it took me about 12 minutes that morning. >> larry: and what was that ride like? >> well, i was listening to the radio, taking telephone calls, and i could see when i came to r our broaast center between en 10th and 11th avenue and 10th avenue i did a stop to take a look and couldn't see much. could see smoke coming out and also traffic was beginning to stack up and people were f beginning to come back from that area not yet in great waves but as any reporter would say, this is huge. this is really huge. and then for about three nano seconds i thought, wow, dan, the best thing is to get right to the heart of the story. and i thought about going down. i thought, no, i'd bauetter get inside because there will be a lot of anchoring to do. the word of the day is steady.re yes, there have been some terrible things happening, but until and unless we know the o facts, it's very difficult t draw many conclusions. >> it was very strange.