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(BOAT HORN BLARES)

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♪  I feel like I'm not ♪

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♪  Out of bed yet ♪

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♪  Oh! ♪

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♪  Oh, the sun is warm ♪

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♪  But my blanket's warmer ♪

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♪ Sleep ♪

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♪ Sleep in your lady's arms ♪

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♪  Sleep ♪

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♪  In your lady's arms ♪

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(WHISTLE BLOWS)

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♪ ("NEW YORK, NEW YORK" BY GENE KELLY AND FRANK SINATRA PLAYING) ♪

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(SAILORS CLAMORING)

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-Let's go. Get the lead out. -Come on, Chip. Come on.

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Thank God!

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-♪ New York, New York ♪ -♪  New York, New York ♪

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♪ New York, New York ♪

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♪ It's a wonderful town! ♪

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(CHUCKLING) Hey, fellas, what's the big rush?

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-We only got 24 hours. -Yeah.

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Yeah. We never been here before.

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What can happen to you in one day?

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What do you think you're gonna do?

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(SAILORS BARK, HOWL)

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♪  New York, New York A wonderful town ♪

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♪  The Bronx is up And the Battery's down ♪

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♪  The people ride In a hole in the ground ♪

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♪ New York, New York It's a wonderful town! ♪

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♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

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♪  The famous places to visit Are so many ♪

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♪  Or so the guidebooks say ♪

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♪  I told my grandpa I wouldn't miss on any ♪

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♪  And we've got just one day Got to see the whole town ♪

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♪  Right from Yonkers On down to the Bay ♪

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♪  In just one day ♪

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♪  New York, New York A wonderful town ♪

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♪  The Bronx is up And the Battery's down ♪

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♪  The people ride In a hole in the ground  ♪

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♪  We've sailed the seas And we've been the world over ♪

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♪  Maine to Mandalay ♪

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♪  We've seen the Sphinx And seen the Cliffs of Dover ♪

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♪  But we can safely say ♪

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♪  The most fabulous sight Is New York ♪

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♪  In the light of the day ♪

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♪  Our only day ♪

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♪  New York, New York A wonderful town ♪

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♪  The Bronx is up And the Battery's down ♪

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♪  New York, New York It's a wonderful town! ♪

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♪  Manhattan women are all In silk and satin ♪

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♪  Or so the fellas say ♪

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♪  There's just one thing Necessary in Manhattan ♪

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♪  When you got just one day ♪

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♪ It's a wonderful town! ♪

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One of the things I wanted to do when I became governor

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was to get the government out of things it was running

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that it didn't have any business doing

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or didn't, uh, really know what it was doing.

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Uh, and at the World Trade Center,

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there was a hotel and-- and office buildings

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and, uh, this massive complex

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that, uh, was run by a government agency

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that really didn't know how to do it.

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to sell it to a private owner.

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Larry Silverstein.

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I remember looking up at the Twin Towers

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and I said to myself, "Wouldn't it be incredible

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if someday I could own those?"

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I got a call from Governor Pataki, who said,

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"Larry, would you have an interest in acquiring

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the Twin Towers if the Port Authority decided

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to sell them?"

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And I thought for at least a minute--

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ah, no, a second and a half, maybe two seconds.

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-And I said-- -SPIKE LEE: Not a minute, a second and a half.

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Second and a half. And I said, "Of course."

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Larry is a developer, and a tough developer.

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So he knew what he was doing,

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but we knew what we were doing too.

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So we had our battles.

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It was a long process.

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Lasted for about a year, year and a half.

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Um, it was a competition among different developers in America.

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And I ended up winning and I said to my wife that day,

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I said, "Sweetheart, we now have the brass ring,

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whatever you'd like to do for the rest of our lives."

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But we looked forward to doing all kinds of things

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that we had talked about doing over many years.

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Kept delaying, delaying, delaying until finally the prize

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that I really had sought with tremendous anticipation.

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We won.

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You know, it just closed a few weeks

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before, uh, the horrible attacks.

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And one of the things we found after September 11th

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was that the Port Authority had almost no insurance.

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we had taken title to the World Trade Center.

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When Silverstein bought it, one of the things he did

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was massively increase the insurance.

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New York City has been targeted, attacked,

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time and time and time again.

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In 1776, American Revolution,

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the Continental Army under George Washington

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comes into New York.

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The British sail in after him and basically shellac New York.

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Again, in the War of 1812,

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New Yorkers were targeted by the British Navy.

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It all came to a climax when it became known in New York

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that the British Navy was planning

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to burn the place down, as they did in Washington, D.C.

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with the White House.

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There was always a Black population in New York.

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when the first enslaved people were brought here.

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Back then, it was called New Amsterdam.

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Slavery still exists

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in New York state and New York City

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-until 1827. -SPIKE: Oh.

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STEVEN JAFFE: Black New Yorkers,

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they were targeted during

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uh, during the Civil War

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in the Draft Riots of 1863.

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New York City explodes. It just explodes.

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Because of all this built up resentment,

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they turn on, who else?

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African American New Yorkers.

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It's a race riot, which really means it's a slaughter.

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Black residences are attacked and burned.

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Still the most destructive riot in American history.

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In 1920, some anarchist terrorists planted a bomb

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on Wall Street.

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They were targeting American capitalism,

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and that bomb went off at lunchtime on a weekday

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at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets,

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right by the stock exchange.

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Thirty-eight people were killed in that explosion

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and over 140 wounded.

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Hitler thought and planned and hoped for

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some kind of long-range bomber

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that the Germans could develop,

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that could get across the Atlantic,

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bomb New York, and make their getaway.

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There's this notion of...

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not just strategically taking out or harassing

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the great industrial city of America, New York,

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the great financial city, New York,

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the largest city, New York.

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It's symbolic. It's about,

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"Look at those arrogant Americans over there,"

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and what's the most arrogant place?

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-Yeah. -...in one of my favorite films.

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-Casablanca. -Oh, yeah.

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How about New York?

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that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

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The Japanese have a somewhat different thing going on here.

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Admiral Yamamoto, who was

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really the mastermind of Pearl Harbor,

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continued to believe that "if we can hit them

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in-- at home, in America, they'll kind of be so panicked

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that it-- they'll be demoralized."

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They create this submarine, the I-400.

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It's the largest submarine built up to that time

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and they can carry planes.

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They're going to send them all the way around

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the southern tip of South America

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into the Atlantic, then sail up to New York.

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It's not about "we're going to destroy so much property

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or so much military armament,

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we'll bomb the Brooklyn Navy Yard

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or whatever and take out so many ships."

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It's-- It's symbolic.

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My name is Scott Raab. I'm a writer.

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We're talking about the epicenter of capitalism.

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To me, the greatest city in the world.

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But it is still a soft target and it always will be

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because New York City's a soft target.

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It was a soft target for the virus.

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It was a soft target for Al Qaeda.

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What the-- What are you gonna do?

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My name is Philippe Petit. I am a high-wire artist.

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I was in the dentist office in Paris.

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And, you know, in Paris, you have a stack

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of old magazines, you know, and so I grabbed

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an old magazine of three months ago or a newspaper

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and I see a picture of two towers.

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It's actually a picture of an architectural model.

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And it says when they will be built,

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those two towers will be the highest in the world.

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So I drew a little pencil line between the two towers.

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And then I saw in  Paris Match, a big magazine,

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double page, in color, the towers are almost finished.

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And I say, "Shit, I have to run to New York."

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Because my idea was to put a helmet, to bring equipment,

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to be part of the workers finishing the towers.

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So I would sneak in the building

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and I will take pictures, I will take notes,

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how the guards are dressed, where they go.

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Is there any stamp or any security?

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After eight months, I had what I thought was a plan.

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I had rented a helicopter a month before

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to see myself, like a kid, higher than the roof.

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To just look at it and thinking when the day of the walk

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I'll be at roof level, it will feel like the ground.

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I arrive with all my equipment,

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with suitcase, and then I do custom.

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I don't know what, if something in my face,

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they would say, "Hey you, come over here. Open up."

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"Why me?" You know, anyway, so I open up

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and the guy is flabbergasted

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because it's pulleys and rope and turnbuckle.

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So like a, um, man who sells car, you know, I say,

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"Well, this is a block and tackle and this is..."

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I explained everything. And at the end, he says,

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"What's all that?" And I jokingly say,

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"I'm a wire walker and I bring all this equipment

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to put a high wire illegally between the Twin Towers."

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And he joked and he says, "Ha, Ha! Hey, okay. Next. Next."

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I spend the whole night rigging the wire.

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I had also had two accomplices on the other side

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that were disguised as, uh, architects.

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They had the bow and arrow to, you know, send a fishing line

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and ultimately the cable.

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-What was planned is to walk across. -SPIKE:  One time?

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PHILIPPE PETIT: After the first crossing,

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I run and check the anchor point.

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That's the engineer in me.

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Then I sit on the wire facing the tower,

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the South Tower, that I just came from.

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And I am above New York. I am the king of the world.

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And I am really thinking,

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-"Hmm, I like it here." -(SPIKE CHUCKLES)

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PHILIPPE: "I should do another walk."

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So I start kind of dancing.

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And I lay down on the wire and I do U-turn and I do tiptoe

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and I dance on the wire.

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And my friends told me, "Philippe, you stayed 45 minutes

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on the wire and you did eight crossings."

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SPIKE:  You know-- you were in your zone.

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PHILIPPE:  Yeah. People say, "This guy is crazy,

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he's risking his life."

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Maybe the Twin Towers was a bit crazy.

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-But any other wire-- -SPIKE: Oh, so you admit it was a bit crazy, right?

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Yeah, it was a bit crazy. Then at the end, people say,

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"So they arrested you?" Nobody arrested me.

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They didn't have a high-wire unit,

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and the guy will get on the wire and handcuff me.

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-I gave myself up. -SPIKE:  You surrendered, right?

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PHILIPPE:  No, I don't like that word, surrender.

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I stopped walking, yeah.

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MIKE SERGIO: Mike Sergio from Hell's Kitchen,

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born in New York Hospital.

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My name is Owen Quinn.

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Originally from the Bronx, New York.

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My name is Owen Quinn.

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-ANNOUNCER: Number two. -My name is Owen Quinn.

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-ANNOUNCER: And number three. -My name is Owen Quinn.

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ANNOUNCER: "I, Owen Quinn, parachuted from the top

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of New York City's tallest skyscraper,

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the World Trade Center."

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"In July 1975, I took an elevator halfway to the top

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and walked up the rest of the way.

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And then I put on my chute, strode to the wall,

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and gave a hard push off into space."

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I get a phone call.

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Owen says, "Mike,

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I'm gonna jump off the World Trade Center tomorrow."

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I said, "That sounds like a good idea."

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I had planned on this jump for two years,

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and seeing how I had worked on the buildings,

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so I knew when those buildings were complete

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I was gonna get up there and jump off of it.

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I had a camera and I took it out but it was, uh, old-school.

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Click. Cli-- It wasn't pa-pa-pa-pa, you know?

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So I knew I had one shot at this thing.

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And I'm on the ledge like this, leaning over, and--

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and as Owen said, the building goes out like this and then down.

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And I'm like this and there's clouds going over

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And I...

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And I know I got one shot. One shot.

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And he's out there like this and I said,

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"Come on, Owen. We're losing the light." And he goes...

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(IMITATES BLAST SOUND) ...and I said,

303
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"Did I get it or not?"

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When you go out of a plane,

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you have the forward speed of the plane.

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So when you pull that chute,

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you're moving 60, 100 miles an hour,

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so the chute comes right out.

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But from a dead standstill, there's no resistance.

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I fell for about 50, 60 floors

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before I pulled the chute.

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And there was a phone company across the street.

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That was my benchmark.

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I knew when I was even with that, pull.

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There was a secretary as close as you and I,

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and she was like...

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-(SPIKE LAUGHING LOUDLY) -(CHUCKLES)

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Coming in for the landing, I could see the cops down there.

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looking on the ground, looking over here

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looking around for my body.

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And I floated right in over the top of them.

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And I got about four or five cops there, and a guy says,

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"Get a wheelchair and a straitjacket."

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In the summer of 1976...

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I came home from Morehouse.

326
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I had just finished my freshman year,

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and I was working at Baskin-Robbins,

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scooping ice cream, 31 flavors.

329
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I remember reading the Daily News. There was an ad.

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Well, they needed 5,000 extras for the movie  King Kong.

331
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And it was for the final scene as King Kong fell off the top...

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Kong!

333
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SPIKE:  ...and landed right between the two towers.

334
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Right there they had a fake King Kong sprawled out.

335
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I'm in the shot, but it's like 5,000 people,

336
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so you can't see me.

337
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I'd never been on a movie set, like...

338
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"Damn, why's it taking so long?" You know? "Let's shoot!"

339
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First take, I said...

340
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I got on the subway and went home.

341
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Rochelle Claerbaut,

342
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former United Airlines flight attendant,

343
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current copyright and trademark attorney

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and music supervisor.

345
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First of all, there was flight attendant,

346
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and there was United flight attendant.

347
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(LAUGHS)

348
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At the time, United was growing and I--

349
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and it was the world's largest airline.

350
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I don't know if you remember those commercials

351
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with Gene Hackman doing the voiceover.

352
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My name is Curtis Beatty, Newark-based flight attendant,

353
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sixteen years with United Airlines.

354
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SPIKE: Tell us, how did you become a flight attendant

355
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for Yo-nited?

356
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CURTIS BEATTY:  By mistake.

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My sister, Andrea,

358
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who was interested in becoming a flight attendant, uh,

359
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wanted to go to the cattle call,

360
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the interest meeting that they were having

361
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when they were having one in Charlotte, North Carolina.

362
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I actually got involved

363
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and I went up and gave a brief story,

364
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not being interested in being a flight attendant at all,

365
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and I was chosen.

366
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And from there, that's how my career began.

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My sister was not chosen.

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-(LAUGHS) -(SPIKE LAUGHING)

369
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-ROCHELLE CLAERBAUT: Before the movie came out... -(SPIKE CHUCKLING)

370
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...we were calling it a soul plane.

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SPIKE:  What was a soul plane?

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When you had an all-Black, brown, and beige crew,

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you had a soul plane.

374
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-SPIKE: Yo-nited. -Yo-nited.

375
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-(SPIKE LAUGHING) -Exactly. (LAUGHS)

376
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And it was a very yo-nited crew.

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ROCHELLE:  You gotta understand, 767 had nine flight attendants

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on premium transcon.

379
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To have nine Black, brown, and beige flight attendants?

380
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Are you kidding me?

381
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(BOTH LAUGHING)

382
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Ooh, and, like, don't even get me started about the time

383
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Jonny Cocker was on one of those flights. (LAUGHS)

384
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My name is Terence Hartsfield. I've been a pilot

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for United Airlines for 24 years and 11 months.

386
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-You get a lot of looks. -SPIKE: Must do. (CHUCKLING)

387
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You know-- you know, people are looking and reading their magazine

388
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-and they look up... -(BOTH LAUGHING)

389
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...and are very surprised that you're getting on--

390
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you know, that you're flying the aircraft.

391
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And on Yo-nited, if you had a Black captain

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and first officer in the cockpit,

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that was the soul patrol.

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(BOTH LAUGHING)

395
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-SPIKE: Soul patrol? -Soul patrol.

396
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The soul patrol. (CHUCKLES)

397
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Glenn Baker,

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flight service manager for United Airlines.

399
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You could be in Dallas or Miami, walking through the concourse.

400
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If you saw one of your own in uniform...

401
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There's another brother flight attendant or a sister

402
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coming this way, had never seen each other in our lives,

403
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we were speaking and acknowledging each other.

404
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You get the nod and keep right on walking.

405
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-SPIKE: Got love, huh? -You got love.

406
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Made you feel at home.

407
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My name is LaChanze Sapp-Gooding,

408
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and I'm an actor.

409
00:22:44,109 --> 00:22:45,809
SPIKE: Tell us about your husband,

410
00:22:46,076 --> 00:22:48,143
the beloved Calvin Gooding.

411
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How'd you guys first meet?

412
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We met at a restaurant.

413
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You remember the old B. Smith's on Eighth Avenue

414
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with the glass windows? It was Memorial Day weekend.

415
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I was hanging out with my girlfriend.

416
00:22:58,176 --> 00:22:59,443
Actually, I said...

417
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-(SPIKE LAUGHING) -"Who is that?" (LAUGHS)

418
00:23:02,576 --> 00:23:06,409
But he came over to the table and, um, introduced himself

419
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and said to me-- asked me a question, he said,

420
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"Do you get your hair cut at Scissors Hair Salon?"

421
00:23:11,543 --> 00:23:12,676
I said, "Yeah."

422
00:23:12,743 --> 00:23:14,809
He said, "I've been wanting to meet you for two years.

423
00:23:15,076 --> 00:23:17,809
Your picture is right in front of where I sit.

424
00:23:18,076 --> 00:23:19,076
Here's my card."

425
00:23:19,143 --> 00:23:21,443
You know, finance brother gave me his card.

426
00:23:21,509 --> 00:23:23,109
I was like, "Oh, okay."

427
00:23:23,176 --> 00:23:26,609
And then, um, he said, "I'd love to take you out

428
00:23:26,676 --> 00:23:29,109
for a scoop of ice cream, a trip to the moon,

429
00:23:29,176 --> 00:23:30,343
anything you want."

430
00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:34,443
And I said, "Okay, Calvin. I think I'll take all three."

431
00:23:34,509 --> 00:23:36,176
So she was like, "You're going to call him?"

432
00:23:36,243 --> 00:23:38,709
I was like, "No, girl. I'm not calling him. I don't know that brother."

433
00:23:38,776 --> 00:23:41,076
I called him that same night. (LAUGHS)

434
00:23:41,143 --> 00:23:43,309
-SPIKE: The same night? -Same night I called him.

435
00:23:43,376 --> 00:23:45,709
SPIKE: But today they'd say you were thirsty.

436
00:23:45,776 --> 00:23:48,209
-(SPIKE LAUGHING) -I was a little thirsty.

437
00:23:48,276 --> 00:23:51,243
He said, "Some friends of mine and I are going away

438
00:23:51,309 --> 00:23:52,409
for the weekend.

439
00:23:52,476 --> 00:23:54,376
Would you like to join us up in Martha's Vineyard?"

440
00:23:54,443 --> 00:23:57,309
I was like, "I'm going to the Vineyard."

441
00:23:57,376 --> 00:23:59,476
My girlfriends were like, "You don't know him.

442
00:23:59,543 --> 00:24:02,343
You are traveling away for the weekend.

443
00:24:02,409 --> 00:24:03,676
He could be an ax murderer."

444
00:24:03,743 --> 00:24:06,076
I said, "I am going to the Vineyard with this brother."

445
00:24:06,143 --> 00:24:07,709
SPIKE: Well, how soon was that after the phone call?

446
00:24:07,776 --> 00:24:09,409
That was six weeks after the phone call.

447
00:24:09,476 --> 00:24:11,176
SPIKE: Oh, thank you. You weren't that thirsty.

448
00:24:11,243 --> 00:24:12,743
-No, I wasn't that thirsty. -That's the power move.

449
00:24:12,809 --> 00:24:14,809
SPIKE: "Would you like to accompany to Martha's Vineyard?"

450
00:24:15,076 --> 00:24:18,076
-(SPIKE LAUGHING) -It was-- (LAUGHS) Yes, it was.

451
00:24:18,143 --> 00:24:21,243
-It was a big ole power move. -SPIKE: That's the power move!

452
00:24:21,309 --> 00:24:22,609
"Would you like to--

453
00:24:22,676 --> 00:24:25,076
-Have you ever been to Martha's Vineyard before?" -(BOTH LAUGHING)

454
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LACHANZE SAPP-GOODING: We got married in '98,

455
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and I got pregnant in '99.

456
00:24:30,609 --> 00:24:32,343
My name is Paul Washington.

457
00:24:32,409 --> 00:24:35,043
I'm a captain in the New York City Fire Department,

458
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Engine 234, which is in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

459
00:24:38,576 --> 00:24:41,409
And I'm a former president of the Vulcan Society,

460
00:24:41,476 --> 00:24:43,343
New York City's Black firefighters.

461
00:24:43,409 --> 00:24:44,609
Man named Wesley Williams,

462
00:24:44,676 --> 00:24:46,443
he was the fourth Black firefighter

463
00:24:46,509 --> 00:24:48,709
in New York City history, and he was the first

464
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Black firefighter to rise up through the ranks,

465
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he became a lieutenant, captain, a chief.

466
00:24:53,243 --> 00:24:56,676
He was the first Black fire chief in the country.

467
00:24:56,743 --> 00:24:58,476
He founded the organization in 1940.

468
00:24:58,543 --> 00:25:00,576
The first thing we had to do as an organization

469
00:25:00,643 --> 00:25:02,809
was to fight against a practice called the Black beds.

470
00:25:03,076 --> 00:25:06,776
Every firehouse has a room where they have, uh, a bunch of bunks.

471
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Anybody can sleep in any bed.

472
00:25:09,109 --> 00:25:10,376
However, if you were Black,

473
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you had to sleep in one particular bed.

474
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And it was always the worst bed,

475
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it was always the bed by the bathroom.

476
00:25:16,143 --> 00:25:17,509
So that was our first fight,

477
00:25:17,576 --> 00:25:20,143
was to fight against this Black beds practice.

478
00:25:20,209 --> 00:25:22,076
My name is Brenda Berkman.

479
00:25:22,143 --> 00:25:26,276
I'm a retired New York City fire captain.

480
00:25:26,343 --> 00:25:29,709
I brought the lawsuit that got the first women hired

481
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as New York City firefighters,

482
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and I got promoted to lieutenant and then captain,

483
00:25:36,809 --> 00:25:40,143
and I was a responder on 9/11.

484
00:25:40,209 --> 00:25:42,643
If you happened to have been born a woman,

485
00:25:42,709 --> 00:25:46,043
it didn't matter if you were an Olympic-caliber athlete

486
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or had the title of strongest woman in the world,

487
00:25:49,376 --> 00:25:52,443
you could not even apply

488
00:25:52,509 --> 00:25:54,809
to become a New York City firefighter.

489
00:25:55,076 --> 00:25:58,543
So, that changed in 1977.

490
00:25:58,609 --> 00:25:59,576
SPIKE: Hmm.

491
00:25:59,643 --> 00:26:04,609
And the only reason it changed was because

492
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Title Seven of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

493
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made it illegal for states and municipalities

494
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to discriminate against people on the basis of gender.

495
00:26:14,643 --> 00:26:18,443
All we're asking for is a chance to prove that we can do the job,

496
00:26:18,509 --> 00:26:20,343
and I think we're gonna be able to do that.

497
00:26:20,409 --> 00:26:22,276
If I was sitting in the kitchen of my firehouse

498
00:26:22,343 --> 00:26:25,443
and somebody came in five-foot-four, 110 pounds,

499
00:26:25,509 --> 00:26:28,343
with a helmet on, turnout coat, boots,

500
00:26:28,409 --> 00:26:30,209
and the tools and said, "I'm a firefighter,"

501
00:26:30,276 --> 00:26:32,576
we would look at that person that's five-four, 110 pounds,

502
00:26:32,643 --> 00:26:34,243
as a circus freak.

503
00:26:34,309 --> 00:26:36,509
As a circus freak. That's not a firefighter.

504
00:26:36,576 --> 00:26:37,776
So what do they do?

505
00:26:38,043 --> 00:26:42,809
They change the physical portion of the firefighter exam

506
00:26:43,076 --> 00:26:45,443
to make it harder to pass.

507
00:26:45,509 --> 00:26:48,376
It's kind of strange, though, that the first time

508
00:26:48,443 --> 00:26:53,209
that they administer, uh, a test which women are allowed to take,

509
00:26:53,276 --> 00:26:56,543
it is the hardest physical examination given

510
00:26:56,609 --> 00:26:59,343
in the recent history of the New York City Fire Department.

511
00:26:59,409 --> 00:27:01,676
REPORTER:  There is not a single female firefighter

512
00:27:01,743 --> 00:27:03,676
in the New York City Fire Department.

513
00:27:03,743 --> 00:27:06,409
Female applicants tried but failed to pass

514
00:27:06,476 --> 00:27:10,276
a tough physical exam last given four years ago.

515
00:27:10,343 --> 00:27:13,509
The last test they gave in 1977

516
00:27:13,576 --> 00:27:15,609
was the hardest physical they ever gave

517
00:27:15,676 --> 00:27:19,109
because it was the first year they let women take the test.

