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The second tower. america is under attack, quote. the president told us his instinct was to protect calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction in a moment of crisis. >> this is a difficult moment for america. >> the president made a brief statement before leaving for the airport. >> today we have had a national tragedy. two airplanes have crashed into the world trade center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. >> as the president addressed a stunned nation, the third hijacked plane, americanairlines flight 77 from washington to delay have been flying undetected for approx...

Personnel who were on the ground that night. you think about all that we've learned about what happened on that night a year ago and we don't have any first-hand accounts from the people on the ground. martha: steve, thank you very much. we're about to pause for another moment of silence here this morning. bill: that moment of silence is the observance the time that the north tower fell. remember that was the first tower that was hit. it was the second tower to fall. 10:2a.m. eastern standard time. >> robert p hughes, jr. >> thomas hughes, jr. >> timothy robert hughes. >> susan wei. >> lamar h...

People out of the second tower before the second plane hit. >> we have been upstairs in the restaurant there and to try to get down -- >> elevators would have been jammed, but you hope they would begin evacuation in the second tower. >> we have another eyewitness that we would like to speak with. dan dietrich is on the phone. me what you saw. >> what i saw was one plane coming in low from the north, down over seventh avenue. it crashed into the top or the middle of one of the towers. minutes later i saw another plane crash into the other side of the tower at a lower level. it being looks to be...

Building. right now there is a lot of chaos on the ground and emergency vehicles and everyone from the world financial center exited and is walking north up to battery park north. there is massive people walking north uptown of manhattan. i happened to look on the first tower and sea peoplehappened to see people waving and unbelievable to see the second jet come crashing into the second tower. what is going on? >> unfortunately here in new york, many of our stations can't see this because the antennas are on the world trade center. there back up towers on the empire state building but televisi...

Imagine as you get closer to the twin towers. a landmark and what the scene must be like there. >> you talked about the building looking like it buckled. they are designed to have a 2 degree sway because of the height of the building with wind and stress. something like that is more than it is designed for. >> we want to go to jane who is telling the producer here in new york. can you hear me? >>. >> yes. i am down here near the world trade center. i was walking down 6th avenue this morning at 8:42 a.m. i saw a plane veer through the building and a huge cloud of smoke and then fire out of one ...