[SarahW]

Nobody in the South Tower was automatically doomed - if an evacuation had been started before the second plane hit, many lives would have been saved.

[newwahoo]

"Nobody in the South Tower was automatically doomed - if an evacuation had been started before the second plane hit, many lives would have been saved."

Sure, and they probably should have done it. But I don't think anyone knew of, or could imagine, an attack on this scale. I know when I heard the second hit outside my window, a second or so after I saw the building explode, I was shocked. Until that point I thought, as did the media here in NYC, that the first hit was some kind of accident. If anything, the air traffic controllers didn't get the word out fast enough.