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Thank you very much. >> we're going to go to andrea mitchell now who has more information on this tragedy. andrea? >> reporter: matt and katie, i've spoken to a top u.s. official who says early reports to our intelligence community and to other officials within the administration are that this was a hijacked american airlines plane en route from boston to los angeles. one of the two planes, they say, was apparently a hijacked american airlines plane. they cautioned that early reports still need further confirmation, but this is at least what the u.s. government is being told by american airlin...

Second plane, that jet, fly into the other twin tower? >> i heard two explosions, however. there was a first explosion that was louder, and then a second explosion. and but i did not -- i could not see that. i looked up. when i looked up i saw debris falling and the tire as i said, a very large tire. >> of course this is, as we've said, completely shocking video. shocking turn of events. we've been talking here that the first incident, one might surmise that it was some kind of accident, then to have a second, what appeared to be 727 jet of course, the question of terrorist activity has to sur...

It was a very large plane. it was going south. it went past what's being built in battery park, almost hit it and then went in. >> this is so shocking. of course to everybody watching. >> i've never seen anything like it. it literally flew itself into world trade center. >> obviously now we move from what appears -- there it is right there. >> again, i'm looking from -- from south to north. it went in to the one on the right. it appeared to be the one on the right. >> that appeared to be at least a 727. we saw it a second ago. here comes the videotape that we showed you. you will see what appe...

The middle of the other tower. i saw both planes, two separate planes crash into each tower. >> dan, again, the size of the planes, tell me about that. >> i would say that the plane was a midsize, looked to be a commercial airline. i don't know. i thought perhaps, you know, a commercial airline. a midsize, you know, not a jumbo jet. >> this, of course, is unconfirmed, but we are getting information from an employee of united airlines, and again we want to emphasize this is unconfirmed, but there is speculation that an american airlines plane was hijacked and crashed purposely, on purpose, into...

>> yes. >> tell me where you are and what you saw. >> well, i live in this area, i returning to my apartment. but i was walking down the sidewalk delivering my young daughter to school, and we heard a very loud sound, the kind of sound you hear when a plane is, you know, going fast past you. followed by an enormous crash. and an immediate explosion. i don't think we could feel shock waves but we sort of felt like we did. and we were in a position where we could see the trade center almost immediately between the other buildings. and an enormous fireball that must have been 300 feet across was ...