518
00:27:19,176 --> 00:27:23,309
So I think they, um, you know, actually went out of their way

519
00:27:23,376 --> 00:27:26,076
to make the physical test very difficult

520
00:27:26,143 --> 00:27:28,376
just in order to eliminate women.

521
00:27:28,443 --> 00:27:30,076
And so I filed a lawsuit.

522
00:27:30,143 --> 00:27:32,343
Now at the time, I was the only person

523
00:27:32,409 --> 00:27:34,143
to challenge the exam.

524
00:27:34,209 --> 00:27:36,309
When I won my lawsuit five years later--

525
00:27:36,376 --> 00:27:38,543
-SPIKE:  Five years later? -BRENDA BERKMAN: Five years later.

526
00:27:38,609 --> 00:27:42,043
Other women who had taken the written exam came forward.

527
00:27:42,109 --> 00:27:45,043
My name is Ella McNair, and I became the first

528
00:27:45,109 --> 00:27:48,343
African American female lieutenant in the history

529
00:27:48,409 --> 00:27:50,509
of the New York City Fire Department

530
00:27:50,576 --> 00:27:53,076
in January of 2002.

531
00:27:53,143 --> 00:27:55,743
Me being a firefighter in the city of New York

532
00:27:55,809 --> 00:27:57,609
wasn't really just for me.

533
00:27:57,676 --> 00:28:00,709
It was for those that looked like me,

534
00:28:00,776 --> 00:28:03,276
that aspired to be a firefighter.

535
00:28:03,343 --> 00:28:06,209
And if they see me, that would give them some hope

536
00:28:06,276 --> 00:28:08,343
to know that they can do it also.

537
00:28:08,409 --> 00:28:10,743
My name is Harriett Duren.

538
00:28:10,809 --> 00:28:12,776
I'm a retired firefighter

539
00:28:13,043 --> 00:28:14,743
from the fire department in New York.

540
00:28:14,809 --> 00:28:17,143
This was probably one of the hardest things I ever did

541
00:28:17,209 --> 00:28:22,143
in my life because I wasn't exactly, uh, an athletic person.

542
00:28:22,209 --> 00:28:25,409
I was more like the young lady who didn't want to get her--

543
00:28:25,476 --> 00:28:27,743
sweat her hair, get her nails messed up.

544
00:28:27,809 --> 00:28:29,176
The hardest part is going up the stairs

545
00:28:29,243 --> 00:28:30,609
with the 60-pound hose on your back.

546
00:28:30,676 --> 00:28:33,376
My name is Regina Wilson. I'm a firefighter

547
00:28:33,443 --> 00:28:35,609
for the fire department of New York.

548
00:28:35,676 --> 00:28:38,476
I work at Engine 219 in Brooklyn, New York.

549
00:28:38,543 --> 00:28:40,543
It took me out of my comfort zone.

550
00:28:40,609 --> 00:28:44,543
Um, I was used to wearing skirts and suits and heels to work.

551
00:28:44,609 --> 00:28:47,276
Then I'm breaking down doors and cutting roofs.

552
00:28:47,343 --> 00:28:50,343
Sometimes you want to try yourself, the limits,

553
00:28:50,409 --> 00:28:52,576
to see what you can do,

554
00:28:52,643 --> 00:28:54,809
and so I stepped out of my comfort zone.

555
00:28:55,076 --> 00:28:56,709
-SPIKE:  Hmm. -REGINA WILSON:  I decided

556
00:28:56,776 --> 00:28:58,576
to try taking the test.

557
00:28:58,643 --> 00:29:03,109
And in order to even be able to take the physical,

558
00:29:03,176 --> 00:29:06,643
I, um, I started training for a whole year before

559
00:29:06,709 --> 00:29:08,076
with a bodybuilder.

560
00:29:08,143 --> 00:29:12,176
And there were about 50 of us that passed the new test,

561
00:29:12,243 --> 00:29:15,576
which was based on incumbent male firefighters,

562
00:29:15,643 --> 00:29:17,709
guys who were actually doing the job.

563
00:29:17,776 --> 00:29:22,443
And we passed that test. Fifty of us passed that test.

564
00:29:22,509 --> 00:29:25,043
And they didn't expect 50 women

565
00:29:25,109 --> 00:29:27,176
to be able to pass that test, believe me.

566
00:29:27,243 --> 00:29:28,609
SPIKE: So before your class,

567
00:29:28,676 --> 00:29:30,309
there had never been a Black woman

568
00:29:30,376 --> 00:29:32,176
-in the fire department? -Never.

569
00:29:32,243 --> 00:29:34,576
I am Anna Schermerhorn-Collins.

570
00:29:34,643 --> 00:29:37,409
I was a first responder on September 11th,

571
00:29:37,476 --> 00:29:39,276
assigned to Ladder Company 9.

572
00:29:39,343 --> 00:29:42,676
I was after the lawsuit women. Um, in fact,

573
00:29:42,743 --> 00:29:45,409
up to that point, the only women on the job

574
00:29:45,476 --> 00:29:48,076
were the women who were the original women hired.

575
00:29:48,143 --> 00:29:50,076
And then I became the second woman

576
00:29:50,143 --> 00:29:52,709
after the first group of women to be hired by the FDNY.

577
00:29:52,776 --> 00:29:55,243
From the original women that came on the job

578
00:29:55,309 --> 00:29:58,609
from a lawsuit in '82, I was the first

579
00:29:58,676 --> 00:30:02,776
African American female firefighter hired in 15 years.

580
00:30:03,043 --> 00:30:04,443
I'm Joe Pfeifer.

581
00:30:04,509 --> 00:30:07,043
I retired from the New York City Fire Department

582
00:30:07,109 --> 00:30:09,076
as their chief of counterterrorism

583
00:30:09,143 --> 00:30:10,676
and emergency preparedness.

584
00:30:12,143 --> 00:30:14,409
In over 37-year career,

585
00:30:14,476 --> 00:30:18,109
I've gone to some of the largest fires and emergencies

586
00:30:18,176 --> 00:30:19,443
in the department's history.

587
00:30:19,509 --> 00:30:23,409
In 1993, when we... had the first bombing of the--

588
00:30:23,476 --> 00:30:27,109
of the Trade Center, um, it shocked all of us.

589
00:30:27,176 --> 00:30:29,509
It was Friday, February 26.

590
00:30:29,576 --> 00:30:33,043
I can tell you it was a cold, cold day.

591
00:30:33,109 --> 00:30:34,309
There was snow on the ground.

592
00:30:34,376 --> 00:30:36,409
-(SIREN WAILING) -NEWS ANCHOR 1: A possible bomb explodes

593
00:30:36,476 --> 00:30:39,343
under the towering World Trade Center in New York.

594
00:30:39,409 --> 00:30:41,676
The explosion was centered, we believe,

595
00:30:41,743 --> 00:30:45,476
about three to four levels below the ground in the garage...

596
00:30:45,543 --> 00:30:47,509
and near the PATH train station.

597
00:30:48,209 --> 00:30:49,609
My name is Hal Sherman.

598
00:30:49,676 --> 00:30:51,643
From 1982 until 2002,

599
00:30:51,709 --> 00:30:53,543
I worked for the New York City Police Department.

600
00:30:53,609 --> 00:30:56,476
For 15 of those 20 years, I worked in the crime scene unit.

601
00:30:56,543 --> 00:31:00,543
The bomb went off in the basement of the Trade Center.

602
00:31:00,609 --> 00:31:03,043
They were attempting to knock over

603
00:31:03,109 --> 00:31:06,243
the Trade Center by blowing up some of the, uh, piers,

604
00:31:06,309 --> 00:31:08,043
the holding in the building in place.

605
00:31:08,109 --> 00:31:09,209
The walls just blew in

606
00:31:09,276 --> 00:31:11,243
and every-- everything went blank after that.

607
00:31:11,309 --> 00:31:13,343
Walls collapsed, furniture's down.

608
00:31:13,409 --> 00:31:14,709
It's a-- It's a mess downstairs.

609
00:31:14,776 --> 00:31:18,443
Nineteen-ninety-three bombing, Windows had down at that garage,

610
00:31:18,509 --> 00:31:21,243
they had a loading dock and they had refrigeration there.

611
00:31:21,309 --> 00:31:22,709
They lost their receiving clerk.

612
00:31:22,776 --> 00:31:24,109
RALPH PENZA:  At one point today,

613
00:31:24,176 --> 00:31:26,476
I asked Port Authority officials if it was true

614
00:31:26,543 --> 00:31:28,343
that in the mid '80s, they had considered

615
00:31:28,409 --> 00:31:32,276
the possibility that a car bomb could be planted in the garage.

616
00:31:32,343 --> 00:31:35,076
Oh, sure, I-- I don't think that anybody...

617
00:31:35,143 --> 00:31:39,343
um, anticipated the magnitude of this kind of a-- of a blast.

618
00:31:39,409 --> 00:31:42,209
In '93, he was working for Cantor Fitzgerald.

619
00:31:42,276 --> 00:31:44,109
Calvin was on the 104th floor.

620
00:31:44,176 --> 00:31:46,809
Calvin was in the tower, and he heard the bombing.

621
00:31:47,076 --> 00:31:49,576
And they made them all leave, they just, like--

622
00:31:49,643 --> 00:31:51,376
just made them all get out of the building.

623
00:31:51,443 --> 00:31:53,243
-(WHIMPERING) -Let's go get oxygen.

624
00:31:53,309 --> 00:31:55,343
NEWS ANCHOR 2: Stairwells became smokestacks.

625
00:31:55,409 --> 00:31:57,376
Clouds of soot billowed up the stairs

626
00:31:57,443 --> 00:32:00,476
to the very top of the 110-story office tower.

627
00:32:00,543 --> 00:32:02,576
The staircases in the World Trade Center

628
00:32:02,643 --> 00:32:04,509
were extremely narrow.

629
00:32:04,576 --> 00:32:07,176
In fact, if you had to walk down the stairs,

630
00:32:07,243 --> 00:32:09,709
like, somebody coming up and somebody going down,

631
00:32:09,776 --> 00:32:11,209
you had to turn sideways.

632
00:32:11,276 --> 00:32:12,676
The stairway was packed.

633
00:32:12,743 --> 00:32:14,176
We couldn't move forward or backwards.

634
00:32:14,243 --> 00:32:15,709
There was smoke and then the lights went out

635
00:32:15,776 --> 00:32:18,543
and I'd say about 70 floors, we had no lights.

636
00:32:18,609 --> 00:32:20,776
We managed to get down to, I guess, about the third floor

637
00:32:21,043 --> 00:32:22,609
and the door was locked.

638
00:32:22,676 --> 00:32:24,809
The emergency door was locked, we couldn't get out.

639
00:32:25,076 --> 00:32:27,209
REPORTER: You've had evacuation drills, procedures?

640
00:32:27,276 --> 00:32:29,543
They take you out into the lobby. They look at you.

641
00:32:29,609 --> 00:32:31,476
They tell you, "Oh, you know, in case of a fire,

642
00:32:31,543 --> 00:32:33,609
come out to the lobby and wait for further instructions."

643
00:32:33,676 --> 00:32:35,176
There are no further instructions,

644
00:32:35,243 --> 00:32:36,509
that thing was a total waste of time.

645
00:32:36,576 --> 00:32:38,709
All the procedures that they put in place were useless.

646
00:32:38,776 --> 00:32:42,443
NEWS ANCHOR 3: A van, authorities believe the explosive was in one,

647
00:32:42,509 --> 00:32:44,076
possibly left near a ramp

648
00:32:44,143 --> 00:32:46,343
of the underground garage. And some speculate

649
00:32:46,409 --> 00:32:48,376
a second vehicle may have been used for getaway.

650
00:32:48,443 --> 00:32:52,476
It was like, uh, the size of a foo-- half a football field

651
00:32:52,543 --> 00:32:56,209
that was wide open and you could see

652
00:32:56,276 --> 00:32:58,209
multiple stories below grade.

653
00:32:58,276 --> 00:33:00,109
It was a very powerful bomb.

654
00:33:00,176 --> 00:33:02,176
We started traveling down

655
00:33:02,243 --> 00:33:05,143
each level, looking for survivors,

656
00:33:05,209 --> 00:33:08,709
and every firefighter has a light on their helmet. Okay?

657
00:33:08,776 --> 00:33:11,276
So, I'm crawling around and the lieutenant

658
00:33:11,343 --> 00:33:14,276
is on the opposite end in this big area,

659
00:33:14,343 --> 00:33:17,309
and all of a sudden my light goes out,

660
00:33:17,376 --> 00:33:19,043
and it's pitch dark.

661
00:33:19,109 --> 00:33:22,143
I have a tool, I had a hook.

662
00:33:22,209 --> 00:33:24,143
So, you put that in front of you

663
00:33:24,209 --> 00:33:26,776
and you kinda guide yourself like blind people do.

664
00:33:27,043 --> 00:33:30,576
And all of a sudden, my hook went down into something

665
00:33:30,643 --> 00:33:32,576
and I'm kind of, like, losing it.

666
00:33:32,643 --> 00:33:34,076
So the lieutenant said,

667
00:33:34,143 --> 00:33:36,076
"Stay where you are, stay where you are."

668
00:33:36,143 --> 00:33:39,743
And he was able to come over to me because he had a hand light,

669
00:33:39,809 --> 00:33:42,709
and we threw something down into this hole.

670
00:33:42,776 --> 00:33:45,743
We never heard it end. It was like an abyss.

671
00:33:45,809 --> 00:33:49,276
Because when the truck in the garage blew up,

672
00:33:49,343 --> 00:33:51,809
instead of going up, it went down,

673
00:33:52,076 --> 00:33:55,043
and it blew down to basement number 6.

674
00:33:55,109 --> 00:33:57,076
NEWS ANCHOR 4: It was investigators down in the rubble

675
00:33:57,143 --> 00:34:00,709
who uncovered the key evidence, a small piece of a yellow van,

676
00:34:00,776 --> 00:34:02,509
which had essentially been blown to bits.

677
00:34:02,576 --> 00:34:05,543
There was a pretty mangled piece of metal,

678
00:34:05,609 --> 00:34:07,409
which I didn't really know

679
00:34:07,476 --> 00:34:09,576
the significance at that given time,

680
00:34:09,643 --> 00:34:12,443
when I was told that it was actually part of the rail

681
00:34:12,509 --> 00:34:14,276
from the Ryder truck.

682
00:34:14,343 --> 00:34:15,776
We put it actually in a stretcher,

683
00:34:16,043 --> 00:34:19,676
people thought it was a body, and brought that piece of rail

684
00:34:19,743 --> 00:34:26,243
to the NYPD lab, where the VIN was raised by two criminalists.

685
00:34:26,309 --> 00:34:28,109
They applied acid to it.

686
00:34:28,176 --> 00:34:30,776
And that was how they really got the investigation rolling

687
00:34:31,043 --> 00:34:33,443
because they were able to identify the vehicle

688
00:34:33,509 --> 00:34:35,243
and knew that it had been rented.

689
00:34:35,309 --> 00:34:37,243
NEWS ANCHOR 4: From there, it took only hours

690
00:34:37,309 --> 00:34:38,376
to trace the number

691
00:34:38,443 --> 00:34:41,576
to a van rented from Ryder Rental in New Jersey.

692
00:34:41,643 --> 00:34:44,209
Salameh Mohammed had rented the car there

693
00:34:44,276 --> 00:34:45,509
a week ago Tuesday,

694
00:34:45,576 --> 00:34:49,043
and reported it stolen on the very day of the blast.

695
00:34:49,109 --> 00:34:50,576
Ironically, this morning,

696
00:34:50,643 --> 00:34:52,443
when he came back to the rental car company

697
00:34:52,509 --> 00:34:55,543
to collect his 400-dollar deposit for the car,

698
00:34:55,609 --> 00:34:57,043
police made the arrest.

699
00:34:57,109 --> 00:34:59,443
REPORTER:  After only four days of deliberations,

700
00:34:59,509 --> 00:35:01,376
the five-month trial ended.

701
00:35:01,443 --> 00:35:04,176
The jury found Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad,

702
00:35:04,243 --> 00:35:06,809
Mahmud Abouhalima, and Ahmed Ajaj

703
00:35:07,076 --> 00:35:08,509
guilty on all counts,

704
00:35:08,576 --> 00:35:12,143
including conspiracy, use of explosives, and assault

705
00:35:12,209 --> 00:35:13,509
in connection with the bombing

706
00:35:13,576 --> 00:35:16,409
that killed six people, injured a thousand more.

707
00:35:16,476 --> 00:35:18,409
The guy who was convicted, he said, "We'll be back,

708
00:35:18,476 --> 00:35:20,276
you know, those towers are gonna fall."

709
00:35:20,343 --> 00:35:22,143
So they were closed for three years

710
00:35:22,209 --> 00:35:23,809
and Windows was renovated.

711
00:35:24,076 --> 00:35:25,676
Windows was the restaurant.

712
00:35:25,743 --> 00:35:27,776
Then there was Cellar In The Sky.

713
00:35:28,076 --> 00:35:30,643
Then there was The Greatest Bar on Earth.

714
00:35:30,709 --> 00:35:33,176
Well, The Greatest Bar on Earth is named that way

715
00:35:33,243 --> 00:35:34,443
because that's what it is.

716
00:35:34,509 --> 00:35:36,076
It's a bar that has three bars...

717
00:35:36,143 --> 00:35:39,509
On two floors, the 106th, the 107th floor.

718
00:35:39,576 --> 00:35:42,076
I'm Bill Brinnier, and I am an architect.

719
00:35:42,143 --> 00:35:43,743
Frank De Martini was my best friend.

720
00:35:43,809 --> 00:35:45,643
I met him at Pratt when I first got here.

721
00:35:45,709 --> 00:35:47,176
SPIKE: You guys were at Pratt together?

722
00:35:47,243 --> 00:35:48,609
BILL BRINNIER: We went to Pratt together.

723
00:35:48,676 --> 00:35:50,643
We sat for the architects' exam together.

724
00:35:50,709 --> 00:35:52,409
I mean, we did ever-- we were partners

725
00:35:52,476 --> 00:35:53,709
renovating brownstones around here.

726
00:35:53,776 --> 00:35:57,376
We used to park our motorcycles on the fifth floor here.

727
00:35:57,443 --> 00:35:58,676
-We-- -SPIKE: (YELLING) This building?

728
00:35:58,743 --> 00:36:00,143
This building. We parked upstairs.

729
00:36:00,209 --> 00:36:01,576
SPIKE: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

730
00:36:01,643 --> 00:36:04,576
-(CHUCKLES) Is that amazing? -SPIKE: So, you parked your motorcycles

731
00:36:04,643 --> 00:36:06,043
in this building we're at,

732
00:36:06,109 --> 00:36:07,476
-before I bought it? -Yup.

733
00:36:07,543 --> 00:36:10,176
Leslie Robertson, who was one of the lead engineers

734
00:36:10,243 --> 00:36:14,376
on the design of the building, and his firm had the contract

735
00:36:14,443 --> 00:36:16,276
to, um, maintain the structure.

736
00:36:16,343 --> 00:36:17,776
They were looking for an architect member

737
00:36:18,043 --> 00:36:20,409
of the damage assessment team after that bombing,

738
00:36:20,476 --> 00:36:23,076
and Frank said, "What the hell, I'm gonna go apply."

739
00:36:23,143 --> 00:36:24,809
They liked him, they gave him the job.

740
00:36:25,076 --> 00:36:27,509
My name is Cheryl Tyler.

741
00:36:27,576 --> 00:36:31,576
Former Secret Service agent. First African American female

742
00:36:31,643 --> 00:36:34,143
assigned to a presidential detail.

743
00:36:35,243 --> 00:36:37,076
Proud Black woman.

744
00:36:37,143 --> 00:36:41,776
Graduate of Spelman College, class of 1979.

745
00:36:42,043 --> 00:36:43,709
People were on guard.

746
00:36:44,443 --> 00:36:47,576
People were thinking...

747
00:36:48,576 --> 00:36:50,509
that they would try an attack again

748
00:36:50,576 --> 00:36:53,809
or do something else again very quickly.

749
00:36:54,076 --> 00:36:56,409
I don't think America...

750
00:36:57,343 --> 00:36:59,809
(SMACKS LIPS) ...was prepared...

751
00:37:00,076 --> 00:37:02,643
for something like this to happen in our country.

752
00:37:02,709 --> 00:37:04,676
Initially, when it happened, I mean, you know,

753
00:37:04,743 --> 00:37:08,276
domestic terrorism was somewhat new at that point.

754
00:37:08,343 --> 00:37:10,476
So, it wasn't like, "Oh, this is gonna be a repetition,

755
00:37:10,543 --> 00:37:12,543
that, you know, we're gonna have this going on and on."

756
00:37:12,609 --> 00:37:13,676
FEMA had put out

757
00:37:13,743 --> 00:37:17,376
a terrorism training handbook for firefighters.

758
00:37:17,443 --> 00:37:20,276
FEMA had this picture on the-- on the front

759
00:37:20,343 --> 00:37:23,109
of that training handbook that had the drawing

760
00:37:23,176 --> 00:37:25,743
of the Twin Towers with a target on the front of it.

761
00:37:25,809 --> 00:37:31,043
I think after '93, the bombings...

762
00:37:31,109 --> 00:37:34,276
we became a little, um, too overconfident.

763
00:37:34,343 --> 00:37:38,143
The night before, Celia was cranky, so cranky.

764
00:37:38,209 --> 00:37:39,309
She wouldn't sleep.

765
00:37:39,376 --> 00:37:43,076
And, um, I was so tired 'cause I was so pregnant.

766
00:37:43,143 --> 00:37:45,176
He said, "I'll take care of Celia."

767
00:37:45,243 --> 00:37:48,143
So he got up and he was walking her around the apartment,

768
00:37:48,209 --> 00:37:50,709
and he finally was able to get her to relax.

769
00:37:50,776 --> 00:37:52,543
And he would do this, this was his ritual.

770
00:37:52,609 --> 00:37:55,109
He would just walk her around the apartment,

771
00:37:55,176 --> 00:37:56,376
sometimes he would sing to her,

772
00:37:56,443 --> 00:37:58,443
he would just walk her, just walk.

773
00:37:58,509 --> 00:38:03,443
Fast walking too. And then, um... it got quiet.

774
00:38:03,509 --> 00:38:07,809
And I woke up at about 4:00, 4:30 in the morning

775
00:38:08,076 --> 00:38:11,343
and I went into her room and there he was

776
00:38:11,409 --> 00:38:14,809
laying on the floor on her carpet

777
00:38:15,076 --> 00:38:20,443
with her on his chest asleep, and they were both sound asleep.

778
00:38:20,509 --> 00:38:23,809
And I said-- I looked at them, and I was like, "You know what?

779
00:38:24,076 --> 00:38:25,809
They look so peaceful. I'mma leave them there."

780
00:38:26,076 --> 00:38:27,209
I wasn't gonna wake them up.

781
00:38:27,276 --> 00:38:30,243
So I left them there and then when it was time for him

782
00:38:30,309 --> 00:38:33,176
to leave for work, I went in and got him up and said,

783
00:38:33,243 --> 00:38:34,409
"Babe, you gotta get ready for work."

784
00:38:34,476 --> 00:38:37,109
He had bought all these really nice shirts and pants,

785
00:38:37,176 --> 00:38:39,043
and I said, "My husband is fine."

786
00:38:39,109 --> 00:38:40,643
And I was thinking that when he walked out the door.

787
00:38:40,709 --> 00:38:42,676
SPIKE: Can you say that a little louder, please? Say it.

788
00:38:42,743 --> 00:38:44,276
I said, my husband is fine...

789
00:38:44,343 --> 00:38:45,476
(LAUGHS)

790
00:38:45,543 --> 00:38:48,776
...when he walked out the door because he looked so good.

791
00:38:49,043 --> 00:38:53,309
Well, September 11th was an absolutely beautiful day.

792
00:38:53,376 --> 00:38:55,376
It was one of the most beautiful days of the year.

793
00:38:55,443 --> 00:38:56,609
It was a beautiful day.

794
00:38:56,676 --> 00:38:59,743
It was a beautiful, beautiful late summer day.

795
00:38:59,809 --> 00:39:01,176
Beautiful...

796
00:39:01,743 --> 00:39:03,176
uh, summer day.

