CBS Sept. 11, 2001 9:54 am - 10:36 am 42min.
Andrea:…nothing coming in, nothing leaving, all traffic, air traffic nationwide has been shut down by the Federal, Federal Aviation Administration, in reaction to what ah, definitely appears to be a terrorist attack on the United States, first there at the ah, World Trade Center in New York, now, as you’ve heard from Dave Statter, where the west side of the Pentagon, an area near the heliport, um, was hit by a plane.
Mike: (portentously) Again the White House has been evacuated after the Secret Service received credible threat, a credible threat of a terrorist act against the Presidential mansion and residence, again the AP is reporting the Secret Service has received a credible threat, a terrorist threat, against the presidential mansion and residence.
Andrea: We also have learned that Blair Mansion, ah which is the residence of heads of state who come in as guests of the United States, has also been evacuated, again specifically BWI but this covers every airport in the United States, they have been shut down, all air traffic nationwide, of course in our area that mean BWI, National, Dulles, all closed down, nothing coming in nothing going out this is a horrible sight, and a scary very frightening day.
Mike: (01:30) Again, what you are looking at now is the Pentagon. Some witnesses say it appeared to be an American Airlines, 757…
Andrea: American Airlines 757…
Mike:…which plowed into the helipad part of the Pentagon, the 395 side of the Pentagon (pause, sigh) the ah…hold on just one minute…
Andrea: OK we just want to update you in case you have not heard or are just turning on and don’t know what you’re looking at, this is not a made-for-TV movie, this is the real thing, on the left black billowing smoke from the Pentagon, on the right billowing smoke from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York 02:01 shortly after 8:44 this morning in New York, a small, some say a twin engine plane, crashed into the ah World Trade Center tower on the right of your screen, about 18 minutes later an airliner, some say hi-jacked, a 757, that you’re looking at right now, this is a tape of that earlier this morning, ah, that building and that plane going deliberately, heading straight into the tower on the left of your screen.
Mike: President Bush ordered, orders a full-scale investigation, quoting the President, “Hunt down the folks who committed this act.”
Andrea: Shortly after the President made that statement, we were getting word that there had been a plane heading towards the Pentagon, going down, and that’s what you see on the left-hand side of your screen the picture in the box on the left side. Dave Statter said you could see it, the flames were beginning to diminish but what observers noted, and those were in the airline industry, so we kind of take what they’re saying for, ah, at the word, 757 American Airlines, they could see the plane, they could see the markings, crashed into the west side of the Pentagon, near the heliport.
Mike: This is (03:19) a live picture we’re just getting here. This is the firefighters, battling the blaze, at the Pentagon (northbound traffic moving rapidly) Look at that!
Andrea: So you can see the damage.
Mike: This is just going to be raw tape that Dave Statter is just feeding into us.
Andrea: Feeding into us.
Mike: You can see….this terrorist….apparent terrorist attack, a jet slammed into the Pentagon about 15 minutes ago, the helipad side on 395. We have no word yet on casualties. The Pentagon has been evacuated as has the White House, the U.S. Capital Building and Blair Mansion.
Andrea: Before this happened at the Pentagon, President Bush went on the air to talk about the response, the U.S. response in light of the World Trade Center, but again, this is what happened right after he said we are going to hunt down the folks responsible for the apparent terrorist attack in New York City and shortly after that, this is what happened at the Pentagon in Arlington, We are just getting across the wires on Los Angeles, ah police departments there are on tactical alert but there have been no threats in Los Angeles that police are aware of, but as you can imagine major American cities are on heightened alert and Los Angeles is saying we are on citywide tactical alert and have mobilized their anti-terrorist division, Let’s go back to Dave Statter with more from the site of the Pentagon, Dave
(4:43) Dave: Can you hear me now?
(4:44) Andrea: we can.
(4:45) Dave: OK We’re here with Michael Kelly who is a witness to this attack at the Pentagon. I’m going to let him describe what he saw here, I guess about 20 minutes ago …right, right…Michael Kelly? First of all, let me first describe the scene: this is the west side of the Pentagon, ah, the heliport side, off of Washington Blvd. Were you driving, or what?
Kelly: Yes I was in the, traffic on the, the 14th St bridge, right at the Pentagon, tied up going into town and I heard this plane come over my head it was really slow.
Dave: What size plane?
Kelly: It sounded like a ……small plane, but it was very, very low, and the next thing I know there was this tremendous explosion as it’s hit the Pentagon, I looked right, I looked over, and the smoke started coming up, and pieces of the plane were, and pieces of the Pentagon were falling on the 14th Street…onto the Shirley highway…very scary…so I decided not to go across the 14th Street bridge I came around and I wound up here stopped in the traffic right at the Pentagon, I was trying to get back over to the Memorial bridge but um no luck.
Dave: Had you known about the World Trade Center?
Kelly: Oh ya, I was listening to WTOP radio the whole time, and then this thing came right over my head and ah….it plowed…it was clearly a similar situation to what happened in New York.
Dave: There are injured people here we can’t tell you how many, we have certainly seen Arlington County Fire and Rescue crews the paramedics working on somebody in front of us, um, we have not heard the number of people injured. This attack as you can see did not seem to really penetrate the building a great distance even though there is a great amount of fire on this side of the Pentagon, which I believe is, you can compared it to the World Trade Center, I think the Pentagon has always been called the largest office building in the world, so there is a comparison there besides its obvious strategic implications. ah Arlington Fire has called in extra equipment. They’ve called in the airport foam unit, which…
Andrea: (06:29) Dave, Dave
Dave: Yes go ahead go ahead
Andrea: …Dave, we just want to break in and go back to New York where Dan Rather is anchoring the coverage , where one of the towers 06:38 (10:00am) at the World Trade Center has collapsed, let’s go back to CBS
Rather: there are no confirmed fatalities. Now in Washington, the Pentagon has had a fire and explosions, much speculation about what would have caused the fires and explosions at the Pentagon in Washington, but very few facts. David Martin, our Pentagon correspondent says he has seen, I believe he said, five injured people at the Pentagon, ah one eyewitness , and only one so far says he thinks, and I put that in quotation marks, he thinks a plane crashed into the Pentagon, but there have been rumors all day and we’re trying to separate the rumors from the facts pause Now you’re looking at a live picture of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, ah, in flames ah, with much smoke, ah, in the last few minutes there have been two reports but not yet officially, officially, confirmed that a portion of at least one of the towers has collapsed, but I caution that that is an unconfirmed report although it comes from two sources and it is unclear whether that collapse is the interior of the building or some portion of the exterior of the building. I want to emphasis again, not to be redundant, but this is a day in which rumors are going to spread like mildew in damp basements and ah there’ll be reports, some of them will be officially confirmed, some not, that’s the environment in which we’re dealing now President Bush was in Florida this morning he called this an apparent act of terrorism and rushed back to Washington, the President is in the air going back to Washington at the moment. Now in Washington, ah, reports spread that a plane also crashed into the Pentagon, see, ah, David Martin says there are at least several injuries, “several” is the word he used the FAA has banned all aircraft take-offs nationwide, here in New York the city is on a full terrorist alert, bridges and tunnels are closed, you’ll recall the World Trade center was the target of a terrorist bombing in 1993. Now, again, it is important to point out that the television, what we can show you is at the end of a television camera, the whole city is not in smoke and flames, not by a long shot, ah, the city is on a terrorist alert, ah, entry into the city has been closed off, tunnels and bridges have been closed off as a precautionary measure, but, you know, in many, many areas of New York City life goes on this morning, the same is true in Washington D.C. just keep in mind when you see this picture constantly, it’s of one section of New York City and we go to Washington for a picture of the Pentagon, the same thing, ah, these pictures…(09:25) (total: 2minutes 47seconds in New York)
Mike: All right, this is Mike Buchanan along with Andrea Roan, and we’re here in Washington. We’re going to keep you updated on this situation, we’ve also got an explo….whaja got Chris
Andrea: Chris…
Chris:.. The Beltway at 395 near the Pentagon has been shut down.
Andrea: The Beltway near the Pentagon at b395 has been shut down obviously because of what you’re seeing right here on your screen, a plane…hitting the west side of the building, a gapping hole there, and near the heliport, this, after, two planes, struck the twin towers of the World Trade center, reports of a portion of the second tower that was hit at the World Trade center appears to have collapsed. What you are looking at is right here at the Pentagon. Let’s recap, Mike…
Mike: Alright…what are we going do?..(10:14) hold on…these
Andrea:...these are raw footage coming back, that’s our reporter there on the scene who will be giving us stories in just a few minutes, but people who have been evacuated from the Pentagon building after that building, the west side of that building was struck by a plane, not long after the twin attacks in New York City on the World Trade Center. An Associated Press reporter says he saw the tail end of a large airliner plunge into the Pentagon building. What we know, New York City is on a terrorist alert, and here in Washington, the White House, White House, all of the White House, the old Executive office building, Blair Mansion, other major government institutions including Treasury and the State department have also been evacuated…. (anticipatory pause) amid…ah, credible terrorist threats.
Dave: (10:03) 10:04am OK Tell them to come to me please.
Mike: Alright, Dave, go ahead, take it.
Dave: (11:08) 10:05am (first shot of Dave filmed from center divider. Lasts 2 seconds.) Thank you. All right, we’ve got some eyewitnesses, Mike, (pointing him away) why don’t you stay on and show the pictures over here and I’ll talk to the eyewitnesses. You can look at what is going on, the fire fighting efforts, we have a couple of people who were in the Pentagon at the time. Tell me what happened.
Unnamed Men: We were sitting at our desks having a meeting and there was a large shudder, or there was a shudder of the building, sound of a large thud, right, you could hear the impact, a large concussion, like an explosion, and the air would be, like a concussion, we didn’t know there was an explosion we just looked at each other and knew that something catastrophic had happened but we had no idea what it was. People began to evacuating immediately and, ah, and it wasn’t until we were outside that we realized what had happened.
Dave: How far away from you were you when it happened?
Unnamed Men: Well, if you divide the building into fifths, five pie slice, which is the way the Pentagon renovation is scheduled, this is in the first wedge, the new wedge which was just finished and we were in the next one over.
(12:05) 10:06am Dave: (pause) Did you see any injured other than the ones that were out here that we saw?
UN Men: I didn’t see any injuries.
Dave: Did you see what size plane it was when you got outside?
UN Men: No. Just by walking up here now ah, along the road there are pieces of aircraft, spread all the way up the road, um, at least a third of a mile from the impact site.
Dave: What goes on, can you tell us what would have to be in those offices, generally speaking, I know you can’t go into great detai.l
Unnamed pair: We’re looking at the E-ring of the Pentagon, and that’s where ah, ah, the more senior officials are, that area, I believe, is where the army deputy chief of staff of operations and ah, the army deputy chief of staff for personnel’s offices are.
(12:41) 10:06am (Firetruck #345 passes in front.)
Dave: We are looking at here I believe I don’t have a monitor but I believe but one of the injured being taken away by Arlington Fire and rescue. They’ve been on the scene since a few minutes after this happened, and I mentioned before, but the firefighters and police officers on the scene have all been warned, keep a close look at the skies, watch for a possible second attack as what happened in New York. Mike and Andrea.
Mike: (13:04) 10:07am Alright, we’re going to go to Rick Armstrong, he’s one of our photojournalists he’s down on the Mall, Rick?
Rick: Hi Buck.
Mike: What ya got?
