0 in this horrific event that happened here on this very sight. >> 8:46, september 11, 2001, the united states became a nation transformed and every day since then on watch to prevent another attack. hello. heim jon scott. welcome to "timeline of terror: part 2." we're at ground zero, behind me is the 9/11 memorial. waterfalls cascade into a you pair of pools marking where the twin towers of the world trade center once stood. the victims names are etched into the surrounding wall. this is where we first witnessed the horror of 9/11, and followed it to the pentagon and into the skies over pennsylvania. on this program the date-to-day events for the months following september 11th 2001, our hope turned to sorrow, continued stress kept america on guard and the hunt for bin laden began. now we pick up where timeline of terror part 1 left off. as the president was addressing the nation on the evening of 9/11. >> today our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature and we responded with the best of america. >> spent the day in air force one. security officials believing it was not safe to return to washington. he finally overruled that. >> i watched a man grow that day, but he -- lived up to my expectations. so i don't think that he became someone else. he was the same person i knew on september 10th, on september 11th. >> terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of america. >> actually, after he had made that address, we also had a at ten minutes after 3:00, his secretary called me and she said, is rudy home? and when she said that -- i knew. i picked up the phone and i call ed him. i said, they can't find rudy. i put on my shoes, and i walked to the train station, and saw his car was there. but i just didn't want to -- i still had hope. there definitely are survivors now. it is going to definitely be a race against the clock to get them out. >> they sealed off the air space around manhattan. they had the navy warships now in the harbor. >> i understand that you were in a building that collapsed? >> yes. pretty harrowing experience, and we -- we tried different exit areas, and a number of them were closed and blocked. the smoke condition was tremendous. i certainly can share with a lot of people that went through yesterday. >> we took care of 360 individuals in an expeditious manner. we waited for more and there were none coming. i sent residential and fak t faculty to the triage panel. nobody was there. everybody had to deduce the sadness of that. >> no more survivors expected in the pentagon rubble. the death toll expected to be huge at the world trade center site. some people it is believed, are still trapped alive. >> the only people going to work, they didn't -- they were not soldiers. e they were not fighters. they worked for their families. >> i just completed a meeting with our national security team, and we've received the latest intelligence updates. deliberate and deadly attacks carriedous yesterday against our country were the more than acts of terror's they were acts of war. >> unlike the terrorism targets at the pentagon, and in new york where there is hope today are finding survivors, here in shanksville, pennsylvania, where united flight 93 went down that hope is long gone. why this plane went down here and not perhaps a more high-pro frieled target some are speculating could be the result of here rooics from the crew ore passenger that made it into the cockpit deciding if i'm going to die, i'm going to take it down here in a rural area. the fire situation there continues to be hazardous. there are evacuations being made right now. not because of another terrorist attack. the fires are extraordinarily difficult to put out. primarily because the casings of the pentagon as you would imagine were so thick. >> you know, 9/12, there were still significant fires in that building while we were inside, and at some point the smoke condition got too heavy. you had to pull people out of the building. >> we had family members just walking the area. some of them almost a blank stare and they brought with them photographs of their loved ones. brothers, fathers. and in this case, a very young woman who worked on the 101st floor of tower one. saying, if anyone was here, the media, the hospital, if you've seen this woman, call this number. this is how desperate people are for information. >> the great task of skipping through the rubbskipping -- sifting through the rubble started late last night and continued throughout the day. >> you only know someone covered an someone the body when that actually happened, do things certainly you're not afraid, show confidence in yourself and in the city. we also urge people not in any way take any action on their own. we've had a few, not many, but a few incidents that appear to have been directed against people because they made an error or asian or indian or whatever. but nobody should attack anyone else. the racial religious ethnic reas reasoning. the four planes were hijacked by between three and six individuals per plane. using knives and box cutters in some cases making bomb threats. >> it's almost two years before its execution when they were fortunate in that they found the ability to get these technical skill, linguistic skills and everything that could help ex-dhecute that plan. >> our government has credible evidence that the white house and air force one were targets. a number of the suspected hijackers were trained at pilots as pilots in the united states. >> we will leave no stone unturned until we have determined who was responsible for these attacks on our freedom. secretary rumsfeld told me when i talked to him that he felt the blast shake the pentagon. coming here makes me sad on the one hand. and also it makes me angry. our country will, however, not be cowed by terrorists. >> he was thoughtful and determined and had resolve that the united states would lean forward and not lean back. that we would not go along the path of the prior administration, treating terrorism as a criminal matter, and being in absentia and he resolved the only way to do that was not to play defense but to play offense. >> we hunted for him and i led the hunt from '96 to '99 in islamabad pakistan, but we did have bin laden in u.s. gun sights on two occasions and on both occasions the decision was made not to take the shot. not to pursue with the operation. >> be very critical that we find the black box. we, began, were working towards that area, because that's where they felt it might be. started to find more and more victims heading back towards the back area. >> more