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...INSIDE The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey leased six floors of the north tower. Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, on floors 101-105, cannot account for 1,000 of its employees...
...INSIDE Morgan Stanley Dean Witter was the single largest tenant in the south tower, leasing 21 floors. Both buildings hold 50,000 people...
...television mast on Tower 1 supported 10 television antennas and numerous other services. Ten television stations, including all the major networks, broadcast from the mast...
...stood still. We couldn't move--that must have been the whole idea--so we had no choice but to watch. Every city cataloged its targets; residents looked at their skylines, wondering if they would be different in the morning. The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated, as were colleges and museums. Disney World shut down, and Major League Baseball canceled its games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush...
...agents all were subdued and shaken. One agent sadly reported that the Secret Service field office in New York City, with its 200 agents, was located in the World Trade Center. The plane's TV monitors were tuned in to local news broadcasts; Bush was watching as the second tower collapsed. About 45 minutes after takeoff, a decision was made to fly to Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska, site of the nation's nuclear command and one of the most secure military installations in the country. But Bush and his aides didn't want to wait that long before...