Happened here on this very sight. 8 46, september 11, 2001, the United States became a nation transformed and every day since then on watch to prevent another attack. Hello. Heim jon scott. Welcome to timeline of terror part 2. Were at ground zero, behind me is the 9 11 memorial. Waterfalls cascade into a you pair of pools marking where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood. The victims names are etched into the surrounding wall. This is where we first witnessed the horror of 9 11, and followed it to the pentagon and into the skies over pennsylvania. On this program the datetoday september 11th 2001, our hope turned to sorrow, continued stress kept america on guard and the hunt for bin laden beg. Now we pick up where timeline of terror part 1 left off. As the president was addressing the nation on the evening of 9 11. Today our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature and weesponded with the best of america. Spent the day in air force one. Security officials believing was not safe to return to washington. He finally overruled that. I watched a man grow that day, but he lived up to my expectations. So i dont think that he became someone else. He was the same person i knew on september 10th, on september 11th. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of america. Actually, after he had made that address, we also had a meeting down in the president s Emergency Operations center. When it came time f the end of the day, the president went off to the white house mansion. To go to bed. I went back to my office in the west wing and all of a sudden two secret Service Agents came in, and literally lifted me out of my chair, and started running down the corridors of the white house to take me down to a bunker. And that was because there was a report that the plane had enteredhe airspace near washington, and so im down in this bunker, and down comes the president. Carrying the dog, and then the first lady comes down carrying the cat. It was a long day. The terrorists were there. And i rember it was probably around 8 00 p. M. That night. I had heard someone yell out, United States marine corps, anybody here . And god gifted me with a big mouth and big lungs and even though i was tired i started yelling, pape. Officers down. Pape, we need help. What i would call an explosion. You could actually look at the lobby of either tower. You could see the lobby of building two disappearing in a brown wall. [ sirens ] i remember looking up and everything was shaking. And the sergeant said, run. Run wards the elevator shaft. I assumed there was aar bomb that had gone off on the street level of building two. And as i turned the corner, i just remember being lifted up and just literally body slammed down. I went for my radio an started calling, 813, 813, which is our code for officer down. Were being hit with debris and something hit my hand. I lost the radio and held on for dear life. They were above me. You could see the light try an opening in the debris. Heard another very loud explosion, and that was tower one collapsing on. [ siren ] it was frightening. It was very scary. But you hoped that that was your relative that was running, but my sister was the type, she listened to instructions. The fireman had told her and the rest of the people that were coming down the stairs to, please, wait in the landings. Because unfortunately, they were bringing down burnt bodies. And they stayed and then listened. And back up and a large piece of concrete had entered this void and sat dominick downwn in very harsh way. At this point i was trapped and in an extreme amount of pain from the pressure, and the bones in my knees and hips were just really squeezed between two pieces of concrete. Dominick was bleeding out of his mouth and said, wl, dont ever forget i died trying to save you guys. He took his firearm lifted it into the air in a lastditch effort to say, went down here. And thats when he passed. The search and rescue effort officially has not yet getten underway now there as you mentioned bring down the heavy equipment to Lower Manhattan to begin moving the heavy rubble, the debris under which thousands and thousands of people are buried. Some alive, some perhaps not many perhaps not, we are told. It took three painful hours to get me out. Talking about cutting my leg off. I told them, if you had to, just do it. I could hear them working and at that point i knew we good. We were going to get out of here. I came out 11 00 p. M buried 12, 13 hours. That was the one side of the building that had been retrofitted, and there were less people on that side, because construction had literally just stopped. And people were moving back in. Had it hit another side that was fully occupied, the death toll would have been considerably higher. When the plane hit the building, it immediately disintegrated as it wt through the buildings i dont think there was a plane piece bigger than a couple feet if that, short of the engine and the landing gear at ten minutes afr 3 00, his secretary called me and she said, is rudy home . And when she said that i knew. I picked up the phone and i call ed him. I said, they cant find rudy. I put on my shoes, and i walk to the train station, and saw his car was there. But i just didnt want to i still had hope. There definitely are survivors now. It is going to definitely be a race against the clock to get them out. They sealed off the air space around manhaan. They had the Navy Warships now in the harbor. I understand that you were in a building that collapsed . Yes. Pretty harrowing experience, and we we tried different exit areas, and a number of them were closed and blocked. The smoke condition was tremendous. I certainly can share with a lot of people that went through yesterday. We took care of 360 individuals in an expeditious manner. We waited for more and there were none coming. I sent residential and fak t facultto the triage panel. Nobody was there. Everybody had to deduce the sadness of that. No more survivors expected in the pentagon rubble. The death toll expected to be huge at the World Trade Center site. Some people it is believed, are still trapped alive. The