CNN Sept. 11 live on air video 9/11

[rexbitten]

How could, we ever forget this day !? From the Selfless acts of those who were lost trying to rescue. To the many,many whose lives were so unneccesarily cut short that day. Those should never ever be forgotten. But we also should never ever forget to keep our eyes open and directly glued on the kinds of cowards who make events like this a reality in our world today !

[Bluesteel34]

May the Victims of 9/11 rest in peace

[boardingtop]

"the greatest revenge is to live well"

[blackoxdude]

I love you dad

[yanksbeast13]

who would do such an evil thing, who would do that. murdering thousands of innocent people, god be with the families of the victims you are in our prayers

[Rodri2782]

This terrible day changed the whole world as we knew it !

[BROWNEYEZGUERITA]

I was starting my senior year in hight school in the west coast woke up early and turn on the tv to find disturbing images of the first tower then all of a sudden I saw the 2nd plane hit I was shocked because never seen a plane hit a building till this day I have that image in me and if it affected me by seeing it live on Tv I cant imagine how much it has done to ppl being there since then I value life being serious and I always tell my love ones How much I love them.

[caitlincaitlin310]

Very impressed with Aaron Brown's reporting. It was his first week at CNN, and he hadn't been scheduled to go on the air for several hours, but he broadcast this from the rooftop of their studios there. He must have known people in and around the towers. You can hear him get choked up at several points, but he is never hysterical and just presents the information as he knows it. He still brings light to the gravity of the situation with a human and compassionate touch.

[fredsiika1]

I was in that schoolyard the lady refers to...I'll never forget the horrible earthquake feeling that my fellow students and I felt that day. Its seemed as though it was the end of the world.

[Nitehawk770]

We all remember where we were, what we were doing that Tuesday morning. I was in my sophomore year of high school.......

[MissHLA93]

I remember I was 8 and was ill that day and was at home with my mom and my older brother who was 20 went for an interview with someone for a job and I woke up and was watching cartoons and all of a sudden the apartment literally shook and me and my mom ran out to the terrace to see and this massive plane just flew above us and just crashed in the trade center about half a mile away! And my mom called my brother to see if he was alright and he said there was a massive boom from the other tower

[Rrushi1085]

I was 15 years old at the time I just finished school and when I got home my mum was watching the story on the tely. Me and my mum thought that it was some kind of a movie or some sort but it turned out to be real, my family started crying for the people in the WTC.

Best wishes to the families that lost their love ones.

[StirItUP1973]

That entire day, I skipped work and was literally glued to my Television. I think my mouth was open the entire time in shock.

[mjdepaolo]

i Remeber seeing this when i was in class, in the 4thgrade.. .. i had no clue what was going on.... but i will never forget..

[MrCurtisable]

I live in New York and was in the 6th Grade when 9/11 happened, and my school was only minutes away from the twin towers. My father worked on the 10th floor of the WTC at the time. He made it out safely but knew many victims who did not. God Bless America and the entire world.

[Blaze78x]

I remember I was in 5th grade here in Fort Worth when this occured, I didn't fully grasp the impact of what had happened, but now i see this atrocity and my heart sinks in my chest, seeing what we humans are capable of.

[nycchica15]

you know that part where they said, "people in the neighborhood are running from the scene screaming, the neighborhood is surrounded by a white cloud"?

i was in that crowd running and screaming. I was 7.

[spacegirl1998]

I never heard of 9/11 until 2006, I thought that one plane crashed and that people died and people tore down the second tower. Than I found out what did happen, I didn't care, but now that I see the whole thing, I cannot stop shaking :(

[Marksman230591]

Jusat seeing these videos as they happened Live... it just sends chills down my spine, and I'm not American.

[fiedler12345]

this never gets any easier to see. nor will it ever

[SteelCity48]

Not any less disturbing than it was 8 years ago on that day. Nobody will ever forget that day, children will see this a hundred years from now. The most devastating few hours in United States history. Still unbelievable.

