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He saw the horrific surveillance footage. >> hope just disintegrated at that point when we see the video showing the actual tower collapsing. you know, we don't have official word so i don't want to say it's completely hopeless but after seeing the video, it's not a lot of hope. she was amazing, and then my son is, that's the hardest part right now. he keeps asking me when's she coming over because he saw the footage this morning. >> reporter: p.j. was telling me as you heard there his son had seen the footage. he loved his grandmother so much and hoping she comes back so they can go in the po...

That we've lost. >> so the surf said mayor said he's worried about the safety concerns right now. he's worried about the other part of the building. the other tower collapsing. so what is the danger right now for those trying to go in and rescue anybody they can possibly find? >> this is a very high risk rescue operation. that's why the teams are trained. they have structural engineers that are part of the team that are assessing the building. making determinations one area. what needs to be done to make the rest of the building safe. we've had to in cases build all kinds of supporting mechani...

We don't know yet what the exact numbers are, but we can only tell you that by looking at the pictures you can guess as well as we can that there are a lot of people who are not able to escape. >> back in 1993 when the bomb blew up in the basement of the world trade center, so many survivors talked about how long it took them with no power in the elevators to walk down the smoke-filled stairways. you think of how many were trying to escape the buildings when the first one, and the second one collapsed. >> and the buildings important in so many ways, and now it has been attacks by terrorists at...

>> that was george w. bush about an hour ago speaking from long boat key, florida. he is en route to washington, d.c. we're looking at some pictures on the ground or we were are apparently some of the victims. let's go to pat dawson if he can hear us. he is on the ground. >> reporter: quite extraordinary. these are the emergency workers who are coming back. it was just about ten minutes ago that we described to you the possibility of that north tower collapsing. about five minutes after we went off the air, it did collapse. once again, we have no idea at this point the loss of life. i can only...

>> that was george w. bourbon hour ago speaking from long boat key florida. he is en route to washington, d.c. we are looking at pictures on the ground of apparently some of the victims. let's go to pat dawson if he can hear us. he is on the ground. >> quite extraordinary. these are the emergency workers coming back. just about ten minutes ago that we described to you the possibility of that north tower collapsing, about five minutes after we off the air it did collapse. we have no idea at this point the loss of life. i can only tell you there were hundreds of emergency workers down there abou...