Rick: Umm, not a whole lot other than the fact this city is shut down, I’m at the base of the Washington Monument where the Park Police officer have told me they’ve shut down all the monuments, they’re evacuating all the buildings including the White House. Ah, I can look across the river at the Pentagon and its incredible smoke plume. Emergency vehicles going in every direction, looks like ah, secret service vehicles, fire vehicles, police vehicles, ah 25 years here, I’ve never seen anything like this.
Andrea: What’s the reaction of people there, mostly tourists I’m sure and some working in the area?
Rick: To be honest with you I’ve talked to a lot, a lot of tourists and they’re all…what do you expect, they’re all in shock, it’s, it’s unbelievable, it’s hideous.
Mike: I can imagine what it’s like down there. We’re sitting here, and every plane we keep an eye on. I imagine everybody throughout the city, you see a plane…
Andrea: You look up at the sky!
Rick: I’ve had no luck making communication except when I’m at a pay phone, the cell phones are down (right, right) the are down, and I don’t know why.
Andrea: I think we know why.
Rick: I decided to come to this location, I’m with Frank Herzog we were on a sports story, we decided to come to this location because this is a very likely spot for an act of terrorism, sad as it is to say that (ya) so we’re just kinda keeping our eyes and ears open here.
Mike: Alright let’s go to Lauren Ashburn now, USAToday she’s a… Lauren…
Lauren: Frank? Oh Buck…
Andrea: No this is Andrea and Buck.
Lauren: Hi Andrea, Hi Buck. I am on the 22nd floor of the USAToday tower, one building overlooking this immense plume of smoke, the e-ring of the Pentagon; you can’t even see it from this distance. There is a helicopter hovering over the site taking pictures and taking a look at what is happening inside I’m looking down on traffic which is completely grid locked on Route 50, heading out of the city, heading into the city on route 395, into the city traffic is moving along quite quickly and we have heard several fire trucks and EMS trucks pass us by here I’m looking right at the ground right now, at the ramp that would take you to route 110, they have blocked that off, there is a police officer standing right in the middle of the street, um right now.
Mike: (15:35) 10:09am Thank you very much I just…
Andrea: (15:38) Let’s go back to Dave who is at the Pentagon site.
Dave: 10:09am I just heard another explosion of some sort. It could be a secondary explosion of some sort something happened but we just heard a loud pop just as you were coming to me it seemed to be on the east of here I can’t tell what it is, it might be something that is secondary to this because we’ve had a number of small explosions after the fire occurred.
Andrea: Dave we understood there was construction in the area that was struck by the plane and is on fire, is the area that was under construction so maybe there weren’t a lot of people in that area.
Dave: There is, ya, towards the south end of this area there are construction trailers I can say that, but I can’t tell you for sure if this area would be sparsely populated, we’re actually 16:23 being asked to move back by Virginia State Police a little bit, we’re going to try and keep this location as much as possible. The reason they asked us to move back is because of course they are concerned about any secondary explosions. I can tell you from my experience as a fire-fighter there still is a great deal of fire inside the Pentagon, by the smoke that is coming out of there, I’m sure that firefighters are inside there making sure first that they can get everybody out that they can and then try and attack the fire inside they also have had fire on the outside that probably involved some sort of airplane fuel, that’s why it burned so, so…it’s still burning in fact, on the south end of the outside near those construction trailers. Again, I can’t tell you much more than a loud pop a few minutes ago that seemed a little bit different, a little bit different, than then um, um the ones we heard earlier, which were on the outside they could have been tires or something else. We’ve also been watching as they take another man to the hospital and it looks like it’s going to be a medivac and from what I can tell it looks like he’s burned there seems to be a burn sheet on top of him, the medics are taking him to the US Park police helicopter, eagle helicopter. I think we’ll try and get a shot of that over here on Washington Blvd. The eagle helicopter from the park police is landing taking this man to the hospital, from my vantage point it looks like he has burns, we also besides Arlington Fire and Rescue, see some doctors, what appear to be some doctors on the scene, we’re not sure if they’re military or not, they seem to be helping with the injured, We can see Virginia State police, VSP are again trying to move us back but I think we have stalled them off for the moment . Again this is the e-ring of the Pentagon. Oh. hold on a second, Mike and Andrea we’re seeing a second man who clearly is burned who is being sent to that medivac helicopter as you can see this is the second person we can confirm who has very serious burns.
Andrea: Yes we can see his hands being burned.
Dave: Can you take it back for a second we need to coordinate something here.
(18:18) 10:12am
Andrea: Sure We are just getting across the wire again what preceded the Pentagon plane crash was the horrific destruction of the…two planes crashing into the World Trade Center, which you see in the picture on the right hand side of your screen, a witness said he saw bodies falling from the 110 story tower and people jumping out there are no confirmed casualties or injuries but you know looking at this…
Mike: This is tape earlier.
Andrea: This is tape from earlier this morning.
Mike:…when the jet plowed in. Now we’re getting word that one of the World Trade center towers in NYC has collapsed. (pause) It’s collapsed, the structural damage from the two planes plowing in.
Andrea: Also to let you know, because of what has happened, the Federal Aviation Administration has shut down all airplane traffic nationwide, nothing coming in nothing going out. BWI will allow planes land that were in the pattern to land but after that, everything will be shut down after that, we’re in a lockdown is basically what it is. All government buildings, all major government buildings have been evacuated, we heard from our, our, crews on the scene that the Pentagon has been evacuated, monuments and museums have been evacuated. Let’s go to Frank Herzog who is near one of the most visible monuments in the city, the Washington monument, Frank what do you see, what do you hear?
Frank Herzog: I’m on the west grounds of the Washington monument the area has been completely evacuated by Park Police and I think I can answer Dave Statter’s question about that secondary explosion, it wasn’t an explosion, that was the sonic boom of jet fighters that were scrambled out of Andrews Air Force base, we believe. They just circled the Washington area flying from the east out to the west and they were in a hurry and they were high up in the air, so jet fighters, at least one possibly two, were scrambled probably as a precautionary measure, needless to say. Downtown Washington DC, except for the vehicular traffic, which is bumper to bumper, the rest of the city has been shut down. It looks like a Sunday morning here, the mall is absolutely empty, Park police came through about 10 minutes ago and evacuated the entire area and told tourists to go somewhere else. 20:26 (begins pan to chink in building) but I can tell you right now that at least one or perhaps two jet fighters have been scrambled and they are patrolling the skies over Washington.
Mike: Frank Herzog, thanks very much. Let me just read you the lead, the Associated Press lead, it just came out of New York…first of all, let’s check in with Dave Statter at the Pentagon, Dave.
(20:42) 10:15am Dave: Ah! oh it collapsed right now, as you can see, I assume you’re taking our picture, I do not have a monitor, but right now we just had a middle section of the e-ring of the Pentagon collapse from the amount of fire and destruction from this, so obviously there was a great deal of damage here. It just collapsed we don’t know who was inside or how many people were inside, you heard somebody, one of the people who were inside this e-ring of the Pentagon has a great many officials, so if somebody was planning something this might have been the place if they wanted to get senior officials. um um again most of the fire on the outside of the building has been extinguished there are still some spot fires on the outside of the building, and still from what I can see a great deal of fire on the inside, so now you have a gaping hole on the west side of the Pentagon here at Washington Blvd. And this collapse just happened it was not an explosion, a secondary explosion, this apparently the damage from a great deal of fire and the structural damage from the plane crash.
Mike: Any word yet on casualties?
Dave: Other than the two people we saw Medivaced who had serious burns um I can not, I can’t confirm any others, they’ve been working on people but we don’t know what’s inside that building to be honest with you.
Andrea: So Dave
Dave: Certainly anybody in those windows or in those offices by those windows, you have to be very, very concerned about right now.
Mike: Alright, Dave Statter, reporting from the Pentagon. Here you can see from Dave’s camera shot several people being escorted out of the Pentagon. The Pentagon is being evacuated as is the White House, the US Capital…
Andrea:…most monuments, museums, um, the city basically, as you’ve heard from Frank Herzog and from photojournalist Rick Armstrong near the Washington monument, closed down almost, everything is closed down.
Mike: As you can see a portion of the Pentagon has collapsed. This happened after a jet apparently deliberately plowed into the Pentagon.
Andrea: (22:30) 10:16am We have Daniel McAdams on the phone. He is an eyewitness, Daniel, good morning. What did you see and where are you?
Daniel: I'm here in Arlington just off Columbia Pike probably about two, two-and-a-half miles from the Pentagon, and we were sitting in our living room having coffee ah, and it sounded like a military jet fly over, that they do sometimes, you know very, very low altitude flyover and then just a couple of seconds later we heard a massive boom! All of our doors and windows shook. We went outside and then looked out the window and then saw a plume of smoke.
(23:08) Alright Thank you Daniel very, much. Let’s go back to Dave Slatter, Dave what do you have?
Dave: (agitated) 9:17am Ah oh, they’re evacuating us right now, they believe another plane—this could be a rumor—evacuating everybody, possibility of another plane coming in this direction, this is a major evacuation, again it could all be a rumor but the FBI is evacuating everybody out of this area. I’ve got to go because, you know what, they won’t let me stay here.
Andrea: Be safe be safe. And we heard from Frank Herzog that boom that Dave thought he heard before, was ah air force jet scrambling high up in the sky, on alert, ah if there is something else coming in we hope they get it first. We’re looking again at the Pentagon where an aircraft crashed into the Pentagon this morning causing what we have just seen a gaping hole in the E-ring of the Pentagon. Evacuations, we have seen transports, burn victims, we do not know about any casualties, we don’t know if everyone was evacuated from the Pentagon before that collapse, we are watching, as you just heard Dave Statter say, they are evacuating and moving back all of the news crews, getting people as far away from that building as possible because they thought they spotted another plane in the area, we do not have any confirmation on that but we will keep you updated.
Mike: The Federal Aviation Administration has shut down all air traffic nationwide. This following the aircraft that crashed into the Pentagon, two jets, two planes crashed into the World Trade towers up in New York City.
Andrea: President Bush said today we have “a national tragedy” upon learning of the two planes crashing into the World Trade center. He said he would be returning immediately to Washington and ah, the President has ordered a full-scale investigation to hunt down the folks who quote “committed this act.” And again, what you’re looking at, within an hour of the twin-towers explosions, an aircraft crashed at the Pentagon as well. The White House and other major government buildings, Treasury Department, Defense have all been evacuated and airplane traffic, in and out, all around the United States, is closed down.
Mike: Let’s go back to Lauren Ashburn who’s in the USAToday building in Rosslyn.
Lauren: (25:29) 10:19am Yes, good morning Buck and Andrea, I’m taking a look right now at the Pentagon. There are one, two, three, four helicopters I can see from the vista here in the USAToday tower one building, overlooks all of Washington from Arlington Virginia I can see one helicopter is on its way, it looks like to me, to the Washington Hospital Center, it’s attempting a landing right now. I’m sure, there are two others following in that direction at this point. I’m looking down at traffic. Traffic is at a standstill leaving the city. There are hardly anybody, hardly any cars going into the city via route 50, traffic is backed up over the Memorial bridge, and I am looking down at police officers who are telling people to get off and turn around as they’re coming in off of 395.
Andrea: Yes Lauren we had heard that the Beltway near 395, which is that Pentagon exit is closed down so if you’re leaving the home, or going in that direction—don’t. Go the other way, just stay put just stay home.
Lauren: Andrea..
Andrea: Yes Lauren.
Lauren: I can see the sky, I know you had talked about possibly another plane from somewhere coming, I have a vista almost 180 degrees here across the horizon and I can’t see one single solitary plane the only thing I can see are those helicopters I talked to you about. The one helicopter has landed it looks like to me at Washington Hospital Center.