[Chauvignoul]

I will remember, like you all, that day all my life...

I was suppose to go to the University and in the morning before going watching CNN as usual. The I see that huge all in on of the towers.

Ans minutes later,

LIVE

The second plane hit the bulding.

It took me several second to realize what happen.

I had the impression that the last days were coming...

[leanneroyo]

i have shivers wenever i happen to see the 9/11 vids on youtube

[SandiByrd]

the most horrific thing I have ever had the displeasure of witnessing....

god bless the victims and their families. this sort of pain just never goes away..

[tnic469]

When I first heard about the news I was driving in downtown Fort Worth with my windows down and my music off, but I kept hearing Peter Jennings voice echo through the downtown area. I was at a stop light when I saw about 30 people gathered around a store watching the TV screen, so I asked a man what happened? He replied, " Everything has just changed"! I just left my car running at the stop light got out of my car and just stood there in horror and disbelief! Everything changed that day.

[AkuzedCycotic]

One of the worst days of my life. I was glued to the TV for several days after that. It's horrible the things humans can be capable of.

[iKr0ok]

A Year later (2002) me and my mom and some of her friends/family, we had drove the boat right on the side of the statue of liberty and it was just unbelievable that to look to the left, that the twin towers are just vanished, RIP.

[40sSonggirl]

That terrible day, the entire week, such sadness, numbing despair for the entire nation. I have never forgotten the look on everyone's faces that week as we still had to either go to the grocery store, or regular business. You would make eye contact, everyone looked like they had been either been crying or were about to. Some were simply staring off in disbelief.  I will never forget the faces, the feelings, or the many victims. We will always remember, we must never forget.

[picozz05]

i was 10.when i came home my whole fam was sitting in front of the tv and just were shocked.on that day the world saw evil..

[Rowan1253]

OMG, this day was horrible. I can't believe my teacher told me to search this up!!!

[antistar1000]

'There are no words'...0.52. 8 years on there are still no words.

[hollywoodstarlet21]

this day proved how bad our world has gotten. it makes me so sad to think that we have to live in a world with this much hate. ill never forget this day it was devastating. it was one of the worst days of my life and one of the worst days in history

[baseballjmr]

God Bless the USA

To all those who died, or were effected by this travesty in some way, my heart is with you.

[Shmilfke]

We should all watch this video every morning, and realize the world we live in today.

We must continue fighting terrorism and always be on the offense, or this is what happens.

United we Stand!

God Bless America!

[Freezingred2]

I was only 5, my parents did not tell me about it!

[trumancapoteisgreat]

I will never, ever forget this day. This was the worst day I've ever had, I just didn't know it when I was 11.

[leanneroyo]

so true i was only like in the first grade but i knew in my gut that something was up, i just didnt noe wat i was too young..

[supervixen2x0]

I remember watching it on MSNBC and the reporter that was there when the first tower fell screamed and sounded like she was crying..... I for one wouldn't have been able to hold my composure even from the security of a news room watching something like that. Absolutely terrifying. :(

[cmneir2]

I remeber hearing my brother say "mom is that real?" and he was in like 2 grade it was terrible

[babybayleee]

I used to be able to see the twin towers from my backyard and it sucks because my dad died in the 2nd tower on that day. I'm still hurting from it and i don't know if i can ever recover =/. I cried for so many hours.My heart goes out to the firefighters and people who lost their lives on that day<3

[aikmanbest]

sorry

[USAneedsaChange]

Terribly sorry to hear that. Try and live a happy life, maybe that can please your father even if he is in heaven or somewhere else. R.I.P.

[johnalang]

I am sorry for your loss

[brady3249ers]

I live in Nor California and my dad called and woke me up and said to turn the tv on. My girlfriend and I watched the whole thing and my dad was so upset because he knew many lives were lost including hundreds of firemen. My dad is a fireman and he knew those brave NYFD were running into those buildings while everyone else was running out of them. Hug a fireman!!!

