911 one day in america

If we couldn't do that before, executive producers Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin make that possible by placing viewers inside the frightened, thumping hearts of people who were inside the towers and the first responders who ran in and up the nearly 100 flights of stairs of the North Tower to get people out. Through footage featuring Pfeifer and his team we see the first plane hit.

We watch their reactions and those of other New Yorkers in that moment as that flawless Tuesday explored in flames and disintegrating concrete and steel. We watch as bystanders head toward the blast out of curiosity and hear as their companions scream at them to run for their lives. Then we see the disaster unfold in real time from different angles, from the air and on the ground, outside the rolling poisoning clouds and from inside, watching abandoned cameras continue rolling as the world darken in the moments after building crash to Earth. Each episode will focus on the different levels of heroism people resorted to during the event and boasts never-before-seen footage, including from apartments and streets just after the planes hit. Shot over three years, the documentary filmmakers interviewed 54 people in person for a total of 235 hours of material. Two of my other books chronicle how that day changed the FBI's counterterrorism efforts and the government's doomsday plans.

I've spent much of this year working on a podcast series about the lingering questions from the attacks. I've interviewed directors of the CIA, FBI, and national intelligence; the interrogators in CIA black sites; and the men who found Saddam Hussein in that spider hole in Iraq. According to Elizabeth Heller Allen, vice president of corporate communications at Dell, "the key was finding an outlet for our employees' desire to help." The urgency of getting some 75 of Dell's customers at Ground Zero and others in the DC area back in business pulled the staff together.

At the same time, the senior leadership knew that only a revitalized staff would be able to deliver on Dell's strong reputation for customer service. The active horrors the disaster wrought unfolded in the span of a few hours, from the time the first plane hit through the second tower's collapse. But the accounts given by those who lived to talk about them fill every moment of this four-night, six-episode documentary series, making footage from that day come alive in ways few other reports have. As the local telephone service provider to much of New York, Verizon faced enormous business and operational challenges in the wake of the Trade Center attacks. The 2,200 Verizon employees who were situated in the vicinity of the Center were involved in running the densest knot of cables and switches anywhere in the world.

The attack knocked out 300,000 voice access lines and 4.5 million data circuits and left ten cellular towers inactive, depriving 14,000 businesses and 20,000 residential customers of service. Within hours, Larry Babbio, the head of the company's telecom business, traveled to the site to inquire after the safety of employees and inspect the damage. The CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, during the week following the attack, worked closely and at length with the communications team to craft and record voice mails addressed to employees who could still be reached outside the area of devastation. These messages went out daily until the stock market reopened the following Monday. "This was a time for leadership, and employees wanted to hear directly from the leader," Bardin says. The messages focused on employee safety, those unaccounted for, the condition of the network, and how Verizon was going to get the New York Stock Exchange open for business.

In addition, senior managers toured various facilities to meet with employees, and Seidenberg himself inspected the damage to Verizon's building at 140 West Street. Some employees will trust a message that has been mediated by independent gatherers and distributors of the news more than one that comes directly from the company or appears as a paid advertisement. This filtering effect is especially useful at companies where employees tend to be suspicious of statements from management. American Airlines, for instance, has had a history of troubled relations with two of its unions, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Allied Pilots Association.

But as you experience these hours – not just watch, but feel them – what may immediately strike you is how antiseptic most of the documentary reports or news coverage have been. After the attacks the media's attention turned to the how and the why of them, offering deep dives into the structural collapse of the Towers, the government's failure to act on intelligence tip-offs or insights into how the hijackers planned and trained to turn passenger planes into weapons of mass destruction. Close your eyes and you can probably picture George W. Bush's grim face as he sat in that classroom, receiving the news. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world's largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Around 3,000 lives were lost between plane passengers, those in the buildings that were struck, and front-line workers trying to save people.

Since then, airplane security has become stricter in many countries as they attempt to avoid a future terrorist attack like nine-eleven. While the intimate perspective has tremendous force, seven hours is a long time to dedicate to any one day, and there is a slight sense that shortish interviews have been spooled out. And the documentary's most astonishing image – the exact instant the first plane hit – was first broadcast in Gédéon and Jules Naudet's film 9/11 in 2002, a mere six months after the event. It was a fly-on-the-wall programme about a rookie firefighter which turned into an extraordinarily immersive report from ground zero, and still perhaps the most visceral account of that day. Likewise Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, despite its frat-boy acerbity, is more thoughtful about the geopolitical tremors those four hijacked planes sent out.

