he was working about a few blocks away at solemon smith barney. let's talk about your experience , because you lost many close friends. >> well, sure, many close business associates, the street was a very different environment and unfortunately, i did know many people who parished, who worked primarily at the world trade center and either sandler o'neill, cantor fitzgerald, obviously those were people who got in very early in the day and their offices were unfortunately fully staffed when the planes hit. liz: people don't really understand what the situation must have felt like, because i've been talking to traders who were actually on the floor. you were a few blocks away. they were shoved down into the basement, nobody knew what was happening. how concerned were you at that point, and then, once you realized what was happening, what emotions overcame you? >> initially people were talking about an explosion and irony icily i was there in the early 90s and in 93 was when there was a bombing in the basement or in the garages of the world trade cent