SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Thursday marks the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the deadliest terrorist event in U.S. history, which a Bay Area woman, Karim Salgado, witnessed firsthand in New York City.

Karim Salgado, originally from San Francisco, was in New York with her best friend, Elisa, and Elisa's mother on Sept. 11, 2001. They were on their way to the World Trade Center for breakfast at Windows of the World, invited by friends they had met just days before.

"You go on a trip not thinking this is going to change your life forever, and this one did," Salgado recalled of her experience.

Salgado and Elisa were walking toward the Twin Towers when they saw the first plane crash into one of the buildings. "When the first plane hit, everybody is like, 'OMG horrible accident, w

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