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President that this is a terror attack. >> andrea, we have no information as to in what term of the flight this plane was taken over? how much warning that air traffic controllers may have had that someone hostile was at the controls of this plane? >> exactly right. they have no other information, just that at least one of the two planes was hijacked from boston en route to los angeles. presumably after it had already been in the air and en route. i was told en route to los angeles. so probably hijacked after it had taken off. as you know, those are very short flights, usually 737s or 757s on ...

Tower. and there was a huge fireball and there was a gaping hole in the side of the tower. as we were waiting outside and looking at it, another plane came in low. i believe from the other side. and hit the sort of 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 midsized, looked to be a commercial airliner. i don't know, i thought perhaps, you know, a commercial airline. a midsize, not a jumbo jet. >> this, of course, is unconfirmed, but we're getting info...

It was a big ball of fire. that just went up. and i looked around at people. we were all horrified. i'm stuttering because i mean, it's that shock. i have never seen anything like it. it's horrible. >> of course, this is real cause for concern because the world trade center is one of the busiest office buildings here in new york with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of workers. >> new york state governor has his city office there. >> and of course, given the time this has happened, it's only probably appropriate to surmise that people might have been in the building. >> and you know, we have seen ...

Far this morning. and the news is terrible. just before 9:00 -- >> at 8:42. >> 8:42, a plane crashed into the right-hand tower of the world trade center. about three quarters of the way up. you can see the smoke billowing from that part of the building. then 18 or 20 minutes later, a second plane, a large plane, we saw it on tape, hit the left-hand tower of the world trade center, about halfway up. an enormous fireball on several sides of the building. people trying to be evacuated. there's the tape of the second plane hitting right there. even as people were trying to get out of the first bui...

Unconfirmed reports that this was the result of a plane crashing in the area as well. >> i have no idea, katie. all i know is that people who were in the building who came running from that part of the building thought it was a bomb of some kind. according to chris brown, my colleague, who just came in, it appears that whatever it was, and perhaps it was a plane, katie, if those are the initial reports, crashed into or the damage is on the roof of the building. at the heliport side of the pentagon, which is just opposite of the potomac river, as i just said. >> we're looking at the white house...