September 11, 2026 • 17 mins
Michael J and Candace cover today's trending topics and the latest news in Baltimore.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Some mornings, it's tough to remember to take everything with
you out the door. Your lunch, your security badge, whatever
you need to get in at work. Other mornings, everything
just seems to click. You know what the difference is?
Those slow mornings you probably missed. 93.1 WPOC. The Michael J.
Morning Show. Hope you can join us every morning. But
(00:22):
if you do happen to miss anything, maybe you can
catch it here on our podcast. Thanks for checking in. Follow, like, share,
and keep listening. I remember looking up and when you
saw the first plane fly again several days later.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was eerie almost. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
That's exactly what he said.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We had so many days where there were no aircraft
allowed to fly over the skies in the USA. We're
going to mark the first moment, the first plane went
into the Twin Towers coming up at 846.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So stay with us here.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
25 years ago, here in about 30 seconds, this all began.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
So we're going to start with audio of what was
going on, Candace.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
25 years ago, at this very moment, you're about to
hear Everything from the cockpit of airplanes. You'll hear terrorists
in the background. You're going to hear ground control. Here's
what happened at this moment.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Number three in the back.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
The cockpit's not answering.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Somebody's stabbed in business class. And I think there's.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Mace that we can't breathe. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I think we're getting hijacked.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I just dropped 800 feet in like one split sweep.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's another situation.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
What kind of airplane is that? Can you guys tell?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'll read it out in a minute. I am monitoring
a call in which flight 11, the flight attendant is
advising our ref that the pilot, everyone's been stabbed.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
United 93.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I got the mission down. We have a power port.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Nobody move. Everything will be okay.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
If he tries to make any move, he'll danger himself
and the airplane. Let's stay quiet. All right, Boston Center, TMU.
We have a problem here. We have a hijacked aircraft
headed towards New York, and we need you guys to...
We need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up
there to help us out. Is this real world or exercise? No,
(02:15):
this is not an exercise, man. A lot of smoke
in lower Manhattan. As Flight 11 went into the Twin Towers.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
At 8.46, 25 years ago today.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We mark this with a moment of silence. The names
are being read in New York City at Ground Zero.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Tariq Amanullah.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Joseph Amatuchio.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
James M.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Amato.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The thousands and thousands and thousands of people that were
impacted immediately. We just marked the occasion 8. 1946, when
flight 11 went into the tower, the Twin Towers.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
That was the first plane.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
We did not know at that point, you know, how
that day would unfold.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Well, we were all looking.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Minute by minute.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So you were in school. Someone said to you, hey,
a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
And how it really affected us was it was a
boarding school. And so people were from around the country.
A lot of people were from New York.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
You couldn't make a phone call. You know, you didn't
know who was where.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And you were at WBOC.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What really is striking me at this moment that I
really didn't know how it would impact me until just
now is I'm like, I just flashed. I'm like, I
was here 25 years ago sitting at this control board.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Here I am 25 years later.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's hard to believe that that much time has gone by,
but it has. And I clearly remember the blue clear
sky over Manhattan as it was over Baltimore. And when
that first plane was in the building and the black
smoke was coming out against the sky. And, you know,
I think that at that point, it wasn't, everyone wasn't
(03:55):
running around saying terrorism just yet. I think some people
may have thought it, but when that second plane hit
at 9.03 a.m., That's when I remember right away, it
was like, you know, people began to put the two together.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But at this point, we're at 8.53.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
We're going to mark our moments as we remember 25
years ago today. We marked the moment this morning at 8.46
that the first flight, the first plane into the Twin Towers,
that was flight 11, had gone in.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And now a mere 17 minutes later, At 9.03, where
we stand at this moment, Candace.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower of
the World Trade Center.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And at that moment, this was heard over aircraft radio.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Another one just hit the building.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Another one just hit the World Trade. The whole building
just came apart.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I have an active air defense scramble. F-15s climbing to
flight level 2-9-0.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
All aircraft on the ground for a national emergency.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The region commander has declared that we can shoot down
aircraft that do not respond to our direction. Copy that?