Mike: We have on the phone now Daryl Jenkins, Mr. Jenkins, you’re an airlines security with what organization?
Jenkins: Washington University Aviation Institute.
Mike: Alright sir. You’ve seen what happened this morning. Give me your read.
Jenkins: Well, our lives will never be the same again, this will change everything we do in this city and everywhere else around here. This is the day we will all remember until the day we die now. This is, I can’t even imagine anything more worse than what’s going on right now. The terrorist is unspeakable.
Mike: The ah, I mean basically what we probably have is three hijackings and then the terrorists plowing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Jenkins: Yes, yes, that’s correct. And ah it’s the enormity that somebody would do something this awful to innocent people there’s no cause that can justify this. Everything about aviation will change and even the Pentagon was under attack and there’s smoke coming from this so whatever airports have been in the past, in terms of nightmarish getting through, the nightmare is only beginning because travel will become unspeakably difficult now.
Mike: What happened to airport security sir?
Jenkins: I have no idea how any of this happened we have no details at this time. I’m sure though that all resources will be brought to bear on this ah in the future getting through any airport will be very, very difficult. It will not be pleasant ever again.
Andrea: I think you said it best at the beginning; our lives will never be the same again. Everything will change after this.
Jenkins: Everything will change in this city in just about everything I do in commercial aviation.
Mike: You know Mr. Jenkins, I can remember, I can remember years back the DC police chief Maurice Polona, Jerry Wilson, Isaac Pull, they all said someday terrorism is going to come to the United States.
Jenkins: Well.
Mike: Today it did.
Jenkins: Today it did, and like we said earlier our lives will never be the same. (Mike sighs) I assume right now we are under attack and our nation’s at war with some foreign body.
Andrea: Alright Daryl, thank you.
Mike: Thank you very much.
Andrea: Speaking of how everything is going to change at airports around the world, Gary Reals is at National Airport by phone, Gary what is going on there?
Gary Reals: (29:26) 10:23am Well Andrea it is, I hate to use the cliché but it truly is like a scene out of a movie here, the dark acrid smoke wafting over from the Pentagon has shrouded the terminal area here at National Airport—lightly, not a, a dense fog here at the airport, but a light fog nonetheless, and there has been, we’ve been at the airport proper now for about 20 to 25 minutes, there is still a constant, ah stream of people evacuating the entire airport. Of course As you’ve been reporting, airport operations around the United States have been shut down very abruptly and National Airport is certainly in the thick of that, ah there are still at this hour hundreds and hundreds of people evacuating streaming by foot,
30:12 by foot, everybody’s walking, there is a heavy security presence here, needless to say, and of course the people who are here and are leaving here can see very clearly the cause of this and that is the plane crash into the Pentagon, and the smoke and they are getting a feel and taste of it.
(30:34)
Andrea: 10:24am Alright, Thank you Gary, Gary Reals reporting.
Mike: Hold on one second, the State Department has been evacuated after a possible explosion or a fire, a senior governmental official speaking under a condition of anonymity said, the incident appears connected with the two plane attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to this source, quoting now, “something happened at the state department, we don’t know what yet, we hear it might have been a plane.” This…Ah… anybody, Frank or Rick or Lauren, can anybody see anything over at the State Department? (long pause)
Andrea: Statter?
Dave: Yes I’m here.
Andrea: Do you hear anything about the State Department?
Dave: No I, ah, I know that there was concern here, let me —describe, what happened when we had to rush off a little while ago (yes) there was concern, and we don’t like to put rumors on the air and I’m not sure you can call this a rumor, but the FBI on the scene at the Pentagon told everybody to leave the area because there is concern of a hijacked plane that might be coming in this direction.
Mike: (31:31) Hold on…Hey Dave? (Yes.) We just got a bulletin from the Associated Press “A car bomb explodes outside of the State Department.” Being attributed to senior law enforcement officials, again, a car bomb.
Andrea: Let’s go to Frank Herzog who is outside of the State Department, “Frank, what have you seen?” (pause)
Mike: “Alright we’ll hold on for Frank.”
Andrea: Frank had been down at the area at the Washington monument…
Mike: (very agitated) “Let me tell you if you’re just waking up, this is not a dream. This is not some B movie, you’re watching.”
Andrea: “And this is not some Tom Clancey scenario, this is the real thing.”
Mike: This morning about 8:45 a plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, 18 minutes later another plane, apparently a hijacked jet, out of Boston bound for LA…crashed into the World… you see the picture right there…that’s the second explosion when this American Airlines jet, (32:29) apparently hijacked plowed into the World Trade Center, then about an hour ago, there was an explosion at the Pentagon, a plane plowed into the Pentagon at the heliport.
Andrea: 10:27am Look at this.
Mike Oh!
Andrea: One of the towers we had reported that one of the towers had collapsed, here is proof…
Mike: (angry) Frank Herzog, where are ya!?
Frank: I’m still at the Washington Monument, I’m looking at the State Department.
Mike: Yes.
(32:45) Andrea: What do you see?
Frank: Nothing has happened there it looks all quiet. I am getting reports from park police that another plane was hijacked out of Pittsburgh, that’s the word they’re getting, another plane is hijacked out of Pittsburgh, which may explain why those two fighter jets were scrambled out of here, about 15 minutes ago. But so far, the State Department is quiet, there is no indication there is anything going on in the building, all we hear here is the constant wail of sirens here in downtown Washington.
Mike: Again to confirm what Dave Statter told us a few minutes ago, Pentagon officials are evacuating people from the area of the Pentagon fearing another plane could be in route. Frank Herzog has been told by a US park police officer that there’s been another hi-jacking, this plane out of Pittsburgh, apparently we gotta, they’re scrambling out of Andrews Air force Base.
Andrea: other major government institutions State and Treasury were being evacuated already even before we heard about something being possibly directed specifically at the State Department after the explosion at the Pentagon (pause) 33:56 Again we are looking at two pictures, the one on the left of your screen is the Pentagon where a section of 34:02 (goes to full screen) that building has collapsed struck by a aircraft. This is New York City where one of the twin towers collapsed after it was struck by aircraft, one of the 110 story towers.
Mike: Emilio Elano(?) he’s a terrorism expert over at American University, sir are you with us here? Emilio? I think we just lost him, the phones in this area, everybody is on a cell phone.
Andrea: This is live (34:31) 10:28am of the second tower, we believe, the second tower, of the World Trade center, just collapsed, that is what you’re looking at live.
Mike: (sigh)
Andrea: You can’t see very well through the smoke but it is obvious that those two large structures that we saw just a little while ago aren’t there. We’re going to pick up live coverage from our sister station in New York WCBS 34:57 let’s listen… (New York …now reduced to a pile of smoke and ash…. )
(Total time in New York 2:25 minutes.)
(37:22) (first time seeing the pair behind their desk) Andrea: Welcome back to Eyewitness news. We want to report that Mark Brady of Prince George County Fire and EMS they want ALL Prince George County all personnel report to your duty stations regardless of schedual they want all pgc ems personnel to report to their duty stations.
Mike: (37:43) 10:31am One of our photojournalists, Denny Bligh has just called in, he says there is at least 15 people injured at the Pentagon.
Andrea: We saw the tower, both towers now, collapse at the World Trade Center and from American Airlines, they are saying that a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center was one of theirs, Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, that was American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles was the plane that crashed into the World Trade Center, this AP advisory is from American Airlines.
(38:16) Mike: Anthony Garrett was inside the Pentagon when the plane slammed into the area near the heliport, the E-ring, Mr. Garrett?
Anthony: Yes.
Mike: You OK?
Anthony: I’m fine, yes, thank you.
Mike: Tell me what you heard, and what you saw.
Tony: Ah, excuse me, I was just over there meeting with ah some of my customers, I’m a defense contractor, and ahm, we were standing around watching a CNN report on the World Trade Center incident when we felt a jolt, something along the lines I suspect of a minor tremor, and then a strong gust of air went through the hallways. Immediately after that, omeone in the hallways started yelling get out of the building now.
Mike: (softly) Panic inside there?
Tony: Excuse me?
Mike: Was there, obviously—was there panic inside there?
Tony: Yes, it got fairly chaotic quickly as everyone was trying to run down the narrow corridors there on the D-ring, to get to an exit.
Mike: (sigh) Do you believe this Mr. Garrett?
Tony: It’s certainly ah, of great concern, I guess.
Mike: That’s putting it mildly, I guess.
Andrea: You were talking about ah, panic, we want to go to Bruce LaChane, and there is panic canimagine downtown. Bruce can you hear us?
Bruce: Yes Andrea, I would describe it as kind of quiet chaos here. Many, many of the buildings have been evacuated in downtown, and there are thousands of people out on the street trying to figure out how to get home, there are long lines next to the parking garages as people try and get their cars and get out of downtown. Around the executive mansion, people evacuated from the White House grounds and they’re setting up a rather wide perimeter around there, at least down as far down as 15th St. on one side there. The uniformed secret service officers have been putting out yellow tape and refusing to let anybody get near the White House / Treasury Department complex. In that area, a lot of people who were working on the White House grounds and in the surrounding office buildings are walking around kind of with shocked looks on their faces. A lot of rumors flying around here, so far no specific incidences downtown but ah, many emergency crews running around and ah, heading in various directions trying to deal with anything that might crop up. I actually saw two paramedic units from Walter Reede Hospital coming all the way down here downtown to kind of station themselves and prepare for whatever might happen. My advice for people who are watching and who might have business downtown: don’t! Do not come down here. It is absolute grid lock down here and they’re doing their best to keep everybody out and the streets cleared and its been very difficult proposition.
Mike: Bruce LaChane thank you please stay in touch. We’re getting word too, CNN is reporting that, as we told you Capital Hill, the Capital has been evacuated.
(41:15) Mike: 10:35am Now CNN is reporting that members of Congress have been taken to a secure location, members of Congress have been taken to a secure location for their protection.
Andrea: This is unbelievable.
Mike: The United States basically has been attacked. The U.S. has been attacked by terrorists this morning.
Andrea: Wall Street is shut down, the nearby World Financial Center which houses NYMEX was evacuated, the American Stock Exchange, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade has suspended all…(tape ends)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
CBS Channel 9 Sept. 11, 2001 segment 8:31am-9:12am Transcript
The following is a transcript of the live CBS network telecast recorded off the District of Columbia affiliate Channel 9, on Sept. 11, 2001, segment: 8:31am-9:12am and archived in the www.archive.org Sept 11 TV Archive, coverage of the opening moments of the September 11, 2001 disaster.
It is perfected to about the 95 percentile in the "ah's" and "um's" and "unhuh's."
Bryant Gumble is sole anchor.
After first interviewing a waiter in a Soho restaurant and a doorman at the Marriott Trade Center Hotel, who conveniently fill in the time between the airplane strikes, Bryant begins an interview with Theresa Reynaud, wife of a segment producer on the The Early Show, Jack Renaud. She was a vice president at Deutsch Advertising with offices at 8th Avenue and 16th St. in Chelsea. She was the one who "saw" the second plane hit the building while Bryant did not, probably because his screen was blank. Even on the first replay, Bryant didn't see a plane.
Much has been written about Reynaud's role in "creating" the plane, but until I heard this tape I didn't realize, she'd also attributed motive and intent, saying of the second plane "That definitely looked like it was on purpose," causing Bryant to respond, "(pause) Why do you say that it was definitely on purpose?" To which she replied, "It’s because it just… it just flew straight into it, there’s not, it didn’t look like it, ah, and it didn’t look like it was a commercial jet, it definitely was a smaller plane (pause) it definitely was a smaller plane (pause, heavy breathing.) Cornered=Change Subject.