797
00:39:03,243 --> 00:39:06,476
The sun is out, the sky is blue. There's not a cloud in the sky.

798
00:39:06,543 --> 00:39:08,243
It was pristine clear.

799
00:39:08,309 --> 00:39:10,143
It was a bright, sunny day.

800
00:39:10,209 --> 00:39:12,776
Blue skies. Was amazing. Like, it was a beautiful day.

801
00:39:13,043 --> 00:39:14,476
It was this beautiful fall day.

802
00:39:14,543 --> 00:39:16,343
The most beautiful fall day

803
00:39:16,409 --> 00:39:17,743
that you can imagine in New York City.

804
00:39:17,809 --> 00:39:19,076
It was a beautiful morning.

805
00:39:19,143 --> 00:39:20,776
-It was a beautiful day. -Beautiful sunny day.

806
00:39:21,043 --> 00:39:22,609
Well, I remember it was a sunny day.

807
00:39:22,676 --> 00:39:24,143
The most glorious day.

808
00:39:24,209 --> 00:39:28,109
It was such a beautiful September day in New York City,

809
00:39:28,176 --> 00:39:30,809
the sky was blue, barely a cloud.

810
00:39:31,076 --> 00:39:32,609
Ah, it was beautiful out. It was clear.

811
00:39:32,676 --> 00:39:35,176
It was so beautiful. There was no clouds.

812
00:39:35,243 --> 00:39:36,576
It was a wonderful day.

813
00:39:36,643 --> 00:39:39,143
It was a beautiful day. It was clear.

814
00:39:39,209 --> 00:39:41,576
-Most beautiful morning. -It was perfect.

815
00:39:41,643 --> 00:39:43,143
It couldn't have been any more beautiful.

816
00:39:43,209 --> 00:39:44,309
And it was warm.

817
00:39:44,376 --> 00:39:47,676
And of course, 9/11 was one of the most beautiful days

818
00:39:47,743 --> 00:39:49,476
God had ever created.

819
00:39:49,543 --> 00:39:51,143
Uh, so, it was just clear.

820
00:39:51,209 --> 00:39:52,676
REPORTER 1: You're at 82 degrees.

821
00:39:52,743 --> 00:39:55,143
REPORTER 2: It's gonna be a beautiful day today, sunshine throughout,

822
00:39:55,209 --> 00:39:56,376
low humidity.

823
00:39:56,443 --> 00:39:58,109
Really a splendid September day,

824
00:39:58,176 --> 00:39:59,809
the afternoon temperature about 80 degrees.

825
00:40:00,076 --> 00:40:01,409
A relative humidity of 70 percent.

826
00:40:01,476 --> 00:40:03,776
Sixty-six in Newark, 64 degrees in Bridgeport,

827
00:40:04,043 --> 00:40:05,776
Sixty-seven in Midtown and heading for 80.

828
00:40:06,043 --> 00:40:08,343
LEE HARRIS:  It's Tuesday, September 11th. I'm Lee Harris.

829
00:40:08,409 --> 00:40:11,109
It's primary day, and the polls are open in New York City.

830
00:40:11,176 --> 00:40:13,776
REPORTER 3: Sunshine today, the high 80, going down to 60 tonight.

831
00:40:14,043 --> 00:40:16,109
My name is Daphne Carlisle,

832
00:40:16,176 --> 00:40:18,209
and I'm a survivor of 9/11.

833
00:40:18,276 --> 00:40:21,509
I was in Tower 1 on the 82nd floor.

834
00:40:21,576 --> 00:40:23,276
I was the office manager

835
00:40:23,343 --> 00:40:26,276
for New York and New Jersey Port Authority.

836
00:40:26,343 --> 00:40:29,576
I got to work, like, about 15 minutes early.

837
00:40:29,643 --> 00:40:31,309
That's a miracle, you know.

838
00:40:31,376 --> 00:40:34,209
And downstairs, when you go into the World Trade Center,

839
00:40:34,276 --> 00:40:36,076
there are, like, three elevators.

840
00:40:36,143 --> 00:40:37,509
You have to wait at least

841
00:40:37,576 --> 00:40:39,809
two times before you can get on one elevator, and there's three of them.

842
00:40:40,076 --> 00:40:42,109
So, there wasn't all that many people there,

843
00:40:42,176 --> 00:40:43,243
I was like, "Wow."

844
00:40:43,309 --> 00:40:44,809
It-- It wasn't even that early in the morning,

845
00:40:45,076 --> 00:40:46,309
so I was like, "Where is everybody at?"

846
00:40:46,376 --> 00:40:49,076
I had an appointment on September 11th

847
00:40:49,143 --> 00:40:50,676
to have my eyeglasses fixed.

848
00:40:50,743 --> 00:40:54,143
But as I got to the World Trade Center that morning,

849
00:40:54,209 --> 00:40:57,476
it was just a few minutes past eight o'clock, 8:00 a.m.,

850
00:40:57,543 --> 00:41:01,776
I thought, "I'll get my glasses fixed now, drop them off,

851
00:41:02,043 --> 00:41:04,576
and then I'll go to work so I'll save a little time later

852
00:41:04,643 --> 00:41:06,076
and not have to leave the kitchen

853
00:41:06,143 --> 00:41:07,476
at 12 o'clock in the afternoon."

854
00:41:07,543 --> 00:41:09,443
My name is William Rodriguez.

855
00:41:09,509 --> 00:41:12,543
I was an employee of the World Trade Center for 20 years.

856
00:41:12,609 --> 00:41:14,809
I was the person in charge of cleaning

857
00:41:15,076 --> 00:41:16,743
the North Tower stairwells.

858
00:41:16,809 --> 00:41:18,643
I woke up late and I said, "You know what?

859
00:41:18,709 --> 00:41:22,376
I'm gonna take a sick day, I'm not gonna go to work."

860
00:41:22,443 --> 00:41:25,176
And I decided to call my supervisor,

861
00:41:25,243 --> 00:41:26,776
Anthony Saltalamacchia, and I said,

862
00:41:27,043 --> 00:41:30,743
"Anthony, put down a sick day. I'm not going to work."

863
00:41:30,809 --> 00:41:32,443
Well, he actually called me and said, you know,

864
00:41:32,509 --> 00:41:34,309
he was gonna be late or he wasn't gonna come in,

865
00:41:34,376 --> 00:41:36,143
I said, "No, no, no. You have to come in here

866
00:41:36,209 --> 00:41:37,709
because, you know, this has to get done."

867
00:41:37,776 --> 00:41:40,476
-And he went crazy. He said, "No, you're crazy!" -(SPIKE CHUCKLES)

868
00:41:40,543 --> 00:41:41,709
"You gotta come to work."

869
00:41:41,776 --> 00:41:43,609
This has to get done. I was like, "And I'm not,

870
00:41:43,676 --> 00:41:45,476
you know, letting anybody else do it besides you."

871
00:41:45,543 --> 00:41:47,076
He said, "Will, if you don't come,

872
00:41:47,143 --> 00:41:48,243
nobody wants to do your job,

873
00:41:48,309 --> 00:41:51,543
people will punch out their cards and leave."

874
00:41:51,609 --> 00:41:54,076
It was because I was the person in charge of cleaning

875
00:41:54,143 --> 00:41:56,209
a hundred and ten flights of stairs.

876
00:41:56,276 --> 00:41:58,376
-One person. Humanly impossible. -SPIKE: Whoa.

877
00:41:58,443 --> 00:41:59,609
-Hold up. Hold up. -Yes.

878
00:41:59,676 --> 00:42:02,576
-SPIKE: What tower was this? -North Tower. I was the--

879
00:42:02,643 --> 00:42:04,743
-SPIKE: How many flights? -Hundred and ten flights.

880
00:42:04,809 --> 00:42:07,376
-SPIKE: And what's your job? -Cleaning them all.

881
00:42:07,443 --> 00:42:09,176
My name is David Paterson.

882
00:42:09,243 --> 00:42:11,476
I was the New York State Senator in Harlem

883
00:42:11,543 --> 00:42:14,476
and became the 55th governor of New York state.

884
00:42:14,543 --> 00:42:19,509
September 11th, 2001, was primary day.

885
00:42:19,576 --> 00:42:21,343
The Democratic primary for mayor.

886
00:42:21,409 --> 00:42:25,109
September 11th, 2001, I was in Brooklyn

887
00:42:25,176 --> 00:42:28,676
on Fulton Street, campaigning for Fernando Ferrer

888
00:42:28,743 --> 00:42:30,109
to be the mayor of New York.

889
00:42:30,176 --> 00:42:35,143
We were going to elect the first Latinx mayor of New York.

890
00:42:35,209 --> 00:42:36,609
I'm a proud Democrat.

891
00:42:37,309 --> 00:42:38,709
And I went to vote.

892
00:42:38,776 --> 00:42:40,709
Steve Buscemi, actor.

893
00:42:40,776 --> 00:42:44,176
I was supposed to be at the Toronto Film Festival.

894
00:42:44,243 --> 00:42:46,776
They wanted me to travel on the tenth,

895
00:42:47,043 --> 00:42:50,709
but if you remember, the 11th was primary day,

896
00:42:50,776 --> 00:42:52,576
and I really wanted to vote.

897
00:42:52,643 --> 00:42:56,443
So, I said, "You know what? I will vote

898
00:42:56,509 --> 00:42:58,709
really early in the morning, I'll get on the first flight,

899
00:42:58,776 --> 00:43:01,309
and I'll be in Toronto by 10:00 a.m."

900
00:43:01,376 --> 00:43:04,076
I was going to vote. I made enough time

901
00:43:04,143 --> 00:43:07,576
to get out of my apartment, go vote, and hop on the train

902
00:43:07,643 --> 00:43:12,176
to head to Kennedy Airport for my Flight 19 to Los Angeles.

903
00:43:12,243 --> 00:43:13,709
GÉDÉON NAUDET: My name is Gédéon Naudet,

904
00:43:13,776 --> 00:43:16,043
and I'm a documentary filmmaker.

905
00:43:16,109 --> 00:43:17,309
JULES NAUDET: And I'm Jules Naudet.

906
00:43:17,376 --> 00:43:20,143
I'm also a documentary filmmaker and his little brother.

907
00:43:20,209 --> 00:43:21,709
We, one day, decided, I said,

908
00:43:21,776 --> 00:43:24,076
"Why don't we do something on the fire department?"

909
00:43:24,143 --> 00:43:26,043
And, you know, the only way we thought

910
00:43:26,109 --> 00:43:28,709
about doing it is following a young rookie firefighter

911
00:43:28,776 --> 00:43:30,576
on his nine-month probationary period.

912
00:43:30,643 --> 00:43:32,109
What's your first name?

913
00:43:32,176 --> 00:43:33,543
-Tony. -Tony? All right.

914
00:43:33,609 --> 00:43:36,376
JULES: Someone who's thrown there, doesn't have any family members,

915
00:43:36,443 --> 00:43:38,243
doesn't know anything about the job,

916
00:43:38,309 --> 00:43:39,543
and suddenly, through his eyes,

917
00:43:39,609 --> 00:43:41,809
so the audience would discover what it-- what it means.

918
00:43:42,076 --> 00:43:44,043
That sense of brotherhood, of courage,

919
00:43:44,109 --> 00:43:45,643
of family, and all that.

920
00:43:49,176 --> 00:43:51,076
We were finishing

921
00:43:51,143 --> 00:43:54,309
a 24-hour shift with the probie as usual,

922
00:43:54,376 --> 00:43:56,476
whenever he was on, we were on.

923
00:43:56,543 --> 00:43:59,676
And I think at about 8:15 in the morning,

924
00:43:59,743 --> 00:44:02,709
uh, we receive a call, usual alarm,

925
00:44:02,776 --> 00:44:03,809
you know, the bell rings,

926
00:44:04,076 --> 00:44:06,476
and all it says is "odor of gas."

927
00:44:06,543 --> 00:44:09,076
I go on the chief's car. I don't see Gédéon,

928
00:44:09,143 --> 00:44:11,176
but I know he's probably in the engine

929
00:44:11,243 --> 00:44:13,276
so we're never together at the fire scenes,

930
00:44:13,343 --> 00:44:16,576
and arrive at a corner, middle of the street, normal,

931
00:44:16,643 --> 00:44:19,076
you know, there's a couple of other fire trucks there.

932
00:44:19,143 --> 00:44:21,143
I think 8 truck is there, and, you know,

933
00:44:21,209 --> 00:44:23,576
we're milling around, there is a small odor of gas,

934
00:44:23,643 --> 00:44:26,743
Chief Pfeifer, which I, you know, spent already a lot of time with,

935
00:44:26,809 --> 00:44:29,609
is, you know, checking the, uh, the grades outside

936
00:44:29,676 --> 00:44:31,276
and, yes, there was a little bit.

937
00:44:31,343 --> 00:44:32,676
Connor's missed call.

938
00:44:32,743 --> 00:44:35,109
Routine-- really normal routine call.

939
00:44:35,176 --> 00:44:37,143
(GAS DETECTOR WHIRRING)

940
00:44:37,209 --> 00:44:38,509
That morning...

941
00:44:39,609 --> 00:44:40,809
at 8:46...

942
00:44:42,443 --> 00:44:45,343
I was in the street at an odor of gas,

943
00:44:45,409 --> 00:44:47,076
and we were about a dozen blocks away

944
00:44:47,143 --> 00:44:48,676
from the World Trade Center.

945
00:44:50,276 --> 00:44:53,609
And we heard a loud noise of jet engines.

946
00:44:53,676 --> 00:44:57,476
And this plane at a low altitude raced past us.

947
00:44:57,543 --> 00:44:59,576
(JET ENGINES ROARING)

948
00:44:59,643 --> 00:45:02,476
-FIREFIGHTER: Holy shit. -FIREFIGHTER 2: Shit.

949
00:45:02,543 --> 00:45:04,076
(EXPLOSION)

950
00:45:04,143 --> 00:45:06,376
And as I'm sitting in the...

951
00:45:07,309 --> 00:45:08,643
ophthalmologist chair,

952
00:45:08,709 --> 00:45:10,743
I felt-- I felt something.

953
00:45:10,809 --> 00:45:12,376
I'm Michael Benfante,

954
00:45:12,443 --> 00:45:14,709
and I'm a September 11th Tower 1 survivor.

955
00:45:14,776 --> 00:45:16,543
I'm thrown off balance, and I'm yelling

956
00:45:16,609 --> 00:45:19,443
because I'm hearing everybody scream and dive under desks

957
00:45:19,509 --> 00:45:21,043
and I'm like, "What's the commotion?"

958
00:45:21,109 --> 00:45:23,776
I'm yelling at them even though I'm feeling it myself.

959
00:45:24,043 --> 00:45:25,109
Boom!

960
00:45:25,176 --> 00:45:27,609
And the building, like, sways, so we went like this.

961
00:45:27,676 --> 00:45:29,809
And I could see debris and flames

962
00:45:30,076 --> 00:45:31,476
shooting out from above.

963
00:45:31,543 --> 00:45:33,409
DAPHNE CARLISLE: So my co-worker said, "What do you think we should do?"

964
00:45:33,476 --> 00:45:35,376
I said, "I don't know what you gonna do, but I'm leaving."

965
00:45:35,443 --> 00:45:37,609
I'm not looking for nothing, I'm just leaving.

966
00:45:37,676 --> 00:45:39,209
I was at my place,

967
00:45:39,709 --> 00:45:41,176
84 West Broadway

968
00:45:41,243 --> 00:45:43,243
between Chambers and Warren Street.

969
00:45:43,309 --> 00:45:45,443
-SPIKE:  Ooh, you're close. -I was right there.

970
00:45:45,509 --> 00:45:48,809
It knocked the lamp off my side table.

971
00:45:49,076 --> 00:45:51,809
I'm Tonya Lewis-Lee, producer and filmmaker.

972
00:45:52,076 --> 00:45:55,243
The news had been on, and I wasn't paying attention to it.

973
00:45:56,109 --> 00:45:57,309
And then all of a sudden,

974
00:45:57,376 --> 00:45:59,809
there was a shot of the World Trade Center...

975
00:46:00,576 --> 00:46:01,776
and it was on fire.

976
00:46:02,043 --> 00:46:03,509
And for a second, I thought some--

977
00:46:03,576 --> 00:46:06,209
like, I had accidentally changed the channel and it was a movie.

978
00:46:06,276 --> 00:46:09,509
And Jackson and I were sort of hanging out in the bedroom,

979
00:46:09,576 --> 00:46:11,476
getting ready to get him ready for school.

980
00:46:11,543 --> 00:46:14,509
SATCHEL LEE: My name is Satchel Lee, and I'm an artist and creative.

981
00:46:14,576 --> 00:46:15,809
JACKSON LEE: My name is Jackson Lee.

982
00:46:16,076 --> 00:46:17,809
I'm a sneaker designer and a filmmaker.

983
00:46:18,076 --> 00:46:19,809
And I didn't really understand what was going on, obviously.

984
00:46:20,076 --> 00:46:22,809
I'm four years old. And she saw that there was

985
00:46:23,743 --> 00:46:25,543
flames coming out of a building

986
00:46:25,609 --> 00:46:27,809
and she asked me, like, what movie am I watching.

987
00:46:28,076 --> 00:46:29,309
It looked like a movie.

988
00:46:29,376 --> 00:46:31,609
Like something out of The Towering Inferno, like a movie.

989
00:46:31,676 --> 00:46:34,376
It-- It was like a movie, man. Pop, pop, bam!

990
00:46:34,443 --> 00:46:37,609
Something like out of, uh, a Bruce Willis  Die Hard  movie.

991
00:46:37,676 --> 00:46:39,609
-It's like it was in a movie. -It's like in the movie.

992
00:46:39,676 --> 00:46:41,376
Like in the movies, when you run for your life,

993
00:46:41,443 --> 00:46:42,609
when there's a big thing following you,

994
00:46:42,676 --> 00:46:44,743
-that's what we did. -I remember my father saying

995
00:46:44,809 --> 00:46:46,176
he thought he was watching a movie.

996
00:46:46,243 --> 00:46:48,809
Is this a real thing? Or is this like a movie?

997
00:46:49,076 --> 00:46:50,243
Is this-- Is this a movie?

998
00:46:50,309 --> 00:46:53,076
I said, "Are you sure it's not a-- some type of a movie?"

999
00:46:53,143 --> 00:46:54,276
It felt like watching a movie.

1000
00:46:54,343 --> 00:46:56,276
I thought I was watching Independence Day.

1001
00:46:56,343 --> 00:46:58,609
Did you see the film Independence Day?

1002
00:46:58,676 --> 00:47:01,176
They got it right. They got it right.

1003
00:47:01,243 --> 00:47:02,543
That's exactly what it was like.

1004
00:47:02,609 --> 00:47:06,176
I always see these in the TV, movies, you know, programs,

1005
00:47:06,243 --> 00:47:07,609
but never seen the real life.

1006
00:47:07,676 --> 00:47:09,409
It looked like a war movie scene.

1007
00:47:09,476 --> 00:47:12,176
And I'm thinking, "I'm in a movie set."

1008
00:47:12,243 --> 00:47:14,743
-We thought it was a movie. -It feels like a bad dream or something.

1009
00:47:14,809 --> 00:47:17,376
-It just felt like a dream. -It's-- It's a nightmare.

1010
00:47:17,443 --> 00:47:19,176
A nightmare. A bad movie.

1011
00:47:19,243 --> 00:47:21,243
On September 9th...

1012
00:47:21,309 --> 00:47:24,143
I took an early morning United flight

1013
00:47:24,209 --> 00:47:28,209
from JFK, New York, to LAX, Los Angeles.

1014
00:47:28,276 --> 00:47:30,376
I had to meet with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1015
00:47:30,443 --> 00:47:34,143
I was trying to convince him to play Max Schmeling.

1016
00:47:34,209 --> 00:47:38,176
I was working on a film called  Save Us, Joe Louis.

1017
00:47:38,243 --> 00:47:41,209
And I co-wrote it with the legendary Budd Schulberg.

1018
00:47:41,276 --> 00:47:43,409
Budd Schulberg of  What makes Sammy Run?

1019
00:47:43,476 --> 00:47:45,643
Budd Schulberg that won an Oscar

1020
00:47:45,709 --> 00:47:47,776
for his script, uh...

1021
00:47:48,043 --> 00:47:49,309
On The Waterfront,

1022
00:47:49,376 --> 00:47:52,276
and followed that with another of my favorite films,

1023
00:47:53,143 --> 00:47:54,443
A Face in the Crowd.

1024
00:47:54,509 --> 00:47:56,643
On the morning of September 11th...

1025
00:47:57,776 --> 00:48:00,543
I was asleep at the Mondrian Hotel,

1026
00:48:00,609 --> 00:48:01,676
and the phone rang.

1027
00:48:01,743 --> 00:48:03,543
I called you and we're talking,

1028
00:48:03,609 --> 00:48:04,609
and you're like, "What happened?"

1029
00:48:04,676 --> 00:48:06,243
And it was my wife, Tonya,

1030
00:48:06,309 --> 00:48:08,509
telling me to turn on the television.

1031
00:48:08,576 --> 00:48:12,743
BUSTA RHYMES: DJ Scratch blew my phone up

1032
00:48:12,809 --> 00:48:16,743
every second until I answered my phone to tell me,

1033
00:48:16,809 --> 00:48:20,276
"You better get the fuck outta your house right now."

1034
00:48:20,343 --> 00:48:23,043
At 9:14 a.m., I received a phone call.

1035
00:48:23,109 --> 00:48:25,443
-My telephone rings. -Telephone rings.

1036
00:48:25,509 --> 00:48:27,409
-My phone rang. -My son called me.

1037
00:48:27,476 --> 00:48:29,309
-Charles called me. -I got a call.

1038
00:48:29,376 --> 00:48:31,409
-I got a call from my mother. -I got a phone call.

1039
00:48:31,476 --> 00:48:33,243
-I got a phone call. -I got a phone call.

1040
00:48:33,309 --> 00:48:35,376
Called me, and say, "Huntley, wake up."

1041
00:48:35,443 --> 00:48:36,509
I was actually asleep.

1042
00:48:36,576 --> 00:48:40,543
My... wife and I were asleep.

1043
00:48:40,609 --> 00:48:41,743
And the phone woke me up.

1044
00:48:41,809 --> 00:48:44,576
I was awakened by a phone call from my sister-in-law.

1045
00:48:44,643 --> 00:48:46,309
She calls me, she says, "Turn on the TV."

1046
00:48:46,376 --> 00:48:47,443
And I said, "Well, what channel?"

1047
00:48:47,509 --> 00:48:49,576
"Any channel, just turn on your television!"

1048
00:48:49,643 --> 00:48:51,043
Rochelle called me.

1049
00:48:51,109 --> 00:48:52,443
She said, "Turn on the TV."

1050
00:48:52,509 --> 00:48:54,609
"Something terrible has just happened in New York."

1051
00:48:54,676 --> 00:48:55,809
I turned the TV on.

1052
00:48:56,076 --> 00:48:58,176
I got one of those calls of "turn on the TV."

1053
00:48:58,243 --> 00:48:59,443
Turned on the television.

1054
00:48:59,509 --> 00:49:02,109
-Turned on the TV. -And I turned on the TV.

1055
00:49:02,176 --> 00:49:03,476
I turned on the TV set.

1056
00:49:03,543 --> 00:49:04,676
Then we put on the TV.

1057
00:49:04,743 --> 00:49:06,409
And I turned on the news.

1058
00:49:06,476 --> 00:49:09,409
I sit in front of the TV like millions of other people.

1059
00:49:09,476 --> 00:49:10,676
She said, "Turn on your TV,

1060
00:49:10,743 --> 00:49:12,409
a plane just flew into the World Trade Center."

1061
00:49:12,476 --> 00:49:13,576
I was like, "Get the fuck outta here."

1062
00:49:13,643 --> 00:49:16,576
The first report was that a small plane had hit.

1063
00:49:16,643 --> 00:49:19,143
Well, we understand that there has been a plane crash

1064
00:49:19,209 --> 00:49:21,076
on the, uh, Southern tip of Manhattan.

1065
00:49:21,143 --> 00:49:23,343
My first instinct was...

1066
00:49:23,409 --> 00:49:26,309
this has got to be some small plane that got lost,

1067
00:49:26,376 --> 00:49:28,476
inadvertently flew into the Twin Towers.

