Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Fox News Reporting 20160912 : compa

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Fox News Reporting 20160912

The president arrived just as usual for an event, twotiered event. A classroom and then a larger speech in the gym about education. Welcome aboard. Its fox friends. 2 after 8 00 in the east. It was just a regular day. I started my day at bryant park. Liz lang has something a little extra. Theres a great item on the front page. President bush is in florida encouraging reading programs and california grand jury decided against investigating gary condit. Toby of maine is our pet of the day. Were taking a timeout plus a preview of the latest fall tv shows. You are watching fox friends. Were nuts about nuts. I was in the battle cap. We were starting a norad exercise. We have a couple of those a year. Also because of the exercise we had the fighters on alert with a little extra gas. With some more weapons on board than they normally would. The morning of the 11th i received a call from an individual i assumed was the exercise coordinators asking of a notification of a hijacking situation approaching from the northeast. Okay. My name is betty ong. Number 3 on flight 11. Okay. And the cockpit is not answering their phone. I our number 1 got stabbed. Our purser is stabbed. Nobody knows who stabbed who and we cant even get up to Business Class right now because nobody can breathe. Youre a great job. We have some planes just stay quiet and youll be okay. We are returning to the airport. What is going on end . We contacted air traffic control. Okay. He turned his trance ponder off so we dont have a definitive altitude for him but they seem to think he is descending. A note was handed to me just as we were coming out of the video teleconference. Boston center has a suspected hijacked airplane. I have put the f15s at Otis Air National guard base on battle stations. I said scramble them. Well hold them out over the water until we get the permissions if necessary. A hijacked airplane we know nothing about it at all. Do not know where it is. Whats going on, betty . Betty talk to me. Betty, are you there . We just had a plane crash into the upper floors of the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center tower number 1, is on fire. The whole outside of the building. We have a very tragic alert for you right now. An incredible plane crash into the World Trade Center here at the lower tip of manhattan. Believed the 737 crashed into this speculation at this point and at least three floors taken out. Joining us one of the producers with fox report owen on the scene. Owen what do you know . What do you see . Im on the roof of my building which is about five blocks to the south of World Trade Center and looking right now at the World Trade Center. Theres a massive, gaping hole on the secondtower. Its about 15 stories from the roof. Its just unbelievable. Theres a massive hole. Fire department 408. Wheres the fire . Yeah hi. Im the 106th floor of the World Trade Center. We had an explosion. Okay. 106 floor. What building . One world trade. Okay. I can see the smoke coming up from outside the windows. Okay. Just sit tight. Just sit tight. Were on the way. All right. Please hurry. The plane obviously went in on one side and came out the other. This is horrible. Right now, lets hand it over to john scott. You can see the smoke, the smoke tower is growing. There is quite a bit of flame inside the building. I was just walking into the studio that day. I wear this little wireless ifb we call it. I heard this very urgent voice get in my ear and say, john scott, studio b now it was a minute or two we got the pictures up from the fox 5 helicopter. And i mean what could you say . The two towers are home at least during the day to upwards of 50,000 workers. Yes, i understand that. 120 floors. We have a number of floors on fire. It looked like the plane was aiming towards the building. I was on the 67th floor when the first plane hit and it took me a second or two to catch my breath. Im walking on b4 going towards the parking lots. All of a sudden the whole floor, the whole building just rocked. It just rocked and threw you and just threw you. You didnt know what happened. At 8 46 when boom theres this loud explosion, noise, somewhere. I didnt know exactly where. All i saw right up against the glass was fire. Flame. Just a big fire ball. Im looking at something thats steel and all of a sudden its its ripped like its paper because of whatever just passed through there and then this big heat through the corridor im in and then then theres silence. For no apparent reason, i just turned looking toward jersey over the hudson and i see fire balls falling down from the sky. I dont know whens happening. Whens going on. These are coming to you live now. Debris raining down from 110 floors up. As you can see, this is a Clear Blue Sky day in manhattan. If this was an accident it would be a needle in a haystack kind of accident. I was actually in new york in my office like everyone else or most other people. I thought, my god, how could this possibly happen but never suspected the magnitude of what was facing us. I was in my office with my speech writer and secretary called in to say that a plane had hit the trade center. Turned on the television and sat there wondering how can an airplane hit the World Trade Center . Its a clear sky. No weather problems. One of those normal tuesday mornings and i was standing at my desk getting ready for my staff meeting down stairs with my senior people and my executive assistant walked in and said a plane hit the World Trade Center and my mind went to perhaps a twin engine plane and i said thats a terrible accident. As i was leaving the motorcade, i got a page telling me the World Trade Center was hit by an airplane and as the president is shaking hands going into the school karl rove got to the president and told the president. The president went directly into a holding room. And i called the president and said mr. President , a plane hit the World Trade Center. He said thats strange, a strange accident. I said i would call him back with more information. First moments