Documentaries like the 911 fire house that tells the story of firefighters who truly were first responders. their ladder company, 10 house was just feet from tower one. on the morning of september 11th, the men at 10 house are changing shifts. the night crews eat breakfast and joke with brothers as they clock out. suddenly, above them, american airlines flight 11 slams into the north tower. cutting through 6 floors and igniting thousands of gallons of jet fuel. for 10 house, the big one has arrived. still hard to watch. 9/11 fire house premieres tonight at 8:00 p.m. on discovery. peter dan kona is featured and he moved heaven and earth to respond to ground zero at that day. tell us your story of how you got down there. i was supposed to be working that morning. i got subpoenaed to court the
it s very clear, though, that it would not have passed. what is clear at this point is that the threat and the belief by syria and russia that we would strike was there and that is what brought them to the table to consider and try to make sure that we can get those chemical weapons under international control and ensure that assad can never commit that abhorrent, horrendous violence again on anyone. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, thank you very much. good to see you. thank you. you too, andrea. as we continue to follow all the developments on the crisis in syria, america is pausing today for the 12th time to mark the anniversary of the worst terror attack in american history. this morning at the world trade center, bells rang to mark the minute that american airlines flight 11 struck the north tower. throughout the morning, moments of silence were observed and family members of the victims read the names of 2,983 people,
Visit to the world trade center sfwloosh you went as a terrorist. we went so the south tower, and i had him stick his toes up to the building and look straight up the building into the sky and get that sense of vertigo that you can only get in a city like new york. mccormick and biggio would face the biggest challenges of their careers. american airlines flight 11, a blip on terry bigfw io s radar screens was climbing through 26,000 feet and would make its last transmission to air traffic controller. but then 16 seconds later it goes silent. american 11 boston. boston s air traffic center terry biggio and his controllers
Aircraft that we actually asked to help identify american. united 175 also had left boston bound for l.a. the crew had no idea it, too, was about to be hijacked. terry biggio and mike mccormick were focussing on the american airlines flight 11 full of fuel and headed south. you can t assume that the aircraft was going to do anything in new york. possibly it was going to continue south and go south to washington. otis air force base, cape cod, national guard fighter pilot tim duffy is about to become 9/11 s footnote 117. he said american 767 from boston to california. it looks like the real thing. were you prepared to take a plane down? an active air defense scramble.
Going to head that way or you may want to talk to your operation wrshz. then 17 minutes after american airlines flight 11 slams into the world trade center s north tower at 9:03 a.m. united 175 hits the south tower. we were about 60 miles from kennedy. probably about, you know, 80 miles or so from manhattan. that s when they told me the second aircraft just hit the world trade center. obviously some confusion in my cockpit. i thought i was still chasing american flight 11, and then there was a second aircraft, which i didn t even know about. i looked up right away, and i could see the smoke coming out of both towers. as i saw the towers burning, two airliners. we re obviously under attack. in the new york air traffic control center, mike mccormick, too realizes the united states is under assault from the air. we have to do something to remove the weapons. the weapons, of course, are the
Slowed down. that s why we thought it was landing at either kennedy or newark setting themselves up for an arrival. but it isn t landing. what biggio doesn t see on his radar screen is this. i was on the phone with the new york center, operations manager, and he said, no, he hit the building. we knew. we knew it was american 11. we watched it fly. watched it disappear. there was no doubt. breaking the sound barrier, tim duffy is barrelling towards manhattan, still under orders to intercept a plane, but had plane? his conversation with air traffic control shows how fast events were moving that chaotic morning. i understand you are going out to look for american 11, is that correct? i just got information that the aircraft has been crashed into the world trade center, so i m not quite sure what your intentions are, if are you still
Wingman, takeoff from this now deserted airfield. have an active air defense scramble f-15 to level 290. under orders to find and intercept american flight 11. these are cells three and four. they have jets in all of them. just depending what jets you re going to need that day, and these are the ones that were armed up, so we had hot missiles and hot gun so they re all armed up. by the end of this morning duffy will be asked if he is prepared to use those missiles to bring down u.s. passenger jets. that meant he might be shooting down the plane carrying this yawn itd airlines colleagues. they just said be prepared to shoot down the next hijacked track, and then it came back after that and said do you have a problem with that? that kind of tipped me off. i was the wrong person in that
geraldo: ever since the water gate scandal the news media has asked what did he know and when did he no it but with benghazi it is gate the questions for president obama are different. the he is are what did he do and when did he do it? craig investigates. 8:26 a.m. on the south lawn of the white house the president and first lady begin the annual commemoration of the 9/11 attacks with the moment of silence. it is presizely 11 years after the first hijacked plane american airlines flight 11 was flown into the world trade center, beginning the deadliest attack on american soil since pearl harbor. 9:27 a.m. the president and first lady lay a wreath honoring those killed and wounded at the pentagon, remembering those killed at the trade center and the lonely field in pennsylvania. never an easy day but it is especially difficult for all of you. the families of nearly 3,000
geraldo: ever since the water gate scandal the news media has asked what did he know and when did he no it but with benghazi it is gate the questions for president obama are different. the he is are what did he do and when did he do it? craig investigates. 8:26 a.m. on the south lawn of the white house the president and first lady begin the annual commemoration of the 9/11 attacks with the moment of silence. it is presizely 11 years after the first hijacked plane american airlines flight 11 was flown into the world trade center, beginning the deadliest attack on american soil since pearl harbor. 9:27 a.m. the president and first lady lay a wreath honoring those killed and wounded at the pentagon, remembering those killed at the trade center and the lonely field in pennsylvania. never an easy day but it is especially difficult for all of you. the families of nearly 3,000
Is pt of a wing structure, not the landing gear, that was first believed. there are a lot of questions that still remain about how it s remained there. and also there was questions about why a piece of rope was still attached to it. thunclear. the police department saying though that it has no doubt that the wreckage is part of one of two planes that hit the world trade center. what s unknown is if united flight 175 or american airlines flight 11. now, the space where it was found is a little bit wider, if you can imagine this, tha 1 1/2 feet. the police has treated this as a crime scene. and, is that the city s medical examiner s office is going to be going into this area tomorrow morning and sift for possible human remains that are still there. wolf. all right. let us know what s going on. i know you ll get much more later in the day as well as this story develops. mary, thank you. he s a friend of the