All language subtitles for 911.One.Day.In.America.S01E03

MAN: This is insane.

How did they
hijack the planes?

My sister said she
was watching the news.

One plane hit.

MAN 2: What?

MAN: Then, about
two minutes later,

the next plane hit.

MAN 2: You're joking?

MAN: Right into the front
of the World Trade Center.

Isn't that crazy, man?

MAN 2: That can't be real.

MAN: I swear to God,
it happened, dude.

We're gonna see 'em
on fire right over here.

(siren)

MAN: What does it look like?

MAN 2: Oh, (bleep). Oh, (bleep).

No. Holy (bleep).

Holy (bleep) (bleep),
look at all those streets...

MAN: No. No.
MAN 2: Oh my God.

MAN: (bleep).

REPORTER: Erin,
we can see over your
left shoulder there the,

the building's
still smoldering of
the World Trade Center.

ERIN: Well it is a...

ERIN (over TV): Grotesque
sight to look at from

about 30 blocks away
from where we are.

For those of
you just, uh, joining us,

let's just briefly
recap what we know.

REPORTER (over radio):
About an hour ago,

about 8:45 eastern time,

one plane crashed
into, uh, the tower.

TOTI: Watching this
unfold on TV,

in the outer
ring of the Pentagon.

REPORTER (over TV):
On the right, the tower
you can see behind me, uh,

and then about a
half hour later, uh,

a second plane
crashed into, uh, the tower.

TOTI: And we
had a call from my friend and

classmate from the
Navy Command Center,

and all he says is,

"Another plane has been
hijacked from out of Dulles,

it's turned around and it's
heading for Washington."

So immediately
speculation begins.

Is it going to be
The White House?

The White House
is too small,

too hard to find from the air.

The Capitol Building's
easier to see but, you know,

there aren't a lot of
people in the Capitol Building

at any one time.

The only building that is
easy to find from the air that

has a lot of people in it,

the largest office building
in the world,

The Pentagon.

Within a couple of minutes,

began to hear the
sound of a jet engine,

and it was pretty
clear this plane
was on full throttle,

as if it were taking off,

but instead of the sound
diminishing with time,

it just kept getting louder
and louder and louder and

we realized this
is really happening.

They're coming for us.

(rumbling)

(explosion)

(beeping)

(theme music plays)

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

(whistling)

MAN: Get back!
Everybody get back!
This way!

(overlapping chatter).

(sirens)

TOTI: I probably
arrived at the scene about
five minutes after impact.

MAN: Hey, hey, hey, hey!

TOTI: And initially
we were way overwhelmed
by the casualties.

(overlapping chatter).

TOTI: Every 20, 30 seconds
you'd see somebody stumble
out of this open doorway.

(overlapping chatter).

MAN: Let's go!
Move, move now!

TOTI: But there were
people that were still
trapped in the building,

and so I ran down
to the doorway.

I got a few feet inside
and I trip over somebody.

And I could
feel there's a,

what I think is a woman.

Two army guys ran
back in with me and the
three of us half dragged,

half carried her just a few
feet outside the building
and laid her down again.

MAN: Everybody out.

Everybody out.

TOTI: I asked
her what her name was and

she said her name
was Antoinette,

and she said, uh,
"Am I going to die?"

And it was clear that
she was struggling to
breathe, so I told her,

"No, Antoinette,
you're not gonna die.

You're gonna be fine."

And I just stayed with
her and, and talked to her.

REPORTER (over radio): The FBI
is investigating reports that

there was a hijacking of
an American Airlines 767

out of Boston that was
perhaps one of the planes

that was involved in the,

this disaster this morning.

Apparently both towers
of the World Trade Center

were hit by aircraft and,
additionally,

a report that
a plane has crashed into
The Pentagon this morning.

West Wing of The White
House has been evacuated.

President Bush was not there.

He was at a school
in Sarasota, Florida.

The New York City Fire
Department is issuing a call
for a total recall of all

officers and fire fighters.

Drop what you're doing,
report to your company.

A major disaster is occurring
in New York City this morning.

BURKETT: I stepped into the
news room and the Assistant
News Director turned to me,

and he pointed his
finger at me and he said,

"NJ, grab a cameraman,
grab a crew and go downtown."

I said, "Who do I take?"

I turned to the
Assignment Editor and I said,

"Whom do I take?"

and, and he said,

"The first
guy out of the garage.
Get in the truck and go."

(sirens)

BURKETT:
At that point, I was still
looking at this as a story,

as a news story that
we were gonna tell on
the 6:00 news that night.