[aztecadoga]

Good bless America!!!!

We Will never forget this attacks

Sapin and USA forever

From Spain

[Audiomuse]

This was the worst day of my life too

I remember this so well. I will never forget

[Nugget584]

this was the worst day of my life

[narutokunaifan]

He's talking for the radio too....

[sdc1977]

I'll never forget this horrible day. What a horrible thing to have happened. Can't wait for bin laden to be caught; I'd gladly shoot him myself for free. God bless America!

[tommynbryce]

all iremmebr is tht i wasin first grade and it was picture day.. i remmebr going home and seeignthis on the news.

[bigman378]

i was in seventh grade and i can remember going from class to class just watching this

[MastroDutch]

by me it was evening and my father go to sport news but before is live news and then we see this

[saloniki5maria]

i live in greece....i had just woken up from my evening nap and i oppened the tv to see a daily serial and i saw this...at first i thought they han put a film with terorist like the ones with airplanes we all know and seen...it was 4 o'cklock in the afternoon.i discovered that it was no fil when i changed channel.i was terrored to see that tihs kind of thing can happen in a country like america and i believe what i say beause i am a canadian citizen.

[MCARDLE666]

i'm not american either but it's awful looking at such an amazing city and seeing something like this happen.fairplay to to all the firefighters and police officers.i'll never forget that day

[fuglyno1]

im not even american but i will never forgive or forget this. flying planes into the buildings though... its just fucking sick and evil. i can't stop thinking about the people who were trapped and the firefighters who were trying to save them. i wish i never watched this.

[tittyj2020]

"there are no words"....yeah right....Aaron Brown managed to keep talking just fine.

[downdere]

ill never forget this day

[zmoney682]

i was 7 i live in ny too (not the city) i went to school, then after like 15 minutes we all were organized at our schools flag pole. my mom came to pick me up and she was crying. she picked me up and brought me into our car. my dad my sister and her were there and i had no clue wat was going on. ill i knew was something about nyc big buildings destroyed. i thought godzilla had attacked the city (mind u i was 7) r.i.p. all lost

[IVSolar]

I remember that day vividly. I was at Los Angeles Air Force Base sitting in my rig waiting to get unloaded when they started talking about it on the radio, It was a tough moment for me knowing this was really hapening.

[SugarKowalczyk88]

What a sureal, scary day that was.

[LadyJay114]

I will say this: Aaron Brown was awesome that day, and its a shame that CNN dumped him.

[SocaKing]

Yeah I remember I was in the 7th grade and there was this girl who was always late, so when she said that planes just hit the twin towers, nobody believed her. Then when I found out it was true I tried for 2 days to get in touch with my mom because she worked at the Daily News at the time which is about 4 blocks away. It was so scary.

[OmgitsNeens]

CNN is the most fammiliar broadcast that most people have a vivid memory of for 9/11. I remember the TV went on in our house the majority hours of the day.

[feastguy101]

I was in school when it happened. No classes yet. Everyone was in shock. I was 15 at the time.

[MGR1900]

What I find amazing is 6 years after this event, for many Americans, this might as well have been last century. American Idle is on tonight and that's what is important.

[jetmech184]

well said... im not trying to sound mean or unpatriotic but its like this country needs another 9/11 to bring people down to earth again. Its sad

[Zhagarim]

My sentiments exactly :(

[seddelen]

Here in Denmark, palestinian refugee's was drivin up and down the streets wavin palestinian flags honking there horns... seriously, us danes had murder in our eyes, they were arrested.. god damn i hate'em

[a0lsucks]

Palestinians are like people in Denmark - there are good ones and bad ones. I remember CNN coverage of hundreds of Palestinians holding candles outside the American embassy to show their support and solidarity with the American people. Stop generalizing please, it's stupid.

