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> From online news organizations:
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> · Planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City. Both towers collapsed.
Also World Trade Center building 7 Collapsed and WTC Building 5 is unstable.
300 F.D.N.Y. Firefighters are missing.
Stueyvesant Highschool has been turned into a temporary Treage(sp?)
and Pace University has become a temporary morgue
> · A plane hit the Pentagon, part of which collapsed.
> · A United Airlines flight from Newark, NJ to San Francisco crashed near
> Somerset, Pennsylvania.
Apparently that plane was headed for Camp David but the passengers attacked
the Hijackers and they Crashed it in Pennsylvania.
> · All flights have been grounded for the first time ever.
> · Government buildings are being evacuated.
Also Disneyland + Disneyworld have been closed,the Sears Tower was
evacuated. As For N.Y.C. Yankee + Shea Stadiums were closed,The Bronx Zoo
was closed Fordham University(on which property my Highschool is on) was
Evacuated and closed. The George Washington Bridge's Lower level is closed
until 4am EST. and NYC Public Schools will open tommorow.
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> Current assessment:
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> · Cell phones still aren't working. • Most Cell-Phone Services now work some are still down.
> · There are still lines for public pay phones.
> · If you reach a loved one in the area, don't assume the worst. It's VERY
> hard to contact people right now.
> · People on the streets are not panicking. They're handling this tough time
> very admirably.
> · People who live outside Manhattan are having a hard time leaving the City
> because the tunnels and bridges were closed earlier.
Most of the bridges and tunnels are still closed to inbound traffic allowing
only pedestrian outbound traffic.
Manhattan Island is closed below 14th st.
Local T.V. in N.Y.C. has been knocked out (The Giant antenna on top of the
world trade center gives Local T.V. to us New York Folk)
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> Present bush is currently residing at an Air Force base and is deliberating
> between returning to the White House (despite warnings from the Secret
> Service) or heading to the NORAD command post in Colorado.
Bush has returned to the White House
P.S.
The U.S.S. Washington ( an Aircraft Carrier) has been patroling the New York
Coast as of Last Night.
F-16's have been Patroling Manhattan and the outer borough airspace all last
night and today
-Cj- "These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American
resolve," -President George W. Bush
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