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As a routine day. you mentioned how good the weather wise and then in a second everything changed. here at the white house, people were evacuating. it's one of many stories people are reflecting on 18 years after 9/11. the events of september 11, 2001, changed our world forever. the new book "the only plane in the sky" collects eyewitness accounts of 9/11 and details the tragic day in a new way using the words of those intimately involved with the events. >> we have a hijacked aircraft headed towards new york. >> hearing strange radio traffic, one controller said "i felt fear, like oh, my god,...

Hit the house, or a plane hit the house or something like that reporter: this two story strip mall is home to more than two dozen businesses so the worst of the damage appears to be at a family-owned coffee shop. you can see how the windows and walls were almost completely blown out and the ceiling is now the floor. any other day at 8:00 in the morning, that shop would have been filled with customers, but sundays are the one day a week they're closed. earlier today, the fire chief said that as bad as the damage is, the situation easily could have been a whole lot worse. >> none of the business...

Images of the destruction the explosion left behind. fire officials say they just finished evacuating the area this morning. when the building explode, sending a shock wave miles away. here is how a couple people nearby described it. >> a sonic boom. it sounded like literally at first i thought was that a gun shot in it was too loud to be a gunshot. it shook the whole building. >> it was a big bang. it was so loud and hard it shook the house. and it was so loud i was sure something hit the house or a plane hit the house or something like that. reporter: this two-story strip mall is home to two...

After getting calls about a large crack in the parking lot, hissing out gas when the building exploded sending shock waves that people felt miles away, here is how they describe it. >> sounded like a sonic boom, you hear boom, it sounded like, literally first i thought was that a gunshot, no, it was too loud to be a gunshot, it shook the building. >> all of a sudden big bang and it was so loud and hard that shook the house, shook the house and was so loud that i was sure somebody hit the house or a plane hit the house or something like that. >> the two-story strip mall is home to more than 2 d...

Intently. we're listening to the city manager as well as fire chief and police chief. you can see this wreckage behind me. this was a cessna yesterday afternoon. one key detail that we are learning now is that there was a hard landing at 3:40 p.m. yesterday. that means this plane hit and actually bounced twice on that single runway. it came across the field, through the fence and then basically explode into flames there. the remarkable thing about this is, while that plane was on fire, dale earnhardt jr., his wife amy, his 15-month-old, two pilots and their dog all managed to get out without a...