Tragic Phone Message From Terror Victim

N E W   Y O R K, Sept. 13 -- When Sean Hughes heard there had been an incident at the World Trade Center on Tuesday, he immediately checked his answering machine for word from his wife Melissa.

He heard a simple, heartbreaking message from his wife, who was trapped on the 101st floor of the North Tower.

"Sean, it's me. I just wanted to let you know I love you andI'm stuck in this building in New York. A plane hit the building, or a bomb wentoff. We don't know, but there's a lot of smoke and we just wanted you to knowthat I love you always."

And that was it. Hughes has not heard from her since, and he has been desperately looking for a way to get to New York from his San Francisco Bay Area home. Because commercial air traffic has been stopped since the attack, he has had no way to get to the disaster scene.

"The toughest thing for me right now is that I can't be there," he said today on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.

This morning, Jet Blue Airlines offered to fly him and his brother Shannon to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on its next available flight, and they hope to arrive tonight.

In the meantime, however, friends and family have been calling hospitals and passing out fliers with Melissa Hughes' picture on it. They have not heard anything about her whereabouts or condition.

A Heroic Fight

Thomas Burnett phoned his wife from hijacked United Airlines Flight 93. He said he was going to die, but he wasn't going quietly.

"His adrenaline was going. He was talking quickly, and he was ready to dosomething," Deena Burnett said.

Using his cell phone, Burnett called her three times before the plane crashed 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The aircraft had been scheduled to fly from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco.

Burnett, an executive with a Bay Area pharmaceutical company, said three men had taken control of the plane.

The father of three said a terrorist had stabbed to death one person on board, and that the attackers were threatening to detonate a bomb. She told him about the attack on theWorld Trade Center.