@historical_usa: On Sept. 11, 2001, radio personality Howard Stern was live on the air as the terrorist attacks unfolded. Stern initially joked, imitating a news anchor calling on a field correspondent, to deliver the report from the beyond the station. “Fortunately it’s early in the morning, maybe not too many people are in the building,” Stern said, not yet aware of the nearly 3,000 lives that would be lost in the ensuing attacks. Only a few minutes later in the broadcast, Stern’s reacted to the second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, which hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m. that day. “We’re under attack,” Stern said. Stern compared the attack to the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. “We are at war. But who are we at war with?” Stern said. He later speculated Osama Bin Laden was connected to the attack. As the video continues, Stern and his crew wonder what they could do as they watched the chaos unfold. Stern at one point wondered if he should continue the show. The team can be heard wondering when government officials would respond to the news of the plane crashes. Almost an hour later, the radio crew watched as the first tower collapsed at just before 10 a.m. that morning. They stayed on the air, watching as the second building began to collapse almost half an hour later. Near the end of the broadcast, Dell’Abate wondered aloud how he would explain the news of the attack to his son.

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Wednesday 04 September 2024 17:24:45 GMT