and it's not good having a soft steel column. >> steel loses its strength. >> it loses its strength inires. so this is to protect that. with the fire suppression system, so that the firemen have four hours to get here here. >> we have a teem column. this stuff is sprayed -- steel column. this stuff is blue, this particular building owner uses blue to show this is noncontaminated fire protection without asbestos. one of the big costs of retrofitting high rise buildings when you have to open it up like this is you have possible asbestos contamination and it's a big area to put the area into containment and to mitigate. >> they paint it blue because they really want to make sure everybody knows, this is not asbestos. >> okay. there's another way to do field fire protection. there's a kind of paint. and it's been used for the last 50 year or more. you can paint on steel, it's quite excessive -- expensive, it is fire proof paint. you have to protect all of the industrial elements except for those which are only for earthquakes. the presumption is, you're not having an earthquake at the same

to weigh on steel stocks like u.s. steel. shares fell 3.4% to close at a one month low. the company was able to hammer out a tentative labor contract with 16,000 union members. it's a three-year deal which the rank and file will vote on. there was some deal-making over the labor day weekend, including a cross-border drug deal. the buyer is canada's valeant pharmaceuticals; the seller is medicis. it's a $2.6 billion deal offering medicis shareholders $44 per share. medicis concentrates on dermatology treatments. the market certainly likes the combination. medicis' shares shot up more than 38%, closing just below the buyout offer. valeant stock also jumped, up 14.6%. this is almost a two year high. valeant has done more than a dozen buyouts this year. it was a different kind of deal for amazon.com. the online retailer struck a partnership with epix, a hollywood movie studio consortium made up of lions gate entertainment, paramount pictures, and mgm. the deal adds about 3,000 titles to amazon's streaming video library. pr

stainless steel is on overtime and reports stainless fatigue. the new ice collection calls white the new stainless. ge which is pushing new line of metallic slate. the fact that kitchen looks have just a 15 year life span according to the wall street journal. if you upgrade at the tailnd you may say doesn't that stink? that means your green fridge from 1975 is still out of style, way out of style. despite the push to new colors people continue to buy stainless steel and are even rejecting darker appliance colors like oiled bronze. if you switched to stainless you don't have to worry it's still the most popular finish. don't waste your money. >> now, maryland's most accurate forecast. >> what's wrong with green? i kind of like the color. here is what's gone. a nice shot. skill comfortable. lot of reports still feeling muggy. that will change over the next 12 hours, 66 degrees the official number at 11:00. you see how the northwesterly wind is come around. that's what will drag in the driver air into the next few hours or so and by tomorrow you wi

but after 36 years here, there's steel in his blood.ng standing family history. >> my great grandfather started down there in the 1900s. my granddad after that. my father, myself and then my daughter was after me. she would be the fifth generation. >> reporter: built 125 years ago, the mill was once the world's largest, producing steel for the golden gate bridge and both world wars. in its heyday, america's steel industry boasted 600,000 workers. today it's down to 87,000, and this company has come to exemplify the industry's struggles, a chain of owners, layoffs. there was once 31,000 employees here, now there there's 2,000. two months ago they got the news the plant was closing. >> i'm speechless, i don't know what to say. all these young people with kids and homes, cars. what are they going to do? where are we going to go? 2,000 of us all at once. where are we going to go? >> reporter: there's been a ripple effect in the community. just down the road, richard mckee's family business started in the 1930s and, thanks to the steel worke

that's 427-tons of steel. but it requires only 47 pounds of explosives carefully placed to do the job. after 78 years in the business, the process is strictly retune for the cleveland wrecking company that has the contract. here's the count down. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, fire. >> fire in the hole. if the next target for dell hreugs -- for demolition is the going to be the two concrete beams. no more underwater demolition after the first of march that's when the fish spawning season starts it'll have to be over by then. >> when we come back on a second look, when the new span of the bay bridge is done, what happens to the old one? ken wayne will answer that question. and a bit later talking to a legendary iron worker who helped build the bay, golden bay and cartenas bridges. i thought of something else we need fwhat's that? it's a 200 watts per channel dynamically balanced surround sound wireless baby monitor... >>> drivers on the bay bridge have been watching their tax doll

