NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- Tom Kaminski, WCBS 880's longtime chopper traffic reporter, began Sept. 11, 2001, like any other work day: Hopping into a helicopter and ascending several thousand feet to survey the landscape below and deliver weary commuters the best ways to navigate the tri-state.
But of course everything changed when the World Trade Center was attacked -- while he was in the air and near the planes' flight path -- as he recalls in the interview below with 880 anchor and reporter Paul Murnane.
And below, from the WCBS 880 archives, listen to Kaminski's report from Sept. 11, 2001: