July 4, 2008
Attack On America: Complete Coverage of Sept. 11 and the Aftermath
The attack did far more than punch a gap in the New York skyline; it tore a hole in the national psyche as Americans watched live television images of the devastation, a frightening exhibit of American vulnerability.
A Day of Infamy
In an unprecedented attack that told Americans they're no longer safe, two hijacked jets on a horrifying suicide mission slammed into the World Trade Center yesterday - killing thousands in the nation's worst terrorist assault - and another crashed into the Pentagon.
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Will These Terror Acts Change Our Lives?
TUESDAY, Sept. 11, 2001, is most likely a date that will be marked forever in your heart.
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Local Stations Grab the Story
The strikes on the World Trade Center knocked out the transmission towers of the major TV stations in New York City yesterday, leaving viewers who don't subscribe to cable few places to observe the mounting devastation. Cable subscribers, meanwhile, found themselves hunting for the familiar network news anchors and correspondents they traditionally turn to in times of national tragedy.
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Radio's Live Coverage, Mixed Signals
On a black day in American history, New York radio did what radio does best: go local and live. From news stations WCBS/880 AM and WINS/1010 AM to Howard Stern on "K-Rock" (WXRK/92.3 FM), most broadcasters tenaciously covered the attacks. The local news helicopters provided invaluable images to their television stations and called in traffic coverage for the radio.
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Presses Roll Early
Extra editions rolled off the presses at many newspapers nationwide yesterday, including Newsday, as both newspapers and magazines pulled out their full resources for special coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
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Transportation Paralyzed Highways, trains shut down for much of yesterday
The Long Island Expressway and other highways leading into the city were strangely deserted. The Long Island Rail Road came to a standstill between Jamaica and Manhattan. The subways weren't running, and all commercial aviation was grounded.
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Death Count Expected To Rise
America went to bed last night with little idea exactly how many people lost their lives in yesterday's horrific terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
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Death Count Expected To Rise
America went to bed last night with little idea of how many people lost their lives in yesterday's horrific terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. At midnight, at least six people, their crushed bodies covered in blood-stained sheets, had been pulled from the rubble, with five others confirmed dead by St. Vincents and Bellevue hospitals.
'It Was Like the Apocalypse'
Bill Kelly, a day trader from Georgia, was walking by a Borders book store at the World Trade Center when the first explosion occurred.
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Centers Overwhelmed With Blood Donors Some turned away after waiting hours
Having looked to the Manhattan skyline and seen their city under attack, New Yorkers by the thousands flocked to hospitals, rolled up their sleeves and gave their blood, hoping to help the wounded and the dying.
Victims: a Portrait of America
Hundreds of New York City firefighters and police officers were believed dead following the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, including the confirmed deaths of several high-ranking officers, a chaplain and a nationally known chief of rescue operations that led a team of New York firefighters to Oklahoma City in 1995 in the aftermath of the bombing of a federal building.
Treating the Victims Area hospitals wait for more
All area hospitals were called into action to deal with yesterday's World Trade Center terrorist attack.
Primary Elections Called To a Halt
New York's citywide primary was called off five hours after the polls opened, and voting also was halted throughout the state following yesterday's World Trade Center attack.
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Transportation Paralyzed Highways, trains shut down for much of yesterday
The Long Island Expressway and other highways leading into the city were strangely deserted. The Long Island Rail Road came to a standstill between Jamaica and Manhattan. Bridges and tunnels into Manhattan were closed. The subways weren't running, and all commercial aviation was grounded.
Heightened Security Alert Had Just Been Lifted
The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened security alert was lifted at the landmark 110-story towers, security personnel said yesterday.
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Muslims Fear Fellow New Yorkers' Revenge
Amina Zaid huddled yesterday inside a Muslim book store on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, waiting for her husband to pick her up.
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Relatives Hope For Good News
At Bellevue Hospital Center, Anita Beblase, 62, searched in the confusion for sons who worked at each of the Twin Towers that once stood blocks away.
Eerie Quiet In The City
Prayer services replaced baseball games and Broadway matinees. People walked alongside deserted streets normally clogged with cars and buses. Construction workers who dig foundations instead dug for corpses.
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Trade Center Was City Icon
The World Trade Center, designed by Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth, was completed in 1973 after seven years of construction, at a cost of $750 million. It opened for business in 1975.
Health Care Workers' Skills Are Put to Test
With only 46 hospital burn-unit beds in the city, New York's ability to cope with the medical catastrophe created by the World Trade Center attack will depend upon heroic levels of work by nurses and physicians, not only in the 170 hospitals within the city, but at medical facilities regionally.
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In Oklahoma, Sickening Wave Of Memories
It was a scene that sent law enforcement officials in Oklahoma City into shell shock yesterday.
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