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 to its its quite terrifying. Im in shock right now. I came out of the subway at bowling green, heading to work in battery park, at the ritzcarlton hotel, and i came out and its i saw a i heard a boom, looked up, there was a big ball of fire. Im looking north at the World Trade Center and it is the last twin tower. If im looking north. Im looking north in battery park right now. You can hear the fire engines and emergency crews behind me, and it is unbelievable. When the fire first burst it was hello . Go ahead. We can hear you. I have never seen before and as you know i used to work in news. Ive never seen any fire like this in the air. And the pieces of the building were flying down. It looks like its the its like the top i cant even tell you, maybe 20 floors, and intense smoke. Its h
Apparently witnessed this event. Jennifer, can you hear me . Caller hello . Can you tell me what you saw and give me any information on whats going on there. Yes. Its quite terrifying. Im in shock right now. I came out of the subway at bowling green. I was heading to work in battery park at the ritz carlton hotel. And i come out and i saw a big i saw a big ball of fire. Im now looking north at the World Trade Center and its the left twin towers. Im in battery park right now. And you can hear the fire engines and the emergency crews behind me. I have never seen any fire like this in the air. And the pieces of the building were flying down. It looks like its its like the top i cant even tell you, maybe 20 floors. Intense smoke. Its horrible. I cant even describe it. Do you have any idea what kind of plane it was . Do you have any idea what hit the World Trade Center . What it was . Yeah what kind of plane. Were getting reports that an airplane hit the building. I didnt even know that. Ho
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CBS News received four awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, which were presented Saturday night.
CBS This Morning Saturday co-host
Michelle Miller co-emceed the event along with ABC World News Now co-anchor
Kenneth Moton.
The CBS Evening News earned two awards, CBS Sunday Morning earned one award and CBS News evp of news
Kim Godwin earned an award as well.
Godwin was presented during the event with the
Ida B. Wells Award “for her work as a strong newsroom leader, for being an advocate for stories about communities in the country that might have been overlooked, for her work to create a diverse newsroom, and her focus on identifying – and advocating for – young journalists throughout their careers.”
pandemonium, i am sure, down there, and we gathered that from the eyewitnesses with whom we spoke and how terrifying this was for them to see. you can only imagine as you get closer to the twin towers, that a new york landmark, how what the scene must be like there. you talked about the building looking like they ve buckled. they re designed to have a two-degree sway in either direction because of the height of the building, being able to deal with the wind and stress, but something like that, probably, more than it was designed. we want to go out to jane derenowski who is a television producer here in new york. jane, can you hear me? yes, i can hear you. i m down here near the world trade center. i was walking down sixth avenue this morning a8:42 a.m. a group of us saw a plane veer through the building then saw a huge cloud of smoke and then fire came out of one of the towers here. it s near the upper floor, as you can probably see with your