In his 17-year journalism career, Holmes has reported around the country and the world on major news events, from the poaching crisis in South Africa and the Olympics in Athens and Rio, to presidential elections and political conventions. His experience, personality and unique storytelling were a good fit to GMA’s blend of breaking news, in-depth reporting, and family-focused fun. Primarily, Holmes contributes daily to “Good Morning America,” the most-watched network morning news show. Joining ABC in December of 2014, he reports for all the network’s broadcasts and platforms. Holmes is an ABC News anchor/correspondent. Remarkably, he says he's experienced no adverse health effects as a result of his time on the site.T. LaGanga returned to film the rescue and recovery at ground zero for a week after the attack. "Boy, that was close," a voice said in the dark. An ensuing wave of smoke and dust engulfed LaGanga's lens, and the screen turned to black. "That's why I panned up."Īs the building fell in on itself, people sprinted down the street, panicked. "It sounded like a jet flying over," he says. LaGanga turned his camera upward to film the north tower, smoldering and stark against a bright blue sky. A thick layer of dust and soot caked every surface and dampened the sound of building alarms.
On the street near the remaining tower, New York City looked unrecognizable, all hazy and monochromatic. Even those who watched it happen up close could not process that the entire south tower, a gargantuan skyscraper of 110 floors, had suddenly vanished.Īs LaGanga walked toward the north tower, smoke and dust began to fill the cerulean sky. "There was so much dust and the street signs were hard to see that it never really dawned on me that one tower already came down," LaGanga said in a 2018 interview.Īs he walked from the highway toward the base of the north tower, he interviewed passersby, asking the question on everyone's mind: "What happened?" A policeman thought the roof had caved in a fireman thought part of the building collapsed. The south tower had collapsed at 9:59 am, but LaGanga did not yet realize. He turned on his camera a few minutes after 10 am. When he could not drive his news truck any farther, when the street in front of him was blocked by stopped cars and shell-shocked people fleeing north, he parked and stood on his truck's roof to get a better angle of the smoke billowing out of the north tower. But the farther downtown he got, LaGanga, now a 60 Minutes cameraman, tried to make sense of the nightmare unfolding in front of him.
0 kommentar(er)
