i heard on the radio, something i ll never forget, and the transmission said, tower two is down all units evacuate tower one. i couldn t believe it. what do you mean tower two is down? i mean, it s the world trade center. the first tower to be hit was still standing. port authority cop david lim was helping evacuees on the 35th floor. and now the people i was with were very upset, of course. i just told mem we had to keep going. and we started heading down again. at 10:08 a.m., an nypd
still standing. port authority cop david lynn was helping evacuees on the 35th floor. and now the people i was with were very upset, of course. i just told them we had to keep going, and we started heading down. at 10:08 a.m. an nypd helicopter pilot reported that tower one wouldn t last much longer. i got down to the fifth floor, while one more flight down, that s as far as we got. and the building started coming down.
the whole event only took ten seconds, but it just seems to expand in your mind when you re seeing it. it was the tower that we had just exited, and where our company of up on the 84th floor. i heard on the radio something i ll never forget. in a transmission that said, tower two is down. all units evacuate tower one. i couldn t believe it. what do you mean tower two is down? i mean, it s the world trade center. the first tower to be hit was still standing. port authority cop david limm was helping evacuees on the 35th floor.
broadway. keep in mind, they were evacuating not only public buildings and government buildings but also private buildings. i mean, even if you ve been to new york and see the skyline, you ve seen how tall these buildings are, i used to live on the 35th floor, i can t imagine how scary that must have been sitting up in one of those huge buildings and it s rocking back and forth. speaking of skylines, you know, the washington monument, there was a all right out early that it was tilting and i was talking to one of the correspondents down in washington, he told me that he saw one of the park police helicopters circling that very briskly yesterday afternoon. as it turns out, apparently there s some cracks at the very top. that s the tallest thing that 555 feet in washington, d.c. and there was some worry that it could have some structural damage. and the national cathedral also, take a look at this. the spires, you can see. three of them. knocked off. right. ever since i saw k
need folks to leave. i ve been in there when planes have entered airspace and they told us to leave the capitol. during this instance, there was no such warning, there was no such direction from capitol police. it happened so quickly that the evacuation orders were given simply by word-of-mouth. by whatever office you were closest to. that was my experience just outside the senate chamber right above it. lisa with the latest from the capitol. wolf blitzer standing by for us in washington, d.c. wolf, i m sure you ll be talking about this in the situation room later today. we certainly will. it s an extraordinary and unusual situation. it hasn t just been in washington. it s been in virginia. it s been in maryland. up in new york, north carolina, ohio, michigan. they felt it all over the eastern part of the united states. the epicenter much closer to richmond, virginia. mineral, virginia. about 87 or so miles outside of washington, d.c. we re following what s going on very