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I was on top of the world, running a successful company with all my friends, making a million a day, debt free. September 11th changed everything. My office was in the World Trade Center; 658 of my 960 New York employees, including my brother and best friend, were killed. I felt responsible for my friends' families, but the company was losing money. We decided to rebuild, promising 25% of our profits to the families, and healthcare for ten years. The media attacked me, but my employees supported me. We rebuilt the company, and I gave my $100 million aside to the families, and their bonuses, and then repaid my employees who donated portions of their salaries. Their generosity saved the company and stitched my soul back together. They own 30% of the company because they are superhuman.

Harold Lutnick, head of Cantor Fitzgerald, describes how he viewed business and life differently after the terrorist attack that struck while he was away on his son’s first day of kindergarten. He spoke with business correspondent Terry Keenan about the impact on his firm and the families impacted. Lutnick explains that Cantor Fitzgerald is focused on ensuring the 700 families who lost a member are cared for. He says he spent the day talking with their insurance company, CNA, which told their people that they would treat the deaths as accidental, and would double the policy for all of the victims upstairs and for everyone connected to the firm. This added $35,000,000 to the group upstairs. He notes, however, that while $35,000,000 sounds like a lot, dividing it by 700 people yields only about $50,000 per family, which he says is not enough and underscores the need to work on their foundation. Lutnick mentions that Cantor Fitzgerald has established the Cantor Fitzgerald Foundation to raise money for the victims and to ease their lives. He says the foundation will go to take care of and try to help the victims of the tragedy, with aims such as paying for health insurance long-term, providing additional financial support when possible, and making lives easier in various ways. He emphasizes that the foundation is intended to help the victims and their families, and he invites donations from anyone who can contribute. When asked about the needs of the young families, Lutnick details the demographics: the average employee is around 33 years old, most are newly married, with about a dozen women pregnant with babies who just lost their husbands. He notes there are more than a thousand, possibly 1,500, children who have now lost a parent and the breadwinner. He reiterates the commitment to raising money for the foundation to support these families and relieve some burdens related to health insurance and living expenses. Lutnick reflects on how he felt during the events: he did not arrive early enough to be inside the building, stood outside at the door helping people evacuate, and tried to locate higher-floor survivors. He describes standing under the building as the second collapse occurred, feeling incredibly lucky to be alive, and expresses gratitude for that survival. He says he feels a responsibility to do his best for the 700 families and that his brother and sister are part of his family who were lost. He acknowledges his own survival, saying he is thankful, and emphasizes that he must work to support the group and that Cantor Fitzgerald’s traders, as well as his colleagues at East Speed and TradeSmart, are doing their best to support the victims. He closes by calling his employees heroes, along with the victims’ families, and repeating that he is one of them.

George Stephanopoulos is in lower Manhattan discussing the lack of rubble at the World Trade Center site. When asked where the rubble went, a volunteer explained that it fell into the ground and was pulverized.

I thought it would be great to own the Twin Towers. Luckily, the governor of New York, George Pataki, decided to privatize the World Trade Center. I received a call from his office asking if I would consider owning it. This turned out to be very beneficial for my family. On the morning of 9/11, I was getting ready to go to the dermatologist. My dermatologist advised me not to go downtown. We were fortunate because they had to collect insurance money. I reached out to the newly elected governor, Elliot Spitzer, and he helped me get the insurance money within 6 months. We were very lucky to receive $4.5 billion.

There's never been anything like this. It's disgraceful, and I hope we attack fast. I hope we find out who it is and go fast. I have about a 100 men working down here, so just to spur them on. They've been down here for about a day and a half. Well, hope they are. I haven't really focused on that, but we have a lot of people coming down here and a lot of people down here now. And they're brave guys. A couple of them got hurt, but we're, I'm just wanna spur them on a little bit. I was just down to ground 0. Ground 0 is a disaster. I've never seen anything like this. I hope we act very quickly. I hope we find out who did it and act accordingly and Do

The speaker, trained as a paramedic, went to the World Trade Center and was allowed inside by a FEMA agent. He and others directed people leaving the building to avoid falling debris. After the second plane hit, he asked an FBI agent about air support and bomb threats, suspecting the planes were a distraction for bombs in the garage. He told an FBI agent that the buildings would collapse, and the agent confirmed they knew. The speaker then left the building and offered help to paramedics outside. Shortly after, the building exploded and collapsed. He ran and took cover behind pillars, surviving the falling debris. He believes others he was running with who didn't turn were killed and cars were exploding.