1068
00:49:28,543 --> 00:49:30,109
Like a Cessna or something like that.

1069
00:49:30,176 --> 00:49:31,476
Small plane, single engine plane.

1070
00:49:31,543 --> 00:49:34,109
A small two-seater or a four-seater or whatever.

1071
00:49:34,176 --> 00:49:36,209
I thought it was somebody that went off course.

1072
00:49:36,276 --> 00:49:37,643
Some idiot in a small plane.

1073
00:49:37,709 --> 00:49:40,643
Maybe a plane flying by that might've just accidentally

1074
00:49:40,709 --> 00:49:42,043
crashed into the towers.

1075
00:49:42,109 --> 00:49:44,809
We sort of all assumed initially that it was an accident.

1076
00:49:45,076 --> 00:49:46,076
We thought it was an accident.

1077
00:49:46,143 --> 00:49:47,609
Because of this thing that had happened

1078
00:49:47,676 --> 00:49:49,643
so many years ago before I was born,

1079
00:49:49,709 --> 00:49:52,609
of a B-25 bomber that flew into the Empire State Building.

1080
00:49:52,676 --> 00:49:56,209
REPORTER: A Mitchell bomber crashed into the 78th and 79th stories

1081
00:49:56,276 --> 00:49:58,176
at a speed of about 200 miles an hour.

1082
00:49:58,243 --> 00:50:00,776
Thirteen lives, in addition to those of the crew of three,

1083
00:50:01,043 --> 00:50:02,109
were lost instantly.

1084
00:50:02,176 --> 00:50:04,143
(SCOFFS) I knew it was no accident.

1085
00:50:05,309 --> 00:50:07,509
One of my first transmissions...

1086
00:50:07,576 --> 00:50:09,709
was that the plane was aiming for the building.

1087
00:50:09,776 --> 00:50:13,043
-(POLICE SIREN BLARING) -JOSEPH PFEIFER:

1088
00:50:22,509 --> 00:50:24,176
JULES:  In less than three minutes,

1089
00:50:24,243 --> 00:50:26,609
we're, um, under the awning of One World Trade Center,

1090
00:50:26,676 --> 00:50:29,743
the North Tower. I get out, Chief Pfeifer gets out,

1091
00:50:29,809 --> 00:50:31,243
he puts his bunker gear,

1092
00:50:31,309 --> 00:50:34,209
and I remember asking him if I could go in with him,

1093
00:50:34,276 --> 00:50:36,743
-and he says yeah. -JOSEPH: Yeah. You stay with me.

1094
00:50:36,809 --> 00:50:38,176
JULES:  We go in.

1095
00:50:38,243 --> 00:50:40,409
SPIKE:  Were you scared at that point?

1096
00:50:42,409 --> 00:50:43,643
Not really.

1097
00:50:43,709 --> 00:50:45,176
At that time, I don't--

1098
00:50:45,243 --> 00:50:47,109
It's almost like I don't think it's real.

1099
00:50:47,176 --> 00:50:49,443
The moment where it hits me

1100
00:50:49,509 --> 00:50:51,343
is when I come in the revolving door

1101
00:50:51,409 --> 00:50:53,443
and there is two people who are on fire

1102
00:50:53,509 --> 00:50:56,376
and clearly dying and literally in front of me.

1103
00:50:56,443 --> 00:50:59,776
I chose not to film the dead and the dying.

1104
00:51:00,043 --> 00:51:01,676
-That was-- -SPIKE: Tell me why.

1105
00:51:01,743 --> 00:51:04,609
I think I was protecting myself. It was so horrible

1106
00:51:04,676 --> 00:51:06,676
that I wanted not only to protect myself,

1107
00:51:06,743 --> 00:51:08,409
but I thought no one should see this.

1108
00:51:08,476 --> 00:51:11,109
My name is Jack. I was up on the 73rd floor

1109
00:51:11,176 --> 00:51:14,043
when the explosion took place. Some of us walked over

1110
00:51:14,109 --> 00:51:16,143
to the window just to look up, to see what happened

1111
00:51:16,209 --> 00:51:17,376
in the One World Trade.

1112
00:51:17,443 --> 00:51:20,376
DISPATCHER: (OVER RADIO)

1113
00:51:28,376 --> 00:51:31,576
On the, um, loudspeaker again, and they said,

1114
00:51:31,643 --> 00:51:33,109
"Well, everything is okay now

1115
00:51:33,176 --> 00:51:35,509
because this is in One World Trade,

1116
00:51:35,576 --> 00:51:36,743
not Two World Trade."

1117
00:51:36,809 --> 00:51:39,309
I was in Two World Trade at the time.

1118
00:51:39,376 --> 00:51:40,643
-(SIREN WAILING) -And they said,

1119
00:51:40,709 --> 00:51:42,576
"This building is completely secure.

1120
00:51:42,643 --> 00:51:43,809
Not to worry."

1121
00:51:44,076 --> 00:51:46,443
My name is Sixto Ramos, actor.

1122
00:51:46,509 --> 00:51:48,376
I lived with my cousin, Rosie Perez.

1123
00:51:48,443 --> 00:51:50,609
I'm on the third floor when somebody calls me and said,

1124
00:51:50,676 --> 00:51:54,209
"Did you hear that?" I go, "What? Did I hear what?"

1125
00:51:54,276 --> 00:51:57,343
I hear Rosie screaming downstairs. (SCREAMS)

1126
00:51:57,409 --> 00:51:59,743
I can hear Sixto running down the stairs

1127
00:51:59,809 --> 00:52:01,143
like dun-dun-dun-dun-dun,

1128
00:52:01,209 --> 00:52:04,109
screaming, "Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!"

1129
00:52:04,176 --> 00:52:05,643
Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.

1130
00:52:05,709 --> 00:52:08,409
So I started screaming. "Oh my God! Oh my God!

1131
00:52:08,476 --> 00:52:11,343
Oh my God!" And we just hold each other

1132
00:52:11,409 --> 00:52:13,709
and we're both jumping up and down screaming.

1133
00:52:13,776 --> 00:52:15,543
"Oh my God. Oh my God."

1134
00:52:15,609 --> 00:52:17,743
"Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God."

1135
00:52:17,809 --> 00:52:20,476
So I said, "Turn on the news." We turned on the news,

1136
00:52:20,543 --> 00:52:22,176
and we couldn't believe it.

1137
00:52:22,243 --> 00:52:27,276
(NERVOUS CROWD CHATTER)

1138
00:52:28,676 --> 00:52:30,576
If it was a mistake, it probably would have swerved.

1139
00:52:30,643 --> 00:52:32,476
Yeah. After they were trying to get on with it,

1140
00:52:32,543 --> 00:52:34,543
they would have teared the building away.

1141
00:52:34,609 --> 00:52:36,409
-They meant to do that. -For real.

1142
00:52:36,476 --> 00:52:38,609
That wasn't no-- that was no coincidental shit either.

1143
00:52:39,243 --> 00:52:43,276
(ANXIOUS CHATTER)

1144
00:52:43,343 --> 00:52:48,176
(MULTIPLE SIRENS WAILING)

1145
00:52:48,243 --> 00:52:51,109
So we got ourselves together and we started going downstairs,

1146
00:52:51,176 --> 00:52:53,376
and my daughter called me. She's like, says, "Mom."

1147
00:52:53,443 --> 00:52:55,376
-SPIKE: On your cell phone? -Yeah. On my cell phone.

1148
00:52:55,443 --> 00:52:56,576
SPIKE: Right.

1149
00:52:56,643 --> 00:52:58,376
And she called me, and she says, "Mom, what're you doing?"

1150
00:52:58,443 --> 00:53:01,243
I said, "Well, I'm going down the stairs, I'll be out in a minute."

1151
00:53:01,309 --> 00:53:03,676
My name is Mark Desire. I'm an assistant director

1152
00:53:03,743 --> 00:53:06,643
for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner.

1153
00:53:06,709 --> 00:53:08,643
I've worked there for over 23 years.

1154
00:53:08,709 --> 00:53:11,509
I was a part of a crime scene reconstruction team.

1155
00:53:11,576 --> 00:53:14,043
We have vehicles, but you don't self-deploy.

1156
00:53:14,109 --> 00:53:15,576
-You just don't head out, right? -SPIKE: Right.

1157
00:53:15,643 --> 00:53:17,376
You get orders and go out, so...

1158
00:53:17,443 --> 00:53:20,543
The side door to the crime lab burst open,

1159
00:53:20,609 --> 00:53:22,209
and our team lead, Ralph,

1160
00:53:22,276 --> 00:53:23,809
our team lead came in and said, "We gotta go."

1161
00:53:24,076 --> 00:53:28,743
-(SIREN WAILING DISTANTLY) -(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

1162
00:53:28,809 --> 00:53:30,309
REPORTER:  Smoke is pouring out.

1163
00:53:30,376 --> 00:53:33,476
-They haven't found nobody yet. -Nobody handled it yet?

1164
00:53:33,543 --> 00:53:35,243
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1165
00:53:35,309 --> 00:53:39,143
JOSEPH:  And I can remember one lieutenant coming up to me,

1166
00:53:40,409 --> 00:53:41,709
not saying a word,

1167
00:53:44,276 --> 00:53:46,209
and we looked at each other,

1168
00:53:47,609 --> 00:53:50,476
wondering if we were both going to be okay.

1169
00:53:52,576 --> 00:53:55,309
And then I gave that lieutenant a...

1170
00:53:55,376 --> 00:53:58,209
(SHAKILY)  I gave him the orders to go up...

1171
00:53:59,243 --> 00:54:01,109
to evacuate the building.

1172
00:54:01,176 --> 00:54:03,209
And that said lieutenant turned around

1173
00:54:05,043 --> 00:54:06,476
and took his firefighters.

1174
00:54:09,676 --> 00:54:12,143
That was the last time I saw my brother Kevin.

1175
00:54:33,176 --> 00:54:34,576
I could tell you that...

1176
00:54:36,109 --> 00:54:37,676
every firefighter,

1177
00:54:37,743 --> 00:54:40,609
every police officer, every paramedic,

1178
00:54:40,676 --> 00:54:43,309
every rescuer that went into the building that day...

1179
00:54:44,209 --> 00:54:46,376
even though it-- it's our job,

1180
00:54:48,209 --> 00:54:50,409
they-- they saw the burning towers...

1181
00:54:52,143 --> 00:54:54,476
and they made a personal decision to go in.

1182
00:54:54,543 --> 00:55:01,543
(MULTIPLE SIRENS BLARING)

1183
00:55:11,176 --> 00:55:13,743
I watched firefighters and emergency service unit

1184
00:55:13,809 --> 00:55:16,243
run into the building and just think, "Wow, you're gonna--"

1185
00:55:16,309 --> 00:55:17,809
I heard them get their instructions.

1186
00:55:18,076 --> 00:55:21,076
"We're gonna climb 80 stories and start to carry people out."

1187
00:55:21,143 --> 00:55:23,076
I'm like, "Eighty stories." I'm like, "Wow."

1188
00:55:23,143 --> 00:55:26,209
REPORTER:  There are fire crews just screaming into this area

1189
00:55:26,276 --> 00:55:28,643
from every conceivable direction.

1190
00:55:30,176 --> 00:55:32,043
(FIREFIGHTERS CLAMORING)

1191
00:55:32,109 --> 00:55:34,309
My name is Troy Owens.

1192
00:55:34,376 --> 00:55:37,476
I am a retired New York City firefighter.

1193
00:55:37,543 --> 00:55:40,509
I was a first responder at 9/11

1194
00:55:40,576 --> 00:55:43,509
and I was assigned to a firehouse in Red Hook,

1195
00:55:43,576 --> 00:55:45,443
Engine 279, ladder 131.

1196
00:55:45,509 --> 00:55:48,509
When the buildings got hit, the tour had just began.

1197
00:55:48,576 --> 00:55:51,143
One of the guys was like, "I'm surprised we're not going to that,"

1198
00:55:51,209 --> 00:55:53,743
because we're right on the other side of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.

1199
00:55:53,809 --> 00:55:55,809
You turn on the TV where you are,

1200
00:55:56,076 --> 00:55:58,243
and we're talking, and you said...

1201
00:55:58,309 --> 00:56:02,309
The second plane hit the tower.

1202
00:56:02,376 --> 00:56:03,643
And I was like "No!"

1203
00:56:03,709 --> 00:56:07,176
(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARING)

1204
00:56:07,243 --> 00:56:10,243
I turned my head, and I actually saw another plane coming.

1205
00:56:10,309 --> 00:56:11,676
-SPIKE: You saw it? -We saw it.

1206
00:56:11,743 --> 00:56:14,176
-SPIKE: On TV or-- or-- -I saw it in real time.

1207
00:56:14,243 --> 00:56:19,643
(AIRPLANE ENGINE ROARING)

1208
00:56:19,709 --> 00:56:21,643
(EXPLOSION)

1209
00:56:22,609 --> 00:56:24,243
BYSTANDER: Oh, man. Another one.

1210
00:56:24,309 --> 00:56:26,243
(CRASHING EXPLOSION)

1211
00:56:27,343 --> 00:56:29,176
(BLASTING AND CRACKING)

1212
00:56:30,343 --> 00:56:33,609
-BYSTANDER 1: Oh my God! -BYSTANDER 2: Holy shit.

1213
00:56:33,676 --> 00:56:35,076
BYSTANDER 3: Holy shit.

1214
00:56:38,109 --> 00:56:40,576
(CROWD CLAMORING)

1215
00:56:41,409 --> 00:56:43,409
(TIRES SCREECHING)

1216
00:56:44,243 --> 00:56:46,676
What next? Oh my God...

1217
00:56:46,743 --> 00:56:50,143
(SIREN WAILING DISTANTLY)

1218
00:56:52,676 --> 00:56:56,309
(CROWD CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)

1219
00:56:58,243 --> 00:57:00,076
We were looking at each other like,

1220
00:57:00,143 --> 00:57:02,243
-"What the hell just happened?" -And I said,

1221
00:57:02,309 --> 00:57:05,043
"What's going to happen? Are we being invaded?"

1222
00:57:05,109 --> 00:57:07,743
-And he said, "Yes!" -"Remember what you told me?

1223
00:57:07,809 --> 00:57:09,343
You said, when there's, like, martial law

1224
00:57:09,409 --> 00:57:11,343
and people-- chaotic shit, they start raping women

1225
00:57:11,409 --> 00:57:12,376
and doing stuff like that.

1226
00:57:12,443 --> 00:57:14,109
So I said, "Let me go get my kids."

1227
00:57:14,176 --> 00:57:16,243
And I said, "No! Don't leave me here by myself."

1228
00:57:16,309 --> 00:57:17,443
He says, "You got the dogs."

1229
00:57:17,509 --> 00:57:19,376
I said, "The fuck are the dogs gonna do?"

1230
00:57:19,443 --> 00:57:21,376
So I said, "I'll be back. Hold on."

1231
00:57:21,443 --> 00:57:23,476
"I'm gonna go get a gun. I'm gonna go get a gun."

1232
00:57:23,543 --> 00:57:26,609
"So if a towelhead comes in here--"

1233
00:57:26,676 --> 00:57:29,409
I said, "You can't call them towelheads, that's racist."

1234
00:57:29,476 --> 00:57:31,609
He goes, "We're under attack!

1235
00:57:31,676 --> 00:57:33,409
Who the hell cares?"

1236
00:57:33,476 --> 00:57:35,143
This is an attack. We're under attack.

1237
00:57:35,209 --> 00:57:37,243
-My city was under attack. -This is terrorism.

1238
00:57:37,309 --> 00:57:38,276
A terrorist attack,

1239
00:57:38,343 --> 00:57:40,043
I can't tell you anything more than that.

1240
00:57:40,109 --> 00:57:42,109
I saw the plane hit the building.

1241
00:57:42,176 --> 00:57:44,109
-CAMERAPERSON: A second plane hit? -A second plane hit.

1242
00:57:44,176 --> 00:57:46,509
A whole 'nother plane just hit, the engine just fell over there.

1243
00:57:46,576 --> 00:57:50,509
-(SIRENS WAILING DISTANTLY) -(CROWD CHATTERING)

1244
00:57:51,443 --> 00:57:53,643
(CAR HORN HONKING)

1245
00:57:55,576 --> 00:57:57,076
My name is Laura Coates.

1246
00:57:57,143 --> 00:58:00,076
I'm a senior legal analyst for CNN and an anchor.

1247
00:58:00,143 --> 00:58:01,509
So, my oldest sister, Tracey--

1248
00:58:01,576 --> 00:58:02,743
-SPIKE: What's her name? -Tracey.

1249
00:58:02,809 --> 00:58:04,643
She was a flight attendant for United Airlines.

1250
00:58:04,709 --> 00:58:06,509
-She was-- -SPIKE:  Where'd she fly out of? New York?

1251
00:58:06,576 --> 00:58:08,576
LAURA COATES: She flew out of Boston to LA,

1252
00:58:08,643 --> 00:58:11,176
and her flight was the one that crashed

1253
00:58:11,243 --> 00:58:12,809
into the Twin Towers.

1254
00:58:13,076 --> 00:58:14,809
But she didn't get on the flight that day

1255
00:58:15,076 --> 00:58:16,676
because her baby sister, me,

1256
00:58:16,743 --> 00:58:18,709
needed someone to help her drive to LA.

1257
00:58:18,776 --> 00:58:22,676
Let me take Laura and drive her cross country,

1258
00:58:22,743 --> 00:58:25,143
and we'll go and start her first day of work,

1259
00:58:25,209 --> 00:58:27,109
which is 9/11.

1260
00:58:27,176 --> 00:58:30,376
And her flight crew, the pilot,

1261
00:58:30,443 --> 00:58:32,443
the flight attendants, everyone else

1262
00:58:32,509 --> 00:58:34,143
that she'd flown with for the whole month--

1263
00:58:34,209 --> 00:58:36,443
that was her assignment for that month--

1264
00:58:36,509 --> 00:58:39,109
was that flight. I can't imagine what my life

1265
00:58:39,176 --> 00:58:41,109
would have been like had she been on that flight.

1266
00:58:41,176 --> 00:58:42,576
I think she thinks about that...

1267
00:58:44,243 --> 00:58:45,643
maybe more than she wants to admit.

1268
00:58:45,709 --> 00:58:48,243
SPIKE: So you saved your sister's life.

1269
00:58:48,309 --> 00:58:51,143
LAURA:  I think destiny and fate saved her life.

1270
00:58:51,209 --> 00:58:52,443
Gentlemen, this is a...

1271
00:58:53,376 --> 00:58:56,509
a difficult moment for America. I, um...

1272
00:58:57,643 --> 00:58:59,476
Unfortunately, we'll be going back

1273
00:58:59,543 --> 00:59:01,243
to Washington after my remarks.

1274
00:59:01,309 --> 00:59:04,109
Today, we've had a national tragedy.

1275
00:59:04,176 --> 00:59:08,809
Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center

1276
00:59:09,076 --> 00:59:11,709
in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

1277
00:59:11,776 --> 00:59:13,543
My name is Renita Edmond,

1278
00:59:13,609 --> 00:59:15,209
and I am an ambassador here

1279
00:59:15,276 --> 00:59:18,409
at the Empire State Building for the last 22 years.

1280
00:59:18,476 --> 00:59:21,109
We thought when it hit the Twin Towers

1281
00:59:21,176 --> 00:59:22,676
that we were the next target.

1282
00:59:22,743 --> 00:59:25,809
So that's why everybody had to leave.

1283
00:59:26,076 --> 00:59:28,143
I actually thought it was the end of the world.

1284
00:59:28,209 --> 00:59:30,209
LEE HARRIS: 1010 WINS reporter Steve Torre

1285
00:59:30,276 --> 00:59:32,643
is at the Empire State Building for us.

1286
00:59:32,709 --> 00:59:34,076
Steve, what's going on there?

1287
00:59:34,143 --> 00:59:35,509
STEVE TORRE:  All right, Lee, as soon as we got here,

1288
00:59:35,576 --> 00:59:38,576
we received word that once the explosions happened

1289
00:59:38,643 --> 00:59:39,676
at the Trade Center,

1290
00:59:39,743 --> 00:59:41,709
the Empire State Building was quickly evacuated.

1291
00:59:41,776 --> 00:59:45,209
SPIKE: The thought was Empire State Building is next, huh?

1292
00:59:45,276 --> 00:59:47,409
The Empire State Building was the next target.

1293
00:59:47,476 --> 00:59:49,643
And that's what we thought. We were tall,

1294
00:59:49,709 --> 00:59:51,043
and so were the Twin Towers.

1295
00:59:51,109 --> 00:59:53,709
My name is Kerwin Devonish, born in Barbados,

1296
00:59:53,776 --> 00:59:56,509
live in New York, and I am a cinematographer.

1297
00:59:56,576 --> 00:59:59,109
I grabbed the camera and ran outside.

1298
01:00:00,376 --> 01:00:03,576
And as I turn the corner and I look up,

1299
01:00:03,643 --> 01:00:06,309
I see a hole in the building.

1300
01:00:06,376 --> 01:00:07,776
It just kept burning.

1301
01:00:08,043 --> 01:00:10,343
-(SIRENS BLARING) -All of a sudden, I heard all the fire trucks going,

1302
01:00:10,409 --> 01:00:13,776
and I started walking down while everyone was walking up.

1303
01:00:14,043 --> 01:00:17,609
I'm Barry Alexander Brown, director and film editor.

1304
01:00:17,676 --> 01:00:21,509
Threw my rollerblades on. First I shot on 6th Avenue,

1305
01:00:21,576 --> 01:00:23,643
just a shot, "Oh, look at this."

1306
01:00:23,709 --> 01:00:26,809
And then I went all the way over to the West Side Highway

1307
01:00:27,076 --> 01:00:29,443
where there was just thousands

1308
01:00:29,509 --> 01:00:33,509
and thousands and thousands of people walking up.

1309
01:00:33,576 --> 01:00:37,543
-(SIRENS WAILING DISTANTLY) -(NERVOUS CROWD CHATTER)

1310
01:00:37,609 --> 01:00:39,809
DRIVER: (OVER LOUDSPEAKER) Everybody get away from the truck.

1311
01:00:44,276 --> 01:00:47,443
-(CROWD CHATTER) -(SIREN BLARING)

1312
01:00:54,176 --> 01:00:56,409
SPIKE:  Arnold Schwarzenegger's office called me and said,

1313
01:00:56,476 --> 01:00:59,276
"Do you still wanna have the breakfast meeting

1314
01:00:59,343 --> 01:01:01,143
with Arnold?" I said yes.

1315
01:01:03,043 --> 01:01:05,576
We had our meeting. None of us were thinking about...

1316
01:01:08,243 --> 01:01:10,643
the script, the film, Save Us, Joe Lewis.

1317
01:01:10,709 --> 01:01:12,643
We were looking at the TV.

1318
01:01:12,709 --> 01:01:15,376
BRYANT GUMBLE: Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness.

1319
01:01:15,443 --> 01:01:18,376
We're looking at a live picture from Washington,

1320
01:01:18,443 --> 01:01:21,576
and there is smoke pouring out of the Pentagon.

1321
01:01:21,643 --> 01:01:23,776
It would appear that there has been

1322
01:01:24,043 --> 01:01:25,709
another major explosion,

1323
01:01:25,776 --> 01:01:27,476
this one in the nation's capital.

1324
01:01:27,543 --> 01:01:30,443
DAN RATHER:  Apparently, a plane and or a helicopter

1325
01:01:30,509 --> 01:01:32,776
was flown into the Pentagon, but that's not been confirmed.

1326
01:01:33,043 --> 01:01:35,409
The police now have closed down the Capitol,

1327
01:01:35,476 --> 01:01:37,343
the House and Senate. They have closed down

1328
01:01:37,409 --> 01:01:40,176
the Justice Department, the World Bank has been emptied.

1329
01:01:40,243 --> 01:01:42,076
My name is John Coyle.

1330
01:01:42,143 --> 01:01:44,476
I'm a retired FDNY lieutenant.

1331
01:01:44,543 --> 01:01:46,343
This one thing we had learned

1332
01:01:46,409 --> 01:01:49,609
in, uh, fire marshal school about, uh, terrorist attacks,

1333
01:01:49,676 --> 01:01:52,209
is there are frequently a secondary device

1334
01:01:52,276 --> 01:01:55,376
to, uh, kill the first responders.