than 200 people remain unaccounted for at the pentagon. rescue crews there are hoping to have enough demolition work done by daybreak to enter into that impact area. >> we're not finding victims. this is really bad. >> tossed me around like a rag doll. >> sometimes i feel it's a really cruel joke for god to plan. >> not only am i on fire, but around me is fire and then the smoke that's just pouring out of the building. >> one of the reasons there were so few survivors was because the intense heat and the fire that swept through the building. >> trying to get to my feet. i made the quick realization that, okay. i am dying. >> i think they have about 50,000 people. friends, family of loved ones registering their missing person. >> my sister right now, rhonda, i am out here for you. she is 8 months pregnant. they have a 1 1/2-year-old, but we need to deliver a baby. if you have any information, it would be very helpful. >> we still haven't heard from her. we don't know if she's in the hospital. we just -- we just want to know what's going on. i can't talk. >> i have called hospitals. i called any which place i knew in new york city that i could get ahold. >> you have hope and then you have no hope and you just want answers. >> we were watching tv and you see -- that's him. it's not him. my sister was on the computer and she saw that there was a bacchus at a hospital, and we all got so excited and so, you know -- and what we called, it was different bacchus. >> i remember when the phone rang. i jumped, thought maybe somebody's going to call me and say, we found her. but it wasn't that. >> that's the guy right there they suspect drove, highjacked a plane in boston and drove it into the side of the world trade center. his name is 33-year-old mohamed atta, and he's got, a militant with links to osama bin laden, and apparently he had been taking flying lessons. >> the aim of this is find more information on mohammed atta and shahid, both is spects hsuspect trained here at huffman aviation. >> we met with people in the government worked inside the building. met with their families. we told them that -- our country is praying for each and every one. >> the heat that were the in those rooms just was -- just tremendous. there were no spaces, really, that were survivable spaces in there that would have left somebody to survive more than just a few minutes. >> i knew i was going to die. because i've never seen something like that before, and i knew that fire was coming for me. >> get on my back. i'm going to die. just, please, come on. >> like, screaming. everybody was saying -- >> just a little light. over there. just a little light. >> we looked at other disasters, people have been pulled out from these things five, six, seven days late around were still alive. >> two men who apparently were pulled out of the rubble after slipping and falling into a very large, deep pit. >> we kept praying to god that he was somewhere, you know, maybe unconscious or maybe even under the rubble. [ crying ] >> the other thing that struck me was all of these people coming around giving me pictures of their husbands and loved ones. these are just two i got. >> that's how they say, i guess it's true. her, and that's how we were able to proceed with the funeral. >> we had fire in the area, it collapsed. i'm not surprised by the idea there is still burning going on underneath there. you're not seeing a lot of it because it's very deep-seeded. >> they found pieces of the plane. some of them were passengers that were still strapped in their seats and they were part of the debris pile, which was away from the floor and the ceiling. >> as you were going through the crime scene and you moved something, you would expose the jet fuel to air and to a source and fires would develop. ♪ >> words simply cannot express the horror, the shock and the revulsion we all feel over what took place. >> this nation is peaceful. but fierce when stirred to anger. >> today the federal bureau investigation released a list of 19 individuals who have been identified at hijackers aboard the four airliners that crashed on tuesday. >> we found the name of one of the suspects. he checked into this motel on august 26th. checked out september 9th. after he checked out the hoemgts manager wanted to go into the dumpster, what he unloaded. goes in there. finds a manual on how to fly a plane. >> and stop doing this. i want to get out. and they were not happy. the crowd is chanting, usa, usa! i asked the president if he wanted to make some remark, and he asked me, do you think it's appropriate? i said, absolutely. and then the president up there with the bull horn, and i remember somebody yelling in the crowd, i can't hear you. i can't hear you. the president said. >> i can hear you! [ cheers ] i can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people -- ishs [ cheers ] and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. [ cheers ] >> and the crowd is chanting, "usa, usa" i look over, people are chanting, "usa, usa". [ chanting "usa" ] there is still hope that there are survivors underneath all that rubble. >> 13,000 tons of debris trucked out of there and some 1,400 dump truck loads brought to the land phil over on staten island where fbi agents and nypd detectives are going through that rubble. >> you can only imagine how gruesome the task is to recover remains. in a building hit by an airplane. which makes obviously recovery, you know, much more difficult. >> i think the country felt much better that the debris was being rapidly removed. at the same time, it wasn't good for the scientific identification, collection of evidence. >> all the debris that was left was then taken out of the building and brought to a sifting area where it was gone through again. that kind of destruction -- >> when there's a major accid t accident, body parts of department phied exactly where they are, and picked up. everything is put into a proper receptacle. as that was done in this case. 40% of the bodieses have not been identified. >> my message is for everybody who wears the uniform. get ready. >> he said, andy, i want you to convene the war council at camp david tomorrow. now, there is no such thing as a war council, but i knew exactly what he meant. and the meeting was a sobering discussion of what it means to go to war. >> this act will not stand. we will find those who did it. we will smoke them out of their holes, and we'll bring them to justice. >> first of all, he wasn't looking for war. the terroristing declared war on us. >> this wasn't going to be a few cruise missiling flying