it is not finished so the steel that was once part of the world trade center sits in a parking lot.ple keep coming by to pay respects to the dead. >> coming here and seeing this physical piece just really solidifies all of my thoughts and feelings and brings it home >> steel sections melted through like butter. others twisted and tortured by plato. >> is not just deal, it represents the lives that were lost >> eventually it will be combined with huge glass panels with the names of all of the dead. the glass as a special property that flows from behind when exposed to light. the idea is to make sure we will never forget. >> i think we took it for granted that we live in the united states and we're safe here >> we were caught off guard, we thought we were invincible, and it really brought us back down to earth >> this memorial will not be in the parking lot much longer period is scheduled to be installed in downtown napa this coming spring. >> for more on the ceremonies marking the anniversary and to see a photo gallery of 911, 11 years later, go to cbssf.com and click on the story. t

during a lunch break, steele extracted a plastic shank from his anal cavity.ief deputy district attorney a.j. salazar. >> i remember i was wearing a white shirt, my tie was off to the side, and i looked and there was a hole in my shirt and i was bleeding. >> the stab wound, itself, was not considered serious. the bigger problem was the risk of infection. >> i went to the hospital, i was at the emergency room, i went through a series of shots, they cleaned out the wound. it took several blood tests and i remember picking up the blood result and looked and looked for hiv. and hepatitis negative, hiv negative. so i was like, well, all right, i'll go ahead and take that. >> we asked steele for his version of the story. and in spite of all of the witnesses, he claimed absolute innocence. >> they're saying i stabbed him in court in front of judge, jury, and executioner. >> what are you saying? >> i'm saying i had nothing to do with it. >> were you there? >> nope. >> really? >> how many different ways you want me to answer that same question? >> so you're denying thi

the bridge is supported by a steel structure encased in reinforcing layers of concrete. and as the fire radiates intense heat, the concrete begins to break down and melt. >> it was splattering kind of like a grease fire. actually concrete breaking loose and liquefying at a boiling point which is also dangerous in that area. >> then you just had the steel beams exposed. the unexposed steel beams on the bottom side of the bridge were actually taking the majority, taking the brunt of the heat. >> and firefighters are aware that the steel beams holding up the bridge can't take this kind of punishment for long. >> knowing that gasoline burns at about 1,870 degrees, and the steel support would resist up to 1,000 degrees we did expect it to collapse at some point in time. >> but the question remains, what exactly will happen when the bridge comes down? >> the gasoline tanker to me was very unstable because we didn't know how it was going to react. >> firefighters continue to pour water on the inferno in a vain attempt to get the flames under control. but after 40 minutes of rel

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steel, u.s. steel and reliance steel, all down 4% or more. investors also taking a bite out of netflix, after macquarie started coverage at underperform. netflix shares tumbled $3.50 or 6%, to $57.02, the firm's concerned about weak subscriber growth, and the cost of content. it has a $50 price target on netflix. apple shares headed in the opposite direction, as the iphone 5 rang up big sales: 2 million pre-orders in just 24 hours; with those pre-orders in mind, piper jaffray analyst gene munster, says the launch weekend could see as many as ten million iphone 5's sold. apple shares continue, at record highs, up $8.50 to just shy of $700 a share. the stock crossed the $700 mark in afterhours trading. an after-the close drop in shares of chip maker advanced micro devices. the stock closed the regular session at $4.01 and fell almost 8% afterhours, on word c.f.o. thomas seifert is resigning to pursue other opportunities. turning to buyout news: learning tree, moving sharply higher. the company's c.e.o. offers to take the education company priva

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but looking very much like a broken man. >> we visited steele several weeks later.out the incident we had filmed earlier. both he and prison medical staff also gave us permission to air the footage we had shot of him. >> that day i saw you up here with your things packed ready to go home, did you believe in your heart you were going to go home? >> yes. >> and what about now? >> i don't think so. >> so what do you think, do you think you're going to have to stay in this housing unit? >> i hope not. >> what do you want? >> i want to be released from prison. >> prison psychologist reggie matias hopes steele will be well enough eventually to be transitioned to a less restrictive unit. >> we have a program where they work in general population, they do that for a week or so, maybe two. if it looks like it's going well, then they'll move them up to a dorm and they can go to work from there. essentially they would be discharged from the chronic care unit. >> i heard you've been doing much, much better these days. >> i'm trying to. >> yeah, good. the plan is as soon as you

