My radio says one of the Trade Center planes was an American Airlines 757 that was hijacked from Boston.

Our base has just gone into the highest state of alert. The base is effectively closed. We are removing all visitors and contractors. Our long distance telephones have been cut off.

Scary stuff. My girlfriend called to check on me. She works for a media firm in Portland and is up to date on what is happening.

They are talking now to a woman who is one block to the east of the Trade Center. Her apartment is full of smoke and she cannot get out because of debris in the street.