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President Bush and his staff look out the windows from Air Force One at their F-16 escort while en route to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

As they watch live media coverage of the day's events in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), Vice President Dick Cheney and senior staff witness the collapse of the South Tower of World Trade Center. In the photo with the Vice President are, from left to right, Josh Bolton, Norm Mineta, Scooter Libbey, Condi Rice and Mary Matalin.

Vice President Cheney talks with President Bush as senior staff listen from the PEOC in the White House.

President Bush, accompanied by Andy Card and Admiral Richard Mies, conducts a video teleconference with members of his National Security Council at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.

After departing Offutt Air Force Base, President Bush again confers with Vice President Cheney from Air Force One during his flight to Andrews Air Force Base. The two men were in almost constant communication that morning after the GWB left the school classroom.

President Bush issuing orders to White House Chief of Staff Andy Card aboard Air Force One.