by Nonny » Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:45 am
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/abc911.htm">emperors-clothes.com/9-11...abc911.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Interesting comment by NANCE regarding "The last explosion was at the bottom of the building"<br>Time? -- just before bush speaks.<br><br>________________________<br><br>NANCE: Peter, one of the difficulties they're going to face, as you can glean from this picture here, is the people who are trapped and need to be rescued are on the upper floors, but you see the plume of smoke covers the roof. The last explosion was at the bottom of the building and the smoke rose up but they were able to make a series of daring rescues by landing, and they've trained for this and retrained landing police helicopters on the roofs of the twin towers and pulling people out. It's going to be very difficult, since the roofs are now enveloped in smoke, for the police helicopters, which are arriving at a landing zone now just below the World Trade Center, to be able to get up there till that smoke dissipates. And that's where they had expected to pull a lot of people out this time because they had so much success the last time. <br><br>JENNINGS: Similarly, John, if you look at the two buildings, it does appear, at least in the northern tower there, or the left tower as you see it on the screen, below the incident, the building at least looks like on the outside reasonably secure and people will have a long, horrendous, terrifying walk down in a darkened building, but at least will be able to get out on the ground. <br><br>By the way, Claire Shipman--ABC's Claire Shipman just called in. She's been checking with the FBI. She also says that the FBI had no warning whatsoever. Their crisis management operation in Washington is in place in conjunction with the Federal Aviation Administration. They're all now, which makes perfect sense, focusing on the recovery of survivors. The New York Stock Exchange has--has delayed indefinitely its opening today. This--this will just have not only an extraordinary effect on the national psyche, one surmises, dissimilar perhaps, but--but from what happened in Oklahoma City, but a very clear reminder to those of us in the United States that terrorism of a huge magnitude which we're somewhat more accustomed to in the Middle East and in Africa, given the attacks on the US embassies a couple of summers ago, but a reminder, again, that as far as international terrorism is concerned and people's anger and even desperation on this occasion, that the United States is going to find itself manifest here on US soil. <br><br>John, this--here's the president now in--in Florida. I wonder if everybody knows there what's going on. We'll listen. <br><br>President GEORGE W. BUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Secretary Rod Pace and the lieutenant governor will take the podium and discuss education. I do want to thank the folks here at--at the Booker Elementary School for their hospitality. <br><br>Today, we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. I have spoken to the vice president, to the governor of New York, to the director of the FBI, and have ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act. Terrorism against our nation will not stand. And now if you'd join me in a moment of silence. (Bows head) May God bless the victims, their families and America. Thank you very much. <br> <p></p><i></i>
