-Caveat Lector-
The Sec. of Transportation has announced that those caught in
flight will be allowed to resume their flights to their destination
after airports increase security. They are the only ones being
allowed to fly again at this timeand they will fly tomorrow. The
stock market will not open until at least Friday. It will be
closed Thursday.
90 survivors have been pulled from the rubble alive! Although this
is slow, 120 trucks of debris was removed overnight so they are in
a better position to work faster now.
There have been reported a few attacks on Arab-Americans in the
area. There is also concern for a gas leak. This will necessitate
some amount of evacuation. The rescue workers have to leave the
area until this is under control. This will hamper their efforts.
55 dead bodies recovered.
In this article is another number to call for assistance in
locating relatives or friends. There has been progress in
identifying the hijackers by the FBI working with the airlines.
Said they used plastic knives and box cutters. I do not understand
why the passengers did not over power them but said 6 to 8 may have
been used on each flight in order to succeed. One of the
passengers on the flight that went down in PA told his wife by cell
phone that some of the passengers were gong to try to stop the
hijacking. Maybe that is why it went down.
~Amelia~
White House was probably a target
Bush aide explains why president didn't return right away
Sept. 12 - The United States has "credible evidence" that
hijackers who flew commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon also intended to hit the White House and President
Bush's official plane, a presidential spokesman told NBC News on
Wednesday. Bush declared Tuesday's devastating attacks "acts of
war" and asked Congress for emergency funding authority to do
"whatever it takes" to help the victims and protect national
security.
September 12 - President Bush states this will be a "monumental
struggle of good versus evil but good will prevail."
WHITE HOUSE Press Secretary Ari Fleischer told NBC News
that one of the airliners was thought to have been targeting the
White House.
He said "credible evidence," based on cell phone
communications, suggested that Air Force One also was a target, and
that the president was forced to zigzag across the country instead
of returning directly to Washington from Florida, where he had been
when the strikes occurred.
The president, resolute in face of the attacks, which were
expected to claim thousands of lives, earlier told reporters at the
White House that "this battle will take time and resolve but make
no mistake about it, we will win."
He said he had asked Congress for funding authority to
confront "a different enemy than we have ever faced" and to ensure
that the nation has "whatever it takes to rescue victims, help the
citizens of New York City and Washington, D.C., and to protect our
national security."
In the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, hijackers
crashed two jets into the World Trade Center, reducing both twin
towers to huge piles of concrete and steel rubble. Other hijackers
flew a jet into the Pentagon and a fourth plane crashed into a
Pennsylvania field, possibly missing its target due to a struggle
on board. Officials have not identified suspects, but suspicion
immediately fell on Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi terrorist who has
received sanctuary in Afghanistan and has spent his career railing
against the United States.
The attacks stunned the nation and brought the government to
a halt. For the first time ever, the Federal Aviation
Administration closed all U.S. airports. New rules - including a
ban on curbside luggage check-in - meant airports were unable to
resume service at noon Wednesday as the FAA had hoped.
The FAA said flights diverted Tuesday would be allowed to
continue to their destinations Wednesday, but that other flights
were still indefinitely on hold.
A FEW RESCUES OVERNIGHT
September 12 - New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday briefs
the "Today" show on the rescue effort.
On Wednesday, rescuers looked for any survivors while
police and FBI agents looked for clues. NBC's Pete Williams
reported that law enforcement agents were rounding up "material
witnesses" - people who might have been acquainted with the
hijackers.
In New York, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told NBC's "Today" show
that two police officers were rescued overnight, having contacted
rescuers by cell phone. Attempts were being made to save a third
person, he said.
New York firefighter Rudy Weindler spent nearly 12 hours
trying to find survivors overnight and found four - three people in
the rubble and a pregnant woman sitting on a curb.
But hundreds, if not thousands, are feared dead. "I lost
count of all the dead people I saw," Weindler said. "It is
absolutely worse than you could ever imagine."
The four hijacked jetliners alone carried a total of 266
passengers and crew.
ARRESTS REPORTED
In the hunt for those responsible, the FBI confiscated
records from a Florida flying school where two of the hijackers
might have taken lessons, NBC's Kerry Sanders reported Wednesday.