A section of the Pentagon lies in ruins following the deadly terrorist attacks in which hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The attack killed all 58 passengers and six crewmembers on the flight and 125 people in the Pentagon. From the time of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, FBI and Department of Justice leadership in Washington and New York became increasingly concerned about the terrorist threat from Islamist extremists to U.S. interests, both at home and abroad. Throughout the 1990s, the FBI's counterterrorism efforts against international terrorist organizations included both intelligence and criminal investigations. The FBI's approach to investigations was case-specific, decentralized, and geared toward prosecution.

Significant FBI resources were devoted to after-the-fact investigations of major terrorist attacks, resulting in several prosecutions. U.S. intelligence frequently picked up reports of attacks planned by al Qaeda. Working with foreign security services, the CIA broke up some al Qaeda cells. The core of Bin Ladin's organization nevertheless remained intact. In December 1999, news about the arrests of the terrorist cell in Jordan and the arrest of a terrorist at the U.S.-Canadian border became part of a "millennium alert." The government was galvanized, and the public was on alert for any possible attack. Within hours after the 9/11 attacks, serious government failures began to come into focus.

The CIA, NSA, and FBI had all overlooked pieces of the plot; bureaucratic inertia and interagency jealousy had prevented the sharing of intelligence that might have disrupted the looming attacks; the CIA had even known that two of the hijackers, known al-Qaeda operatives, were inside the United States. The following March, the Immigration and Naturalization Service notified a Florida flight school that it had approved visas for two of the 9/11 hijackers, including the ringleader Mohamed Atta. That America's intelligence, counterterrorism, and law-enforcement systems needed an overhaul had become obvious. Following some initial reluctance, the Bush administration embraced a top-to-bottom reorganization of the federal government around "homeland security," a phrase with little presence in American life before the attacks. In May 2020, it was announced National Geographic had ordered a 6-episode documentary limited series revolving around the 9/11 terrorist attacks with Dan Lindsay, T. J. Martin and David Glover set to serve as executive producers.

Production companies involved in the series include 72 Films and the 9/11 Memorial Museum. The series follows the terrorist attacks through archival footage, eyewitnesses, survivors, with new footage never seen before. We pray for your peace as we remember the terrorism attacks of 9/11. May our suffering from these attacks awaken in us an awareness of the pain and fear that so many around the world live with each day. May we know how to pray for those who struggle against oppression and injustice.

As we hear of terrorist activity around the world, quiet our fears. Heal the wounded of these attacks, and help their families and friends rest in your security. "I said, 'Piss off, you son of a bitch,'" Rescorla told Daniel Hill, a close friend who was trained in counterterrorism, in a phone call that morning.

"Everything above where that plane hit is going to collapse, and it's going to take the whole building with it. I'm getting my people the fuck out of here." Back in New York City, Mary Beth Bardin was in a cab on the traffic-snarled streets of midtown Manhattan on her way to a breakfast meeting when she, too, saw smoke billowing into the otherwise clear blue skies. The cabdriver turned on the radio, and Bardin was stunned to hear that a jetliner had crashed into one of the World Trade Center's towers. Traffic ground to a halt, and Bardin, executive vice president of public affairs and communications at Verizon, jumped out of the cab and headed on foot to her company's offices at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue. She immediately thought about the 2,200 Verizon employees working in lower Manhattan, especially those located in the World Trade Center and in Verizon Wireless's store there.