[Sunshine121121]

I was supposed to fly to Brazil in two hours. Shut the entire O'hare airport down. Lots of people crying. I was only 16

[XmissrenegadeX]

I was 9 when this happened. It was early in the morning(I live in Utah), I walked into my living room and my mom was crying while watching the news. When they showed the clips of the planes going into the towers, at first I didn't think it was real. I just thought that it was a movie or something, I never thought that something like this could really happen. My condolences to all of the families that lost loved ones in that tragedy.

[Darkandia]

i was 8 and i was on vacation with my grandma and grandpa...i startedschool late that year and as i was in NYC with my grandma and grandpa i was witnissing people jumping out of 100 story building it was the most horifying thing i ever saw

[imacrazyfelon]

i was 17 at school.. and al the muslims at school started celebrating..

Crazy!

[stonewalljackson88]

i was in 7th grade...in my science class....then the principal came in and said that something was wrong..and they turned on the tv for a second and the first plane had just flew into it

[Adino1]

I had just turned 22. I was at home making breakfast while watching the news when this popped up on CNN. I remember clearly realising that it was the WTC and was in shock. A hundred thoughts when though my head, first I thought it was a huge fire then they said a small plane had hit it. I thought, man that plane must of been loaded with some heavy explosives but a small plane couldn't do that.

I never ate my breakfast.

[surgarangelxo]

i was 13 when i first saw this just starting high school..

it is still so unbelievable

[nairais316]

I was 16 when it happened and when the first plane hit the tower, I was in U.S. History class. It always struck me as kind of ironic that while I was sitting in that class, history was being written. I remember that day quite vividly.

[MNTProductions]

i was in 3rd grade...i live in queens...i saw the whole thingg

[bounceybaybay]

i was in 1st grade when this happend it was morning nd i remeber my dad took me out of school , and the news was on i didnt know wat happend till a couple years ago nd i cry everytim i c this , its just stupid that those idiots killed those people

[dontgetit5]

i was in 2nd grade(cent time) i knew what the trade centers were...just didnt find out all details after school.

[Kunichiro]

I'm from Colombia. I was in my first year of my career, I was 19 years old. I was in algebra class when two class-mates get into the classroom telling this to the professor. I got out of there, I found my best friend out of the building and we went to the medical center, and we saw it ! I couldn't believe it.

[julianisawesome]

i was stuck in the smoke with my dad when the last tower colapsed and you could see dust and it felt like somone throwing rocks at your back. my cousin died from a direct hit in the first tower

[web2970]

I live in ohio and all i remember of that building is it collasping.

[elebeefcakes]

I was in 3rd grade in 2001 and i woke up and i live on the west coast so it was about 7 in the morning and i see my mom crying in the living room. i looked at the tv and i just saw the south tower collapse.

RIP all 3000 victims..

[andykins118118]

same thing, but i didn't hear until after school. it was kinda hard to understand in 3rd grade...

[julianisawesome]

i was 13 i lived in queens nyc and you could see the smoke go on forever. me and my dad went to manhatten and the south tower colapsed and we got in the car and drove really fast.

[mysteryboard74]

im from toronto canada.i was in grade 5 and that morning after first recess when we got back our teacher explained to us the the wtc had collapsed. of course i didnt know what the trade center was or even its significance. i just went on my day rather normally until i got home to see my family watching the tv and my mom was sobbing. it was a close call because my dad had just been in the tower for work, the week before, and was leaving in 2days to work there again. it was a tragic day

[DanielLukic]

I live on the other side of the world, in Australia. The terrorist attacks happened at like 11pm our time so I woke up to the events on the news. I was 16 years old and I cried and I cried. I've since been to Ground Zero. What a horrific day for the world, the country, the city and the people.

[djmilo234]

me too. i was only 8

[Waterhouz2007]

I'm Norwegian, and had just come home from school in Norway as I hear my father shout to me come here, come here. And we witnessed the 2nd crash into the WTC on CNN, and the horrifying collapses. No words, except I remember being totally gutted. Good bless America, this was a darkest of days for me too.