only pele going to work, they didnt they were not soldiers. E they were not fighters. They worked for their families. I jus completed a meeting with our National Security team, and weve received the latest intelligence updates. Deliberate and deadly attacks carriedous yesterday against our country were the more than acts of terrors they were acts of war. Unlike the terrorism targets at the pentagon, and in new york where there is hope today are finding survivors, here in anksville, pennsylvania, where united flight 93 went down that hope is long gone. Why this plane went down here and not perhaps a more highpro frieled targ some are speculating could be the result of here rooics from the crew ore passenger that made it into the cockpit deciding if im going to die, im going to take it down here in a rural area. The fire situation there continues to be hazardous. There are evacuations beingmade right now. Not because of another terrorist attack. The fires are extraordinarily difficult to put out. Primarily because the casings of the pentagon as you would imagine were so thick. You know, 9 12, there were still significant fires in that building while we were inside, and at some point the smoke condition got too heavy. You had toull people out of the building. We had family members just walking the area. Some of them almost a blank stare and they brought with them photogras of their loved ones. Brothers, fathers. And in this case, a very young woman who worked on the 101st floor of tower one. Saying, if anyone was here, the media, the hospital, if youve seen this woman, call this number. This is how desperate people are for information. The great task of skipping through the rubbskipping sifting through the rubble started late last night and continued throughout the day. You only know someone covered an someone the body when that actually happened, do tings certainly youre not afraid, Show Confidence in yourself and in the city. We also urge people not in any way take any action on their own. Weve had a few, not many, but a few incidents that appear to have beedirected against people because they made an error or asian or indian or whatever. But nobody should attack anyone else. The racial religious ethnic reas reasoning. The four planes were hijacked by between three and six individuals per plane. Using knives and box cutters in some cases making bomb threats. Its almost two years before its execution when they were fortunate in that they found individuals with the ability to get these technical skill, linguistic skills and everything that could help exdhecute that plan. Our government has credible evidence that the white house and air force one were targets. A number of the suspected hijackers were trained at pilots as pilots in the United States. We will leave no stone unturned until we have determined who was responsible for these attacks on our freedom. Secretary rumsfeld told me when i talked to him that he felt the blast shake the pentagon. Coming here makes me sad on the one hand. And also it makes me angry. Our country will, however, not be cowed by terrorists. E was thoughtful and determined and had resolve that the United States would lean forward and not lean back. That we would not go along the path of the prior administration, treating terrorism as a criminal matter, and being in absentia and he resolved the only way to do that was not to play defense but to play offense. We hunted for him and i led the hunt from 96 to 99 in islamabad pakistan, but we did have bin laden in u. S. Gun sights on two occasions and on both occasions the desion was made not to take the shot. Not to pursue with the operation. Be very critical that we find the black box. We, began, were working towards that area, because thats where they felt it might be. Started to find more and more victims heading back towards the back area. More than 200 people remain unaccounted for at the pentagon. Rescue crews there are hoping to have enough demolition work done by daybreak to enter into that impact area. Were not finding victims. This is really bad. Tossed me around like a rag doll. Sometimes i feel its a really cruel joke for god to plan. Not only am i on fire, but around me is fire and then the smoke thats just pouring out of the building. One of the reasons there were so few survivors was because the intense heat and the fire that swept through the building. Trying to get to my feet. I made the quick realization that, okay. I am dying. I think they have about 50,000 people. Friends, family of loved ones registering their missing person. My sister right now, rhonda, i am out here for you. She is 8 months pregnant. They have a 1 1 2yearold, but we need to deliver a baby. If you have any information, it would be very helpful. We still havent heard from her. We dont know if shes in the hospital. We just we just want to know whats going on. I cant talk. I have called hospitals. I called any which place i knew in new york city that i could get ahold. You have hope and then you have no hope and you just want answers. We were watching tv and you see thats him. Its not him. My sister was on the computer and she saw that there was a bacchus at a hospital, and we all got so excited and so, you know and what we called, it was different bacchus. I remember when the phone rang. I jumped, thought maybe somebodys going to call me and say, we found her. But it wasnt that. Thats the guy right there they suspect drove, highjacked a plane in boston and drove it into the side of the World Trade Center. His name is 33yearold mohamed atta, and hes got, a militant with links to Osama Bin Laden, and apparently he had been taking flying lessons. The aim of this is find more information on Mohammed Atta and shahid, both is spects hsuspect trained here at huffman aviation. We met with people in the government worked inside the building. Met with their families. We told them that our country is praying for each and every one. The heat that were the in those rooms just was just tremendous. There were no spaces, really, that were survivable spaces in there that would have left somebody to survive more than just a few minutes. I knew i was going to