deep depression he was in. yeahah. my dad w was not a p pilot, but alwaways loved a airplanes. and i think bebecause we h had aviationon magazineses and book arouound, it wasas just obvivio. >> whahat i alwaysys tell peopos had one peperson not m made it of f flight 154949, sully woulu hahave been ththe same manan. ththat would h have destroroyed havingng just one e person diei thatat airplane.e. nonobody wantsts to be on n tha airplanene and have e that exexperience. it's not l like you wowon a rac you wowon somethining that's j purerely a celebebration. there is a a traumaticic part t. you need to be respectful of that. >> mark, i'm going to just have to interrupt you here for a moment because wouldn't you know, we've got some breaking news that's coming in to us right now. >> a plane has apparently gone down in n the hudsonon.. this is flflight 1549.9.
wawaiting for r the explososion. > it was rorough and itit wa viviolent. and i rememember it shshook a l. when w we seeminglgly stopped,d looked u up and i ththought i'm one piece.e. thisis plane is s in one pieiec. so i i thought t the closestst s the e back. i unbuckleled. the e flight attttendant wasas . wewe can't getet those doooors . ththe water prpressure outside lolot strongerer than we a are. shshe says we're in the wawater. you hahave two mininutes. she said g go to the w wings.. evididently whenen we hit ththe, the auxiliarary powewer ununit off,f, so o there was a hole underneathth the rear r gallie the water came r rushing in.n. that wasas my scarieiest moment. i i thought lolord, pleasese do let me drorown. it wasas so cold.. >> we dodon't know i if a rescu operatation is undnder way. > the tempeperature of f thar in the hududson river r only in 40s. >> 43 is hypothermia in less than minutes here. >> you never undnderstand ththe
are spouseses and famimily memb of t those who w were just on t plane ththat went dodown in the hudson, anand if you werere wil to give e up youour seatat foro them. anand he said d it wasas i incr how mamany people e did d thata. that always was very heart warming to know that there was people who i'm sure they needed to be in new york. i'm sure they did, but they gave up those seats so they could be there. >> sully! >> every year i have a celebration for our reunion. it's so wonderful for the passengers to get together and talk with one another. >> here's s to l life ten n yea later. cheers. >> cheheers! >> t this bond w was created ben all of us. we're the only ones that can really help each other as to the way we think about it. and bebelieve me, there isis pe 245 have gone e through someme really, , really, , really bada times. >> i d don't thinknk i'll ever the exact same self that i was
of the historic one. this picture actually was sully's last flight. it wasas right abobout that sas time i got my pilot's s license june o of 2011. >> i've gogot almost 9 900 hour flyiying time nonow. i asked d my instrucuctor in th beginnining, i rememember, at w poinint am i goioing to feelel flflying is lilike dririving a ? and he saiaid somewherere aroun0 hours. and sure e enough, he e was rig. >> just the small l amount of f dadamage can r really affefect airwrworthiness s of the airirp. so y you just wawant to makeke ththat there i is nothing g wroh it. >> one w way to thinink about peopople's respoponses to trtra exexperiences s is there's's so three e main respoponses. people m might not d do so well
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- - we don't k know if it t s a a commercialal aircraft.. wewe don't knonow if it waws a a private aiaircraft. we have nono idea. [tenense music]] - i firsrst heard ababout it whn i was s at the peneninsula hoto. i was fifinishing a a breakfat withth my counsesel, denny y, one of m my oldest f friends. wewe got up toto leave. one of m my detectivives, papatti varronone, wentnt over to d denny, whispered d in his earar. and d denny cameme over to e anand said, "a"a twin engigine "has crarashed intoo one e of the twiwin towers.. "thehere's a preretty bad fif. theyey don't knonow hohow bad it i is yet." and i i said, "welell, denny, we've gotttta head right dodown there."." and he s said, "yeah, of f course." [sirens s wailing] - ththere's a fifire inin the buildlding right t. hugege smoke pououring out o of. - i was onon east rivever drie and i cocould actualally see , anand it lookeked to me lile it wasas a lot of f smoke for a smalall plane. - therere was addiditional ds sosort of rainining down.. - - i rushed d down there, and wewe began to get t the reportsts. it starteded to soundd worse e and worse.e. - i cacan't imaginine what the i inside of that t building l looks l. - got t there veryry quickly.
