In this excerpt from NBC's "9/11 - 5 Years Later - Hangar 17," presenter Brian Williams introduces us to "all of the wreckage that was taken Ground Zero, all of it sacred." He informs us that it is "all awaiting a home, a permanent memorial...all being cared for in a hangar at JFK's Kennedy Airport." Williams notes "a room with a form that's difficult to describe. In any other museum, it could be passed off as a meteorite. And, while this was born of intense heat, this is altogether different. This formation is really four separate stories of the WTC: compressed, compacted, incinerated, exposed to temperatures as hot as the inner-earth. On it, you can see the type-face from printer paper which was exposed to so much heat, it carbonized." For those that aren't aware, the inner part of the earth is referred to as the core. The temperature of the outer-core of the Earth is estimated to be somewhere between 7200-9032ºF, while the inner-core is estimated at somewhere between 9032 - 10832ºF. Williams concludes his report by stating, "all of that material - a hangar full of material - still represents less than 1% of the wreckage taken here from Ground Zero." The other 99% of the ruins of World Trade Centers 1, 2 and 7 were placed in landfills, while most of the steel was shipped overseas to China to be sold as scrap and recycled.
In this excerpt from NBC's "9/11 - 5 Years Later - Hangar 17," presenter Brian Williams introduces us to "all
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