INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS. >>JENNIFER WAUGH: OTHER LOCAL AGENCIES THAT WE SPOKE WITH SAY
THEY DON’T PLAN TO REQUIRE
VACCINES EITHER.
>> REMEMBERING 9
1120 YEARS LATER.
9/11/2001. JACKIE BARRETT WAS
WORKING AT A TELEVISION STATION
IN TAMPA.
HER ASSIGNMENT COVER A VISIT
FROM PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH
ABOUT A NEW
EDUCATION INITIATIVE. HE WAS
VISITING EMMA BOOKER ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL THAT DAY. THINGS STARTED
ROUTINELY FOR JACKIE IN HER
NEWS CREW.
>>LENA PRINGLE: INITIAL VISITS
GO
PRETTY STANDARD AS YOU WELL
KNOW THERE’S KIND OF A STANDARD
OPERATING PROCEDURE USE OR TAKE
YOUR SPOT AND WAIT FOR HIM TO
COME IN. AND THAT’S EXACTLY
WHAT WE DID THAT.
>> BUT IT WASN’T TOO LONG.
>> BEFORE.
>> AND TO GET A LITTLE TENSE AT
THAT POINT.
EVERYTHING CHANGED. THIS
PARTICULAR SECRET SERVICE AGENT
WAS A YOUNG WOMAN AND SHE WAS
VERY BY THE BOOK NICE BUT ALL
BUSINESS
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HER
DEMEANOR CHANGED TOO ALMOST
WANT TO PANIC AND THEN SHE
WAS CRYING AND SO THEN FINALLY
I ASKED HIM ARE
YOU OKAY, AND THAT’S WHEN SHE
SAID YOU KNOW IT FROM AT THAT
TIME A PLANE AND FLOWN INTO THE
PENTAGON. HER HUSBAND WAS
WORKING IN
THE PENTAGON AND SHE HAD NOT
BEEN ABLE TO REACH HIM BY PHONE
THAT TO THIS DAY I WONDER I
DIDN’T KNOW HER NAME AND SO TO
THIS DAY I AND PRAY THAT THAT
ALL TURNED OUT OK FOR.
>> JACKIE ACTUALLY FOUND OUT
WHAT WAS GOING ON FROM HER MOM.
>> MY MOTHER HAD COME TO VISIT
AND AND WAS BACK IN
MY HOME AND AND SENT ME A LIGHT AT THE TIME WE USE PAGERS. SO SHE PAGE ME AND WE WERE
SUPPOSED TO BE USING OUR CELL
PHONES.
BUT I.
>> I DID NOT LIKE TO BE CUT OFF
FROM THE REST THE WORLD AND HAD
NOT IN FACT SILENCED OR TURNED
OFF MY PHONE AND SO I CALLED
HER BACK AND SHE SAID YOU KNOW
THE TODAY
SHOW’S REPORTING THAT A PLANE
HAS FLOWN INTO THE WORLD TRADE
CENTER AS WELL IT MUST BE A
SMALL PRIVATE PLANE AS A SMALL
PLANE RIGHT MOM. SO THAT IS
THAT IT’S A
FULL-SIZE PLAYING. AND THEN
FROM THERE IT JUST ONE THING
AFTER ANOTHER, YOU ARE YARDS
FROM THE PRESIDENT WHAT’S GOING
THROUGH YOUR MIND.
YOU KNOW REALLY WHAT WENT
THROUGH MY MIND IN THE INITIAL
STAGES WHEN YOU START TO THINK
ABOUT YOU KNOW WE’RE HERE WITH
THE PRESIDENT. WHAT IS THE
NEXT TARGET. IS I COULDN’T
HELP BUT THINK OF ALL THE
HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN
SCHOOLCHILDREN IN CLASSROOMS
AROUND US. IT WAS A VERY SELECT
GROUP THAT WERE SET TO MEET
WITH THE PRESIDENT OF ONE
CLASSROOM IN
SOME REPRESENTATIVES THAT WE’RE
STANDING ON THE STAGE AWAITING
HIS ARRIVAL IN THE MEDIA CENTER
AND I COULDN’T HELP
BUT THINK AND DO WE GET THE
KIDS OUT OF HERE TO EVACUATE
THIS BUILDING. I MEAN THAT WAS
GOING AND ALL OF THAT SEEMS
SOMEWHAT SO REAL, I MEAN THERE
WAS DEFINITELY A MOOD OF
DISBELIEF. PEOPLE WERE JUST
COMPLETE SHOCK.
