Live Coverage of 9/11 Attacks

Hi, everybody. It's, uh, Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

Our studio audience has been in here for at least the last 15, 20 minutes, and so

you missed the big story of the day that's developing right now here in New York

City. A plane has crashed into one of the twin

towers of the World

Trade Center. You can see it now on the screen right

there.

And, um, don't know what the intent was, whether it was deliberate

or accidental, but there is a fire going on there.

Bits of debris are falling down to the sidewalks below.

It happened at, uh,

8:48, about 12 minutes ago.

Oh.

And so it's developing and will continue to develop all through

the day.

And if you can see those bits of debris, they're large.

That's-- If you can see it, it's large.

Yeah.

Because the World Trade Center is so immense, and you can clearly see

things falling.

A lot of speculation whether or not it was an accident or maybe a suicide

bomber. Not, uh,

not out of the question these days. So there it is.

They say it was a jet. W- Eyewitnesses are saying that it was a jet.

Um, not a, not a large commercial jet, but a small jet.

But you can see it's a very clear day here in New York.

We had thunderstorms last night, which kinda cleared out the area,

and actually

turned into a beautiful early, uh, fall day.

But there you go.

This is the worst thing I've, I think I've ever seen in my

life.

It's kind of an ill-fated, uh,

building down there. They've been through a lot.

Few years ago, they had that, uh,

bomber go in there with the truck.

Well, it, it's such a target.

Yeah.

Because it is su- such a-

So big

... well-known, uh, symbol-

Mm-hmm

... of America and New York City. And, and so

i- it can become a target. But I, I,

I pray for those people inside. It's just the worst thing I've ever seen

in my

life.

So we will update you, uh, continuously throughout the show as we

find out more

details about this. Light plane crashed into one of the towers

of the Twin

Towers Trade Center down there in Battery, uh, Park in New York,

uh, City.

Something just exploded.

There's a close-up view, I guess.

Something just exploded.

Maybe that plane had something in it.

And there's, uh, phones going off.

Are we getting an explosion happening, Zach?

It was an explosion there, huh?

Yeah.

Now you can see the, the flames.

Ugh. Uh, when something like this happens, it's

such a, an air, a mass destruction, you have to wonder about,

of course, the-- Oh, it looks like both buildings.

That's both buildings.

It's the next building. It's not as well as the next building.

This is the next building, yeah.

Jumped over to the next building.

Um-

It's in the future. Future building just exploded.

We will continuously bring you, um, updates on, on that story.

I just feel sick to my stomach.

I really do.

That's very sad.

I, I feel sick to my stomach for those people

in there.

It's just the worst thing I can

imagine.

Uh, I guess it's being said that a second plane hit the other tower.

Oh.

That looks, sounds like deliberate to me.

I mean, I hate to say anything on, on live TV.

We'll go to a commercial break, regroup and, uh, get our, uh, get, uh, the

story straight, okay? We'll be right back in a moment.