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though steel's family wanted life. >> you need some evidence of premeditation and we just didn't have it. >> she could give him grandma's early advice. >> steel's family say they accept the legal realties for 60 years. they just wish they knew why. fitts at such a young age turned to murder and today when he had his chance to talk in court, he stayed silent. at the prince georges county courthouse, scott broom, 9news now. >> as part of the plea deal, fitts gave up his deal in the future. >>> it's nice out there today. things are going to change radically tomorrow. anny hong with more. anny. >> watching a line of storms that will impact us tomorrow afternoon. right now, the only storms are really spotty in nature. as for winchester, a little one earlier in hagerstown. but overall, things are quiet for today. a live look at our michael and son weather cam. temperature now mid 80s. plenty of shine out there. dew points still high. 69, and the winds are coming in from the south at 13 miles per hour. still muggy today. stormy saturday, then nice. partly cloudy and muggy for tonight. saturd

one in a cornfield in indiana. [ applause ] >> today steel dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the united states. these are american success stories. and yet the centerpiece of the president's entire reelection campaign is attacking success. is it any wonder that someone who attacks success has led the worst economic recovery since the great depression? [ applause ] in america, we celebrate success, we don't apologize for success. >> is mitt romney overstating when he says president obama attacked success mort? >> i don't think he is overstate it go. what i have said -- overstating it. what i have said is this the administration that boos the winners in the just boos the losers. and there has been a tradition in this country that they have deliberately, in my judgment, tried to create in order to channel the anger against the business community. it is very counterproductive and i think he is trying to deal with that issue. >> well we did have a major financial meltdown four years ago because of excesses in the financial community. you didn't hear any mention about that. and

working with concrete, iron, and steel, wood and plaster, they were working in tonnage and crafting in inches. the sharp corners and angles dictated by the design hato be joined in perfect alignment. skilled cabinetmakers fashioned coffer forms of cle-grained fir, finished and rubbed like fine furniture to avoid blemishes and imperfections on the final pou afteweeks ofeaving steel, the moment of truth ( engine rumbling ) ( men talking indistinctly ) they had performed a delicate triumph in architectural casting. in the fall of 1975, the bearing walls and concrete work were in place. now they were ready to receive the marble. it would take 3 1/2 years to prepare properly and place the 7,081 tons tennessee marble that would adorn the outer skin and inside walls and floor. ( men conversing in foreign language ) unlike its predecessor, it would have no cornices or trim to cover mistakes in joining. each meeting of stone would be exposed, leaving no room for error. the marble would expand and contract with the cycle of the seasons. they had to invent and design a neoprene gasket, permitting

we started a steel company in a cornfield in indiana. it's called steel dynamics.s 6,000 employees today, one of the largest steel companies in the country. what happens in the campaigns, they need to use hyperbole to make these attacks. we have 350 investments, those companies over 28 years have grown twice as fast as the s&p 500. they've created $125 billion of new sales so that's extraordinary growth and that's given bain capital an extraordinary track record. when you have that kind of growth, that growth creates jobs, helps the companies. >> you're not disputing it. you're saying that with a small -- >> we've had 80% of the companies have grown revenues. what happens in these deals is they time shift. for example, that steel company, we bought them. it was going to be closed down. we saved all those jobs. we invested $100 million in the plachblt it grew. six years later we took the dividends for our investors like all corporations do. six years later japanese dumped steel, prices went down. hundreds went down and we're a vick testify of that. you can't press t

>> if you're looking at the steel industry, any increases in the infrastructure would be a plus for steel industry. we issued a report this week discussing the difficulties we see the steel industry facing over the next year or so. we think those are pretty serious problems. i think the improvement in infrastructure, steel is used widely in infrastructure. so, it's one of the biggest uses of steel. so, if there's going to be an increase in infrastructure, that's good for the steel industry. your issue about whether it's good for overall investment and if the investments are made wisely, that's really a different question. >> what does this mean for the cycle, though? because what's been of note for markets is an extraordinary drop we've seen in iron ore prices based on the story. do you think the projects announced this week will be strong enough to arrest that decline? >> i think market sentiment will be positive so there will probably be improvement in the price of iron ore and coal because those commodities have dropped so rapidly and they're probably at spot prices that don't necessar

