they are designed to have a two degree sway in either direction because of the height of the building and to be able to deal with wind and stress. but something like that is more than it s probably designed for. we want to go now out to jane who i understand is a television producer here in new york. can you hear me? yes, i can hear you. i am down here near the world trade center. i was walking down 6th avenue this morning at 8:42 a.m. a group of us saw a plane veer through the buildings and then we saw a huge cloud of smoke. and then fire came out of one of the towers. it s near the upper floor, as you can probably see with your chopper shots. and then about 10 minutes ago, a second explosion, in the second tower. lower down. that was not affected by the plane so i m not quite sure what happened there. but right now there s a huge gaping hole in one of the towers. and the other building is on fire. the scene down here is incredible. people are out of their office buildings. watchi
these are people that follow the royal family everywhere, every public event. they blog about them, they tweet about them. there is even a guy right now outside of westminster abbey, he s got his tent, he s set up, he wants to get the best view possible. four days early. he s probably got an unobstructed view so far. now, nobody does a better job, you know, if you consider this a value in terms of security, of taking pictures. you ve got the ctv system all over london. so they really have eyes in the sky everywhere. that s got to be a big component of this. reporter: it is huge. there are more security cameras in london than any other city in the world. already. and this is something that they use to from traffic infractions to security concerns and terrorist concerns. there is a command center where they watch all of these screens. also there will be helicopters in the air with infrared cameras
his dad picks him up and kisses him. what a wonderful reunion. 300 sailors on a six-month deployment in afghanistan. and they are back home. you saw just that touching moment of one of those sailors just picking his kid up and kissing him all over. more hugs. family reunion. six months in afghanistan. taking pictures. wonderful moment for these families. nice to share it. explosions rang out around tripoli earlier today. coalition forces carried out a sixth day of air strikes on libyan targets. libyan tv showed what it said was a military base in flames. coalition leaders have disputed claims of civilian casualties from the air strikes. and one attempt by the libyan government, their officials to show proof that their allegations didn t go as planned. details from our senior international correspondent,
coming down the mountain? is that nervous making at all for you? it was really, yeah, you had to slide off the chair lift. 40 feet off the ground into a swing and then they lowered you down. and once you got down, you had to ski down to the base. it was quite a few minutes there. well, how about you? how about your wife maureen, how are you doing? maureen is fine. we re both freezing and our kids want food. believe it or not we dropped them off at child care, they are like, why are you late, well they don t understand, i am like, i got a video to show you. i got video of maureen being rescued and pictures of some of the other people being rescued, and other people being rescued, some place warm and wi-fi to yub load to cnn. do you think you ll get them when you get the pictures and
routines, what if something were to happen, and usually you find that places will have routines for places like this. if something were to happen that would new york out all power together what would be done. they have people in place. in the meantime, the focus is on everyone s safety right there. rob, are you still on the line with us? reporter: yeah, i am. we re getting some action here. the people on the mountain are throwing up it s kind of like a stick with a rope and they re throwing it up over the chair lifts and preparing to start getting people off the lifts behind us. hey, rob, are you able to take any video with your cell phone. reporter: yeah. it s kind of buried under my helmet and gloves at the moment. i took a few pictures of the