today show first moments of 911 part 1

[yankman19]

i want mcdonalds now



[yankman19]

hate commercials

[TheBjmr]

why the fuck are there commercials on here

[69jeffrow]

For the thousands of eyewitnesses I heard only two people actually seen and heard the planes. For me, if I see or hear a plan I would associate it with a plane crash, not explosion.

[waitew]

4 minutes after the 1st building was hit is how long it took to break in.

[Superhero6734s]

@waitew 9/11 was an inside job!

[waitew]

@Superhero6734s Yes,it was.

[SexAndCandyHair92]

04:39 notice how quiet that crowd is. I think they might have spotted the smoke.

[mervinprone]

At 5:11 - "Welcome to wardrobe 9-1-1"

[Idolfan21785]

September 11 2001 the day EVERYTHING changed

[MILKYPISTOL]

@Idolfan21785 not for me?

[docdrew87]

life was SO much simpler before this moment in our history.

[mity15]

I do like Howard Hughes shame that nasty thing broke this off may all the victims rest in peace and may the murderers BURN in HEll

[TheJdodd4]

it is really odd how more people find it to be interesting that matt lauer has hair than people who find it interesting that the news clip was about howard hughes (airplane guy) when this happened

[Mr7survival]

wow matt had hair! weird how they cut to commercials?

[007LethalEmpress007]

You see all these commercials of stuff America advertises and when it goes back to the show, it's like our world was turned upside down by the magnitude of this horrible act of HATE and violence

[r0ck3tsm0k3]

That woman on the phone was a retard.

[whatdemonsdotosaints]

8:47...the plane already hit...R.I.P.

[aj0446]

@mahalaS100  RIGHT!!!

[dirgekv2]

The WTC has just been hit by a plane... let's goto commercial.

[Psychotron7x2]

ITS ALL HUGHES' FAULT! GOD DAMN AVIATOR!

[NYNYRaider]

NBC had the WORST coverage that day...Good Morning America did the best nationally, and Fox 5 did the best locally in NY

[thisismyusername4456]

@NYNYRaider Thousands of people died and your concerned about coverage? Shut the fuck up.

[NYNYRaider]

I was in NY for 9/11, SON...infact just sent a Christmas card to the Sweeney family...I'm just saying how lame NBC's coverage was that day when Good Morning America interrupted a commercial to go live, and CBS, CNN, and everyone else did better...NBC4's local coverage in NY was good

[opusliveson]

How ironic that they talked about Howard Hughes and his flying just before the tragedy?

[Wonderbooty911]

"I mean,hello, howard!"

[aj71792]

4:32 to about 4:45. If you listen close over the music, you can hear screams.

[MacHead1984]

NOBODY FREAKIN' CARES ABOUT EGG MCMUFFINS WHEN THE US IS UNDER ATTACK

[silvereagle2061]

Isn't it ironic that they were talking about aviation on that day?

[silvereagle2061]

I'm surprised with a studio anywhere in Manhattan that the explosion couldn't have been heard and felt.

[crlaw75]

Thanks for recording and keeping this. Noone knew that this would happen.

[jabrooonni]

Are you friggen kidding me? The biggest story of the century, and they cut to commercial? Fucking liberal morons.



[upiluften]

@jabrooonni They didn't know what else to do.. this is a breaking story, a very BIG one at that. The commercials probably gave them time to scramble around.. get feeds, anchors, write scripts.

[jksonny]

You can see that as Matt finishes asking that last question, he is getting cues that something is happening.

[randomstuff6791]

OH FOR GOD'S SAKE!!! 06:11!!

[zmoney682]

It's really weird they were talking about Howard Hughes, the man that changed the world of aviation.

[upiluften]

@zmoney682 Howard Hughes didn't really change the world of Aviation.. the aircraft he built were ultra-niche products with no ascertainable customers in mind.

[ABigOneLikeDaddys]

5:06

Welcome to Wardrobe 911

Hey, the advertisment actually mentions 911 even before the news desk.

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[westnblu]

Wot kind of a 'witness' is this? She was clueless!! with all due respect of course!!

[NYNYRaider]

Good Morning America beat them by a whole minute...and they interrupted a commercial to go to it

[CommanderSabre]

i kinda linked the commercials.....

[violethill]

It's remarkable, the coincidence of the ad buy placed right at this time on this day on the Today Show, long in advance, and located here at spot 05:10:

"Welcome to wardrobe 9 - 1 - 1!".

[TheDickQuester]

@violethill he also said at the start that guy has "....made record breaking flights"

D:

[MisterBinx]

I'll never forget turning on my tv that morning. It must have been my 3rd day of high school. First thing on my TV was a screen full of smoke, and then the camera pans out. I could not believe it. Watching this video I can't even believe how much time has gone by because it seems like yesterday.

[bvespertine]

BREAKING NEWS *cuts to 2 mins of commercials*

WTF.

[DipsSwimmer]

OMG Matt has hair!

[blue3616]

It said it was 8:47 when it started...jeez, it just gives you chills to see matt still so oblivious to what just happened 1 minute ago.....

[DaisyK2tog]

Thanks for posting this. I was listening to the show on my radio that morning. Blogging about it now and needed to refresh my memory of what I heard. Thanks again.

[LILGmoneyVEVO]

really why wouldnt u cut out the commercals

[anewell41]

@LILGmoneyVEVO Im glad he didnt. I want to remember what it was like when I watched it live. Exactly like it was.

[Trancelotics]

@LILGmoneyVEVO Actually, I prefer having the commercials in. Why? Because I am watching this clip because I wanted to get a sense of the 'normalness' of things before 9/11 really kicked off. The whole stuff with that biographer and adverts do give that sense. 9/11 did just start off as any other normal day. And must be a weird feeling Richard Hack has knowing his interview was the last event of an era of normality.

[ArcInTheSky27]

It's hard to believe it's been ten years. :'(

[realistromeo]

Ok she looked at the towers right when they were hit, yet the explosion was not LOUD? are you kidings me? and she didnt hear a plane screeching?

[stevenalangley]

Thanks for posting. This was actually what I was watching when it all went down.

[MADWORLD1427]

Thanks for posting this piece of history!

[RetroVideoFan]

04:12. The first announcements.

[Horaciow14]

@RetroVideoFan Thanks

[AntoineStrider]

@RetroVideoFan 6:11 when they announce it after the commercial break.