overwhelmed, and should it have been larger, should it have been anticipated? yes, it probably should have, but it wasn't. >> to make matters worse, the police department, the port authority, and the fire department couldn't share vital information. >> the radios, we didn't have a channel we could communicate with the police department on. >> the way in which the fire department and the police department communicate is different because generally they have different missions. the best answer is they should have radios that are interoperable so that in an emergency, both of them could be switched onto the same channel. >> but in the interim -- >> those radios do not exist today. >> so when the police department helicopter surveyed the situation, the fire department didn't get that information. >> the chiefs in the north tower were forced to make decisions