- - i was stilill sort off arouound for thehe ride in the lasast couple o of day. it wasas so frustrtrating to watch t them burnrn through s so much mono. rudydy's people,e, they were burnrning money y like mad m . so mucuch good wilill. so many pepeople who wanteded him to susucce. - - here is the big g story toninight. johnhn mccain, t the big winir in t the state o of florida. he captutures the rerepublin presidenential nomininatio. - thisis, of coursrse, a a very diffificult night fofor rudy giuiuliani. he had b been hopingng that he w would be the victctor here inin florid. spent momore than $30 mimillion herere. - itit wasn't jujust a hard d t but lost c campaign. it wasas an embarrrrassmen. - he t thought he e was gonnae president. a lot of p people thought he was gonna be president. and he screwed it up. - i think that was a huge disappointment to him. having been so much a figure of attention, a fascination of media coverage, i don't t think he c could ber the ththought of l losing tha. ththat that sosomehow wass part o of his idenentity.
this rah-r-rah pro-amamerica kindnd of guy who o was lookining for didirty tricksks to t try to harmrm an americn polilitical oppoponent of his f friend, dononald tru. - giuliani's been doing business all around the world. and one of the places on the map where he started developing relationships is ukraine. anand who was s the obamaa admininistration p point persn for r dealing wiwith ukraine? it was joe biden. just think about how rich an opportunity that i is for rudydy giulian, who wawants to prorove himself for donald trump. - giuliani had one aim and one aim only. anand that wasas how to [bleep] ] up joe bididen. - you cacan't make t this stuff. joe bideden's son, hunter b biden, was making money off of a company ownened by a ukrkrainian olili. if giuiuliani coululd somehow d a a connectionon between joe bn
and d were notifified that a secondnd plane hadad hit. and realizized at thatat pot that, obobviously, it wasas a terroririst atta. [s[sirens waililing] - frfrom a new y york city firefifighter, "drop p what you'r're doin, report t to your comompany. "a majajor disasteter is occug inin new york k city this mornining." [peoeople clamororing] - whwhen i got t to chief ga, whwho was the e commanderr for r the rescueue effort, i said, "c"chief, can n we t a helicoptpter up therere?" anand he said d to me, "no. itit would be e too dangere. therere's too mumuch fire."" and d then, he l looked at me anand he said,d, "we can n save everyrybody bebelow the fifire." [draramatic musisic] [sirens s wailing] - - all of us s were reactc, justst trying toto make peoe asas safe as p possible. no one knenew exactlyy whatat was goingng on. no o one knew if thehere were momore plan. no o one knew if therere was anothther targ.
- ththere was ththis kind o, lilike, collecective releaea, "okay, if f he can begegin to s smile, maybybe we can t " i thoughght that wasas an impmportant momoment. - - it was likike a cucurtain going up on thihis newest p phase ofof the rudy y giuliani s st. - hihis responsese to the atats hahad elevateded him to an unprprecedented d place for any mayor. he was namamed time mamagazins man of thehe year. he wouldld walk intoto rooms d there'd d be standining ovation. - - if you donon't stop apappla, i will statart singingng. [lauaughter] - you walklk into everery rm and yoyou're the c center of attentition, anand it comeses to feel n nal and someththing that y you're . - bits of the old giuliani do crack through. he's still operating politically and trying to grab some more time in city hall, for at least as long as he feels he needs to be there. - - the offer r is there. . if e want t to accept i it, they c. - - some peoplple are wondndeg if maybe w we could