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hundreds of volunteers and medical workers have converged at the scene of what used to be the World Trade Center Towers to search for victims of yesterday’s terrorist attacks.

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[00:-1.00]The Trade Center’s Twin Towers are now just mounds of rubble as we just saw moments ago,

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[00:-2.00]moments ago, in that live shot after two hijacked jetliners slammed into each of the towers.

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[00:-3.00]It was a terrifying sight yesterday morning as cameras actually captured the second of the jets actually crashing into the tower and then bursting into flames.

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[00:-4.00]Cameras were trained on them, obviously, after the first jetliner.absolutely chilling.

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[00:-5.00]Some 50,000 people worked in the World Trade Center everyday.

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[00:-6.00]We have no idea how many of those people were there at this hour.

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[00:-7.00]How many of those people were there at this hour.

[00:-7.50] [-1:56.00]The White House after being evacuated for most of the day,

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[-1:57.00]the White House staff was allowed back in and the press was allowed back in this evening.

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[-1:58.00]Although they have now closed the White House for the night, it’s right behind me and they’re turned the lights off,

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[-1:59.00]but they say they will be back in business first thing in the morning.

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[-2:00.00]Elizabeth:That is reassuring. Alright Josh Gershstein, thank you so much for that report.

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[-2:-1.00]In a speech from the Oval Office Mr. Bush sought to calm a country shaken by unprecedented violence, let’s listen.

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[-2:-2.00]President Bush speaking from the Oval Office a few hours ago seeking to calm a country obviously shaken by the worst terrorist attack suffered on U.S. soil in our country’s history,

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[-2:-3.00]vowing in fact to find those responsible for the attacks and bring them to justice.

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[-2:-4.00]A fourth plane hijacked yesterday did not hit a building as we said to you a few moments ago,

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[-2:-5.00]but it did crash outside of Pittsburgh, killing all 45 people on board.

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[-2:-6.00]It was United Airlines flight 93 and passenger Mark Bingham was able to call his mother on a cell phone from a locked bathroom to tell her that the plane was being hijacked Bingham’s mother Alice Hogland spoke earlier with Peter Jennings.

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[-2:-7.00]Hogland:He said I just wanted to let you know that I love you.

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[-2:-8.00]He was repeating that the thing he had told Catherine the moment before.

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[-2:-9.00]I told him we love you Mark and he said I’m on a flight, flight 93 United flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco,

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[-2:10.00]and there are three guys who have taken over the flight and they say they have a bomb.

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[-2:11.00]And I’m calling you from the airphone on the plane, meaning not his cell phone, I guess.

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[-2:12.00]I found out since that he was sitting in the last part of his class and that the flight was fairly light not very many passengers,

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[-2:13.00]about 45 people aboard. He may have well been able to take a proactive part in stopping the men from what they intended to do so the plane did not reach its target. [-2:13.50]

[-2:14.00]I certainly hope so, anyway.

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[-2:15.00]Jennings:Ms.Hogland I hate interviews like this, and I’m sure at this moment you are suffering in ways we cannot imagine.

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[-2:16.00]Did your son say anything else to you? About the circumstances aboard the flight?

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[-2:17.00]Hogland:No, no, no, I wasn’t able to, he was cut off he... can you hear me alright?

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[-2:18.00]Jennings:I can indeed.

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[-2:19.00]Hogland:He... the plane... the phone went dead after a few seconds.

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[-2:20.00]I got the impression that he was being distracted by something going on around him.

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[-2:21.00]I didn’t hear anything except a sort of confusion.

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[-2:22.00]I didn’t hear any explosions, any yelling, just voices, and then,

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[-2:23.00]he seemed distracted about something quite calm voice, though. He was a very stoic fellow.He told us that he loved us, he emphasized that what he was telling us was true.

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[-2:24.00]I told him I believed him, that I loved him. And the phone went dead.

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[-2:25.00]Elizabeth:Terrible, terrible news from the mother of Mark Bingham one of the passengers on board one of the four commercial airlines that were hijacked this morning.

