Damn you Internet Archive, why do you let me watch this horribly depressing news footage of 9-11 whenever I want to wallow in the blues? And why do you keep reminding me how completely clueless Tom Brokaw is as an anchorman?

It took almost six minutes after the first tower fell as giant clouds of dust and smoke billowed high enough to envelope the towers of lower Manhattan as shown by the live broadcast cameras for NBC to even mention it happening. It was Matt Lauer who finally broke into Tom’s self absorbed monologue and suggested that they actually look at and discuss what everyone watching the broadcast had already seen minutes beforehand.