At 8:46AM on a sunny Tuesday morning in New York City, a commercial jet plane flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, cutting through floors 93 to 99. As the news was beamed around the world, shaken reporters wondered whether the crash had been an accident or an act of terrorism.

At 9:03 AM, viewers watching the smoke billowing from the gash in the building were stunned to see a second jet plane dart into view and fly directly into the South Tower. Suddenly, it was clear that the United States was under attack.

The scale of the assault became apparent about 40 minutes later, when a third jet crashed into the Pentagon.
Not long after, in the fourth shock of the morning, the South Tower of the World Trade Center unexpectedly crumbled to the ground in a few seconds, its structural integrity destroyed by the inferno set off by the plane’s thousands of gallons of jet fuel. Its twin soon succumbed to the same fate.

These first five paragraphs describe the events that happened on the morning from the perspective of those who saw it unfolding on the news. Write two to three sentences explaining what it would have been like to witness these events live on television.