bush continued his education tour in florida with his brother jeb was governor, it was september 11th, 2001. ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for america i, unfortunately, will be going back to washington after my remarks. secretary rod pace, the leiutenant governor will take the podium and discuss education. i do want to thank the folks here at the booker elementary school for their hospitality. today we had a national tragedy. two airplanes have crashed into the world trade center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. the morning after the september 11th attacks, president bush met with his national security team in the cabinet room. he was already speaking in terms
and one can only imagine that that one occurred shortly after 9:00 in the morning, how many people were in the building at the time of the impact. and it s a large plane, we re told it was either a 737 some reports said that the first was a 757. some kind of airbus, that s what the united worker told us. that apparently that it was an american airlines plane that had been hijacked from boston to los angeles. but we re just getting initial reports of that. again, we must tell you that we re trying to get as much information, but it is trickling in at a very slow pace. so, all of this is unconfirmed. and, of course, speculation of a terrorist attack is unconfirmed, although that is what some pentagon officials are saying. let s go to president bush right now. unfortunately, we ll be going back to washington after my remarks. secretary rod pace and the lieutenant governor will take the podium and discuss education. i do want to thank the folks
facts. we got down to the ground floor, and only cops and firefighters and e.m.s. workers were there. and debris was falling down, it looked like confetti and in a ticker day parade and they were telling us to run, just go, run, run, run. they stayed back. and sacrificing themselves so that brian and i could live. attention all units, city wide commander all off duty firefighters and all off duty officers are here by recalled. repeating, the orders of the city wide tour commander, all off duty firefighters and all off duty officers ordering for recall immediately. president bush is about to speak, he s in florida at what was supposed to be a joyous event at an elementary school let s listen in. ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for america, i unfortunately will be going back to washington after my remarks, secretary
8:42 a.m. here in new york are at their desk working in their offices. one young man or one man was reached by phone and was asked what is happening there? he said, we are blanking dying here. and there was screaming and yelling and pure chaos understandably, going on in the background. there s a picture of lower manhattan, ladies and gentlemen. the most important city in the world in so many ways. now it has been attacked by terrorists at the world trade center and the damage is beyond our ability to tell you in great detail. let me mention that oh, that i was going to say, here s what the president said pep canceled an education appearance in florida. here s what he said just a short time ago. ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for america. i unfortunately will be going back to washington after my remarks. secretary rod pace and lieutenant governor will take the podium and discuss education. i do want to thank the folks here at booker elementary school
so, all of this is unconfirmed. and, of course, speculation of a terrorist attack is unconfirmed, although that is what some pentagon officials are saying. let s go to president bush right now. unfortunately, we ll be going back to washington after my remarks. secretary rod pace and the lieutenant governor will take the podium and discuss education. i do want to thank the folks here at the booker elementary school for their hospitality. today we ve had an national tragedy. two airplanes have crashed into the world trade center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. i have spoken to the vice president, to the governor of new york, to the director of the fbi, and have ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families, and to conduct a full-scale