the majority of them are steel. the building i'm in it has been evaluated and it has compared well with -- >> is it a coul concrete buildi? >> it is right there. >> the concrete building on the west coast is third street, built just a couple of years back. >> modern concrete buildings we think are very good. but the buildings that were built before the mid 70s, when the codes changed, the buildings that are built out of concrete are a hazard maybe. >> 1920 to 1970, there is a class of buildings we're struggling with. in 1971 they built a hospital out of this. and a week before the hospital opened, they had the san fernando earthquake and the building collapsed. now, trust me, when you have a hogs collapse, you've got a lot of attention. and they banded in the next code cycle. >> so there is a class of high rise buildings that it's a potential hazard. it's not the downtown office buildings. it's these tall concrete high rise buildings and they have a problem in mexico city with that. >> when the when they do the ba,

we believe that steel industry. you want us to score a comparative of course it was regular it's reasonable and the question still. says there are some specific issues for example in birth of. your goods from ukraine or an export of hardware and the united states which require specific decision and also it's important to mention that exertion. doesn't believe the immediate role for us in the university but it could be on a longer run strong facilitator of russian economy economy growth which will generate additional demand was due to our benefit sure. and right now it's taken to analysts and experts to find out more about that gas from problem we'll have that for you next hour for now back to you to have a well thanks for that update marina now i'll be back with the headlines after the break you're watching r.t. stay with us. well. it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the few jerks covered. be a.

we believe that steel industries. steel industries quite a bit you of course draw some great debates there is a moment the question still. says there are some specific issues you solve for example in birth of. your bill of goods from ukraine of russian export of. the united states which require a specific decision and also it's important to mention that session. doesn't believe big immediate role for russian steel industry but it could be on a longer run strong facilitator of russian economy economic growth which will generate additional demand was due to our benefit sure. let's get to the markets and see what's happening the european markets are now open and as we can see both the footsie on the dogs are managing to get a in the first hour or so of trade and not just by the european union being downgraded by moody's investors service the actual outlook was downgraded they did manage to keep hold of that aaa and that still now well the agency was citing the risk to germany from u.k. on the neverland's which make up my

how come the steel wool gets rusty and rusts away and the hunk of steel like-- more what? sa, sa. surface area. yeah. you gonna cook some french fries. yeah, but the skinny ones, it's gonna cook faster than big fat ones? why? - more surface area. - more surface area. you're making some meatballs. kinda taking a long time to cook, so you flatten them out so there's more surface area. it cook faster? yeah. yeah. yeah. it cook faster. big people--lee? all right. can ants breathe through their skin? say again. i think the ants breathe through their skin. ants? ants? insects breathe through their skin. they got a lot of skin or a little skin compared to that-- that which they have to nourish. begin with the l. - a lot. - a lot. okay? human beings can't do that. you know why? we're too big. so we have to have another system all together. so we've developed what? an awful lot of surface area. it's all inside. take your lungs, gang, and flatten them out. cover the rug of all this room and two other rooms too. you have enormous surface area on your lungs. all those little many folds, and s

and the corrosion that you see in those, the structural steel corrosion you see on those, i've worked on one on golf street. we had to store shore it up. there's 10,000 pounds of concrete with no visible means of support because the steel had totally rusted out. so when you have big ones like that, you really want to pay attention to those because they are massively heavy. >> and on the left, the same kind of thing where we have the concrete rail probably precast pieces fit together with steel reinforcements. that well could be rusted. who knows? before we started to talk, dave and i were looking at some of these slides and we're talking about the stairs. they're not just wood. but they may be made of concrete, for example, the gray stairs here are probably concrete at the bottom. often there's brick underneath that's holding up the stair itself and then there's wood for some of the members. in an earthquake, all these things move at different speeds. they all expand and contract with the change of the weather and seasons at different speeds. and it means that it's very hard to flash

you see the enormous steel frame. it's such a little building. across the street is the self storage. you see the fire escape in front and it has to pass that awning. >> what are the regulations about attaching thing to a fire escape? it says available. >> nothing is allowed on the fire escape. >> i know a lot of people like to put their potted plants and turn them into a balcony. >> bbqs are a no no. it's supposed to be for fire response. many, many violations for that. >> one of the things, people always say, this is a hazard. you've don't you do something. how many of you have had to exit a fire escape in an emergency? it's rarely used and we have very few incidences. therefore, based on our history, epidemiologically. we don't have reason to believe they're not functioning. there's no reason. these are working just federal fine. >> it always works at least to get you out of the second floor. the last floor is easy. thank you for coming. our brown bag lunches continue and we invite you to join us. thanks a lot. >> i love teaching. it is such a

michael steele is joining us. we are going to throw a little bit up on the web.

