In her own words, in incredible detail, Manning recalls that terrifying event that changed her life forever.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Ten years ago, a victim of the World Trade Center attacks survived against nearly impossible odds and shared her harrowing, and inspiring, story with us. For the landmark 20th commemoration, she spoke with Kristine Johnson once again. Johnson spoke with Lauren Manning to see how she is doing now. “How does it feel to be here?” Johnson asked. “At once feels wrapped in an enormous number of memories both tragic and sad, but in so many ways hopeful. Just to see the World Trade Center rebuilt and this beautiful plaza and remembrance to all of those who are gone. So it’s a mixed feeling,” Manning said. They first spoke a decade ago. Manning’s book, Unmeasured Strength, then just published, recalled her experience as a victim, and survivor, of the attacks on the World Trade Center. “The entire 110 story tower is trembling. I see people lying on the floor covered in flames. Like them, I am on fire,” Manning wrote. In her own words, in incredible detail, she recalls that terrifying event that changed her life forever. “The memories I have of the beauty of that morning, as so many of us do, and where I was, and what I was doing, was certainly hyper clear. And it was that clarity that in many ways, I think, helped me make the decision that decision to live,” Manning said. Manning, on her way to work for Cantor Fitzgerald, was doused with jet fuel and on fire, running from the lobby of the North Tower.
