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You would hope they were starting to get people out of the other tower before this second plane hit that tower. >> although -- >> if you tried to go up, we have been upstairs in the towers, in the restaurant there, to try to get down -- >> i mean, the elevators would have been jammed. if there was an indication this was deliberate in the first case, you would hope they would immediate begin evacuation. >> we have another eyewitness we would like to speak with. dan is on the phone. dan, tell me where you are and what you're seeing or what you saw? >> okay, well, what i saw was one plane coming ...

We now have an ap news alert out of pittsburgh. officials at somerset county airport are confirming the crash of a large plane just north of the airport that is 30 miles southeast physical. noert of that airport which is located about 80 miles to the southeast srl related. >> matt, we just got word that state department security officials are rejecting pictures. they also said there is no sign of a car bomb. betsy stewart is very familiar with the state department. the building is stilley vac waited. officials are said to still be in the operations center. those are high in terms of

>> mick, it's important to note if these planes were hijacked, if they were carrying passengers, there isn't much military officials could have done. you can't shoot down a plane like that for risk of the people onboard. plus, for the injuries you could cause on the ground in a place like manhattan. >> that's exactly right. and the president, as we said earlier, does in fact have the authority to scramble the military to put them up in some kind of force protection mode. the governor has the air national guard at his diz posal. he can do that. again, officials are pretty much wondering exactly...

Street, and we've been moved now from there a block or so away. the officers along jackson place, which are across the street in the white mouse,ing lafayette has said, a white plane, a very big jet, was flying at an unusual pattern over the white house. it made one circle and we have not seen it since. there was a lot of concern about what that plane might be, but again, it's only speculation, but most people say since flights have been cleared from u.s. air space and it was a totally white plane, it looked unusual to awful ull of us, tha was a government plane of some kind. >> we are looking...

On purpose, into the world trade center. and that the second plane was, another plane perhaps hijacked was then flown into the second tower. dan, tell me about people on the ground. are you at a vantage point where you can see what's happening on the ground? >> i'm farther up in the west village. i'm not on the ground near the base of the towers. >> where were you when it actually happened? >> i was walking down seventh avenue south at about charles street, which is about 15 or 20 blocks north of the towers. >> well, obviously, this was a shocking thing for you to witness on this tuesday morni...