On September 11, 2001, 343 members of the Fire Department of New York perished while trying to rescue people trapped in the World Trade Center. Scott Pelley speaks with firefighters who were there that day and the loved ones of those who never made it home.
On September 11, 2001, 343 members of the Fire Department of New York perished while trying to rescue people trapped in the World Trade Center. Scott Pelley speaks with firefighters who were there that day and the loved ones of those who never made it home.
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i m wolf blitzer live at the pentagon as we continue our special coverage of september 11th. back with dana bash, john king, and kaitlin collins. a decade ago, john, you were in shanksville. you had a chance to interview now president joe biden. let me play a little clip, then we ll discuss. literally, you know, i used to commute every day. i got in the train. i was leaving. i took the early train. my wife was leaving the school to teach school. called me on my cell just around aberdeen, maryland. just before baltimore. said, joe, my god. my god, joe. a plane just flew right into the world trade tower. what do you think that means? i said, honey, i i don t know. she said, i have to get ready. she called back in a few
minutes, oh, my god, joe. oh, my god. there s a plane, it s running oh, my god. it ran right into the second tower. i said, honey, this is a big problem. this sounds coordinated. with that, by that time, other people started getting calls on the train. we went into the baltimore tunnel, so you lose the coverage as you go into the tunnel there. by the time i came out, there was i had everybody on the train. senator, what s going on? what happened? i said, i m not sure. we were all listening, making calls. i got off the train, i walked out of union station. i could see off to, in my case, my 1:00, this plume of smoke. it was the pentagon. everybody is saying, it is a car bomb. it is a truck bomb. no one knew what it was. then we got up, and everybody had been evacuated from my office. i went in to make sure everybody was out. we were standing out there in that park alongside the russell