Word: smoked
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KERIK: Somebody runs in and yells, "Hit the deck!" As the guy swings the door open and yells that, I see windows shattering in the hallway outside. It feels like an earthquake. All of a sudden there's this gush of black smoke and ash and debris, and it just pours into the room. Some people jump under the desks. We start pushing the mayor to the back...
...mind, it is not the building collapsing. In my mind, the radio tower [a 360-ft. mast atop Tower One] came down, and that's the noise I'm hearing. When I look around, what I see is something close to a nuclear bomb. I see dark smoke. The decision is made to evacuate...
GIULIANI: Just about that time, the second building comes down. As you look south, you see big clouds of smoke traveling through the canyons...
Shortly before 8, Craig took the Metro (the Washington-area subway) from its Pentagon stop to a meeting in nearby Rosslyn, Va. When he heard the "earthquake," he looked out the window and saw black smoke, which television reports said was coming from his wife's side of the Pentagon. Within minutes, the roads were jammed and the Metro closed, so Sincock, who looks remarkably like Ross Perot except for his 6-ft. 2-in. height, took off on foot, sprinting two miles across highways and through Arlington National Cemetery. By the time he arrived, it was bedlam, thousands...
...game. The lawyers bicker back and forth over minor points, eating up the entire session. And then it's back to the hospital for another long evening. "When there are people here, I must try and appear to be happy," he says through a cloud of Lucky Strike smoke. "But, of course, I'm depressed." After his lawyers have left, after the last visitor has excused himself for the evening, Estrada is finally alone. And then, he says, he doesn't have to try to appear happy...