WTC7 collapse reported 30 mins before it happened
Some people are already calling this newly distributed video "the smoking gun". In this video shown live-to-air on the morning of 9/11, the BBC reporter is telling the world that the Salomon Brothers Building (more commonly known as WTC7 or World Trade Building 7) has collapsed -- but you can clearly see it still standing behind the reporter.
If this footage is as genuine as it looks (and I'm no expert), Jane Standley, the BBC correspondent in New York, reports the collapse of the building 20 minutes before it happened. Presumably she got her info from a media release. If so, who sent that media release? Watch the video from 14:40 minutes.
The video is available for download here.
Update: BBC explains: "Sorry, we've lost the tapes"
Correction: I wrote above "live-to-air on the morning of 9/11". It was, in fact, afternoon in NYC.
Update: It has been suggested to me that Jane Standley was speaking to camera some time after the rear-projected footage was shot. This might be possible, but (a) she makes no indication that the rear scene was old footage, and everything about her demeanour suggests that she and her backdrop are live to air; and (b) the light and shadow on her face well match those of the buildings behind her.
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Pip Wilson posted item above at 2:59 AM | Permalink
3 Comments:
The only way to know for sure is to find out when the cliup actually aired- the footage onscreen may not have been live, was probably the same footage being replayed over and over as news stations do, and this station probably didn't have updated footage yet.
That doesn't answer the question: if the reporter is saying the WTC7 is down, why is it not?
Yopu're missing the point- I'm saying it IS down, howevber, the station is announcing over old footage, a common practice. Occam's razor- makes more sense than a conspiracist too stupid to do the deed before announcing it, no?
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