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MSNBC, ATTACK
ON AMERICA: FOURTH HIJACKED PLANE CRASHED IN PENNSYLVANIA: Policewoman:
Get out of the area. The second tower is coming down.
Reporter: Did
they tell you the second tower is coming down?
Policewoman:
Yes, it’s about to come down.
Reporter: At 10:30
I tried to leave the building but as soon as I got outside, I heard a
second explosion, and another rumble, and more smoke and more dust. I
ran inside the building, the chandeliers shook, and again black smoke
filled the air. Within another 5 minutes we were covered again with more
silt and more dust. Then a fire marshal came in and said we had to
leave, because if there was a third explosion, this building might not
last.
FOX NEWS ALERT.
10:38 A: 4TH EXPLOSION ROCKS REMAINS OF WORLD TRADE CTR: We just saw
that as well the second tower, the only standing tower no. 1, we just
saw some kind of explosion, and a lot of smoke come out of the top of
the tower, and then it collapsed down onto the streets below.
FOX NEWS ALERT:
David Lee, what can you tell us?
David Lee: John, a few seconds ago there was a huge explosion and it
appears right now the second world trade tower has just collapsed.
One eyewitness was
standing among a crowd of people on Church Street, 2-1/2 blocks from the
South Tower, when he saw a number of brief light sources being emitted
from inside the building between floors 10 and 15. He saw about six of
these flashes, accompanied by a crackling sound, before the tower
collapsed.
Jenny Carr was
attending a business meeting on the 36th floor at 1 Leary Plaza, across
the street from the World Trade Center, and caught the first and second
planes on tape. In the first recording, two distinct explosions can be
heard. So what happened in the North Tower?
Ask Willy
Rodriguez. Willy, a janitor who worked in the World Trade Center for 20
years, was in sublevel 1 when the North Tower was hit.
Willy Rodriguez:
And all of a sudden we hear ‘BOOM’! And I thought it was a generator
that blew up in the basement. And I said to myself, “Oh my God, it’s a
generator.” And I was gonna verbalize it when I finished saying that in
my mind, then ‘BOOM’, right on top, pretty far away. So there was a
difference of coming from the basement, and coming from the top. And
everybody started screaming. And a person comes running into the office
saying, “Explosion, explosion, explosion.” He got his hands extended,
and all the skin was pulled from under his arm, all the way to the top
of the fingertips. It was hanging from both arms. Hanging and hanging.
And then I looked at his face, and he was missing parts on his face, and
I say, “What happened? What happened?” And he say, “The elevators, the
elevators!” And that’s something I didn’t understand, so I figured It
was probably a generator on the elevators. And I say, “Don’t move!,”
because I was going to pick up the phone and call EMS, the Emergency
Services Unit that was working in the South Tower, and they are pretty
fast to answer those kind of calls, so when I went to pick up the phone,
another explosion. And everything shake, and it was so hard that I
thought it was an earthquake, ‘cause the sense of everything moving, I
thought, “Everybody get under your doorframes.” But then I said, “No,
no, I heard explosions. Everybody out, everybody out.” So I started
pushing everybody toward the loading dock, from the loading dock, and I
took the guy, his name was Felipe David, he’s a guy from Honduras, that
I did not know worked for Adamark [Adam Ark; Adam’s Mark] Beverage
Supply Company, putting all the beverage in the vending machines, and he
was actually filling up his cart and doing the inventory, to actually go
to the different vending machines and fill it up, and apparently he was
in front of one of the doors, and fire started coming from all over
after the explosion, and all his skin was burning when he put his hands
in front of his face, and that’s how his skin got pulled over from the
heat. And so I said, “No, come on. Let’s go.” I put his arm around my
shoulder and started taking him outside the building until I saw an
ambulance, and put him inside the ambulance.”
Reporter: William, how many explosions did you hear total? Too
many to count?
Willy Rodriguez: Too many. There were many explosions, and when I
actually talk about those explosions, they said, “There were so many
kitchens in the building. And they have probably those gas canisters.”
And I say, “I don’t believe that because the building was a Class A
building, there are very strict guidelines of what you can put in a
kitchen. And I really doubt it was gas.” And also there is evidence that
the building had a very huge quantity of diesel fuel storage on the
basement. Why? Because they have the mechanical room. The mechanical
room needed, supposedly, some of that fuel to process their machine, the
machinery that they have in the basement. So there was a lot of
misconceptions of what happened that day in terms of the explosion. But
up to today, I haven’t received an actual explanation about the
different explosions that I hear on the upper floors, and all the way to
the top.
The windows in the
lobby of the North Tower were blown out, and marble panels were blown
off of the walls. This was brushed off as damage from a raging fireball
that went barreling down the elevator shafts.
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