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Were carrying passengers you couldn't shoot down a plane like that for the injuries you could cause on board and on ground in a place like manhattan. >> that's exactly right. they put them up in a protection mode. the governor has the air national guard at his disposal. the government is wondering what to do in terms of protection and how. again, to the counter terrorist, this is the worst place scenario. there seems to be not much they can do. >> obviously we are scrambling for information. i want to read the reuters wire that said two planes crashed into the towers on tuesday morning causing...

I don't know if this is the correct tape. there. something there is about to happen. falling away right there. >> it looks like a big chunk of it has just peeled away. >> one can only hope that the area has been evacuated, but you wonder about all the emergency vehicles and the people who might have been injured early in the morning. >> you remember when the bomb went off in the basement of it in 1993 how much damage was done throughout that building. how much chaos there was at that time. these are two coordinated airplane attacks on the building, on the upper reaches of it. that will have an...

Evacuated. you can imagine that other buildings in major cities and small cities around the country are probably being evacuated as well. >> there's an unconfirmed report of a car bomb at the state department. we have not been able to pin that down. jim miklaszewski was told that there was an unconfirmed report of another air hijacking. we share this with you not in an attempt to in any way exacerbate what is already a terrible situation, but so much has come true today based on these early reports that we want you to have as much information as we can possibly get. at the pentagon all people ...

Have asked a lot of people. the high right and in new york i came happened as you tuned in the radio and then they began to get it. it's election day here in new york. >> primary day. >> and what we have is something that most americans thought could never occur. >> larry johnson, a terrorist expert i just spoke with a few moments ago, the former deputy director of the state department office on counterterrorism claims this is a first. that he had never heard or seen anything like it. he talked about back in 1993 a german plane being hijacked and there were fears when it was flown to new york ...

I would be inclined to say that's the case but there is always the possibility that you may find out after the fact that this was a suicide pact that had nothing to do with politics. that said this is a first. back in 1992 there was a -- excuse me, 1993, a plane was hijacked from germany and it landed in new york. one of the concerns we had was the possibility of that plane under the control of a hijacker flying into one of the buildings. my concern now is that there is always -- we ignore terrorism. we talk a lot about it but we ignore taking practical steps. the pendulum swings to an extreme...