Ago. We have very Little Information. On the phone, we have jennifer who apparently witnessed this event. Jennifer, can you hear me . Hello. Hi, jennifer. Hi, katie. Hi, can you please tell me what you saw and give me any information about whats going on there. Yes, i have its quite terrifying. Im in shock right now. I came out of the subway at bowling green. I was heading to work at battery park at the ritz carlton hotel. And i come out and i saw a big i heard a boom, looked up and there was a big ball of fire. Im now looking north at the World Trade Center. It is the left twin tower if im looking north. You can hear the emergency crews behind me. And it is unbelievable. When the fire first burst, it was hello . Go ahead, we can hear you. Like ive never seen before. And as you know, i used to work in news, ive never seen any
fire like this in the air. And pieces of the building were flying down. It looks like its like the top i cant even tell you. Maybe 20 floors. Intense smoke. Its h
conditions may hibder the search. they spotted two oily patches earlier, but have been unable to connect them to the missing airbus. bob haeger spent decades covering for msnbc news and good to see you again, bob. on very sad circumstances though. tell me what is your experience about this search and how long it may last even though the java sea is much shallower than of course the indian ocean was where we were searching for the ma yazian airliner. all that is true but any time that you have an accident over water where the wreckage winds up in the water and at the bottom of the sea there, that makes it very, very afl. if the oil slick is from the crash, but it may not be. you hope you have find wreckage on the surface or another oil slick that leads you to the
weather without being upset. weather is yes, a leading candidate or something to look at, but without evidence really it s all just conjecture and there a lot of reasons why the plane should have been able to handle whatever weather it was. bob haeger now while sunday marked the formal end of the combat mission in afghanistan, that did not mean the withdrawal of all american forces. the 13-year mission ended with assurance by the u.s. that forces will continue to support and train afghan troops going forward. the commander of international forces in afghanistan said we are not walks away. about 5500 troops will remain in noncombat roles.
hours for you. the route that malaysia airlines flight 17 flew is so popular when going from europe to asia, it has a name. it s called airway l-980. it s a key pathway to europe and asia, but by late thursday the airspace over eastern ukraine was empty. for more on this investigation i want to bring in greg feith, a former ntsb investigator and former airline captain haeger and safety expert john cox and nbc s long-time aviation correspondent, bob haeger. hello to all of you. greg, i want to start with you. is there any what are we going to learn from this crash site at this point? i ve just had a former senior official say to me the investigation on the ground might be pointless at this point. absolutely, chuck. i m very surprised at the fact that the ntsb would send anybody over there under these circumstances.
investigation goes along. there s more of that kind of an investigation than your traditional aircraft accident investigation. and would you you remember going in there trying to see different ways to investigate. at least there was some idea that it would be safe to go there. it looks like we lost one of our shots there. but the safety concerns, bob, of sending folks in. at this point do you think ntsb is making a mistake? i don t know what value they re going to be there on the scene. i agree with greg. examining the wreckage, maybe you can find some pieces of the missile or something like that. you might get some information from the black boxes. but the real investigation is not so much at the scene, it s again the trajectory of that missile, where it came from and then the super question, who fired it. greg feith, john cox, bob hager, thanks to all of you. up next, another major story that we re following.