Ok, hi, this is, ah, Jim and Marilyn Geiger and we're, I guess it's April the 17th 2003, and we're sitting in our living room of our home, I guess we're going to talk a little bit about our personal observations, and ah what we went through on the morning of September 11th, 2001, which will obviously live in infamy for everyone. Ah, I work for a company called Tradeweb. Our company was located on the 51st floor of the World Trade Center, um, my recollections are that it was probably one of the most beautiful early, you know sort of late summer early fall days. Um, I commute, ah, the time I was taking ah we have a jitney that picks us up here takes us over to the Port Chester train station and I commuted with about anywhere between four to eight buddies everyday for the last basically eight to ten years. A group of us all took the train into Grand Central and we scurry over to the Lexington Avenue subway and take the express train down to ah Fulton Street and then walk the, ah, three or four blocks from Fulton Street basically into the Trade Center where we'd all grab some coffee, ah, in the lobby of the building and scurry off and go on our merry ways a couple of us went to the south building three or four of us went to the north building and it was like any other day basically. Ah, we ah get to work pretty early so I'm at work probably by about 7:15 or so 7:30; um most of the other workers I work with probably get in by 8, 8:15, 8:30. Um, our day was just beginning. We're an internet trading company. We take a lot of phone calls early in the morning making sure people are connected or are just handling all sorts of different problems. I remember at about again I forget exactly the time the building was struck but let's see it was 8:40 was that the time, I'm not sure either 8:30-8:40 I remember, um, there was a group of people in a conference room, a glass enclosed conference room, and we had actually just expanded our office. We had the entire 51st floor of the World Trade Center. We originally had a tiny office of maybe ten people we've grown had grown enormously over the last three years to which we needed the entire floor [in background]of the North Tower? Of the North Tower. The Port Authority had space where we were they obviously gave it back to us and um, we had just completed the renovation of a spectacular office state of the art office with most beautiful flat panel screen, tell you, computer monitors everything you could possibly ask for. Um, I recall I had just printed something and walked over to our printer so I physically had to get out of my chair my I-I-my-my desk was right at the window facing west. I looked over the World Financial Center and over towards New Jersey. Ah, I walked over to the middle part of our office to where the printer was, ah, Jim a buddy of mine, had just gotten out of that conference room he wanted to ask me a question so he was walking right towards me at the moment that the building was struck. Ah, I was literally, he was literally facing me, and I'll never forget this he, he moved, he moved two to three feet while he was standing in front of me in one direction and two to three feet in the other direction right in front of me. I and everyone in my office reminds me of the expletive I screamed at the moment of impact, realizing that this just wasn't a boiler explosion or some sort of, you know, internal computer room blast or something like that. It was a very, very serious, something serious of impact had happened to the building. I'm standing next to ah, Barry Invoice, who was, he and I we worked pretty closely together, ah Barry's actually an Englishman who's become an American citizen who interestingly enough ah, was also in the building in '93 when it was previously bombed so ah, not that he was realizing that at the moment, ah immediately upon impact our ceiling tiles, the duck were dislodged and so you its basically dust from above the ceiling tiles started to come down, so immediately we knew that this was not just a just a minute, a little bit of an accident and it-it, again I can't, the time from this point on all seems condensed that it seems like seconds, but upon looking out the window we immediately saw debris, ah, and it would be, it was on the south-south side of the North Tower, so in retrospect when the building, the plane hit from the north side of the north of our tower, something you know, had blew through and things were already coming down. Ah, we have a young kid, a young Puerto Rican kid in our firm, who was a junior information technologist kind of a guy, who just immediately took charge of the situation. He went-he-he just one of these things where ah I guess the kind of things that you learn under stress or in battlefield situations. The kid who had kept to himself was completely quiet and no one even knew who Henry was, Henry, this was Henry's moment to say, and just the kid just took charge. He was a kid, I'm talking about we're all forties or fifties; he's twenty-two years old or something like that very calm. Ah, we made sure that we got everybody out of our area we went into we have a very high security, ah, computer room, maintain all our servers, people went in and made sure everybody was out of there. We have about forty or fifty people that worked on the north side of our building so I'm-I'm kind of in the south, ah, southwest corner. We walked to the northeast part of our tow-of the floor to make sure that nobody was there and those people had already-that's-that's where the plane, the impact of the plane, they knew it was a plane because they had heard it or seen it, there was literally, there was nobody back there, but we made sure before we exited our floor that everybody, that we had everybody you know, everybody in the-so we were a group of about twenty-five of us ranging in age again from you know twenty year old secretaries to you know fifty year old executives, who were just, everybody in the same boat. It is amazing how it unifies and keeps you all at the same level very quickly. Ah, we went out into the hallway, we have another guy who is the fire warden. He did exactly what he was supposed to do, he went to the-the telephones know we're all assembled here back by what I would consider the freight elevator area of-of the 51st floor, he's on the-he smashes with his shoe the glass to get on the phone and he's screaming, 'Can we help? What's going on? What's going on?' This is all it seems within thirty seconds, a minute after the impact you know. I do-I recall gathering right before we left our office to go into the hallway, and again there is smoke beginning to billow there is smoke in the hallway, saying to myself we're going to have to smash through these windows so we better you know a couple of us could just take the chairs and break through the windows, I mean that's, I'm just, you know, I'm thinking how to get out how to extract myself from this situation. As we're waiting for Dan Bucksbound, who's the fire warden, to instruct us as to what to do, we hear the freight elevator, in retrospect, I know this collapse right next to him-he-just sparks flying-sch-sch-schkeet-boom-crashing-just literally crashing, and we hear the crashing sound we-we-everybody goes right, right into the stairwell immediately which was already filled with people so timing I'm kind of losing maybe losing track of the time here, but I'm mean it seems certainly it wasn't three, four minutes after the impact we, we were out very, very quickly. Nothing, nothing-everybody-everybody, the women I-sure a lot of people grabbed their, women grabbed their, ah, pocketbooks. I actually interestingly enough had um, climbed Mount Washington the week, that weekend with a buddy. We do this almost every year. Since I only get this once a year, every year I destroy my feet; blisters, whatever, so I was basically incapacitated. On that Monday I actually went to the doctor to-to, So I'm now wearing sneakers. I never wear sneakers to work, obviously. I'm, ah, so I'm actually wearing sneakers cause the only thing that's comfortable on my feet, and I'm hobbling around, ah, believe me after the rest the rest of the story, I really wasn't hobbling around too much. I forgot the pain, but, ah, we-we got into the stairwell. My first recollection was, and we stopped we just were we're standing in the stairwell maybe we progressed one or two floors down and there's no movement, ah, its bumper to bumper people and all sorts now emerge between our firm, and all the other people from all the different firms. It's there's heavy smoke, um, little bit of panic on people's faces, 'what we're going to do? How we're going to get out of there?' But you know and now people were taking their handkerchiefs out and covering their faces gradually move down but it's a very, very slow, laborious process of one step, wait, another step, wait-you know it wasn't it wasn't very quick.