Her pace quickened, and she reached for her cell phone to let headquarters know she was on her way in. Major stock sell-offs hit the airline and insurance sectors when trading resumed. Hardest hit were American Airlines and United Airlines, whose planes were hijacked for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Gold prices leapt nearly 6% to $287 per ounce, reflecting the uncertainty and flight to safety of nervous investors. To create this docuseries, the filmmaking team sifted through 951 hours of archival footage – some never seen before – to make an immersive and emotionally charged seven-hour account of that fateful day 20 years ago. It offers a comprehensive and intimate look at how the tragic events of that day impacted so many lives – capturing the heroic acts of selflessness and bravery of strangers saving one another at all costs and revealing the triumph of the human spirit when tested beyond belief. Martin, this six-part, four-night series "offers an in-depth and visceral account of Sept. 11 using archive and first-person testimony from first responders and survivors who have now had almost two decades to reflect on the events they lived through. The result is one of the most powerful, immersive and emotionally charged accounts ever produced about that fateful day," according to the National Geographic press release. Indeed, the conventional wisdom obscures more than it enlightens, missing how policymakers also expanded the nonmilitary elements of state power and harnessed them in the service of U.S. foreign policy.

The defense budget doubled between 2001 and 2008, as every pundit knows. Less remarked upon is that the foreign aid budget more than doubled over the same period. Some of this increase was directly linked to military intervention, but much of it was directed at other development goals, including basic public health. In some cases, foreign aid was the substitute for increased military intervention. This Sept. 11 marks the 20th anniversary of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil that took nearly 3,000 lives and had a profound impact on millions of others. The United States, and the entire world, were forever changed that day.

The vicious, unprovoked attacks that ripped apart Americans' sense of security 20 years ago resulted in the death of almost 3,000 people, 125 of them service members or Defense Department civilians and contractors. Those attacks remain the deadliest terrorist act in America's history, and aftershocks of the atrocity ripple through lives even today. It offers a comprehensive and intimate look at how the tragic events of that day impacted so many lives - capturing the heroic acts of selflessness and bravery of strangers saving one another at all costs and revealing the triumph of the human spirit when tested beyond belief.

The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were far more elaborate, precise, and destructive than any of these earlier assaults. But by September 2001, the executive branch of the U.S. government, the Congress, the news media, and the American public had received clear warning that Islamist terrorists meant to kill Americans in high numbers. Meanwhile, for all the original talk of banishing evil from the world, the GWOT's seemingly exclusive focus on Islamic extremism has led to the neglect of other threats actively killing Americans. In the 20 years since 9/11, thousands of Americans have succumbed to mass killers—just not the ones we went to war against in 2001. But none of those massacres were by the Islamic extremists we'd been spending so much time and money to combat. Since 9/11, more Americans have been killed by domestic terrorists than by foreign ones.

Political pressure kept national-security officials from refocusing attention and resources on the growing threat from white nationalists, armed militias, and other groups energized by the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim strains of the War on Terror. The six-part series, produced in official partnership with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, will air on Nat Geo over four consecutive nights, beginning August 29 at 9/8c, with episodes available to stream the next day on Hulu. It chronicles the events of that day in 2001—at times, minute by minute—from the perspective of first responders and survivors, also looking at the heroism prompted by 9/11 and the tragic day's lasting impact. Explore stories of those who remember that day and find out how to share your memories of these events. The attacks claimed nearly 3,000 lives and impacted many more globally.

On 20 September, US President George W Bush declared a 'War on Terror' and stated that defeating terrorism was now the world's fight. The US had experienced terrorist attacks previously, but none had been on the same scale or significance. On December 11, more than 120 countries stood together to remember the three-month anniversary of the terrorist attacks. On September 11 the terrorists committed an act of war against the innocent.

The terrorists killed not only to end lives -- they killed to end our way of life. Recently the terrorists said that we should forget the attacks of September 11. The terrorists would like nothing more than to silence the world's vocal opposition to their frightening vision they hope to export to every corner of the world.

The President fired the first shot in the war on terrorism with the stroke of his pen to seize terrorist financial assets and disrupt their fundraising pipelines. The world financial community is moving to starve the terrorists of their financial support. 196 countries support the financial war on terror; 142 countries have acted to freeze terrorist assets; in the U.S. alone, the assets of 153 known terrorists, terrorist organizations, and terrorist financial centers have been frozen; and major terrorist financial networks have been closed down. God of love we place in your loving arms the thousands of innocent lives that were lost on that unforgettable morning of September 11, 2001. We also remember the courage of the countless men and women who put their lives at risk in order to rescue, alleviate and bring solace to the afflicted.

