Video: 9/11, 8 a.m.
posted at 10:53 am on September 4, 2007 by Allahpundit
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An odd but affecting clip from LiveLeak of what the world was busying itself with that morning, 46 minutes before impact. Flight 11 had just lifted off as this footage was airing.
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Everytime I see the Twin Towers, in a clip like this, or in a movie or something, I ache that they’re not there anymore.
Never forget.
techno_barbarian on September 4, 2007 at 11:00 AM
You’re not alone. I too feel sadness in my heart and more than just a little bit of anger to this day.
Yakko77 on September 4, 2007 at 11:04 AM
It’s sobering perspective anytime, but why link to it today instead of next Tuesday, the actual anniversary?
Blacklake on September 4, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Why not? There’ll be other stuff to link then.
Allahpundit on September 4, 2007 at 11:06 AM
The calm before the storm.
aunursa on September 4, 2007 at 11:07 AM
I’ll bet everyone on this board remembers where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the first plane hitting the first tower. I was at home, getting ready to come into work, listening to the radio. The morning crew at KLBJ Radio handled the events beautifully. I remember how fast it became clear that it was a terrorist attack, and the rage, disbelief, numbness, all the things I was feeling. Oh, I will never forget.
RushBaby on September 4, 2007 at 11:12 AM
I don’t understand how some can deny the changing influence of that day.
Speakup on September 4, 2007 at 11:12 AM
It makes my stomach turn. Everything’s changed.
Drum on September 4, 2007 at 11:18 AM
Yes, the last part of the piece was striking. The view of the skyline and the majestic towers …
words don’t really cut it anymore
Lord Nazh on September 4, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Some found their courage, some came face-to-face with their weakness.
JiangxiDad on September 4, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Had just gotten off the bus and was walking down Libery Street towards the World Financial center.
Passed the 10-10 firehouse on Liberty, just like any other day. I often wonder who I saw there that didn’t make it.
thebrokenchair on September 4, 2007 at 11:29 AM
Where I work is on the flight path to our airport and every time I see a plane coming in for a landing I think of our fellow Americans who saw those planes coming into the Twin Towers. It still breaks my heart 6 years later.
KelliD on September 4, 2007 at 11:32 AM
Freaky Deaky man.
Labamigo on September 4, 2007 at 11:33 AM
and just this morning a local radio station was discussing that NYT article about whether we’re suffering from 9/11 fatigue. makes me mad that there are people who just want to forget and go about their lives as if that day had never happened. these are the people that make such an event more likely to occur again.
mfnorman on September 4, 2007 at 11:34 AM
last year MSNBC aired the entire morning of 9/11 during their fifth anniversay observance. i stuck a tape in the VCR and recorded as much of it as possible. it’s a day i never want to forget.
mfnorman on September 4, 2007 at 11:36 AM
I always agree with the sentiment of “Never Forget” but I often add, “Never Forgive” as an additional motivator.
We have a duty to the victims to never forget until every last Islamists is dead or captured and even then it should never be forgotten.
Yakko77 on September 4, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Sheep, wolves and sheepdogs.
flipflop on September 4, 2007 at 11:44 AM
I remembered watching that clip that today is just like that day, weatherwise. It’s a clear blue cloudless sky here in Maryland. And I live (and work) under a BWI approach path.
Thanks for the cold chill down my spine AP. Now lunch doesn’t seem so appetizing….
JohnnyD on September 4, 2007 at 11:45 AM
Yes, indeed, a duty to the victims, but also a duty to our children to make sure they get to live in a USA that is as good or better than the one we grew up in.
reine.de.tout on September 4, 2007 at 11:46 AM
I wish I could have seen a broadcast leading up to the moment on that day, but I was in route to El Segundo from Pomona to go to work as a civilian on the LA Air Force base. When I arrived, the mobilization had already begun.
ackrite55 on September 4, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Fatigued from what? The media has all but embargoed showing the film reels, people aren’t fatigued at all, many have forgotten because the media wants them to forget.