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[-2:26.00]Several of those passengers on many of those airplanes were, in fact, able to use their cell phones.

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[-2:27.00]Many of them were on the phones told love ones that they were hijacked.

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[-2:28.00]Many of them had been herded to the back of the plane. They reported to loved ones that hijackers had in many cases attacked,

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[-2:29.00]stabbed flight attendants, with knives they had somehow managed to bring on board.

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[-2:30.00]Something now that the FBI is going to investigate as a tremendous security breach,

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[-2:31.00]that later on in one case, that the pilot of the aircraft was taken to the back of the airplane,

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[-2:32.00]according to some reports that several people were able to, in those terrifying moments, when I’m sure they knew something very terrible was on its way to happening were able to call somebody,

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[-2:33.00]loved ones on their cell phones and talk with them.

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[-2:34.00]Well after a day of virtual lockdown, the nation’s capital does try to resume some of its normal activity today,

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[-2:35.00]ABC’s Barry Sarison has been in Washington all evening.

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[-2:36.00]Barry I know this we’ve already heard, we’ve already begun hearing calls for swift and sever retribution.

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[-2:37.00]What is the mood like on Capital Hill among lawmakers and the White House administration?

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[-2:38.00]Sarison:I think the mood is the same at both ends of Pennsylvaia Avenue, Elizabeth.

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[-2:39.00]It’s grim, it’s determined. There’s certainly some simmering anger there.

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[-2:40.00]Congress later today is going to pass a resolution denouncing these acts supporting the President.

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[-2:41.00]There’s probably also going to be a lot of talk on Capital Hill about better intelligence gathering by this country and probably about better airline security in this country.

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[-2:42.00]Elizabeth:In fact, there’s been a lot of talk already about why on earth we didn’t have any clue apparently that these attacks were going to happen.

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[-2:43.00]Something this well orchestrated took an enormous amount of planning a preparation by whoever is behind this attack and there’s already a lot of finger pointing going on about why we didn’t have any sort of clue that this was about to happen.

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[-2:44.00]Sarison:A lot of the intelligence professionals are saying the United States is the best in world at technical intelligence gathering,

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[-2:45.00]scooping up information from the sky in effect.

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[-2:46.00]But, not so good nowadays in the human intelligence, that is people on the ground.

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[-2:47.00]Informants on the ground and I think that that a lot of what you’re going to be hearing in the coming days here.

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[-2:48.00]Elizabeth:And, in fact, the way we fly in this country could change dramatically.

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[-2:49.00]Security, that sort of thing, the changes that could be happening at the airport?

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[-2:50.00]Sarison:Security is going to change once they resume flights, which could be as early as noon today.

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[-2:51.00]You certainly won’t be able to check in bags at the curbside anymore,

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[-2:52.00]there’s going to be a lot more security all along the way. Including some random I.D. checks.

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[-2:53.00]Elizabeth:Alright, Barry Sarison, thank you for checking in with us from our nation’s capital.

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[-2:54.00]Recapping the very latest on this unprecedented terrorist on the United States,

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[-2:55.00]a massive and grim search for survivors and bodies is underway in New York City,

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[-2:56.00]after two hijacked jetliners, one an American Airlines jet,

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[-2:57.00]the other a United Airlines jet slammed into the World Trade Center’s twin towers.

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[-2:58.00]A fire set off by the crashes eventually caused both of the 110-story towers to collapse.

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[-2:59.00]Officials fear that as many as 300 firefighters may be among the casualties. They were apparently on the scene after the first jetliner crashed into the first tower,

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[-3:00.00]trying to evacuate people who were working in those buildings and because they were there going in to rescue and to help people out.

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[-3:-1.00]They too were victimized when the second airliner crashed into the second tower and then when both towers eventually collapsed.

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[-3:-2.00]They say establishing a final death toll in this disaster at the World Trade Center location could take weeks.

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[-3:-3.00]In the meantime, at the Pentagon, investigators fear hundreds of people were killed when another hijacked jetliner slammed into that building.

