Gov. Tom Ridge in Shanksville, Pa: Flight 93 - Pennsylvania's Neighborhood: Somerset
00:15 - Generally reduce the
00:17 - individuals with me to my left
00:18 - colonel pelo banco commission
00:20 - state police to my
00:21 - right dad in general
00:22 - bill lynch many have
00:23 - you seen the site.
00:26 - Very little debris is.
00:30 - Visible.
00:32 - The most telling
00:33 - side of this horrific
00:35 - tragedy.
00:36 - This act was a
00:37 - large gaping hole.
00:39 - Many of you have probably
00:40 - been to it and seen it.
00:43 - As you well know the.
00:45 - F b I and the state
00:46 - police consider this a.
00:50 - Criminal investigation
00:52 - site it has been
00:54 - cordoned off and security
00:54 - will be provided by.
00:55 - The state police
00:56 - the FBI eyes.
00:58 - In charge of the investigation.
01:02 - All of my
01:02 - fellow citizens in Pennsylvania
01:04 - and I suspect
01:04 - across the country.
01:08 - When it's difficult
01:09 - to describe the
01:10 - range of emotions
01:11 - everyone feels when
01:12 - they not only learn
01:13 - about these incidents
01:14 - today but they've
01:15 - actually seen them.
01:18 - In the dictionary is inadequate.
01:20 - There aren't enough
01:21 - words but I guess
01:22 - the range of emotion
01:23 - goes from rage.
01:24 - And anger to sorrow to whore.
01:28 - I guess a sense of.
01:31 - Nausea.
01:32 - That we all experience and feel.
01:35 - I've talked to governor pataki
01:36 - I've talked to governor gilmore.
01:38 - Were.
01:40 - In offered the assistance
01:41 - of the commonwealth
01:42 - of Pennsylvania in
01:43 - any way they think
01:44 - is appropriate.
01:46 - You should know that one of our
01:47 - search and rescue
01:48 - teams is already
01:49 - on it's way to new York.
01:51 - Or Pennsylvania
01:52 - national guard has
01:53 - some heavy equipment
01:53 - that will be at the
01:54 - governor's either
01:55 - governor's disposal if needed.
01:58 - One of the things I've asked
01:59 - our emergency service folks.
02:02 - Firefighters as well as medical
02:03 - service personnel
02:04 - in Pennsylvania do is.
02:06 - We're going to set up a registry
02:08 - I suspect that the men
02:09 - and women involved
02:09 - in providing those
02:10 - services to the stricken
02:12 - to the families.
02:14 - At the sites in both
02:15 - Washington DC and new York
02:16 - will need some kind of relief.
02:19 - We'd like to provide.
02:21 - Pennsylvania support
02:22 - if called upon to do so.
02:24 - And my plea to
02:25 - all pennsylvanians.
02:27 - Is
02:27 - To.
02:29 - First of all for your prayers.
02:33 - Secondly for
02:34 - your blood.
02:35 - I think that
02:36 - the red cross would appreciate
02:38 - the.
02:39 - Volunteers.
02:41 - I suspect that the
02:42 - needs of the injured
02:43 - in both communities
02:44 - is rather substantial I
02:46 - doubt very seriously
02:47 - at the blood supply
02:48 - in either community
02:49 - can sustain the demand.
02:52 - And hopefully
02:52 - pennsylvanians can help
02:54 - replenish that supply.
02:56 - And as I said to you
02:57 - before also calling
02:58 - on Pennsylvania not
02:58 - only for their prayers
03:00 - and their beloved
03:00 - at their talent
03:01 - we're going to set up a.
03:03 - Volunteer registry to help
03:04 - support the professionals.
03:06 - In need and the volunteers in
03:08 - need as well either
03:09 - these instances
03:10 - if called upon to
03:11 - do so by either the
03:11 - governor or the
03:12 - federal government.
03:16 - One of the questions I've
03:17 - tried to deal with all days.
03:19 - Is
03:19 - How you explain to
03:20 - my two children but
03:21 - how do you explain
03:22 - to america's children.
03:24 - That something
03:24 - like this can happen.
03:28 - There is no
03:29 - rational explanation.
03:32 - Because we don't
03:33 - resolve our differences.
03:35 - In this country that way.
03:37 - I guess we have to
03:38 - tell them that there are
03:39 - people in this world
03:39 - who don't share the
03:40 - same value system or the
03:41 - belief system that we do.
03:44 - In that.
03:46 - In a very irrational cowardly.
03:49 - Despicable
03:50 - unconscionable immoral act.
03:53 - There have been literally
03:54 - thousands of Americans and.
03:55 - Not only knows presumably.
03:58 - Maybe representatives from every
03:59 - single state that have
04:00 - been struck down.
04:01 - As innocent victims.
04:03 - I will be prepared to
04:09 - answer a few
04:09 - questions one of the
04:10 - things I plan on doing
04:11 - when I get back to
04:12 - Harrisburg so I will
04:13 - take a few questions
04:14 - and then I do have to
04:15 - get back to Harrisburg.
04:17 - To sign a.
04:18 - An emergency or
04:19 - disaster declaration.
04:21 - It will enable my national guard
04:23 - the the state police
04:24 - and others too.
04:26 - Use whatever assets and
04:27 - do make acquisitions and.
04:29 - Expend the.
04:31 - Money to fill any gaps
04:32 - that they may have here
04:33 - locally to support
04:35 - this local effort.
04:36 - And it will be done a lot
04:37 - quicker if I sign an emergency.
04:39 - Declaration which is
04:40 - exactly what I'll do when
04:42 - as soon as I
04:42 - return to Harrisburg.
04:43 - Have time for few
04:44 - question because I'd like
04:45 - to get my signature
04:46 - around that piece of
04:46 - paper.
04:47 - That
04:47 - the president.
04:48 - I have not spoken
04:49 - to the president is a.
04:51 - I think he's.
04:53 - Been engaged to.
04:55 - All day long.
05:00 - CNN.
05:05 - The effort to recovery the
05:07 - blackbox at the scene will be
05:09 - obviously coordinated
05:11 - through.
05:12 - The f b I and any
05:13 - assistance that the state
05:14 - can provide there
05:15 - with them in the f a a
05:17 - in support of the
05:17 - federal effort to do such
05:19 - we are certainly prepared to do.
05:21 - Governor what's on your
05:22 - schedule in the next few days.
05:26 - Dealing with.
05:28 - Dealing with this a
05:30 - tragedy that affects just not
05:31 - Pennsylvania new
05:32 - York but I think.
05:33 - Directly or indirectly it
05:34 - affects every single American.
05:36 - I.
05:39 - Do not.
05:40 - Have voted for aap for.
05:42 - I think.
05:43 - Any of the details
05:44 - with regard to the flight
05:47 - and how we're given its
05:48 - point of origin and ends up.
05:51 - In the cornfield in
05:52 - somerset county was.
05:53 - At this time is rather
05:54 - speculative I think we should.
05:56 - All be better off
05:56 - if we he waited
05:57 - until the professionals
05:58 - did their job and
05:59 - maybe gave US
06:00 - more concrete answers
06:01 - to the very legitimate questions
06:02 - but I don't have any idea.
06:04 - Why.
06:05 - Like rounder in
06:05 - the air in the air.
06:08 - Did you see anything of
06:10 - substantial size whatsoever
06:12 - he said the most telling
06:13 - feature with a gaping hole
06:14 - that otherwise.
06:16 - Inexplicable anything else.
06:19 - I guess there's a lot of the.
06:21 - Shock attributed with visiting.
06:23 - a
06:24 - Crash site and
06:24 - certainly those on the
06:25 - ground experienced
06:26 - more than those
06:27 - who observed in the
06:28 - air but I certainly and.
06:30 - There's this gaping
06:31 - hole that obviously.
06:35 - Contains
06:36 - perhaps most of the
06:37 - records are most of the
06:39 - evidence but frankly
06:39 - from the air there are.
06:40 - Very few pieces
06:41 - of visible debris.
06:42 - Thank you later.