[petergriffon]

i was there that day.... my sister tried to get me out as fast as possible. very very frightening

[HeWhoIsPale]

I was in 4th grade and I just didn't understand . . . There are no words, no words . . . My dad's cousin was the only member of his fire department that survived on this fateful day . . . It still brings tears to my eyes . . . God Bless the Heroes of September 11, 2001

[pinchej]

I was at home in 8th grade. At school we watched it on tv also. I was scared to go to school, and at school our principal offered condolences to students who had family in NYC.And we were petrified and I remember saying a little prayer. People were crying and shocked!

[kevinab1984]

i remember this like it was yesterday it was my senior year of high school. i had got to school and after getting to first period the teacher had come into the classroom and turned the news on. we had just watched the news all day at school

[GaaraSands15]

really? i heard that at my old school the teachers weren't allowed to turn on televisions. so as not to frighten the children or something. i though that it was wrong. They should have a right to know what is happening. This changed American history.

[n8svids]

wow. i was in 4th grade when this happened. i took the day off cuz my sister was due to be born on that day. i live on the west coast so my tv woke me up at 530 am. i see the news and the 1st tower was already on fire. as i watch i see the 2nd plane hit the south tower live. My dad was in shock. when we went to the hospital all we could think is how horrible that day was. the only thing that was good that day was the birth of my sister. But i will never forget that day.

[fpsarman]

i lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn at that time i was in 1st grade and i remember seeing the plane that went into the south tower flew rite over the Verrazano Bridge witch was a few blocks from my apartment

[costerluver]

I remember I was in grade 5. When it actually happened I was in class and no one announced it or anything. During recess after lunch the school secretary came to me and said that my nanny was here to take me home and I had no idea why but I was happy of course. When I got home my mom called and told me what happened. I then went to my friend's house and we watched the news together in disbelief and were saying how World War 3 was going to start. What a tragic day.

[bernierules51]

one of the worst days in the history of...history.

[ThisDaySheDies]

I was in 3rd grade when it happened, but I still remember exactly what happened.I was sick at home, watching GMA with my mom when they interrupted it to tell us about a plane that crashed into one of the world trade centers. Although I didn't understand it back then, now I'm crying, watching this.

[Duffman0hy3a]

May god bless all the noble police men, and fire men lost in this horrible event. And may god bless all those lost and all of the families of lost loved ones...

May god be with us all

[LordAkira]

I live in Australia and my dad was up and he woke me up, and i watched the whole thing live. I am so very sorry. At first everyone thought that the death toll was going to be into the 10's of thousands...

[specialdefect]

It seems like yesterday..

[grapple69]

i WAS IN 8TH GRADE WHEN THIS HAPPENED AND EVERYONE WAS JUST SHOCKED!!AND GRADUATED 2006. THIS WAS JUST SO UNBELIEVABLE. AND SCARY.

[whiterevival88]

god i remember this i was sitting in the library at school we had to get books that morning for english and the teacher was talking to the librarian and the librarian whispered something and said "another one??" then we were getting pulled outta school god i dont remeber being so scared in my life

[zizyi]

I can't believe it's been almost 6 years. WOW

What really got me was the footage of the people jumping off, made me really teary

[TheJwoo]

I was in class when this happened, 7th grade. I'm graduated now, but I remember this extremely well... there were no lessons that day because even the teachers only wanted more information on what was happening. It was truly unimaginable when it happened.

[ShadowStar1224]

It's very intence to watch it even though its happened 6 years ago. It must of been pure terror to the people watching this live, and living hell for the people seeing it with there own two eyes in real life. thousands of lives lost in a few minutes. I pray for their familys.

[mustbechris]

There's no words to adequately describe this. God bless America.

[pantballmikepantball]

my dad died in this :'( i miss him so much

[gundamfan117]

srry 2 hear that man,my bro died in it too.=(

[JRKtheAdobeDude]

I'm so sorry. :-(

[CANDIEBONE12345]

IM SORRY TO HEAR THAT

[stjimmy1010]

im so sorry man

[finnigan00]

Your dad was in that tower?? God that's awful.