You read that from the vice president, right? Vice president
has cleared.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Vice president cleared. The president was informed at the school
in Florida. And we have a moment of silence now
for the victims in the second Twin Tower building in
New York City.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Charles Aaron, Joshua Todd Aaron, Richard Avery Arano, Myra Joy Aronson,
Jaffet Jesse Arie, Carl Francis Assara, All.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Right, so if you're hearing about the story of what
happened 25 years ago in America here with 93.1 WPOC,
Michael J.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And Candace in the morning. I was here. I lived
it with you.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Candace was still in school, but it was a blue sky,
sunny morning in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So many of us immediately... uh, you know, wondered.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What our kids were doing at school, uh, what was
going on with our spouses, you know, where everyone was,
there were problems with phone connections.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Cause we didn't have the technology we've got now.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I couldn't make a phone call.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Um, and I was telling you, I went to boarding
school and nobody can make a phone call to their
families who were in New York or all across the
country and around the world.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And, um, You know, we heard from listeners today.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Who were saying that they had family members in the
Pentagon and in New York, and they couldn't get in.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Touch with those people. And at this moment, now at 9.09,
we were all staring at TV screens, looking at two
buildings with a beautiful blue sky background and black smoke
belching out of both towers because you had the earlier flight.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I think it was flight 11, correct? If I'm wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The first flight went in at 846, and then we
had the second flight that went into.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The other tower.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And at this point in time, both towers were burning,
and we were just watching dumbfounded, wondering what in the
hell is going to happen next.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Right. And little did we know that 2,753 people would
die in New York City.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So there's several more moments that happened that morning that
we will mark here at 93.1 WPOC. And you stay
with us. We're going to take you back on a
very somber 25th anniversary. of 9-11. It's a difficult morning,
and it's at the same time, Friday, and we're rolling
(07:44):
into the weekend, and you want to be fired up,
but there's so much to remember. 25 years ago, we're
marking this quarter of a century ago.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Since 9-11.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And at this moment, 25 years ago, the president at
the time, President Bush Jr.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
was at a school.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
In Florida, and he had been informed that we were
under attack. He had still, he walked to a microphone
there at the school and said, at this moment.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately,
will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Secretary
of Rod Page and Lieutenant Governor will take the podium
and discuss education. I do wanna thank the folks here
at Booker Elementary School for their hospitality. Today we've had
(08:36):
a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World
Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.
I have spoken to the vice president, to the governor
of New York, to the director of the FBI. And
I've ordered that the full resources of the federal government
(08:57):
go to help the victims and their families. And to
conduct a full scale investigation to hunt down and to
find those folks who committed this act. Terrorism against our
nation will not stand. And now if you join me
in a moment of silence. May God bless the victims,
(09:24):
their families, and America.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
At that point, the president was rushed out of the room,
taken to Sarasota Airport, where he took off at 9.35.
And little did he know, there was still a lot
more to happen that day. We will mark those moments.
On the clock here in just a few minutes. Following
the events of the morning of September 11th, 2001, 25
years ago today. And at this moment, we are now
(09:49):
at 936 and 44 seconds.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
And at 937, Flight 77.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Crashed into the Pentagon. That would make the third plane
to hit the ground. All passengers aboard were instantly killed.
So that was a total of 125 civilian and military
personnel in the building as well. So those deaths were
added to the toll that we faced. There's a lot
(10:20):
of unclassified now audio that has come out since then.
Here's a little clip of what was being broadcast at
this moment 25 years ago this morning after a plane
went into the Pentagon.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
If you heard, but we had a crash into the
Pentagon by 737.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I think it was 737 or 757. Shut down all
rivals in the National Airport.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
National?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
National?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
National? National?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
See, people were having a hard time getting a hold
of each other. There was so much chaos. Lines were crossed.
I mean, they are trying to get all the airports.