1335
01:01:55,443 --> 01:01:58,109
I thought it was a whole elaborate scheme,

1336
01:01:58,176 --> 01:02:00,176
that there were gonna be secondary devices,

1337
01:02:00,243 --> 01:02:03,643
meaning they put bombs in the garbage cans or mailboxes.

1338
01:02:03,709 --> 01:02:06,109
My understanding is that the Washington Monument's been hit,

1339
01:02:06,176 --> 01:02:07,643
that some of our embassies have been hit.

1340
01:02:10,043 --> 01:02:11,676
And then they blew up the stock exchange,

1341
01:02:11,743 --> 01:02:13,176
and my building is right next to the--

1342
01:02:13,243 --> 01:02:14,509
-CAMERAPERSON: On Wall Street? -Yeah.

1343
01:02:14,576 --> 01:02:17,076
And now I hear somebody said at the news

1344
01:02:17,143 --> 01:02:19,376
that they said they're going to do it every half hour.

1345
01:02:19,443 --> 01:02:22,243
I called President Bush, and I got him right away.

1346
01:02:22,309 --> 01:02:25,243
Uh, and I asked him to shut down the airspace

1347
01:02:25,309 --> 01:02:27,309
because we didn't know what might happen next.

1348
01:02:27,376 --> 01:02:29,609
PETER JENNINGS:  All federal buildings in Washington

1349
01:02:29,676 --> 01:02:30,776
have now been evacuated.

1350
01:02:31,043 --> 01:02:33,243
All aircraft in the skies over the United States

1351
01:02:33,309 --> 01:02:36,209
have been ordered to land at the nearest airport.

1352
01:02:36,276 --> 01:02:38,609
REPORTER:  At Kennedy Airport, tens of thousands

1353
01:02:38,676 --> 01:02:41,576
of air travelers were told, "You will not fly today."

1354
01:02:41,643 --> 01:02:44,643
The terminals that serve American Airlines and United,

1355
01:02:44,709 --> 01:02:48,243
the two airlines targeted by terrorism, were closed.

1356
01:02:48,309 --> 01:02:49,609
What's going to happen for you now?

1357
01:02:49,676 --> 01:02:52,509
I don't know, we're trying to find some place to stay over.

1358
01:02:52,576 --> 01:02:54,643
We can't get in touch with anyone.

1359
01:02:54,709 --> 01:02:57,709
REPORTER: At LaGuardia Airport, passengers were evacuated.

1360
01:02:57,776 --> 01:03:01,243
And with no place to stand, they lined the access roads,

1361
01:03:01,309 --> 01:03:04,043
waiting for information or transportation home.

1362
01:03:04,109 --> 01:03:06,143
There was announcements to evacuate the terminal.

1363
01:03:06,209 --> 01:03:07,443
I kept on going.

1364
01:03:07,509 --> 01:03:11,343
Went down to our inflight office and saw our operations manager

1365
01:03:11,409 --> 01:03:13,209
and asked him, I said,

1366
01:03:13,276 --> 01:03:14,709
"Tell me what happened." He said, "Go home."

1367
01:03:14,776 --> 01:03:16,276
I said, "You gotta tell me what happened.

1368
01:03:16,343 --> 01:03:19,043
Was it one of ours?" He says, "Yes.

1369
01:03:19,109 --> 01:03:20,343
And one of ours is still missing."

1370
01:03:20,409 --> 01:03:23,209
Last we heard, everything was grounded.

1371
01:03:23,276 --> 01:03:26,376
But then there were reports that there was a rogue aircraft

1372
01:03:26,443 --> 01:03:28,476
-in the sky. -DAN RATHER:  Another aircraft

1373
01:03:28,543 --> 01:03:31,109
has been hijacked in the Eastern Corridor.

1374
01:03:31,176 --> 01:03:34,076
BRIAN WILSON: Police officers here are saying that they believe

1375
01:03:34,143 --> 01:03:36,776
there is a hijacked plane now headed toward Washington.

1376
01:03:37,043 --> 01:03:39,443
SPIKE: People were thinking for years that it was going to the White House,

1377
01:03:39,509 --> 01:03:41,309
but it was going to the Capitol Building, right?

1378
01:03:41,376 --> 01:03:42,576
Correct. That's what I thought.

1379
01:03:42,643 --> 01:03:44,276
SPIKE: And where do you think they were headed?

1380
01:03:44,343 --> 01:03:47,309
Based on the information that was coming out...

1381
01:03:49,109 --> 01:03:51,076
they were headed to the Capitol.

1382
01:03:51,143 --> 01:03:52,609
SPIKE:  Why the Capitol Building?

1383
01:03:54,476 --> 01:03:56,276
The White House, yes, is where

1384
01:03:56,343 --> 01:03:58,343
the leader of the free world lives.

1385
01:03:59,776 --> 01:04:03,209
The US Capitol is where all the decisions and power is.

1386
01:04:03,276 --> 01:04:06,243
And I'm not diluting the fact that if you

1387
01:04:06,309 --> 01:04:08,243
tried to kill the president of the United States,

1388
01:04:08,309 --> 01:04:10,343
that that isn't an impact or that doesn't send

1389
01:04:10,409 --> 01:04:12,309
a clear message. It does.

1390
01:04:12,376 --> 01:04:14,343
But when you take out

1391
01:04:14,409 --> 01:04:17,376
the legislative, executive branches

1392
01:04:17,443 --> 01:04:21,209
of the United States government, you've shut us down.

1393
01:04:21,276 --> 01:04:24,343
The Capitol is the symbol of the United States,

1394
01:04:24,409 --> 01:04:26,076
not the White House. The dome.

1395
01:04:26,143 --> 01:04:29,576
NEWS ANCHOR 5: United Airlines is confirming that its Flight 93,

1396
01:04:29,643 --> 01:04:32,176
that's a Boeing 757,

1397
01:04:32,243 --> 01:04:34,743
it said is deeply concerned about that flight right now.

1398
01:04:34,809 --> 01:04:36,809
They confirmed that it was a United Aircraft,

1399
01:04:37,076 --> 01:04:40,276
-and that was Flight 93. -Saw some flight attendants too

1400
01:04:40,343 --> 01:04:42,309
who were arriving for work as well, that had cars.

1401
01:04:42,376 --> 01:04:44,543
I'm like, "Hey, we're going to Rochelle's house

1402
01:04:44,609 --> 01:04:48,109
because that's where we can all bunker down." So we did.

1403
01:04:48,176 --> 01:04:51,576
She came out to greet us, face beet red,

1404
01:04:51,643 --> 01:04:53,676
snot and tears all over her face.

1405
01:04:53,743 --> 01:04:56,143
So when my friends arrived, um...

1406
01:04:57,443 --> 01:04:59,376
the first thing I said to them was,

1407
01:04:59,443 --> 01:05:01,643
"There's another plane in the sky, and it's one of ours".

1408
01:05:01,709 --> 01:05:04,276
CEECEE LYLES:  Baby, you have to listen to me carefully.

1409
01:05:04,343 --> 01:05:06,143
I'm on a plane that's been hijacked.

1410
01:05:06,209 --> 01:05:07,776
I'm on the plane, I'm calling from the plane.

1411
01:05:08,043 --> 01:05:09,443
I want to tell you I love you.

1412
01:05:09,509 --> 01:05:12,709
Please tell my children that I love them very much.

1413
01:05:12,776 --> 01:05:16,809
And I'm so sorry they... Um, I don't know what to say.

1414
01:05:17,076 --> 01:05:19,309
There's three guys, they've hijacked the plane.

1415
01:05:19,376 --> 01:05:21,809
I'm trying to be calm, we're turned around,

1416
01:05:22,076 --> 01:05:23,443
and I've heard that there's planes

1417
01:05:23,509 --> 01:05:26,576
that have been thrown into the World Trade Center.

1418
01:05:26,643 --> 01:05:29,709
I hope to be able to see your face again, baby.

1419
01:05:29,776 --> 01:05:31,643
I love you. Bye.

1420
01:05:39,543 --> 01:05:41,743
I didn't know who or what was coming.

1421
01:05:41,809 --> 01:05:43,543
That's why I wanted to get out of the city

1422
01:05:43,609 --> 01:05:46,409
and get to, like, a more rural place.

1423
01:05:46,476 --> 01:05:48,643
So then I said, "You know what? We're gonna leave."

1424
01:05:48,709 --> 01:05:50,709
I looked at my mom and I said,

1425
01:05:50,776 --> 01:05:53,043
"I'm so scared, my bones are shaking."

1426
01:05:53,109 --> 01:05:56,409
And I said, "Oh, baby." Because that was the moment

1427
01:05:56,476 --> 01:05:59,443
that I realized that he was clocking everything too.

1428
01:05:59,509 --> 01:06:01,709
And right before we're getting ready to leave the house,

1429
01:06:01,776 --> 01:06:04,409
I said, "What about the hamster?"

1430
01:06:04,476 --> 01:06:05,676
So my mom's like, "Oh, shit."

1431
01:06:05,743 --> 01:06:08,576
Oh, okay. I ran back upstairs to grab Sonic.

1432
01:06:08,643 --> 01:06:10,143
MICHELLE LAMPKIN: Michelle Lampkin.

1433
01:06:10,209 --> 01:06:12,243
-ASHLEY LAMPKIN: Ashley Lampkin. -NAOMI LAMPKIN: Naomi Lampkin.

1434
01:06:12,309 --> 01:06:15,243
We ran to our manager's office and we were like,

1435
01:06:15,309 --> 01:06:18,109
"Can we leave?" And our manager said,

1436
01:06:18,176 --> 01:06:20,809
"Well, if you leave, today will be your last day."

1437
01:06:21,076 --> 01:06:23,776
So I said, "Okay, today's my last day."

1438
01:06:24,043 --> 01:06:27,076
We took off, we took off running straight to the school.

1439
01:06:27,143 --> 01:06:31,576
Um, we got to the school, and it was madness in there.

1440
01:06:31,643 --> 01:06:33,509
My name is Roy Isidro Vlcek.

1441
01:06:33,576 --> 01:06:36,676
I'm a native New Yorker, and I'm a documentary filmmaker.

1442
01:06:36,743 --> 01:06:38,443
I was at P.S. 234.

1443
01:06:38,509 --> 01:06:40,276
It was the third day of second grade.

1444
01:06:40,343 --> 01:06:41,409
SPIKE:  Where is P.S. 234?

1445
01:06:41,476 --> 01:06:43,076
ROY VLECK:  P.S. 234 is an elementary school

1446
01:06:43,143 --> 01:06:45,409
on Chamber Street and Greenwich Avenue in Tribeca.

1447
01:06:45,476 --> 01:06:47,409
We could hear people screaming outside,

1448
01:06:47,476 --> 01:06:50,043
we could hear more sirens than you ever could imagine.

1449
01:06:50,109 --> 01:06:51,643
Anna Switzer, our principal, is making

1450
01:06:51,709 --> 01:06:54,376
crackling announcements over the speaker system.

1451
01:06:54,443 --> 01:06:58,376
I remember being in the classroom

1452
01:06:58,443 --> 01:07:00,809
and, like, hearing people's names being called

1453
01:07:01,076 --> 01:07:02,109
over the loudspeaker.

1454
01:07:02,176 --> 01:07:04,743
"Can Ashley Lampkin come downstairs immediately?

1455
01:07:04,809 --> 01:07:07,076
-Immediately." -And then my name was called.

1456
01:07:07,143 --> 01:07:11,109
They called Ashley and they told her to get Naomi.

1457
01:07:11,176 --> 01:07:14,476
We get down to the cafeteria area and I see my mom

1458
01:07:14,543 --> 01:07:16,776
at the end of the hallway. I let Laura Siskin know,

1459
01:07:17,043 --> 01:07:18,409
"There's my mother, there's my mother."

1460
01:07:18,476 --> 01:07:19,709
She's like, "Okay, go."

1461
01:07:19,776 --> 01:07:21,509
I get to my mother and she tells me,

1462
01:07:21,576 --> 01:07:25,343
"Roy, uh, people, two people, flew planes

1463
01:07:25,409 --> 01:07:27,609
into the World Trade Center today.

1464
01:07:27,676 --> 01:07:32,076
Um... I'm not gonna stop you, if you need to look."

1465
01:07:32,143 --> 01:07:34,709
I say, "Okay." We walk out the door.

1466
01:07:34,776 --> 01:07:38,243
-(SIRENS BLARING) -(CROWD CHATTERING)

1467
01:07:38,309 --> 01:07:41,343
We got in the car, and Jackson was there,

1468
01:07:41,409 --> 01:07:44,276
and we had the hamster in the back seat.

1469
01:07:44,343 --> 01:07:47,243
As I'm going towards the stairs, it gets louder

1470
01:07:47,309 --> 01:07:49,776
of screaming and yelling and, like, craziness.

1471
01:07:50,043 --> 01:07:53,309
And I just see parents, like, grabbing their kids,

1472
01:07:53,376 --> 01:07:56,443
and like-- like-- like, just grabbing them and running,

1473
01:07:56,509 --> 01:07:58,543
not even saying anything. Then I see my mom,

1474
01:07:58,609 --> 01:08:00,376
and she's like, "Get Naomi, now."

1475
01:08:00,443 --> 01:08:03,276
A lot of the kids ended up having to stay over

1476
01:08:03,343 --> 01:08:06,109
up in Riverdale because their parents

1477
01:08:06,176 --> 01:08:07,543
could not leave the city after.

1478
01:08:07,609 --> 01:08:09,543
'Cause they did stop people from leaving.

1479
01:08:09,609 --> 01:08:12,309
Right now, everything is shut down nationwide.

1480
01:08:12,376 --> 01:08:14,609
There are no flights going out at all.

1481
01:08:14,676 --> 01:08:16,476
-CUSTOMER: No flights? -No flights.

1482
01:08:16,543 --> 01:08:20,609
All flights are shut down. Then I thought about the train,

1483
01:08:20,676 --> 01:08:24,176
and this was the last train leaving LA.

1484
01:08:24,243 --> 01:08:27,543
Packed my bags, went down to Union Station.

1485
01:08:27,609 --> 01:08:30,576
The train from LA to Chicago was called the Southwest Chief.

1486
01:08:30,643 --> 01:08:32,576
I pleaded with this African American woman,

1487
01:08:32,643 --> 01:08:34,076
who was the head of their ticket booth.

1488
01:08:34,143 --> 01:08:37,509
I said, "Please, sister. I have to get home."

1489
01:08:37,576 --> 01:08:44,076
The lady told me, "Spike, I can't get you on the train.

1490
01:08:44,143 --> 01:08:47,543
All the seats are sold out." I was pleading.

1491
01:08:47,609 --> 01:08:50,309
She said, "Spike, let me see what I can do.

1492
01:08:50,376 --> 01:08:55,409
Stay right here." So I just waited and waited.

1493
01:08:55,476 --> 01:08:57,743
She came back a half an hour, "I got you on the train."

1494
01:08:57,809 --> 01:09:01,043
She had talked to the head of the Pullman porters.

1495
01:09:01,109 --> 01:09:03,443
(TRAIN BELL RINGING)

1496
01:09:03,509 --> 01:09:05,343
The Brotherhood of the Pullman porters,

1497
01:09:05,409 --> 01:09:07,509
historic, A. Phillip Randolph.

1498
01:09:07,576 --> 01:09:10,809
Historically the porters on trains were Black.

1499
01:09:11,076 --> 01:09:14,376
So she spoke to the porters and they said, "We got Spike."

1500
01:09:14,443 --> 01:09:18,176
They rotated their sleeping quarters so I had a bunk.

1501
01:09:18,243 --> 01:09:22,443
The trains didn't go all the way from LA to New York.

1502
01:09:22,509 --> 01:09:26,176
You'd go to Chicago, you have to switch trains in Chicago.

1503
01:09:26,243 --> 01:09:28,709
And that train is called the Lakeshore Limited.

1504
01:09:28,776 --> 01:09:32,209
They called ahead and made sure I had, uh,

1505
01:09:32,276 --> 01:09:34,276
a place to sleep on that train.

1506
01:09:34,343 --> 01:09:35,676
And everything was frozen.

1507
01:09:35,743 --> 01:09:38,809
They stopped the trains, they stopped-- closed the tunnels, the bridges.

1508
01:09:39,076 --> 01:09:41,776
-(CROWD CLAMORING) -No subways running right now.

1509
01:09:42,043 --> 01:09:44,176
Long Island railroads, limited service.

1510
01:09:44,243 --> 01:09:46,543
All the buses are shut down, everything's shut down.

1511
01:09:46,609 --> 01:09:49,176
We didn't know where we were and what was gonna happen.

1512
01:09:49,243 --> 01:09:50,543
We didn't know what was coming next.

1513
01:09:50,609 --> 01:09:53,476
There is no evacuation plan for the city, none.

1514
01:09:53,543 --> 01:09:55,709
INTERVIEWER: How are people getting off the island right now?

1515
01:09:55,776 --> 01:09:57,776
Right now... (SIGHS) ...they're walking.

1516
01:09:58,043 --> 01:10:00,376
I tried to stop at an ATM.

1517
01:10:00,443 --> 01:10:03,309
I couldn't take no money out because nothing was working.

1518
01:10:03,376 --> 01:10:05,243
I had no cash on me.

1519
01:10:05,309 --> 01:10:08,809
I pulled them out before lunchtime, so they're hungry,

1520
01:10:09,076 --> 01:10:11,309
we have no money, and now we gotta walk.

1521
01:10:11,376 --> 01:10:13,576
Get out of the street. Let's go.

1522
01:10:13,643 --> 01:10:17,276
-Get on the sidewalk, move back. -Let's go, let's go.

1523
01:10:17,343 --> 01:10:19,209
(WHISTLE BLOWING)

1524
01:10:19,276 --> 01:10:20,343
Clear the area!

1525
01:10:20,409 --> 01:10:21,676
Telling us to get off the street.

1526
01:10:21,743 --> 01:10:23,476
Where we gonna go? There's nothing running.

1527
01:10:23,543 --> 01:10:24,709
-Where we gonna sleep then? -Yeah.

1528
01:10:24,776 --> 01:10:26,209
I want to go home.

1529
01:10:26,276 --> 01:10:27,409
You guys gotta move.

1530
01:10:27,476 --> 01:10:30,309
On the street, everybody's looking up with their faces

1531
01:10:30,376 --> 01:10:31,443
and their mouth open.

1532
01:10:31,509 --> 01:10:33,243
You know, I didn't even see-- looked-- turn around

1533
01:10:33,309 --> 01:10:34,809
and see the building yet. I just, like, looked ahead

1534
01:10:35,076 --> 01:10:37,509
and just saw people's faces and they were just, like, just staring up.

1535
01:10:37,576 --> 01:10:40,176
I then turn around and I look up,

1536
01:10:40,243 --> 01:10:42,709
and you just see a huge gash, a huge hole.

1537
01:10:42,776 --> 01:10:45,343
WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ: I say, "Oh my God, the people from windows!"

1538
01:10:45,409 --> 01:10:47,676
I started screaming, "We gotta go back. We gotta go back."

1539
01:10:47,743 --> 01:10:49,643
So William was like, "Let's go back into the building."

1540
01:10:49,709 --> 01:10:51,543
I said, "No, no, no." I said, "That's, like--"

1541
01:10:51,609 --> 01:10:52,776
you know, "That's-- that's crazy."

1542
01:10:53,043 --> 01:10:55,543
My supervisor that I just already pulled out,

1543
01:10:55,609 --> 01:10:57,576
said, "No, no. Rodriguez, you stay here.

1544
01:10:57,643 --> 01:10:58,609
You're not going back in."

1545
01:10:58,676 --> 01:11:00,443
I say, "You know what? Forget you."

1546
01:11:00,509 --> 01:11:02,309
It was another word, but it sounded like, yeah.

1547
01:11:02,376 --> 01:11:04,176
And that was the last time I actually seen him.

1548
01:11:04,243 --> 01:11:05,509
So he ran right into the building.

1549
01:11:05,576 --> 01:11:07,176
Timothy Pearson.

1550
01:11:07,243 --> 01:11:11,276
On September 11, 2001, I was the commanding officer

1551
01:11:11,343 --> 01:11:13,443
of police service area number two.

1552
01:11:13,509 --> 01:11:16,443
We went to the North Tower

1553
01:11:16,509 --> 01:11:18,443
and we started evacuating the building.

1554
01:11:18,509 --> 01:11:21,143
There were a lot of people who were evacuating the building that time.

1555
01:11:21,209 --> 01:11:23,276
A lot of them were coming from various floors.

1556
01:11:23,343 --> 01:11:24,743
The officer that was with me was asking,

1557
01:11:24,809 --> 01:11:26,209
"What floor are you coming from?"

1558
01:11:26,276 --> 01:11:28,543
So we knew they were coming from 50, 60, 70,

1559
01:11:28,609 --> 01:11:32,309
but where they were coming from was underneath

1560
01:11:32,376 --> 01:11:33,476
where the planes had hit.

1561
01:11:33,543 --> 01:11:35,543
Everybody up above those floors were trapped.

1562
01:11:35,609 --> 01:11:38,443
You could see quite a few people up above

1563
01:11:38,509 --> 01:11:41,376
on the northwest World Trade Center,

1564
01:11:41,443 --> 01:11:43,043
up above where the airplane had hit.

1565
01:11:43,109 --> 01:11:44,443
And they were leaning out of windows,

1566
01:11:44,509 --> 01:11:47,176
trying to get air as the building was burning below them.

1567
01:11:47,243 --> 01:11:50,443
Those are my people up there. I could see people...

1568
01:11:52,543 --> 01:11:57,776
shaking tablecloths out of those windows on those upper floors.

1569
01:11:58,476 --> 01:12:01,176
Oh, Lord!

1570
01:12:01,243 --> 01:12:05,043
-BYSTANDER 1: Oh, my God. Oh, shit. -BYSTANDER 2: Holy shit.

1571
01:12:05,109 --> 01:12:07,209
(BYSTANDERS GASPING IN HORROR)

1572
01:12:07,276 --> 01:12:08,509
Wow.

1573
01:12:10,209 --> 01:12:13,443
It's just like there's bodies everywhere, falling down.

1574
01:12:13,509 --> 01:12:16,709
-BYSTANDER: There are bodies falling down? -Didn't you see it?

1575
01:12:16,776 --> 01:12:19,376
PEDESTRIAN:  Yeah, and everybody started running out, and we saw the plane,

1576
01:12:19,443 --> 01:12:21,243
and there was smoke everywhere, and people are jumping

1577
01:12:21,309 --> 01:12:23,709
out the windows over there, they're jumping out the windows,

1578
01:12:23,776 --> 01:12:26,643
I guess because they're trying to save themselves,

1579
01:12:26,709 --> 01:12:27,609
I don't know.

1580
01:12:27,676 --> 01:12:29,609
-(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) -Shit.

1581
01:12:31,509 --> 01:12:32,576
(THUDS)

1582
01:12:35,276 --> 01:12:38,409
CHANDA ADAMS:  People falling, burning, out of the windows,

1583
01:12:38,476 --> 01:12:41,209
landing on pure concrete. They'd rather jump and die

1584
01:12:41,276 --> 01:12:42,776
because they're dying from the smoke,

1585
01:12:43,043 --> 01:12:44,443
they're dying from the explosion.

1586
01:12:44,509 --> 01:12:46,543
They're dying from heat, whatever.

1587
01:12:46,609 --> 01:12:47,776
They'd rather just jump to their death.

1588
01:12:48,043 --> 01:12:50,343
Some of them's jumping, bodies are just falling out,

1589
01:12:50,409 --> 01:12:53,576
basically, out of the-- just out of the building, just dropping.

1590
01:12:53,643 --> 01:12:56,543
It was just terrible, it was the worst thing I've ever seen.

1591
01:12:56,609 --> 01:12:59,776
It was the people that couldn't get past

1592
01:13:00,076 --> 01:13:02,576
the floors that was on fire, that felt like they had

1593
01:13:02,643 --> 01:13:05,076
no choice but to jump off the building.

1594
01:13:06,209 --> 01:13:08,509
What the fuck could they have been going through

1595
01:13:09,109 --> 01:13:10,276
in that moment?

1596
01:13:10,343 --> 01:13:14,176
Like, we could never comprehend that.

1597
01:13:15,143 --> 01:13:17,443
More than anything else, seeing that,

1598
01:13:18,609 --> 01:13:20,676
it was... it was finishing me.

