WITNESSES 'SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED' THOSE ON SCENE REEL WITH DISBELIEF THEN ANGER, FEAR.

San Fernando Valley area residents in New York and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday described the fear, shock and horror they experienced being near the scene of the deadly terrorist attacks.

Studio City resident Bruce Bialosky, president of the Republican Jewish Coalition of Los Angeles, was in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday with a delegation of 26 other local residents when the Pentagon was struck by one of the hijacked airplanes.

``Shocked, shocked, shocked,'' Bialosky said of the reaction at the Capitol. ``Then the shock turned to anger.''

Bialosky said the local Jewish group had earlier in the week received a series of briefings on the threat of terrorism - and on Monday was in the section of the Pentagon that was ignited by the crash of the hijacked plane.

``What happened to the World Trade towers is horrible, but what happened to the Pentagon is an act of war,'' he said.

A couple of elderly people with the group, in Washington for a quarterly meeting of the national Republican Jewish Coalition, said the attack was worse than Pearl Harbor in that the terrorists struck at the heart of the country, paralyzing it.

``They said there was the same shock and dismay after Pearl Harbor, but that things weren't shut down,'' he said. ``They said, this is worse.''

Bialosky said the Jewish group was immediately convinced that Arab terrorists were responsible for the attacks and called upon the United States to bring immediate retaliation.

``It's a sorry situation the American people have, to have this happen, to realize how serious, how dangerous these people are,'' Bialosky said. ``The only responsible course is to retaliate.''

Bialosky said the scene inside the Capitol grew tense after the New York attacks were reported. But as the Pentagon fire was reported, he said grim-faced Capitol guards raced into action, yelling at people to run for their lives.

``All of a sudden, one of the guards started running at me, screaming, 'Get out of here right now,''' said Bialosky, who called the Daily News from a bus headed to Bethesda, Md. ``We got about 50 yards out, and there was this plume of smoke over the Capitol.''

Ruth Jones, 59, of Lakeview Terrace was talking to her daughter, who works at the Pentagon, about the strikes in New York as the third plane crashed into the five-story building where her daughter and her husband work.

``Oh my gosh, the building's shaking,'' were the last words Jones heard from her daughter, Toni Callender, before the phone went dead.

It was about six agonizing hours before Jones heard from her daughter again.

``We have been on pins and needles,'' Jones said. ``I thought I was going to die from the anxiety.''

Toni Callender and her husband, Ronald Callender, were in a portion of the building spared destruction and were able to make it out alive. It took them 2 1/2 hours to get home - a trip that usually takes 15 minutes.

Describing the experience later to her mother, Toni Callender said the day's events were something straight out of the movies and that they were lucky to be alive.

``It was nothing but God's work,'' Jones said. ``It hit everywhere except where they were.''

The family is still awaiting the arrival of a 15-year-old son who had been studying at Duke Ellington School of Art in New York.

``It's one of these things you never expect to hit home,'' Jones said. ``It's one of those things you'll never forget.''

< Chloe Douglas of Bell Canyon, who is studying dance at New York University, said she was lying in bed in Rubin Hall, about a mile from the World Trade Center, when she heard a low-flying plane. She didn't hear an explosion but then heard many many sirens.

``I went outside and looked to my left and I saw the World Trade Center towers, and there were holes in the middle of them. It looked like (the movie) 'Independence Day.' Then it hit me: There are people in there, dying.

``Later, we went up on the roof and we saw the towers fall. When something that big happens, you don't even feel it. You don't even know what to feel.

``I just keep thinking that it's going to be there tomorrow. The sky looks so naked.''

Ingrid Ernst, a flight attendant on Lufthansa Airlines, was looking out her hotel window across the Hudson River from New York City on Tuesday morning when she saw a jumbo jet penetrate the second World Trade Center building.

``It was going as fast as a regular plane. I didn't realize what was happening,'' Ernst, 23, of Hamburg, Germany, told the Daily News by phone from the Sheraton Hotel in Weehawken, New Jersey.

Ernst was relaxing by her window, planning her vacation in Los Angeles today, when she saw one of the hijacked passenger planes crash into the middle-to-upper floors of one of America's tallest landmarks.

``You saw the plane disappear, then fire on the other side,'' she said of the jet, which appeared small from her vantage across the river. ``It was like you are in a movie - it takes you awhile to realize what's happening. You're just shocked, you can't think anything at the moment.

Staff Writers Barbara Jones and Bhavna Mistry contributed to this story.