BBC Report on World Trade Center Collapse

Talk about your BBC. I have a tape of a

BBC reporter broadcasting directly back to England

talking about a third building has collapsed, World Trade Center

Building Seven. Talks for twen- seven minutes.

All the while she's talking, World Trade Center Building Seven is

still standing right behind her. It didn't fall for another half

hour, yet they were doing a pre-broadcast back

to

England that-

No.

Yes, it's true.

Uh, you need to take a break here.

That this building fell, and it hadn't fallen yet.

If you're trying to make out the British Broadcasting Company, one of the most

respected news organizations in the world, was inventing

huge buildings falling over, you need to have a little-

They did

... you need to have a break, Jesse. We'll come back after the break.

Tell us about the Salomon Brothers building and its collapse.

Well, only really what you already know. Details are very, very sketchy.

As you can see behind me, the, uh, Trade Center appears to be

still burning. We see these huge clouds of smoke and ash,

and we know that behind that there's an empty piece of what

was a very familiar New York skyline, a symbol

of the financial prosperity of this city.

But, uh, completely disappeared now, and New York is

still unable to take on board what has happened to them today.