I’m semi-slidin here...just ran across this in my archives.
The woodriff CNN reporting video, Aired September 11, 2001 - 14:20 ET, where she’s talking with MCINTYRE, but I no longer have the sound but i have the transcript.
“WOODRUFF: Jamie, Aaron was talking earlier — or one of our correspondence was talking earlier — I think — actually, it was Bob Franken — with an eyewitness who said it appeared that that Boeing 757, the American jet, American Airline jet, landed short of the Pentagon.
Can you give us any better idea of how much of the plane actually impacted the building?
MCINTYRE: You know, it might have appeared that way, but from my close-up inspection, there’s no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon. The only site is the actual site of the building that’s crashed in, and as I said, the only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you can pick up in your hand. There are no large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around, which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon and then caused the side to collapse.
Now, even though if you look at the pictures of the Pentagon you see that the floors have all collapsed; that didn’t happen immediately. It wasn’t until almost about 45 minutes later that the structure was weakened enough that all of the floors collapsed. WOODRUFF: And Jamie, this happened — we are now able to reconstruct — about 9:38 this morning. At that time, Jamie, what are we talking about, dozens, hundreds of people at work in the building?”
The first two videos on my news playlist are replays of Fox reports as things were happening. One of the commentaries before the 2nd plane hits suggests that someone thought it was a small commuter plane that hit the first building. No one wanted to believe terrorism until there was no way to avoid it. What I remember were the endless posters and the candles.