Tommy and Jeff discuss a building collapse. They describe smoke, glass, and chaos. Bennett, a Secret Service agent, recounts a plane hitting the building. Bennett spells his name and identifies as Secret Service.

There's never been anything like this. It's disgraceful, and I hope we attack fast and find out who it is. I have about a 100 men working down here, just to spur them on. I have over a 100 men down here, and I hear you're doing an amazing job. Men from my company. We have another 100 coming in a little while. They've been down here for about a day and a half. I hope other developers are donating their time. We have a lot of people coming down here, and they're brave guys. A couple of them got hurt. Ground 0 is a disaster. I've never seen anything like this. I hope we act very quickly and find out who did it. I've donated to the widows and children's fund for the fallen firefighters over the years, and it certainly sounds like a good idea.

Speaker 0: Probably the best known builder, particularly of of of great buildings in the city. There's a great deal of question about whether or not the damage and and the ultimate destruction of the buildings was caused by the airplanes, by architectural defect, or possibly by bombs or or aftershocks. Do you have any thoughts on that? Speaker 1: Well, it was an architectural defect. You know, the World Trade Center was always known as a very, very strong building. Don't forget, that took a big bomb in the basement. Now the basement is the most vulnerable place because that's your foundation, and it withstood that. And I got to see that area about three or four days after it took place because one of my structural engineers actually took me for a tour because he did the building. And I said, I can't believe it. The building was standing solid, and half of the columns were blown out. I mean, so this was an unbelievably powerful building. If you know anything about structure, it was one of the first buildings that was built from the outside. The steel, the reason the World Trade Center had such narrow windows is that in between all the windows, you had the steel on the outside. So you had the steel on the outside of the building. That's why when I first looked and you had big heavy I beams. When I first looked at it, I couldn't believe it because there was a hole in the steel. And this is steel that was you remember the the width of the windows in the World Trade Center folks? I think you you know, if you're ever up there, they were quite narrow. And in between was this heavy steel. I said, how could a plane, even a plane, even a seven sixty seven or seven forty seven or whatever it might have been, how could it possibly go through this deal? I happen to think that they had not only a plane, but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously because I just can't imagine anything being able to go through that wall. Most buildings are built with the steelers on the inside around the elevator shaft. This one was built from the outside, which is the strongest structure you can have, and it was almost just like a like a can of soup. Speaker 2: You know, Donald, we were looking at pictures all morning long of that plane coming into Building Number 2. And when you see that approach the far side and then all of a sudden, within a matter of millisecond, the explosion pops out the other side. Speaker 1: Right. I just think that there was a plane with more than just fuel. I think, obviously, they were very big planes. They were going very rapidly because I was also watching where the plane seemed to be not only going fast, it seemed to be coming down into the building. So it was getting the speed from going downhill, so to speak. It just seemed to me that to do that kind of destruction is even more than a big plane because you're talking about taking out steel, the heaviest caliber steel that was used on a building. I mean, these buildings were rock solid, And, you know, it's just an amazing it's an amazing thing. Speaker 3: And it's not right to call up and then extrapolate and connect him to 09:11 when he came out on the day of 09:11 and the day after on Fox and on CNN and said, I believe there had to be bombs in those buildings. It was brought down by explosives. A plane doesn't do that. And then described the architecture of Tower 1 and Tower 2. If he was an insider, he wouldn't have said that. Speaker 4: A lot of people ask, how is it possible that, a Boeing plane would be able to destroy the or two planes would be able to destroy the Twin Towers because they were constructed to withstand like a 07/2007 Speaker 5: attack. It's tremendous power and tremendous heat, and people were willing to die. And when they're willing to die and when they're willing to become kamikazes of a sense, there's very little you can do about it. I mean, the the heat and the power actually, it was amazing that the the initial jolts didn't jar the building as much as people would have thought. But the the tremendous amounts of fuel that was dumped on the building and 1,600 degrees temperature, I guess that's probab

In Hoboken, Jim Friedel witnessed two planes purposefully crashing into the World Trade Center. People covered in bandages and blood were seen outside the building. Another explosion occurred, causing a building to collapse. The top of another building also collapsed, creating a massive plume of smoke. Firefighters and police were evacuating the area as people ran away in a frenzy.