On our way down,
we resolved we were
gonna go into the towers.

We wanted to document the
heroism of the fire fighters.

OFFICER: Hey, step off.
Grab your guy and get 'em out.

BURKETT: Don't tell me this.
I've got press credentials.

OFFICER: I, I don't care.
I don't care. Get out.

BURKETT:
What's your badge number?

OFFICER: Get out.
Don't worry about it.
Go! It's 44. Get out.

FIREFIGHTER: Who is that guy?

Get that guy out of there?

BURKETT: I understand...

BURKETT: When he
confronted us so quickly and,

and immediately we
were sort of taken aback.

Um, but then it was
clear, really, like,

almost instantly
that, you know what,

he's absolutely right.

We'd better not
go any farther, um.

But, yeah, I mean,
he might have saved our lives.

To the right.

Look at that.

BURKETT:
So we crossed West Street

and we saw the
fire command post there.

The top two fire
commanders were both there,

like generals
organizing a battle plan.

So, so we, we felt
like we were safe there.

(overlapping chatter)

BURKETT: And there was
this whole battalion

of fire fighters, um,
in rows, standing there.

I mean they looked
like soldiers who were
gonna go into a battle.

But you look at their faces.
And they looked frightened.

They looked scared to me.

REPORTER (over radio):
Certainly people are
streaming out of buildings

in lower Manhattan.

We can now tell
you that there's
not going to be trading

on the
New York Stock Exchange,

they're evacuating
the New York Stock Exchange.

NASDAQ was hoping to start
its computerized trading day

about two minutes
from now at 10:00

We don't know if
that's going to happen.

To this point,
the White House,

the Capitol Building,
the State Department,

the Treasury at Washington,

all evacuated after the
blast struck the Pentagon.

Manhattan is sealed off.

If you wanna get in, you
cannot at this point in time.

(sirens)

(overlapping chatter)

BURKETT: We both just
kind of stood there and

I said to Marty, I said,

"Well, you know,
let's shoot a stand‐up here,

while we're here."

And so I did, okay,
take one, and two, one.

BURKETT: This is as close
as we can get to the base
of the World Trade Center.

You can see the two towers,

debris continues to fall and
to rain on the people below.

there are people
hanging from the windows,

90 stories up,
and a number of bodies have

actually hit the pavement.

I did the first take
on the stand‐up and I
didn't like it at all.

I thought,

"Oh, that doesn't sound right.

I don't like that."

And I said to Marty,

"You know,
let me do another one."

Take two and two, one.

This is as close as
we can get to the base
of the World Trade Center.

You can see the
firemen assembled here,
the police officers,

FBI agents and you
can see the two towers.

A huge explosion now,
raining debris on all of us.

We'd better get
out of the way!

(rumble)

(overlapping chatter).

(screams)

(screams)

BURKETT: God.

Look out behind you,
look out behind you.

Please. Run, run.

(screams)

WOMAN: Help.
Help me Jesus.

MAN: Anthony you okay?

ANTHONY: Yeah.

WOMAN: Yes, please. Oh my God.

(screams).

(crying)

(overlapping chatter)

(screams)

(overlapping chatter)

MAN: The whole site.
It's gone. The whole tower.

It's gone.

Holy crap!

They knocked the whole
friggin' thing down.

Holy god‐damn.

They did it!

It's down.

The second tower's down.

Holy god‐damn.

MAN: No.

MAN: The whole top of
the building fell off, dude.

MAN 2: Holy (bleep), dude.
It's (bleep) gone.

Look, they say it
was a bomb in there.

MAN: Oh my God,
man, it's gone.

(bleep).

MAN 2: Look, it's gone man.

MAN: This is not happening.

MAN 2: (bleep) lifted off.

MAN 3: This is so (bleep) up!

MAN 2: This is not happening.

WOMAN (over radio): The entire
World Trade Center on the,

the south building
just fell.

I just saw the whole thing.

Oh my God. Oh my God.

(gasps).

I can't see anything up.
The whole thing went down.

REPORTER (over radio):
That the...

WOMAN (over radio): Oh my God.

Oh, I saw the
building crumble.

It's all the way down.

I can't see, I can't
see what's still standing.

Oh my God.

(gasps)

♪ ♪

REPORTER (over radio): A
situation that, uh, started

bad just gets worse
and worse and worse.

The World Trade Center,

South Tower,
has totally collapsed.

Again, uh, we've had no
reports of, uh, casualties.

Obviously, there are...

BURKETT:
Everybody was running away,

and we didn't know
where we were running to.

I turn around and
there was this door and

it's a way to escape.