>> WE HAVE A NATIONAL TOUR.
SURE PLANES.
IT’S A LOCATION.
>> AND ON THIS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
OF 9.11 THE THING THAT
RESONATES FOR JACKIE BARRON THE
JOURNALIST COVERING A STORY
THAT CHANGED THE WORLD AND A
PRESIDENT WHO HAD TO REMAIN
CALM IN THE MIDST OF A ROOM
FILLED WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN
WHILE THE WORLD WAS IN TURMOIL.
>> THE PRESIDENT’S FACE I DON’T
THINK
I’LL EVER FORGET THE LOOK ON
HIS FACE TO SEE.
OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF TO SEE
OUR PRESIDENT STANDING UP
THERE. IN SHOCK.
>> IN ANGER.
>> IN TRYING TO BE MOURNFUL.
>> IN JUST SAD AND.
>> AND IT WAS ALMOST IT
WAS PALPABLE AND THOUGH THE
LOOK OF CONFUSION AND SHOCK ON
ON THE KIDS FACES AROUND HIM
TRYING
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE WAS
SAYING WHEN HE ASKED FOR A
MOMENT OF SILENCE WHEN HE JUST
HAPPENED IN THE WORLD
AROUND US AND HOW OUR LIVES IN
THAT MOMENT, YOU’RE COMPLETELY
CHANGE FOREVER, HOW THE LIVES
OF MY CHILDREN TO COME WOULD BE
DIFFERENT THAN MY OWN
CHILDHOOD.
I THINK IT’S THE PRESIDENT’S
NEVER FORGET HIS FACE IN A
MOMENT.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: COVERING THE STORY DIDN’T END THERE FOR JACKIE 12 HOURS. AFTER COVERING
THE PRESIDENT ON THAT
FATEFUL DAY SHE HEADED TO
VENICE ON THE GULF COAST OF
FLORIDA AFTER RUNNING THE 2
PILOTS WHO FLEW INTO THE WORLD
TRADE CENTER HAD TRAINED
20 MINUTES AWAY AND PARTIED
AROUND THE CORNER FROM WHERE
SHE LIVED.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: AND MOST OF
REALLY BOTHERED HER BECAUSE IT
WAS SO CLOSE TO HOME. YEAH, I
MEAN CAN
YOU IMAGINE, YOU KNOW THAT THE
PILOTS WHO FLEW INTO THE WORLD
TRADE CENTER HAD NOT ONLY
TRAINED NOT FAR FROM WHERE YOU
LIVED, BUT DINNER, THEY PARTIED
AND THEY PLAYED NOT FAR FROM
WHERE YOU LIVE, I MEAN TALK
ABOUT A STORY THAT IS SO CLOSE
TO HOME AND SHE FOLLOWED THAT
STORY FOR THE BETTER PART OF
THE NEXT
SEVERAL YEARS TALK ABOUT A
DEFINING MOMENT IN YOUR CAREER.
IT’S INTERESTING THAT YOU
MENTION, SHE’LL NEVER FORGET
THE LOOK ON HIS FACE I
REMEMBERED
AS WELL REMEMBER THAT YEAH
I MEAN SAYING YOU KNOW WHAT HE
JUST HEARD WHISPERED IN HIS EAR
JUST DON’T YOU KNOW THERE THERE
ARE STORIES THAT WE COVER AS
JOURNALISTS AND YOU KNOW PEOPLE
ALWAYS SAY YOU KNOW THERE THERE
ARE STORIES THAT WE REMEMBER
WATCHING ON THE NEWS. WE’LL
NEVER FORGET WHERE WE ARE WHERE
WE WERE THERE ARE STORIES THAT
WE ALL
AS AS YOU KNOW PEOPLE WHO WATCH
THE NEWS WILL REMEMBER SPECIFIC
THINGS ABOUT THAT DAY REMEMBER
THE PLANES FLYING INTO THE