Facing Ground Zero: A Dateline Special | Episode Trailer

We were getting reports from our people. about a raging fire up in the upper. levels. We got reports from the [music] fire. department that it was an inferno. They had units up there battling it, but. they couldn't get a hold of it. >> The fire department, first responders, and the police, they were on it. And that was. reassuring. For me, having a method of work.

gave me some sense of certainty. I shot as much as I could. There was a guy behind me, and I turned. to him with the camera rolling, and I. asked him, you know, what did you see? What did you. see? >> I ran out to the window, and I look out. and I see smoke. The next thing I saw, you mean you got to look at it the the. bottom elevator did the glass just. flamed exploded out the front of the. World Trade Center. Glass blew. everywhere.

>> And the second plane. came in and hit. And I turned, and I got the fireball. And the explosion. And that was. that was terrifying. And it was then that everybody knew, absolutely knew, this was not an accident.

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