1599
01:13:20,743 --> 01:13:25,176
These people that needed help the most,

1600
01:13:25,243 --> 01:13:28,143
and no matter how much help was there...

1601
01:13:29,509 --> 01:13:31,309
you could only come to terms with the fact

1602
01:13:31,376 --> 01:13:33,209
that you couldn't help these people.

1603
01:13:33,276 --> 01:13:36,243
-(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRLING) -(SIREN WAILING)

1604
01:13:36,309 --> 01:13:38,109
BYSTANDER: Jesus in heaven...

1605
01:13:40,043 --> 01:13:42,243
I didn't see it at first. And then eventually,

1606
01:13:42,309 --> 01:13:44,609
I started seeing the bodies come down.

1607
01:13:44,676 --> 01:13:47,676
And as business cards and highlighters

1608
01:13:47,743 --> 01:13:49,776
and I thought I saw a stapler, started raining down,

1609
01:13:50,043 --> 01:13:52,309
we're like, "What's this stuff coming right out of the building

1610
01:13:52,376 --> 01:13:55,643
right on top of us?" And then I saw the first jumper

1611
01:13:55,709 --> 01:14:00,276
from up close. As, uh-- As he fell,

1612
01:14:00,343 --> 01:14:03,043
the eye contact with this individual and...

1613
01:14:03,109 --> 01:14:07,743
And, uh, yeah, he was a Caucasian male, late twenties.

1614
01:14:08,609 --> 01:14:11,043
White shirt, khakis, brown shoes,

1615
01:14:11,109 --> 01:14:12,809
blue eyes. That's how close he was.

1616
01:14:13,076 --> 01:14:15,276
We started coming down from the 55th floor.

1617
01:14:15,343 --> 01:14:18,109
That's when we started to see firemen coming up.

1618
01:14:18,176 --> 01:14:20,143
And we're on the left, you see the firemen,

1619
01:14:20,209 --> 01:14:22,443
you're supposed to get over and let them through.

1620
01:14:22,509 --> 01:14:24,476
They were carrying hoses,

1621
01:14:24,543 --> 01:14:26,776
5,000 pounds of stuff, and they're exhausted.

1622
01:14:27,043 --> 01:14:28,676
SPIKE: What was the look in their face?

1623
01:14:28,743 --> 01:14:30,743
Well, it's the rescue look. You know, "Let me get up here and get these people."

1624
01:14:30,809 --> 01:14:33,509
It wasn't like, "Let me get up here and I know I'm not coming out."

1625
01:14:33,576 --> 01:14:36,276
No, they didn't have-- there's no fear look like that.

1626
01:14:36,343 --> 01:14:37,743
Those guys knew.

1627
01:14:37,809 --> 01:14:40,543
They knew, and they still went up.

1628
01:14:40,609 --> 01:14:42,276
-SPIKE: What is that? -This is the master key

1629
01:14:42,343 --> 01:14:44,443
that opened all the doors of the World Trade Center.

1630
01:14:44,509 --> 01:14:46,676
There were five master keys on 9/11 available,

1631
01:14:46,743 --> 01:14:48,643
and the one that was used was this one.

1632
01:14:48,709 --> 01:14:50,809
The people with the four other keys,

1633
01:14:51,076 --> 01:14:52,443
they went out running.

1634
01:14:53,109 --> 01:14:54,509
Cannot blame them,

1635
01:14:54,576 --> 01:14:56,676
but they had the other four keys,

1636
01:14:56,743 --> 01:14:58,243
and this opened everything.

1637
01:14:58,309 --> 01:15:00,043
Then I said to the police officers, "Yeah,

1638
01:15:00,109 --> 01:15:01,309
I have the keys, and let's go."

1639
01:15:01,376 --> 01:15:04,509
The four, five and sixth floor will not open the doors

1640
01:15:04,576 --> 01:15:06,643
through the stairwell. It says "no re-entry."

1641
01:15:06,709 --> 01:15:08,476
And the fourth will say "re-entry."

1642
01:15:08,543 --> 01:15:10,676
Then three doors will not open, three floor,

1643
01:15:10,743 --> 01:15:12,643
consecutively, all the way to the top.

1644
01:15:12,709 --> 01:15:15,443
I go straight up, opening door, getting people out,

1645
01:15:15,509 --> 01:15:17,076
opening doors, getting people out,

1646
01:15:17,143 --> 01:15:18,776
until I get to the 39th floor.

1647
01:15:19,043 --> 01:15:22,343
When I get to the 39th floor, the police officer

1648
01:15:22,409 --> 01:15:28,343
comes through the other stairway with two fire chiefs.

1649
01:15:28,409 --> 01:15:32,109
And we're talking about what's going to be the next step.

1650
01:15:32,176 --> 01:15:35,776
And as we're talking there, we hear...

1651
01:15:36,043 --> 01:15:37,243
(IMITATES BANG)

1652
01:15:37,309 --> 01:15:40,543
And we hear pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop inside the building

1653
01:15:40,609 --> 01:15:43,676
above me. And we hear on the radio,

1654
01:15:43,743 --> 01:15:46,376
"We lost 65, we lost 65."

1655
01:15:46,443 --> 01:15:49,709
God, my friends, they're really trapped now.

1656
01:15:49,776 --> 01:15:51,676
We gotta go up, we gotta go up.

1657
01:15:51,743 --> 01:15:54,543
The policeman said, "No, Willie. You've done enough."

1658
01:15:54,609 --> 01:15:56,576
I say, "No, no, I'm going up." He said, "No, no.

1659
01:15:56,643 --> 01:15:59,309
You're still my responsibility. You're a civilian,

1660
01:15:59,376 --> 01:16:00,609
better if you leave now."

1661
01:16:00,676 --> 01:16:03,343
Frank and his two partners went over

1662
01:16:03,409 --> 01:16:05,276
and got everybody out of the corner office

1663
01:16:05,343 --> 01:16:07,276
and paraded them over to the stairwell.

1664
01:16:07,343 --> 01:16:09,509
And Nicole said,

1665
01:16:09,576 --> 01:16:12,576
he chose her to lead the group down the stair.

1666
01:16:12,643 --> 01:16:14,109
She was screaming at him,

1667
01:16:14,176 --> 01:16:16,143
"Come on, come on, come on." And he said, "Honey,

1668
01:16:16,209 --> 01:16:19,543
I'm going to be in the back. I'll come at the tail end.

1669
01:16:19,609 --> 01:16:22,543
You guys, you go first and I'll follow."

1670
01:16:22,609 --> 01:16:24,643
So after the last person went down,

1671
01:16:24,709 --> 01:16:27,109
he sent one of his guys to follow,

1672
01:16:27,176 --> 01:16:29,176
and he and one other guy went up.

1673
01:16:29,243 --> 01:16:32,309
-(SIRENS BLARING) -(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

1674
01:16:35,276 --> 01:16:36,576
TONY BENETATOS: Everybody's been recalled.

1675
01:16:36,643 --> 01:16:39,276
All available units must come back to the firehouse.

1676
01:16:39,343 --> 01:16:41,276
They said, "All off-duty firefighters

1677
01:16:41,343 --> 01:16:42,576
report to your firehouse."

1678
01:16:42,643 --> 01:16:44,243
My name is Kirk Coy,

1679
01:16:44,309 --> 01:16:46,743
twenty years New York City Fire Department.

1680
01:16:46,809 --> 01:16:48,443
My car was parked right downstairs

1681
01:16:48,509 --> 01:16:50,743
but when I went downstairs, I didn't even bother with that.

1682
01:16:50,809 --> 01:16:53,109
I'm run-walking, run-walking to the fire.

1683
01:16:53,176 --> 01:16:54,109
I was only ten blocks away.

1684
01:16:54,176 --> 01:16:57,176
-(ALARM RINGING) -(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)

1685
01:17:00,676 --> 01:17:02,709
Firefighters are arriving from home.

1686
01:17:02,776 --> 01:17:06,043
Normal people are fleeing the city,

1687
01:17:06,109 --> 01:17:09,543
people who work first responders were getting in their cars

1688
01:17:09,609 --> 01:17:11,209
and just racing into the city.

1689
01:17:11,276 --> 01:17:14,543
Cars were coming in like this, man, against the traffic.

1690
01:17:14,609 --> 01:17:17,376
We went through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

1691
01:17:17,443 --> 01:17:19,709
And then we're driving in and it's eerie

1692
01:17:19,776 --> 01:17:21,776
because it's like, was nothing,

1693
01:17:22,043 --> 01:17:24,243
no traffic, no nothing going through.

1694
01:17:24,309 --> 01:17:27,109
And as we were getting, I guess, closer to the Manhattan side,

1695
01:17:27,176 --> 01:17:32,376
like this big rush of air came through and it shook the engine.

1696
01:17:32,443 --> 01:17:37,809
-(EXPLOSIONS) -(FLAMES RUSTLING)

1697
01:17:52,409 --> 01:17:55,143
-PEDESTRIAN 1: Oh my God! -(CROWD SCREAMING)

1698
01:18:00,443 --> 01:18:03,709
-(TOWER RUMBLING) -(SCREAMING)

1699
01:18:03,776 --> 01:18:07,043
-CAMERAPERSON: What happened? -(CAR HORNS BLARING)

1700
01:18:08,443 --> 01:18:12,309
(SCREAMING)

1701
01:18:18,209 --> 01:18:19,676
(SIREN WAILING)

1702
01:18:20,809 --> 01:18:22,109
PEDESTRIAN 2: Let's go!

1703
01:18:26,109 --> 01:18:27,476
(INDISTINCT SCREAMING)

1704
01:18:28,776 --> 01:18:30,443
(OVERLAPPING SHOUTING)

1705
01:18:32,809 --> 01:18:35,409
-PEDESTRIAN 3: Hey, let's go! -PEDESTRIAN 4: Let's go! Hey, let's go! Now!

1706
01:18:35,476 --> 01:18:37,576
-FIREFIGHTER: Keep moving, guys! -PEDESTRIAN 5: Oh, shit.

1707
01:18:39,376 --> 01:18:41,476
Move back! Move! Move back. Move back. Move back.

1708
01:18:41,543 --> 01:18:43,676
-Back! Back! Back! -PEDESTRIAN 6: Yo, are you a cop?

1709
01:18:46,343 --> 01:18:49,409
-(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) -(DISTANT SIRENS)

1710
01:18:49,476 --> 01:18:51,409
(CLAMORING)

1711
01:18:51,476 --> 01:18:53,409
Yo, right there. Yo, yo, yo!

1712
01:18:53,476 --> 01:18:56,076
(SIRENS CONTINUE)

1713
01:18:56,143 --> 01:18:58,176
(CAMERAPERSON SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

1714
01:19:11,343 --> 01:19:14,509
-(INDISTINCT SHOUTING) -(SCREAMING)

1715
01:19:27,776 --> 01:19:31,143
-(SIREN BLARING) -(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

1716
01:19:46,509 --> 01:19:49,409
(SIRENS CONTINUE)

1717
01:19:54,576 --> 01:19:55,676
(COUGHING)

1718
01:19:56,576 --> 01:19:59,509
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

1719
01:20:05,676 --> 01:20:09,176
-(ALARM RINGING) -(SOBBING)

1720
01:20:10,409 --> 01:20:12,276
(RUMBLING)

1721
01:20:16,809 --> 01:20:19,043
I need some water. (SPITS)

1722
01:20:19,109 --> 01:20:21,709
(SIREN BLARING)

1723
01:20:21,776 --> 01:20:24,743
-That's what they wanted. -CAMERAPERSON: That's what who wanted?

1724
01:20:24,809 --> 01:20:26,576
The Arabs, that's what they wanted.

1725
01:20:26,643 --> 01:20:28,743
They've been trying to take that out for ten years.

1726
01:20:28,809 --> 01:20:30,343
-CAMERAPERSON: They got it. -For ten years.

1727
01:20:30,409 --> 01:20:32,343
They got it, but what are they gonna pay for it?

1728
01:20:32,409 --> 01:20:34,109
What are they gonna pay for this?

1729
01:20:34,176 --> 01:20:35,176
(WHISTLE BLOWING)

1730
01:20:35,243 --> 01:20:37,443
What are they gonna pay? I'm ready to go back.

1731
01:20:37,509 --> 01:20:39,209
Right, give him air. Give him air.

1732
01:20:39,276 --> 01:20:41,143
You can walk, you can film, just give him air.

1733
01:20:41,209 --> 01:20:43,809
(SHOUTING) Make a hole. Make a fucking hole!

1734
01:20:44,776 --> 01:20:46,809
Get the cameras out of here, let's go.

1735
01:20:47,076 --> 01:20:48,476
Get off now, go!

1736
01:20:48,543 --> 01:20:50,609
(RUMBLING)

1737
01:20:51,509 --> 01:20:52,676
FIREFIGHTER 1: Everybody all right?

1738
01:20:52,743 --> 01:20:54,176
FIREFIGHTER 2: Yeah, I'm okay.

1739
01:20:55,809 --> 01:20:57,609
FIREFIGHTER 3: How's the way out of here?

1740
01:21:00,543 --> 01:21:02,109
FIREFIGHTER 3: Yeah, I'm right here.

1741
01:21:02,176 --> 01:21:04,276
FIREFIGHTER 1: All right, come on down this way.

1742
01:21:04,343 --> 01:21:06,776
Yeah, let's get out the way we came in.

1743
01:21:07,043 --> 01:21:10,543
-(INDISTINCT SHOUTING) -(COUGHING)

1744
01:21:12,543 --> 01:21:14,643
FIREFIGHTER 6: You got a light?

1745
01:21:14,709 --> 01:21:17,743
(OVERLAPPING CLAMOR)

1746
01:21:19,143 --> 01:21:21,743
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

1747
01:21:23,643 --> 01:21:27,043
JOSEPH:

1748
01:21:33,209 --> 01:21:37,576
(ALARM BLARING)

1749
01:21:39,776 --> 01:21:43,576
Our apartment was 93 Chestnut, Newark, New Jersey.

1750
01:21:43,643 --> 01:21:45,476
We're listening to the news.

1751
01:21:45,543 --> 01:21:48,609
They said that there was still one plane

1752
01:21:48,676 --> 01:21:52,476
that was being tracked by fighter jets.

1753
01:21:52,543 --> 01:21:54,143
NEWS ANCHOR 6: Dateline, Pittsburgh.

1754
01:21:54,209 --> 01:21:58,243
Large plane crashes are reported in Western Pennsylvania.

1755
01:21:58,309 --> 01:22:02,109
The source of this are officials at Somerset County Airport.

1756
01:22:02,176 --> 01:22:05,443
They announced that the plane, Flight 93,

1757
01:22:05,509 --> 01:22:08,309
has now been taken down

1758
01:22:08,376 --> 01:22:10,276
in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

1759
01:22:10,343 --> 01:22:12,176
REPORTER: United Airlines is confirming

1760
01:22:12,243 --> 01:22:16,109
that its Flight 93 did crash near Pittsburgh.

1761
01:22:16,176 --> 01:22:19,543
Then we knew that everyone had perished,

1762
01:22:19,609 --> 01:22:21,176
knew the whole crew.

1763
01:22:21,243 --> 01:22:24,409
And at this point, one of the five roommates

1764
01:22:24,476 --> 01:22:28,243
who was with us, her name is Angela Hood,

1765
01:22:28,309 --> 01:22:31,209
she ran down the hallway in the apartment...

1766
01:22:32,609 --> 01:22:37,576
screaming, yelling, but she was praising God.

1767
01:22:38,309 --> 01:22:39,409
And...

1768
01:22:39,476 --> 01:22:42,676
I was trying to find out what was going on with her

1769
01:22:42,743 --> 01:22:44,443
as she ran to the back room.

1770
01:22:44,509 --> 01:22:46,276
And I'm trying to calm her down,

1771
01:22:46,343 --> 01:22:47,776
but she's trying to tell me something.

1772
01:22:48,043 --> 01:22:49,709
I was supposed to be on that flight.

1773
01:22:49,776 --> 01:22:52,676
SPIKE: But do you believe that the flight crew

1774
01:22:52,743 --> 01:22:56,243
and the passengers crashed the plane,

1775
01:22:56,309 --> 01:22:58,176
or was it shot down?

1776
01:23:03,676 --> 01:23:07,443
I believe it was shot down.

1777
01:23:07,509 --> 01:23:10,143
It was a 757...

1778
01:23:12,209 --> 01:23:15,076
that held 150 something people, I believe.

1779
01:23:15,143 --> 01:23:18,143
So, I mean, that was a large plane and it was just

1780
01:23:18,209 --> 01:23:22,743
so small wreckage found or seen. And when I saw the site,

1781
01:23:22,809 --> 01:23:25,743
I was like, "I believe that plane was shot down."

1782
01:23:26,043 --> 01:23:28,109
I don't believe the crew members or whatever

1783
01:23:28,176 --> 01:23:29,409
took the plane-- crashed the plane.

1784
01:23:29,476 --> 01:23:31,809
An article came out in  Der Stern,

1785
01:23:32,076 --> 01:23:34,609
a German news magazine. They were saying this guy,

1786
01:23:34,676 --> 01:23:37,109
Frank De Martini, saved our lives.

1787
01:23:37,176 --> 01:23:38,476
We would have died. (CHUCKLES)

1788
01:23:38,543 --> 01:23:41,509
We were definitely gonna because we could not get out.

1789
01:23:41,576 --> 01:23:44,209
And the stairwells on that floor were blocked.

1790
01:23:44,276 --> 01:23:46,343
Anyway, so he saved those guys

1791
01:23:46,409 --> 01:23:48,209
and they couldn't get any farther up.

1792
01:23:48,276 --> 01:23:52,409
So they began sweeping the building and they...

1793
01:23:52,476 --> 01:23:56,276
Best guess is that they made it down to about the, uh,

1794
01:23:56,343 --> 01:23:59,576
somewhere between the 25th and the 15th floor

1795
01:23:59,643 --> 01:24:03,109
before the, uh... before that building was demolished.

1796
01:24:07,276 --> 01:24:10,043
We started going down, we made it to the lobby.

1797
01:24:10,109 --> 01:24:13,276
When we make it to the lobby, all I see is destruction.

1798
01:24:13,343 --> 01:24:15,743
Those beautiful glass at the front of the building,

1799
01:24:15,809 --> 01:24:17,643
they were all gone, there was no glass.

1800
01:24:17,709 --> 01:24:22,576
And the revolving doors... there was no revolving doors.

1801
01:24:22,643 --> 01:24:25,276
The only thing you saw was the empty frame.

1802
01:24:25,343 --> 01:24:28,776
As I stood in front of the revolving door

1803
01:24:29,043 --> 01:24:31,609
and I look out, what do I see?

1804
01:24:31,676 --> 01:24:35,409
The area is cordoned out by the World Financial Center

1805
01:24:35,476 --> 01:24:38,243
with that yellow tape that say, "Crime scene. Do not pass."

1806
01:24:38,309 --> 01:24:41,643
I see that all over. And behind, I see the police,

1807
01:24:41,709 --> 01:24:43,676
and the police looks at me, "Don't look back!

1808
01:24:43,743 --> 01:24:45,376
Don't look back! Don't look back!"

1809
01:24:45,443 --> 01:24:47,643
And when they tell you don't look back, what do you do?

1810
01:24:48,343 --> 01:24:49,776
You look back.

1811
01:24:50,043 --> 01:24:52,309
And I turned around, and when I looked back,

1812
01:24:52,376 --> 01:24:55,076
I saw the most horrible thing I seen in my life.

1813
01:24:55,143 --> 01:24:57,109
I saw all the bodies

1814
01:24:57,176 --> 01:24:59,309
of the people that jumped out of the building.

1815
01:25:02,043 --> 01:25:07,409
I saw them unrecognizable because the impact was so hard

1816
01:25:07,476 --> 01:25:10,309
that the only thing you-- you could see

1817
01:25:10,376 --> 01:25:13,443
was hair and flesh.

1818
01:25:13,509 --> 01:25:16,476
And I was like, "Oh my God." I started screaming.

1819
01:25:16,543 --> 01:25:19,676
And when I started screaming I hear, "Run, run, run!"

1820
01:25:19,743 --> 01:25:21,643
The police is running across the street

1821
01:25:21,709 --> 01:25:23,476
and I feel the floor trembling,

1822
01:25:23,543 --> 01:25:25,476
and it's the building is starting to collapse.

1823
01:25:26,176 --> 01:25:27,543
BYSTANDER: Oh, God, no!

1824
01:25:27,609 --> 01:25:30,509
(SIRENS BLARING)

1825
01:25:40,209 --> 01:25:43,509
(WIND HOWLING)

1826
01:25:48,609 --> 01:25:52,209
I started running across west, heading towards that building,

1827
01:25:52,276 --> 01:25:54,609
one of the financial buildings that we were gonna take over.

1828
01:25:54,676 --> 01:25:57,709
Almost made it to the building, probably eight feet

1829
01:25:57,776 --> 01:26:00,776
from the doorway and nailed me right in the butt.

1830
01:26:01,043 --> 01:26:02,743
Just knock me right through the glass,

1831
01:26:02,809 --> 01:26:04,776
broke the glass, hit my head and elbows,

1832
01:26:05,043 --> 01:26:06,109
my feet were hanging out.

1833
01:26:06,176 --> 01:26:08,109
So when the debris hit the building, it came down.

1834
01:26:08,176 --> 01:26:10,409
That's what broke my foot, shattered my-- my left foot.

1835
01:26:11,443 --> 01:26:14,043
-Anthony, you okay? -ANTHONY: Yeah.

1836
01:26:14,109 --> 01:26:16,676
Will you let me in please? Oh my God.

1837
01:26:17,809 --> 01:26:19,609
Oh my God!

1838
01:26:19,676 --> 01:26:21,309
Watch out, watch out.

1839
01:26:22,543 --> 01:26:25,376
(SCREAMING)

1840
01:26:26,376 --> 01:26:28,509
(SIRENS BEEPING)

1841
01:26:29,376 --> 01:26:30,509
BYSTANDER: Get in here!

1842
01:26:33,243 --> 01:26:35,576
I was running for my life and, uh... (GULPS)

1843
01:26:35,643 --> 01:26:39,043
Me, the fireman, John, we were just taking off, man.

1844
01:26:39,109 --> 01:26:40,343
This shit was falling down behind us,

1845
01:26:40,409 --> 01:26:42,443
it was coming up behind us. I just saw this truck

1846
01:26:42,509 --> 01:26:43,743
and I knew it was right behind me

1847
01:26:43,809 --> 01:26:46,343
and I just slid underneath it. And we stayed down there

1848
01:26:46,409 --> 01:26:47,609
and everything just went black.

1849
01:26:47,676 --> 01:26:50,609
Now everything, your whole world changed.

1850
01:26:50,676 --> 01:26:54,676
Any sense of invincibility or security or safety,

1851
01:26:54,743 --> 01:26:56,676
it just, like, turned upside down.

1852
01:26:56,743 --> 01:26:58,676
Now you're bewildered and you're shocked

1853
01:26:58,743 --> 01:27:01,209
and you're just-- you don't know what to do.

1854
01:27:01,276 --> 01:27:03,243
Then I think, "I messed up."

1855
01:27:03,776 --> 01:27:05,209
(ALARM BLARING)

1856
01:27:05,276 --> 01:27:07,443
What was I doing down there? What was I milling around for?

1857
01:27:07,509 --> 01:27:08,776
Why wasn't I getting out of there?

1858
01:27:09,043 --> 01:27:10,143
Why was I looking around?

1859
01:27:10,209 --> 01:27:11,776
Why am I talking to a cameraman?

1860
01:27:13,643 --> 01:27:18,409
You felt like a tornado of wind just coming at you

1861
01:27:18,476 --> 01:27:21,176
like you were in a storm. You could hear the debris

1862
01:27:21,243 --> 01:27:24,176
coming past you, you can hear things going on.

1863
01:27:24,243 --> 01:27:27,743
Uh, to be honest with you, at one point...

1864
01:27:29,443 --> 01:27:32,043
I was asking myself was I dead or alive?

1865
01:27:32,109 --> 01:27:34,543
Because I was trying to figure out,

1866
01:27:34,609 --> 01:27:36,209
could I see, could I hear?

1867
01:27:36,276 --> 01:27:39,543
After a while laying there on the floor,

1868
01:27:39,609 --> 01:27:41,476
it was complete silence.

1869
01:27:43,376 --> 01:27:47,043
(WHISTLES) Give me a second. Okay?