i called major giuliani and got a hold of him right after the phone with rudy i called the president. He was at florida at the educational conference and able to get him out of the conference and urge him to shut down the air space over new york. The walk down was very calm. People in the staircase were well behaved. They were calm. Occasionally somebody would become anxious but somebody else put their arm around them and say its okay. Were doing fine. Weve got around the mid20s, we began to see firemen walking up the stairs and for the people walking down the sight of the firemen was a very calming experience. When i got into the lobby, see the damage there, the full impact was really beginning to dawn. Now you hear silence and its a dead calm of dust and smoke and all of a sudden you hear people slowly somebody starts screaming, someone starts yelling, someone starts saying youre hearing youre hearing help. Youre hearing please. Youre hearing very one at a time youre hearing it and just started and then everybodys screaming and coming out. What happened . What happened . What happened . As one of the volunteer fire marshals on our floor, i jumped up grabbed a flashlight put a whistle around my neck and ran out of my private office into the larger office. And said come on everybody. Lets go. Theres been an explosion upstairs. We have to move. Elevator came. We went down stairs to the ground floor now about to get through a turnstile. The Security Guard asked us where are you going . I said i saw fire balls we are getting out of here. No. Go back to your office. Your building is secured. It is safe. There was an announcement. The strobe lights flashed normally. Siren whoop whoop a little bit and there was a very clear announcement. Building two is secure. Well that took a little bit of pressure off. I went for a walk to the east floor which is where our Trading Floor and walked up to the north wall and there were a lot of our people against the glass looking up to their left. You could see the north tower. And very sadly at that moment what they were looking at was people jumping. It was all smoke and fire and the walls were caving in. You couldnt even see the exit getting into tower one. Im saying lets go. It looks like a clear shot home. Youre going towards building two. Lets go. Whoever can make it i started 9500 at 9,000 now. Do you know who he is . We dont know who he is. Just picking him up now. Heads up. Looks like another one. All right. Staios this is craig. Are you there . Stace. Okay. Listen. Youll be hearing news reports. A plane crashed into the other tower of the World Trade Center. Actually right near us. I mean we can see it clear. Its right on our level, too. I had two messages left on my answering machine. One just saying st ace, it is me, pick up. We screened our calls all the time. That was 8 49 and then another message at 8 54 and it was him again letting me know that i was going to be hearing on the news that the other tower had been hit. Everyone here is okay. Its kind of pandemonium. We dont know what the heck happened there. So give me a call when you get this. Okay bye. He was eye level with tower one and watching people jump to their deaths and then to know that he was about to die after his tower was hit, theres pain and suffering. Whatever it was hit the north side of the building. Fire is venting from at least one floor. Just stepped off the elevator on 78 two steps and the plane hit and had no idea what it was. A lot of walls just disintegrated and the vel va or the doors blew out and flames flew out. A few minutes after this happened it was obvious it was worse than i thought it was. 104. We have units on the way up now. Reported fire on the 78th floor. Unconfirmed at this time. I work my way over to what i guess was the main exit stairwell. It was probably in the middle of the building. So where in the middle of the tower. And started going down. 78 floors. We heard another noise and the building shook again. Not as much as the first time. That had to be the second plane hitting the other tower. Somewhere in the 30s, 30s or 40s first firemen and policemen starting coming up. I made it down to the ground floor and came out in the plaza where the fountain is. That was horrible. That was a war scene. Fires, debris falling from both towers. I saw dead bodies out there right in front of the window right in front of me there was a body strapped to an airplane seat. There was another one. We just saw we just saw another one. We just saw another one apparently go another plane just flew into the second tower. This raises this has to be deliberate folks. We just saw on Live Television as a second plane flew into the second tower of the World Trade Center. Now, given has been going on around the world, some of the some of the key suspects come to mind. Osama bin laden. My first instinct was, what is going on . How many planes are there . Where are they coming from . Who are they . And who do i call for air support . Im the police commissioner. I have 41,000 uniform members. 55,000 people work for me. And were prepared for anything you could imagine. This was something you couldnt imagine. Walk back down the hallway. Back to my desk. And the phone is ringing again. This time its a young lady from chicago, one of our rep offices. Are you okay . Im fine. For no apparent reason mid sentence just happened to raise my head to the statue of liberty and seeing here is a big, giant aircraft gray with red letter on the wing and the tail coming straight eye contact eye level towards me. The next thing, i knew i dove under a my desk screaming, crying. And the plane crashed in the middle. Building. The plane coming straight towards me and the wing wedged in the office door 20 feet from where i was under the desk. I knew it came down and blew out everything and elevator cables snapped. When you hear a 10,000 20,000 30,000pound elevator coming down the shaft and hear them and you know they just died. Whatever just was over there you knew died. You have a second plane into the other tower of the trade center. Major fire. At 9 03 or whatever time it was when apparently the second plane hit, when boomboom, there was a double