But eventually, at some point around this moment. everything was
shut down. Meanwhile, the president's now in the air, President Bush.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Minutes earlier, he just started on his way from Florida
to head back to Washington.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
To the airport, right. And sometime between now, 938 and 955,
he went airborne in Air Force One. Where he learned
of this American Airlines crash that went into the Pentagon
crash number three of the morning. So at that point, obviously,
I mean, we were on full alert. Planes were being
(12:03):
being brought to the ground. The Air Force One had
to try to. stay as safe as possible. So they
had scrambled jets around that. They're trying to fly him
to safety.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
We had a text from earlier that was saying that
they were near the Pentagon that day. And they were
talking about the Marines at the Pentagon who helped save
the children who were in daycare center at the Pentagon.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And I did a little bit more reading of that.
And there were more.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Than 100 children, including infants, who survived after being evacuated.
And yes, the Marines were there, but there was one woman,
her name was Captain Hannah.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And she said she was three years old at the time.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
She came out, heard the siren, smelled the smoke, the
jet fuel, and she obviously was saved, but it certainly
inspired her to serve her country. And just so many
people impacted in so many different ways.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I know we played this song earlier, but I think
it's just so fitting for this moment. So as we
remember the lives lost and the names are continued to
be memorialized at Ground Zero, Alan Jackson, a 93.1 WPOC.
Where were you when the world stopped turning on that
(13:17):
September day? Shortly before 945, we're at 944 right now.
So just about this moment, 25 years ago today, the president,
just before taking off on Air Force One from Sarasota, Florida,
after being at that school, he ordered U.S. airspace to
(13:39):
be shut down under Operation Yellow Ribbon. All civilian aircraft
were immediately ordered to land at the nearest airport.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
93.1 WPOC. A quarter century later, but the memory never fades.
Remembering 9-11.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
We always say we'll never forget, and I mean it.
25 years later, still here. Michael J.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And Candace.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We are remembering this day in 2001. The president was
getting aboard Air Force One at this moment. He was
taking off at 955. At this point in the morning,
we'd already learned two flights into the Twin Towers in
New York City. We had already heard of another flight
into the Pentagon. And at this point, like we said
(14:25):
a few moments ago, the president had.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Ordered a ground for all aircraft in the USA.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And at 9.59, the South Tower of the World Trade
Center collapsed.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So we're going to mark that. We're going to play
some words.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We're going to come right back and talk about what
happened in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. We're marking this moment 25 years
ago today.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Michael J. and Candace, it was 9.57.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Just moments ago, the passengers aboard Flight 93 did something heroic.
They decided that they needed to take over the plane.
So they ran towards the cockpit. A gentleman named Jarrah,
the pilot, began to roll the plane back and forth
in an attempt to destabilize the revolt that was going
(15:10):
on in the plane between passengers and the terrorists.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
That was at 9.57, and at 9.59, the South Tower
of the World Trade Center collapsed.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It was such an unforgettable moment to see that building,
that entire, I mean, just an immense, one of the
tallest buildings in the world.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Just pummeled. And then, at.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This moment, at 10.02, the exact moment we're at right now,
Flight 93 plowed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Although its ultimate target is unknown— It was likely heading
for either the White House or the U.S.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Capitol.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And here's some of that translation going on on airwaves
25 years ago this morning at this very moment.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
United 93, have you got information on that yet?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, he's down.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
He's down? Yes.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
When did he land? He did not land.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh, he's down?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, somewhere up northeast of Camp David.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And a lot of the voices on those tapes.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It was just amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
They have let so many tapes go unclassified that we've
been listening to.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It is heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So we're going to have a moment of silence for
the folks who many say are heroes from that flight
in western Pennsylvania. 25 years ago, America faced one of
its darkest days.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
One of the worst things I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
But in the days that followed, we saw something that
we'd never forget.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Neighbors helping neighbors.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Strangers becoming family.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Americans standing together with strength, passion, and pride.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
The whole experience taught me to be more grateful. We
have to go on.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
This is part of life.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I think about them all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
September 11th is a day we honor the lives we lost,
the heroes who answered the call, and the spirit of
unity that carried our nation forward.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
As we remember the tragedy 25 years ago today, let's
also reconnect with what brought us together, kindness, resilience, and
love for one another.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
The greatest is love.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
We will never forget. Never forget. Never forget. Never forget.