Bad Candy on September 4, 2007 at 11:53 AM
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
Thank God for our heroes.
View a tribute to our fallen. We must never forget! We must never forgive!
Dersu on September 4, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Its hard to believe that in just a moment the world changed. Literally out of the clear blue sky.
elBarto on September 4, 2007 at 11:54 AM
I didn’t see one, but I heard one. I was waking up for class when it was just starting to be reported on the radio. The stations hadn’t switched to news networks yet, and two DJs were talking about a plane hitting the Pentagon in what seemed like a joke.
I remember sensing that they didn’t believe it either. Hearing it while half asleep, I wasn’t sure it was true until the radio took a somber tone and classmates with relatives in New York confirmed the worst.
Esthier on September 4, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Filed for next Tuesday.
Thanks.
steveegg on September 4, 2007 at 12:02 PM
I live right across the water from Logan Airport. I dropped my son off at school and took a walk on that beautiful September morning. After, when I returned home I usually turn the news on,but that was the only day I didn’t. I still don’t know why. I will never forget. Ever.
lilyjac on September 4, 2007 at 12:09 PM
9/11/2001 – The day I switched from CNN to FOX. Aaron Brown lamely suggesting pilot error and magnetic disturbances even after the second tower was hit had everything to do with it.
Makes you sick, doesn’t it? To this day, the VERY FIRST thing I do in the morning is turn on the tube. If I see a commercial or Paris Hilton, I assume we’re relatively safe.
If 9/11 didn’t wake you up, nothing will.
IrishEi on September 4, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Wow, what a thought provoking clip. Thanks AP. Makes me think back to what I was doing that morning and what I thought was important at the time. After the initial shock, important, just didn’t seem so important anymore.
conservnut on September 4, 2007 at 12:20 PM
I would love to hear the standard BDS response to the section of that clip in which the report leads in with, “For the second time in two weeks the U.S. has lost an unmanned spy plane over Iraq. Iraq claims it shot down the remote controlled Predator aircraft near Basara, in the Southern No-Fly Zone.”
12thman on September 4, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Wait…not a single mention of Gary Condit in that clip. Wasn’t he and the Chandra Levy disappearence the “big story”?
JetBoy on September 4, 2007 at 12:40 PM
I hate to sound dumb, but can someone please tell me where the LiveLeak video is? The link takes me to a Wikipedia entry, with hundreds of links in it. ???
MsUnderestimated on September 4, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Yeah, I no longer complain about slow news days anymore since 9/11. Too often a “busy” news day means too many innocent people have died a horrible and violent death.
Yakko77 on September 4, 2007 at 12:47 PM
MSUnderestimated:
It’s embeded in the post but here’s a link to the video on the LiveLeak page.
12thman on September 4, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Eerie! But thanks for featuring it. Chandry Levy and Bush’s speech (late August I think) about federal funding for stem cell research were what people were talking about then.
Still get a little superstitious when the news cycle is slow and a missing person story sucking up all the air time.
Bradky on September 4, 2007 at 12:57 PM
The truth is that it didn’t take people long at all to get ‘fatigued’ (and by that, I mean bored with the subject and wanting to move on).
I was living in NY at the time attending NYU. My dorm was 4 blocks away from the WTC.
It happened on Tuesday…on Thursday Giuliani said that we should all try to get back to normal….on Friday I was back in classes.
In one of my classes, there was a girl whose mother had lived in Israel for a few years. This girl kept rolling her eyes at the way everyone was acting. “In Israel, stuff gets blown up all the time, they clean it up, and life goes on. No one gets all upset like this.”
She felt soooo smug that she was already ‘over it’. I explained to her (in the politest terms that I could) that I have no intention of ever being so used to terrorism that I can be over it in a few hours.
JadeNYU on September 4, 2007 at 1:19 PM
I agree. My husband and I rewatched Flight 93 last night on A & E. It was painful, but we wanted to remember ordinary people showing extraordinary valor.
I hear people sayin’. We Don’t need this war.
I say there’s some things worth fightin’ for.
