self-closing door. many buildings lack what we would consider 50% of fire safety. you suspect that may be the case in this building? i m going to wait for the fire martial s report, but it s my understanding there were fire alarms, there was sufficient heat, but there was a malfunctioning space heater and the door was left open, and those appear to be the cause of the fire. another thing i find so moving is these firefighters kept going back in even without oxygen left in their tanks. what can you say about the heroism of the firefighters? i know they don t like to hear that term used, they ll say they were just doing their jobs, but just unbelievable bravery that we saw in the bronx today. we call every firefighter new york s bravest, and we re just grateful for those who put their
of told everybody, move. we ve got to go to the center core and wait for further instructions. that is what we were supposed to do. i volunteered to be a fire martial after the 93 bombing. i told them i m going downstairs. i m not feeling comfortable up here. i ll come back up later if they allow us back into the building. pressed the button for the elevator. the light lit up to go down. waited a couple of seconds. the doors opened up. i figured, looks like a good elevator instead of walking down 84 flights of stairs. every split second it s getting larger and larger and coming towards me. i can see the tail. this plane is looking me eye level on contact the plane starts to tilt as it s coming toward me. all i remember saying, lord, i can t do this. i dropped the phone screaming and ran under the desk. the plane crashed into the
it s only about three feet high. witnesses say she overcompensated and made a sharp right, crossing over three lanes of traffic going in the very same direction, hit a curb that went over a fence, only again about two to three feet high, and went sailing about 50 to 60 feet. control of the suv. it could have been, authorities say, any number of things. maybe something physically went wrong with her. perhaps there was a mechanical failure, a distraction of some kind. these are all the things that they ll be looking at as some of the possibilities, don. all right. susan candiotti in new york. susan, thank you very much. this stretch of road is no stranger to bad wrecks. back in 2006, six people were killed in almost the exact same spot. i spoke to steve casamo about the safety of this particular roadway. back in 2010, this bridge was one of several in new york state that were determined to be functionally y functionally inoperable. what that definition means, it doesn t mea