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At 153 universities have had their lessons disrupted, as 70,000 staff hold their biggest—ever strike. they're vowing not to reschedule any cancelled classes. the action by members of the university and college union will continue tomorrow. they'll also walk out next wednesday. let's hear from the chief executive of the universities and colleges employers association. we are trying to do everything we can within the environments that we are operating, defining that we have got, to make sure that we are fair and transparent in the way in which support our staff. my number one priority at the m...

Approached the door separating the staff hold where we were from the classroom where the president was reading and when andy got to the door he stopped and at the time it seemed like an eternity. it was probably just a matter of a second or two but i remember him stopping at the door. i didn't know until much later a couple years ago in fact that the reason is when he got to the door he realized he needed to be able to say something to the president that wouldn't lead to any questions. so there is the famous photograph of him saying to the president, whispering a second plane has hit the world...

Hold, it was really unusual because it was like cold as ice and steel. and i remember exactly what he said. he said we're at war, give me the director of the f.b.i. and the vice president. and there are two special phones in the staff hold. we immediately jumped on them. we got ahold of mueller but we couldn't get the vice president at that moment. two secret service agents had burst into his west wing office, grabbed him underneath the arms and literally running down the hallway of the west wing to a secret entrance to the emergency operation center the bunker underneath the south lawn of the...

Rang. it was my assistant, susan ralston. 8:48 a. m. she said a plane has flown into the world trade center. i went over and told the president. he sort of cocked an eyebrow and get more information and a couple minutes later condy rice called with the same sketchy information. as we were talking into the elementary school. we walked down a hallway into what's called the staff hold where the staff waited for the president. he went into an adjoining room for a reading exercise. i scrambled up the television set and we watched horrified as the second plane flew into the world trade center and an...