Then, bizarrely, I think, the next interviewee, Richard Davis, behaves the same way, arrogantly attributing a motive, and since he was claiming to have seen both planes, Bryant had two reactions saying with a degree of incredulousness: "Why do you say “very deliberately?” first, and then "Why do you say the second one was intentional?" "Because the pilot aimed right for the building, and there was nothing wrong with the plane," he say, and "Because it was flown very…deliberately, there appeared to be nothing wrong with the aircraft, it was flown very deliberately into the building," then Davis grows testy with Bryant, which I find an odd emotion on 9-11.
So what do you think the odds are that the last eyewitness would also ascribe a willful malicious intent to the event underway, while most of us were experiencing a phenomena, needing to pass through grief at least before we marched off into war?
But the third guy, Frederick Schneider, a lawyer, does just that, saying he heard the first explosion and then "saw the plane that had crashed into the trade center, ah fall down, and then it disappeared behind a building that blocks my view, " which is not reconcilable with the Naudet brothers at minimum.
He goes on to say, "At that point all the news media started to learn about it and when I turned on my radio, and while I was still sitting at my desk I saw a second jet, a fairly large plane fly in over the south end of Manhattan and deliberately fly directly into the trade center before my eyes."
Bryant:: (sadly) Why do you say ‘deliberately fly into the trade center?
Frederick: "Because…um…there was no doubt in my mind that both planes were using the trade center as a target. They weren’t in trouble…" (tape ends here)
But Frederick couldn't have seen the first plane. I don't see how he could have known it was a plane at all. And look at the way he sequences "the media found out" followed by "I turned on my radio,"
The Pentagon eyewitnesses are also rife with this sort of early case building for war. It is a shibboleth which exposes them as a group. It is not enough in and of itself to convict someone, but the details of who knew what, when, are especially damning when seen clumped up on Bryant like that. Bryant found something odd about the behavior three separate times,which makes them accessories before the fact, and oh dear God--do we have accessories after the fact!
Do you see the sequence? Two working-class guys used as time fillers between the first and second crashes, and then pull out the stops--we are going to war. A high percentage of the Pentagon eyewitness list is fabricated, in my opinion, and apparently the shills were out in force in New York too. The CBS producers who brought forth these last three onto network TV are likely going to the gallows along with them.
Bryant is representative of us, the emotionally altered beings, confused by the quick rush to judgment. Bryant succumbs before our very eyes, we can see it happening in the first 30 minutes. "Oh ya, he says, the plane didn't wobble, I get it," because he was all alone. Well it's six years later and he's not alone anymore.
CBS September 11, 2001 8:31am – 9:12am
21:11 The CBS Special Report theme music and logo appears
21:23 (8:52) Bryant Gumble: It’s 8:52, I’m Bryant Gumble, we understand there has been a plane crash in the southern tip of Manhattan, you’re looking at a picture of the World Trade Center. We understand a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center, we don’t know any more than that. We don’t know if it was a commercial aircraft, we don’t know if it is a private aircraft, we have no idea how many were onboard or what the extent of the injuries are. We are…we have, I understand, an eyewitness on the phone right now, 21:53 (a commercial interrupts 21:55)Sir, what is your name?
Stuart: My name is Stuart
Bryant: Stuart where are you right now?
Stuart: I’m working at a restaurant in Soho.
Bryant: Alright, so tell us what you saw if you would?
Stuart: I literally, I was waiting a table and I literally saw a, it seemed to be like a small plane, I just heard a couple of noises, it looked like it bounced off the building, and then I heard, I saw, a huge, like, ball of fire on top, and then the smoke seemed to simmer down, it’s done, a lot of smoke is coming out and that’s pretty much the extent of what I saw.
Bryant: A private aircraft?
Stuart: Ah, I’m not sure, if it was a, it just seemed like a smaller plane. I don’t think it was anything commercial.
Bryant: Did you, could you tell us anything, whether it was a prop or a jet?
Stuart: I honestly don’t know, it happened too quickly.
Bryant: Ah, characterize the scene for us down there right now if you would.
Stuart: Excuse me?
Bryant: Can you tell us about the scene down there, right now.
Stuart: Right now people are just out on the street looking at the building, there’s just a lot of smoke, um, it’s not too crazy down where I am, but I’m…
Bryant: How far away from the World Trade Center specifically are you?
Stuart: I’m actually on Thompson Street, north, I’m not too, too far.
Bryant: It’s 8:54 now Stuart. Can you tell me when this happened exactly?
Stuart: I would have to say about ten minutes ago.
Bryant: About ten minutes ago.
Stuart: Ya.
Bryant: Is this normally an area that is, that is heavily trafficked by aircraft, or is this an area that aircraft steer clear of?
Stuart: You know, I can’t, I really don’t know that information.
Bryant: Unhuh. Is, is there much panic around there?
Stuart: Just people coming out and looking there was panic at first but it seemed to slow down right now.
Bryant: We’re looking at a picture of a great deal of smoke coming out of the building. Can you please tell us, was there, after you, you heard this crash, was there
smoke immediately?
Stuart: No, there was like a big ball of fire on top of the building and then as that simmered down there seemed to be a ton of smoke, and yea so, ya, pretty much
immediately.
Bryant: I hear a fire engine in the background um, has that been going since, a since you saw this crash, or is that kind of a late arrival?
Stuart: It happened almost pretty much after we heard the crash pretty quick.
Bryant: Pretty much after you heard the crash.
Stuart: Pretty much.
Bryant: Ya.
Stuart: It was pretty quick we heard sirens and you know, people acting on it.
Bryant: Did you, were you looking up as the plane approached the building or did it only call, catch your attention after it a crashed into the world trade center?
Stuart: I heard like a sort of crashing sound but I looked up, I looked up quick enough to actually see something go into the building but everything happened so fast I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at.
Bryant: So there’s no way you can know whether or not the plane seemed to be in trouble?
Stuart: No, no.
Bryant: Before it crashed into the building?
Stuart: Oh no. No, I couldn’t tell.
Bryant: It’s hard for us to tell from the picture we’re seeing, just ah how far down from the top that plane crashed, have you any better eyesight to it?
Stuart: Um.
Bryant: From your vantage point.
Stuart: Ah not really, all I know is it definitely wasn’t the top, top of the building, because that seems to be intact from what I saw, um, I really can’t tell.
Bryant: Unhuh, can you tell us anything about um how much debris came crashing to the ground and whether or not um, anybody was hurt as a result?
Stuart: I honestly don’t know I just saw a lot of what looked like a lot of tumbling glass maybe, just a lot of stuff falling down but I can’t tell you debris-wise.
Bryant: Unhuh. Obviously the timing of this is important. It comes before 9 o’çlock, um, perhaps, perhaps, and we say that in a hopeful fashion, perhaps not everybody was at work, um because ah if that building was in fact crowded with workers, we’re looking at probably looking at some casualties and injuries of considerable proportions, but right now there’s no way of telling that, um, Mr…ah, Stuart, just one more time. And I know I’m exhausting what little information you have but we have people joining us, um, every moment, take me through again, where you were, when this happened, what you saw.
Stuart: I was, um, serving tables at a restaurant and I just heard sort of like a boom sound it almost sounded like an earthquake sound and I looked up and I saw literally something like, it might even have bounced off a little bit, of the building and the next thing I know I saw a big ball of fire on the top of the building and just lots of smoke and what looked like debris or glass falling down and it happened really quick it’s really hard to, ah…
Bryant: OK Stuart I thank you very much I appreciate that sir.
Stuart: OK my pleasure.
Bryant: Thank you.
Stuart: OK.
26:31
Bryant: We’re on the line with ah another eyewitness sir ah this is Bryant Gumble in New York
Wendell Klein: Ah, how ya doing?
Bryant: I’m fine. You’re Wendell?
Wendell: Yes I am.
Bryant: Wendell, can you give me your last name?
Wendell: Klein.
Bryant: Mr. Klein, Can you tell me where are you right now?
Wendell: Right now I’m at back in the hotel, the hotel office, front offices.
Bryant: Where were you?
Wendell: I was standing right in front of the trade…the hotel, I’m the doorman there, and um...
Bryant: The hotel, the hotel, which hotel?
Wendell: The Marriott World Trade Center.
Bryant: Right across from the World Trade Center?
Wendell: It’s actually right in between them.
Bryant: Right in between the World Trade Center?
Wendell: Yes.
Bryant: Ok So you were standing outside and, tell us what you saw and what you heard?
Wendell: Well I, what I heard first was an explosion, and I just figured it just a plane passing by then all of a sudden stuff just started falling, like bricks and paper and everything and I ah just kind of ran inside to get away from the falling debris and glass and so forth and then after like everything had stopped falling into the street and cars were passing into each other and when it stopped I heard a guy screaming and when I looked over there was this guy who was on fire so I kind of like ran over and I like tried to put the fire out on him and he was, he was like just screaming and I told him to just roll, roll and he said I can’t then another guy came over with his bag and kind of put the flames out on him so, right now he’s being taken care of and everyone called the ambulance and stuff to help him out.
Bryant: He caught fire as a result of the falling debris?
Wendell: Ya.
Bryant: How much debris, can you give us an idea how much debris Came crashing to the ground?
Wendell: Oh man, just a lot bricks, a lot of bricks, a lot of glass um enough to like, damage cars on the street, make cars swerve into each other, that kind of thing.
Bryant: Any other people on the ground that you saw hurt?
Wendell: Just him so far.
Bryant: Tell me about the traffic down in that area, and I’m talking about human traffic.
Wendell: Human Traffic-wise? Right, Well on my side, where I’m standing there’s not a whole lot because it basically right in front of the hotel so you don’t get too much but you do get enough, you get some.
Bryant: What about traffic in the building I mean you work basically between the two towers
Wendell: Yes.
Bryant: Um, are most people arriving for work before or after 9am?
Wendell: Before, basically in my hotel I have people who are leaving and going to meetings outside my hotel I just have people waiting for their cars to take them to their various destinations that kind of thing.
Bryant: I hear alarms going off down there what’s happening?
Wendell: That’s our hotel alarm and basically I guess that went off automatically. They’ve evacuated everyone in the hotel in back of it are all the employees.
Bryant: They have evacuated the hotel?
Wendell: Yes.
Bryant: Immediately?
Wendell: Yes.
Bryant: Can you give me an idea of what the scene is like down there?
Wendell: What the what is like?
Bryant: What the scene is like at the World Trade Center?
Wendell: People are like crying and panicking and want to know what is going on. When I came inside there was a lot of people who wanted to go out to see what was going on but the security kind of kept them at bay, kept them inside, um basically right now I still have people going toward the bar area, they’re trying to evacuate everyone out of here, that kind of thing
Bryant: Is this an area um, Mr. Klein, that is normally trafficked by small planes, or is it an area they generally steer clear of?
Wendell: Um you do get some I see some passing um basically the planes I do see passing are like those, you know like in Washington DC area.
Bryant: Unhuh.
Wendell: It wouldn’t be like huge planes, but big enough.
Bryant: Are you hearing anything Wendell about what kind of plane it was?
Wendell: No, no.
Bryant: Or how many were on board?
Wendell: No, basically all I got was my wife calling me and she told me it was a plane crash and basically I really don’t know what is going on so far.
Bryant: Do you know if it was a private aircraft or a commercial plane?
Wendell: That I don’t know.
Bryant: You don’t know?
Wendell: No sir.
Bryant: Your not seeing any evidence of people being carried out of the building yet?
Wendell: Um ah, there’s a woman they just carried I guess she fainted or something I don’t see any physical injuries to her.
