big of a plane. i am trying to see if it was the different tower. i think the first one was wednesday 1 and it looks like the second building. this is a piece of tape and we may see another plane enter the weekend here. i wonder if there air traffic control problems. jennifer did you see this happen? hello? did you just see this happen? in, attmatt, i saw a jet headed directly into the wednesday. it just flew into the other tower coming from the south to north. i watched the plane fly into the world trade center. it was a jet. a very large plane going fast. it went past battery park and flew past and almost hit it and then went in. this is show shocking. to everybody watching. i never have seen anything like it. it flew itself into the world
plane was another plane perhaps hijacked and flown into the second tower. dan, me about people on the ground. are you at a vantage point where you can see? are i m further in the west village. i m not on the ground near the base of the towers. where were you when it happened? walking down seventh avenue south at about charles street which is about 15 or 20 blocks north of the towers. obviously this was a shocking thing for you to witness on this tuesday morning with wires coming out saying in 1945 an army air corps twin-engine bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the empire state building in dense fog. this was a crystal clear day in manhattan. it is completely unclear how there would be any kind of problems with visibility. dan, thank you so much for
just before 9:00 8:42. a plane crashed into the world trade center. about 3/4 of the way up. the smoke is billowing and about 18 or 20 minutes later, a second plane, a large plane we saw on tape hit the left hand power of the world trade center about halfway up. an enormous fireball and people trying to be evacuated. people were trying to get out of the first building. we have reports that there was one plane hijacked. american airlines flight 11 from boston to los angeles. that is apparently one of the planes used in this crash. there is a report on dubai television that in fact the group claiming responsibility at the democratic front, the liberation of palestine. this comes on a day when the
morning commute before poem were heading into the offices and some people were already at work. immediately there is cause for concern. this is the world trade center the center of a terrorist bombing some years ago. the questions have to be asked was this an accident or could it have been an intentional act? either way extensive damage has been done to the building. also there was smoke coming out of the east side of the building. 1-800-smoke white smoke. we talked with somebody about that. judge jennifer. a producer here on the today show, me where you are and what you saw? . i live in this area and returned to my apartment, but i was walking down the sidewalk delivering my young daughter to school and we heard a very loud sound, the kind of sound you hear when a plane is going fast.
reporter: now what they re doing is totally clearing out the area. more and more emergency officials are coming in to help. can you just give me an idea of the reaction of people down there? is it pedestrians? reporter: everyone. everyone in tears. people who were i met some woman who was in the building to the right where the first thing happened and just all crying wondering if the people that they know in the building next door are okay. thank you very much. jamie, our national correspondent, is on the phone now with more information. jamie? reporter: katie, as you well know buildings around town are being evacuated and the state department has been evacuated. the white house has been evacuated and the pentagon has been evacuated. intelligence officials tell me that they do believe at the pentagon that that was a third plane going down. they have had the