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Near the world trade center. pat, are you there? pat dawson can you hear me? okay he's having some audio problems. we'll get to pat in just a moment. >> it's just amazing, you have to stop and think about the hijacked plane and the terror of the passengers on board, as it could have been up to an hour that they realized something was dramatically wrong with this flight and then thinking that perhaps they were going to john f. kennedy airport here in queens actually and the plane suddenly veering into the world trade center tower. >> you can only imagine -- >> what was striking to me is that we...

Plane was another plane perhaps hijacked and flown into the second tower. dan, me about people on the ground. are you at a vantage point where you can see? >> are i'm further in the west village. i'm not on the ground near the base of the towers. >> where were you when it happened? >> walking down seventh avenue south at about charles street which is about 15 or 20 blocks north of the towers. >> obviously this was a shocking thing for you to witness on this tuesday morning with wires coming out saying in 1945 an army air corps twin-engine bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the empire state ...

Down over 100 stories. to think about the possible loss of life that just occurred by the collapse of that southeastern tower is just amazing. minna saw the collapse records yes, high matt. >> tell me what you saw. >> reporter: on the corner of dwayne and west broadway walking down towards the twin towers and it just collapsed. it looked like -- it looked sort of like the building just demolished. smoke, clouds -- clouds of smoke everywhere. people running towards me. i was going towards the twin towers. people going away from the towers. it was just people running, like i've never seen a scen...

Once again this is an exceptional development. the faa has banned all takeoffs at all airports across america. this country in terms of air travel has been immobilized. a good portion of the nation's capital, the most powerful center in the world, has been immobilized as well as a result of these terrorist attacks. >> that's a very haunting description that bob kerr just gave of that low-flying aircraft near the white house. one can only wonder if that was something that ultimately ended up in the pentagon. >> we just saw a live picture of what seemed to be a portion of the building falling aw...

Trade center has just collapsed. you are looking at live pictures of the second twin tower at the world trade center collapsing as a result of the crash of an airplane into its side. that, i believe, was the first tower that was struck this morning at 8:42 eastern time. that is now fallen to the ground and collapsed. >> the profile of manhattan has been changed. there's been a declaration of war by terrorists on the united states. >> pat dawson excuse me tom, is down at the scene. pat. >> reporter: where's wing? where's wing? >> pat, can you hear us? obviously, there is pandemonium downtown. p...