UPDATE August 2011: This and other NBC WTC 7 video is available at the NIST website (For the link to work you must first click “continue” after reading the Notice at wtcdata.nist.gov.). UPDATE Sept. 2010: Released with audio (but still missing the east penthouse collapse) thanks to the International Center for 9/11 Studies successful FOIA request to NIST.
Dan Abrams reports at about 4:55 PM, and again in the same area minutes after the demolition. This was likely his crew. Strangely, however, the video wasn’t aired on NBC on 9/11! (Same with the NBC Leaning Cam— as far as I know. And PAX-TV NBC aired once, 3 minutes to midnight!) The clip has appeared in a History documentary (“9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction,” 2007 – link 2 above), one repeat somewhat cropped. The documentary-hit piece was produced in part by NBC News. The shot is credited to NBC News in HBO’s 2002 “In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01,” as well as in the NIST Report finally released in late 2008 (see images linked here…). The NIST Report tells us the “earliest frame from the Camera 4 video . . . was shot 3.7 s [plus or minus] 0.2 s after the east penthouse began to sink into the building.” See a chart listing “the 9 videos” used for detailed analysis (out of 16 available videos in the database). This chart places the camera at “[s]treet level, near the corner of West Broadway and Leonard Street.” This is not to be confused with the PAX-TV NBC footage. MSNBC also shot from nearby.
“Raw” NIST Cumulus files: Freelance of WTC7 collapseFreelance WTC7 7 and NBC1 Restricted clip_2 and NBC2 Restricted tape clip_6 (See also release 28, 42A0293 – G27D23 for an mpeg-2 version of the “restricted” WTC 7 VHS tape.)
NBC News
YouTube 1, 2 & 3
