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The second tower. >> neil: even 12 years later it seems like days but theres another anniversary approaching to which no one is paying attention because were still pretty much in a daze and this one was five years ago. september 2008, the start of what appeared like our entire financial system melting down, a venable wallstreet power house, lehman brothers goods bust and so the presidential candidacy of john mccain and in the eyes of many, capitalism itself. charlie hour little we have lost. >> ...

>> all i know is that there was trouble, and i wanted to warn everybody. >> one of those flights ballinger tried to warn are the airlines version of -- united flight 39. >> i was accepteding out messages one after another. i think i sent 122 messages in a short time, an hour, two -- i dont know what it was. like screaming on the keyboard. i dont want to get the captain excite or put something in like are you in trouble? i just sent them a discreet message can i be of assistance? can i help you? ...

Blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it would be a needle in a haystack kind of accident. >> there was ooh one. we just saw -- we just saw another one. we just saw another one, apparently go -- another plane just flew into the second tower. this raises -- this has to be deliberate, folks. we just saw on live television as a second plane flew into the second tower of the world trade center. now, given what has been going on around the world... ummm: some of the key suspects come to...

Blue sky day in manhattan. if this was an accident, it would be a needle in a haystack kind of accident. >> there was ooh one. we just saw -- we just saw another one. we just saw another one, apparently go -- another plane just flew into the second tower. this raises -- this has to be deliberate, folks. we just saw on live television as a second plane flew into the second tower of the world trade center. now, given what has been going on around the world... ummm: some of the key suspects come to...

The other tower before this second plane hit that tower. >> although -- >> if you tried to go up, weve been upstairs in the world towers in the restaurant there, to try to get down. >> i mean, the elevators would have been jammed, no question. if there was an indication that this is deliberate you would hope they would immediately begin evacuation in the second tower. >> we have another eye witness. dan is on the phone. dan, tell me where you are and what youre seeing or what you saw. >> what i ...

Concrete staff and waived it into the air. it was yellow white stuff all over. >> i am crying. i am 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 forever one way then it came back to vertical and i snapped out of it and sobered upturned on my flashlight. >> i got a second page that a second tower had been hit. right away i knew it was terrorism. >> shortly after i got that pag...

Here comes the smoke [sirens] >> i couldnt see anything because of awrlt dust, all the lights were out. >> after the south tower fell, that was the first time the panic set in, realizing the south tower was hit second and fell first. now you really had to worry about getting people out of the tower as quickly as possible. >> i pushed up and out and realized i was still alive. i didnt know if i was alive or not. >> the whole tower! >> holy crap! >> they knocked the whole freaking thing down. >> h...

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...

30s or 40s, the first fireman and policemen started coming up. i finally made it down to the ground floor. we came out right in front of the ploughsa, which is the area between the two towers, where the fountain is. that was horrible. that was a war scene. there were fires, there was a debris falling from both tower, dead bodies, right in front of the window, right in front of me, there was a body strapped to an airplane seat. >> there was another one. we just saw... we just saw another one. we ...

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...