NEW YORK -- The news came into Matt Lauer's ear as he interviewed a Howard Hughes biographer on what felt like another slow news day in the summer of shark attacks and Chandra Levy."Go to commercial," "Today" executive producer Jonathan Wald told him tersely. "Breaking news: A plane has hit the World Trade Center."That's all anyone knew at 8:50 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. "Good Morning America" hurried out of an interview with Sarah Ferguson, CBS' "The Early Show" hustled out of a cooking segment. Lauer and hundreds of other TV journalists in New York, Washington and southwest Pennsylvania didn't know it then, but they are about to cover the biggest story of their lives....Read more...
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