World Trade Center Building 7 Fire and Collapse Report on 9/11

We are getting information now that one of the other buildings,

building 7, in the World Trade Center complex is on fire

and has either collapsed or is collapsing.

And you, to be honest, can see these pictures

a little bit more clearly than I.

But building number 7, one of the buildings

in this very large complex of buildings that is the Trade Center,

there were, and that is the right way to put it,

there were the two towers. But then there are

a number of support buildings around it, retail spaces, restaurants,

office space, garages.

The trains come in from New Jersey bringing commuters,

taking commuters back, come into the complex that is the World Trade Center.

And now we are told that there is a fire there

and that building may collapse as well as you can see.

We can see as we look now back downtown,

we can see the billowing smoke.

It is extraordinary to us, I guess, how long this scene has gone on.

The smoke has not cleared at all, it has not lightened at all.

There was that horrific moment when the towers collapsed and then

we have been in this sort of situation ever since.

As the fires continue to burn, Rose Arce,

one of our producers who has been slowly and diligently making her way to the building,

described the fires that she saw in the area of the towers themselves.

And clearly those fires continue to burn at about 4.15 Eastern Daylight Time today

in an unbelievable and awful scene in New York.