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[-3:-4.00]The military is responding by putting its personnel around the world on its very highest alert and an aircraft carrier due to come home from the Persian Gulf has been ordered to remain in that area indefinitely.

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[-3:-5.00]Obviously, the speculation being that if there is any sort of retribution,

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[-3:-6.00]any retaliation when we figure out who is behind the attacks,

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[-3:-7.00]that vessel will be in place for that. In an address from the Oval Office,

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[-3:-8.00]President Bush said that hundreds, thousands of lives were ended by evil,

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[-3:-9.00]despicable acts of terror. He vowed to find those responsible and bring them to justice.

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[-3:10.00]Indeed, we are already hearing quite a bit of talk from people on Capital Hill,

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[-3:11.00]Peter Jennings earlier this evening interviewing former Secretary of State Lawrence Eigelberger vowing swift revenge,

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[-3:12.00]saying this is war, it’s an act of war, you respond to war swiftly and severely.

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[-3:13.00]Here is some of what’s happening around the country today,

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[-3:14.00]Congress and federal offices in the nation’s capital will, in fact, be open this morning,

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[-3:15.00]as we’ve been hearing from our reporters on the scene. Even at the Pentagon itself,

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[-3:16.00]even though as its on fire and the search for victims goes on, the Pentagon will,

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[-3:17.00]in fact, be open for business. However, the stock markets will be closed and there will only be limited postal deliveries nationwide.

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[-3:18.00]Schools in both Washington and New York City have both canceled classes for today and all airline flights remain canceled until at least noon eastern time.

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[-3:19.00]The FAA apparently shutting everything down once it became clear that there was this orchestrated terrorist attack happening involving four jetliners all in the span of about an hour yesterday morning.

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[-3:20.00]Shutting down, something it’s never done, shutting down the entire country’s airspace.

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[-3:21.00]For anyone seeking information on family members who may have been victims,

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[-3:22.00]a hotline has been set up, that number is 18003310075.

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[-3:23.00]You can call that to find out if anyone you care about has been involved in this attack,

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[-3:24.00]and if you have any information on this terrorist activity,

[00:-8.00]How many people were able to be evacuated after the first jet slammed into the first tower.

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[00:-9.00]At the Pentagon, officials fear hundreds were killed when another hijacked jetliner struck there.

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[00:10.00]The military is responding by putting its forces all over the world on the very highest alert and an aircraft carrier scheduled to come home from the Persian Gulf has been ordered to remain in the area indefinitely.

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[00:11.00]We are now going to go to...we’re going to Bill Blakemore who is down at ground zero where crews are working so diligently,

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[00:12.00]so hard to find any victims, any survivors. Bill what kind of progress are they making?

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[00:13.00]Bill Blakemore:We haven’t heard of any other than two or three people being pulled from the rubble so far,

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[00:14.00]there have been a number of the Search and Rescue workers who have worked their way back up here at the end of their shift,

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[00:15.00]covered in dust, who talked about how depressing it is to try to dig through ten feet of ash and rubble and then just find another bit of metal and have to start all over again, finding nothing.

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[00:16.00]The really sobering thought, of course Elizabeth, is the fact that down there at the end of this street,

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[00:17.00]is where all of the bodies are lying. We don’t know how many it is.

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[00:18.00]People are saying it could be in the tens of thousands.

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[00:19.00]Elizabeth:This can often be a very delicate task in in a case like this.

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[00:20.00]The wreckage itself could collapse at any moment. How difficult a job is this?

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[00:21.00]And how difficult is it to even get close to some of this wreckage?

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[00:22.00]Blakemore:Well first of all, a couple of buildings around the edge of it are still burning.

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[00:23.00]We can see some of the smoke still piling up from some of those fires.

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[00:24.00]Some of that, of course is also dust from some of the demolition workers are trying to get some of the debris cleared away.

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[00:25.00]So, they’ve got that difficulty, they’ve also got the difficulty of the fact that the Trade Towers seems to have disintegrated.