no more moral place in the world than a steel mill because you know keckly what is right and exactly what is wrong. if you knew what is wrong with some 500-ton oven that is melting 500 tons of steel, you can't be immoral. that doesn't have anything to do with the bible. >> you draw parallels between bill gates and -- why? >> in the book the great innovator who created a new kind of metal that is stronger than steel, that product was so competitive and so destructive to the status quo that the unholy alliance and corrupt government officials inspired to put them out of business in the same way as people who could not -- and conspired to put bill gates out of business. don't tie yourself that was it to good or. those guys were paid off and egged on by people in silicon valley such as bill gates. >> here's a little taste of donald luskin's, i am john galt, today's heroic innovators building the world and the villainous parasites destroying it. this is booktv. .. >> they operate danced is will not because of the lands it occupied but attacked because of the values and the values of democ

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ak steel, u.s.el, all these materials companies, particularly them, and when the cycle turns down as it is, and it's going to stay down for a while, you want to get away. not as bad as the last cycle back in the 1990s where you saw a steel company go bankrupt but it's going to get very, very ugly. i'd stay away completely. >> grasso, give me a comment on steel. you agree with weiss or not? >> yeah. where i differ from stephen is that i'm still going to buy that seasonality trade probably at the end of november going into december because you get a pop in a lot of these. and i don't care where they pop from. as long as i can make 15%, 20% in a week or two. profits don't care. >> let's move on and talk united health making its debut as a member of the dow replacing kraft. grasso, read on this one today? >> i'm actually long aetna in the space and i'm getting a little bit nervous. this whole space was seen as a favorite for a lot of retail investors, a lot of institutions. going into the year end, fisc

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it's just steel as far as i can see. >> see, we have enough structured steel here that will build twoes equal in size of the golden gate bridges in california. >> two? >> two. >> these two mega projects plus three others are costing saudi arabia a total of $60 billion over five years. and they're not borrowing any of it. it's all being paid for in cash. still, saudi costs for producing oil are the lowest in the world. how much does it cost saudi arabia to produce one barrel of oil? >> [laughs] this is an excellent question. it is very small, very little. it's probably less than $2 to produce a barrel. >> saudi arabia reportedly needs to sell oil for at least $55 a barrel to cover the cost of running the country. fossil fuels finance 75% of its entire domestic spending budget, but oil has sunk below that break-even price. does this worry you? does this send chills through your spine? >> oh, i am not a worrier. i get concerned, but i don't worry. >> are you concerned? >> the concern is this: any price must be good for the producer, for the consumer, for the investor, the oil companies.

like play-doh. >> it is not just steel, it represents lives that were lost. >> los angeles deal will be combined with glass panels, where the names of all the dead, the glass has a special property that clothes from behind when exposed to light. the idea is to make sure that we will never forget. >> i think that we took it for granted that we live in the united states and we're safe here. >> we were caught off guard, we thought that we were invincible. and it really brought us together and brought us back down to earth. >> this memorial, all 35 t of it, will not be in the parking lot much longer, the skeleton will be installed this coming spring. >> and for more on the ceremonies, marking the anniversary, and to see a photo gallery of 9/11, 11 years later, go to cbs sf .com. >> of the main thing that think is misunderstood right now is how fundamentally good is on a lot of different levels. >> the facebook ipo flopped but mark zuckerberg says to look on the bright side. what he admits that he does not do anymore. >> we ran back upstairs with fire extinguishers to break the windows ou

that's the key to the steel producers. steel production is down. hang in there. >> i like that.off. big pop for best buy, up 4%. mike khouw? >> credit suisse may be indicating that they're coming close to working out a financing deal for the co-founder who made that lbo proposal a while back. a lot of the p/e firms are fairly noncommittal. it involves a lot of debt for a deal this size. >> a drop here for sleeping on the job, a gat burglar caught napping on the floor of the home he was burglarizing. police say he entered the home before 5:00 a.m. and collected valuables before falling asleep on the kitchen floor. maybe he has a disorder or a problem. >> narcolepsy. >> you never know. pop for barnes & noble. pop 6%, guy. >> you've been rewarded to be short this stock the last few years. it's something to do with their nook -- >> two new nooks. >> are you still sitting around in barnes & noble reading? >> that's why point. put it out there again. we invite the barnes & noble's hishg hierarchy to come on the show. charge them to get in. that's your business model. i'll go long the