Help us to continue to work for a world free from every form of hatred, violence and ignorance. May terrorism -- in all its forms -- disappear from the face of the earth. This tower has become a key focus for people who question the official account of what happened. A 47-storey building about 100 metres from the twin towers, WTC7 was never struck by an airplane. Two planes plus three towers has equalled plenty of questions - questions compounded by the BBC's own reporting of the collapse of WTC7.

In the frenetic, confusing aftermath of the terror attacks, the BBC reported that WTC7 had collapsed twenty minutes before the building actually came down. On 11 September 2001, four passenger planes were hijacked by radical Islamist terrorists - almost 3,000 people were killed as the aircraft were flown into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. Just hours after the collapse of New York's Twin Towers, a conspiracy theory surfaced online which persists more than 16 years later.

With an attack as deadly as nine-eleven, it's important to remember how much security has advanced throughout the years. Remembering this attack will ensure people take necessary measures to keep people safe when traveling, going to work, or attending public events. On Tuesday morning my special assistant Kathy Cooper told me just before the morning senior NSC staff meeting that an airplane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, but we did not know yet that it was a passenger jet aircraft. Five minutes later, the senior duty officer opened the door and whispered in her ear that another plane had hit the towers, "America is under attack." Within 10 minutes the Secret Service evacuated the White House complex, something we had never practiced or imagined before in the eight years I worked there.

"Specialist Beau Doboszenski was a tour guide that morning, on the far side of the building," Vice President Joe Biden said on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. "So far away, in fact, he never heard the plane hit. But he shortly felt the commotion. He could have gone home — no one would have blamed him. But he was also a trained EMT and came from a family of firefighters." The chain of coffee shops had a total of 250 branches in New York City's five boroughs, four of them adjacent to Ground Zero. "A major part of what's helped us through this was engaging in the relief effort," Marty Annese, a senior vice president, told a trade publication. The initial "instinctive" response of the company's crisis management team, according to Chairman Howard Schultz, was to close all company-owned stores in North America so that employees "could return home to be with family and friends," according to a company statement.

Headquarters conveyed this message by voice mail and e-mail to all the stores. The presence of senior management wasn't just important for companies in Manhattan—all around the country, bewildered and frightened employees were hungry for leadership. It's headquartered in Texas, and its people suffered little direct impact from the terrorism. Within a few days of 9/11, CEO Michael Dell and Kevin Rollins, Dell's president and chief operating officer, out of a simple desire to be involved and heard, decided they would meet with all of their directors and vice presidents, who were encouraged to talk about how they and their teams were holding up. The meetings were also taped and put on the company intranet for the benefit of every employee. In a stark departure from business as usual, Dell and Rollins said the focus should not be on sales or margins but rather on Dell's people and helping affected customers rebuild.

In a move that would soon attain legendary status, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani arrived at the World Trade Center within minutes of the first attack to take charge of the rescue operation. In the days and weeks that followed, he would conduct several press conferences in the vicinity of the destroyed towers, attend many funerals and memorial services, and maintain what seemed like a ubiquitous presence in the city. His visibility, combined with his decisiveness, candor, and compassion, lifted the spirits of all New Yorkers—indeed, of all Americans. What was unique about the events of September 11 was the breadth of their impact on business. Many others saw key components of their infrastructure destroyed, at least temporarily. A still larger group had to struggle with secondary effects—customers requiring heroic levels of service, suppliers unable to fill orders, breakdowns in transportation and communication, collapses in demand.

And every company in the country had to deal with traumatized and bewildered workers. At the same moment, some 1,600 miles away, Timothy Doke was fighting rush-hour traffic on his way to American Airlines headquarters in Dallas. His pager went off at the same time his cell phone started ringing. As Doke, American's vice president of corporate communications, scrambled to answer the phone and fish the pager out of his pocket, a sinking feeling came over him—a feeling made worse by a voice on the phone informing him that one of American's flights out of Boston had been hijacked. Doke passed the exit to his office and headed for the next one, which would take him to American's strategic command center, the company's hub for handling crisis situations. In response, the NYSE and other exchanges made dramatic steps to bolster their defenses against a physical disruption, including moving largely to electronic trading.