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[00:26.00]Virtually, completely disintegrated as they fell down on themselves,

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[00:27.00]there’s almost nothing left of any of the floors. So they have a great density of wreckage as well.

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[00:28.00]Elizabeth:Alright, Bill Blakemore, thank you so much for that update down at ground zero at what was the World Trade Center and at what is now the scene of a massive crime scene,

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[00:29.00]and a terrible national tragedy. Members of Congress were briefed on the very latest developments last night and ABC’s Barry Sarison joins right now from Washington.

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[00:30.00]Barry, I assume they know more than we do at this point.

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[00:31.00]Barry Sarison:They certainly do, Elizabeth, but at this point there’s no definite finger pointing, but they’re being told the same thing we’ve been hearing.

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[00:32.00]That many things at this point point to Osama bin Laden. Members of Congress,

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[00:33.00]tonight, like the President, expressed resolve and determination to find and punish those responsible and determination that freedom will prevail.

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[00:34.00]Tomorrow, to back all that up, Congress will adopt a resolution, which will support the president,

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[00:35.00]and which will also denounce these terrorist acts.

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[00:36.00]Congressional leaders are expected to meet with the President tomorrow morning.

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[00:37.00]There is some talk in coming days of a joint seession of Congress perhaps addressed by the President.

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[00:38.00]Elizabeth:Indeed, we’ve heard so many members of Congress, the President himself,

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[00:39.00]members of his administration, talk about the importance sending the message that it’s going to take a heck of a lot more to stop the United States government from operating.

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[00:40.00]But, tomorrow, when they do go onto, when they are meeting and getting these briefings, what can they legitimately hope to accomplish?

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[00:41.00]I mean the Pentagon is burning, and obviously we don’t have a lot of information yet on who was responsible for these attacks, so,

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[00:42.00]Barry this more symbolic, the business they have planned tomorrow?

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[00:43.00]Sarison:Yes, it’s certainly meant to send a message, Elizabeth.

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[00:44.00]Exactly that, the government is still functioning, the U.S. is still standing, and it’s also true that that’s one of the reasons government agencies will be back open tomorrow,

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[00:45.00]even the Pentagon, but they won’t be operating at probably full strength, and we still have a state of emergency here.

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[00:46.00]We have National Guardsmen, 300 of them in the District of Columbia, 300 more in Virginia, and by the way,

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[00:47.00]three thousand of them later today in New York, which will be patrolling streets, keeping security,

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[00:48.00]keeping traffic moving, and maintaining a presence.

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[00:49.00]Elizabeth:We have a live look at the first headline, Barry, from the morning newspaper from the Washington Post.

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[00:50.00]I believe we have a graphic, can we get that up there?

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[00:51.00]No, I guess we don’t. We’ll be getting...there it is "Terrorists Hijack Four Airliners,

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[00:52.00]Two Destroy World Trade Center, One Hits Pentagon, Fourth Crashes."

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[00:53.00]That fourth jet, of course, referring to the United Airlines jet that crashed in Pennsylvania.

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[00:54.00]This has got to be a surreal evening there as well, Barry. I mean...

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[00:55.00]I mean we had members of Congress momentarily evacuated.

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[00:56.00]Obviously, the President hopscotching around the country in search of safe haven,

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[00:57.00]as well as information. Finally, everybody converging back on the Capital tonight,

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[00:58.00]it must be equally surreal there.

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[00:59.00]Sarison:It was an eerie day here Elizabeth. In a way it looked like this city looks like during a blizzard.

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[-1:00.00]This morning traffic was choking the streets because other streets had been closed off around sensitive buildings,

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[-1:-1.00]but for most of the afternoon, the city was just empty, just quiet, except for police and the occasional siren.

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[-1:-2.00]And, tonight, it is much the same way. This is clearly still a city in shock.

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[-1:-3.00]Elizabeth:Alright, Barry Sarison in Washington, D.C., the same could be said for New York City,

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[-1:-4.00]where the streets are practically deserted, something very unusual in the city that never sleeps.