They also searched the South Florida home of a man listed on
the manifest of one of the hijacked planes. A federal law
enforcement official told NBC News that the name immediately
triggered alarms at the FBI.
Watch continuing coverage from NBC News as the search for survivors
continues.
In Boston overnight, authorities seized a rental car at
Logan International Airport, where two of the deadly flights
originated, and on Wednesday afternoon stormed two hotels, forcing
the evacuation of one. Boston's WHDH-TV said person was taken away
in a police van.
The Boston Herald reported that the car, which contained
Arabic-language flight training manuals, led to the names of five
Arab men, a trained pilot among them. At least one of those men
flew to Logan on Tuesday from Portland, Maine.
The luggage of one of the men who flew to the airport
Tuesday didn't make his scheduled connection. The Boston Globe
reported the luggage contained a copy of the Koran, an
instructional video on flying commercial airliners and a fuel
consumption calculator.
The Boston Herald said passengers making cell phone calls
from one or more of the hijacked planes had reported the hijackers
had used plastic knives to stab flight attendants and take control.
Attack on America
Watch MSNBC Cable for round-the-clock updates
Brian Williams, John Seigenthaler, Lester Holt, Chris Matthews
and Forrest Sawyer bring you the very latest reaction to Tuesday's
terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., with
reporting from the Pentagon, the White House and the streets of
Manhattan.
THE HUMAN TOLL
The first attack occurred before most of the 50,000 people
who worked at the World Trade Center had arrived. But officials
estimated that 10,000 to 20,000 people were in the buildings when
the first plane crashed. Many fled, rushing down dozens of flights
of stairs before the second jet hit and the towers collapsed.
Some 400 firefighters were working at the center when the
first tower collapsed, and 202 of those men and women were missing
as of Wednesday morning, Giuliani said. Fifty-seven police were
also feared buried under rubble.
The 1,250-foot-tall towers, which survived a terrorist
bombing in a basement parking garage in 1993, were reduced to a
pile of stone and steel about five stories high.
At the Pentagon, where 20,000 people work, NBC's Jim
Miklaszewski said officials now believe 100 people died, down from
an earlier estimate of 800.
SHOCK WAVES ACROSS NATION
September 12 - NBC's David Bloom reports from lower Manhattan on
the rescue effort Wednesday.
Across the nation, the attacks have had a deep impact:
Military in armored vehicles protected federal buildings in
Washington, a day after the White House, the U.S. Capitol and other
federal buildings were temporarily evacuated.
President Bush placed U.S. military forces on the highest possible
state of alert, and the aircraft carrier USS George Washington on
Wednesday joined three other warships off the coast of New York.
Financial markets were closed until at least Thursday, and all
Major League Baseball games were postponed through Thursday.
The FBI set up a Web site for reporting tips: www.ifccfbi.gov.
The Justice Department established a hot line for families seeking
information about victims and survivors. The number is (800)
331-0075.
Click on a state above to find out where to get local news on the
attack on the World Trade Center.
PRIME SUSPECT: BIN LADEN
Although no one has claimed responsibility, suspicion
focused on Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi militant harbored by
Afghanistan. He is suspected in previous attacks on U.S. interests,
among them the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and
last year's bombing of a U.S. Navy ship in Yemen.
On Wednesday, a bin Laden aide told a Palestinian journalist
that bin Laden congratulated the people who carried out the
strikes, but denied he was involved.
A spokesman for Afghanistan's ruling Taliban condemned the
attacks and denied that bin Laden was behind them. The
sophistication of the coordinated assault required the expertise of
a government, the Taliban said.
September 11 - Osama bin Laden emerged as the prime suspect in
Tuesday's attacks. NBC's Keith Miller reports.
But a senior U.S. official told NBC News' Robert Windrem
late Tuesday that information developed left officials "90 percent
certain" that bin Laden's organization was responsible. "This is
not just surmise," the official said. "This is new information."
Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday refused to
single out bin Laden as a suspect, though he pointed a finger at
Afghanistan and Pakistan, where bin Laden is thought to also
operate, telling reporters their diplomats would be asked to
cooperate with the United States.
In a strong show of support, Washington's NATO allies
declared that the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington can
be considered an attack on the whole alliance if it turns out they
were directed from abroad.
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