i was called probably an hour after i iarrived at the consultant's office and was told that the decision had been made to evacuate to this undisclosed location and that i was to report to the west lawn of the capitol as quickly as i could and that i could bring one staff person, so i did that. and laura petrue, one of my senior staff, came with me. we got to the west lawn and there was a circle of s.w.a.t. team members surrounding a helicopter and of course, the helicopter's blades were whirring and we ran to the helicopter, got inside. the headphones were put on and as we were lifting off, we could hear that the pilot was getting a communication, asking how many were on board and whether we could swing by andrews air force base to pick up senator lott and his staff, so we did that. we flew out to andrews first and then flew right virtually over the pentagon as we were even iq in the city. steve: what time was that? tom daschle: this was, by then, i would say around noon. early afternoon. and how did the city look? >> the city looked somewhat normal from the air. with one major exception