9/11/01 via CNN breaking news emails

How it all unfolded that horrible morning


9/11/01  7:47
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- World trade center damaged; unconfirmed reports say a plane has crashed into tower. Details to come.

8:17
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Second plane crashes into World Trade Center.

8:20
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-- FBI investigating reports of foul play in World Trade Center plane crashes, according to the Associated Press. Details to come.

8:27
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-- Sources tell CNN one of two planes that crashed into World Trade Center was an American Airlines 767.

8:38
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-- President Bush calls plane crashes at World Trade Center a terrorist act.

8:42
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-- White House evactuated. Details to come.

8:45
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-- Fire reported on National Mall in Washington

8:51
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-- CNN confirms a plane hit the Pentagon.

8:53
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-- Significant fire at the Pentagon. Details to come.


8:59
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-- One of World Trade Center towers collapses; fire forces evacuation of State Department

9:21
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-- United Nations evacuated.


 9:33
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Car bombing at the State Department, The Associated Press reports.

9:40
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-- Pentagon monitoring second suspected hijacked plane.

9:46
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-- Fighter scrambled amid reports of second plane headed for Pentagon.

9:51
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-- FAA diverting all U.S.-bound international flights to Canada.

9:55
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-- Part of Pentagon collapses

10:06
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-- Second World Trade Center tower collapses in Manhattan

10:14
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-- NTSB confirms plane crashes near Pittsburgh

11:29
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-- FAA confirms there are 50 aircraft in the air; none has a problem and all are within 50 miles of their destination.

11:33
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com

-- Government sources tell CNN President Bush is not returning to Washington.

12:23
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.

In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.

About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon, part of which later collapsed.

American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents:" Flight 11 from Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard and Flight 77 from Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles.

United Airlines Flight 93 airliner headed from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, crashed near Somerset, Pennsylvania -- police said initial reports indicated no survivors. United also confirmed the crash of Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles.

The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.

President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."

In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports. All international flights were diverted to Canada.

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, said in reaction to the news of the terror attacks that "we want to tell the American children that Afghanistan feels your pain and we hope that the courts find justice."

In New York, more than 10,000 rescue personnel rushed to the scene. The entire downtown area of Manhattan was evacuated as far north as Rockefeller Center, according to an official at an emergency command post.