(screams)

(overlapping chatter)

BURKETT: Marty, on me again.

MARTY: I'm rolling,
I'm rolling.

BURKETT: Alright.

We don't know what's
happened inside.

What we know we
have to do is just
keep running the other way.

The firemen are
going this way, so
are the police officers,

and we don't know
what's happening.

MAN: Out.

MAN 2: Everybody out!

MAN: Everybody out.

MAN 2: Let's go!

MAN: Everyone out.

Keep it moving. He was
just in the building...

BURKETT: All these years
I'm asking myself what
if there was no door?

MAN: Go, go!

BURKETT: And you know there
were people behind us that did

not make it through the door.

(debris thuds)

(debris thuds)

GIEBFRIED: Both Jen and I
ran back across the street

where we thought the
entrance to the building was.

We hit a glass wall

and that's where
we got buried alive.

(overlapping chatter).

GIEBFRIED: The ten to
12 people that were with us,

we were all banging, clawing,
trying to break that window.

It wasn't breaking.

LAMPERT: And at that
point my nose and

my mouth were just
filling up with dust and

whatever else was in the
air and I couldn't breathe.

Even with my shirt
over my mouth,

I couldn't breathe and I just,

I remember slowly
sinking to the ground and,
and thinking this is it.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna die.

And I'm getting upset about
it now but, in that moment,
it was very peaceful and,

even though I didn't know that
the tower had collapsed, um,

I didn't really know
what had happened,

I do remember
thinking distinctly that
at least my parents are

going to get my body back.

My parents were.

You know, I was whole.

I was whole.

I wasn't damaged, and my
parents would get me back.

My parents were going
to have me and to take home.

(overlapping chatter)

GIEBFRIED: I stepped
back and I basically
said a little prayer

'cause I knew
we were gonna die.

I grabbed Jen, I closed my
eyes and then all of a sudden

one individual got to his gun.

There was this
pap‐pap‐pap noise.

Next thing I knew I
was being yanked through
and over broken glass.

(coughing)

(overlapping chatter)

GIEBFRIED:
Later on I found out it was a
police officer who got to his

secondary gun and shot out
the window and saved us all.

MAN: In. Yoily. Yoily.

In. Deep breath.

In, in. Hold it.

LAMPERT: I don't think anybody
really understood, even then,

what happened
to the twin towers.

(overlapping chatter)

(coughing)

LAMPERT: I was numb,
like in, in, in shock.

I still don't remember.

It was disbelief.

This cannot be real.

(radio chatter)

(overlapping chatter)

(smoldering)

CANAVAN: As we exited
out of the tower

I can hear this rush of air,

feeling the heat and then
this thumping sound and,

and then it
was just smack down,

just plastered down.

Completely buried.

A slab of concrete falling at
an angle had knocked me down,

but it was protecting me.

I was sort of in a
little cocoon, and
it got just dead quiet,

to the point where I said,

"You know what, I'm dead."

At that point,

the thoughts going
through my mind where

"Well my kids, I have
a birthday to plan and my,

my daughter's
going to be born.

I'm not gonna be
around for my kids.

I won't even see my daughter's
face when she's born.

I have to be there."

But as I started to move,
someone grabbed my ankle.

Said he was a
security guard and he said,

"If we stay here,
they'll find us."

I said, "If you
stay here you're either

gonna smother or you're
gonna burn to death".

And I started digging,

and he followed
behind me and finally
we saw a little peephole,

a light, and I looked at him.

I said, "Okay, I'm
gonna push you through."

He was smaller than I was.

I said, "See if you can move
some stuff so I can get out."

And he squeezed past me
and I helped push him out

and, uh, I got back down,
I was waiting.

I didn't see anything
happening and, when I
stuck my head back out,

he had been, uh, walking
away down a pile of debris.

So I started yelling
at him, "Yo, yo."

And he just kept waving,
like, come on, come on.

And I, I was the only
one talking, um, and I said,

"I can't get out."

And at that point I could see

he's wearing like
his security guard suit,

but he just kept going.

At that moment, I got
really angry and I picked
up a piece of concrete that

was laying there and I,

I actually threw it at him.

That's, that's
how angry I was, um.

I missed him, you know,
and luckily,

luckily I did
because I would have had

to live with that
the rest of my life.

But once he left me there, um,

just the next thought is,

"Okay, I'm on my own.

You're gonna have to
do what you have to do."

(sirens)

(sirens)

TOTI: When you're
in the military,

you're trained for battle.

I've been to sea on submarines
where we had casualties where

I had to run to the
scene of a casualty and,

and you know put out a
fire or something like that.

