WTC7 Lobby "Gone"

[mirandapriestly]

The damage that was done to the lower part of wtc7 seems to have been done prior to either tower coming down.

After the initial blast, Housing Authority worker Barry Jennings, 46, reported to a command center on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center. He was with Michael Hess, the city's corporation counsel, when they felt and heard another explosion. First calling for help, they scrambled downstairs to the lobby, or what was left of it. "I looked around, the lobby was gone. It looked like hell," Jennings said.
http://www.record-eagle.com/2001/sep/11scene.htm

So there was an explosion in world trade center 7 right after the first "impact".

From 911 research:
Michael Hess, the senior managing director of Giuliani Partners,
Age 46 on 9-11-1, Housing authority worker, reported in to the command center on 23rd floor of WTC building 7 on 9-11-1.
Note: WTC building 7 was evacuated at around 9:00 a.m. on 9-11-1 (while the tower 2 occupants were being told to return to their desks),...
Thus, Barry Jennings’ observation of „another explosion” that devastated the lobby of building was occurred after the 8:46 a.m. initial explosion (impact of the flying object into north wall of north tower) and the evacuation of building 7 around 9:00 a.m.
911research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/wtc7.html

Prior to the tower's collapse what was happening in the wtc7?:

Barry Jennings, a city employee on the 23rd floor told WABC-TV, "We're dead. I thought I was going to die. I was thinking about my sons, my wife. I started praying."
www.poconorecord.com/report/wtc/1.htm
and this was in building 7!

Also, why was wtc7 evacuated before wtc 1 and 2? This says immediately after the attack the CIA were looking for secret documents in the rubble, so that means there was rubble from the attacks at wtc7.
Funny that Hess now works for Giuliani, I'm sure he has "forgotten" about the incident.


(The following link carries the article, it cost $5 at the Times archives):
http://www.geocities.com/streakingobject/07CIA.html
The New York Times ---- November 4, 2001

THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

Secret C.I.A. Site in New York Was Destroyed on Sept. 11

By JAMES RISEN
The C.I.A.'s undercover New York station was in the 47-story building at 7 World Trade Center, one of the smaller office towers destroyed in the aftermath of the collapse of the twin towers that morning. All of the agency's employees at the site were safely evacuated soon after the hijacked planes hit the twin towers, the officials said. The intelligence agency's employees were able to watch from their office windows while the twin towers burned just before they evacuated their own building.

Immediately after the attack, the C.I.A. dispatched a special team to scour the rubble in search of secret documents and intelligence reports that had been stored in the New York station, either on paper or in computers, officials said. It could not be learned whether the agency was successful in retrieving its classified records from the wreckage. A C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment....