...vote whether to approve or deny the application.
They're the decision-makers.
And you will receive a copy of my proposed recommendation
and can attend that board meeting
and present your information directly to them.
With regard to this proceeding,
basically, there are four elements
that I have to...
Receive information regarding...
(explosion roaring)
Everybody, let's get out of here!
Now!
Watch the electricity line!
All that I can see,
it looks like part of the building
has been blown away.
We'll have to bank around to the other side
so I can get a better view of it.
The explosion, though, went off around 9 a.m.,
and we could feel the explosion in the newsroom of Channel 9
at least five miles from downtown.
As the chopper goes around the side of the Federal Building...
The side of the Federal Building has been blown off.
Jesse?
About a third...
About a third of the building has been blown away.
This is just devastating.
That morning, I was not in my office.
I was at a fundraiser about 30 miles away.
We had a 9:00 start,
when all of a sudden, my phone went off,
and I was told that there'd been some type of an explosion
at the Murrah Building.
The greatest fear I have
is that we have casualties in the thousands.
At any one time, there could be
a couple of thousand people in that building.
I was assigned to the Oklahoma City police tactical team
at the time.
And we immediately started working our way
towards the building.
There were several vehicles
on the north side of the building in a parking lot,
and all of them were burning.
The black smoke was billowing up.
When I walked up there, there was a hole in the ground
about the size of a swimming pool
that looked like about 30 feet in diameter
and about seven, eight feet deep.
Just a big hole in the ground.
That's when it started really sinking in,
this had to be some kind of bomb.
The ninth floor collapsed on top of the eighth floor
onto the seventh floor,
and when all three of those floors came to the sixth floor,
the impact threw me into the west wall of the building,
face first.
And it fractured my skull
and left me unconscious there in the rubble.
My office was on the eighth floor,
fairly close to the elevators.
I came to rather quickly, but I couldn't see anything.
My eyes were in pretty bad shape.
I could hear groaning,
and I felt like I should have done something.
And I couldn't.
When I first got there,
I could see people trapped on different floors,
and they needed to be rescued.
And so I started my way into the building.
I thought to myself,
"Why Oklahoma City?
"It's a quiet place.
"Nothing happens here.
It's not supposed to happen here."
When I arrived at the scene,
it had all of the markings of a bombing.
I had worked international terrorism
at FBI headquarters before that,
and had worked many cases in the Middle East.
It looked almost identical to some of the buildings
that had been destroyed in Beirut and places like that.
Yeah, we'd always had threats.
You tell somebody,
"I'm sorry, but," you know,
"your claim's denied," or whatever,
and, yeah, and we'd get threats, but not...
Not anything that we ever considered, you know, viable.
There has been a massive explosion
at a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
It happened just a short time ago.
A large portion of that building has collapsed
and fallen away from the rest of the building.
At the moment, we don't have any specific numbers
on injuries or deaths,
but we can tell you that the situation is obviously serious.
I tried to put the building back in my mind,
of, where would he be?
If I have to dig for my son, where should I dig?
And so, that's what I did.
I visualized the first floor, the second floor,
the childcare was here, his crib would be here,
and that's where I wanted to get to.
As I started to climb up the debris and the rubble,
I remember a man yelling,
"You can't go up there, it's too dangerous!"
And I remember telling him, "Our babies are in there!
Our babies are in there!"
I just kept saying, "Our babies are in there."
When I saw the building for the first time,
I just couldn't see
how anybody could have survived any of that.
So at that point, I think my mind was thinking,
"My kids are gone."
I drove down there and met Claudia.
We walked up to a perimeter
and I asked a officer, I said,
"We have two, two babies in the daycare center.
Can I, can I go in?"
I could see people
that are covered with blankets, towels, whatever,
that are gone.
And I'm praying that one of them is not a small child.
I knew a lot of the people in the building.
I knew the D.E.A. agents that were in the building,
I knew the ATF agents that were in the building,
and those people were friends of mine.
I could not believe what had happened to all of them
and how this could be.
How could somebody get to that state in their life
where they could be so angry and upset
that they would do something like this?
Who started the war?
And who was the aggressor?
That's how I look at the Murrah bombing.
To me, it wasn't a start of a war,
it was a counterattack.
The war had already been started.
You guys think you can be ruthless?
Let's see how you like it when the...
when the fight is brought to you.
If you continue with $*&% like Ruby Ridge and Waco,
this is what's going to happen.