The top floor collapsed. The speaker saw it blow and ran. He is 69 years old but was still able to run. He believes there are firemen trapped.

The speaker is told a deal will cost $1,500,000,000.0, much higher than anticipated. He says it would be cheaper to "fly fucking planes into the building and collect the insurance," but is reminded he'd need terrorism insurance. He asks Deborah to check the terrorism insurance on the towers. Another speaker proposes an idea to the vice president, who wants him to feel like part of the team. Someone finds a "burnt up, but not too bad" passport from a plane crash, identifying the person as Saudi Arabian. The plan is to call it the global war on terrorism, so they can fight everywhere. One person thinks "daddy's gonna think this is just so cool."

I built a successful company, hiring friends and reinvesting everything. On 9/11, we were on top of the World Trade Center. My brother and best friend were among the 658 employees killed out of 960 in New York. I was late that day because it was my son's first day of kindergarten. After the attack, we decided to rebuild, committing 25% of our profits to the families of the victims and covering their healthcare for ten years. The media criticized us, but we persevered. Employees sacrificed 25% of their pay, and later, when we took a division public as BGC, I gave them back all their money and more. My employees own 30% of the company. They saved me and stitched my soul back together.

The speaker is told a deal will cost $1,500,000,000.0, much higher than the $150,000,000 they expected. They lament buying "towers of babble filled with asbestos" and needing to get the asbestos out or the buildings gone, suggesting it would be cheaper to "fly fucking planes into the building and collect the insurance." They ask Deborah to check the terrorism insurance on the towers. Separately, someone proposes an idea to the vice president, who wants the person to "feel like he's part of the team." Another person says they found a "burnt up" passport from a "Saudi Arabian guy" at the plane crash site, assuming he is a terrorist. The plan is to call it the "global war on terrorism" so they can "fight everywhere." Someone else thinks "daddy's gonna think this is just so cool."

One day, I got a call from the governor of New York, George Pataki's office, asking if I'd consider owning the World Trade Center. It was very good for my family. On 9/11, I was getting ready to go to the dermatologist because I have light skin and can't take the sun. My wife insisted I go that morning and not go downtown. We got very lucky that day. Later, I had to collect the insurance money. I called the new governor, Elliot Spitzer, an old friend, and explained that I needed his help to collect from the insurance companies. He listened and got me the $4.5 billion in six months. We were very lucky.

Donald, a developer, says "there's never been anything like this. It's disgraceful, and I hope we attack fast. I hope we find out who it is and go fast." He has about 100 men on site, with another 100 arriving. They've been down here about a day and a half. Ground 0 is a disaster: "Ground 0 is a disaster. I've never seen anything like this. I hope we act very quickly. I hope we find out who did it and act accordingly and Do." He notes others may donate: "I haven't really focused on that, but we have a lot of people coming down here and a lot of people down here now. And they're brave guys. A couple of them got hurt." Asked about donating to the Widows and Children's Fund, "It's certainly been I've done it over the years, and it certainly sounds like a good"

Speaker 0: I speak to you today as a lifelong supporter and true friend of Israel. I'm a newcomer to politics, but not to backing the Jewish state. In 02/2001, weeks after the attacks on New York City and on Washington, and frankly, the attacks on all of us, attacks that perpetrated and they were perpetrated by the Islamic fundamentalists, mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Israel to show solidarity with terror victims. I sent my plane because I backed the mission for Israel 100%. Speaker 1: I mean, you look at Larry Silverstein, who's a terrific owner in New York and a very good friend of mine who I just called. I was very worried about him because I assume maybe he was in the building. He took possession of the building one week ago. As you know, he just bought the World Trade Center.

