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To: Kona who wrote (121096)	9/12/2001 2:57:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 436258

No, but the news from Cantor Fitzgerald does not sound good: September 11, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cantor Fitzgerald Staff Listened as Terror Unfolded By ANN DAVIS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff in the Los Angeles office of Cantor Fitzgerald LP listened via telephone Tuesday as chaos unfolded in its New York office minutes after the first plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, according to a person who spoke with the Los Angeles office early Tuesday. After struggling to get a telephone connection in an effort to ascertain what had happened to its New York office, the Los Angeles staff managed to get through and put the call in on speakerphone. The Los Angeles staff, who then put the call on its in-house public-address system, heard a colleague in the New York office say, "I think a plane just hit us." While the phone call continued to be broadcast over the entire Los Angeles office, the New York office began filling with smoke and people began screaming. "Somebody's got to help us. ... We can't get out. ... The place is filling with smoke," a person in the New York office was heard to say. Shortly afterward, the connection was cut off. Cantor Fitzgerald International, a unit of U.S.-based Cantor Fitzgerald, said that it is "unable to determine how many employees" were at their world headquarters at the time of the terrorist attack. Cantor and its units have operations on the 101, 103, 104 and 105 floors in the North Tower, which was hit by the first plane. Its combined staff is about 1,000. Cantor said it is "doing everything possible to assess the situation," but has been unable to confirm if its staff were safely evacuated. "All of our thoughts and prayers are with our New York colleagues and their families and friends at this time," said Howard W. Lutnick, chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald International and eSpeed International, an electronic-trading unit of Cantor. "In a very difficult and confused situation we are doing all that we can to determine more about the situations of colleagues."