tuesday’s attack, some parents were fetching their kids...
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Destroyed ordemolished
Damaged
TradeCentercrash sitebuildings
aybreak on Wednesdayrevealed a thick cloud of dustlingering in the section of the
New York skyline once occupied bythe World Trade Center. Rescueworkers worked through the night,searching for survivors and carryingout the grim task of recovering thedead. Bodies were ferried across theHudson River to a makeshift morguein New Jersey. Crushed cars werecarted off. Debris was cleared by120-foot cranes, bulldozers, shovelsand pick axes. The Federal EmergencyManagement Agency and theAmerican Red Cross coordinatedrescue and medical efforts.Emergency teams from around thecountry converged on the scene.Triage centers were established toaid the wounded.
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A coating of dustThis area is covered with ash-like dust consisting ofpulverized concrete, insulationand other materials.
Office debrisFallout from the wreckage, includingcomputer printouts, receipts and office paper,litter this perimeter.
The searchfor survivorsRescuers rely onenhanced senses ofsight, sound and evensmell to locate peopletrapped under thick layersof steel and concrete.
SightFoot-high robots with rubber
treads areused tonavigate the
rubble and send videosignals back to rescueteams.
SmellSearch-and-rescuedogs —usuallyGermanshepherds or goldenretrievers — are trained todiscriminate between the
scent of living people andcorpses. Dogs searching forsurvivors hone in on scentssuch as those that emanatefrom breath or sweat.
SoundRescuers use specially
designed audiodevices todetect
vibrations from victimsmoving, tapping, scratchingor calling out. Six highlyresponsive sensors, 5inches high, are positioned10 to 30 feet apart atstrategically selectedlocations on a rubble pile.
Specially designed audioand video devices attachedto long poles allow workersextra reach.
Retailshops
One Liberty Place
Century 21 building
Millennium Hotel
Post office building
7 WorldTradeCenter
90 West St.
MarriottHotel
North bridge
Telephonecompanybuilding
1 WorldTradeCenter
2 WorldTradeCenter
World Financial Center
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After hours of discussionover two days, Iowa and
Iowa State decided toplay their football gameas scheduled Saturday.
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U.S. aviationsystem toreopen today Federal aviation officialssaid they would allow airtravel in the United States toresume Thursday morning,but cautioned travelers toexpect slower operationsand tight security.
Bond tradingresumes stocksremain on holdBond trading resumed todayfor the first time in two daysas the financial marketsbegan limited operations fol-lowing the World TradeCenter attacks. Stock trad-ing, however, remained halt-ed for a third day as theNew York Stock Exchange,Nasdaq Stock Market andother financial marketsregrouped in hopes ofreopening by no later thanMonday after the assaultthat shuttered Wall Streeton Tuesday.
Dead, missinggrows to morethan 4,000Though untold bodies werestill buried in the rubble ofthe World Trade Center,some rough counts hadbegun to emerge. The num-ber of dead and thosereported missing in Tues-day’s suicide attacks grewto more than 4,000 Thursdayas authorities scrambled tounearth the dead and trackdown the living.
Blood donorprograms sendmixed messageRival blood donor programsare sending mixed mes-sages to thousands ofAmericans who are findinglong lines as they do theonly thing they can think ofto help. Independent bloodcenters, including the NewYork center, say they haveplenty of blood right nowand suggested donors comeback in a few days. But theAmerican Red Cross contin-ued to actively encouragedonations, saying extra unitscan be frozen and that nowis the time that shocked andsaddened Americans aremotivated to help.
Illinois sues gassuppliers forprice gougingFollowing reports that gasprices doubled and eventripled in Illinois afterTuesday’s terrorist attack,Attorney General Jim Ryanon Wednesday sued theowner of 13 Illinois servicestations. ‘’I think it’s despi-cable,’’ Ryan said at a newsconference. ‘’Now they’regoing to have to pay theprice.’’
Attack promptsMidway Airlinesto shuts down Midway Airlines was alreadybeen riddled with financialproblems and bankruptcyproceedings when terroristsstruck the nation this week,dashing any hope for arecovery at the troubled car-rier. Midway said Wednes-day it will go out of businessin the midst of Tuesday’sattacked, the result ofhijacked airliners.
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INSIDE TODAY’S JOURNAL
Aftermath“Let’s just say there was a steady stream of body bags coming out
all night. That and lots and lots of body parts.” Dr. Todd Wilder, triage surgeon working near the World Trade Center
� Muscatine’s Musco Lighting heads to Ground Zero to help light the way forrescue workers searching for survivors.
