AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Judy can join us now -- Judy.</s>JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Aaron, as we're watching these pictures of the president in New York, we can tell our viewers that our White House correspondent John King has learned that the president has declared a state of national emergency today, a legal requirement, we are told, tied to the decision to authorize the Pentagon to call up National Guard and military reservists in the wake of what happened on Tuesday. John King reporting the declaration site, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and notes, quote, "the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States," end quote. Now, of course, that's a reference to what investigative authorities are telling our reporters that, that it is not wrong to assume that there's still are people in the United States with plans to do -- to do further great harm to this country. The president also issued an executive order, we're told. John King learning -- authorizing the Pentagon to issue that call up to Guard members and reservists, and he has sent a letter to Congress notifying them of all of these decisions. Again, this reporting coming from our White House correspondent John King. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
America's New War: Bush Declares National Emergency