1870
01:27:47,109 --> 01:27:50,443
-Uh, you got a napkin? 'Cause-- -SPIKE: Take your time, brother.

1871
01:27:50,509 --> 01:27:53,376
-It brings it back. (SIGHS) -(FILM CREW MUTTERING)

1872
01:27:53,443 --> 01:27:56,809
Ken Covello, live truck operator for Fox 5.

1873
01:27:57,076 --> 01:28:01,476
It just enveloped us, and it was... it all of a sudden

1874
01:28:01,543 --> 01:28:06,409
went from a bright sunny day to almost pitch-black night.

1875
01:28:06,476 --> 01:28:09,676
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1876
01:28:10,409 --> 01:28:11,676
JUDEAS:  Where are we?

1877
01:28:11,743 --> 01:28:12,709
PEDESTRIAN 1:  Judeas, wait.

1878
01:28:12,776 --> 01:28:14,609
JUDEAS:  Which way to go? (COUGHS)

1879
01:28:18,709 --> 01:28:19,776
PEDESTRIAN 2:  Lay low!

1880
01:28:21,276 --> 01:28:22,576
VOICE: (OVER RADIO) Are you guys okay?

1881
01:28:22,643 --> 01:28:24,743
Everybody stay low!

1882
01:28:24,809 --> 01:28:29,543
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

1883
01:28:58,476 --> 01:29:00,376
(COUGHING)

1884
01:29:07,109 --> 01:29:08,509
CAMERAPERSON: What happened?

1885
01:29:08,576 --> 01:29:13,076
It collapsed, the top floors collapsed down.

1886
01:29:14,809 --> 01:29:17,543
I saw it b-- blow, and then ran like hell.

1887
01:29:17,609 --> 01:29:21,543
Thank God, I'm 69 but I can still run. (CHUCKLES)

1888
01:29:24,409 --> 01:29:27,276
There's got to be firemen trapped back there, though.

1889
01:29:33,576 --> 01:29:35,243
We sort of made our way through the dust.

1890
01:29:35,309 --> 01:29:36,609
We found Amy. We didn't have Brian.

1891
01:29:36,676 --> 01:29:38,343
I said, "We've gotta go get Brian. Where's Brian?"

1892
01:29:38,409 --> 01:29:40,209
I said, "Oh, he was walking back to the truck."

1893
01:29:40,276 --> 01:29:41,376
I said, "We gotta go find him."

1894
01:29:41,443 --> 01:29:43,509
The pile was five stories high. I was like,

1895
01:29:43,576 --> 01:29:45,809
"Oh, he's in here someplace." And I was going to start

1896
01:29:46,076 --> 01:29:48,076
looking for him, start pulling debris out,

1897
01:29:48,143 --> 01:29:49,443
see if we can find him.

1898
01:29:53,109 --> 01:29:55,243
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1899
01:29:57,209 --> 01:30:00,109
DAPHNE: I remember telling my coworker, you know, "Muiyawa,"

1900
01:30:00,176 --> 01:30:02,276
I said, "I have to go." He says, "No."

1901
01:30:02,343 --> 01:30:03,809
He was going, "Daphne, no."

1902
01:30:04,076 --> 01:30:05,776
So I'm like saying, "What the world..."

1903
01:30:06,043 --> 01:30:08,376
Still don't know what's going on out here.

1904
01:30:08,443 --> 01:30:11,576
And so then when it cleared up a little bit, you know,

1905
01:30:11,643 --> 01:30:14,109
and everybody got up and got their selves together.

1906
01:30:14,176 --> 01:30:17,109
I'm like, "Oh, no. I'm really left behind now."

1907
01:30:17,176 --> 01:30:18,409
Not still knowing.

1908
01:30:18,476 --> 01:30:20,809
-INTERVIEWER: This is a terrorist attack. -Excuse me?

1909
01:30:21,076 --> 01:30:23,543
INTERVIEWER: What we understand is that plane might've been hijacked,

1910
01:30:23,609 --> 01:30:25,109
and it's linked to terrorists.

1911
01:30:25,176 --> 01:30:26,743
MUIYAWA ONIGBOGI: Terrorist, yeah.

1912
01:30:26,809 --> 01:30:31,343
-INTERVIEWER: This didn't happen by chance. -Hold up. I didn't--

1913
01:30:31,809 --> 01:30:33,243
Did you-- (LAUGHS)

1914
01:30:33,309 --> 01:30:37,543
Did you say a terrorist hijacked the plane into the building...

1915
01:30:38,643 --> 01:30:40,309
No, I couldn't even fathom that.

1916
01:30:40,376 --> 01:30:41,643
No, no.

1917
01:30:41,709 --> 01:30:43,709
That's when I found out what happened,

1918
01:30:43,776 --> 01:30:45,643
when that lady was telling me.

1919
01:30:45,709 --> 01:30:47,809
(DAPHNE COUGHING, SOBBING)

1920
01:30:48,076 --> 01:30:50,543
MUIYAWA: Daphne, don't give up now.

1921
01:30:50,609 --> 01:30:52,609
Daph? Come on, don't give up.

1922
01:30:52,676 --> 01:30:55,643
I'm just tired, I'm tired... (SOBS)

1923
01:30:57,409 --> 01:31:01,676
The second tower fell and...

1924
01:31:05,809 --> 01:31:07,509
I just went out.

1925
01:31:08,343 --> 01:31:09,676
I just went out.

1926
01:31:11,576 --> 01:31:15,076
We had a terrace, and I just went out

1927
01:31:15,143 --> 01:31:17,209
to the terrace and, um...

1928
01:31:19,709 --> 01:31:21,309
just started crying.

1929
01:31:23,609 --> 01:31:26,743
I was really in shock. I couldn't believe it.

1930
01:31:26,809 --> 01:31:31,709
My daughter was screaming her head off, and I couldn't--

1931
01:31:31,776 --> 01:31:33,609
you know, it was-- it was just a lot.

1932
01:31:33,676 --> 01:31:35,509
I was screaming, she was screaming

1933
01:31:36,643 --> 01:31:38,576
and I just-- I just kept calling.

1934
01:31:38,643 --> 01:31:42,776
I just kept calling. Even though no one could answer,

1935
01:31:43,043 --> 01:31:44,309
I just kept calling.

1936
01:31:44,376 --> 01:31:47,609
BRENDA: I'm looking at all these people who are fleeing Manhattan.

1937
01:31:47,676 --> 01:31:49,476
-SPIKE:  The exodus, right? -BRENDA:  Right.

1938
01:31:49,543 --> 01:31:52,209
Nobody was pushing or shoving or...

1939
01:31:52,276 --> 01:31:53,643
They were trying to help each other

1940
01:31:53,709 --> 01:31:56,176
get across to safety in Brooklyn.

1941
01:31:56,243 --> 01:31:57,676
There's a part of the Manhattan bridge

1942
01:31:57,743 --> 01:32:00,543
where it's almost like a little skyline or something

1943
01:32:00,609 --> 01:32:03,276
that you can walk-- people can walk in and not be in traffic,

1944
01:32:03,343 --> 01:32:06,276
and she fell right in there. She was like, "I'm not moving.

1945
01:32:06,343 --> 01:32:08,809
Don't ask me. Don't tell me. I don't want to know."

1946
01:32:09,076 --> 01:32:11,543
-Get up. What are you doing? -ASHLEY:  And she was like, "No."

1947
01:32:11,609 --> 01:32:13,343
She was full-blown, like, tantrum.

1948
01:32:13,409 --> 01:32:15,209
A guy came over and he's like, "You guys look like

1949
01:32:15,276 --> 01:32:18,576
-you need this more than me." -Here's a banana, an apple

1950
01:32:18,643 --> 01:32:20,443
-and a bottle of water. -ASHLEY: He was like,

1951
01:32:20,509 --> 01:32:22,343
-"You need it more than us." -It was like gold.

1952
01:32:22,409 --> 01:32:24,376
They was like... (GASPS) "Food!"

1953
01:32:24,443 --> 01:32:26,543
JUDY WHITEMAN: My name is Judy Whiteman.

1954
01:32:26,609 --> 01:32:29,776
And I am an administrative assistant.

1955
01:32:30,043 --> 01:32:32,076
JOJO RODRIGUEZ: My name is Joanna Rodriguez,

1956
01:32:32,143 --> 01:32:33,409
and I'm a makeup artist.

1957
01:32:33,476 --> 01:32:36,776
-And this is my mother. -When I got on the bridge,

1958
01:32:37,043 --> 01:32:41,643
I think that's the only time I thought of the danger of it.

1959
01:32:41,709 --> 01:32:44,809
I said to myself, you know, "We could be sitting ducks

1960
01:32:45,076 --> 01:32:46,776
on this bridge if another plane comes."

1961
01:32:47,043 --> 01:32:50,309
And my phone rang again. It was Jason.

1962
01:32:50,376 --> 01:32:52,043
He said, "Where are you at?" And I said,

1963
01:32:52,109 --> 01:32:53,709
"We're, like, in the middle of the bridge."

1964
01:32:53,776 --> 01:32:56,776
And he screamed, "Get off the bridge!

1965
01:32:57,043 --> 01:32:59,209
They just-- they're announcing on the news,

1966
01:32:59,276 --> 01:33:00,776
they're gonna blow the bridge up."

1967
01:33:01,043 --> 01:33:04,243
I grabbed her, and I grabbed Ashley's hand

1968
01:33:04,309 --> 01:33:05,709
and I was like, "You gotta run."

1969
01:33:05,776 --> 01:33:10,609
It was chaos. And the only thing I could think of

1970
01:33:10,676 --> 01:33:15,176
was to go to-- to my wife's building.

1971
01:33:15,243 --> 01:33:18,576
My wife worked in publishing on Hudson Street.

1972
01:33:18,643 --> 01:33:20,609
I ran to Hudson Street...

1973
01:33:22,443 --> 01:33:25,176
and as I approached her building,

1974
01:33:25,243 --> 01:33:26,809
she was coming out of the building.

1975
01:33:28,343 --> 01:33:30,709
Her building was fine.

1976
01:33:30,776 --> 01:33:34,543
She was the only person coming out of her building.

1977
01:33:34,609 --> 01:33:37,676
Diane was leaving work and she was going to

1978
01:33:37,743 --> 01:33:40,376
head downtown to look for me in the streets.

1979
01:33:40,443 --> 01:33:42,309
SPIKE: And I bet if there's a camera there,

1980
01:33:42,376 --> 01:33:46,276
-that would have been the greatest embrace in Hollywood. -MICHAEL LOMONACO:  Yes. Yes.

1981
01:33:46,343 --> 01:33:47,676
-Yes. -(SPIKE CHUCKLES)

1982
01:33:47,743 --> 01:33:51,076
I worked at Windows on the World for four years.

1983
01:33:51,143 --> 01:33:57,543
Before I started working there, Diane said to me, "Is it safe?

1984
01:33:57,609 --> 01:34:01,209
Is that building safe? Don't you remember the bombing

1985
01:34:01,276 --> 01:34:04,076
in 1993? Is that building safe?"

1986
01:34:04,143 --> 01:34:06,676
I said, "Diane, it's the safest building in America."

1987
01:34:06,743 --> 01:34:08,676
But every morning for four years,

1988
01:34:08,743 --> 01:34:10,543
and I mean, every morning,

1989
01:34:10,609 --> 01:34:14,043
as I rode two elevators, I had to take two elevators

1990
01:34:14,109 --> 01:34:15,776
to get up to the 106th floor,

1991
01:34:16,043 --> 01:34:18,243
I said the Hail Mary.

1992
01:34:18,309 --> 01:34:22,443
I prayed on the entire trip up, every...

1993
01:34:22,509 --> 01:34:24,209
every day for four years.

1994
01:34:24,276 --> 01:34:25,709
Hi, I'm Carolina Salguero.

1995
01:34:25,776 --> 01:34:28,209
And I was a photojournalist on September 11th.

1996
01:34:28,276 --> 01:34:30,209
When my father died, um,

1997
01:34:30,276 --> 01:34:32,709
in July of 2000, I kept his powerboat

1998
01:34:32,776 --> 01:34:35,376
so that I could actually photograph New York City's

1999
01:34:35,443 --> 01:34:37,776
waterfront from the water and get around by water.

2000
01:34:38,043 --> 01:34:39,776
Because if you don't have your own boat, it's really hard.

2001
01:34:40,043 --> 01:34:41,309
So I had a powerboat. So like, okay,

2002
01:34:41,376 --> 01:34:43,043
I'm getting the boat. So then we swing out

2003
01:34:43,109 --> 01:34:47,543
into the Upper Bay and I look. It was just a wall of black,

2004
01:34:47,609 --> 01:34:51,043
brown, brown, black smoke. And I see a little bitty boat,

2005
01:34:51,109 --> 01:34:53,576
which I know by contour and colors to be a police boat.

2006
01:34:53,643 --> 01:34:55,076
And I'm like... like...

2007
01:34:55,143 --> 01:34:56,743
(IMITATES FANFARE) ...like... (IMITATES BOAT MOTOR)

2008
01:34:56,809 --> 01:34:59,409
This, like, little gnat is headed toward this wall of black.

2009
01:34:59,476 --> 01:35:00,709
And I was like, "Oh my God."

2010
01:35:00,776 --> 01:35:03,209
My name is Tim Ivory. I was chief engineer

2011
01:35:03,276 --> 01:35:05,709
on fireboat  John J. Harvey on September 11th.

2012
01:35:05,776 --> 01:35:10,276
That plume of smoke and dust was really kind of cutting off Lower Manhattan.

2013
01:35:10,343 --> 01:35:12,143
And people were sort of not knowing

2014
01:35:12,209 --> 01:35:13,276
what to do with themselves,

2015
01:35:13,343 --> 01:35:14,776
and they didn't want to be there anymore.

2016
01:35:15,076 --> 01:35:16,376
My name is Jessica Dulong.

2017
01:35:16,443 --> 01:35:20,376
I'm chief engineer, retired, of fireboat  John J. Harvey,

2018
01:35:20,443 --> 01:35:22,676
and author of Dust to Deliverance:

2019
01:35:22,743 --> 01:35:25,276
Untold Stories From the Maritime Evacuation

2020
01:35:25,343 --> 01:35:26,509
on September 11th.

2021
01:35:26,576 --> 01:35:28,343
Most people were told to go north,

2022
01:35:28,409 --> 01:35:30,209
and a lot of people could go north,

2023
01:35:30,276 --> 01:35:31,409
depending on where you were.

2024
01:35:31,476 --> 01:35:33,676
But there was a whole bunch of people stuck at the tip

2025
01:35:33,743 --> 01:35:35,609
of Manhattan, and there was no way off

2026
01:35:35,676 --> 01:35:37,243
except for over the water.

2027
01:35:37,309 --> 01:35:39,176
When the towers came down and that dust plume

2028
01:35:39,243 --> 01:35:40,476
was coming towards them,

2029
01:35:40,543 --> 01:35:42,343
these people were jumping in the water.

2030
01:35:42,409 --> 01:35:44,776
HUNTLEY GILL: I'm Huntley Gill. And I was captain of this boat,

2031
01:35:45,043 --> 01:35:46,743
John J. Harvey,  on 9/11.

2032
01:35:46,809 --> 01:35:51,309
We are on  John J. Harvey, a 1931 fireboat, retired.

2033
01:35:51,376 --> 01:35:53,309
We bought the boat in 1999,

2034
01:35:53,376 --> 01:35:55,509
and she'd been retired since 1995.

2035
01:35:55,576 --> 01:35:57,543
The boat was up and running. It was in reasonably

2036
01:35:57,609 --> 01:35:59,709
good condition. One of the owners of the boat

2037
01:35:59,776 --> 01:36:03,576
had called down to the marine division.

2038
01:36:03,643 --> 01:36:06,576
We said to them, "Guys, we have one of your boats."

2039
01:36:06,643 --> 01:36:08,276
He was on the phone with a dispatcher

2040
01:36:08,343 --> 01:36:10,809
who made the executive call to say, "Yeah, by all means,

2041
01:36:11,076 --> 01:36:12,376
get the boat there." And they said,

2042
01:36:12,443 --> 01:36:16,709
"Well, you know, at this point, we have no idea what's going on.

2043
01:36:16,776 --> 01:36:18,543
Just go down there and see what can happen."

2044
01:36:18,609 --> 01:36:20,343
And that's-- that's what we did.

2045
01:36:20,409 --> 01:36:23,143
My name is Rich Naruszewicz. I was captain

2046
01:36:23,209 --> 01:36:26,676
on a high-speed ferry,  Finest, on September 11th, 2001.

2047
01:36:26,743 --> 01:36:31,243
Our route was from Highlands, New Jersey, to Manhattan.

2048
01:36:31,309 --> 01:36:33,276
On that day, we were carrying commuters.

2049
01:36:33,343 --> 01:36:36,543
So I immediately made an announcement over the PA system

2050
01:36:36,609 --> 01:36:39,043
that I was the captain,

2051
01:36:39,109 --> 01:36:41,709
you're under my jurisdiction while you're on this ferry,

2052
01:36:41,776 --> 01:36:45,609
I'm held responsible for your safety.

2053
01:36:45,676 --> 01:36:48,243
We're not going to pier-- East 34th Street,

2054
01:36:48,309 --> 01:36:49,609
we're going to Pier 11,

2055
01:36:49,676 --> 01:36:52,309
and we're gonna pick up anybody and everybody

2056
01:36:52,376 --> 01:36:53,576
who wants to evacuate.

2057
01:36:53,643 --> 01:36:55,776
(OVER LOUDSPEAKER) Do you need help? Do you need help?

2058
01:36:56,043 --> 01:36:59,676
They didn't know what hit 'em. They didn't know what happened.

2059
01:36:59,743 --> 01:37:02,043
They just knew that they had to get out.

2060
01:37:02,109 --> 01:37:04,043
They thought it was an apocalypse.

2061
01:37:04,109 --> 01:37:05,243
SPIKE: People were scared, right?

2062
01:37:05,309 --> 01:37:06,809
People were terrified, because there really was

2063
01:37:07,076 --> 01:37:08,443
no way to know what was happening next.

2064
01:37:08,509 --> 01:37:11,443
A call comes over the radio for all available boats

2065
01:37:11,509 --> 01:37:14,509
to start evacuating people from lower Manhattan.

2066
01:37:14,576 --> 01:37:17,709
Come on, guys. Everybody come in and get your ass up here now!

2067
01:37:17,776 --> 01:37:19,443
We're gonna go in, we're gonna figure it out,

2068
01:37:19,509 --> 01:37:21,709
you're gonna organize between each other.

2069
01:37:21,776 --> 01:37:23,709
The whole thing about inventing, you know, knowing

2070
01:37:23,776 --> 01:37:26,243
with what's called "local knowledge" in the mariners,

2071
01:37:26,309 --> 01:37:28,609
what boat of what size can go to what place.

2072
01:37:28,676 --> 01:37:31,076
We were tied up there and there were literally boats

2073
01:37:31,143 --> 01:37:34,176
lined up everywhere, sistered up alongside us,

2074
01:37:34,243 --> 01:37:36,643
all around us. It was almost every kind of boat

2075
01:37:36,709 --> 01:37:39,176
-you can imagine. -We went in there,

2076
01:37:39,243 --> 01:37:41,676
and it was sheer pandemonium. It was crazy.

2077
01:37:41,743 --> 01:37:44,143
There were people just rushing to get on the ferry.

2078
01:37:44,209 --> 01:37:48,209
Started going south. And we wound up in a location

2079
01:37:48,276 --> 01:37:52,776
where there was a fear of gas, a gas explosion.

2080
01:37:53,043 --> 01:37:55,376
And so they made us get on these, um, boats.

2081
01:37:55,443 --> 01:37:58,609
Ferries and all kinds are just pulling up and taking us off.

2082
01:37:58,676 --> 01:38:02,043
They saved our lives. If it wasn't for that boat

2083
01:38:02,109 --> 01:38:05,709
and yelling at us, like, "Get on the f-ing boat,"

2084
01:38:05,776 --> 01:38:09,043
I would have been on that pile looking for Brian.

2085
01:38:09,109 --> 01:38:10,543
We loaded as many of these people

2086
01:38:10,609 --> 01:38:13,443
as we could safely. I know that we overloaded.

2087
01:38:13,509 --> 01:38:16,476
SPIKE:  How many people was that, you think? Estimate.

2088
01:38:16,543 --> 01:38:18,176
Over 700.

2089
01:38:18,243 --> 01:38:22,643
The first trip, 763 people to be exact.

2090
01:38:22,709 --> 01:38:25,476
We're only allowed just over 300,

2091
01:38:25,543 --> 01:38:28,709
but I wasn't stopping them. Whoever wanted to be evacuated

2092
01:38:28,776 --> 01:38:30,609
and taken to safety, we took them.

2093
01:38:30,676 --> 01:38:32,309
EVACUEE: Save the women and children first.

2094
01:38:32,376 --> 01:38:34,176
Women left their high heels behind.

2095
01:38:34,243 --> 01:38:36,543
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

2096
01:38:36,609 --> 01:38:39,476
All along the fence, there were high heels.

2097
01:38:39,543 --> 01:38:41,376
-It was bizarre. -The waterfront was lined

2098
01:38:41,443 --> 01:38:44,276
with shoes, hundreds, if not more.

2099
01:38:44,343 --> 01:38:46,709
I just assumed people kicked them off so they could run.

2100
01:38:46,776 --> 01:38:49,076
You saw lots of high heels, things like that.

2101
01:38:49,143 --> 01:38:51,776
You had ferries who were trying to nose in,

2102
01:38:52,043 --> 01:38:55,109
which ferries don't do very well, to stem the tide.

2103
01:38:55,176 --> 01:38:57,709
I mean, it was just chaos down here.

2104
01:38:57,776 --> 01:39:00,443
The Winter Garden was completely shattered,

2105
01:39:00,509 --> 01:39:02,509
the glass of the Winter Garden was shattered.

2106
01:39:02,576 --> 01:39:06,276
The World Financial Center building on the corner there.

2107
01:39:06,343 --> 01:39:09,576
I remember the slice, it was just a steel beam

2108
01:39:09,643 --> 01:39:11,509
that had just sliced off the corner.

2109
01:39:11,576 --> 01:39:14,143
We get down to what they call South Cove,

2110
01:39:14,209 --> 01:39:17,309
which is a little spot along the, uh, the waterfront.

2111
01:39:17,376 --> 01:39:18,543
We start maneuvering in,

2112
01:39:18,609 --> 01:39:20,643
and the first problem is we have nothing to tie to.

2113
01:39:20,709 --> 01:39:22,809
There's a three- or four-knot current in the river.

2114
01:39:23,076 --> 01:39:25,309
If we're gonna get people on the boat, we need to be tied up.

2115
01:39:25,376 --> 01:39:27,543
So a gal that was with us, Pam Hepburn, said,

2116
01:39:27,609 --> 01:39:31,343
"Well, we tie to the trees." I said, "Okay."

2117
01:39:31,409 --> 01:39:33,576
So we start climbing up and we're running lines

2118
01:39:33,643 --> 01:39:36,543
across the walkway, tying to these trees.

2119
01:39:36,609 --> 01:39:38,209
And this woman from the Parks Department

2120
01:39:38,276 --> 01:39:40,343
walks up and says, "You can't do that."

2121
01:39:40,409 --> 01:39:42,409
SPIKE: Wait a minute, wait, wait.

2122
01:39:42,476 --> 01:39:46,476
September 11th, both towers coming down,

2123
01:39:46,543 --> 01:39:49,409
-and what'd she say to you? -"You can't do that."

2124
01:39:49,476 --> 01:39:52,243
-SPIKE: What'd you say? -"Call a cop."

2125
01:39:52,309 --> 01:39:53,576
(SPIKE LAUGHS)

2126
01:39:53,643 --> 01:39:56,176
At that point, the waterfront had been designed

2127
01:39:56,243 --> 01:39:59,676
for passive view, not for engaging with the water.

2128
01:39:59,743 --> 01:40:03,409
And so people trying to get over the railings

2129
01:40:03,476 --> 01:40:06,743
had to climb these railings, but the railing is faced inland.

2130
01:40:07,043 --> 01:40:10,076
So people had to, like, climb over this curve and then jump down.

2131
01:40:10,143 --> 01:40:14,343
There were also women with babies in strollers

2132
01:40:14,409 --> 01:40:16,443
who needed to get off the island.