[LuvableBaka]

My uncle died too. I was so close to him ='(

[Aangietehdeer]

I'm so sorry!

[futurama604]

sorry for the loss i too all so lost my dad he was the first tower

[calefjo]

It takes such an effort to be composed, on TV, during the event.

[goviolets]

Oh my godness. Honour to the victims. Additional words are pointless

[AdamShanklyUK]

Not only America, but the world

[thebigt82]

I miss Aaron Brown. The real crime is that he got kicked aside for another hour of anderson cooper.

[rodofle]

Horiffic...Nobody deserves this!!!!!

[tampa2time]

worst 10 minutes in american history is 100% right.

[hoopersmk77]

Just Terrible

[TVADICT]

wish we could go back to this time 6 years ago june 1st 2001 no 9/11 yet.

[JoseAnd911World]

Tower 1: 1972-2001

Tower 2: 1973-2001

[sovereign777]

Bit heartless of CNN to be putting stats on the screen about the towers and how much they cost to build when it was obvious many ppl must have just died.

[Peacekeeper76]

As time goes by it saddens me to see people seem to forget about what happened on 9/11/01. I will never forget and I want to thank the poster of this video for perserving this video on the internet. The emotions are still raw for me.

[rebelrev2010]

You're so right. Being a patriot is no longer fashionable, but for a short time in Septmeber, Americans loved their country.

[jjelder06]

i remember 911,i was in 8th grade.i was eatin cocoa pebbles i turned on the tv while i was eating and all the channels had this brodcast,thought that they were filmin a movie.i finally stoped fliping(i don't remember what channel)that is when i came to the grim reallity of what was going on,i said"holy f#ck"and dropped my cereal and started crying.when i finally got to school,there was silence because nobody wanted to talk about what just happened and everybody knew what the other was thinking.

[MGR1900]

Something is wrong in America when you have a segment of society, including pigs like Rosie O'Donnell, who think our own goverment did this. I didn't know it took something this extraordinary to expose the wackos in our society.

[repub21]

I totally agree.

[bulldawgs50]

Lol, right with you man (or woman)

[icyhugs]

I still can't believe it's been 5.5 years already... though I'm a HKer born n living in HK, it was still the worst tragedy that ever striked me :~(

[dearestpem]

good lord indeed

[mikemogie]

5 years later, still surreal

[SupergurlTgZ]

i know mikemogie, its still so....i dunno...just weird, youre right tho, it seems surreal STILL

[Robertino88]

that truly was a day that will live in infamy forever...september 11, 2001 was the day a new, cold, and brutal world was born...the world will never be the same again. God save us all

[tubelub]

Can´t fucking belive that CNN showed the following text strip "Cost of the two towers: $400 million", after the second tower collapsed. Sad day indeed.

[damaya11]

:'( those damn terrorist!

[ThreeHeadedDragon]

Wow, a vid without conspiricists and their stupid half assed explanations.

Truly a sickening event...I still watch this and it seems like a dream.

[atsinpa94]

Right on. Freaking conspiracy theorists. Next thing you know, they'll be making conspiracies about hot dogs.

[redshift71388]

I know, right? I'm sick of people titling their 9/11 videos with 'plane' or 'collapse' with quotes as if it isn't that.

[Brezz87]

This event defined a generation, I will never forget as well. It is this event that fills me with such great patriotism and willingness to stand beside my brothers and fight.

[CommanderKiller]

I will never forget this pictures....

[csarebel14]

Very sad day

[andrewmcbo]

God bless america, I have no words to explain how I feel right now while I see this video.

[nyjetz04]

I live on Long Island and remember hearing of how many of my friends parents and relatives died there. I still remember the news coverage...we truly watched history before our eyes.

[mikereynolds4444]

good video...cant forget how horrible this was

[Izakrice]

I was there, in new york. (well duh! I live there)