Coverage of World Trade Center Collapse

It, it's an unbelievable sight. I've never seen something like this in a

...

And I'm 20 years on this job. This is the worst I've ever seen it before.

It, it, it, it's unbelievable the, the devastation.

Uh, we got burnt cars. We have the top of the World Trade Center

toppled onto the

street. We have poss- We don't know how many people

are missing right now.

We don't have, we don't have that number yet, but I'm sure

that there is.

There've been, well, I've heard reports that there

are just bodies littering the

street.

Uh, well, there's reports of people trapped inside

the building, but we haven't,

you know. We haven't, we haven't gone ...

We, we can't go in yet until the fire's under

control.

When you first saw it and walked up to it, I'm ...

You know, heard it as you were racing to it,

but to see it's another thing.

What's the first thing that went through your head just after

initially seeing it?

I just wanted to cry, to be honest with you. It's terrible.

Thank you, Lieutenant. Stay safe.

Let's go. Move.

Terrance.

No way to play along with something like that.

Oh, I know that. But what I'm saying is

All loaded?

It's loaded.

Oh fuck. It's still fucking here.

Watch yourself. Here he comes.

Okay, Steve.

You ready?

I'm on.

Whenever you're ready. Three, two, one.

We are in an abandoned skyscraper, and quite frankly,

I don't even know where I'm

at. I see a sign outside that just gives me a reference of Barclay

Street.

As you can see all around here, the windows have been blown completely

out,

and as we take to- a walk towards the front,

towards the front of the building

here,

you wanna take a look outside.

If you have never been to war,

like I have never been to war,

then this

is what it looks like.

We don't know what that building is.

We don't know where, what this building is,

but they're obviously on fire.

Maybe in, in, in there's a chance that they could collapse.

I've been on this earth for 37 years.

I've never been to a war,

but I can only imagine that, uh, this is as close as I've ever come.

That's the one out the

00:02.

We gotta help this building.

I got enough

of it.

Okay. Let's go.

Let's go, let's go. Let's go.

Wow.

Jesus.

Oh, man.

Let's go.

There's debris falling from the 25 stories of the World Trade Center.

We are west of Broadway and Barclay.

Very difficult to breathe here, but look around.

This must have been ground zero where this thing blew up.

Car after car after car crushed.

Completely obliterated.

Turn

30,000 degrees. They

all have died. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

Real quick. It's gonna take two seconds to fire this

up. Hold, hold.

Speak. Go.

Your name, ma'am?

Barbara Crowley.

C-R-O-W-L-E-Y.

NYU Medical Center.

Okay. Tell me what you know.

Okay? All I know at this point is they're trying to establish an outdoor

hospital

facility like we've set up at Chelsea Pier as a triage unit-

Like a triage

... for the, the personnel that are attending to the scene,

not to the injured in

the scene. They can't get in to get any casualties

out at this time.

They don't know the extent of it at this point.

What we're doing now is going up to get medical supplies to

bring down trauma

physicians down here to set up the surgical unit and the, uh, the

triage unit down here, in addition to if anybody out there can help, any

vendors who have food or supplies, the firemen have no food, nothing

but snacks.

They need fluids, they need water, and they need protein foods.

This is just the beginning of what they're facing. So we're ... And we need masks.

We need TB masks. Holy shit.

What is it?

Building just went down.

What just went down?

World Trade Seven.

It did go down before.

No, Seven. Number Seven.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Oh,

my God.

People running, they're running, they're running, they're running.

Terrance.

The whole building just collapsed.

Terrance.

Terrance.

The tower's gonna climb.

Huh?

The tower's gonna climb. Wait, wait, hold on.

That's it. They went down.

Guys.

Let's go.

Come on.

Let's go.

Five.

Hey, hey, hey. Sir, sir, sir.

Get on.

Let's go, let's go.

We're getting ready. I wanna make sure Vince can hear us.

Vince, can you hear us yet?

Again, that building collapsing just moments ago,

47 stories

down there on Vesey Street. Uh, Vince was across the street from that building

just moments before it collapsed, and then went ahead and, uh, filed a

report a few minutes ago telling us about what he saw to be ground

zero there. But-