I was at the base of the second tower when it was hit on a busy morning. At 9:15, there was a powerful shaking, which felt like a heavy weight falling. People evacuated calmly, though you could see fear in their eyes and hear it in their voices. Once outside, a second explosion occurred, followed by a series of explosions. Emergency vehicles were present when debris fell on them, highlighting the unexpected nature of the structural damage. Now, eight hours later, the operation continues, and we can only speculate about the extent of the human toll caused by these explosions.

Stefanopoulos is down in Lower Manhattan today, George. There is surprisingly so little rubble where the towers stood. A volunteer, Robert Karlinski, explained to me the reason there's so little rubble: "the reason there's so little rubble is that all of it simply fell down into the ground and was pulverized, evaporated." Graphics show World Trade Center 1 rubble, and in the background, we can see Building 7 still frothing up into dust. "So we know it was before 05:20PM that day." The story that they shipped all that steel off to China just doesn't make sense. They were doing a bucket brigade for a while there, just moving stuff with buckets because they didn't wanna, you know, hurt any of the potential survivors under the rubble. In the book report from Ground 0, assistant chief firefighter Harry Myers says, "I never saw a file cabinet, never saw a desk, never saw a chair, never saw any type of office furniture. There is no glass. It just disappeared and has become part of this fluffy white or gray dust."

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to own the Twin Towers when the governor of New York decided to privatize the World Trade Center. On the morning of 9/11, I was getting ready to go to the dermatologist and luckily avoided going downtown. After the tragedy, I needed help collecting insurance proceeds, so I reached out to the newly elected governor, Elliot Spitzer, who was a friend. He listened and managed to secure $4.5 billion for me within six months. Overall, we were very lucky throughout these events.

George Stefanopoulos reported from Lower Manhattan on the surprisingly small amount of rubble at the World Trade Center site. A volunteer, Robert Garlinski, explained that the rubble fell into the ground and was pulverized or evaporated. Dump trucks have been removing debris, including burned-out cars, since 6 AM. There is an increased military presence, including Humvees and National Guard divisions from the 69th, 258th, 105th, and 42nd divisions, primarily for crowd control and protection. Stefanopoulos noted that recovery workers have found very few bodies, believing they are buried deep within the rubble. Much of the buildings' structure was pulverized when the towers fell.

An individual recounts working with Israeli prime ministers and dreaming of holding the Twin Towers. They received a call from Governor George Pataki's office about potentially owning the World Trade Center, which proved very good for their family. On 9/11, they were scheduled to see a dermatologist due to their sensitivity to the sun, preventing them from going downtown. They then discuss collecting insurance proceeds after the event. They asked newly elected Governor Elliot Spitzer for help, explaining that without his assistance, they would never collect from the insurance companies. Spitzer intervened and secured $4.5 billion in 6 months.

I just saw the World Trade Center collapse. I was trying to figure out a way to get out of here. Where should I go? Oh my god. There's nothing but smoke out there. I'm coming inside. Oh my god. I just saw it just tumbled in on itself. I see nothing but smoke. I see nothing but smoke and ash. And I don't know where I

Speaker A: I speak to you today as a lifelong supporter and true friend of Israel. I’m a newcomer to politics, but not to backing the Jewish state. In 2001, weeks after the attacks on New York City and on Washington, and frankly, the attacks on all of us, attacks that perpetrated and they were perpetrated by the Islamic fundamentalists, mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Israel to show solidarity with terror victims. I sent my plane because I backed the mission for Israel 100%. Speaker B: I mean, you look at Larry Silverstein, who’s a terrific owner in New York and a very good friend of mine who I just called. I was very worried about him because I assume maybe he was in the building. He took possession of the building one week ago. As you know, he just bought the World Trade Center.

What happened? Did the side of the building come down? There was a whole bunch of smoke and glass. I think we're just about the last ones in this building right now. I hear the top of the building fell over on us. We're standing right underneath the Sixth World Trade when a building actually, the plane made it the first time. We had a plane, the engine screaming, and then just an explosion. Glass, then everybody was running around trying to get away. My name is Bennett, b e double n e t t e. I'm Secret Service, OST.