00:05So we had this group of 54 people in this internal conference room, so it was four walls and a
00:12door, no windows, and at about 8.30, 8.46, 8.47, the lights in that room flickered.
00:27We didn't see anything, we didn't hear anything, we didn't feel anything, it was just this flicker of lights.
00:35Almost immediately, a gentleman from Aon Corporation kind of came into the room and he said, hey, there's been an
00:42explosion in the North Tower and we've got to evacuate.
00:46These huge black holes through the sides of the building of the North Tower, plain, redder than any red I'd
00:53ever seen before in my life, looking up the side of the building, gray and black billows of smoke just
00:58pouring out of those big holes.
01:02And if you remember, it was a crystal clear day here in September, and I remember being able to see
01:09through the smoke and the fire into those huge black holes into the North Tower.
01:14And I could see the fuselage, pieces of the fuselage of a large tiny.
01:19And my first thought, immediately thought was, my God, how did that pilot not see the building? How did he
01:27miss?
01:31Did he miss?
01:32I wanted to go home.
01:35I didn't want to be there, I wanted to go home.
01:42There were people on that floor, looking out those windows, and they seemed like they were mesmerized, frozen, whether they
01:51were frozen in fear, just mesmerized by what they saw.
01:54I'm looking at this and I'm saying, this isn't an Xbox game, this isn't a made-for-TV movie, this
02:01is reality.
02:03I don't want to go.
02:06There was a gentleman that was in the meeting with me, and he was behind me.
02:13I almost knocked him over, but this guy was a huge human being.
02:16But I was in such a hurry, I turned around, kind of almost knocked him over.
02:20And he put his big, giant hands on my shoulders, and he said, what are you going to do?
02:24I said, I'm getting the heck out of here, I've got to leave.
02:28And I said, what are you going to do, man?
02:30And he looked at me, and he said, you know what, leaving's a good idea, but before I go, I'm
02:37going to go.
02:38And he pointed to the men's room.
02:41And that simple delay, two and a half minutes or so delay, in his day, cost him a lot.
02:50Because I was somewhere between 74 and 72 in that stairwell, when the plane, the second plane went through our
02:58building.
02:58And it went through our building between floors 77 and 82.
03:03So we were just a few floors below the strike zone.
03:09I never felt anything like that in my life.
03:12That building, that firestool, well, that we're inside.
03:16This concrete bunker, it starts to shake so violently back and forth.
03:22And that's the chance we had for the first time to encounter the police,
03:26and the firefighters, and the paramedics from New York City and the Florida Park.
03:33Just the looks in their eyes.
03:35No words.
03:37Just the looks in their eyes.
03:41Hold the hope on the shore.
03:47They knew that they were going up those steps to try to fight a fire that they couldn't eat.
03:55They knew that they were going up those steps to try to save lives that they probably couldn't see.
04:03And they knew that they were going up, and they knew that they were never coming back.
04:10Could you be that brave?
04:13Could you be that slow?
04:15I mean, un...
04:21When you got down to the lobby level, this level,
04:26and you looked out with arching glass windows into the streets and between the two buildings,
04:33all you saw was twisted steel, crumbled concrete, and red markings, red blotches on the ground.
04:44And you knew what those red blotches were.
04:46You knew it.
04:48But it was the next couple of sounds that we heard that are the sounds that many of us that
04:54were here that day,
04:56hear every day.
04:57First thing in the morning, last thing in the morning.
05:01First you hear the sound of the twisting steel and the crumbling concrete that once was the South Tower,
05:08the building that we had been in just eight, nine minutes earlier,
05:13was coming from the ground.
05:15I don't have survivors here.
05:17I wonder how I survived, but I knew relatively quickly that what I had to do with this survival is
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