Bryant: Alright Mr. Klein thank you very much sir.
Wendell: Good talking with you sir.
Bryant: I appreciate it.
Wendell: Bye bye.
Bryant: I understand a Theresa Reynaud is with us right now, Miss Reynaud, good morning
Theresa Reynaud: Good morning, how are you?
Bryant: This is Bryant Gumble, I’m down at 59 and Fifth. Where are you?
Theresa: I am in Chelsea and we are at 8th and 16th. We’re the tallest building in the area and we, my window faces south, so it looks directly onto the World Trade Center and I would say approximately ten minutes ago there was a major explosion from probably it looks like about the eightieth floor, it looks like its probably affected from four to eight floors, major flames are coming out of the, let’s see, the north side and also the east side of the building, yes and it was a very large explosion followed by flames, and it looks like the building is still on fire on the inside.
Bryant: Which building are we talking about, the westernmost?
Theresa: Um, let’s see, yes sir.
Bryant: So it’s coming out of the north side and the east side of the building of the westernmost tower?
Theresa: That’s correct.
Bryant: Um you’re over in Chelsea um did you hear the explosion from your position?
Theresa: Oh yes as a matter of fact we heard it cause I was just standing there pretty much just looking out the window I didn’t see what caused it or if there was an impact.
Bryant: So you have no idea…
31:54 9:02am Theresa: Oh! There’s another one! Another plane just hit! Oh! Oh my God! Another plane has just hit another building! Flew right into the middle of it! An explosion! My God, it’s right in the middle of the building
Bryant: This went into the east tower?
Theresa: Yes. Yes. 32:11-32:15 (breathing, also something cut)
Right in the middle of the building. It’s. Right now. Yes. That definitely looked like it was on purpose.
Bryant: (Incredulous) You saw a plane…
Theresa: Yes. I just saw a plane go into the building.
Bryant: (pause) Why do you say that was on definitely on purpose?
Theresa: It’s because it just… it just flew straight into it, there’s not, it didn’t look like it ah, and it didn’t look like it was a commercial jet, it definitely was a smaller plane (pause) it definitely was a smaller plane (pause, heavy breathing)
Bryant: Can you characterize the scene down there right now for us
Theresa: Right now?
Bryant: For us.
Theresa: Yes.
Bryant: As you look down the street.
Theresa: On...
Bryant: From your vantage point.
Theresa: On the second building, the further one, the east side, there, it looks like it is about ah 15 floors lower than the first building and there is now flames coming out of that building as well they’re both completely on fire.
Bryant: Now I’m looking at what was the west tower and it looks like um the fire on the north side is a little bit lower but it looks like it’s the same building you’re saying it was the other tower that absorbed the second impact.
Theresa: That’s what it looked like. Exactly from my perspective.
Bryant: Don King, our director if I could ask you to widen out and gives us a shot of both towers because I can’t, I, we can’t tell, oh OK, that is on the second tower, it is on the east tower, Theresa, hang on with us one second.
Theresa: Certainly.
Bryant: We’re going to re-rack the tape of when we were talking to you to see if we can tell.
Theresa: OK.
Bryant: We can’t see anything a second plane in the picture there we see the explosion.
Theresa: Yes.
Bryant: The explosion...
Theresa: It definitely was a plane that hit it.
Bryant: Here we are we’re trying to re-rack the tape right now. Theresa do you have a vantage point to the ground from where you are right now?
Theresa: Ah, yes I probably could go down.
Bryant: No I’m not asking you to go down I’m asking you if you can see it.
Theresa: Oh no, I can not see the ground as a matter of fact, there are too many buildings in the way, I could probably see just about a third, about the top two-thirds of the building.
Bryant: Unhuh and about how much of the top third of the buildings do you see flames, see damage?
Theresa: Ah I would say middle of the second building and the top fourth of the first building.
Bryant: OK Theresa stay with us we’re going to look for that tape one more time, we’re going to re-rack the tape and see if we can’t see a plane, ya we see it right now a plane coming in right now and impacting what would appear to be the north side of that tower, of the westernmost tower.
Theresa: Unhuh.
Bryant: And hitting about ten or 15 stories below, Theresa let me ask you to hang on for a second as I talk with another gentleman who is an eyewitness, Richard Davis, Mr. Davis, good morning.
Richard Davis: Good morning.
Bryant: This is Bryant Gumble,
Davis: Yes sir
Bryant: I’m at 59th ands Fifth, where are you?
Davis: Ah, I’m at, ah, 50th and ah, Fifth, but I’m facing south on the 39th floor.
Bryant: You’re facing south, so you have a clear vantage point?
Davis: Yes.
Bryant: Talk to me about what you see if you could.
Davis: The first plane looked like a 737 it flew right up the middle of Manhattan, it was clearly too low, I noticed it ah, by the time it was passing the Empire State building and ah, noticed that it was too low, it appeared to be absolutely nothing wrong with the plane, and then it very deliberately ah flew into the side of the World Trade Center.
Bryant: Why do you say “very deliberately?”
Davis: Because the pilot aimed right for the building, and there was nothing wrong with the plane
Bryant: The plane did not appear to be in any trouble in any way whatsoever?
Davis: None whatsoever.
Bryant: And we’re talking about a commercial aircraft, a 737?
Davis: It appeared to be a 737, I can’t…be absolutely certain, I’m not a…
Bryant: Obviously, I’m not asking you to be an aviation expert, but clearly what you saw, or what you say you saw, not a small aircraft.
Davis: It was not a small aircraft. It was a small commercial aircraft, like a small Airbus, or 737 Boeing…a 2-engine jet.
Bryant: And that was the first plane...did you…did you see…we’re looking at a um, tape replay...
Davis: Ya
Bryant: ...of the second plane boring into the building. It’s hard for us to tell how large an aircraft it is, or whether or not it was intentional, um…go ahead, I’m sorry.
Davis: Believe me, it was such an intentional…we saw the second one come up the Hudson and veer into the second building.
Gumble: (pause) Why do you say the second one was intentional?
Davis: Because it was flown very…deliberately, there appeared to be nothing wrong with the aircraft, it was flown very deliberately into the building
Bryant: Have they, have, you don’t, obviously you’re at 50th, obviously you don’t have any vantage point down there. What is everybody else talking about there who have the same vantage point they see all the same thing you did?
Davis: Ah yes. Ah ah well the others did not see the first one but there were several people in my office when the second one came in.
Bryant: Ya we’re looking at the second one boring in right now and it does not seem to be wavering in any way or seem to be banking to avoid the tower in any way.
Davis: Let me say, it hardly be a coincidence that two airplanes fly into the World Trade Center within ten minutes of each other?
Bryant: Ya.
Davis: On a clear day.
Bryant: Ya…It’s a terrible scene right now.
Davis: Yes but the towers are…..(missing…..garbled…terrible?)
Bryant: Wow. Wow. Miss Reynaud, are you still on with me. Theresa Reynaud?
Theresa Reynaud: Yes I’m here
Bryant: Can you tell us if the scene has changed from your vantage point?
Theresa: I would say from my vantage point right now, it looks like there are very few flames coming out of the first tower, still a lot of smoke. The second tower we can still see flames coming out of the window, the north window, and, ah, a lot of smoke, a lot of smoke, the tops of the buildings are covered in smoke, ahm.
Bryant: And from your vantage point you can’t see anything that’s happening on the ground?
Theresa: No I can not...I hear a lot of sirens out on the street now ah you one thing you could see in the windows is all of the emergency system lights blinking off and on in the first tower, when that happened and I can’t see them anymore. And the second tower I cannot see any emergency lights in the building.
Bryant: Ya.
Theresa: Blinking.
Bryant: I’m going to thank you both right there and pass along word that we are getting from the FBI that at this point the FBI is trying to confirm, trying to confirm that this was an intentional act. Um, at this point its pure speculation, Mr. Davis has told us what he saw that it appeared the ah first plane, ah a large aircraft ah bored into the westernmost of the two towers in an intentional fashion um, while a, while we were, speaking moments ago, a second plane, hard to identify the size of it, bore it’s way into the easternmost tower so we have ah two crashes here is a different angle of the same plane you see it up there on the left ah boring…yaa…ah...boring into there. But again at this point um…it is restricted airspace, it is a clear day, so the suspicions are high these are intentional acts but the FBI is still trying to confirm that these are intentional acts. We have another eyewitness, sir, on the phone, good morning.
Frederick: Good morning Mr. Gumble.
Bryant: How are you?
Frederick: I’m fairly frightened, I have to say.
Bryant: Um, give me your name if you would.
Frederick: My name is Frederick Schneider, sir.
Bryant: Mr. Schneider, where are you?
Frederick: I am on Liberty St., which is the same street the trade center is on. I’m on the south side, and the trade center is on the north side, my office is on the 24th floor, so I have a very clear view of exactly what happened this morning and I’ve been here for two hours so I have been watching it unfold.
Bryant: Two hours!
Frederick: Yes, I got to my office at seven.
Bryant: Oh, I’m sorry. Tell me about the timetable about when things started to go terribly bad this morning.
Frederick: Well Mr. Gumble at about 8:50 this morning there was an explosion. I heard it first and then my building which is 51 stories tall shook and rocked, and then I saw a plume of flame shoot out of the trade center over the Hudson river, and then I saw the plane that had crashed into the trade center, ah fall down, and then it disappeared behind a building that blocks my view. There was a tremendous amount of smoke and then it started to rain huge pieces of paper and the paper continued to come down. At that point all the news media started to learn about it and when I turned on my radio, and while I was still sitting at my desk I saw a second jet, a fairly large plane fly in over the south end of Manhattan and deliberately fly directly into the trade center before my eyes.
Gumble: (sadly) Why do you say ‘deliberately fly into the trade center?’
Frederick: Because…um…there was no doubt in my mind that both planes were using the trade center as a target. They weren’t in trouble… tape ends
AJR Oct.01
It is perfected to about the 95 percentile in the "ah's" and "um's" and "unhuh's."
Bryant Gumble is sole anchor.
After first interviewing a waiter in a Soho restaurant and a doorman at the Marriott Trade Center Hotel, who conveniently fill in the time between the airplane strikes, Bryant begins an interview with Theresa Reynaud, wife of a segment producer on the The Early Show, Jack Renaud. She was a vice president at Deutsch Advertising with offices at 8th Avenue and 16th St. in Chelsea. She was the one who "saw" the second plane hit the building while Bryant did not, probably because his screen was blank. Even on the first replay, Bryant didn't see a plane.
Much has been written about Reynaud's role in "creating" the plane, but until I heard this tape I didn't realize, she'd also attributed motive and intent, saying of the second plane "That definitely looked like it was on purpose," causing Bryant to respond, "(pause) Why do you say that it was definitely on purpose?" To which she replied, "It’s because it just… it just flew straight into it, there’s not, it didn’t look like it, ah, and it didn’t look like it was a commercial jet, it definitely was a smaller plane (pause) it definitely was a smaller plane (pause, heavy breathing.) Cornered=Change Subject.
Then, bizarrely, I think, the next interviewee, Richard Davis, behaves the same way, arrogantly attributing a motive, and since he was claiming to have seen both planes, Bryant had two reactions saying with a degree of incredulousness: "Why do you say “very deliberately?” first, and then "Why do you say the second one was intentional?" "Because the pilot aimed right for the building, and there was nothing wrong with the plane," he say, and "Because it was flown very…deliberately, there appeared to be nothing wrong with the aircraft, it was flown very deliberately into the building," then Davis grows testy with Bryant, which I find an odd emotion on 9-11.
