September 11th as it happened... (ABC - Part 2)
WTC 2
4:10
SAWYER: We had seen a plane coming in from the other direction earlier. I had noticed it. Had you, Charlie? I didn't know if that plane had been circled wide and came back from another direction, but we all watched it, and I just assumed...
WTC 1
8:35
Witness, Karim Arraki
GIBSON: Yes, it--with that kind of smoke, there's got to be an awful lot of flame in there. And--and I think all of us have thought at one point or another about the fact that these buildings, though they are so majestic as they stand above the skyline of New York, that it's very difficult for emergency workers or firefighters to--to fight these. We have a witness who has called in to speak to us. His name is Karim Arraki.
Mr. Arraki, did you, as I understand, they're telling me in my ear--is it true that you witnessed the first plane hit the tower?
Mr. KARIM ARRAKI (Eyewitness): Yeah.
GIBSON: Could you--could you give me some sort of a description of it?
Mr. ARRAKI: I was sitting in my car here in Greenwich, you know. I just saw the plane was coming down from the left side and going straight to the building, you know, and go inside.
GIBSON: It actually went inside the building?
Mr. ARRAKI: Excuse me?
GIBSON: It went in--it flew right into the building?
Mr. ARRAKI: I saw it come up from the left, and I saw the plane coming through to the building, go inside. A small plane.
GIBSON: You say small plane. Was it a jet?
Mr. ARRAKI: Excuse me?
GIBSON: Was it a jet plane?
Mr. ARRAKI: No, no. It was plane, you know, like they teach the people to pilot plane--small plane, you know. It was that kind of plane.
GIBSON: You mean like a small single or double-engine prop plane?
Mr. ARRAKI: Yeah. Double-engine, yeah, yeah, yeah.
GIBSON: Right. And it actually went into the building there on the upper floors?
Mr. ARRAKI: Yes, going into the building, and I never saw that plane before. It's like something--I don't know, it's like they work with the motors--I never saw a plane like that before! Yeah!
GIBSON: All right.
Mr. ARRAKI: (Unintelligible).
GIBSON: Mr. Arraki, you are down in that area right now, then?
Mr. ARRAKI: Yeah, I'm in Greenwich here on Northmore Street.
GIBSON: Can you--can you tell if there's a large number of fire equipment and--and emergency equipment on the scene?
Mr. ARRAKI: Excuse me?
GIBSON: Can you see fire equipment or emergency equipment on the scene?
Mr. ARRAKI: I don't know. The fire is upstairs on the building and the second plane is--is--all the buildings now.
GIBSON: And did you see the second plane come in?
Mr. ARRAKI: Yeah. I--I saw--yeah, I saw the second plane, it go boom. I--I heard, you know. I just wake up my head like that I saw the side, too.
GIBSON: And that second plane much larger than the first?
Mr. ARRAKI: Same. Same, two both. Both same.
GIBSON: They're both the same?
Mr. ARRAKI: Yeah.
GIBSON: Because the pictures we see, the second plane looks rather large.
Mr. ARRAKI: No, is going inside, too. Is going inside the building, too. And the second hole it's smaller than the other one.
GIBSON: And it actually also penetrated the building? You could see it go in?
Mr. ARRAKI: Yeah, inside. Inside, inside. No planes outside, no planes.
GIBSON: Now, can you see if there are people fleeing the building? We don't have shots yet from street level. Can you see if there are people leaving the building?
Mr. ARRAKI: No, I can't see, because I told you, I'm on Northmore in Greenwich. I just saw up the building, I don't see downstairs.
GIBSON: So you're in Greenwich Village?
Mr. ARRAKI: Yeah. I 'm on Greenwich Street in Northmore.
GIBSON: Oh, I see, on Greenwich Street. OK, I can--no, that's--that's just a local street. For people who don't know New York, that is right in the vicinity right nearby, but not actually on the site of the--of the World Trade Centers.
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