SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB ) — On the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, longtime Suncoast View host Linda Carson is remembering the day she sat just a few feet away from President George W. Bush as he learned the nation was under attack.

Carson , then a reporter for ABC7, was inside a Booker Elementary School classroom in Sarasota on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Bush had come to promote reading with second graders. Cameras rolled as students gathered around him in a semicircle.

Minutes later, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card entered the room and leaned in to whisper to the president.

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“I thought he just said, time to move on,” Carson recalled. Bush allowed the child read

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