So what do you think the odds are that the last eyewitness would also ascribe a willful malicious intent to the event underway, while most of us were experiencing a phenomena, needing to pass through grief at least before we marched off into war?
But the third guy, Frederick Schneider, a lawyer, does just that, saying he heard the first explosion and then "saw the plane that had crashed into the trade center, ah fall down, and then it disappeared behind a building that blocks my view, " which is not reconcilable with the Naudet brothers at minimum.
He goes on to say, "At that point all the news media started to learn about it and when I turned on my radio, and while I was still sitting at my desk I saw a second jet, a fairly large plane fly in over the south end of Manhattan and deliberately fly directly into the trade center before my eyes."
Bryant:: (sadly) Why do you say ‘deliberately fly into the trade center?
Frederick: "Because…um…there was no doubt in my mind that both planes were using the trade center as a target. They weren’t in trouble…" (tape ends here)
But Frederick couldn't have seen the first plane. I don't see how he could have known it was a plane at all. And look at the way he sequences "the media found out" followed by "I turned on my radio,"
The Pentagon eyewitnesses are also rife with this sort of early case building for war. It is a shibboleth which exposes them as a group. It is not enough in and of itself to convict someone, but the details of who knew what, when, are especially damning when seen clumped up on Bryant like that. Bryant found something odd about the behavior three separate times,which makes them accessories before the fact, and oh dear God--do we have accessories after the fact!
Do you see the sequence? Two working-class guys used as time fillers between the first and second crashes, and then pull out the stops--we are going to war. A high percentage of the Pentagon eyewitness list is fabricated, in my opinion, and apparently the shills were out in force in New York too. The CBS producers who brought forth these last three onto network TV are likely going to the gallows along with them.
Bryant is representative of us, the emotionally altered beings, confused by the quick rush to judgment. Bryant succumbs before our very eyes, we can see it happening in the first 30 minutes. "Oh ya, he says, the plane didn't wobble, I get it," because he was all alone. Well it's six years later and he's not alone anymore.
CBS September 11, 2001 8:31am – 9:12am
21:11 The CBS Special Report theme music and logo appears
21:23 (8:52) Bryant Gumble: It’s 8:52, I’m Bryant Gumble, we understand there has been a plane crash in the southern tip of Manhattan, you’re looking at a picture of the World Trade Center. We understand a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center, we don’t know any more than that. We don’t know if it was a commercial aircraft, we don’t know if it is a private aircraft, we have no idea how many were onboard or what the extent of the injuries are. We are…we have, I understand, an eyewitness on the phone right now, 21:53 (a commercial interrupts 21:55)Sir, what is your name?
Stuart: My name is Stuart
Bryant: Stuart where are you right now?
Stuart: I’m working at a restaurant in Soho.
Bryant: Alright, so tell us what you saw if you would?
Stuart: I literally, I was waiting a table and I literally saw a, it seemed to be like a small plane, I just heard a couple of noises, it looked like it bounced off the building, and then I heard, I saw, a huge, like, ball of fire on top, and then the smoke seemed to simmer down, it’s done, a lot of smoke is coming out and that’s pretty much the extent of what I saw.
Bryant: A private aircraft?
Stuart: Ah, I’m not sure, if it was a, it just seemed like a smaller plane. I don’t think it was anything commercial.
Bryant: Did you, could you tell us anything, whether it was a prop or a jet?
Stuart: I honestly don’t know, it happened too quickly.
Bryant: Ah, characterize the scene for us down there right now if you would.
Stuart: Excuse me?
Bryant: Can you tell us about the scene down there, right now.
Stuart: Right now people are just out on the street looking at the building, there’s just a lot of smoke, um, it’s not too crazy down where I am, but I’m…
Bryant: How far away from the World Trade Center specifically are you?
Stuart: I’m actually on Thompson Street, north, I’m not too, too far.
Bryant: It’s 8:54 now Stuart. Can you tell me when this happened exactly?
Stuart: I would have to say about ten minutes ago.
Bryant: About ten minutes ago.
Stuart: Ya.
Bryant: Is this normally an area that is, that is heavily trafficked by aircraft, or is this an area that aircraft steer clear of?
Stuart: You know, I can’t, I really don’t know that information.
Bryant: Unhuh. Is, is there much panic around there?
Stuart: Just people coming out and looking there was panic at first but it seemed to slow down right now.
Bryant: We’re looking at a picture of a great deal of smoke coming out of the building. Can you please tell us, was there, after you, you heard this crash, was there
smoke immediately?
Stuart: No, there was like a big ball of fire on top of the building and then as that simmered down there seemed to be a ton of smoke, and yea so, ya, pretty much
immediately.
Bryant: I hear a fire engine in the background um, has that been going since, a since you saw this crash, or is that kind of a late arrival?
Stuart: It happened almost pretty much after we heard the crash pretty quick.
Bryant: Pretty much after you heard the crash.
Stuart: Pretty much.
Bryant: Ya.
Stuart: It was pretty quick we heard sirens and you know, people acting on it.
Bryant: Did you, were you looking up as the plane approached the building or did it only call, catch your attention after it a crashed into the world trade center?
Stuart: I heard like a sort of crashing sound but I looked up, I looked up quick enough to actually see something go into the building but everything happened so fast I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at.
Bryant: So there’s no way you can know whether or not the plane seemed to be in trouble?
Stuart: No, no.
Bryant: Before it crashed into the building?
Stuart: Oh no. No, I couldn’t tell.
Bryant: It’s hard for us to tell from the picture we’re seeing, just ah how far down from the top that plane crashed, have you any better eyesight to it?
Stuart: Um.
Bryant: From your vantage point.
Stuart: Ah not really, all I know is it definitely wasn’t the top, top of the building, because that seems to be intact from what I saw, um, I really can’t tell.
Bryant: Unhuh, can you tell us anything about um how much debris came crashing to the ground and whether or not um, anybody was hurt as a result?
Stuart: I honestly don’t know I just saw a lot of what looked like a lot of tumbling glass maybe, just a lot of stuff falling down but I can’t tell you debris-wise.
Bryant: Unhuh. Obviously the timing of this is important. It comes before 9 o’çlock, um, perhaps, perhaps, and we say that in a hopeful fashion, perhaps not everybody was at work, um because ah if that building was in fact crowded with workers, we’re looking at probably looking at some casualties and injuries of considerable proportions, but right now there’s no way of telling that, um, Mr…ah, Stuart, just one more time. And I know I’m exhausting what little information you have but we have people joining us, um, every moment, take me through again, where you were, when this happened, what you saw.
Stuart: I was, um, serving tables at a restaurant and I just heard sort of like a boom sound it almost sounded like an earthquake sound and I looked up and I saw literally something like, it might even have bounced off a little bit, of the building and the next thing I know I saw a big ball of fire on the top of the building and just lots of smoke and what looked like debris or glass falling down and it happened really quick it’s really hard to, ah…
Bryant: OK Stuart I thank you very much I appreciate that sir.
Stuart: OK my pleasure.
Bryant: Thank you.
Stuart: OK.
26:31
Bryant: We’re on the line with ah another eyewitness sir ah this is Bryant Gumble in New York
Wendell Klein: Ah, how ya doing?
Bryant: I’m fine. You’re Wendell?
Wendell: Yes I am.
Bryant: Wendell, can you give me your last name?
Wendell: Klein.
Bryant: Mr. Klein, Can you tell me where are you right now?
Wendell: Right now I’m at back in the hotel, the hotel office, front offices.
Bryant: Where were you?
Wendell: I was standing right in front of the trade…the hotel, I’m the doorman there, and um...
Bryant: The hotel, the hotel, which hotel?
Wendell: The Marriott World Trade Center.
Bryant: Right across from the World Trade Center?
Wendell: It’s actually right in between them.
Bryant: Right in between the World Trade Center?
Wendell: Yes.
Bryant: Ok So you were standing outside and, tell us what you saw and what you heard?
Wendell: Well I, what I heard first was an explosion, and I just figured it just a plane passing by then all of a sudden stuff just started falling, like bricks and paper and everything and I ah just kind of ran inside to get away from the falling debris and glass and so forth and then after like everything had stopped falling into the street and cars were passing into each other and when it stopped I heard a guy screaming and when I looked over there was this guy who was on fire so I kind of like ran over and I like tried to put the fire out on him and he was, he was like just screaming and I told him to just roll, roll and he said I can’t then another guy came over with his bag and kind of put the flames out on him so, right now he’s being taken care of and everyone called the ambulance and stuff to help him out.
Bryant: He caught fire as a result of the falling debris?
Wendell: Ya.
Bryant: How much debris, can you give us an idea how much debris Came crashing to the ground?
Wendell: Oh man, just a lot bricks, a lot of bricks, a lot of glass um enough to like, damage cars on the street, make cars swerve into each other, that kind of thing.
Bryant: Any other people on the ground that you saw hurt?
Wendell: Just him so far.
Bryant: Tell me about the traffic down in that area, and I’m talking about human traffic.
Wendell: Human Traffic-wise? Right, Well on my side, where I’m standing there’s not a whole lot because it basically right in front of the hotel so you don’t get too much but you do get enough, you get some.
Bryant: What about traffic in the building I mean you work basically between the two towers
Wendell: Yes.
Bryant: Um, are most people arriving for work before or after 9am?
Wendell: Before, basically in my hotel I have people who are leaving and going to meetings outside my hotel I just have people waiting for their cars to take them to their various destinations that kind of thing.
Bryant: I hear alarms going off down there what’s happening?
Wendell: That’s our hotel alarm and basically I guess that went off automatically. They’ve evacuated everyone in the hotel in back of it are all the employees.
Bryant: They have evacuated the hotel?
Wendell: Yes.
Bryant: Immediately?
Wendell: Yes.
Bryant: Can you give me an idea of what the scene is like down there?
Wendell: What the what is like?
Bryant: What the scene is like at the World Trade Center?
Wendell: People are like crying and panicking and want to know what is going on. When I came inside there was a lot of people who wanted to go out to see what was going on but the security kind of kept them at bay, kept them inside, um basically right now I still have people going toward the bar area, they’re trying to evacuate everyone out of here, that kind of thing
Bryant: Is this an area um, Mr. Klein, that is normally trafficked by small planes, or is it an area they generally steer clear of?
Wendell: Um you do get some I see some passing um basically the planes I do see passing are like those, you know like in Washington DC area.
Bryant: Unhuh.
Wendell: It wouldn’t be like huge planes, but big enough.
Bryant: Are you hearing anything Wendell about what kind of plane it was?
Wendell: No, no.
Bryant: Or how many were on board?
Wendell: No, basically all I got was my wife calling me and she told me it was a plane crash and basically I really don’t know what is going on so far.
Bryant: Do you know if it was a private aircraft or a commercial plane?
Wendell: That I don’t know.
Bryant: You don’t know?
Wendell: No sir.
Bryant: Your not seeing any evidence of people being carried out of the building yet?
Wendell: Um ah, there’s a woman they just carried I guess she fainted or something I don’t see any physical injuries to her.
Bryant: Alright Mr. Klein thank you very much sir.
Wendell: Good talking with you sir.
Bryant: I appreciate it.
Wendell: Bye bye.
Bryant: I understand a Theresa Reynaud is with us right now, Miss Reynaud, good morning
Theresa Reynaud: Good morning, how are you?
Bryant: This is Bryant Gumble, I’m down at 59 and Fifth. Where are you?
Theresa: I am in Chelsea and we are at 8th and 16th. We’re the tallest building in the area and we, my window faces south, so it looks directly onto the World Trade Center and I would say approximately ten minutes ago there was a major explosion from probably it looks like about the eightieth floor, it looks like its probably affected from four to eight floors, major flames are coming out of the, let’s see, the north side and also the east side of the building, yes and it was a very large explosion followed by flames, and it looks like the building is still on fire on the inside.
Bryant: Which building are we talking about, the westernmost?
Theresa: Um, let’s see, yes sir.
Bryant: So it’s coming out of the north side and the east side of the building of the westernmost tower?
Theresa: That’s correct.
Bryant: Um you’re over in Chelsea um did you hear the explosion from your position?
Theresa: Oh yes as a matter of fact we heard it cause I was just standing there pretty much just looking out the window I didn’t see what caused it or if there was an impact.
Bryant: So you have no idea…
31:54 9:02am Theresa: Oh! There’s another one! Another plane just hit! Oh! Oh my God! Another plane has just hit another building! Flew right into the middle of it! An explosion! My God, it’s right in the middle of the building
Bryant: This went into the east tower?
Theresa: Yes. Yes. 32:11-32:15 (breathing, also something cut)
Right in the middle of the building. It’s. Right now. Yes. That definitely looked like it was on purpose.
Bryant: (Incredulous) You saw a plane…
Theresa: Yes. I just saw a plane go into the building.
Bryant: (pause) Why do you say that was on definitely on purpose?
Theresa: It’s because it just… it just flew straight into it, there’s not, it didn’t look like it ah, and it didn’t look like it was a commercial jet, it definitely was a smaller plane (pause) it definitely was a smaller plane (pause, heavy breathing)
Bryant: Can you characterize the scene down there right now for us
Theresa: Right now?
Bryant: For us.
Theresa: Yes.
Bryant: As you look down the street.
Theresa: On...
Bryant: From your vantage point.
Theresa: On the second building, the further one, the east side, there, it looks like it is about ah 15 floors lower than the first building and there is now flames coming out of that building as well they’re both completely on fire.
Bryant: Now I’m looking at what was the west tower and it looks like um the fire on the north side is a little bit lower but it looks like it’s the same building you’re saying it was the other tower that absorbed the second impact.
Theresa: That’s what it looked like. Exactly from my perspective.
Bryant: Don King, our director if I could ask you to widen out and gives us a shot of both towers because I can’t, I, we can’t tell, oh OK, that is on the second tower, it is on the east tower, Theresa, hang on with us one second.
Theresa: Certainly.
Bryant: We’re going to re-rack the tape of when we were talking to you to see if we can tell.
Theresa: OK.
Bryant: We can’t see anything a second plane in the picture there we see the explosion.
Theresa: Yes.
Bryant: The explosion...
Theresa: It definitely was a plane that hit it.
Bryant: Here we are we’re trying to re-rack the tape right now. Theresa do you have a vantage point to the ground from where you are right now?
Theresa: Ah, yes I probably could go down.
Bryant: No I’m not asking you to go down I’m asking you if you can see it.
Theresa: Oh no, I can not see the ground as a matter of fact, there are too many buildings in the way, I could probably see just about a third, about the top two-thirds of the building.
Bryant: Unhuh and about how much of the top third of the buildings do you see flames, see damage?
Theresa: Ah I would say middle of the second building and the top fourth of the first building.
Bryant: OK Theresa stay with us we’re going to look for that tape one more time, we’re going to re-rack the tape and see if we can’t see a plane, ya we see it right now a plane coming in right now and impacting what would appear to be the north side of that tower, of the westernmost tower.
Theresa: Unhuh.
Bryant: And hitting about ten or 15 stories below, Theresa let me ask you to hang on for a second as I talk with another gentleman who is an eyewitness, Richard Davis, Mr. Davis, good morning.
Richard Davis: Good morning.
Bryant: This is Bryant Gumble,
Davis: Yes sir
Bryant: I’m at 59th ands Fifth, where are you?
Davis: Ah, I’m at, ah, 50th and ah, Fifth, but I’m facing south on the 39th floor.
Bryant: You’re facing south, so you have a clear vantage point?
Davis: Yes.
Bryant: Talk to me about what you see if you could.
Davis: The first plane looked like a 737 it flew right up the middle of Manhattan, it was clearly too low, I noticed it ah, by the time it was passing the Empire State building and ah, noticed that it was too low, it appeared to be absolutely nothing wrong with the plane, and then it very deliberately ah flew into the side of the World Trade Center.
Bryant: Why do you say “very deliberately?”
Davis: Because the pilot aimed right for the building, and there was nothing wrong with the plane
Bryant: The plane did not appear to be in any trouble in any way whatsoever?
Davis: None whatsoever.
Bryant: And we’re talking about a commercial aircraft, a 737?
Davis: It appeared to be a 737, I can’t…be absolutely certain, I’m not a…
Bryant: Obviously, I’m not asking you to be an aviation expert, but clearly what you saw, or what you say you saw, not a small aircraft.
Davis: It was not a small aircraft. It was a small commercial aircraft, like a small Airbus, or 737 Boeing…a 2-engine jet.
Bryant: And that was the first plane...did you…did you see…we’re looking at a um, tape replay...
Davis: Ya
Bryant: ...of the second plane boring into the building. It’s hard for us to tell how large an aircraft it is, or whether or not it was intentional, um…go ahead, I’m sorry.
Davis: Believe me, it was such an intentional…we saw the second one come up the Hudson and veer into the second building.
Gumble: (pause) Why do you say the second one was intentional?
Davis: Because it was flown very…deliberately, there appeared to be nothing wrong with the aircraft, it was flown very deliberately into the building
Bryant: Have they, have, you don’t, obviously you’re at 50th, obviously you don’t have any vantage point down there. What is everybody else talking about there who have the same vantage point they see all the same thing you did?
Davis: Ah yes. Ah ah well the others did not see the first one but there were several people in my office when the second one came in.
Bryant: Ya we’re looking at the second one boring in right now and it does not seem to be wavering in any way or seem to be banking to avoid the tower in any way.
Davis: Let me say, it hardly be a coincidence that two airplanes fly into the World Trade Center within ten minutes of each other?
Bryant: Ya.
Davis: On a clear day.
Bryant: Ya…It’s a terrible scene right now.
Davis: Yes but the towers are…..(missing…..garbled…terrible?)
Bryant: Wow. Wow. Miss Reynaud, are you still on with me. Theresa Reynaud?
Theresa Reynaud: Yes I’m here
Bryant: Can you tell us if the scene has changed from your vantage point?
Theresa: I would say from my vantage point right now, it looks like there are very few flames coming out of the first tower, still a lot of smoke. The second tower we can still see flames coming out of the window, the north window, and, ah, a lot of smoke, a lot of smoke, the tops of the buildings are covered in smoke, ahm.
Bryant: And from your vantage point you can’t see anything that’s happening on the ground?
Theresa: No I can not...I hear a lot of sirens out on the street now ah you one thing you could see in the windows is all of the emergency system lights blinking off and on in the first tower, when that happened and I can’t see them anymore. And the second tower I cannot see any emergency lights in the building.
Bryant: Ya.
Theresa: Blinking.
Bryant: I’m going to thank you both right there and pass along word that we are getting from the FBI that at this point the FBI is trying to confirm, trying to confirm that this was an intentional act. Um, at this point its pure speculation, Mr. Davis has told us what he saw that it appeared the ah first plane, ah a large aircraft ah bored into the westernmost of the two towers in an intentional fashion um, while a, while we were, speaking moments ago, a second plane, hard to identify the size of it, bore it’s way into the easternmost tower so we have ah two crashes here is a different angle of the same plane you see it up there on the left ah boring…yaa…ah...boring into there. But again at this point um…it is restricted airspace, it is a clear day, so the suspicions are high these are intentional acts but the FBI is still trying to confirm that these are intentional acts. We have another eyewitness, sir, on the phone, good morning.
Frederick: Good morning Mr. Gumble.
Bryant: How are you?
Frederick: I’m fairly frightened, I have to say.
Bryant: Um, give me your name if you would.
Frederick: My name is Frederick Schneider, sir.
Bryant: Mr. Schneider, where are you?
Frederick: I am on Liberty St., which is the same street the trade center is on. I’m on the south side, and the trade center is on the north side, my office is on the 24th floor, so I have a very clear view of exactly what happened this morning and I’ve been here for two hours so I have been watching it unfold.
Bryant: Two hours!
Frederick: Yes, I got to my office at seven.
Bryant: Oh, I’m sorry. Tell me about the timetable about when things started to go terribly bad this morning.
Frederick: Well Mr. Gumble at about 8:50 this morning there was an explosion. I heard it first and then my building which is 51 stories tall shook and rocked, and then I saw a plume of flame shoot out of the trade center over the Hudson river, and then I saw the plane that had crashed into the trade center, ah fall down, and then it disappeared behind a building that blocks my view. There was a tremendous amount of smoke and then it started to rain huge pieces of paper and the paper continued to come down. At that point all the news media started to learn about it and when I turned on my radio, and while I was still sitting at my desk I saw a second jet, a fairly large plane fly in over the south end of Manhattan and deliberately fly directly into the trade center before my eyes.
Gumble: (sadly) Why do you say ‘deliberately fly into the trade center?’
