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[ expletive ] pentagon. somebody has balls. >> tony just wanted to go there. >> in the lobby, the chiefs were trying to run the largest rescue operation any of them had ever seen. >> is there a phone that's working? >> the entire world knew more than we did. everybody had seen the attacks. everybody had seen the tower burning. [ speaking foreign language ] >> ud i'd seen the pentagon. for us, we didn't have a clue. >> the military, we need that done now. >> on top of everything else, just talking to the guys in the stairwells was tough. >> battalion 7. >> the towers' internal communication set...

Public, they will want to do that as soon as possible. so i've been through this enough times that i know if we don't hear anything within the next 20 minutes i would begin to think that this is something that they don't quite know what it is. you know, a drunk driver is pretty easy to tell pretty quickly. so the next 20 minutes are going to be very significant. i know when i was in public safety we really tried to have a narrative within an hour if we knew what it was and could be accurate about it, and the failure to have a narrative does tend to say something. so that's what i'm looking at ...

Second tower is hit. and the secret service tells the vice president, his office may not be a safe place. >> my agent all of a sudden materialized beside me and said sir, we have to leave now. and grabbed me and propelled me out of my office and down the hall into the underground shelter in the white house. >> reporter: cheney is whisked to the bunker the president's emergency operations center. the newly declassified pictures taken by cheney's photographer as september 11th unfolded had been held in the national archives released for the first time now as part of a freedom of information act ...

It is a new look at an unforgettable day in american history. the story of the september 11th terror attacks told in photos. the national archives released hundreds of photos of president bush vice president cheney and others as the horrifying events unfolded that day. brian todd reports. >> reporter: even for a man familiar with high stress these never before seen photos show another level. dick cheney wrapping his mind around the unthinkable. the morning of september 11 2001 in his office the then vice president watches footage of a world trade center tower burning his foot on a desk. >> tha...

Remarkable pictures. >> a lot of buzz around these pictures tonight. they have never been seen publicly until now. they capture the palpable tension in the bunker far beneath the white house as vice president dick cheney and his staff scramble to find out what was going on and to make some critical decisions. even for a man familiar with high stress these never before seen photos show another level. dick cheney wrapping his mind around the unthinkable. it's the morning of september 11th 2001. in his office the then-vice president watches footage of a world trade center tower burning, his foot ...