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Selflessness of the heros of flight 93. [ bell chiming ] >> the ceremonies marked 16 years since the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and changed the world forever. the first commercial jet slammed into the north tower at 8:46 that morning. a few minutes later, a second jet slammed into the south tower. then a third jet crashed into the western portion here of the pentagon. news of these things reached the passengers on united flight 93. that flight had been westbound and hijacked, but the people on board fought back, and that many went straight down into the ground in shanksville, penn...

At the controls of the plane, but it broke off its route to los angeles and was headed towards jfk. that was the initial information that officials received when obviously it did not go to jfk, but veered off and headed towards the world trade center. no indication as to who may be responsible or what was at the controls of that plane when it rammed into the world trade center. >> are we are going to be obviously talking throughout the morning, but we want to talk with larry johnson, a terrorism expert the former deputy director of the state department's office on counter terrorism. mr. johnso...

In know wo of the towers and the other building is on fire. the scene is incredible. people are out of the office buildings and watching and crying and taking pictures. i have never seen anything like this. >> you saw the first plane. did you get a glimse of what kind of plane that was? we are told it was a commuter plane. >> it was a mid-sized plane and we could hear it low. a couple of us looked at each other thinking what's happening? it went through the buildings and into the upper floors of the world trade center tower. >> we want to mention when the impact hit the first tower, we hope th...

A number of people saw it at a very low altitude and then take this very sharp right turn and wondered according to eyewitnesses, what in the world was going on. moments later the world trade center was hit. it was about an hour after that that jim miklaszewski told you, katie, he felt an explosion at the pentagon and now we learn that there's been a plane that's been flown into the pentagon. there have been people who have been hurt there and we hope no one has been killed but it seems likely that there were probably casualties of a serious magnitude there as well. the white house has been ev...

>> 737 or a 757. >> then crashed in the second twin tower. the first plane was en route from boston massachusetts, to los angeles. >> here's the video of the second plane striking the tower. >> that's right. we're not sure the origin of that plane is my understanding. the first plane that caused that hole on the right-hand side in the other twin tower was from boston to l.a.x. to los angeles. it was flight 11 american airlines. we have confirmed that that plane was hijacked. what happened following the hijacking is unclear. we should note that about an hour after the first collision at the pen...