It's not the way you die that matters. It's the
way you live that makes you our hero.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
93.1 WPOC.
Some mornings, it's tough to remember to take everything with
you out the door. Your lunch, your security badge, whatever
you need to get in at work. Other mornings, everything
just seems to click. You know what the difference is?
Those slow mornings you probably missed. 93.1 WPOC. The Michael J.
Morning Show. Hope you can join us every morning. But
(00:22):
if you do happen to miss anything, maybe you can
catch it here on our podcast. Thanks for checking in. Follow, like, share,
and keep listening. I remember looking up and when you
saw the first plane fly again several days later.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was eerie almost. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
That's exactly what he said.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We had so many days where there were no aircraft
allowed to fly over the skies in the USA. We're
going to mark the first moment, the first plane went
into the Twin Towers coming up at 846.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So stay with us here.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
25 years ago, here in about 30 seconds, this all began.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
So we're going to start with audio of what was
going on, Candace.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
25 years ago, at this very moment, you're about to
hear Everything from the cockpit of airplanes. You'll hear terrorists
in the background. You're going to hear ground control. Here's
what happened at this moment.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Number three in the back.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
The cockpit's not answering.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Somebody's stabbed in business class. And I think there's.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Mace that we can't breathe. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
I think we're getting hijacked.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I just dropped 800 feet in like one split sweep.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That's another situation.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
What kind of airplane is that? Can you guys tell?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'll read it out in a minute. I am monitoring
a call in which flight 11, the flight attendant is
advising our ref that the pilot, everyone's been stabbed.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
United 93.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I got the mission down. We have a power port.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Nobody move. Everything will be okay.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
If he tries to make any move, he'll danger himself
and the airplane. Let's stay quiet. All right, Boston Center, TMU.
We have a problem here. We have a hijacked aircraft
headed towards New York, and we need you guys to...
We need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up
there to help us out. Is this real world or exercise? No,
(02:15):
this is not an exercise, man. A lot of smoke
in lower Manhattan. As Flight 11 went into the Twin Towers.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
At 8.46, 25 years ago today.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
We mark this with a moment of silence. The names
are being read in New York City at Ground Zero.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Tariq Amanullah.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Joseph Amatuchio.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
James M.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Amato.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The thousands and thousands and thousands of people that were
impacted immediately. We just marked the occasion 8. 1946, when
flight 11 went into the tower, the Twin Towers.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
That was the first plane.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
We did not know at that point, you know, how
that day would unfold.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Well, we were all looking.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Minute by minute.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
So you were in school. Someone said to you, hey,
a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
And how it really affected us was it was a
boarding school. And so people were from around the country.
A lot of people were from New York.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
You couldn't make a phone call. You know, you didn't
know who was where.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And you were at WBOC.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
What really is striking me at this moment that I
really didn't know how it would impact me until just
now is I'm like, I just flashed. I'm like, I
was here 25 years ago sitting at this control board.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Here I am 25 years later.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's hard to believe that that much time has gone by,
but it has. And I clearly remember the blue clear
sky over Manhattan as it was over Baltimore. And when
that first plane was in the building and the black
smoke was coming out against the sky. And, you know,
I think that at that point, it wasn't, everyone wasn't
(03:55):
running around saying terrorism just yet. I think some people
may have thought it, but when that second plane hit
at 9.03 a.m., That's when I remember right away, it
was like, you know, people began to put the two together.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But at this point, we're at 8.53.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
We're going to mark our moments as we remember 25
years ago today. We marked the moment this morning at 8.46
that the first flight, the first plane into the Twin Towers,
that was flight 11, had gone in.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And now a mere 17 minutes later, At 9.03, where
we stand at this moment, Candace.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower of
the World Trade Center.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And at that moment, this was heard over aircraft radio.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Another one just hit the building.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Another one just hit the World Trade. The whole building
just came apart.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I have an active air defense scramble. F-15s climbing to
flight level 2-9-0.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
All aircraft on the ground for a national emergency.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
The region commander has declared that we can shoot down
aircraft that do not respond to our direction. Copy that?
