| 08:53:08 CHARLES GIBSON, co-anchor: *This--this angle is a little deceptive. As you know, there are two Trade Center towers, and the second tower there is hidden behind the first. This is really almost the picture postcard of New York City. It's the--that and the Empire State Building, I guess, are the two most recognizable symbols of New York. There you can see the two--well, we had there just briefly the other angle of the World Trade Center towers. But this is confined to one of the towers on the upper floors. These buildings--I think they're 110 stories each. So this would be in the--in the top 15 or 20 floors there.* |
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| 08:56:17 Charles: *You know, I--I don't know that people outside New York realize it, but these two buildings are essentially cities in and of themselves. I mean, there's 30 to 40,000 people, if I remember the number--and I'm doing this from memory--number of people who actually work in these buildings. And this obviously occurred at the time that people were coming to work. * 08:59:52 Charles: *Well, obviously, we don't know if this was--if it was a plane, and I underline, if it was, we don't know if it would have been deliberate or accidental. We know so little now, other than what we can see from these pictures. But the interesting point is, there are a number of small airports around New York where passenger--corporate jets or private jets will land and take off, and it's not uncommon, if you have ever visited the World Trade Center, when you go up to the observation platforms at the top you can look down on airplanes that are either coming in for landings or taking off from New York airports. But all pilots who fly in this area know very well where the World Trade Center is located. All the routes are very far or comfortably far away from the two towers.* |
| 09:03:10 Charles: *We just saw another plane coming in from the side. * |
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| 09:05:19 Charles: *All right, we're going to go back to live coverage now. You're looking at live pictures, and there is the second fire * |
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| 09:03:24 Sky News: *We just saw on live television, as a secound plane flew in to the secound Tower of the world trade center. * |
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| 09:05:32 Charles: *and Don, from everything I can see, it was the same tower that was hit the first time, right?* Don: *No, it's the second tower. It is the...* Charles: *It's the other tower.* Don: *It is the other tower that was hit.* Charles: *My mistake.* |
| 09:03:22 Charles: *so this looks like it is some sort of a concerted effort to attack the World Trade Center that is under way in downtown New York.* 09:03:52 Charles: *hit the World Trade Center from the other side. So this is obviously, or would seem to be, and again I'm dealing in speculation, but it would seem like there is a concerted attack against one of the [tower --- towers] of the World Trade Center under way.* |
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09:03:40 Charles: *and I--I must admit, I thought it was some sort of fire equipment or some sort of observation plane* |
| 09:05:32 Charles: *and Don, from everything I can see, it was the same tower that was hit the first time, right?* |