aircraft that we actually asked to help identify american. united 175 also had left boston bound for l.a. the crew had no idea it, too, was about to be hijacked. terry biggio and mike mccormick were focussing on the american airlines flight 11 full of fuel and headed south. you can t assume that the aircraft was going to do anything in new york. possibly it was going to continue south and go south to washington. otis air force base, cape cod, national guard fighter pilot tim duffy is about to become 9/11 s footnote 117. he said american 767 from boston to california. it looks like the real thing. were you prepared to take a plane down? an active air defense scramble.
wingman, takeoff from this now deserted airfield. have an active air defense scramble f-15 to level 290. under orders to find and intercept american flight 11. these are cells three and four. they have jets in all of them. just depending what jets you re going to need that day, and these are the ones that were armed up, so we had hot missiles and hot gun so they re all armed up. by the end of this morning duffy will be asked if he is prepared to use those missiles to bring down u.s. passenger jets. that meant he might be shooting down the plane carrying this yawn itd airlines colleagues. they just said be prepared to shoot down the next hijacked track, and then it came back after that and said do you have a problem with that? that kind of tipped me off. i was the wrong person in that
i said three words. should i have said something else? what is more to the point than beware of cockpit intrusion . is that america 11 trying to call? they are the people who awoke september 11th living ordinary lives. i was in my office sitting in that chair. suddenly thrust into one of the most horrific days in this nation s history. they said, we have some planes. nobody move. if you try to make any moves, you ll endanger yourself and the airplane. we clearly had a hijack in progress. they just said, be prepared to shoot down the next hijack track. i said roger. and the report ten miles from the white house. nine miles. eight miles. this is their story. if it was going to hit anything, it was going to hit us. the foot notes of 9/11. tuesday, september 11th, 2001 dawned temper at and nearly cloudless in the eastern united states. so begins the 9/11 commission report on what was about to become a day filled with dark skies. the first event of tha
i said three words. should i have said something else? what is more to the point than beware of cockpit intrusion . is that america 11 trying to call? they are the people who awoke september 11th living ordinary lives. i was in my office sitting in that chair. suddenly thrust into one of the most horrific days in this nation s history. they said, we have some planes. nobody move. if you try to make any moves, you ll endanger yourself and the airplane. we clearly had a hijack in progress. they just said, be prepared to shoot down the next hijack track. i said roger. and the report ten miles from the white house. nine miles. eight miles. this is their story. if it was going to hit anything, it was going to hit us. the foot notes of 9/11. tuesday, september 11th, 2001 dawned temper at and nearly cloudless in the eastern united states. so begins the 9/11 commission report on what was about to become a day filled with dark skies. the first event of that
worst fire season in history gets worse by the hour. this is the worst of the worst. southeast of austin, 30,000 acres consumed, hundreds of homes destroyed, zero containment. this fire started sunday, barely 48 hours ago, and already governor rick perry calls it as mean a fire as he has ever seen and he s seen a whole lot of wildfires this year. the texas forest service counts 294 consecutive days of wildfires somewhere in the state. you see the numbers here behind me. not coincidentally, it s been a year of historic drought. so far this year, more than 3 1/2 million acres have burned, about as much land as the entire state of connecticut. in the past 48 hours, more than 700 homes have been lost. many, many more are now in danger. we don t have room to list all the fires that are burning right now or even all of the biggest ones, actually, so here s just a sampling for you. there s the bastrop fire. in travis county, a fire has burned 6500 acres and 67 homes. you may also re