3: Trades and evacuating the people out of the building, and
Speaker 3: we got a lot out and then it just blew.
Speaker 3: You couldn't move because you couldn't see. It was ash
Speaker 3: and smoked. I couldn't see because my eyes and my
Speaker 3: mouth were full. Because as soon as we heard the explosion,
Speaker 3: we ran out of New York State Supreme Court, jumped
Speaker 3: on a jury bus.
Speaker 13: Speck it up.
Speaker 17: All right.
Speaker 13: Here we go again, Here we go again. I don't
Speaker 13: know what's going on, but this the second building is collapsing.
Speaker 13: I believe, oh.
Speaker 10: Freees a collapse?
Speaker 8: Do I only gon logic?
Speaker 10: The world stripe collapse only to us collapse.
Speaker 5: It is hard to describe, folks.
Speaker 15: The pictures show what has happened in Lower Manhattan, but
Speaker 15: we don't have a handle yet on the devastation.
Speaker 5: The World Trade Center has collapsed, and.
Speaker 15: The casualty figure we cannot even begin to guess at
Speaker 15: at this point, United.
Speaker 9: Ninety three, have you got information on that?
Speaker 21: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Here you down?
Speaker 5: He's down?
Speaker 15: Why did he land?
Speaker 12: Because the donation did not land?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 10: He down.
Speaker 15: Authorities at the Somerset County Airport confirm a large plane
Speaker 15: crash about eighty miles southeast of Pittsburgh. You've got to
Speaker 15: assume that it's related to all of these goings on.
Speaker 22: Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward,
Speaker 22: and freedom will be defended. Make no mistake, The United
Speaker 22: States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these
Speaker 22: cowardly acts.
Speaker 1: So that's to look back at nine to eleven, two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. In some way, it seems like it
Speaker 1: was just yesterday. In other ways, it seems like it
Speaker 1: was a lifetime ago. But ask they say, and it's
Speaker 1: so true. Remembering nine to eleven. Remembering the victims. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, this morning it was I know it's been
Speaker 1: twenty four years, but the families down at the World
Speaker 1: Trade Center program, if you will, we're holding up the
Speaker 1: photos of their loved ones like it was yesterday. So
Speaker 1: say a prayer for the families and the people that
Speaker 1: are sick from working down there, trying to find people,
Speaker 1: trying to clean up the disaster that happened twenty four
Speaker 1: years ago. Today and remember always it just never forget.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming by today. We'll be back again tomorrow.
Speaker 1: See you then,