It only hit me when we turned over the calendar to September that the 11th would be on a Tuesday this year. Mercifully, it’s a rainy morning; yesterday was more reminiscent of the day. This video of the news reports……

May God bless those victims on 9/11 and their families and friends. May God continue to bless the United States.

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

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.

That song by Darryl Worley needs to be played over and over again. I still cry every time I hear it.

Thank you so much for that link. Both sad and incredible.

I caution those who are easily disturbed from watching this clip. It will most likely cause you to relive part of that morning.

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

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.

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.

…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.

We were all sick with what seemed like an upper respiratory infection, but was a reaction to whatever was in the smoke.

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.

Later the 2nd hit and the mood went from wth to WTF in a hurry.

“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.”

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….

… 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.

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.

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.

We were supposed to fly home on the 12th. Didn’t get home until the 17th.