was also the day that i was called up from atlanta to report at the pentagon. i never left. thank you to all of those who have kept us safe ever since. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this special report. fair balanced and still afraid. special interview tomorrow. today our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came you should attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil despicable acts of terror. >> well it was a gorgeous day.

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we're nuts about nuts. >> i was in the battle cap. we were starting a norad exercise. we have a couple of those a year. also because of the exercise we had the fighters on alert with a little extra gas. with some more weapons on board than they normally would. >> the morning of the 11th i received a call from an individual i assumed was the exercise coordinators asking of a notification of a hijacking situation approaching from the northeast. >> okay. my name is betty ong. number 3 on flight 11. >> okay. >> and the cockpit is not answering their phone. >> i our number 1 got stabbed. our purser is stabbed. nobody knows who stabbed who and we can't even get up to business

class right now because nobody can breathe. >> you're a great job. >> we have some planes just stay quiet and you'll be okay. we are returning to the airport. >> what is going on end? >> we contacted air traffic control. >> okay. >> he turned his trance ponder off so we don't have a definitive altitude for him but they seem to think he is descending. >> a note was handed to me just as we were coming out of the video teleconference. boston center has a suspected hijacked airplane. i have put the f-15s at otis air national guard base on battle stations. i said scramble them. we'll hold them out over the water until we get the permissions if necessary. a hijacked airplane we know nothing about it at all. do not know where it is. >> what's going on, betty? betty talk to me. betty, are you there?

>> we just had a plane crash into the upper floors of the world trade center. the world trade center tower number 1, is on fire. the whole outside of the building. >> we have a very tragic alert for you right now. an incredible plane crash into the world trade center here at the lower tip of manhattan. >> believed the 737 crashed into this speculation at this point and at least three floors taken out. joining us one of the producers with fox report owen on the scene. owen what do you know? what do you see? >> i'm on the roof of my building which is about five blocks to the south of world trade center and looking right now at the world trade center. there's a massive, gaping hole on the secondtower. it's about 15 stories from the roof. it's just unbelievable. there's a massive hole.

>> fire department 408. where's the fire? >> yeah hi. i'm the 106th floor of the world trade center. we had an explosion. >> okay. 106 floor. what building? >> one world trade. >> okay. >> i can see the smoke coming up from outside the windows. >> okay. just sit tight. just sit tight. we're on the way. >> all right. please hurry. >> the plane obviously went in on one side and came out the other. this is horrible. right now, let's hand it over to john scott. >> you can see the smoke, the smoke tower is growing. there is quite a bit of flame inside the building. i was just walking into the studio that day. i wear this little wireless ifb we call it. i heard this very urgent voice get in my ear and say, john scott, studio b now! it was a minute or two we got the pictures up from the fox 5 helicopter. and i mean what could you say?

>> the two towers are home at least during the day to upwards of 50,000 workers. >> yes, i understand that. >> 120 floors. >> we have a number of floors on fire. it looked like the plane was aiming towards the building. >> i was on the 67th floor when the first plane hit and it took me a second or two to catch my breath. >> i'm walking on b-4 going towards the parking lots. all of a sudden the whole floor, the whole building just rocked. it just rocked and threw you and just threw you. you didn't know what happened. >> at 8:46 when boom there's this loud explosion, noise, somewhere. i didn't know exactly where. all i saw right up against the glass was fire. flame. just a big fire ball.

>> i'm looking at something that's steel and all of a sudden it's -- it's ripped like it's paper because of whatever just passed through there and then this big heat through the corridor i'm in and then -- then there's silence. >> for no apparent reason, i just turned looking toward jersey over the hudson and i see fire balls falling down from the sky. i don't know when's happening. when's going on. >> these are coming to you live now. debris raining down from 110 floors up. as you can see, this is a clear blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident it would be a needle in a haystack kind of accident. >> i was actually in new york in

my office like everyone else or most other people. i thought, my god, how could this possibly happen but never suspected the magnitude of what was facing us. >> i was in my office with my speech writer and secretary called in to say that a plane had hit the trade center. turned on the television and sat there wondering how can an airplane hit the world trade center? it's a clear sky. no weather problems. >> one of those normal tuesday mornings and i was standing at my desk getting ready for my staff meeting down stairs with my senior people and my executive assistant walked in and said a plane hit the world trade center and my mind went to perhaps a twin engine plane and i said that's a terrible accident. >> as i was leaving the motorcade, i got a page telling me the world trade center was hit by an airplane and as the president is shaking hands going into the school karl rove got to the president and told the