You read that from the vice president, right? Vice president
has cleared.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Vice president cleared. The president was informed at the school
in Florida. And we have a moment of silence now
for the victims in the second Twin Tower building in
New York City.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Charles Aaron, Joshua Todd Aaron, Richard Avery Arano, Myra Joy Aronson,
Jaffet Jesse Arie, Carl Francis Assara, All.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Right, so if you're hearing about the story of what
happened 25 years ago in America here with 93.1 WPOC,
Michael J.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And Candace in the morning. I was here. I lived
it with you.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Candace was still in school, but it was a blue sky,
sunny morning in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So many of us immediately... uh, you know, wondered.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What our kids were doing at school, uh, what was
going on with our spouses, you know, where everyone was,
there were problems with phone connections.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Cause we didn't have the technology we've got now.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I couldn't make a phone call.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Um, and I was telling you, I went to boarding
school and nobody can make a phone call to their
families who were in New York or all across the
country and around the world.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And, um, You know, we heard from listeners today.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Who were saying that they had family members in the
Pentagon and in New York, and they couldn't get in.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Touch with those people. And at this moment, now at 9.09,
we were all staring at TV screens, looking at two
buildings with a beautiful blue sky background and black smoke
belching out of both towers because you had the earlier flight.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I think it was flight 11, correct? If I'm wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The first flight went in at 846, and then we
had the second flight that went into.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The other tower.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And at this point in time, both towers were burning,
and we were just watching dumbfounded, wondering what in the
hell is going to happen next.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Right. And little did we know that 2,753 people would
die in New York City.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So there's several more moments that happened that morning that
we will mark here at 93.1 WPOC. And you stay
with us. We're going to take you back on a
very somber 25th anniversary. of 9-11. It's a difficult morning,
and it's at the same time, Friday, and we're rolling
(07:44):
into the weekend, and you want to be fired up,
but there's so much to remember. 25 years ago, we're
marking this quarter of a century ago.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Since 9-11.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And at this moment, 25 years ago, the president at
the time, President Bush Jr.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
was at a school.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
In Florida, and he had been informed that we were
under attack. He had still, he walked to a microphone
there at the school and said, at this moment.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately,
will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Secretary
of Rod Page and Lieutenant Governor will take the podium
and discuss education. I do wanna thank the folks here
at Booker Elementary School for their hospitality. Today we've had
(08:36):
a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World
Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.
I have spoken to the vice president, to the governor
of New York, to the director of the FBI. And
I've ordered that the full resources of the federal government
(08:57):
go to help the victims and their families. And to
conduct a full scale investigation to hunt down and to
find those folks who committed this act. Terrorism against our
nation will not stand. And now if you join me
in a moment of silence. May God bless the victims,
(09:24):
their families, and America.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
At that point, the president was rushed out of the room,
taken to Sarasota Airport, where he took off at 9.35.
And little did he know, there was still a lot
more to happen that day. We will mark those moments.
On the clock here in just a few minutes. Following
the events of the morning of September 11th, 2001, 25
years ago today. And at this moment, we are now
(09:49):
at 936 and 44 seconds.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
And at 937, Flight 77.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Crashed into the Pentagon. That would make the third plane
to hit the ground. All passengers aboard were instantly killed.
So that was a total of 125 civilian and military
personnel in the building as well. So those deaths were
added to the toll that we faced. There's a lot
(10:20):
of unclassified now audio that has come out since then.
Here's a little clip of what was being broadcast at
this moment 25 years ago this morning after a plane
went into the Pentagon.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
If you heard, but we had a crash into the
Pentagon by 737.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I think it was 737 or 757. Shut down all
rivals in the National Airport.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
National?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
National?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
National? National?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
See, people were having a hard time getting a hold
of each other. There was so much chaos. Lines were crossed.
I mean, they are trying to get all the airports.