� Stories trickle home from Muscatine natives close to the danger zone.
� Rescue crews dig through rubble and body parts, desperately hunting for signs of lifeamid the smoking remains of the World Trade Center.
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Muscatine’sMegan Strong
went to theMississippi
ValleyRegional
Blood CenterTuesday to
donate bloodfollowingnews of
Tuesday’sattack.
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� FollowingTuesday’s attack,
some parents werefetching their kids
from schools.
� Photos fromaround the world.
� E-mail bringsprompt expressionsof concern from theformer-Soviet world.
AND ...Expanded, ongoing coverage of America under attack
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AMY MEYERfor the Muscatine Journal
MUSCATINE, Iowa – As mil-lions of Americans left for workTuesday, no one could have pre-dicted what the day would bring.Some families in Muscatine notonly faced the harsh reality ofterrorism in our own country,
they were alsoscrambling to findout the where-
abouts of their loved ones inNew York and Washington, D.C.
Bob Sunderbruch, director ofhuman resources for the Musca-tine Community School District,had a very anxious morning ashe sat at work waiting to hearfrom son Jude Sunderbruch, 28,MHS ’92.
Jude is in the Air Forcereserve and has worked in Wash-ington, D.C., for the Department
of Defense for the last two yearsin the Pentagon. Luckily, Judehappened to be out of the build-ing when the plane crashed.
Due to jammed phone circuitsand extreme cell phone use, itwas difficult for those inWashington, D.C., to communi-cate. Bob Sunderbruch finallygot a call from his son approxi-mately two hours after the planecrash Tuesday. After a long dayof uncertainty, BobSunderbruch’s reaction was sim-ply put, “We were quiterelieved.”
Later Monday he got to talk tohis son further.
“He said it was pretty crazybut actually people were verynice. He lives close enough towalk home. Since there were somany more people walking thanusual, store owners were giving
out ice water. He said it waseerie but cool. People went outof their way to be nice to eachother,” Bob Sunderbruch said.
Safe, but very traumatizedDennis O’Neill, 27, MHS ‘92,
called from New York Tuesdayto his mother, former MulberryElementary principal NancyO’Neill (formerly Thornton) andsaid he was OK. He had been atwork across the street from theWorld Trade Center, she said,and witnessed the horriblescenes up close.
Nancy O’Neill, now a princi-pal in Grayslake, Ill., describedher son as safe but “very trau-matized” by the experience. Shesaid he lost a lot of friends andcolleagues, having worked insidethe World Trade Center until ajob change in the past year.� MORE ON LOCALS, PAGE 2A
Musco headsto New York,Washington DANIEL G. CLARKof the Muscatine Journal
MUSCATINE, Iowa – MuscoLighting has sent six trucksand several technicians to helplight the disaster areas in NewYork and at the Pentagon.
The company has decided toprovide lights “until they tell usthey don’t need us anymore,”said Diane Crookham-Johnson,Musco’s vice president of
administration.She said the
New York CityPolice Department contactedMusco “from a FEMA list,”probably because the companyprovided lighting equipment toOklahoma City in 1995 after thebombing of the Alfred P.Murrah Federal Building.
“We were in Oklahoma Cityjust over 30 days; we anticipatelonger in New York City,”Crookham-Johnson saidWednesday.
Thursday morning shereported that two light truckshave also been set up at thePentagon after the Departmentof Defense accepted Musco’soffer Wednesday.
Staff members volunteeredfor the disaster assignments asdrivers and technicians.
“We had more volunteersthan we needed,” she said. Thefirst teams are all Oskaloosaresidents. The company head-quarters is in Oskaloosa; itsmanufacturing plant is inMuscatine.
Crookham-Johnson saidMusco sent one mini truck toNew York from Newark, N.J.,and three large trucks fromProvidence, R.I. The Provi-dence trucks were escortedthrough Connecticut and into � MORE ON MUSCCO, PAGE 2A
Locals spend anxious moments waiting for loved ones
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Rescue workers walk amid the rubble of New York’s World Trade CenterWednesday. After a surreal day where the world watched the twin towerscrumble, rescue workers burrowed through a smoking mix of soot and rubble ina hunt for thousands of bodies from the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers patroloutside an arrival terminal with shotguns and an automatic rifle atNewark International Airport in Newark, N.J., Wednesday.
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Flowers and messages cover a truck from Ladder Company 24 inNew York Wednesday. Ladder Company 24 lost 7 firemen in theattack, including Fire Chaplain Father Mychal Judge.
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