president. the president went directly into a holding room. >> and i called the president and said mr. president, a plane hit the world trade center. he said that's strange, a strange accident. i said i would call him back with more information. >> first moments i called major giuliani and got a hold of him right after the phone with rudy i called the president. he was at florida at the educational conference and able to get him out of the conference and urge him to shut down the air space over new york. >> the walk down was very calm. people in the staircase were well behaved. they were calm. occasionally somebody would become anxious but somebody else put their arm around them and say it's okay. we're doing fine. we've got around the mid-20s, we began to see firemen walking up the stairs and for the people walking down the sight of the firemen was a very calming

experience. when i got into the lobby, see the damage there, the full impact was really beginning to dawn. >> now you hear silence and it's a dead calm of dust and smoke and all of a sudden you hear people slowly somebody starts screaming, someone starts yelling, someone starts saying -- you're hearing -- you're hearing help. you're hearing please. you're hearing very -- one at a time you're hearing it and just started and then everybody's screaming and coming out. what happened? what happened? what happened? >> as one of the volunteer fire marshals on our floor, i jumped up grabbed a flashlight put a whistle around my neck and ran out of my private office into the larger office. and said come on everybody. let's go. there's been an explosion upstairs. we have to move. >> elevator came. we went down stairs to the ground floor now about to get through a turnstile. the security guard asked us where are you going? i said i saw fire balls we are getting out of here.

no. go back to your office. your building is secured. it is safe. >> there was an announcement. the strobe lights flashed normally. siren whoop whoop a little bit and there was a very clear announcement. building two is secure. well that took a little bit of pressure off. i went for a walk to the east floor which is where our trading floor and walked up to the north wall and there were a lot of our people against the glass looking up to their left. you could see the north tower. and very sadly at that moment what they were looking at was people jumping. >> it was all smoke and fire and the walls were caving in. you couldn't even see the exit getting into tower one. i'm saying let's go. it looks like a clear shot home. you're going towards building two. let's go. whoever can make it i started 9500 at 9,000 now. >> do you know who he is? >> we don't know who he is. just picking him up now.

>> heads up. looks like another one. >> all right. >> staios this is craig. are you there? stace. okay. listen. you'll be hearing news reports. a plane crashed into the other tower of the world trade center. actually right near us. i mean we can see it clear. it's right on our level, too. >> i had two messages left on my answering machine. one just saying st ace, it is me, pick up. we screened our calls all the time. that was 8:49 and then another message at 8:54 and it was him again letting me know that i was going to be hearing on the news that the other tower had been hit. >> everyone here is okay. it's kind of pandemonium. we don't know what the heck happened there. so give me a call when you get this. okay bye.

>> he was eye level with tower one and watching people jump to their deaths and then to know that he was about to die after his tower was hit, there's pain and suffering. >> whatever it was hit the north side of the building. fire is venting from at least one floor. >> just stepped off the elevator on 78 two steps and the plane hit and had no idea what it was. a lot of walls just disintegrated and the vel va or the doors blew out and flames flew out. a few minutes after this happened it was obvious it was worse than i thought it was. >> 10-4. we have units on the way up now. reported fire on the 78th floor. unconfirmed at this time. >> i work my way over to what i guess was the main exit stairwell. it was probably in the middle of the building. so where in the middle of the tower. and started going down. 78 floors. we heard another noise and the building shook again. not as much as the first time.

that had to be the second plane hitting the other tower. somewhere in the 30s, 30s or 40s first firemen and policemen starting coming up. i made it down to the ground floor and came out in the plaza where the fountain is. that was horrible. that was a war scene. fires, debris falling from both towers. i saw dead bodies out there right in front of the window right in front of me there was a body strapped to an airplane seat. >> there was another one. we just saw -- we just saw another one. we just saw another one apparently go -- another plane just flew into the second tower. this raises -- this has to be deliberate folks. we just saw on live television as a second plane flew into the

second tower of the world trade center. now, given has been going on around the world, some of the -- some of the key suspects come to mind. osama bin laden. >> my first instinct was, what is going on? how many planes are there? where are they coming from? who are they? and who do i call for air support? i'm the police commissioner. i have 41,000 uniform members. 55,000 people work for me. and we're prepared for anything you could imagine. this was something you couldn't imagine. >> walk back down the hallway. back to my desk. and the phone is ringing again. this time it's a young lady from chicago, one of our rep offices. are you okay? i'm fine. for no apparent reason mid sentence just happened to raise my head to the statue of liberty and seeing here is a big, giant

aircraft gray with red letter on the wing and the tail coming straight eye contact eye level towards me. the next thing, i knew i dove under a my desk screaming, crying. and the plane crashed in the middle. building. the plane coming straight towards me and the wing wedged in the office door 20 feet from where i was under the desk. >> i knew it came down and blew out everything and elevator cables snapped. when you hear a 10,000 20,000 30,000-pound elevator coming down the shaft and hear them and you know they just died. whatever just was over there you knew died. >> you have a second plane into the other tower of the trade center. major fire. >> at 9:03 or whatever time it was when apparently the second plane hit, when boom-boom, there was a double explosion, it was

the plane hitting the building and then exploding. and for the next ten seconds i was terrified. >> the impact was so great and the sound it made was so loud that i got temporarily deaf. i couldn't hear anything. and it looked like a demolition crew in and just knocked everything over. >> the building just continued to move. left left left toward the hudson river, a long long way. it felt like yards. whether it was or not i don't know but the sensation was, we are going too far. we are going to fall over. something's happened. i also knew in an instant it was terrorism. and the room just fell apart on that second explosion. >> division 1, be advised, 3 adam reports that you have a second plane that crashed into the second tower. about two thirds of the way up. transmit a fifth alarm for that building as well. >> walls door, some door frames

fell out of the wall and as if someone ripped open a concrete sack. >> i'm crying. and saying lord i don't want to die. i don't want to die here. i have two little children. please, lord take me. save me. send anybody to help me. >> the building just swayed forever one way and came back to vertical and then i sort of snapped out of it and sorebered. >> as we were in the small tier event in the classroom i got a second page telling me the second tower had been hit and right away i knew it was terrorism. shortly after i got that page andy card walked in and was whispering in the president's right ear that the second tower is hit. i put my back to the press pool and said don't say anything else and held it up for the president to see. >> our went doll goaler at the white house, rather, make that

sarasota traveling with the president. wendell, who's the reaction from the president? >> john the president is here promoting a reading initiative on the second day of a two-day trip to florida. he just finished reading to some children at the emma booker elementary school and was asked about the incident. he said he was aware of it and that he would have something to say about it later. >> i am going to die, aren't i? >> no no no. >> i'm going to die. >> say your prayers. we are not -- >> i'm going to die. >> we have to think positive. >> i'm going to die. i know i am. >> stay calm stay calm stay calm. >> you're going a good job, ma'am. you're doing a good job. >> it is so hot. i'm burning up. >> be advised we have jumpers, k, jumpers. >> division 1, be advised. we have jumpers from the world trade center. >> it is beyond belief both

towers of the world trade center are burning. both have apparently been hit by aircraft. >> my first reaction was to get down to the scene as fast as i could. as i was driving down emergency vehicles were going obviously flying down to the scene and i jumped behind a police car and drafted it all the way down and pretty much got two blocks from the scene. >> very first thing we did was we got some establishing shots. >> i got close to the tower and was shooting it but it was so tall that i had to keep backing up. to get a better shot. >> and when i got the first tight shots i realized what was happening at the top of the towers. >> i look up and people start shouting they're jumping. i look up just in time to see someone leap from what must have been the 108th floor. >> just do not believe this is

happening. >> this is ridiculous. please stop jumping. >> they really must have felt like they had no other choice. that decision they made remains for me the most horrifying part of the whole tragedy. >> i realized there were jumpers and people lining up in the window wells and i -- i shot the first two that i saw and then turned off my camera because i was overcome with emotion actually. >> you're conscious of what's happening but it's sort of looking through the viewfinder is sort of an insulator. it's black and white. it's not color. >> field commander number 2 world trade center people trapped at this time. >> i think they knew early on they with respect going to be able to get the fire out. they want rescuers up there as quickly as possible as high as possible. not concerned about the fire at

that point. >> as i heard a banging and a voice screaming for help help help i'm buried anybody there? i can't breathe. help. >> this is stan from the loans department. please don't believe me to die. somebody help me. >> the stranger's voice directing us, this way, over here. >> so even though he was responding i couldn't hear. i try to get up from under the desk and realize i was covered up to my shoulder in debris. i can peek through and saw the bottom wing starts to burn and my greatest fear is this plane was going to ignite this flame to ignite the fuel tank and explode and i will die. i crawl the length of the loans department through the lounge into the computer room into the communication room. and i couldn't to go further because there's a sheetrock wall blocking myself. he says jump over it. i will grab you.

and i got up from that prayer and i started punching kicking as hard as i can until a little hole appeared in the sheetrock. he said i see your hand. i say, yank me through. i jumped and i grabbed and stuck my head through. >> reached through, nothing happened. i said you must do this. i reached in and smau got under his arm or grabbed on to something and lifted him up over and this barrier and we fell on the heap in the floor. >> this man, he give me an a headlock. with all of his might he just pulled. and he just yanked me right through the wall. it was like a superman. just yanked me through and i fell on top of him. and i give him a big hug and kiss and said you are my guardian angel. my lord sent you to save me. >> and we started down the stairs. the inner wall of the fire stairs had blown in and we could look through the cracks and see

flames licking up the other side of the wall as we went down through the area. >> we stopped at a floor i couldn't breathe properly. i was cut, bloody and bruised. >> we went to the 44th floor and i know sky lobby, like an empty hotel lobby until a security guard manning the booth looked at us wide eyed and just quickly said have you got telephone? he said my phones don't work. i'll stay with this man if you get me help. >> the man lying, his back was broken covered with blood. please tell my wife and my baby i love them and send somebody up for me. but a security guard stood like a hawk guarding that man. that man sacrificed his life guarding this man because while we were going down no ems worker came up. >> stanley called his wife and said he was fine. i sauled 911 and after some difficulty took three or four

meants to get the message up there was somebody down on the 44th floor, i know they were overwhelmed, we went back to the stairs and all the way down to the plaza level without seeing a soul. nobody. on the plaza level, we staired in awe at this plaza where the fountain is normally flowing and people coming and going. we know nothing about hijacked airplanes, the pentagon, none of this. we're ignorant of all these facts. >> we got down to the ground floor. only cops and firefighters and ems workers were there. debris was falling down. it looked like confetti in a ticker tape parade. and they were telling us to run. just go. run, run, run. they stayed back. sacrificing themselves. so that brian and i could live. >> attention all you knits, by order of the city wide tour commander, all off duty firefighters are here by

recalled. by order of the city wide tour commander. >> president bush is about to speak. he's in florida at what was supposed to be a joyous event at an elementary school. let's listen in. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for america. i, unfortunately, will be going back to washington after my remarks. secretary of rod paige and lieutenant governor will take the podium and discuss education. i do want to thank the folks here at booker elementary school for their hospitality. today we've had a national tragedy. two airplanes have crashed into the world trade center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. i have spoken to the vice president, to the governor of new york to the director of the fbi. and have ordered that the full

resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act. terrorism against our nation will not stand. and now if you join me in a moment of silence. may god bless the victims, their families and america. thank you very much. >> we saw the second airplane fly into the south tower of the world trade center. so we decided to scramble the f-16s out of langley air force base. >> traffic's kind of crawling along. i'm flicking through the radio. they're talking about how the washington, d.c. is also on high alert status because they think that might be the next target. >> i walked into all of states

building. a group of people around the television. ready for the meetings. >> after the rush hour normally would have ended, yet i was stuck in rush hour like traffic on the road just at the west of the pentagon. >> we got a call that american airline 77 then was a potential hijacked aircraft. >> as we sat down to have a meeting for this client one of the people said well barbara olson won't be here because she is on a plane to california. >> the plane took off at 8:10 that morning or scheduled to take off. i had been in my office at the department of justice. >> one of the gals in my office came in and said, barbara's on the phone. i was at first relieved to hear barbara on the telephone because panic strikes immediately. then the next words out of her mouth were that ted, my plane's been hijacked. >> we are watching the aircraft in the system and trying to

determine where they are. >> we'll just put them back in to st. louis. >> may day! >> that's american 10-60? >> get me out of here. >> united 93 verify. united 1523 did you hear the company and interference on the frequency? screaming? >> yes, i did. we couldn't tell what it was either. >> okay. >> united 93 cleveland, identify. >> ladies and gentlemen, here the captain, please sit down. keep remaining seating. >> calling cleveland center. you are unreadable. >> sir, did you hear the -- bomb on board. >> say again. united 93? >> that transmission he said was unreasonable. sounded like a bomb on board. >> that's what we thought. we didn't get it clear. >> the pilot had announced the

plane was hijacked. she said shortly after takeoff and been in the air over an hour. she implied they were circling around for a while. she and the other passengers had been herded to the back of the airplane. i asked her whether they the hijackers, knew that she was calling. she said no they don't know. she indicated that they had used knives and box cutters to take over the plane. some point we were cut off and i called the command center of the department of justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. >> i keep driving and notice this plane coming in. really fast and really low. and i notice it's a silver american airlines jetliner and obviously a passenger plane, a pretty big one. >> i told her in the first conversation that the two hijacked planes hit the world trade center. her instinct is what should i tell the pilot? what can i do? i asked her with where she was and tried to tell me and what

direction. >> flight 77 made a left turn heading back after it was hijacked. they came back over washington fairly high. and then he did a left descending turn which gave him good visual visibility of the pentagon. >> i heard it before i saw it. i looked up and directly in front of my field of vision parallel to the ground i saw a jet airplane with the silver paint job with the red, white and blue stripes underneath the windows. it was clearly an american airlines passenger jet come roaring by. >> we did not know where that aircraft was. and then just moments later, that aircraft hit the pentagon. and of course our aircraft there headed towards washington, d.c. are well south of there at that time. they were not yet over washington, d.c. >> it didn't veer from its course at all.

it was like a missile right into the side of the pentagon. >> and then a huge fireball, pop, you know comes up in the air and smoke and i could feel the actual impact as the explosion because the ground really shook and even though my windows were up in the car i could feel the heat. >> david is joining us from fox central. >> john we are hearing right now of another explosion that's taken place at the pentagon. we have the heart of the financial district of america being attacked. now, we understand that there is an explosion, there's been an explosion in the pentagon. >> i began to hear reports of the explosion at the pentagon and i knew in my heart that was that aircraft. >> i think we just had an airplane crash. it was an american airlines plane headed east down over the pike possibly toward the pentagon. >> there is visible smoke coming from that area. high visible smoke. >> it was instantaneous.

just a very loud noise. the lights went out. everything's black. very heavy smoke. debris piled on top of me. i'm pinned in my chair at my desk. >> i came in to focus and i thought it was a couldn't be a live person and then i thought i saw it wink or blink and yelled for help. and from outside came lieutenant commander dave tarantino. >> feels like a furnace in there. i saw captain thomas who was trying to pull some debris. i looked off to my side and i saw mr. henson about ten feet away inside this kind of cave of debris. already my uniform's starting to melt my shoes are starting to melt and really real he eager for him to get out of there and go but he says he can't budge. i laid on my back underneath him

and put my feet on the debris on his head and leg pressed. >> with me pushing with my back against the pile and him with his legs he managed to get most of the debris up far enough to extri kate himself from the debris. >> i think it took about 30 minutes. i didn't think i had total time left. >> somebody was still up in there. we couldn't get everybody out. >> my boss didn't make it. the whole administration section of the general didn't make it. i think there were five of us in the station that survived. >> d.c. fire ems is going to plan "e" emergency plan requiring all offty personnel to report back to the duty stations right away. >> at white house, trying to evacuate the white house. >> the white house is being evacuated. that comes to us from one of our

fox producers in washington. the white house is being evacuated. the pentagon as well. >> you got to pack up and go. >> what? >> plane was hijacked 20 minutes south from here. >> get me on the 320 now! >> the streets around the white house blocked second ago. there's emergency personnels on almost every block around the white house and the white house is being evacuated. federal employees are standing on the street corners in and around the white house. having left the building for fear of another attack. >> get back! get back! >> they got another inbound plane. >> as they brought me out, i could see people running, people were crying hurry up get these people out because there's another one right behind. they must have had some input on the pennsylvania airplane. >> by now, we are firmly up on -- over washington, d.c. and we're watching united 93 now start very gradually to take up

a flight path right towards washington, d.c. and we were very concerned at that time. >> here's the captain. i would like to tell you all aboard and we're going to go back to the airport and we have our demands. please remain quiet. >> united 93 calling in you nilted 93 i understand you have a bomb on board. go ahead. >> did you understand that transmission transmission? >> affirmative. he said there was a bomb on board. >> as it started moving towards washington and we had f-16s over washington, d.c. i was probably energized to start moving those fighters toward that aircraft. we decided it's wiser to keep them over washington, d.c. in case another aircraft were coming in from a different quadrant that we didn't see yet. >> one of my agents all of a sudden grabbed me and said we have to leave now and no chance for debate and propelled me out of the office into the underground and we got down to a

place, a tunnel that's protected. so when i got down into the tunnel we saw that the pentagon had been hit. that was on television. and i called the president again. he was then in -- headed for the airport in florida. and urged him not to return to washington because washington was now under attack. >> flight 93 was the only aircraft that we could see on our radar at that particular time. it was either slightly before or right around the time that the american airlines 77 had hit the pentagon. and we could see this aircraft flying around up until ohio and pennsylvania area. >> united airlines called me and said todd made a phone call to the operator and initialled called to report a hijacking. he felt at that time this was a normal sort of situation to return them to the airport and going to be some demand made. >> i heard mark's voice saying, i'm on a flight from newark to

san francisco and three guys on board who have taken over the plane and they say they have a bomb. and i'm calling you from the air phone. and then there was a long pause. mom, you believe me don't you? i said yes, mark. i believe you whochlt are the guys? and another long pause and mark's voice came back and said you believe me don't you, mom? i said yes, i believe you. who are those guys? and then we were disconnected. >> you reached the mobile phone voice mail. >> mark this is your mom. the news is that's been hijacked by terrorists. they are planning to probably use the plane as a target to hit some site on the ground. go ahead and do everything you can to overpower them. they're hellbent. i'll -- try to call me back if you can. >> he told me immediately that he was on a plane that had been hijacked. and he gave me a few details of what was going on and told me to call the authorities. and he hung up. >> i said do you know who's flying the airplane? she says no i don't.

we have been herded to the back. >> there were two people who were hurt. they pulled the curtain to first class and he couldn't see what was going on. >> on the second phone call i told him immediately that the world trade center were hit and other airplanes were hijacked and he paused and told the people sitting around him. he was alarmed and then he said my god. it's a suicide mission. >> the plane turned around and started to dip and things as they changed their course back to washington. >> and the third phone call i told him about the pentagon. he told me at that point that he was putting a plan together to take back the airplane. i asked who was helping him. he said there's a group of us. >> we're back here getting hot water together to throw on them. do you have any other ideas? >> they're going to rush with a bomb and attempt to get into the cockpit. he said it's what we have to do. and it wasn't long after that

that she heard him say, as the men said are you ready? >> we are running to first class, i have got to go. bye. >> and then he said let's roll. and that's the last she heard. >> we know that the passengers made a rush on the cockpit and thwarted the hijackers. we know that because the cockpit voice recording, they knew there was a movement afoot in the back and the moments were numbered up front. and we heard someone heard on the cockpit voice recording, they're coming they're coming. there was a tremendous thrashing around of dishes and carts back and forth. >> this plane was at least 30 degrees if not more and rapiddy go to 45 degrees the other way. and rocking back and forth. i guess there was a fight going on and the airplane rolling right to left to right to left. >> we heard blood screams

happening more than once and i don't believe it was a passengers screaming. >> they were rolling, you know violently back and forth. >> the hijackers were panicked. do you want me to end it now? and i believe that that was their signal that hey, we're going to crash now because we're about to lose control of this airplane. >> i am absolutely convinced that fourth plane would have hit the capitol but for those heroes in pennsylvania. >> united 93 have you got information on that? >> yes. he's down. >> he's down? >> yes. >> when did he land? >> he did not land. >> oh. he's down down? >> yes. somewhere up north of camp david. >> authorities confirm a large plane crash about 80 miles southeast of pittsburgh. you've got to assume it's related to all of these goings

on. >> i told brian, i said this was the lord's doing. and i'm going to trinity church. he said look i'm coming with you. and together we grab each other hand and started to run. surprising enough not even one piece of confetti or broken glass touched us. and the next thing i know we bumped into a priest. >> stanley broke down and said this man saved my life. i said to stanley, i think maybe you saved my life too. he said i think that tower could go down. and i said that's no way. i said that's steel. that's a steel structure. i didn't finish the sentence. >> we started to run. and we heard a strange sound like steel bending and creeking. and the building started to implode. came down like a pancake effect. >> major collapse in one of the

towers. >> which tower, k? >> tower 2, tower 2. >> the south tower, major collapse. >> oh my god! oh my god! move. oh my god. >> we set up to go live. within a minute or two he got the camera set up and start to reporting in the street that's when the first tower fell. >> we heard the rumble like thunder but not as loud as i expected it to be. >> holy [ bleep ]! >> dude get the camera out there. what shot is that? the mass cam? >> look look. dude, look. point that way. oh my god. >> just as i was about to come up -- going up the stairwell, on the church street side the building started shaking up and down a couple of feet at in either direction. a fireman said hit the deck. >> we're on church street. we're not sure what happened. >> it fell down. >> everyone's running fir their lives literally. police media, i see a woman

pushing a baby carriage. here comes the smoke. >> guys? >> we got to move back. >> i couldn't see anything because of all the dust. all the lights were out. >> after the south tower fell that was the first time the panic set in because realizing the south tower was hit second and fell first, now you really had to worry about getting people out of north tower as quickly as possible. >> i pushed up and out and realized i was still alive. i didn't even know if i was alive or not. >> it's the whole tower. it's gone. >> holy crap! >> they knocked the whole freaking thing down! >> here comes the smoke.

it's unclear what happened. if the tower collapsed or what. but -- i think we better get out of this mess dude. >> we jumped in the truck with the camera and left about a -- you know an inch or two crack in the door with the cable inside the truck. >> oh my god. >> we might [ bleep ] die here together. you and me. are you all right? >> we were in the dark literally. and it was frightening. it was a frightening moment to have no connection with the outside world and to have no idea what was going to happen next. >> we shouldn't be here. should we? >> everybody else [ bleep ] ran. cops everybody. >> i don't know what to do. i mean, sign of danger, bro. >> get out of the building. get out of the building. >> john the scene is horrific. one of the two towers literally

collapsed. i was making my way to the foot of the world trade center. suddenly while talking to an officer, questioning me about my press credentials, we heard a very loud blast, explosion. we looked up. and the building literally began to clans before us. there was debris falling i'd say at least three quarters of the height of the bidding. people in the entire perimeter literally including myself and why i'm out of breath to run for our lives. >> this is actually a we believe debris of one of the planes that hit one of the towers on the world trade center. the fbi is here. they had roped the area off. taking photographs and securing the area just prior to that huge explosion we all heard. >> everything just all of a sudden just imploded. i ran as fast as i could and then all of a sudden the building started to filling up with smoke. we couldn't get out of the

building because everything was locked up and then i came out and everything was filled with ash. >> can anybody hear me? >> go ahead. >> i'm a civilian. i'm trapped inside one of your fire trucks underneath. >> stand by. there's people close to you. >> i can't breathe much longer. save me. i'm in the cab of your truck. i can barely breathe. please send somebody. >> what happened? >> you were right there at the building? >> there's people trapped. >> are you all right? >> a lot of people trapped. emt. this guy needs help. >> can you talk to us for a minute? tell us what you saw, are you sflrt. >> no. not at all. >> i feel bad approaching these people. i mean they're covered. they're just obviously in pain.

>> keep moving! let's go. >> in the place where that plane hit, outer wall of the building of course as you know a series of concentric rings and you are affecting that part of it. those walls are down and you can see gutted areas. >> the whole place blew. everything came down. couldn't see. couldn't breathe. terrible. i never seen nothing like it. i went through tet in vietnam and i never seen anything like this. >> can they go in based on the conditions of the building? >> somebody's going to have to. that's what we get paid for. because as soon as we heard the explosion, we ran out of new york state supreme court, jumped on the jury bus. came -- >> go! back it up. back it up. >> here we go again.

>> all right. here we go again. here we go again. i don't know what's going on. but this -- >> the second building is down. >> second tower is collapsing, i believe. >> is it down? >> i don't know. i don't know. this happened before. >> come on. just back up. come over this way, pat. fine. we will. we could see the top of the building from here. oh yeah. oh there it goes! there it goes! there it goes! oh. >> when it comes down -- >> we need to put it down now. here we go. >> we had a collapse of the second tower. everybody's running from there. >> you think you died three times and then people screaming the building's coming down and then all of a sudden you feel the rumbling of the floor down the west side highway. you just think, you just think it's going to -- something's going to fall on you. you just think you're going to die. >> have them mobilize the army.

we need the army in manhattan. >> i was trying to do the last man to make sure no one else was left behind. >> had to have a lot of fear and concern going into that building. that's what makes it such a heroic act. >> i got to about the 6th floor. all of a sudden just tremendous noise started. went black. the building was shaking. it was rocking and rolling. we were getting tossed around. i knew that the building was collapsing and thought it was seconds before we're dead. >> we've got numerous people trapped from the previous collapse. we need to get them out. >> where are you? >> we're about four feet under. i don't know. >> all of a sudden i'm laying in blackness. and went deathly silent. >> this is marine 6. i'm on the west side highway. i'm pinned. i can't seem to get out, k. >> i was covered in approximately six inches of debris. i thought i was dead.

saw nothing. heard nothing. i started calling for maydays, calling for help. >> it is my understanding that the bridges and tunnels in the city are closed. >> this has the signature of osama bin laden. he's had pilots on the payroll. not to say that's what happened here but they seem to indicate that this would have that signature. >> fire burns out of control at this hour. no estimate from pentagon officials on the number of dead. >> i felt a shock of the airplane hitting the building. went through the building and then out into the area and they were bringing bodies out that had been injured. >> you don't want people hurt. that's the operational rule. >> we were focused on if anybody cried out or were calling out. >> the people were almost like a still life. they were intact. >> it was very different,

especially because i had already found a bunch of people who were all burned up. there was this young woman there. she was in civilian clothes. very nicely dressed. her clothes weren't burned. the name tag, she was an easy i.d. i ever did. still around the chain around her neck and angela hoetz. it was like being hit by a hammer. a real person. a beautiful young woman. she obviously was going to leave that evening or that morning or something and go off to her life. and she wasn't ever going to do that. >> a lot of volunteers were doing a terrific job helping to bring them out of the buildings. >> the president flew directly here from florida. he is all right. we flew for a couple of hourless on air force one. we were not told where we would land until the time came. there were jet fighters accompanying the president's aircraft. >> make no mistake.

