[Jordo]

This is very disturbing. I also find it disturbing that the people in tower 2 were told by the port authority to go back up to their offices, that their building was secure. There has been very little press coverage of that, and I think it should be investigated.

The advice not to evacuate the South Tower was not so unreasonable at first, when it was widely assumed that the first plane crash was an accident. There was no expectation that another plane was coming.

People outside were being killed from the first moments, by falling debris and burning jet fuel. In that situation, people were probably safer inside the South Tower than they would have been running around outside. And the police and fire fighters likely had their hands full dealing with the North Tower. Another horde of people evacuating would not have helped the situation.

Of course, hindsight is wonderful, and after the second plane, it became clear that early evacuation of the South Tower would have been better in this case. But I don't fault people who couldn't accurately predict the future, during 10 or 15 minutes of utter chaos.

[Uncle Sham]

Knowing that a fire was raging on the upper floors of the north tower should have raised the question of whether or not structural failure was a possibility. If this was a possibility, however slight, BOTH towers and any building threatened by this potential failure should have been evacuated. When dealing with an unknown amount of danger, we always err on the side of caution. A simple telephoned bomb threat is enough to order any building evacuated. This was an ACTUAL fire.