Smoke was downtown, when I left the city at 3:30 there was still a HUGE
cloud of smoke where the towers were. But not uptown, it did look that way
from the news shots though.
The streets were empty of cars.
The firefighters/police/emergency people have been unbelievable.
>From: "Cale, Rick T (Richard)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: RE: STOP THE PRESS!!
>Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:15:41 -0800
>
>According to AP.
>It looks like the entire island of
>Manhatten is one big ball of black smoke. AA Flt. 11 from Boston hit one
>WTC. UA FLt. 175 from boston hit the other.
>AA Flt. 77 hit the Pentagon. UA Flt 93 crashed in Pittsburg - questionable
>target??
>Untold numbers of people dead in the buildings - projecting at least 20,000
>inside. Possible secondary bombs exploded that collapsed the buildings.
>Suspect bomb in a high school nearby too.
>Continue to hear explosions all downtown - gas lines exploding...
>
>
>Pretty sure it's BinLadin who is being kept in Afghanistan. It will be WAR
>for sure on Afghanistan if they continue to harbor him. Pictures of
>Palestinians CELEBRATING this on the West Bank.
>
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>
>Its now
> 1. BOTH tower have fallen.
> 2. Pentagon hit by a plane.
> 3. All flights in US grounded
>
>And I am sure more to follow
>
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>
>The BBC seems to have more info than the U.S. web sites.
>
>Tuesday, 11 September, 2001, 13:35 GMT 14:35
> UK
> Planes 'attack' World Trade Center
>
> A huge explosion rocks one of towers
> Two planes have crashed into the World Trade Center
> in New York City while an explosion has rocked the
> Pentagon in Washington DC.
>
> The White House is reportedly being evacuated.
>
> One report says six people have been killed in the
> New York incident while hundreds have been injured.
>
> Smoke is pouring from the upper storeys of both
> towers of the World Trade Center.
>
> The building, one of the world's tallest, has been badly
> damaged in what President George W Bush has
> described as "an apparent terrorist attack".
>
> He said: "We will find those who committed this
> attack."
>
> New York police have been
> quoted as saying that both
> planes were hijacked from
> Boston.
>
> A few minutes after the
> first tower was hit by a
> passenger plane, a
> second, similar plane was
> seen flying into the second
> tower. A huge explosion
> was seen.
>
> Eyewitnesses say the first
> plane crashed into the West Tower after flying
> unusually low over Manhattan Island.
>
> A BBC correspondent says 10 to 15 floors have been
> affected by the crash.
>
> Briton James Winter, 30, living in an apartment close
> to the centre, said he was woken a huge bang at
> around 0800 local time.
>
> "I was in bed and there was a huge explosion. The
> whole building rattled and shook," he said.
>
> "I ran to the window and there was smoke billowing
> from the south side of one of the towers. Everyone in
> my building was panicking and running around."
>
> The World Trade Center consists of two 110-story
> skyscrapers, New York's tallest buildings. One of the
> towers is just six feet (two metres) taller than the
> other.
>
> About 40,000 people work inside the two-building
> centre, and more than 150,000 people enter the
> complex every day.
>
> On 26 February, 1993, a terrorist bomb exploded in
> building number one's lower level.
>
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