What about our freedom, and this piece of ground?
We didn’t get to keep ‘em by backin’ down.
They say we don’t realize the mess we’re gettin’ in
Before you start preachin’ let me ask you this my friend.
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten, when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside goin through a livin hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
You took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it’s too disturbin for you and me
It’ll just breed anger is what the experts say
If it was up to me I’d show it everyday
Some say this country just out lookin’ for a fight
Well after 9/11 man I’d have to say right.
Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell
We had neighbors still inside goin’ through a livin’ hell
And we vow to get the ones behind Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
I’ve been there with the soldiers
Who’ve gone away to war
you can bet they remember just what they’re fightin’ for
Have you forgotten
All the people killed
Yes some went down like heroes
In that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten
About our Pentagon
All the loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don’t you tell me not to worry ’bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?!
~Darryl Worley
INC on September 4, 2007 at 1:26 PM
Its hard to remember what it was like before.
July 28th 2001 – Boarded flight from Inchon to New York. Began Terminal Leave from Army.
August 4th 2001 – Attended Best Friend’s wedding.
August 7th 2001 – Released from Active Duty.
August 15th 2001 – 5 Day Cruise to Mexico
September 11th 2001 – Donated Blood. Went to church.
October 2001 – Attended Best Friends Memorial Service (no remains found).
August 2003 – Involuntarily Reassigned from IRR.
January 2004 – Mobilized and Deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom(Kuwait).
BohicaTwentyTwo on September 4, 2007 at 1:27 PM
A friend and I were at our local antiques shop. The owner had the radio on low. I couldn’t hear what the radio announcer was saying but I could tell by the sound of her voice that someone was very wrong, so I interrupted my friend’s conversation and asked the owner to turn up the volume.
It was a terrible shock, so hard to believe. I remember how upset everyone was in my neighbourhood (here in Canada).
At home, of course, the TV was turned on until my young child got home from school. I tried to shield her from the horrible details but other kids were talking about it. She said something like, I hope such-and-such didn’t happen, and I reassured her that, whatever happened to their bodies, the people were already dead and couldn’t feel any more pain.
I will never forget.
Josephine on September 4, 2007 at 1:29 PM
simp (sleep is my friend — I previewed and still missed it)
Sorry, I meant something was very wrong, not someone.
Josephine on September 4, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Okay, one last time.
simf
I’m going to take a nap now. No more posting.
Josephine on September 4, 2007 at 1:31 PM
The first thing I saw that day was the tower burning. My family was visiting my folks in Vegas, and the first thing I thought was that Bob Stupak’s Vegas World was on fire. Took me a couple of seconds to realize it was the World Trade Center. Pretty sure I saw the second plane hit, but I may have been watching a replay of the first one.
We were supposed to fly home on the 12th. Didn’t get home until the 17th.
Krydor on September 4, 2007 at 1:32 PM
I had taken the day off work.
My mom called and woke me up.
I watched the second plane hit.
It was unreal.
One of my best friends worked in the building.
Her son wasn’t feeling well, so she worked from home.
She was on a conference call with her co-workers when the building was hit. They never got out.
Those weren’t just buildings and planes. They were people.
_Jon on September 4, 2007 at 1:40 PM
I live in Staten Island – a ferry ride away. Parts of Staten Island have a magnificent view of the Manhattan skyline. I was self employed at the time and remember “hearing” about the first plane from online news sources, then watching the second plane hit.
My husband works in the Meadowlands area of New Jersey. They heard about the first plane, and all his fellow welders and he climbed to the roof of their building to watch the second plane hit and both buildings go down.
To say that we were shocked is the understatement of the century. Total, utter bewilderment and sorrow for the people trapped in the buildings. I had actually done temp work in those towers at various and sundry times. Gave out of towners the tour. Went to the weekly farmer’s market right outside WTC1. Knew many people in Cantor Fitzgerald.
For two weeks after the towers fell, parts of Staten Island was blanketed by smoke from the towers. We were all sick with what seemed like an upper respiratory infection, but was a reaction to whatever was in the smoke.
