reSee.it Video Transcript AI Summary
On a clear September morning in 2001, life in New York changed irrevocably when someone saw a person falling. The attack was a surprise on a powerful nation, focused on globally and instantaneously. The symbols of globalization, skyscrapers and jets, were turned against themselves.
American Airlines flight 11 crashed into the North Tower between the 94th and 98th floors. People below the impact felt terror, while those in the zone died instantly or leaped from the tower. The building swayed but stood. Soon after, a second plane hit the South Tower. People realized it was terrorism. The jet fuel ignited office fires across multiple floors, weakening the steel and causing the collapse.
Corpses littered the plaza as firemen and rescue workers arrived. People were breaking windows in the North Tower, desperate to breathe. A third jetliner crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. All air traffic was grounded. The fires in the towers generated immense heat. The South Tower began to fall, followed by the North Tower. The buildings collapsed in ten seconds, releasing heat and chaos. The buildings came straight down, aimed at their foundations.
Buildings 1 through 7 of the World Trade Center were completely destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people marched north from the Financial District. Doctors and nurses braced for survivors that never came. New York will never be the same.