account for this? one of those normal tuesday mornings. i was standing at my desk, getting ready for my staff meeting. my executive assistant walked in and said a plan hit the world trade center. immediately my mind went to a twin engine plane of skin. i said that s a terrible accident. as i was leaving the motorcade i got a page telling me the with treasure coast was hit by a plane. karl rove got to the president first and told the president a plane has hit the world trade center. the president went into a holding room. i called the president and said mr. president, a plane has hit the world trade center. he said that s strange, a strange accident. i said i would call him back when we had more information. first moments i called mayor giuliani right away. and got him. right after i got off the phone with rudy, i call the president he was in florida at educational conference. i was able to get him out of
nashville, tennessee, where all 115 passengers were screened again. the plane was inspected before resuming the flight. the pearlg in question didn t reboard. word oscar-winning actor cliff robertson has died. seen here in charlie, the movie that snagged him an academy award in 1968. he died of natural causes in long island, new york, one day after his 88th birthday. a popular star from the 50s through the 90s. he might be remembered as the kindly uncle ben in the spider-man series. back to 9/11, counter attack, live from ground zero. as commandener chief, i have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 troops to afghanistan. after 18 months, our troops will
and i have 41,000 uniformed member, 55,000 people work for me. we are prepared for anything you could imagine. this was something you couldn t imagine. walked back down the hallway to my desk and the phone is ringing again. this time it is a young lady from chicago one of our rep offices. saying are you okay? i m fine. for no apparent reason in mid-sentence just raised my dead toward the statue of liberty. what i m seeing is a big giant aircraft, grey with red letter on the wing and tail, coming straight, eye level forwards me. the next thing i know, i dove under my desk, huddled in a fetal position, screaming, crying and the plane crashed in the building. the plane from coming straight towards me and the bottom wing is wedged in my office door, 20 feet from where i was under the desk.
our video teleconference. boston center has a suspected hijacked airplane. i have put the f-15 s and the air national guard base on battle stations. i said scramble them we ll hold them out over the water until we get the permission, if necessary. a hijacked plane we know nothing about it, don t know ere. [ sirens ] we just had a plane crash into the world trade center. we have a tragic alert right now. incredible plane crash into the world trade center here at the lower tip of manhattan with it is believed a 737 has crashed into it.
somebody was still up in there. we couldn t get everybody out. my boss didn t make it. second d.c. fire going to plan e. emergency plan requires all off-duty personnel to report back to stations immediately. the white house is being evacuated that comes from one of our fox producers in washington. the white house is being evacuated. the pentagon as well. pack up and go plane was just hijacked 20 minutes south of here. now! jim angle, are you with us? streets around the white house blocked seconds ago. there are emergency vehicles on almost every block around the white house. as you know the white house is being evacuated. federal employees are standing