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America Under Attack: Pentagon Official Holds Press Conference

Aired September 11, 2001 - 14:01   ET

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JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Let's go now to the Pentagon where Rear Admiral Quigley is briefing reporters. I believe we have that picture right now.

REAR ADMIRAL CRAIG QUIGLEY, PENTAGON SPOKESMAN: ... to phone their families and loved ones immediately to let them know they are OK. And if they are among the injured or the casualties from this, then we will -- we will work our way through to identifying them and getting their names out to their loved ones. We will find a way.

QUESTION: Where are the injured going? Where are the injured being taken?

QUIGLEY: A variety of area hospitals.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) penetration of the plane itself, admiral? How many rings of the building?

QUIGLEY: I don't know.

QUESTION: How wide (OFF-MIKE)?

QUIGLEY: I have not been over there to see it up close. I don't know.

I think that's all for now, ladies and gentlemen. We will to try to be back out and give you some more information as we can.

WOODRUFF: You have been listening to Rear Admiral Quigley, one of the folks who works with reporters in the public information office there at the Pentagon. We basically -- we are just listening to the first few minutes of that briefing. Getting the word out to people who have friends, family members who work at the Pentagon, telling them if you have people who may be among the injured, we are going to try to find a way to get you that information, to get the word out which hospital they might be in.

Of course, we are dealing with tragedies in untold numbers of families across the Eastern -- primarily the East Coast of the United States, but no doubt these people who work in the Pentagon are from everywhere. People who were on these airplanes are from -- commercial jets -- are from everywhere in the United States.

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