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Manmade disaster, it was a terrorist attack. and the president did not know about the attack when he walked into that classroom in sarasota, florida. hed been told it was a small twin engine prop plane crashed into one of the towers in the world trade center in new york city. i then learned it wasnt a small twin engine prop plane in fact there was another plane that also hit the world trade center. so when i entered the room, i delivered a message he didnt expect to hear, he certainly didnt want...

Pentagon and a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. back on that day, the morning of september 11th, president george w. bush was in a classroom of second graders in sarasota, florida, in what is now infamous video, the presidents chief of staff walks up to him and whispers 11 words into his ear. a second plane hit the second tower. america is under attack. the man who whispered that was andy carr and he joins me now. andy, thank you very much for talking with us today. just tell me, what was it ...

Graduation week, holy crap, im going to make it. >> and he did, but the training didnt end at graduation. then it was off to parachute school and even more advanced predeployment courses. >> you survive field training, you become a navy s.e.a.l. officially. what was your first job? >> my first job, i was assigned to a platoon, bravo platoon. s.e.a.l. team 2. we went to the range, and we were shooting navy qualifications. i was a pretty good shot. i did so well my boss said this guy is a good sho...

Center, major fire. >> one of the buildings is partially collapsed. the other tower just collapsed. major collapse, major collapse. >> i was in the operations office at the naval special warfare group two, which was in stuttgart, germany. i was catching up on e-mails and sitting there with a couple of the operations officers and things like that. they went to breaking news. >> we have a very tragic alert for you right now. an incredible plane crash into the world trade center here at the lower t...

The other tower just collapsed! ready to collapse, ready to collapse. >> i was in the operations office at naval special warfare group 2, which is in stuttgart, germany. and i was catching up on e-mails and sitting there with a couple of the operations officers, things like that, and they went to breaking news. >> we have a very tragic alert for you right now. an incredible plane crash into the world trade center here at the lower tip of manhattan. >> the first reports were a small plane had hit...

Time, the second incident occurred about 9:05. and so obviously that would be a short amount of time to get people out of the building. ollie everheart is another witness who is on the ground. ollie, can you hear me? >> yes. hello. please tell me what youre seeing. >> i live in lower manhattan. i face the north tower where the first plane crashed into the building. and right now, theres a lot of chaos on the ground, a lot of emergency vehicles. everyone from the world financial center has exited...

Chopper shots, and then about ten minutes ago, a second explosion in the second tower. lower down. that was not affected by the plane. so im not quite sure what happened there. right now theres a huge gaping hole in one of the towers, and the other building is on fire. the scene down here is incredible. people are out of their office buildings, watching, crying, taking pictures. ive never seen anything like it down here. >> we want to mention when the impact hit the first tower, you would hope t...

Much as the first time. it had to be the plane hitting the other tower. somewhere in the 30s and 40s, police american started coming up. i finally made it down to the ground floor. we came out right in front of this plaza, the area in front of the two towers where the fountain that was horrible, a war scene, fires, debris falling from both towers. i saw dead bodies out there right in front of the window, a body strapped to an airplane sea seat. >> there was another one. we just saw -- we just sa...

Plane crashed into the building. and right now, theres a lot of chaos on the ground, a lot of emergency vehicles. everyone from the world financial center has exited and is walking north up to battery park north. theres just mass and mass of people walking north, uptown, of manhattan. i happened to look on the first tower, and i actually saw people waving where the plane crashed through, and then it was unbelievable seeing the second jet come crashing into the second tower. what is going on? >> ...

That two buildings had been hit in new york. and they said goodbye to each other. she knew they were going down. >> the boston airport, like airports now across the entire country, is closed. >> all air traffic in the united states has come to a halt. >> and then we heard that there was another plane maybe going towards the capitol. another plane wanting to go to the white house. people were running out of the white house. people were running out of the capitol. >> there has just been a huge exp...