die. Because ive never seen Something Like that before, and i knew that fire was coming for me. Get on my back. Im going to die. Just, please, come on. Like, screaming. Everybody was saying just a little light. Over there. Just a little light. We looked at other disasters, people have been pulled out from these things five, six, seven days late around were still alive. Two men who apparently were pulled out of the rubble after slipping and falling into a very large, deep pit. We kept praying to god that he was somewhere, you know, maybe unconscious or maybe even under the rubble. [ crying ] the other thing that struck me was all of these people coming around giving me pictures of their husbands and loved ones. These are just two i got. Thats how they say, i guess its true. Her, and thats how we were able to proceed with the funeral. We had fire in the area, it collapsed. Im not surprised by the idea there is still burning going on underneath there. Youre not seeing a lot of it because its very deepseeded. They found pieces of the plane. Some of them were passengers that were still strapped in their seats and they were part of the debris pile, whh was away from the floor and the ceiling. As you were going through the crime scene and you moved something, you would expose the jet fuel to air and to a source and fires would develop. Words simply cannot express the horror, the shock and the revulsion we all feel over what took place. This nation is peaceful. But fierce when stirred to anger. Today the federal beau investigation released a list of 19 individuals who have been identified at hijackers aboard the four airliners that crashed on tuesday. We found the name of one of the suspects. He checked into this motel on august 26th. Checked out september 9th. After he checked out the hoemgts manager wanted to go into the dumpster, what he unloaded. Goes in there. Finds a manual on how to fly a plane. And stop doing this. I want to get out. And they were not happy. The crowd is chanting, usa, usa i asked the president if he wanted to make some remark, and he asked me, do you think its appropriate . I said, absolutely. And then the president up there with the bull horn, and i remember somebody yelling in the crowd, i cant hear you. I cant hear you. The president said. I can hear you [ cheers ] i can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people ishs [ cheers ] and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. [ cheers ] and the crowd is chanting, usa, usa i look over, people are chanting, usa, usa. [ chanting usa ] there is still hope that there are survivors underneath all that rubble. 13,000 tons of debris trucked out of there and some 1,400 dump truck loads brought to the land phil over on Staten Island where fbi agents and nypd detectives are going through that rubble. You can only imagine how gruesome the task is to recover remains. In a building hit by an airplane. Which makes obviously recovery, you know, much more difficult. I think the country felt much better that the debris was being rapidly removed. At the samtime, it wasnt good for the scientific identification, collection of evidence. All the debris that was left was then taken out of the building and brought to a sifting area where it was gone through again. That kind of destruction when theres a major accid t accident, body parts of department phied exactly where they are, and picked up. Everything is put into a proper receptacle. As that was done in this case. 40 of the bodieses have not been identified. My message is for everybody who wears the uniform. Get ready. He said, andy, i want you to convene the war council at camp david tomorrow. Now, there is no such thing as a war council, but i knew exactly what he meant. And the meeting was a sobering discussion of what it means to go to war. This act will not stand. We will find those who did it. We will smoke them out of their holes, and well bring them to justice. First of all, he wasnt looking for war. The terroristing declared war on us. This wasnt going to be a few cruise missiling flying around on television for the world to see that something blew up. Ed pr eed president decided h not want to pound sand. Actually fashioned something that would be effective, and would be a deer terrant. I got a call saying, could you come in first thin in the morning, and meet the chief of ctc black and we have a proposition. The United States wasnt prepared to go into afghanistan. Going to take a number of months before they could arrange forces. Oooey was asked to take the first team,ut it together and go into northern afghanistan. Said to the president , mr. President , give us the authority to do this and well be there six weeks. He liked the speech. Got the nod, and went forward. If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States or our allies, he will be sorely mistaken. Let me give you some of the latest information now according to the city of new york. 152 bodies have been recovered. Of those tonal about 92 identified. The number of missing, that number has goneup. We understand that 200 names have been added to that list. There are now 4,972 peopl missing believed to be dead in the World Trade Center disaster. Men and women putting their lives on the line, behind the exterior wall shoring up to go in and rove are the rest of the bodies. My team came across a group of people sitting a at desk working when the plane struck the building, and they were killed right there. Something had fallen out of his pocket to get a name, and put in a baggy. We can get it in his pocket from the way sitting in the chair. We found commander underneath the table as though he had been pushed underneath the table from the force of the plane going over him. We were able to get his name and his address and his rank and everything, and it was the first people that we really saw that were identifiable that we could look at and say, we can place a name with a face here. New yorkers the difficult process of saying goodbye. Former president clinton and his wife aended a manhattan Memorial Service from the belouvred fire chaplin Michael Judge and deputy fire chief. We decided a long time ago