Due to california pressing zero bell policy. now with violent crimes surging in new york city, some of the senior executives have begun to quietly encourage younger employees to go dressed down in order to avoid making themselves a target for would-be criminals. senior correspondent laura ingle has more. kevin, could be a sign of the workplace times for some big businesses in major cities where crime is spiking. here in new york a new report gives some plays and bank of america are told to dress down when they are headed to work over fears for their safety. the new york post reporting that some senior executives at bank of america have quietly encouraged younger staff working at the tower 1 near manhattan to an essence take their wardrobe down a notch to attract less attention one coming to work. according to an anonymous sourc, these executives told staffers that pressing up or wearing
Doesn t describe super men rushing into the burning tower, but in fact, ordinary, mortal men. i look at my hero firefighters and i think they would say the same thing, that they did ordinary things but in an extraordinary time in history. reporter: including his brother. kevin pfeifer he s my brother, with his engine company. we lost the entire engine company that day. reporter: as we walk along here, you see all these names. these are the people we lost that day how much do you think about the people that you and your firefighters saved that day that day, we saved 20,000 people. and i think that s what we have to remember that s nightly news for this tuesday. thank you for watching, everyone i m lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night
Were trapped reporter: he made critical decisions, ordering the south tower evacuated before it was hit, likely saving countless lines. among the firefighters who raced into the north tower was his younger brother and fellow firefighter, kevin. my brother as he came in, we were able to look at each other and wondered if we were both going to be okay reporter: and later, as the conditions grew worse, chief pfeifer issued this ominous order and i got on the radio and said, command to all units in tower 1, evacuate the building reporter: you were asking firefighters to leave the burning building, full knowledge that there were people you couldn t reach perhaps the first time in history that a fire chief ordered the evacuation of our firefighters with a thousand people in the building reporter: in his book ordinary heroes, pfeifer
The north tower collapsed on top of them. he survived inside a pocket of stairwell b where the only way out was up and tim and dave join us live near in new york today. good morning both to of you. dave, as the evacuation was going on. there was one woman who was having trouble and you said you know what? i m going to stay here and help you, tell us about her: well, i was in tower 1 in b stairwell as you just said and i was coming down with a lot of people from my own job, the port authority police, and i saw harris, this woman sitting on the steps on the fifth floor. and the ladder company six and nine were inside looking for a chair to put her in to bring her downstairs she couldn t get up. myself and billy butler picked