heard, tell me what you saw, please. much like he says. the building shook, it s almost like an earthquake. we our boss very calmly made us leave. we got to the working lot. it was full of smoke. people running towards the irs building that got hit. people were on the second floor. they couldn t get out. they were hanging out the windows screaming for help. uh-huh. i have to say, ben swinger glass happened to be at the complex. they drove through at mach three with perfect ease. got their ladders off in a split second, and they were up there getting them tightened down. people that worked in the complex, they were getting people out as best they could. wait a minute, cynthia, what s the name of the company you just mentioned? and what kind of work? ben swinger glass happened to be on the property. happened to be on the property? happened to be on the property. and they have the ladders that were long enough, and the guys
from what i could see when we were in the parking lot getting the ladders up to try to get them down, a whole portion of the first floor facing the highway was gone. gone. gone. there was gobs of smoke. a lot of the building people were yelling up to them to cover their faces with wet towels if they could. they couldn t get to the hallways to see if anyone was there. they were just yelling for help. so, you get out of the building, and you and your colleagues, you try to help. tell us about that. everybody tried to help. everybody that worked there did the best they could to help. and as well as stay clear so that they didn t create more chaos. how would you describe the response? i loved that the window company was there, just happened to be there, and snapped into action. but how long from the moment that you heard what sounded and felt like an earthquake to you before fire and rescue s on the
okay, it s very short and i apologize for that. we ll rerack it again. there we go. wow. all right. maybe we can grab some freeze frames. you know, we ll take it back and work on it a little bit and maybe grab some freeze frames of it. you can see that s pretty dramatic stuff there. the smoke, the thick, black smoke from the jet fuel obviously just pouring out of the building right now. and this is the scene right now. and again, this i don t have a time on when this crash took place, but that s something we re working on as well. our ed lavandera very familiar with this area. he said it s an area that s gone through a lot of development in recent years and there were a number of small airfields in the area. we don t know if this was a case of a plane trying to land, a plane trying to take off. ed is working the phones. our national desk working the phones as well to get any information that we can on this. no report of any injury tis
see the emergency vehicles there. are you talking about a giant cloud of smoke that appeared in front of you and? ? it was thick in the area, it wasn t black or anything, kind of a grayish-white, it wasn t a burny, burning, but it was really thick. traffic just in general there was a lot of traffic in that area. this is an area that you travel all the snime twi time? yes, twice a day. are you familiar with the office building? i see it every day, but i didn t know what was in there until i heard it from others. not a concern. talk to us about the smoke and talk to us about what you heard. was there tons and tons of sirens, a lot of commotion? i didn t. mostly what i saw was a lot of people pulled over on the side of the road getting out to watch. so people were pulling off to the side of the road getting out of their cars and staring at it? yeah, people were parked on the grass right before the flyover occurs and people were out there watching. just before the fly
most people watching you are in the other part of the country or parts of the world. tell me about how this feels living in the city, tell me about your feeling, how about it happened. tell me your feelings. first of all, i m concerned about the people there, i ve not heard anything about being hurt, so so far it doesn t seem like people are hurt badly. that s the first concern. second, the fact that a plane could be that low or close to the ground in such a busy area with no airports or anything, it makes you wonder. nothing like this has happened before, so it s not a fear, it was a concern what is it doing that low and how. absolutely. before i let you go here, you are at your office now? yes. what are people doing? in general all over the city, are people going about their business? is work getting done? are people stopped to watch us and watch local news to see what is going on? we have a lot of tvs in our office that are on the news