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Washington. the white house is being evacuated. the pentagon as well. >> we have to pack up and go. >> planes just hijacked 20 minutes south of here and they are heading toward the capital. >> jim angle are you with us? >> streets around the white house were blocked.o there are vehicles on almost every block around the white house. as you know the white house is being evacuated. federal employees are standing on the street corners in and around the white house having left the building for fear o...

By this time the plane had been in the air for over an hour. they had been circling around for a while. she and the other passengers had been herded to the back of the airplane. i asked if they the hijackers knew she was calling. she said no, they dont know. she indicated they had used knives and box cutters to take over the plane. at some point we got cut off. i immediately called the command center of the department of justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked...

My head and leg pressed as much as i could. >> pushing with my back and him pushing up with his legs managed to get most of the debris up enough to extra kate himself. >> i think the total thing took about 30 minutes. i didnt think i had very much time left when the rescue team came in. >> we couldnt get everybody out. >> my boss didnt make it. the whole section didnt make it. >> dc fire units going to our plan e, emergency plan which requires all off duty personnel to report back to the news st...

They were ready to throw our meetings. >> after the rush hour would normally have ended yet i got stuck in rush hour like traffic on the road to the west of the pentagon. >> we got a call that american airline 77 was a potential hijacked aircraft. >> as we sat down to have a meating for this client one of the people said, well, barbara olsen wont be here because she is on a plane to california. >> the plane took off at 8:10 in the morning. i had been in my office at the department of justice. on...

Letter on the wing coming straight eye contact eye level towards me. the next thing i know i dove under my desk huddled in the fetal position screaming, crying a plane crashed into the building. the plane coming straight cards me and the bottom wing went in my office door 20 feet from where i was under the desk. >> a lot of us came down the shaft and blew out everything elevator cables snap. when you hear a 40,000 pound elevator coming down the shaft hearing people screaming then all of a sudden...

>> are you there? okay, listen. hearing news reports a plane crashed into the other tower of the world trade center. actually right near us. we can see it clearly. its right on our level, too. >> i had to listen to this on my answering machine. one jeff saying its me. pick up. we screened our calls all of the time. that was 8:49. another message at 8:54. it was him again letting me know that i was going to be hearing on the news that the other tower had been hit. >> everyone is okay. its pandemo...

Around him, are you ready? >> we are running to first class, i have got to go, bye. >> that was the last i heard. >> we know that the passengers made a rush on the cockpit a. we know that because the cockpit voice recorder they knew there was a movement afoot at the back. someone heard on the cockpit voice recording they are coming, they are coming. there was a tremendous flashing around of dishes and carts back and forth. >> this plane was 30 degrees it was rapidly go to 45 degrees the other wa...

Screaming for help. help, help, i am buried. is anybody there. i cant breathe. help. >> dont leave me to die. somebody help me. >> the strangers voice directed me come over here. >> even though he was responding i couldnt hear. so i tried to get out from under the desk. i realized i was covered up to my shoulder in debris. i had to peak through the rubble and i saw the bottom wing starts to burn. my greatest fear was this plane was going to ignite the fuel tank is going to explode. i was going t...

Wouldnt help anybody at home to process what was happening. i said a silent prayer and tried to keep going. >> i hate to wonder how many of your people were down at the base of the twin towers when it was collapsing. >> i am very concerned about this. i saw some of them rush in and go in and was with them. wrerp in -- we were in a building that was trapped for a while. >> thank god i am safe. i feel terrible for the people we lost whom i talked to 15 minutes before we lost them. and the city is ...

>> lets go. >> in the place where that plane hit the outer wall of the building, of course that building as you know is a series of concentric rings so when you hit the outer walls of the building those walls are down and you can see the gutted areas. >> the whole place blew. everything came down. couldnt see, couldnt breathe. terrible. i have never seen anything like it. i went through vietnam and i aint never seen nothing like this. >> can they go? ? >> we have to. thats what we get paid for. ...