There is a hole in the Manhattan skyline that still shocks and disturbs us even six years later. We cannot forget. Too many streets on Staten Island were re-named for the firefighters, police and others who died during this attack.
My son joined the army in 2004. He’s now traveling back to Iraq for his second tour there. He was supposed to be discharged in January, 2008, but was stop-lossed because of his particular skills.
We must continue to perservere in this fight. We cannot allow the wimps and appeasers and traitors to lull us into thinking that if we leave, everything will be hunky dory.
It won’t. Not by a long shot.
Mommynator on September 4, 2007 at 1:42 PM
At that time…
… No one “knew” who Osama Bin Laden was.
… The big “breaking news” on CNN was that Senator Gary Condit was “Going to work!” and they were wondering where Chnadra Leavy was. While her body has been found since, it’s still a cold case.
… Everyone was merrily spending their $300 tax refund.
… There were HUNDREDS of “chad” jokes around.
Mazztek on September 4, 2007 at 2:09 PM
It had gotten to the point where the violations were routine. That’s the problem. You aren’t allowed to retaliate for the umpteenth violation of the NFZ, or the kajillionth missile fired into Israel from Gaza or the West Bank, or the kidnapping of some soldiers, or….
The Monster on September 4, 2007 at 2:21 PM
I wonder if they all were runner-ups of some beauty contest. Typical ” freakin’ ” democrats. Yea , that right; I didn’t stutter.
oldelpasoan on September 4, 2007 at 2:29 PM
I was at work, listening to Rick and Bubba (my radio wouldn’t pick up the Johnboy and Billy station) when they announced that an airplane had ‘accidently’ hit the WTC.
Later the 2nd hit and the mood went from wth to WTF in a hurry.
Lord Nazh on September 4, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Here’s a sickening thought. People’s remains were in the smoke. Oh, there was asbestos and whatever else, but there were also people.
I was in Austin, TX. Starting a new job the very next day. First heard it on the radio. Watched the TV until the buildings collapsed and Flight 93 went down. Immediately thought it was Hamas or Hezb’allah. Watched some more TV. Went to a church closest to my home. Prayed and cried with people I didn’t know. Drove through downtown Austin. It was like a ghost town. Cried and prayed some more for people I didn’t even know. Went to the grocery store. Watched people walk around like zombies. Cried in line whle checking my groceries out. Hugged some lady I didn’t even know.
Yeah, I remember that day, like it was yesterday. It felt like the day lasted 3,000 hours and I felt like I’d aged 100 years in one day.
mjk on September 4, 2007 at 2:52 PM
I had stopped watching GMA a couple years before, but I turned it on that morning because I’d heard a promo on the 10th for something I wanted to watch. The first tower was already burning. I’ve always wondered what it was I wanted to see–what I actually saw drove it clean out of my memory.
NellE on September 4, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Speaking of what was considered “news” that morning, a couple of hours earlier I was home listening to Molly Ivins on NPR explaining (on the taxpayers’ dime) that Bush’s knowledge of Spanish qualified him as “bi-ignorant.”
…a fine reminder that 99.9999 percent of people who claim they hate Bush for “starting the Iraq War” had it in for him well before 9/11.
saint kansas on September 4, 2007 at 3:08 PM
I remember watching news coverage that morning and seeing promo for that Comedy Central show “thats my bush”. Party affiliation changed for me from that very moment.
liquidflorian on September 4, 2007 at 4:11 PM
NellE, not sure if you’re a pet lover but there was a segment about 20 minutes before the first impact about anti-oxidants and increasing the life span of your pet.
After that was a segment about “The Mind of a Married Man” the HBO series labled as the “Sex in the City” for men.
Next was a segment with the Dutches of York and her trip to WI to help people lose weight. It’s a pretty transparent 5 minute advertisement for Weight Watchers. There’s even an add for Weight Watchers midway through the commercial break after the segment (very odd when watched like this).
The Change comes after that break.
Anyway, you can see the video here.