around on television for the world to see that something blew up. >>ed pr eed president decided h not want to pound sand. actually fashioned something that would be effective, and would be a deer terrant. >> i got a call saying, could you come in first thing in the morning, and meet the chief of ctc black and we have a proposition. >> the united states wasn't prepared to go into afghanistan. >> going to take a number of months before they could arrange forces. >> ooo-ey was asked to take the first team,ut it together and go into northern afghanistan. >> said to the president, mr. president, give us the authority to do this and we'll be there six weeks. he liked the speech. got the nod, and went forward. >> if he thinks he can hide and run from the united states or our allies, he will be sorely mistaken. >> let me give you some of the latest information now according to the city of new york. 152 bodies have been recovered. of those tonal about 92 identified. the number of missing, that number has gone up. we understand that 200 names have been added to that list. there are now 4,972 people missing believed to be dead in the world trade center disaster. >> men and women putting their lives on the line, behind the exterior wall shoring up to go in and rove are the rest of the bodies. my team came across a group of people sitting a at desk working when the plane struck the building, and they were killed right there. something had fallen out of his pocket to get a name, and put in a baggy. we can get it in his pocket from the way sitting in the chair. we found commander underneath the table as though he had been pushed underneath the table from the force of the plane going over him. we were able to get his name and his address and his rank and everything, and it was the first people that we really saw that were identifiable that we could look at and say, we can place a name with a face here. >> new yorkers the difficult process of saying good-bye. former president clinton and his wife attended a manhattan memorial service from the belouvred fire chaplin michael judge and deputy fire chief. >> we decided a long time ago that if he had to die, this is the way he was going to die. by -- fighting fires and saving lives. >> u.s. intelligence officials it turns out knew that two of the hijackers on the plane had actually been in the country for weeks. sources say call lede al immediatehaar was on the cia terrorism watch list for over a year. fbi sources say by the time they got the information, he had been in the country for as much as seven weeks and couldn't be found. >> i've been basically covering the arab community the last couple of days noticing a real backlash. >> understand, we have to be -- we have -- [ inaudible ]. >> i pledge to you that i will prosecute these crimes of hate to the fullest extent of the law. >> tuesday's attacks created another urgent problem. how to rebuild an already weak economy now reeling from $5 billion in property loss. >> millions of americans mourned and prayed and tomorrow we go back to work. >> there still is officially a search and rescue mission here and ground zero. >> of course, the feeling is growing more realistic that no one could have survived the devastating onslaught witnessed here last tuesday. all the steam and smoke and ash still slowly bep ohs into the morning sky here in new york. the sun is beginning to come up over manhattan. >> president bush is arriving this moment. >> to welcome federal workers back to work essentially. he told the entire country, today on monday, he wants the country to get back to work. >> today america goes back to business. ladies and gentlemen, our heroes will now open the marketplace. >> my heart is pounding. i'm glad i'm here. i thought about not coming, and just like everybody else, i cry. i'm emotional, and i have to be here. i want you to know today that you are not alone. we cannot ease the pain, but this country stands by you. [ applause ] >> it was off to the pentagon when the president made his second commercial airliner. >> it's barbaric behave piorbeh. slit throats of women on airplanes but we're going to smoke them out. put out in the old west, wanted dead or alive. all i want, america wants, brought to justice. that's what we want. >> not a scripted statement, and i remember grimacing when he said it. and i remember, oh, that's going to be the sound bite. >> why do you feel it is appropriate to encourage globally people to go kill someone else? >> jean, our nation's been attacked and we are at war, and to win a war is vital for the united states to engage in it. [ chanting ] >> and his location in istanbul and we are pleased the pakistani government sent emissaries in to try to persuade the afghan and taliban. >> we're seeing almost daily anti-u.s. demonstrations here. there are 14 islamic groups here calling for not to get involved with the united states. president musharraf is getting pressure not to go to the united states. >> the face of tear srror is noe true face of islam. islam is peace. >> this was a war against extremists. it was not a war against islam. >> so that's why he went to the islamic center. was to demonstrate, look, we are not looking to have a religious war. >> as we are officially closed one of its worst shellackings ever. what happened? many ceos, and donald trump, almost there. >> i have news for you, just getting the market opened with the devastation that's downtown is incredibly a patriotic act. >> i believe he's out there somewhere. the question is, where? >> and put the flyers up in hopes that maybe somewhere they'll find them in the rubble. >> we just watched a couple of busloads of firefighters walk back into the site there, certainly hope fading, though, of finding any of their thillo firefighters or fellow survivors in the rubble. >> the reality is that the longer the time, the less hope realistic hope we can have. >> i felt like he was going to come back home. i do remember the pastor from new hope baptist church come in and he asked if my mom was home. they said, we found rudy, but they didn't find all of him. they found -- >> he -- he's still out there. there's an honest man out there. >> we don't know where he is. he's with god, because he was a man of god. he loved god. a moment of silence. just one week ago, right about now, that the first airplane crashed in to tower one of the world trade center. a week after the day that's been called the worst in u.s. history, president bush is flying a military response to the terrorism. >> congress passed a resolution the authorization of the president to use