Memories of 9/11
I was working nights on the studio crew at a TV station at the time, so I'd stay up until 4 am and sleep until noon. Usually I'd wake up to the clock radio playing the local NPR jazz station for a minute or so, before the hourly news summary came on, but I remember waking up to talking and subdued music. Then the news report started, calmly stating what had happened: "Two hijacked jetliners crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City this morning. Both towers have since collapsed."
They called me into work a couple of hours early (normally there was no studio crew from 12:30-3:30 pm) because we were doing local cut-ins to the CBS coverage. We stayed until about 1 am. I think people were just looking for familiar faces in the local reporters to help them make sense of it all.
Coverage continued all week. I agreed to work the Saturday morning shift (normally no local news shows, so no crew scheduled) until coverage ended at 11 am. The first non-news show in 5 days was a light, kids' education-information show -- which was probably the most gentle way to transition out of the horrors of the week.
They called me into work a couple of hours early (normally there was no studio crew from 12:30-3:30 pm) because we were doing local cut-ins to the CBS coverage. We stayed until about 1 am. I think people were just looking for familiar faces in the local reporters to help them make sense of it all.
Coverage continued all week. I agreed to work the Saturday morning shift (normally no local news shows, so no crew scheduled) until coverage ended at 11 am. The first non-news show in 5 days was a light, kids' education-information show -- which was probably the most gentle way to transition out of the horrors of the week.