2133
01:40:16,509 --> 01:40:19,609
So what we did is we told them to drop the babies to us.

2134
01:40:19,676 --> 01:40:22,143
-We were catching the babies. -Some parents thinking

2135
01:40:22,209 --> 01:40:24,109
about throwing their kid down to you.

2136
01:40:24,176 --> 01:40:27,076
And you gotta understand, there's a six-foot tide swing

2137
01:40:27,143 --> 01:40:28,609
in New York City.

2138
01:40:28,676 --> 01:40:31,209
And going up to that bulkhead, there's at least

2139
01:40:31,276 --> 01:40:34,209
another six feet of, you know, above you,

2140
01:40:34,276 --> 01:40:35,609
if you're at high tide.

2141
01:40:35,676 --> 01:40:38,243
If you're at low tide, it's 12 feet.

2142
01:40:38,309 --> 01:40:39,743
You're talking about people talking about

2143
01:40:39,809 --> 01:40:41,676
dropping their kids down to a fireman on a deck.

2144
01:40:41,743 --> 01:40:43,476
SPIKE: Hold up, hold up, hold up.

2145
01:40:43,543 --> 01:40:45,376
They was throwing the babies to you,

2146
01:40:45,443 --> 01:40:46,809
and you guys had to catch the babies?

2147
01:40:47,076 --> 01:40:48,176
Yes, sir.

2148
01:40:48,243 --> 01:40:50,309
SPIKE: How many feet you think was the throw?

2149
01:40:50,376 --> 01:40:54,676
Uh, it was about maybe 12 feet. We were catching the babies.

2150
01:40:54,743 --> 01:40:58,743
We had-- We had, uh, some of the commuters helping us.

2151
01:40:58,809 --> 01:41:00,476
SPIKE: So everybody had to be Willie Mays

2152
01:41:00,543 --> 01:41:01,676
not to drop a baby, right?

2153
01:41:01,743 --> 01:41:05,409
Well, we did what we did. We didn't drop any of them.

2154
01:41:05,476 --> 01:41:09,043
The shortest distance between the western border

2155
01:41:09,109 --> 01:41:13,109
of Manhattan is to New Jersey. And so you could make that trip

2156
01:41:13,176 --> 01:41:14,676
really quickly, back and forth, back and forth.

2157
01:41:14,743 --> 01:41:17,476
So I said, "Get on the boat. We're going to New Jersey."

2158
01:41:18,543 --> 01:41:20,176
"We don't want to go to New Jersey."

2159
01:41:20,243 --> 01:41:23,176
(SPIKE LAUGHS)

2160
01:41:23,243 --> 01:41:27,076
Well, this isn't the fucking subway. (LAUGHS)

2161
01:41:27,143 --> 01:41:29,509
Fine. Stay here. I don't care.

2162
01:41:29,576 --> 01:41:31,043
SPIKE: So those were New Yorkers

2163
01:41:31,109 --> 01:41:32,443
saying they didn't wanna go to New Jersey, huh?

2164
01:41:32,509 --> 01:41:34,709
Listen, I'm a New Jersey boy. I get insulted easy.

2165
01:41:34,776 --> 01:41:37,643
As soon as the last person was off, we went back

2166
01:41:37,709 --> 01:41:39,643
and got another load of maimed people.

2167
01:41:39,709 --> 01:41:42,443
SPIKE: So did you have any injured people on your boats?

2168
01:41:42,509 --> 01:41:45,043
Yeah. We had quite a few, quite a few.

2169
01:41:45,109 --> 01:41:47,176
So we're there with two priests

2170
01:41:47,243 --> 01:41:50,076
on the dock in Highlands, New Jersey.

2171
01:41:50,143 --> 01:41:52,343
I said, "Need to take those two priests with us."

2172
01:41:52,409 --> 01:41:54,643
Just in case we had to give anybody last rites.

2173
01:41:54,709 --> 01:41:58,676
-SPIKE: What happened to Brian? -So, we're on police boats

2174
01:41:58,743 --> 01:42:00,276
taking us across. And I'm like,

2175
01:42:00,343 --> 01:42:02,409
"I can't believe we left him there. We gotta go back."

2176
01:42:02,476 --> 01:42:04,343
We were upset. We don't leave a man down.

2177
01:42:04,409 --> 01:42:08,243
And the whole time-- whole time, he was on the boat with us.

2178
01:42:08,309 --> 01:42:10,076
And I look and there he is. There he is,

2179
01:42:10,143 --> 01:42:11,643
staggering on the dock.

2180
01:42:11,709 --> 01:42:14,176
I'm like, "It's him. There's no doubt. It's Brian."

2181
01:42:14,243 --> 01:42:17,043
I go over, I grab him, sat him down,

2182
01:42:17,109 --> 01:42:20,043
and I'm checking him out. And I could see in the back

2183
01:42:20,109 --> 01:42:22,776
of his head, there was a hole I could put my thumb into.

2184
01:42:23,043 --> 01:42:25,776
There were triage centers set up all along Jersey City.

2185
01:42:26,043 --> 01:42:29,276
The EMTs and EMS workers could triage who needed

2186
01:42:29,343 --> 01:42:30,376
what kind of care and when.

2187
01:42:30,443 --> 01:42:32,209
SPIKE: How many trips did you make?

2188
01:42:32,276 --> 01:42:33,776
-Uh, nine. -SPIKE: Nine?

2189
01:42:34,043 --> 01:42:38,209
Nine round trips, and I lost count at over 4,000 people

2190
01:42:38,276 --> 01:42:41,409
that we rescued just on my boat going back.

2191
01:42:41,476 --> 01:42:44,176
JESSICA:  It really looks like it's at least 400,000,

2192
01:42:44,243 --> 01:42:47,076
if not 500,000 people, who were moved by boat that day.

2193
01:42:47,143 --> 01:42:48,576
-SPIKE:  500,000 people? -JESSICA:  Yeah.

2194
01:42:48,643 --> 01:42:51,276
Nearly half a million people were transported

2195
01:42:51,343 --> 01:42:52,509
off the island by boat.

2196
01:42:52,576 --> 01:42:54,709
Okay, let's go. Just remain calm!

2197
01:42:55,509 --> 01:42:56,609
(COUGHING)

2198
01:42:56,676 --> 01:42:59,376
All the way to the back, please. All the way to the back.

2199
01:42:59,443 --> 01:43:04,509
SPIKE:  And I never ever heard about the evacuation.

2200
01:43:04,576 --> 01:43:08,076
And when I read that more people evacuated from the tip

2201
01:43:08,143 --> 01:43:12,109
of Manhattan than during Dunkirk in World War II.

2202
01:43:15,276 --> 01:43:16,376
I never heard about it.

2203
01:43:16,443 --> 01:43:19,443
It never ceases to amaze me how few people know

2204
01:43:19,509 --> 01:43:23,109
about the maritime evacuation on September 11th and...

2205
01:43:23,176 --> 01:43:29,176
and how few realize that this was a larger, faster,

2206
01:43:29,243 --> 01:43:31,743
more involved, with more individual parties,

2207
01:43:31,809 --> 01:43:34,276
evacuation than what happened in Dunkirk.

2208
01:43:34,343 --> 01:43:36,743
-SPIKE: World War II, Dunkirk? -World War II, Dunkirk.

2209
01:43:36,809 --> 01:43:38,309
SPIKE: Christopher Nolan,  Dunkirk?

2210
01:43:38,376 --> 01:43:39,743
JESSICA: Yes, Christopher Nolan,  Dunkirk.

2211
01:43:39,809 --> 01:43:41,409
People on boats were not--

2212
01:43:41,476 --> 01:43:43,476
they weren't second guessing.

2213
01:43:43,543 --> 01:43:45,809
You know, like, the Staten Island Ferry,

2214
01:43:46,076 --> 01:43:48,676
imagine that captain. Nobody knows what the hell

2215
01:43:48,743 --> 01:43:51,276
is going on down here, right? We don't know

2216
01:43:51,343 --> 01:43:54,543
if this is the beginning of more attacks.

2217
01:43:54,609 --> 01:43:57,643
And that ferry emptied off passengers and came back.

2218
01:43:57,709 --> 01:44:00,309
The ferry captain I spoke with talked about feeling like

2219
01:44:00,376 --> 01:44:02,243
he was running a big orange target.

2220
01:44:02,309 --> 01:44:05,176
There were mariners who were transporting supplies

2221
01:44:05,243 --> 01:44:09,243
and personnel onto the island. There was no hard stop.

2222
01:44:09,309 --> 01:44:11,076
SPIKE:  How long were you out here?

2223
01:44:11,143 --> 01:44:16,076
Uh, we got there roughly, I think around 9:30,

2224
01:44:16,143 --> 01:44:17,776
ten o'clock in the morning. And we were there

2225
01:44:18,043 --> 01:44:21,209
-until Friday afternoon. -We're now at war.

2226
01:44:21,276 --> 01:44:25,576
It's the greatest war attack since 1812,

2227
01:44:25,643 --> 01:44:27,576
when the White House was attacked by the British.

2228
01:44:27,643 --> 01:44:29,243
TOM BROKAW:  This is the most serious attack

2229
01:44:29,309 --> 01:44:31,509
on the United States in more than a hundred years.

2230
01:44:31,576 --> 01:44:33,743
Not since the War of 1812, and certainly the damage

2231
01:44:33,809 --> 01:44:35,743
that we did to ourselves during the Civil War,

2232
01:44:35,809 --> 01:44:38,809
has this country suffered this kind of damage

2233
01:44:39,076 --> 01:44:41,443
within its interior. Obviously Pearl Harbor,

2234
01:44:41,509 --> 01:44:45,309
which triggered World War II was a horrific event as well,

2235
01:44:45,376 --> 01:44:49,143
but there has never been an event to match the magnitude

2236
01:44:49,209 --> 01:44:51,709
of this one in which everything has been shut down

2237
01:44:51,776 --> 01:44:54,176
in terms of air traffic, the national Capitol

2238
01:44:54,243 --> 01:44:55,676
has been immobilized, the White House,

2239
01:44:55,743 --> 01:44:57,676
State Department, Pentagon has been attacked.

2240
01:44:57,743 --> 01:45:00,243
The financial markets have been shut down.

2241
01:45:00,309 --> 01:45:03,443
There's an untold loss of life here in Manhattan.

2242
01:45:03,509 --> 01:45:07,209
In New York itself, there was no Republican,

2243
01:45:07,276 --> 01:45:11,209
Democrat, Black, white, young, old, Christian, Jew.

2244
01:45:11,276 --> 01:45:12,376
We had all been attacked.

2245
01:45:13,609 --> 01:45:15,243
You felt attacked.

2246
01:45:16,309 --> 01:45:18,076
You felt personally, personally attacked.

2247
01:45:18,143 --> 01:45:21,376
I think that that was true throughout the country,

2248
01:45:21,443 --> 01:45:24,409
that people felt personally like they attacked us.

2249
01:45:26,076 --> 01:45:29,343
But I think in New York, that was hyper.

2250
01:45:29,409 --> 01:45:31,309
Everyone at this time has 1010 WINS on.

2251
01:45:31,376 --> 01:45:35,743
-ANNOUNCER: (OVER RADIO) Breaking news now on 1010 WINS. -RALPH HOWARD:  I'm Ralph Howard

2252
01:45:35,809 --> 01:45:38,343
with our team of reporters in studio and in the field today.

2253
01:45:38,409 --> 01:45:41,809
I put on my radio, 1010 WINS, and just listened to the action.

2254
01:45:42,076 --> 01:45:44,243
And everyone has it on at the same time.

2255
01:45:44,309 --> 01:45:46,743
So it's a stereo sound of 1010 WINS.

2256
01:45:46,809 --> 01:45:50,176
LARRY MULLINS:  Also, warnings. Were there any warnings?

2257
01:45:50,243 --> 01:45:52,443
Now, nobody from the federal government

2258
01:45:52,509 --> 01:45:54,276
-has addressed that so far. -RALPH:  Well, actually,

2259
01:45:54,343 --> 01:45:56,243
I'll say this, Larry, the White House did address it.

2260
01:45:56,309 --> 01:45:58,276
They were asked about it, and they said there was no warning.

2261
01:45:58,343 --> 01:46:00,709
-They had no warnings. -LARRY:  However, if you remember

2262
01:46:00,776 --> 01:46:05,209
just a few days ago, they put out a warning in Japan

2263
01:46:05,276 --> 01:46:07,509
and South Korea, warning Americans

2264
01:46:07,576 --> 01:46:11,076
that they might be targets of some sort of terrorist act.

2265
01:46:11,143 --> 01:46:12,109
There was a warning for this?

2266
01:46:12,176 --> 01:46:13,376
-LISTENTER: Yes. -No, I didn't hear that.

2267
01:46:13,443 --> 01:46:15,209
RALPH:  And you talked about the knives and stuff.

2268
01:46:15,276 --> 01:46:17,809
I suppose, if you are about to pull something as evil as this,

2269
01:46:18,076 --> 01:46:20,243
that somehow getting around an airport security guard,

2270
01:46:20,309 --> 01:46:22,376
and you know what that can be like at an airport,

2271
01:46:22,443 --> 01:46:23,809
it might not be so difficult.

2272
01:46:24,076 --> 01:46:27,576
It's a really, really negative moment in New York City,

2273
01:46:27,643 --> 01:46:30,376
and the wonderful thing about it though,

2274
01:46:30,443 --> 01:46:33,509
is that you've never seen a more united,

2275
01:46:33,576 --> 01:46:36,109
diverse group of people. We're all living out

2276
01:46:36,176 --> 01:46:39,276
that sorrow together. A wonderful moment

2277
01:46:39,343 --> 01:46:41,776
in my understanding of New York City and unity

2278
01:46:42,043 --> 01:46:44,243
and seeing people together on the street.

2279
01:46:44,309 --> 01:46:47,176
If I could describe New York in one word,

2280
01:46:47,243 --> 01:46:48,309
I could say, "together."

2281
01:46:48,376 --> 01:46:53,109
-(SIRENS WAILING) -(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)

2282
01:47:08,309 --> 01:47:10,743
You're gonna go down here. Okay, I know.

2283
01:47:10,809 --> 01:47:13,743
-Where do you want to go, dear? -My family.

2284
01:47:13,809 --> 01:47:16,309
My name is Reverend Andrea Raynor.

2285
01:47:16,376 --> 01:47:19,509
I'm a United Methodist minister who served as a chaplain

2286
01:47:19,576 --> 01:47:22,643
to the morgue at ground zero. About noon began the eerie quiet

2287
01:47:22,709 --> 01:47:25,576
of just waiting. Waiting, waiting,

2288
01:47:25,643 --> 01:47:28,343
waiting for injured who never came.

2289
01:47:28,409 --> 01:47:31,776
MOLLY FALCONER: Saint Vincent Hospital basically looks like it is under siege.

2290
01:47:32,043 --> 01:47:35,143
Right now, there are hospital beds lined up on the street.

2291
01:47:35,209 --> 01:47:37,376
GEORGE PATAKI:  Outside, they had gurneys lined up.

2292
01:47:37,443 --> 01:47:39,243
And they had doctors and nurses

2293
01:47:39,309 --> 01:47:42,409
all ready for the injured to come from the towers.

2294
01:47:42,476 --> 01:47:44,776
Basically, either you got out of the building...

2295
01:47:45,076 --> 01:47:47,043
Or you died when the towers came down.

2296
01:47:47,109 --> 01:47:48,509
Not that many people who were injured

2297
01:47:48,576 --> 01:47:51,143
-and wound up hospitalized. -The firefighters started

2298
01:47:51,209 --> 01:47:53,676
-to come back, one by one. -JULES: One by one. Mm-hmm.

2299
01:47:53,743 --> 01:47:56,143
GÉDÉON:  One by one, they come back from the fire,

2300
01:47:56,209 --> 01:47:58,043
and you should have seen their face.

2301
01:47:58,109 --> 01:48:01,209
They are livid, they're destroyed.

2302
01:48:01,276 --> 01:48:04,076
Most of them are puking on the sidewalk,

2303
01:48:04,143 --> 01:48:07,809
in the garbage can. Half of them are hurt,

2304
01:48:08,076 --> 01:48:10,776
whether it's on the head, in the eyes,

2305
01:48:11,043 --> 01:48:12,809
they can't breathe normally.

2306
01:48:16,243 --> 01:48:17,576
I thought you guys were dead.

2307
01:48:17,643 --> 01:48:20,409
Not the only one. I thought I was dead.

2308
01:48:24,243 --> 01:48:26,676
My name is Waris Ahluwalia.

2309
01:48:26,743 --> 01:48:30,643
I'm an artist, actor, designer, and lover.

2310
01:48:30,709 --> 01:48:34,509
All I remember is that day, everyone on the streets,

2311
01:48:34,576 --> 01:48:39,209
walking around in a state of shock and disbelief.

2312
01:48:39,276 --> 01:48:42,509
Not-- Just people on the street, people walking around,

2313
01:48:42,576 --> 01:48:45,576
seeing friends and neighbors and...

2314
01:48:45,643 --> 01:48:49,476
just no one knowing what was going on.

2315
01:48:49,543 --> 01:48:51,576
It was like time had stopped.

2316
01:48:51,643 --> 01:48:54,643
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

2317
01:49:32,376 --> 01:49:35,143
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

2318
01:50:45,409 --> 01:50:48,443
-(HORN BEEPS) -(SIRENS HUM)

2319
01:50:51,076 --> 01:50:53,109
We saw all of these pockets of fire.

2320
01:50:53,176 --> 01:50:56,243
We saw buildings on fire, cars on fire,

2321
01:50:56,309 --> 01:50:59,709
and we just thought to try and see if we could put them out.

2322
01:50:59,776 --> 01:51:02,243
Tried to turn on hydrants, no water.

2323
01:51:02,309 --> 01:51:04,209
Because when the towers fell down,

2324
01:51:04,276 --> 01:51:07,576
they knocked out the water main. So the big trucks

2325
01:51:07,643 --> 01:51:10,743
that are supposed to be spitting thousands of gallons of water

2326
01:51:10,809 --> 01:51:13,509
a minute, they were going... (SPLUTTERING)

2327
01:51:13,576 --> 01:51:17,476
And we're passing ground zero, right?

2328
01:51:18,576 --> 01:51:20,576
Up there's a guy named Tom Whyte.

2329
01:51:20,643 --> 01:51:23,243
My name is Tom Whyte. I'm a retired captain

2330
01:51:23,309 --> 01:51:24,643
of the New York City Fire Department.

2331
01:51:24,709 --> 01:51:26,376
I didn't know who these guys were.

2332
01:51:26,443 --> 01:51:29,043
All I knew, it was one of our old, retired boats.

2333
01:51:29,109 --> 01:51:32,209
And he watches this old New York City fireboat go by.

2334
01:51:32,276 --> 01:51:33,743
Asked the pilot, "Radio these guys,

2335
01:51:33,809 --> 01:51:35,343
see if they can come in and help."

2336
01:51:35,409 --> 01:51:37,743
And captain Tommy Whyte called us on the radio and said,

2337
01:51:37,809 --> 01:51:41,076
"Guys, don't waste your time ferrying people, you know,

2338
01:51:41,143 --> 01:51:42,343
are you willing to pump water?"

2339
01:51:42,409 --> 01:51:44,143
So, the beauty of the fireboat

2340
01:51:44,209 --> 01:51:46,643
is an inexhaustible supply of water.

2341
01:51:46,709 --> 01:51:49,109
And the boat was capable of pumping

2342
01:51:49,176 --> 01:51:51,409
almost as well as it could back in 1931

2343
01:51:51,476 --> 01:51:53,076
when it was built.

2344
01:51:53,143 --> 01:51:54,776
I said, "Do you have any equipment on board?"

2345
01:51:55,043 --> 01:51:56,809
Really, the answer was no.

2346
01:51:57,076 --> 01:51:59,409
They-- that boat would have been out of service

2347
01:51:59,476 --> 01:52:01,109
for firefighting for many years.

2348
01:52:01,176 --> 01:52:03,576
When we were setting up, anybody that was walking

2349
01:52:03,643 --> 01:52:06,043
on the street was humping hose back to the boat.

2350
01:52:06,109 --> 01:52:08,476
They were pulling hose off of fire trucks

2351
01:52:08,543 --> 01:52:10,543
that were damaged from the fallout.

2352
01:52:10,609 --> 01:52:13,509
So we just tried to do the best that we could,

2353
01:52:13,576 --> 01:52:18,076
so we gathered hose lines from all the engines

2354
01:52:18,143 --> 01:52:19,509
and connected them all together

2355
01:52:19,576 --> 01:52:22,276
and ran them to the river to put the fires out.

2356
01:52:22,343 --> 01:52:23,709
Pretty soon, we're pumping water.

2357
01:52:23,776 --> 01:52:27,643
I've got at the time, about seven lines going inland.

2358
01:52:27,709 --> 01:52:30,709
All along, we were pumping into bombed-out equipment,

2359
01:52:30,776 --> 01:52:33,376
and they were branching off from there, taking care of

2360
01:52:33,443 --> 01:52:35,609
whatever surface fires they were dealing with.

2361
01:52:35,676 --> 01:52:38,576
It was a few hours later that I got a first chance

2362
01:52:38,643 --> 01:52:41,676
to walk inland, that was coming from us.

2363
01:52:41,743 --> 01:52:45,076
That and whatever else, I mean, we were the closest water

2364
01:52:45,143 --> 01:52:46,376
to the scene.

2365
01:52:48,776 --> 01:52:51,243
(DISTANT SIRENS WAILING)

2366
01:52:56,243 --> 01:52:59,043
(ALARM RINGING)

2367
01:52:59,743 --> 01:53:01,609
(CAR HORN BEEPING)

2368
01:53:03,076 --> 01:53:05,276
I think you should leave. Everybody else has gone.

2369
01:53:05,343 --> 01:53:06,643
-Nobody up on 23rd? -No.

2370
01:53:06,709 --> 01:53:08,176
They evacuated everybody down.

2371
01:53:08,243 --> 01:53:11,709
All right. They probably went to the bus. Thanks, Jeff.

2372
01:53:11,776 --> 01:53:13,609
OFFICER: Be careful, 'cause they said when the building,

2373
01:53:13,676 --> 01:53:16,143
if it does drop, it's gonna come in this direction.

2374
01:53:16,209 --> 01:53:18,409
-CAMERAPERSON: Thanks. You be safe too, all right? -OFFICER: Okay.

2375
01:53:18,476 --> 01:53:20,343
We're looking for people, we're looking for people,

2376
01:53:20,409 --> 01:53:23,343
and at 5:20 in the afternoon, we hear a noise.

2377
01:53:23,409 --> 01:53:26,476
(CROWD CLAMORING INDISTINCLTY)

2378
01:53:26,543 --> 01:53:29,743
(RUMBLING)

2379
01:53:29,809 --> 01:53:32,676
We ran across the West Side Highway

2380
01:53:32,743 --> 01:53:35,243
and into a building right across on the other side,

2381
01:53:35,309 --> 01:53:37,076
over by the World Financial Center,

2382
01:53:37,143 --> 01:53:38,609
and we got out of that.

2383
01:53:38,676 --> 01:53:41,709
And none of the people that were with me got injured.

2384
01:53:41,776 --> 01:53:45,143
♪ (MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

2385
01:54:16,276 --> 01:54:19,643
It was really weird. I mean, everything was very quiet.

2386
01:54:21,176 --> 01:54:23,476
New York City was so damn quiet.

2387
01:54:23,543 --> 01:54:26,176
Down there, there was no birds, there was nothing left.

2388
01:54:26,243 --> 01:54:27,676
People had nothing to say.

2389
01:54:27,743 --> 01:54:30,743
Before I went down to the World Trade Center,

2390
01:54:30,809 --> 01:54:35,076
I mean, the-- Sixth Avenue was just packed with trucks and cars.

2391
01:54:35,143 --> 01:54:37,309
By the time I got back up there,

2392
01:54:37,376 --> 01:54:38,609
there was nothing.

2393
01:54:42,743 --> 01:54:45,109
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

2394
01:55:27,243 --> 01:55:32,409
This is gonna be the first sunset without the towers.

2395
01:55:32,476 --> 01:55:35,776
-SPIKE:  You thought that in your mind? -KERWIN DEVONISH:  Yeah. Yeah.

2396
01:55:45,476 --> 01:55:47,809
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

2397
01:55:53,476 --> 01:55:56,309
♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