NIST Media Briefing on Release of Report on Collapse
of WTC 7
08/21/08 | News Reports
Media briefing by U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from Gaithersburg, Maryland, August 21, 2008 at 11 a.m. on the release of the "Final Report of the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7" (WTC 7). Ben Stein (Director of Media Relations, NIST) introduces presenter S. Shyam Sunder, Sc.D. (Director, Building and Fire Research Lab (BFRL) and NIST's lead investigator for the WTC disaster). After Sunder's presentation he responds to questions from Daphne Retter (New York Post), Devlin Barrett (Associated Press (AP)), Farren Shoaf (The Real News Radio (via the Web)), Arianne Cohen (Popular Mechanics), Christoph Röckerath (ZDF German Television), Bill Jenkins (Building Safety Journal (via the Web)), Mike Shea (Baltimore Grassroots Media), Eric Lipton (The New York Times) and Shane Geiger (InfoWars.com).