I received an email from my wife at 8:41 checking in to see if I was OK after the first plane hit. Either my clock is wrong or their’s is. I thought mine was fast if anything.
She works across the street from 2 WTC, and I work in 4 WTC.
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Can’t guarantee this, but I just heard on the radio that two guys were arrested near the Meadowlands Complex, with a truckload of explosives, heading for the George Washington Bridge.
Well, just to put in my 2 unsubstantiated cents, I just heard the same thing.
My first thought was maybe the “small time” terrorists are using this as an opportunity to get in their licks.
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Disturbing items picked up from CNN - blame them for any inaccuracies:
200 NYC Firefighters feared dead.
78 NYC Police officers missing; presumed dead.
At least 800 dead at the Pentagon. Earlier they said 100. It has since been updated.
Cell phone calls have been reported coming from the collapsed World Trade Center towers!
I am still freaked out about the whole ordeal.
Update: Mayor Giuliani says “three men in a van” were stopped, but with no explosives.
I imagine they were not stopped for speeding, but it’s unclear what the significance of it is, if any.
Jack Batty wrote:
I’ll bet at least some of those calls are prank calls. It’s easy to call somebody up on a cell phone from anywhere in the world and say, “I’m trapped in the World Trade Center!”. It’s a lot harder to triangulate on that cell phone’s actual position.
Yeah, but are the calls going to the NYPD, or are people calling their friends and relatives to tell them they’re trapped?
Another view of the second plane crashing into the north tower has been released, from underneath and within maybe two blocks, but facing in the same direction as the plane was going, so you actually see (and hear) it go into the building (in addition to the one that was seen from underneath right as the plane hit, but from the side). That is one creepy video.
Also saw an additional video of 7 WTC collapsing, similar to the way the other two went.
Esprix
The hospitals/rescuers have all the blood they need. All of their requirements have been met. They are turning back people giving blood now. I have heard this repeatedly, both on FOX news and on CNN. This at least is good news.
Actually this report I saw ran again and the person was talking about the St-Vincent’s (sp?) hospital, not the whole effort, but I sincerely hope other hospitals are in similar situations. They said some people waited up to 5 hours to give blood. This renews my hope in some way. This day has just been so unreal.
Looks like we’ve identified (and caught) some of the bastards responsible for this:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/ausattk09122001.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_396313.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
Bin Laden’s definitely involved.
k.os wrote:
They will not, however, be turning back blood donors a while from now. The need for blood is going to be ongoing, for several days at the least.
And just wait’ll they start pulling out more injured folks from the remains of the WTC…
A Moslem group from Pakistan have claimed responsibity, US official aren’t buying the claim.
Fire fighters on the scene have said they don’t think there is much chance of finding people alive, but you can always have hope.
A man on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania called his wife to say goodbye. He told her they were all going to die but that he and other passengers were going to try and do something.
It’s a little bit more gruesome than that…
People who suspect their loved ones are trapped in the rubble are calling the missing peoples cell phones in hope that the ringing will bring rescue workers to them. It gives me chills to imagine.
Friend of mine works at an NYC hospital. Blood is STILL NEEDED! They started turning away donors since they had run out of collection bags.
Donors are STILL NEEDED at other locations that can still accept donations and have the equipment to do so.
The Jacob Javits Center has been converted to a temporary morgue.
What exactly did happen with that f-16 that was escorting a jet. I remember hearing a report about it here in Hungary about an hour or so after the WTC was hit, and then absolutely no follow-ups on it. I know one speculation was that it shot down the jet near Pittsburg, but all military sources have denied that. So what’s the follow-up?
Okay, does this seem fishy to anyone else? We’ve got a mastermind operation that the experts say probably cost scads of money and took months, if not years to plan, and they leave a How To Fly manual in a car parked at an airport? An Arabic How To Fly guide?
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Does not compute to me.
Nym- yeah, that jumped out at me, too. I thought perhaps I was the only one. Not only did I think it’s a rather weird piece of evidence to leave behind, but, um, shouldn’t they already know this sort of stuff pretty much inside out before attempting such an operation, rather than burning the midnight oil, studying at the last minute?
Only three buildings have collapsed. The third building was building #7, so that is probably where the confusion came from.
Has anyone heard anything new about the fifth plane?
My wife and I were watching Japanese television (muted) because we had been wathcing TV all day and they had different video. They had a chart that was obviously for the hijacked planes because they had the same death tolls next to the planes. They had 5 planes listed, although their plane #4 didn’t have all the information about it that the others did.
In the news conference about the white truck with explosives, the police commisioner of NYC said that three men were arrested, but there were no explosives on the truck. He also said that there had been an APB put out on the truck and they had been specifically looking for it. He said the APB originated from the FBI, but couldn’t say why.
Rumors I would like to put to rest:
Has anyone heard any follow-up on early reports that the USAF shot down one of the planes?
What’s the deal with the car bomb at the state department?
Who bombed Kabul?
The “fifth” plane never existed. Although the last of the planes that landed in Denver had a F-16 riding near-by as the plane landed.
There is video of the FIRST plane hitting the WTC. I was amazed. Someone on the street had a camera and heard a jetliner, turned to focus on the WTC and caught the first impact. I saw this on ABC around 11pm EDT. ABC had all the angles, plus the FIRST plane.
The first plane came in wings even (no roll), at what appeared to be a sharp angle of descent.