BBC’s Jane Standley reports collapse of World Trade Center 7 20 minutes early

Ms. Standley was back around 3 hours later (8:10PM EST) and cut off again. A video from the archives shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. How did the BBC know that it was going to collapse? And why did they report the collapse when it is clearly standing in the background? The BBC said they “lost“ the tapes of this curious incident, then, lo and behold, they “found“ them! BBC: Part of the Conspiracy? We no longer have the original tapes of our 9/11 coverage (for reasons of cock-up, not conspiracy). So if someone has got a recording of our output, I’d love to get hold of it. We do have the tapes for our sister channel News 24, but they don’t help clear up the issue one way or another...
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