102 Minutes That Changed America

Yeah, Dispatcher?"

Yes.

- This is off-duty firefighter, Jumain

I guess you got this already.

You got a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center.

Are you aware of that?

You've got a plane

that crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan?

- World Trade Center in Manhattan.

Oh, my God!

No way.

Holy mofo, what is that though?

Mom, it's like a huge, just like explosion or something.

Yeah, yeah.

Did you hear what I said about it like

maybe not being a bomb?

'Cause like it's up high, mom.

It's unbelievable, it woke us up.

We're frickin' videotaping it.

Yeah, yeah.

I just have no clue what it is,

there's just black smoke,

and what looks like paper, but...

Unbelievable.

- You should just tell her

to watch the news dude,

it's all over there.

It's on the news.

- Just a few moments ago,

something believed to be a plane

crashed into the tower of the World Trade Center.

I just saw flames inside,

you can see the smoke coming out of the tower.

We have no idea what it was.

It was a tremendous boom just a few moments ago.

You can hear around the emergency vehicles

heading towards the scene.

Now this could have been an aircraft,

or it could have been something internal.

It appears to be something coming from the outside,

due to the nature of the opening,

on about the 100th floor of the South Tower

of the World Trade Center.

- The World Trade Center, tower number one

is on fire.

The whole outside of the building,

there was just a huge explosion.

- This is confirmed, this is confirmed.

Oh my God, dude.

What is up with that?

That is ed up.

That's the building?

Yeah.

Holy mackerel!

- Every available engine that you got

to this position.

- Rescue crews responding.

Jesus Christ.

- Do we have any report on a fire condition yet

from on-scene personnel?

- Reports uh, numerous floor's on fire.

- Is this the second alarm right now?

- This is the third alarm since we've been transmitting.

Four David, 10-4.

Oh, man.

Are you there?

I just saw the hugest explosion.

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Yeah, yeah, we're plenty far away.

Apparently a plane went right through it.

There's gotta be hundreds of people dead.

Oh God.

- We have breaking news this hour

out of downtown Manhattan.

A plane has allegedly crashed into the World Trade Center.

Details at this hour, very sketchy.

Just a few moments ago, allegedly a plane

has crashed into the World Trade Center.

We don't have any reports of what type of plane,

what perhaps the carrier was,

how many injuries are there right now.

Police and fire units are being dispatched to the scene

as we speak.

Again, these are only sketchy details,

we'll just stay with pictures.

You're looking at live pictures right now

from News Chopper 7.

- Mike check, news copter, 1, 2, 3.

Mike check from the news copter.

Yeah I can hear that.

Alright, I'm standing by.

Oh, my God.

Oh, man, what?

Oh my goodness.

Look at that.

I don't know, wow.

Oh my God.

- Imagine that a airplane hit it.

- Hit the building? Wow.

- You can see it from the Lincoln Tunnel and everything

where we were pulling into the Lincoln Tunnel,

and everybody stood up on the bus.

Huh?

I don't know, I can't see.

Chris tell me they've locked all the doors,

and everything's flying all over the place,

there's people everywhere.

I don't know.

It hit the building, everything just went rignt up into smoke.

- No, that's the World Trade Center.

What just hit?

- The Twin Towers, the buildings that they--

Yeah, all the way downtown,

where it almost got blown up that time.

Uh oh.

Oh, my God.

Feel sorry for whatever amount of people

was up on that floor, you know?

- Yeah, I know, destroyed.

- And we're trying to gather some information

as to what type of plane this might have been

into this area.

I can tell you as we are looking here at the north side

of the north-facing tower number one,

the gash that is in the building,

runs from about 10 stories up,

to about 15 stories going from right to left.

And now we have quite a bit of smoke and flame

pouring out of the eastern side of tower number one,

and at this point, Jeff, that is all we have.

We are still looking at smoke billowing

out of tower number one.

- Um, well I was walking down

Chamber Street, and fully saw the entire event.

With my own eyes, I saw the entire, I saw the plane,

from the sky pass right into it.

Amazing.

- Yeah, well, that's what it looks like.

Hey, I can see what appears to be a hole,

but there's so much smoke, you know,

from where I'm looking at it.

Oh, you can hear the sirens now, right?

I'm telling you, the whole tower is on fire.

Yeah, 'cause there's black smoke coming out

of the one side.

I hope it wasn't a terrorist attack.

'Cause that means tunnels are next,

bridges are next, you know.

This is not good.

Not good at all.

Oh, my God.

- Straight into the building.

- Can you imagine the people who work in there?

They must be going crazy right now.

- Did you find apartment 328?

- This is operator 2-7-6-4,

we have 100 people trapped on the 105th floor

of the one World Trade Center.

Okay.

- Want to know if they should evacuate.

- Really, they should remain where they are,

if they can put something to block the smoke

from coming in under the door.

'Cause we're in the building,

and the hallways are filled with smoke,

so they should not go in the hallways.

Okay.

Alright?

- They've already started trying

breaking the windows,

they're panicking on that floor.

- I understand ma'am.

Listen, we're doing the best that we can, okay?

- Alright. - Thank you.

in' awful.

- Cell phones don't even work.

Hey, go over one more block down this way.

Everybody's running away.

Look!

Somebody's falling, somebody's falling!

- You can't stay here.

I'm sorry, you got to go.

Go, you got to clear, let's go!

- That, what is that falling?

Oh, my God, don't be a person.

Where?

- Oh, my God. - Where?

That right there?

- What are those big heavy things falling

at a rate that a piece of paper would not fall.

Oh, my God!

No way.

Like that, Katelyn, you see that?

Do you see the--

Yeah, I see it.

I see it, I just, I mean,

who's to say it's not like a chair?

That's a big chair,

that's a big chair.

- Regardless, it's gonna be so dangerous