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Were carrying passengers you couldnt shoot down a plane like that for the injuries you could cause on board and on ground in a place like manhattan. >> thats exactly right. they put them up in a protection mode. the governor has the air national guard at his disposal. the government is wondering what to do in terms of protection and how. again, to the counter terrorist, this is the worst place scenario. there seems to be not much they can do. >> obviously we are scrambling for information. i wan...

I dont know if this is the correct tape. there. something there is about to happen. falling away right there. >> it looks like a big chunk of it has just peeled away. >> one can only hope that the area has been evacuated, but you wonder about all the emergency vehicles and the people who might have been injured early in the morning. >> you remember when the bomb went off in the basement of it in 1993 how much damage was done throughout that building. how much chaos there was at that time. these ...

Evacuated. you can imagine that other buildings in major cities and small cities around the country are probably being evacuated as well. >> theres an unconfirmed report of a car bomb at the state department. we have not been able to pin that down. jim miklaszewski was told that there was an unconfirmed report of another air hijacking. we share this with you not in an attempt to in any way exacerbate what is already a terrible situation, but so much has come true today based on these early repor...

Have asked a lot of people. the high right and in new york i came happened as you tuned in the radio and then they began to get it. its election day here in new york. >> primary day. >> and what we have is something that most americans thought could never occur. >> larry johnson, a terrorist expert i just spoke with a few moments ago, the former deputy director of the state department office on counterterrorism claims this is a first. that he had never heard or seen anything like it. he talked a...

I would be inclined to say thats the case but there is always the possibility that you may find out after the fact that this was a suicide pact that had nothing to do with politics. that said this is a first. back in 1992 there was a -- excuse me, 1993, a plane was hijacked from germany and it landed in new york. one of the concerns we had was the possibility of that plane under the control of a hijacker flying into one of the buildings. my concern now is that there is always -- we ignore terror...

Outside the state department. >> andrea thanks. im sorry to interrupt but were going back to jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. mik? >> reporter: ive got my eyes peeled here katie. i dont see anything but security forces in the area have just blaired out over their loudspeakers to any pedestrians who are anywhere near the pentagon to take cover immediately. there was, as i said earlier, an indication that another plane may have been hijacked and headed in this general direction. so far all we see...

Intelligence sources that ive talked to say that they have not received any claim of responsibility yet. >> jamie, have you gotten any information from reagan national airport as to air traffic in the area this morning or anybody who might have somehow traced this plane or figured out from where it came or where it was going? >> reporter: they still do not have any of those details yet. it is almost impossible. they were confused for a long time as to whether its a bomb or a plane. they say now ...

Obviouslyiyy we are sensitive of this. >> because was incident from the 1990s, have you seen evidence of people being taken out of the building? emergency vehicles are there and understandably so but the major concern is human loss. do you know if there were something else. >> something else just hit! there is another coalition. can you see it? >> yes. >> something else. >> we saw a plane circling the building. we just saw a plane circling the building a second ago on the shot before that. >> i ...

Develop a great deal of information from sources, from in fact turning some former members of his network. so they believe, tom, that he is the most likely person but its far too early to say anything. >> we want to tell you that american airlines has confirmed that one of its flights, american airlines flight number 11 from bostons logan airport scheduled to go to l.a.x. it left at 8:00 a.m. this morning. 45 minutes later, it was diverted into the world trade center. it was the airline that was...

A shocking turn of events. we have been talking here about the first incident might surmise it was an accident and then to have a second what appeared to be 727 jet, the question of terrorist activity has to surface. the question of whether this was an intentional terrorist act of some kind. >> they were in an area where there three major airports. newark kennedy and la guardia within several miles. its unusual for a plane to get into this area without being completely tracked. you have to imagi...