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FOX 5 NY's initial reporting of the 9/11 attacks
Back on that day, FOX 5 News started LIVE reports on the 9/11 attacks at 8:48 a.m., just after the first plane hit the World Trade Center.
NEW YORK CITY - On September 11, 2001, over 2,600 people perished at the World Trade Center, 125 people died at the Pentagon and 256 people died on four airplanes after terrorists hijacked the planes and turned them into guided missiles.
File: Firefighters walk towards one of the tower at the World Trade Center before it collapsed after a plane hit the building September 11, 2001 in New York City. <strong>(Photo by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)</strong> 394261 11: Smoke pours from the World Trade Center after it was hit by two hijacjked passenger planes September 11, 2001 in New York City in an alleged terrorist attack. <strong>(Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images)</strong> Fires still burn amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center September 13, 2001 days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. <strong>(U.S. Navy Photo by Jim Watson/Getty Images)</strong> The rubble of the World Trade Center smoulders following a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York. A hijacked plane crashed into and destroyed the landmark structure. <strong>(Photo by Porter Gifford/Corbis via Getty Images)</strong> The September 11 (or 9/11) Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda attacks on New York City, September 11, 2001. Two of the planes, were crashed into the North and South towers, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within two hours, both 110-story towers collapsed. <strong>(Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)</strong> FILE - Fire and rescue workers search through the rubble of the World Trade Center 13 September 2001 in New York. Rescue and cleanup continues after the twin towers were destroyed 11 September 2001 by terrorist in hijacked commercial aircraft. FILE - Colour photograph of a New York Fire-fighter amid the rubble of the World Trade Centre following the 9/11 attacks. Dated 2001. FILE - New York City firefighters take a rest frm rescue operations at the World Trade Center after two hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers September 11, 2001 in New York. FILE - Civilians flee as a tower of the World Trade Center collapses September 11, 2001 after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in an alleged terrorist attack. FILE - People walk in the street in the area where the World Trade Center buildings collapsed September 11, 2001. An aerial view of the destruction at the site of the World Trade Center, New York, N.Y., September 23, 2001. <strong>(NOAA)</strong> Back on that day, FOX 5 News started LIVE reports on the 9/11 attacks at 8:48 a.m., just after the first plane hit the World Trade Center.
September 11 timeline
Never Forget. Twenty-three years after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Here's a timeline of what transpired on that day.
The clip below continues until just after the second plane hit the second Twin Tower.
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