crashing in the area as well. i have no idea katie. all i know is that people who were in the building who came runing for that part of the building thought it was a bomb of some kind. according to chris brown, my colleague who came in. it appears that whatever it was and perhaps it was a plane if those are the reports. it crashed in or the damage is on the roof of the building at the heliport side of the pentagon which is opposite of the potomac river. we are looking at the white house because we are learning that there have been some evacuations from the white house. i assume everyone is being evacuated from the pentagon? well nobody has given us the official word yet, but i think that s probably a safe bet.
trade center. obviously now we move from what appears to there it is. i m looking from south to north and it went into the on the right. that aer 52ed to be at least a 727. here comes the videotape we just showed you. it apeers to be a large plane, a 727 or maybe bigger flying into the side of the world trade center. it was a jet. i couldn t believe my eyes. now you have to move from talk about a possible accident to talk about something deliberate that happened here. we are going to deliberately check the air traffic control and find out if they had contact with either of the planes before the accident. what we have seen is the most shocking videotape i have ever seen. what are the oughts are two separate planes hitting. elliott, are you there.
as the vice president. all the resources will be brought to bear by the federal government to determine who did this. who was responsible for this terrible event. it was followed boy a moment of silence for the victims. we are going go to andrea mitchell who has more information on the tragedy. i have spoken to ia top u.s. official who said early reports to our intelligence community and other officials within the administration are that this was a hijacked american airlines plane en route from boston to los angeles. one of the two planes was apparently a hijacked american airlines plane. early reports need confirmation but this is what the u.s. government is being told by american airlines officials. they are assuming and obviously informed the president that this is a terror attack. we have no information as to
this is a very air event. it is unlikely to be repeated, but president bush put his finger on it. we have to find who did this and any country, any nation in the world that is in any way involved or responsible that turns out to be terrorism will require a response from the united states and the united states has to be willing to pay that price. we are completely stunned when about 25 minutes after the first plane crashed into one of the twin towers another very large plane did the same thing. we have been talking with our correspondents all morning about if another incident could happen on the heels of these two, what kind of measures are in place to prepare for something else that could happen? one of the steps is being taken. i was getting ready to fly to la guardia when this occurred. they have shut down the traffic.
territories told reuters. the dflp is against hijacking planes and against endangering the lives of civilians who are not connected with the struggle of this region he said. there are going to be a lot of claims and counterclaims in the course of the next 24 hours or so. this is a task for investigators of extraordinary magnitude to try to determine who did this and how they got away with it. you think about an american airlines flight that was on its way from boston to los angeles was hijacked in midair. they are now citing transmission from the plane so they have hard evidence of that and then brought down here and made to fly into the twin trade towers. did one of the hijackers get control? did they shoot the pilot? it boggles the mind beyond our ability to figure out what was going on. you talk about transmissions, i was just curious. have you had any evidence of what was said during those transmissions? they are citing transmissions to know that the plane had been hijacked.