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JP, here is my unfounded "scare" yesterday:

I had alot of errands in a few different towns to accomplish beginning early yesterday morning. One was to go to the Salvation Army. By the time I arrived there at about 11 a.m., I had to desperately use a bathroom. So my friend Paul suggested I use the Salvation Army loo. As I rushed to the back of the building and entered a separate back room mostly for workers and folks dropping off heavy items like furniture, I came across a television with no one watching it and it was apparently tuned into NYC channel 7 news (abc). It was covering a breaking story of an attack in NYC. All I saw were split screens and "Live" and frantic activity and shots of NY.

Across from where the tv was set up, was the bathroom. But I did not have to use it anymore as I was too shocked and stunned looking at the tv. My heart was pounding trying to figure it all out; is this a new attack? Paul and I kept going back and forth with comments to and questions for each other, looking for clues; there was no indication or footage that told us it was from 911. It appeared as a breaking news, live, in progress broadcast. Keep in mind that our cable was out until late afternoon on 911, as luck would have it, so we missed all the "live" extended television coverage except for what little was showed afterwards. By then, most news reports had replaced the "Live" with "Recorded earlier"....etc, and they had greatly edited and condensed the live footage.

But the footage Paul and I saw on the tv was live, so it said across the scene. It was also filled with tech and communications problems and other mistakes and lengths of silence on the parts of those covering in the studio. It was really as if it was raw and live in progress.

We tried to turn the channels on the tv, to see if it was real and on other stations or not, but we couldn't. The remote was not responding to us.

Finally, after a good 3 minutes or so, another television news anchor came on and said that courts would close at 1 p.m. I looked at Paul and said it is probably 911 footage because courts are not open on Saturdays. But, we wondered, why would a tv channel be replaying such a thing?

Shortly thereafter, a Salvation Army worker came over to us and started watching the tv, too, so we asked him what it was, and he told us it was a video that someone had just dropped off! At that same moment, FINALLY -- the footage of of the burning Twin Towers and then the smoke clouds when the Towers tumbled was clearly showed, where it had not been shown at all before as we watched the tv!

Whew! Sigh of relief! I told the man that we couldn't figure out whether it was a new attack or not because all the footage we were watching up until that point did not show the Towers. I told him it gave me quite a scare. I ended up buying that video for $4 on the spot. Finished watching it this morning. It was live, as it was happening for a few hours.