the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. >> by the time that the president had gotten off the air force base nobody was going to tell the president that he couldn't come back. the first thing he said when he got on the teleconference is coming back tonight. >> the city of new york and the united states of america is much stronger than any group of barbaric terrorists that our democracy, rule of law, that our strength and our willingness to defend ourselves will ultimately prevail. >> today was supposed to be an election day, at least a primary run-off day in manhattan for those who would succeed the mayor. that has been canceled. >> it was the hardest thing i ever had to do to try to maintain composure. i'm not trying to sound macho but i figured if i broke down

and cried which i was close to a couple of times that day it won't help anybody at home process the information we're trying to bring them so i just -- i said a little silent prayer and just tried to keep going. i hate to wonder how many of your people were there around the base of the twin towers when they began collapsing. >> i am very worried about them. and, you know saw some of them rush in and go in and was with them. we were in a building that was trapped for a while so -- >> thank god that i'm safe. i feel terrible for the people that we have lost some of whom i talked to just 15 minutes before we lost them. and the city's going to survive. we'll get through it. >> the only thing you could see from where we were a gouge in the earth and a broken trees. nothing to distinguish a plane had crashed there. >> just a few moments ago world

trade center building number 7 collapsed. we were warned by sources the building was in danger of collapse. engineers said it was structurally very weak. >> it was a lot of innocent people that died. all they did was a simple thing. all they did was come to work that morning. they didn't come to do battle. >> the people that went to vietnam knew what they were doing, they trained for that. you don't expect that just going to work in the pentagon in an office. >> he was already very focused and calm. it was remarkable to me. he was not shaken and n that sense. the one moment that i could see the horror in his face and his eyes was when of that famous picture of andy card telling him what had happened. he had remarkable composure through this whole period. in fact, was rallying other people.

>> terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings. but they cannot touch the foundation of america. these acts shatter steel. but they cannot dent the steel of american resolve. none of us will ever forget this day. yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. >> what it did was reaffirm to me that this is a country worth living in and these are people worth defending and that there are things in this world that you had to be willing to die for. >> i look back and see the firefighters and these cops who sacrificed their lives because of me. and i pick up the paper and i'm looking back and i'm seeing memorial service and the kids are in tears and i tell myself that could have been me. >> we shared such a powerful experience and depended on each

other that day, perhaps for survival. we'll always be in touch. >> and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. >> usa! usa! usa! ♪ ♪

live from america's news headquarters i'm kelly wright. good evening. a somber day in the u.s. as americans mark 15 years since 9/11. this morning, a ceremony at ground zero in new york city opened with a moment of silence and ringing bells. and then relatives of the victims remembered their loved ones reciting each name of the nearly 3,000 people lost. in virginia, president obama participated in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor those killed when flight 77 slammed into the pentagon. >> we remember and we will never forget the nearly 3,000 beautiful lives taken from us so cruelly. including 184 men, women and children here the youngest just 3 years old. >> hundreds gathering in pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed. folks there also holding a ceremony at the flight 93

memorial in shanksville. 9/11 is usually a politic's free day but hillary clinton's health is creeping back into the conversation. today, her doctor says the democratic nominee diagnosed with pneumonia on friday and put on antibiotics and advised to rest and told to modify her schedule. this after clinton was seen leaving today's 9/11 ceremony in new york early. the campaign says she was feeling, quote, overheated video quickly surfaced of clinton slumping on her way out. jeh johnson said the u.s. is safe from another 9/11 attack and said the country is facing challenges. >> we're safer now when it comes to another 9/11-style attack. but we're challenged when it comes to the prospect of the lone wolf actor, the home grown violent extremist and requires a new whole of government response. the high probability, higher probability type of threat

another san bernardino another orlando, is uppermost on our minds. >> 9/11 never forget. i'm kelly wright. coming up next "fox news sunday." for all of your headlines, log on to foxnews.com. i'm chris wallace. 15 years after 9/11 we'll examine the security of our homeland. are americans more or lesss safe? how's it shaping the trump/clinton campaign? [ bell tolling ] as we pause to remember one of the darkest days in our nation's history, we get a assessn assessment of future threats. >> you cannot eliminate all risk whether it's a terrorist attack or a mass shooting. >> today secretary of homeland security jeh johnson on keeping america safe.