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It is safe. >> there was an announcement. strobe lights flashed, siren whooping a little bit and this very clear announcement, building 2 is secure. well, that took a little bit of pressure off. i went for a walk to the east floor, which is where our trading floor is and walked up to the north wall. and there were hay lot of our people against the glass, looking up to their left. you could see the north tower. and very sadly, at that moment, what they were looking at was people jumping. >> it wa...

This mess, dude. i think we better get out of this. >> we jumped in the truck with the camera and left an inch or two crack in the door with the cable. we decided to try. >> oh, my god. >> we might die here together. you and me. you all right? [coughing]. >> we were in the dark, literally. it was frightening. it was a frightening moment... to have no connection to the outside world and have no idea what was going to happen next. >> we should be the be here. should we? >> everybody else [bleep] r...

>> now you hear silence. and its a dead calm of dust and smoke and all of a sudden, you hear people slowly somebody starts screaming, someone starts yelling and you are hearingue are hearing help. you are hearing, please. you are hearing very -- one at a time you are hearing it. it just started and then all of a sudden, everybody started screaming and coming out, what happened?! what happened?! >> i jumped up, grabbed my flashlight from the credenza, put a whistle around my neck and ran out of m...

50,000 workers. >> yes, i understand that. >> we have no real floors on fire t. looks like the plane was aiming towards the building. >> i was on the 67th floor when the first plane hit. it took me a second or two to catch my breath. >> i am walking on "b" floor, going toward the parking lot. all of a sudden... the whole floor, the whole building just rocked. it just rocked and threw you and just threw you. ure didnt know what happened. >> at 8:46, when boom! there is a loud explosion, noise, so...

He said, look, im coming with you. and together, we grabbed each others hand and we just started to run. surprising enough, not even one piece of confetti or broken glass touched us. the next thing i know, we bumped into a priest. >> thats where stanley broke down and he looked at me and he said this, man saved my life. and i said, to stanley and maybe you saved my life, too. he said, you know, i think that tower could go down. i said, there is no way. i said, thats steel. thats a steel structur...

Opened a concrete sack and waved in the air, yellow and white dust everywhere. >> i am crying, saying, "lord, i dont want to die. i dont want to die here, i have two little children. please, lord, save me. send somebody -- anybody to help me." >> the building swayed and then it came back to vertical and sheen then i snapped out of it, sobered up and turned on my flashlight. e >> in that small-tier ehavent, the classroom, i got a second page, a second tower had been hit. right away, i knew it was...

But this -- the second building is collapsing, i believe? i dont know. i dont know. but this -- this happened before. >> come on, back up. fine. we will. we can see the top of the building from here. >> oh, yeah. oh, there it goes, there it goes, there it goes! oh, when it comes down -- we need to put it down now. we need to put it down now. here we go. >> the second tower, everybodys life in there. >> you think you die three times and people are screaming, the buildings coming down. and then yo...

Was about to die, there is pain and suffering. >> north side of the building, heavy smokes all over the top of the building. >> i stepped off the elevator on 78. two steps and the plane hit. had no idea what it was. the walls just disintegrated. flames shot out. so, a few minutes after this happened, it was obobvious that this was something a lot worse than what i originally thought it was. >> 10th floor, we have units on the way up. there is a fire on the 78th floor, uncorm confirmed. >> i work...

And the tail, comes straight -- eye contact, eye level towards me. the next thing i knew, i dove under my desk, huddled in a fetal position, screaming, crying and the plane crashed in the building n. the plane came straight toward me and the bottom wing is wedged in my office door, 20 feet from where i was, under the desk. >> i know whatever blew up tblew out in the shaft, elevator cables snapped. when you hear a 20,000-40,000-pound elevator shaft and you hear people screaming and you dont hear ...

>> fear and concern going. thats what make its such an heroic act. >> i got to about the sixth floor, all of a sudden, this tremendous noise started, went black. the building was shaking, rocking and rolling. we were getting tossed around. i knew the building was collapsing. i thought it was a matter of seconds before we are dead. >> we know there are people trapped here. we need to get them out. >> we are 4 feet under. i dont know. >> all of a sudden, i am laying in blackness and it went deathl...