Nothing compared to what
we experienced that day.

And at some point,

one of the security
guards started yelling,

"There's another plane coming.

Everybody needs to move
away from the building."

(overlapping chatter)

MAN: We need to
gather up this paramedic
equipment and move it.

MAN 2: What have
we got going on?

MAN: There's an
aircraft coming.

Let's go, go. Move!

(overlapping chatter)

TOTI: Two planes
hit the World Trade Center.

Pentagon is a huge target.

(radio chatter)

It just made
sense for two planes
to hit The Pentagon too.

So, we took this
threat very seriously.

(overlapping chatter)

OFFICER: Get back, get back.

MAN: They've got
another inbound plane.

MAN: Josh.

OFFICER: Everybody
get back, get back.

Get back.

Go, go, go.

REPORTER (over TV): Every
airport in the United States

has been shut down
as the FAA and the

government tries to
figure out exactly are there
more attacks yet to come.

CNN's David Ensor joins
us from Washington.

David, where in the
capital are you now?

ENSOR (over TV): Well Aaron,
I'm, uh, I'm in our bureau

but I have on the
telephone with me Barbara.

PENNEY: I remember looking
down and seeing the smoke,

and I remember thinking

if at any point in my life

what I did
mattered it was now.

They lost radar contact
with Flight 93.

Any aircraft attempting
to enter Washington class‐bravo
airspace will be shot down.

(overlapping chatter)

PENNEY: But it normally takes
ten to 20 minutes to get

real missiles loaded
up on the jets,

so we didn't have any
live weapons on board.

There's no way for us to
shoot this airliner down.

(overlapping chatter)

(overlapping chatter)

PENNEY: I was
just a brand new wing man.

I had recently earned my
combat mission ready status.

My flight lead
at the time was our
Director of Operations,

Mark Sassaville.

His call sign was Sass.

PILOT (over radio):
Go for eight‐six.
Turn right heading 0‐8‐0.

We're gonna bank
here for the traffic.

PENNEY: And
I distinctly remember I run
after Sass down the hallway,

down the stairs
into life support
where our flight lockers

are and where
all of our gear is.

And I'm zipping up
my flight suit when Sass
looks at me and says,

"I'll ram the cockpit."

And I knew I
would ram the tail.

We knew without missiles,

that this would
be a suicide mission.

Going after a
civilian airliner,

with innocent
Americans on board.

And these were citizens that,
that we had sworn to protect.

We flew to the northwest and
we searched and we searched.

We were too late for anything.

The passengers
of Flight 93,

they had
to make that choice.

(birds chirping)

HOAGLAND: On the morning
of September 11th,

I heard my
sister‐in‐law, Kathy,

run out of her bedroom
door and down the hall and
answer the kitchen phone.

And I heard Kathy say,

"Well we love you too, Mark.

Let me get your Mom."

And then she saw me and said,

"Alice, come talk to Mark.
He's been hijacked."

And I took the phone
and I heard Mark's voice.

He said, "Mom,
this is Mark Bingham.

I just wanna
tell you I love you.

I'm on a flight from
Newark to San Francisco and

there are three guys on
board who have taken over the

plane and they
say they have a bomb.

You believe me,
don't you Mom?"

I said, "Yes, Mark,
I believe you.

Who are those guys?"

And then the phone went dead.

After Mark's phone call
was dropped,

the three of us,
Kathy, Yvonne and I,

stood around in
the kitchen trying to
figure out what to do.

At about that time Kathy,

who had been watching
the television for
a few minutes said,

"Guys, come look at this."

So we went and, uh...

into the, uh, den there
and watched, and we saw.

We saw images of
the North Tower and the
South Tower in flames,

and we realized that Mark
needed to be told that he was

part of a much bigger
scenario so I excused myself,

I went into another room and
dialed his cell phone number.

VOICE (over phone):
End of message.

HOAGLAND:
He was a young man.

He was a force for
good in the world.

I had never taught Mark
how to kill anybody,

but I saw him do some
pretty rough stuff on the

rugby pitch but
always in fun and in the
spirit of sportsmanship,

and now I was hoping
against hope that my
son could be a killer.

But I knew that Mark would
be able to seize the moment.

MAN: (bleep) nuts for
going in there bro, get out!

MAN 2: Hey, come on guys.
Let's go!

CANAVAN: At any point,

it would have been
easier to just sit down and

that would have
been the end of me.

But then I just kept thinking
I can't just lay here waiting.

Don't, don't give up.

Just, I don't know if everybody
has that don't give up.