Frederick: Because…um…there was no doubt in my mind that both planes were using the trade center as a target. They weren’t in trouble… tape ends
AJR Oct.01
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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The Observer (London) 'Heroes of Ground Zero' Feb. 17, 2002
The Bergen County Record (NJ) 'In `9/11,' CBS Airs a Chilling Look Back' March 6, 2002
GlobeandMail "War on Terror" March 9, 2002
The Bergen County Record 'The Secret Of Father Judge' March 17, 2002
Irish Voice 'The Fr. Judge I Knew and Loved' March 19, 2002
The Bergen County (NJ) Record 'On Priests, Celibacy, And Child Abuse' April 1, 2002
Web Page: 'St. Pat's For All: NY's Inclusive Irish Parade' June 8, 2002
Knight Ridder News 'Police, reporters find holes in tales of ground-zero 'hero'' June 9, 2002
NPR Weekend Edition 'Analysis: Proposal to make Father Mychal Judge a saint' June 30, 2002
Arrangements / Death Notice for Michael T. Weinberg Aug. 16, 2002
Sunday Mirror (London) 'When you get on that rig you never know what's...' Aug, 18, 2002
CBSNews.com: 'The Tower Is Down Ground Zero' N.Y. Aug. 19, 2002
CBSNews.com 'What We Saw: Jules Naudet' Aug. 19, 2002
CNN.com - 'Transcripts Interview with Christopher Keenan' Aug. 25, 2002
St. Anthony Messenger 'Ministry at Ground Zero: Firefighter Chaplain' Sept. 2002
Sunday Star-Times `The look on the jumper's face was shock' Sept. 8, 2002
Sunday Mail Glasgow 'Witness: September 11 tribute Father Mike's death meant five....' Sept. 8, 2002
The Boston Herald 'A journey to heal the heart.' Sept. 9, 2002
The Scotsman 'Fire in their hearts' Sept 9, 2002
The New York Post 'Father Mike: What Really Happened' Sept. 9, 2002
National Catholic Reporter 'Fr. Judge's, successor reflect on now-legendary friar.' Sept. 13, 2002
The Mirror London '9/11: One Year On..: I Can't Bear To See Tape Of My Dead Pal.' Sept. 13, 2002
The People London 'In The Foot Steps Of My Hero;' Sept. 15, 2002
Irish Voice 'The Book on Father Mike' Sept. 17, 2002
Downtown Express 'How Father Mychal Judge came out posthumously' Sept. 18, 2002
The Bergan County (NJ) Record 'Heroic death concludes a life of service' Sept. 26, 2002
The New York Times 'Killed on 9/11, Fire Chaplain Becomes Larger Than Life' Sept. 27, 2002
The Independent (London) 'September 11 and the clamour to canonise...00001' Sept, 28, 2002
GayCityNews 'The Times, They Are Not (Always) Changing' Oct. 4, 2002
National Catholic Reporter 'Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero' Oct. 4, 2002
Dayton Daily News/Cox News 'Compassionate Priest Carried His Own Burden Of Pain' Oct. 13, 2002
PBS 'Heroes of Ground Zero: Timeline of Tragedy' Dec. 22, 2002
The Bergen County Record 'St. Mychal' brigade growing' Dec. 25, 2002
USATODAY.com - 'The making of St. Mychal' by Clarisse Jones Feb. 20, 2003
Web Site: www.tampabaycoalition.com 'What Makes a Gay Hero?' April 29, 2003
New York Magazine 'How 9/11 Changed Us: Christian Waugh Interview' Sept. 11, 2003
The Boston Herald (Editorial) 'A high price for `friends'. Sept. 26, 2003
Web Site: Ray Ubinger 'Father Judge's Foot' April 6, 2005
Web Site: Ray Ubinger 'Strange Death of Father Judge' April 6, 2005
The New York Times: '9/11 Rescuer Recalls Fear and Faith' August 14, 2005
Blog: Gateway Pundit '9-11 Families Protest Freedom Center Plans' Sept. 10, 2005
New York Times 'Admirers of Fallen 9/11 Hero Disdain the Vatican's...Bar Gays' Sept. 25, 2005
New York Times 'Survivors Begin Effort to Save Stairway....'Path to Freedom' Nov. 25, 2005
The Village Voice 'Saint Of 9/11' May 3, 2006
Philadelphia Weekly 'Upward Christian Soldier' May 3, 2006
The People London '9/11 Hero Priest Will Be Gay Icon' Aug. 27, 2006
Security Magazine 'Five years after: from Father Mychal to better protection' Sept 1, 2006
Tribeca Tribune 'An Uncertain Fate for 'Survivor Stairs'' Sept. 1, 2006
Irish Culture and Custom 'Fr. Mychal Judge - the saint of 911' Oct. 18, 2006
Web Page: www.spingola.com 'Jules Naudet' June 29, 2007
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA 'Book celebrates life of fallen priest' July 31, 2007
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, (PA) CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS Aug. 1, 2007
Christian Science Monitor 'Rudolph Giuliani: faith in work, God, and himself' Oct. 3, 2007
NY Daily News 'Faithful flock to Father Mychal Judge's grave to honor 9/11 hero' May 11, 2008
The Bergen County (NJ) Record 'At a Totowa cemetery, paying homage to Father Judge...' May 26, 2008
Web Page: NYFD News www.thebravest.com 'A JUDGE FOR ALL' Aug. 21, 2008
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AboYMd7OOP_LZGM1MmtjdmZfNDA3Y2RwNnpmZ2M&hl=en
NY Daily News 'Bravest Battle Grief As They Sort Through Rubble' Sept. 13, 2001 Cached,
The Bergen County (NJ) Record 'Relatives Wait And Pray For The Miracle That Will...' Sept. 13, 2001
The Scotsman 'Victims themselves, those who sought to bring succour and safety' Sept. 13, 2001
MSNBC 'The Tragedy of Ladder Company 24' Sept. 14, 2001
The Journal News 'U.S Under Attack: Fire chaplain remembered' Sept. 15, 2001
Los Angeles Times 'His Parish Knew No Bounds' Sept. 16, 2001
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) 'New York Says Farewell To Its Brave Chaplain' Sept. 16, 2001
The Bergen County (NJ) Record 'Thousands Mourn Beloved Fire Chaplain' Sept. 16, 2001
Newsday 'Devoted to His Job and His Sister' Sept. 17, 2001
Web Page: bravestmemorial.net 'Firefighter Michael Weinberg' Sept. 17, 2001
Associated Press 'Among the lost: Officer died helping others on his day off' Sept. 18, 2001
The Mirror (London) 'Families' Despair: Chaplain's twin sister tells of joy...' Sept 19, 2001
The Michigan Daily 'Ex-Tiger farmhand victim of WTC attack' Sept. 20, 2001
National Catholic Reporter 'Churches respond with prayer, assistance' Sept. 21, 2001
The News Letter Belfast 'US Tragedy: Fifth Irish victim is confirmed.' Sept. 21, 2001
The Mirror London 'War On Terror: Tribute to hero priest.' Sept. 22, 2001
The People London 'Irish Man of The People: Does it hurt to see picture of...?' Sept. 23, 2001
Tributes Page for Capt. Daniel Brethel n/d
The Village Voice 'A Love Supreme' by Andy Humm Oct. 9, 2001
University Wire 'For the heroes at home' Oct. 16, 2001
Chicagotribune.com 'Loved ones' drive, devotion live on for families, friends' Oct. 23, 2001
New York Magazine 'The Firemen's Friar' by Jennifer Senior Nov. 5, 2001
Evening Standard (London) 'Firefighter widow's shock at new tragedy' Nov. 13, 2001
The People London 'War On Terror: Ground Zero Hero: Senator: Give...to Fr Judge.' Nov. 20, 2001
Irish Voice 'Fr. Judge Deserves Privacy, Respect' Nov. 27, 2001
St. Anthony Messenger 'No Greater Love: Chaplain Mychal Judge, O.F.M.' Dec. 2001
Speech NCAA President Cedric W. Dempsey January 2002
Newsday 'Rev. Mychal Judge, FDNY chaplain and WTC victim #1' Jan. 7, 2002
New York Times '...IMAGES; Video Captures Sept. 11 Horror In Raw Replay' Jan. 12, 2002
The People London 'Irish Priest Picks Up The Poisoned Chalice; Father Keenan...' Jan. 20, 2002
The New York Times '60 Firefighters Who Died On Sept. 11 Were Off Duty' Jan. 27, 2002
The Independent 'The brothers who made Ground Zero, the movie' Feb. 8, 2002
The Observer (London) 'Heroes of Ground Zero' Feb. 17, 2002
The Bergen County Record (NJ) 'In `9/11,' CBS Airs a Chilling Look Back' March 6, 2002
GlobeandMail "War on Terror" March 9, 2002
The Bergen County Record 'The Secret Of Father Judge' March 17, 2002
Irish Voice 'The Fr. Judge I Knew and Loved' March 19, 2002
The Bergen County (NJ) Record 'On Priests, Celibacy, And Child Abuse' April 1, 2002
Web Page: 'St. Pat's For All: NY's Inclusive Irish Parade' June 8, 2002
Knight Ridder News 'Police, reporters find holes in tales of ground-zero 'hero'' June 9, 2002
NPR Weekend Edition 'Analysis: Proposal to make Father Mychal Judge a saint' June 30, 2002
Arrangements / Death Notice for Michael T. Weinberg Aug. 16, 2002
Sunday Mirror (London) 'When you get on that rig you never know what's...' Aug, 18, 2002
CBSNews.com: 'The Tower Is Down Ground Zero' N.Y. Aug. 19, 2002
CBSNews.com 'What We Saw: Jules Naudet' Aug. 19, 2002
CNN.com - 'Transcripts Interview with Christopher Keenan' Aug. 25, 2002
St. Anthony Messenger 'Ministry at Ground Zero: Firefighter Chaplain' Sept. 2002
Sunday Star-Times `The look on the jumper's face was shock' Sept. 8, 2002
Sunday Mail Glasgow 'Witness: September 11 tribute Father Mike's death meant five....' Sept. 8, 2002
The Boston Herald 'A journey to heal the heart.' Sept. 9, 2002
The Scotsman 'Fire in their hearts' Sept 9, 2002
The New York Post 'Father Mike: What Really Happened' Sept. 9, 2002
National Catholic Reporter 'Fr. Judge's, successor reflect on now-legendary friar.' Sept. 13, 2002
The Mirror London '9/11: One Year On..: I Can't Bear To See Tape Of My Dead Pal.' Sept. 13, 2002
The People London 'In The Foot Steps Of My Hero;' Sept. 15, 2002
Irish Voice 'The Book on Father Mike' Sept. 17, 2002
Downtown Express 'How Father Mychal Judge came out posthumously' Sept. 18, 2002
The Bergan County (NJ) Record 'Heroic death concludes a life of service' Sept. 26, 2002
The New York Times 'Killed on 9/11, Fire Chaplain Becomes Larger Than Life' Sept. 27, 2002
The Independent (London) 'September 11 and the clamour to canonise...00001' Sept, 28, 2002
GayCityNews 'The Times, They Are Not (Always) Changing' Oct. 4, 2002
National Catholic Reporter 'Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero' Oct. 4, 2002
Dayton Daily News/Cox News 'Compassionate Priest Carried His Own Burden Of Pain' Oct. 13, 2002
PBS 'Heroes of Ground Zero: Timeline of Tragedy' Dec. 22, 2002
The Bergen County Record 'St. Mychal' brigade growing' Dec. 25, 2002
USATODAY.com - 'The making of St. Mychal' by Clarisse Jones Feb. 20, 2003
Web Site: www.tampabaycoalition.com 'What Makes a Gay Hero?' April 29, 2003
New York Magazine 'How 9/11 Changed Us: Christian Waugh Interview' Sept. 11, 2003
The Boston Herald (Editorial) 'A high price for `friends'. Sept. 26, 2003
Web Site: Ray Ubinger 'Father Judge's Foot' April 6, 2005
Web Site: Ray Ubinger 'Strange Death of Father Judge' April 6, 2005
The New York Times: '9/11 Rescuer Recalls Fear and Faith' August 14, 2005
Blog: Gateway Pundit '9-11 Families Protest Freedom Center Plans' Sept. 10, 2005
New York Times 'Admirers of Fallen 9/11 Hero Disdain the Vatican's...Bar Gays' Sept. 25, 2005
New York Times 'Survivors Begin Effort to Save Stairway....'Path to Freedom' Nov. 25, 2005
The Village Voice 'Saint Of 9/11' May 3, 2006
Philadelphia Weekly 'Upward Christian Soldier' May 3, 2006
The People London '9/11 Hero Priest Will Be Gay Icon' Aug. 27, 2006
Security Magazine 'Five years after: from Father Mychal to better protection' Sept 1, 2006
Tribeca Tribune 'An Uncertain Fate for 'Survivor Stairs'' Sept. 1, 2006
Norwell Mariner and Patriot Ledger Letter: 'A tribute to Firefighter Michael Weinberg' Sept. 6, 2006
Blog: ABFreedom 'Tribute to Capt. Daniel Brethel' Sept. 26, 2006Irish Culture and Custom 'Fr. Mychal Judge - the saint of 911' Oct. 18, 2006
Web Page: www.spingola.com 'Jules Naudet' June 29, 2007
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA 'Book celebrates life of fallen priest' July 31, 2007
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, (PA) CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS Aug. 1, 2007
Christian Science Monitor 'Rudolph Giuliani: faith in work, God, and himself' Oct. 3, 2007
NY Daily News 'Faithful flock to Father Mychal Judge's grave to honor 9/11 hero' May 11, 2008
The Bergen County (NJ) Record 'At a Totowa cemetery, paying homage to Father Judge...' May 26, 2008
Web Page: NYFD News www.thebravest.com 'A JUDGE FOR ALL' Aug. 21, 2008
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AboYMd7OOP_LZGM1MmtjdmZfNDA3Y2RwNnpmZ2M&hl=en
Monday, November 10, 2008
Illustrations from the Arlington County After-Action Report
22 illustrations converted to JPEG's from PNG's.
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