But eventually, at some point around this moment. everything was
shut down. Meanwhile, the president's now in the air, President Bush.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Minutes earlier, he just started on his way from Florida
to head back to Washington.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
To the airport, right. And sometime between now, 938 and 955,
he went airborne in Air Force One. Where he learned
of this American Airlines crash that went into the Pentagon
crash number three of the morning. So at that point, obviously,
I mean, we were on full alert. Planes were being
(12:03):
being brought to the ground. The Air Force One had
to try to. stay as safe as possible. So they
had scrambled jets around that. They're trying to fly him
to safety.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
We had a text from earlier that was saying that
they were near the Pentagon that day. And they were
talking about the Marines at the Pentagon who helped save
the children who were in daycare center at the Pentagon.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And I did a little bit more reading of that.
And there were more.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Than 100 children, including infants, who survived after being evacuated.
And yes, the Marines were there, but there was one woman,
her name was Captain Hannah.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And she said she was three years old at the time.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
She came out, heard the siren, smelled the smoke, the
jet fuel, and she obviously was saved, but it certainly
inspired her to serve her country. And just so many
people impacted in so many different ways.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I know we played this song earlier, but I think
it's just so fitting for this moment. So as we
remember the lives lost and the names are continued to
be memorialized at Ground Zero, Alan Jackson, a 93.1 WPOC.
Where were you when the world stopped turning on that
(13:17):
September day? Shortly before 945, we're at 944 right now.
So just about this moment, 25 years ago today, the president,
just before taking off on Air Force One from Sarasota, Florida,
after being at that school, he ordered U.S. airspace to
(13:39):
be shut down under Operation Yellow Ribbon. All civilian aircraft
were immediately ordered to land at the nearest airport.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
93.1 WPOC. A quarter century later, but the memory never fades.
Remembering 9-11.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
We always say we'll never forget, and I mean it.
25 years later, still here. Michael J.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And Candace.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We are remembering this day in 2001. The president was
getting aboard Air Force One at this moment. He was
taking off at 955. At this point in the morning,
we'd already learned two flights into the Twin Towers in
New York City. We had already heard of another flight
into the Pentagon. And at this point, like we said
(14:25):
a few moments ago, the president had.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Ordered a ground for all aircraft in the USA.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And at 9.59, the South Tower of the World Trade
Center collapsed.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
So we're going to mark that. We're going to play
some words.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We're going to come right back and talk about what
happened in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. We're marking this moment 25 years
ago today.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Michael J. and Candace, it was 9.57.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Just moments ago, the passengers aboard Flight 93 did something heroic.
They decided that they needed to take over the plane.
So they ran towards the cockpit. A gentleman named Jarrah,
the pilot, began to roll the plane back and forth
in an attempt to destabilize the revolt that was going
(15:10):
on in the plane between passengers and the terrorists.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
That was at 9.57, and at 9.59, the South Tower
of the World Trade Center collapsed.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
It was such an unforgettable moment to see that building,
that entire, I mean, just an immense, one of the
tallest buildings in the world.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Just pummeled. And then, at.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
This moment, at 10.02, the exact moment we're at right now,
Flight 93 plowed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Although its ultimate target is unknown— It was likely heading
for either the White House or the U.S.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Capitol.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And here's some of that translation going on on airwaves
25 years ago this morning at this very moment.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
United 93, have you got information on that yet?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, he's down.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
He's down? Yes.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
When did he land? He did not land.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh, he's down?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, somewhere up northeast of Camp David.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And a lot of the voices on those tapes.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
It was just amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
They have let so many tapes go unclassified that we've
been listening to.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It is heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So we're going to have a moment of silence for
the folks who many say are heroes from that flight
in western Pennsylvania. 25 years ago, America faced one of
its darkest days.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
One of the worst things I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
But in the days that followed, we saw something that
we'd never forget.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Neighbors helping neighbors.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Strangers becoming family.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Americans standing together with strength, passion, and pride.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
The whole experience taught me to be more grateful. We
have to go on.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
This is part of life.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I think about them all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
September 11th is a day we honor the lives we lost,
the heroes who answered the call, and the spirit of
unity that carried our nation forward.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I remember.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
As we remember the tragedy 25 years ago today, let's
also reconnect with what brought us together, kindness, resilience, and
love for one another.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
The greatest is love.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
We will never forget. Never forget. Never forget. Never forget.
It's not the way you die that matters. It's the
way you live that makes you our hero.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
93.1 WPOC.
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