After a stunning series of Attacks Today against targets in New York and in Washington D. C. The World Trade Center and The Pentagon. The terrorist used hijacks A Billion airliners and theiR Passengers as guided missiles in their attacks. The most serious attack on this country since Pearl Harbor. Tonight, the dead still are being counted, an unknown number still of missing. At this hour, in this war, another development, there are reports out of kabul, the capital of afghanistan, of explosions, with The Pentagon and the cia are flatly denying that the United States had anything to do with those explosions. This has been one of the darkest days in america, and it is not yet over. Here at home now a quick look at the locations where the airliners hit, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 20 minutes apart. Then, within an hour this morning, The Pentagon. And then, the final crash just minutes later about 80 Miles Southeast oF Pittsburgh, 266 people on the four airplanes alone all p
After a stunning series of attacks today against targets in new york and in washington d.c.. the world trade center and the pentagon. the terrorist used hijacks a billion airliners and their passengers as guided missiles in their attacks. the most serious attack on this country since pearl harbor. tonight, the dead still are being counted, an unknown number still of missing. at this hour, in this war, another development, there are reports out of kabul, the capital of afghanistan, of explosions, with the pentagon and the cia are flatly denying that the united states had anything to do with those explosions. this has been one of the darkest days in america, and it is not yet over. here at home now a quick look at the locations where the airliners hit, the twin towers of the world trade center, 20 minutes apart. then, within an hour this morning, the pentagon.
Told him, mister president, wherever you see, we are behind you. all right, tim russert, we ll ask you to stand by their throughout the evening. we re going to go to the pentagon out and or pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski, who is on duty this morning. where he said there seemed to have been an explosion at the pentagon. we now know that it was a hijacked airliner crashing into that building. jim, do we have any sense tonight of the death toll or the casualty list from the pentagon? no, it s going to run into the scores. there were more than 60 people on the plane and an undetermined number of people still buried beneath the rubble here behind us. searchers have entered the building. they ve been in there for about five hours now, tom. there is no exact casualty toll that has been released. they have set up a temporary morgue inside the center courtyard of the pentagon for tonight. but in the meantime, there was also an expression of resolve here at the pentagon from the cha
Responsible for these acts and these crimes to justice. now is the time for us to come together as a nation to offer our support, our prayers for victims and their families, for the rescue workers, the law enforcement officials. for every one of us that has been changed forever by this winnable to tragedy. the following is a summary of the unknown facts surrounding today s incidents. american airlines flight 11 departed boston for los angeles. hijacked by suspects armed with knives. this plane crashed into the world trade center. united airlines flight one 75 departed boston to los angeles. hi jacked and crashed into the world trade center. american airlines flight 77 departed washington dulles for los angeles. let s hijacked and crashed into the pentagon.
Glimmers coming out of what have may have gone on in the cockpits of some of these planes. attorney general john ashraf in his news conference this evening mentioned nights when he was talking about the first of these planes to be hijacked. the american airline out of boston, logan. that was the first to go into world trade center number one. there were several cellphones calls from planes. you mentioned barbara listen, the wife of solicitor general, theodore olson. she called her husband twice before the plane that she was on, which was the one that left dulles and was bound for los angeles, before that plane pack crashed into the pentagon. and she mentioned to people in the back of the plane with knife-like devices. there was another person who called in a relative from a plane and said that the passengers and the pilots of that plane had been herded into the back. and that the terrorists were at the controls of the aircraft. we haven t heard guns mentioned yet, but presuming those w