[PonyTailGuy]

Watching Fox and Friends. They came out of the 8:48 break with a live shot of smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center. E.D. Donahae took the lead, commenting that obviously something was wrong at the WTC, reports indicated a small aircraft. Steve Doocey sounded the most somber of the three, and he noted with a tone of understatement that this was going to be a very major story throughout the day.

At 9:00 I switched to MSNBC, as they seemed to have a better camera angle. I saw the huge explosion at 9:03, but the camera angle made it unclear what its source was. I thought it was an explosion inside the WTC. The MSNBC anchor couldn't tell either, saying it appeared that the fire from the first building had somehow caused an explosion in the second building. He sort of rhetorically asked his live guest "is that even possible?" or something. A minute later, MSNBC re-racked the video and replayed it, this time noticing the plane coming in from the right hand side of the screen.

I stayed on the MSNBC bulletin boards posting minute-by-minute updates to the cubicle-bound all morning. Unfortunately, in between updates, I was battling leftists who, as the buildings burned, were already blaming America.

[engrpat]

I too was watching Fox and Friends. I remember they got ahold of a aviation expert and he was talking about the route the plane should have taken (at this time it wasn't known to be a large passenger plane) and was trying to come up with an explantion as to how this could have happened and then the second one hit. His response was something to the effect, "I cant help you anymore, this is not an accident." I couldn't believe what I was seening and called my wife at work to let her know. Know one there had heard about it.