first off i want to thank burke buyers and buyers steel. thank you for hosting us this morning. thank you for all the work you've done to make this possible. [applause] thank you everybody, for taking the time, for coming out in the rain. have a seat. let's have a conversation, okay? you got seats. let's use them. i got to start off on a, something that was really troubling that occurred last night. did you guys watch that packer game last night? i mean, give me a break. it is time to get the real

the cell doors is all mild steel. if you take a spring clip like part of a fingernail clipper and that is spring steel, hardened steel. and they'll sharpen that. they'll cut the weapons right out of their cell doors. they'll simply choose a section of the door and scribe on the door the same size as a weapon that they want to cut and they'll just keep scribing it until it cuts all the way through the mild steel. >> when gang members in the pelican bay shu make weapons, they're expected to use them. >> i was involved with the aryan brotherhood back in 1984 when i was at folsom prison. you know, we had some work that needed to be tended to. so i put in some work, stabbed an individual. he needed to be taken out. >> walter "big foot" farmer's involvement in the white supremacist gang, the aryan brotherhood, eventually landed him in the pelican bay shu. but that didn't end his loyalty to his gang. >> of course, you have to earn your bone, which basically means you have to earn your blood in, blood out. you know, and i got

in fact, steel is preferred for a lot of uses because it can be recycled and reused. especially really good redwood and stuff that used to be used for exterior decks is almost unavailable but it's extremely political lynn i correct to use this clear redwood. now there's other materials including metal and other kinds of fabricated lumber that's kind of glued up. and you lee a lot of it. >> it's different types of pressure treated. >> so what used to be used almost exclusively is redwood in our area. and you still see huge amounts of old redwood. >> and that was all first growth 300-year-old trees that they just cut it down and the wood was perfect. that doesn't exist anymore. >> that's right. so one of the requirements for the use of wood in the outside is it really needs to be decay resistant or as they say in the building code, wood was a natural resistance to decay is the correct word. so here, i brought a few samples just to talk for a second. here. tell me what this is, you guys. >> that's crappy dug fir. two-by-four. >> if you use this outside, what happens? >>

donald barlett, james steele, thank you for joining us. >> guest: thank you. >> guest: you're welcome. >> and you are watching booktv on c-span 2. we are on location in las vegas at freedom fast and as entrepreneur, wayne allyn root -- allyn root in his book, "the conscience of a libertarian". mr. root, if we start by giving us a quick bio of yourself so people know who's talking. >> guest: appgen automation or at life through at first joseph is based in vegas. i was thinking of vegas for skimming for 25 years before he ever got involved in politics. i guarantee i'm the only person of freedom fest with a star in las vegas. las vegas walk of stars of the people of the world. wayne newton and wayne root and franks are not shut shatt and liberace, interesting crowd. i did into politics at a guarantee of nearly las vegas huffaker to be a vice presidential nominee and a regular on fox news. american sherbet or fox news.com. i write for probably every major conservative website in the world. my commentary is read by 75 million people and i do about a thousand radio interviews he aired. so i

i said, that's steel. that's a steel structure. i didn't finish the sentence... >> we started to run. we heard a strange sound like steel bending and creeking. creaking. and the building started to implode like a pancake effect. >> we set up to go live, within a minute or two after he got the camera hooked up and we set up to go, reporting in the street, that's when the first tower fell. >> we heard the rumbling of thunder, but it wawbts as loud as i expected it to be. >> holy [bleep]! [sirens] >> what shot is that? >> oh, my god, look, look, look, look! look! point that way! oh, my god. >> just as i was about to come up, as i was going up the stairwell, the building started shaking up, up and down, a couple of feet in either direction and finally, i said, hit the deck. >> we are on church street. we are not sure what happened. there has been a huge explosion. everyone's running for their lives -- literally. police, media. i see a woman pushing a baby carriage. here comes the smoke [sirens] >> i couldn't see anything because of awr