The first plane hit the tower just before 9am Eastern Standard time. I was in Alberta which is Mountain Time, 3 hours behind EST, so we woke up to Breakfast news of the horrors. I remember watching a CNN reporter placed over the river from the burning towers, and Tower 1 literally sank to the ground live on his report. We were going to the Rockies for the weekend as we had family visiting and I had a 5-month-old baby. It was shocking, sad, and we really did not know at this point if this could be the start of another world war.