95th Floor News Today

11th, 2001, louis and diane were excitedally getting ready to move into a renovated house in westchester county, new york. diane, who has been a friend of mine for more than 35 years, says her husband did not have to go to work that day but felt it was important to just go in briefly for a morning meeting. do you remember anything about him going to work that morning? >> yes, because we were so giggly and silly. >> reporter: louis was a senior vice president of the fiduciary trust company. he wo...

Building. the world trade center in new york was the first target. thats where most of the nearly 3,000 victims lost their lives. among them, a husband and a father who worked on the top floor. gary tuckman has a personal connection to the family and he shares their story. >> reporter: on the morning of september 11th, 2001, lewis and diane were excited getting ready to move into a renovated house in westchester county, new york. diane, a friend of mine for more than 35 years, says her husband d...

Move into a renovated house in westchester county, new york. diane, who has been a friend of mine for more than 35 years, says her husband did not have to go to work that day but felt it was important to just go in briefly for a morning meeting. do you remember anything about him going to work that morning? >> yes, because we were so giggly and silly. >> reporter: louis was a senior vice president of the fiduciary trust company. he worked on the 95th floor of the south tower of the world trade c...

Heres abcs gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, terrifying stories being shared by passengers who plunged 84 floors in this elevator. >> i believed that we were going to die. we were falling down. >> reporter: this man told chicago tv station wbbm that six people, including his wife and a pregnant woman, boarded on the 95th floor of the former hancock building and quickly realized something was wrong. >> we were going down, i felt that we were falling down, and then we heard a loud noise, clack, c...

Rescues. we have truck companies all throughout the city that assist in elevators that are stuck throughout the city. >> reporter: wow. the whole operation took maybe three hours and 15 minutes. 3:00 in the morning, two tourist, two northwestern law students and a pregnant woman were reunited with other friends who taken a different elevator from the 95th floor down to the bottom. >> shepard: thanks. the u.s.-led coal leg in syria is denying reports it killed dozens of civilians by carrying out ...

Daughters stuffed in oil barrels. christopher watts parents gave statements in court today. they said did not want leniency. >> shepard: live from denver. now that elevator that plummeted more than 80 floors in a chicago skyscraper. the people inside trapped for hours. >> reporter: it happened on michigan avenue in the building formal known as john hancock tower. six people were riding down from the signature lounge on the 95th floor. they took the express elevator. they say it started moving wa...