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Islamophobia. >> thats exactly right. the big problem for the muslim community from a spectator perspective, every time an event like wisconsin happens or obama is accused of being muslim, immediately you will see, well, they werent really muslim. obama isnt muslim. almost by default saying if they were, all the better. >> thats right. >> thats right. if it were muslim it would be illegitima illegitimate. >> a muslim should not be president of the united states, and obama has gone to a great ext...

We have ten to 12 blocks from the world trade center. these firefighters are walking down towards the site now. they literally have been arriving by the dozens over the past hour or so. as we say, probably in excess of 1,000 or more emergency workers from new york city and surrounding areas converging on this site now to try to make some sense of it. as you can imagine, at this point, theres a certain level of chaos because they are trying to sort out whos alive and whos not. when i asked one wh...

Obviously in serious disstress. bleething problems are the biggest problems for those that manage to make it out of the area below us. you cant see much more than a block south of me right now. the world trade center probably stands ten blocks south of where i am at this moment. as you can see now, the dust is beginning to pick up here. it really depends on which way the wind blows as to whether or not we get heavy dust or not. at this point, i can tell you that in the first few minutes, emergen...

Was capable of coming down, but it did. they are basically saying keep back as far as you can. on the other hand, facing that danger, as we have been telling you, many hundreds of these workers are heading over those lines, down to the burning building to try to rescue those people who are in there, be they emergency workers, be they civilians. >> we will go to mick. what is the latest from the pentagon? >> katie, security officials here another the pentagon have not only evacuated the building ...

Me but this is a circumstance which is very, very difficult to describe in many ways without sounding mellow dramatic. certainly in 20 years of covering horrific events this is something ive never seen before. many of the emergency workers basically happy to be alive. that picture tells it all. many of them happy to be alive at this point. >> that was nbcs pat dawson. he is standing ten blocks from where the world trade center towers used to stand. we are looking at the collapse of one of towers...

Yasser arafat, the lead other the pla pla, palestinian liberation and he condemned it scene said they are shocked an appalled by what is happening. it was an earlier report that. we dont know who is response able for this it was carefully planned and coordinated and fair to say it has been devastatingly efficient and effective attack on a part of this country. >> lets go to pat dawson down by the world trade center. >> there are probably, at this stage, i would say hundreds, perhaps in the thous...

As you pointed out, so importantly of the still untold loss of life and its going to be horrendous. we dont know what the exact numbers are but we can only tell you by looking at the pictures but you can guess, as well kz we can, that a lot of people will not escape. >> in 93 when the bomb blew up in the base of the world trade center, a lot of people talked about how long it took to walk down the smoke-filled stairway and you think of how many were trying to escape when the first and then secon...

Street to record the inferno using his cell phone camera. he captured emergency workers spraying a special foam. the flames draw back, belching thick plumes of smoke and steam. the firefighters disappear inside the cloud. as scary as that looks, in just two minutes, the foam does its job and the fire is out. >> as soon as they got it foamed, the entire area filled with smoke. it was smoldering for quite some time. >> inside the incinerated vehicle, firefighters discover remnants of toddlers clot...

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