explosion, it was the plane hitting the building and then exploding. And for the next ten seconds i was terrified. The impact was so great and the sound it made was so loud that i got temporarily deaf. I couldnt hear anything. And it looked like a demolition crew in and just knocked everything over. The building just continued to move. Left left left toward the hudson river, a long long way. It felt like yards. Whether it was or not i dont know but the sensation was, we are going too far. We are going to fall over. Somethings happened. I also knew in an instant it was terrorism. And the room just fell apart on that second explosion. Division 1, be advised, 3 adam reports that you have a second plane that crashed into the second tower. About two thirds of the way up. Transmit a fifth alarm for that building as well. Walls door, some door frames fell out of the wall and as if someone ripped open a concrete sack. Im crying. And saying lord i dont want to die. I dont want to die here. I have two little children. Please, lord take me. Save me. Send anybody to help me. The building just swayed forever one way and came back to vertical and then i sort of snapped out of it and sorebered. As we were in the small tier event in the classroom i got a second page telling me the second tower had been hit and right away i knew it was terrorism. Shortly after i got that page andy card walked in and was whispering in the president s right ear that the second tower is hit. I put my back to the press pool and said dont say anything else and held it up for the president to see. Our went doll goaler at the white house, rather, make that sarasota traveling with the president. Wendell, whos the reaction from the president . John the president is here promoting a Reading Initiative on the second day of a twoday trip to florida. He just finished reading to some children at the Emma Booker Elementary School and was asked about the incident. He said he was aware of it and that he would have something to say about it later. I am going to die, arent i . No no no. Im going to die. Say your prayers. We are not im going to die. We have to think positive. Im going to die. I know i am. Stay calm stay calm stay calm. Youre going a good job, maam. Youre doing a good job. It is so hot. Im burning up. Be advised we have jumpers, k, jumpers. Division 1, be advised. We have jumpers from the World Trade Center. It is beyond belief both towers of the World Trade Center are burning. Both have apparently been hit by aircraft. My first reaction was to get down to the scene as fast as i could. As i was driving down emergency vehicles were going obviously flying down to the scene and i jumped behind a police car and drafted it all the way down and pretty much got two blocks from the scene. Very first thing we did was we got some establishing shots. I got close to the tower and was shooting it but it was so tall that i had to keep backing up. To get a better shot. And when i got the first tight shots i realized what was happening at the top of the towers. I look up and people start shouting theyre jumping. I look up just in time to see someone leap from what must have been the 108th floor. Just do not believe this is happening. This is ridiculous. Please stop jumping. They really must have felt like they had no other choice. That decision they made remains for me the most horrifying part of the whole tragedy. I realized there were jumpers and people lining up in the window wells and i i shot the first two that i saw and then turned off my camera because i was overcome with emotion actually. Youre conscious of whats happening but its sort of looking through the viewfinder is sort of an insulator. Its black and white. Its not color. Field commander number 2 World Trade Center people trapped at this time. I think they knew early on they with respect going to be able to get the fire out. They want rescuers up there as quickly as possible as high as possible. Not concerned about the fire at that point. As i heard a banging and a voice screaming for help help help im buried anybody there . I cant breathe. Help. This is stan from the loans department. Please dont believe me to die. Somebody help me. The strangers voice directing us, this way, over here. So even though he was responding i couldnt hear. I try to get up from under the desk and realize i was covered up to my shoulder in debris. I can peek through and saw the bottom wing starts to burn and my greatest fear is this plane was going to ignite this flame to ignite the fuel tank and explode and i will die. I crawl the length of the loans department through the lounge into the computer room into the communication room. And i couldnt to go further because theres a sheetrock wall blocking myself. He says jump over it. I will grab you. And i got up from that prayer and i started punching kicking as hard as i can until a little hole appeared in the sheetrock. He said i see your hand. I say, yank me through. I jumped and i grabbed and stuck my head through. Reached through, nothing happened. I said you must do this. I reached in and smau got under his arm or grabbed on to something and lifted him up over and this barrier and we fell on the heap in the floor. This man, he give me an a headlock. With all of his might he just pulled. And he just yanked me right through the wall. It was like a superman. Just yanked me through and i fell on top of him. And i give him a big hug and kiss and said you are my guardian angel. My lord sent you to save me. And we started down the stairs. The inner wall of the fire stairs had blown in and we could look through the cracks and see flames licking up the other side of the wall as we went down through the area. We stopped at a floor i couldnt breathe properly. I was cut, bloody and bruised. We went to the 44th floor and i know sky lobby, like an empty hotel lobby until a Security Guard manning the booth looked at us wide eyed and just quickly said have you got telephone . He said my phones dont work. Ill stay with this man if you get me help. The man lying, his back was broken covered with blood. Please tell my wife and my baby i love them and send somebody up

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