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Gov. Tom Ridge in Shanksville, Pa: Flight 93

Gov. Tom Ridge in Shanksville, Pa: Flight 93 - Pennsylvania's Neighborhood: Somerset

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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.


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