“I saw people coughing up blood.' John Feal, who spent 60+ hours helping clean-up efforts in the days after 9/11, recounts his experience at Ground Zero. “9/11 Twenty Years Later—The Longest Shadow' airs at 8:30pET on ABCNewsLive.
George Stephanopoulos previews the five-part ABC News Live documentary series,"9/11 + 20: The Longest Shadow," on"This Week."The sky was clear and blue. The gray towers stood, both guarding and welcoming, at the gateway to the nation. Out of nowhere came the impact, the blaze, the smoke -- and then the towers were gone. When the dust and flames finally cleared, a new world had emerged.
"It was a beautiful day -- hardly a cloud in the sky," recalled Ridge, who was then a popular two-term governor of Pennsylvania."Things were going normally until four commercial aircraft struck."Within hours, Ridge was in Shanksville, Pa., observing the wreckage of Flight 93 and comforting members of the small Western Pennsylvania community who were thrust into the first minutes of the Global War on Terror as the Twin Towers crumbled and the Pentagon burned.
"The American public, I can 100% assure you, are far, far safer today crawling onto an airplane than you were any time before 9/11," said Frank Hatfield, who oversaw the East Coast air space when al-Qaeda carried out its plan. He would go on to build the Federal Aviation Administration security operations system and lead it for most of the 20 years following Sept. 11.
"It was the Wild West," she said."We're doing all of this, setting up an agency, at the same time that we're receiving all kinds of intelligence that aviation is still being threatened ... all of this is happening simultaneously."
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