CBS News anchor Dan Rather says, “It’s reminiscient of those pictures we’ve all seen too much of on television before when a building is deliberately destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down.” (Download 1.3 MB mpeg, thanks to www.wtc7.net). Shot from the GM Building, looking beyond the Empire State Building (at right). This footage was not included in the NIST chart listing “their 9 videos” used for detailed analysis (out of 16 available videos in their database). As a matter of fact, the “Camera 2” video was attributed to CBS incorrectly. See NBC Leaning Cam.
For best possible quality download the rare mpeg2 (watch in HD playlist above) gleaned from the Tennessee archive (Vanderbilt Univ., where hour-length recordings are 200 US dollars to rent), which explains the timestamp reading 4:23 PM instead of 5:23. The online TV archive shows that CBS9 Washington switched from the studio to this camera moments after the event… then played the more distant CNN view. Perhaps this was because of the visible Pyroclastic Like Dust Ejecta Before Roofline Descent.
A raw NIST Cumulus file is missing, but the video does appear in release 28 as a LOW 352×240 resolution, SHORT 0:08 length. See 42A0314 – G28D19fromCD_WTCI-138-IWTC_7.avi
CBS GM Building
YouTube 1, 2 & 3
