[Jim] There were FBI guys in the lobby, who were directing us just go this way. My first recollection is why aren't they getting us out of the building right away? Why aren't we just going out to West Street? They made us go through and you at this point ya don't know or why didn't they let us go out to Vessey Street? I mean quickly they made us go through the revolving doors again there was nothing in the plaza and nobody in the plaza there was maybe 2 or 3 people and then separated by FBI guys maybe every 50 feet or 100 feet or so . Um, again I say why aren't we just going out this building, ya know, come this way come this way. So we went across the entire length of the lobby which was normally populated with, ya know, the GAP and ya know different clothing stores which I didn't-there...there was darkness so I couldn't even tell where they were. Followed the way basically followed the path I take every morning went right through the length of the uh of the plaza level, ya know, saw the Tornell Corner Jewelry Store, faced the Warner Brothers Store that you had mentioned here before made a left and there was an escalator that wasn't working that took me up to the Borders bookstore was on the corner of Church Street. Again, FBI agents all the way and once we got out there it was a big crowd of people and a gauntlet that we had to run through and the FBI people I remember saying, ÒGet as-get as far away from this building and as fast as you can do not look back!Ó And again if you remember the morning was unbelievably beautiful, so I'm with my buddy, Barry, who I was originally with when it first happened. We just happened to be there. I crossed over Church Street where the cemetery-the corner where the cemetery-where the Millennium Hotel on one side and the cemetery on the other. And Barry and I looked up and ah, saw for the first time what looked like-I'd describe it as the set of a Bruce Willis movie where there was a beautiful glimmering World Trade Center Tower, and attached to it is an-somebody painted on an orange fireball, basically of a color of orange that you know you just don't see that often and against a clouded blue sky. It was just a spectacular sight to-to-to behold. We raced up-we're all in that, you know, there's like 8 to 10 of us. We-half of us missed the other 10 people. We get up in front of, um-had to scurry up I forgot if it's Trinity Street; I'm not sure what the name of the street is. I guess it's Fulton is right there right to the corner of Broadway, Fulton right in front of 222 Broadway. We make the turn in front of 222 Broadway when we hear what sounds like Niagara Falls, cause I've been to Niagara Falls. Turn around and see the second tower just basically tilt over from-tilts over to the East side, looks like it's about to create what looked like to me a domino effect that will crash over and crash into the Millennium Hotel and then crash into me. Umm, thankfully for us who were in the sightline of this thing, it basically tipped over and then imploded on itself. But at that moment it became every man for himself. It was escape from Manhattan; get-get as far away from what would turn out to be this 10-20 stories cloud of dust that was making its way up, ah, Broadway. Um, I remember I held-I held onto one of the girls who works for us, a girl named Marge Mayor, who was wearing stiletto heals an I was gripping her hand very hard an we were trying to help each other support each other getting through the streets. We worked our way-we went-we ran as fast as we can from 222 up to Foley Square trying to figure out where we were going and were-we got 3 or 4 of us are together should we go across the Brooklyn Bridge. I mean it's mass panic people are running in every different direction just the streets are mayhem right down the middle of the streets. I'm trying to tell-encouraging her can you take your shoes off cause we can't you know I'm dragging her instead of we're running. Um, we get to just slightly north of the Foley Square area-ah-we seem to be away from where the cloud is coming, but there's still, you know, chaos. We get up to that Lafayette Street, I'm trying to think where...we ended up going to an internet cafŽ. About 4 or 5 of us go to an internet cafŽ and we buy some time at this cafŽ and again, ya know, everybody is leaving work everybody is leaving their offices-the-the day ended for everybody obviously. So we're-we're in there we finally call we have a London office. We contact the London office by e-mail, we tell who is in the room and let them know we're OK, can you please contact our homes, whatever. Did anybody call you? [Marylin] Mmm hmmm, but long after I had gotten an e-mail from you. [Jim] We tried to collect ourselves a bunch of people were going over to another firm's office to see if we're going to work-again people to work out of that office the rest of the day. It's like OK we're going to continue the job here. Without really getting a sense of it. At this point I really don't know what's going on, I mean, I know the building collapsed, and I have no idea really why it collapsed or how it collapsed. And people were screaming in the street, ya know, the capital's been hit the-umm-one of the girls with us has an apartment on 22nd and Lexington, so we said let's just gather there. So we went to her apartment, again walking through-the most vivid sense is the expression on peoples' faces who are walking downtown and looking at this thing or had seen it on TV, it's just an amazing, like I guess, just shock and, you know, uh, it was strange, very strange. It's almost no, there was almost no vehic-vehicular traffic other than some ambulances. I remember one of these, um the, uh, Orthodox Jewish group that runs ambulances services in Manhattan I remember there was several of those [Marylin in background: I -I forget what it's called], yeah there was like uh ya know like uh, I forgot the name of the Red Cross, but they had three or four ambulances walking from lower Manhattan. [Marylin] My girlfriend was here, and her husband joined us soon after. I got sick in the bathroom. Ya know I thought you were-I guess-I finally I really was pretty lucky I had 15-20 minutes of real worry then I got your e-mail that you were on the way down an then he sent an e-mail saying we're out. But then the building then, Tower Two collapsed. I know he's out Ð who knew he where he was and I-I don't really understand the scope or scale of how where things have fallen Um, it was another 15-20, I guess before, I knew that he was far enough away that he was not affected. Um, our children, who were away at school-My son was away at college-um-I was very impressed at how quickly. He goes to a small college in Maine called Colby. The dean called him and they-they apparently immediately researched who's from New York who had a parent working in the WTC. The dean called him and said, ÒHave you heard from anyone? If you need anything, if you need to get home, you can count on us.Ó So I was very impressed by that, but by that time we knew he was ok. Your London office called. [Jim] No it's-it's-it's now about closer to 11 o'clock. I remember being in-in the internet cafŽ and somebody said Òthe other tower just went down.Ó And then and we there was so much smoke and haze, I know, I remember I was conscious of pe-again the WTC for every New Yorker is a point of reference, you look you see oh am I uptown downtown? I mean that's-we all use it. I remember seeing the antennas as I was walking up so that's on my tower and then the antennas weren't there so that's how I could assume that it went down. We got to this woman's apartment. And for the first time I saw the replay of the second plane coming into the building which every network obviously had broadcast live and it just dawned on me it's like you've gotta be kidding me. This is ins-who what's going I mean who's doing this. At this time we hear that they've shut down all the bridges there's no way to leave Manhattan. We're now in this woman's apartment, ya know, all her former boyfriends are showing up from all over Manhattan ya know it's a crazy situation. The doorbell keeps ringing and, ya know, boyfriend from 4 years ago shows up. It's kind of a humorous situation. 30 of us just ya know sitting on the floor watching TV not knowing, ya know, not really worrying-We're out so it's-we'd already spoken so you know everything's ok. And then um, and then somebody, I don't know somebody called or told us that New Haven red trains were working. So at about 11:00 maybe 11:30 all the bridges in NJ were out so I said to these there was like 3 or 4 guys from NJ, so I said guys come home with me and I'll give you my car and you'll drive home. So we hoofed it from 22nd Street up to the-to Grand Central Station again pac-bumper to bumper people really walking in every direction the awe of what was going on I would assume every single business ended the day at 10:00 cause everybody was on the street.