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We have a breaking news story to tell you about. apparently a plane has just crashed in to the world trade center here in new york city. it happened just a few moments ago, apparently. we have very little information available at this point in time, but on the phone we do have jennifer oversteen who apparently witnessed this event. jennifer, can you hear me? >> hello? >> hi, jennifer? >> hi, katie. >> hi. can you please tell me what you saw and give me any information about whats going on there?...

Military to simply scramble jets and put them in the air. according to officials here, then do what? this area, of course, according to officials here, is obviously going to be declared off limits in terms of any air traffic. but right now officials here at the pentagon are simply scrambling to find out first, what happened, and what potential reaction the u.s. military could provide in terms of protection. possible further protection against any further potential attack. >> and, mik, its import...

A plane to get into this area without being completely tracked or identified by air traffic control. so you would have to imagine that, a, if this plane were headed right for the world trade center there must have been someone trying to talk or communicate with that pilot, and for it to fly right into the side of the building -- >> the smaller plane, you can understand almost. but a jumbo jet, a large jet, completely -- >> lets rerack that video if we could in the control room where we actually ...

The air is filled with hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper that are sort of floating like confetti. the area is swarmed with emergency vehicles and sirens. obviously were very sensitive to this kind of thing in this neighborhood. >> elliott, of course because of the incident that occurred in the early 1990s, have you seen evidence, elliott, of people being taken out of the building? you say emergency vehicles are there. understandably so. but of course a major concern is human loss. do you ...

Building. we dont know what kind of debris or wreckage -- yes, go ahead, jennifer. >> im talking with a police officer who said, yes, he heard it was a plane. >> does he have any information what kind of plane it was? can he tell us any more details? >> im going to put you on hold one moment. okay? >> just to the recap, if youre just joining us. youre looking at dramatic pictures of new yorks world trade center in lower manhattan where a short time ago we are told that a plane crashed into the u...

Thank you very much. >> were going to go to andrea mitchell now who has more information on this tragedy. andrea? >> reporter: matt and katie, ive spoken to a top u.s. official who says early reports to our intelligence community and to other officials within the administration are that this was a hijacked american airlines plane en route from boston to los angeles. one of the two planes, they say, was apparently a hijacked american airlines plane. they cautioned that early reports still need fu...

Second plane, that jet, fly into the other twin tower? >> i heard two explosions, however. there was a first explosion that was louder, and then a second explosion. and but i did not -- i could not see that. i looked up. when i looked up i saw debris falling and the tire as i said, a very large tire. >> of course this is, as weve said, completely shocking video. shocking turn of events. weve been talking here that the first incident, one might surmise that it was some kind of accident, then to h...

It was a very large plane. it was going south. it went past whats being built in battery park, almost hit it and then went in. >> this is so shocking. of course to everybody watching. >> ive never seen anything like it. it literally flew itself into world trade center. >> obviously now we move from what appears -- there it is right there. >> again, im looking from -- from south to north. it went in to the one on the right. it appeared to be the one on the right. >> that appeared to be at least a...

The middle of the other tower. i saw both planes, two separate planes crash into each tower. >> dan, again, the size of the planes, tell me about that. >> i would say that the plane was a midsize, looked to be a commercial airline. i dont know. i thought perhaps, you know, a commercial airline. a midsize, you know, not a jumbo jet. >> this, of course, is unconfirmed, but we are getting information from an employee of united airlines, and again we want to emphasize this is unconfirmed, but there ...

>> yes. >> tell me where you are and what you saw. >> well, i live in this area, i returning to my apartment. but i was walking down the sidewalk delivering my young daughter to school, and we heard a very loud sound, the kind of sound you hear when a plane is, you know, going fast past you. followed by an enormous crash. and an immediate explosion. i dont think we could feel shock waves but we sort of felt like we did. and we were in a position where we could see the trade center almost immedia...