12thman on September 4, 2007 at 4:14 PM
ps: If you don’t have time to watch the full clip skip ahead to the 19 minute mark when the news first breaks. Then go ahead to the 30 minute mark.
I caution those who are easily disturbed from watching this clip. It will most likely cause you to relive part of that morning.
12thman on September 4, 2007 at 4:32 PM
12thman,
Thank you so much for that link. Both sad and incredible.
asc85 on September 4, 2007 at 4:55 PM
you’re welcome… and agreed.
12thman on September 4, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Did you hear the reporter after the first plane hit talking about an explosion and that it may have been a missile? Why didn’t the conspiracy theorists make a big deal about this? Or did they? There was a lot of confusion that day. People say things when they’re scared and confused that might not be accurate.
That song by Darryl Worley needs to be played over and over again. I still cry every time I hear it.
pugsly on September 4, 2007 at 7:27 PM
I never need to see the footage again. I remember it all VERY WELL.
Each and every time I have to take my shoes off at the airport I mutter under my breath, “All for allah”…(spit)
Every time I see “Rage Boy” or “Car Swarms”,,,,,I remember.
Every time I go to the city and see the altered sky-line, I remember.
Not very long before this happened, OBL released a recruitment video that made the news. I remember THAT video as well and I thought of it as I watched the second plane fly in.
The only thing I remember of 9/11/01 before the planes is that I kissed my 5 year old before he got on his bus to go to school that morning and I headed off to work.
I have been EXTREMELY pissed ever since. To put it lightly.
Thanks AP for the reminder of what it was like BEFORE.
Talon on September 4, 2007 at 7:39 PM
This link
http://www.archive.org/details/television_archive_911_Summary
has this montage of video coverage
NBC (USA) – 0:00:00-0:02:48
The Today Show pre-events
CBS (USA) – 0:02:49-0:04:24
As they break into news of the impact into the North Tower
CNN (USA) – 0:04:25-0:06:24
As they cut into a commercial to go live from NYC to cover the North Tower
TV Azteca (Mexico) – 0:06:25-0:07:44
Coverage of the North Tower on the morning show “Hechos”
ABC (USA) – 0:07:45-0:09:14
The impact into the South Tower live
ABC (USA) – 0:09:15-0:10:31
Presidential statement from Florida
WUSA (CBS affiliate in Washington DC) – 0:10:32-0:12:37
Breaks into CBS network coverage to report on the Pentagon impact
WTTG (Fox affiliate in Washington DC) – 0:13:38-0:14:33
Coverage of the collapse of the South Tower
NBC (USA) – 0:14:34-0:15:31
Live coverage of the South Tower collapse
NTVi (Russia) – 0:15:32-0:17:14
A news bulletin relating to the collapse of the South Tower
CCTV4 (China) – 0:17:15-0:18:18
A news bulletin with both Tower collapses. Video is from CNN
CBC Newsworld (Canada) – 0:18:18-0:20:16
Live coverage of the collapse of the North Tower
CNN (USA) – 0:20:17-0:21:42
First video from the Pennsylvania crash
Iraqi Satellite Channel (Iraq) – 0:21:43-0:23:12
New program with information about the attacks in America. This was the second news item in their program – the first was news of an Iraqi shoot-down of an unmanned US aircraft.
BBC World (UK) – 0:23:13-0:25:23
Summary of the day’s events
NHK World (Japan) – 0:25:24-0:26:08
NYC coverage with very close South Tower shots
VOA Worldnet (USA) – 0:26:09-0:27:04
Summary of the day’s events
VinceP1974 on September 4, 2007 at 8:08 PM
VinceP1974: Thanks for the link. I just watched the entire video. It still shocks and brings me great sadness to watch this footage.
May God bless those victims on 9/11 and their families and friends. May God continue to bless the United States.
Abu Daboo Doo on September 4, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Was I lucky that I work nights, sleep days, such that I was asleep at the time? I had a few extra hours of pre 9/11 life.
hadsil on September 5, 2007 at 3:27 AM
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