WABC-TV's Eyewitness News team relives September 11th, 2001, through the reporters, camera operators, and anchors who were sent into lower Manhattan as the towers came down. The hour-long special mixes their original broadcast footage with present-day interviews, as journalists describe running toward the smoke, losing contact with colleagues, and filing reports while covered in ash and debris. The focus stays on the mechanics of covering a disaster in real time: reporters figuring out what they could confirm on air, crews improvising when equipment failed, and anchors in the studio trying to make sense of incomplete information as it arrived. It is a local-news account rather than a national overview, built around the specific vantage points of people who happened to be the ones holding the cameras and microphones that morning. Two decades on, the film lets them describe what the archival footage does not show, including what they were thinking and fearing as they filmed it.