Most of the New Yorkers
I know, they don't give up.

They don't.

You can knock 'em down,
they get up again.

You knock 'em down,

they get up again and I just
squeezed through the concrete,

the rebar, um.

I scraped my body down from
the top of my head to my feet.

At the moment, that
was the only way out.

There was no one else there.

It was me getting through
there or, or not getting out.

When I came out
through that hole,

it was like a
blizzard down there.

Papers grey,
embers flying around.

(overlapping chatter)

CANAVAN: But when I
looked straight up,

perfectly blue sky and
I could see my tower behind me

still standing there.

And that's when I
realized I'm still around.

Whatever had happened
to me, it didn't get me.

I survived.

I was lucky.
I was very lucky.

(overlapping chatter)

Still around, guys.
Still around.

REPORTER: Want to talk
to us a little bit?

CANAVAN: I'll make it.

REPORTER: What's your name?

CANAVAN: Tom Canavan.

REPORTER: Tom,
what happened man?

CANAVAN: Uh, big boom.

Come down the steps,
everything fine till we
got to the basement and then

everything just fell in.

I gets trapped under there
with another guy, crawled out.

Kept getting hit in the head,
get bounced all around.

Finally, we crawled our
way out over the rubble.

AGENT: Come on now.
CANAVAN: We did alright.

REPORTER: Alright.
Way to be Tom.

AGENT: Let's go.

FIRE FIGHTER:
Amos, right down.
Amos, straight down.

CANAVAN: Oorah!

(overlapping chatter)

REPORTER (over radio):
Kitty. Kitty, let me
interrupt for just a second.

The associated press is
reporting that, uh, federal
officials fear that another

hijacked plane is headed
towards the Pentagon and I'm
looking for the time on this.

We will continue
to check that out.

Kitty, I apologize
for interrupting.

Why don't you continue?

HOAGLAND: The three of
us were very quiet.

We all knew that
it was a very grave
situation that Mark faced.

My brother tried to
cheer me a little bit,

he pointed out that since
the hijackers had been so

successful taking down
the World Trade Center,

uh, and, and the Pentagon,

that maybe Flight 93
would land safely.

And even as he was saying
it and I was listening,

we knew both of us that
that just wasn't gonna

happen that way.

(overlapping chatter)

MAN: We've got the patch
confirming this plane crash
in Somerset, Pennsylvania.

We don't know if it's a
big plane, small plane...

Any relation to this.

WOMAN: Flight 93,
Newark to SFO has crashed.

WOMAN 2: Pennsylvania.

Again, United Flight 93,

Newark to SFO has
crashed in Pennsylvania

per United Airlines.

REPORTER (over radio): I'm now
told that United Airlines is
now saying that Flight,

can you tell me the
number of the flight,

93 has crashed
in Pennsylvania.

Now I don't.

REPORTER 2 (over radio):
It crashed in
Somerset County, Pennsylvania

near the town of Shanksville.

South of Pittsburgh
we're told,

about 80 miles
outside of Pittsburgh.

It is not known how many...

HOAGLAND:
That was hard to take in.

REPORTER 2 (over TV):
The crew were on board
although initial reports...

HOAGLAND: But I,
I knew that the,

that I would never see Mark
alive again and none of those

innocent people
on Flight 93 would see
their loved ones again.

REPORTER (over TV): The
plane that crashed in Western
Pennsylvania we are now told

was a United Flight 93
out of Newark,

and it was
headed for San Francisco.

Now was that one of
the hijacked planes?

Did some heroic pilot
perhaps save an awful lot
of lives in Washington?

We don't know at this point,

but we do know that it was

United Flight 93
out of Newark,

heading west on its
way to San Francisco.

HOAGLAND:
Even though our boys were not
able to save their own lives,

they saved countless
lives on the ground,

and I'm very grateful for what
they were able to do that day.

BINGHAM: We saw a
lot of bridges and,
um, we're drinking beer.

We got, bought some toys.

And I'm deeply in love and,
about it all the good stuff.

HOAGLAND: I don't know where
I lucked out so much to have
a son like Mark Bingham,

he was, he was a
wonderful young man.

I can't take any
credit for it,

it just was something
that Mark had and

very grateful for that.

(overlapping screams)

REPORTER (over phone): You're
really seeing a lot of people

trying to move north,

away from any
place downtown near the
World Trade Center area.

People are just walking.

The subways
are stopped entirely,

all around the area
of the World Trade Center.

You can't get below
14th Street and there just
feels to be like a massive

exodus of people walking north
to get away from the area.

Captioned by
Cotter Media Group.