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Mayor Giuliani Remembers 9/11, Eleven Years Later

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    Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Watch -- now tormented are sitting Rudolph Giuliani good morning mr.

mayor.

Good morning Donna how are you compliance and I noon could have a torture -- -- to talk to eleven years ago today on Tuesday coincidentally or short.

-- on a day like today.

Clear blue skies and Nigeria and it.

It is -- you know -- -- -- Tuesday again have just brings it more.

More pointedly -- your memory and I remember our first notified.

At a -- -- the north tower was sitting at the Peninsula Hotel sister sister having breakfast.

And I was I was told it was a twin engine plane that its ability to our walked outside to get to my car and I looked up in the sky.

And I sort particularly blue sky it'd rained heavily -- before you might remember.

And I say to myself.

-- my god this can't be an accident access to be on purpose.

So it really was the sky this first alerted me to the second it was a terrorist attack -- -- And not just just some kind of a plane going -- of course -- losing its -- Actually I didn't remember that.

Hasn't rained heavily -- war.

Up to teach the test that Roger Clemens restriction first twentieth -- and that oil is delayed because of that.

I was going to the game -- I remembered so well.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- That's always thought initially.

We thought it was a fire in the building.

Have memories thoughts of twin engine.

Right that that's the first report I got a twin engine plant.

So -- so you assess the day.

And decided immediately that it was a terrorist -- But the first conclusion what I saw that when I saw the blue sky that it was an accident.

So that would two possibilities terrorist attack or crazy not like Colorado you know an individual individual who's angry of one of those businesses somebody fired him.

Some ex girlfriend the severity decides to -- maniac to flies planes into the building.

But I had no idea that it was a giant airliner until I actually.

Started driving down and seeing how bad the flames for it didn't computed it was just a small twin engine plane -- a big buildings like that.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Yeah I got a letter that there are -- in the in the -- -- -- police -- this is a much council Danielle and we were sitting in the back -- -- police that most of our terms cut kind of on on the success we could look up some of -- To the top little window the -- And we could see that we could see the plane that was sort China explosion.

About a mile away and -- we saw the giant explosion but it notes that could happen and I got a call from party -- -- police commissioner told me to the second plane had hit.

And then that's -- that's exactly right it was a terrorist attack on the second plane hit now it's obvious that this is some kind of concerted attack on the exit.

You think it's -- time.

That there was any potential.

That is buildings would come down.

But in a different way yeah and I thought I thought that's what -- -- he communicated to -- -- to what I talked.

I think she's sort they were gonna come down over twelve.

Just sixteen hour period.

-- -- -- First thing I asked him whether we can get helicopters so to the top but he told me that it could save anybody about the -- -- sit everybody below.

And that he said he got to get the police to clear this area.

Because people coming out they were standing around even though some of them are getting hit somebody killed by the debris coming -- -- I'm going to be here for 1218 hours.

-- think -- -- this thing is I think it's gonna hang on for about twelve to eighteen out I don't I can our success you.

If he meant by that it would take control sister you know to get a fire under control or access hang on he -- The buildings that hang on for about that period -- He thought there was going to be a building collapsed like we've seen a hundred others swear first part of the building ghost and the department -- the report.

Which it would seven World Trade Center came down extra that -- hit by a plane that would sit by the of the buildings that came down by 5 o'clock in the afternoon but there was an -- to get everybody out --

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