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[-1:-5.00]Very little traffic, people basically being told by the mayor to stay inside, to stay close to information,

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[-1:-6.00]to not come down if they can avoid it all costs.

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[-1:-7.00]But back in the capital, on Capital Hill steps last night, members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans stood side by side said they would stand as Americans together to condemn the attacks and support retaliation.

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[-1:-8.00]They then did something very unusual and joined together in a patriotic song.

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[-1:-9.00]Elizabeth:We can see there a symbolic gesture by members of Congress standing together to sing a song of patriotism.

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[-1:10.00]Showing, in fact that they are standing together united, against this attack.

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[-1:11.00]To recap, four commercial airliners, two United Airlines jets, two American Airlines jets,

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[-1:12.00]757s, 767s, in a well-coordinated terrorist attacked hijacked this morning.

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[-1:13.00]Two of the jetliners crashing into the Twin Towers in New York City, those Twin Towers then collapsing,

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[-1:14.00]about an hour later, shortly afterwards, massive, massive casualties are expected.

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[-1:15.00]It could be weeks before we know how many people might have been killed or injured in that attack as we know as well,

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[-1:16.00]another jetliner crashed into the Pentagon and there, again, we expect to hear about hundreds of casualties as well.

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[-1:17.00]A fourth jet crashed in the countryside in Pennsylavnia, it is believed that that jet,

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[-1:18.00]the hijackers aboard that jet were aiming for Camp David. But as of now,

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[-1:19.00]massive rescue and search efforts are going on down in New York City, at the base of this island.

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[-1:20.00]It is complete chaos down there, as we’ve been able to see from our cameras on the scene.

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[-1:21.00]They are hoping to find survivors. As of now, only a small handful, and, again,

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[-1:22.00]rescuers have been working around the clock. Among those feared killed in this explosion in this terrorist attack were over 300 New York City firefighters who were in the process of trying to evacuate one of those two Twin Towers.

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[-1:23.00]Also several Police officers, many of the top brass of the fire department were on the scene at the time of the Tower’s collapse after the jets had crashed into them and they are feared dead as well.

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[-1:24.00]This is a devastating obviously terrorist attack. President Bush took to the airwaves a few hours ago vowing to find who was responsible, and vowing swift and strong retaliation.

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[-1:25.00]So once again, this is ABC News continuing coverage of the terrorist attacks on the United States.

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[-1:26.00]And, as we’ve been saying, that difficult and grisly task of searching for bodies and survivors is intensifying at the site of the World Trade Center.

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[-1:27.00]Many of the victims are buried under the rubble of the twin 110-story towers.

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[-1:28.00]They collapsed yesterday, right after the jetliners slammed into them.

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[-1:29.00]Cameras did capture that horrifying moment when the second of those two jets crashed into the tower and burst into flames.

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[-1:30.00]Again, a terrible, terrible sight, some 50,000 people normally work at the world trade center everyday.

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[-1:31.00]We have no idea of how many people were actually in the towers at the time of those two explosions you’re looking at right now.

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[-1:32.00]Officials say determining a final death toll could in fact take weeks. Again, at the Pentagon, still recapping officials fear hundreds were killed when another hijacked jetliner struck there.

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[-1:33.00]The military is responding by putting its forces around the world on the highest state of alert.

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[-1:34.00]There’s been no credible claim of responsibility yet for any of these attacks,

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[-1:35.00]but federal authorities have identified terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden as a prime suspect.

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[-1:36.00]He has vowed to do devastation, to wreak havoc on the United States in the past and this is clearly,

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[-1:37.00]stunningly well-orchestrated terrorist attacks.

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[-1:38.00]Four hijackings happening in the span of two hours, one hour this morning, and many law enforcement officials still struggling to figure out how this all happened.

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[-1:39.00]We can go now to ABC’s Josh Gershtein who is in Washington, D.C., Josh the President,

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[-1:40.00]Congress all showing a united front and vowing business will continue and swift revenge.

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[-1:41.00]Gershtein:Well, they certainly are vowing a swift revenge and a return to normalcy,

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[-1:42.00]but it was anything but a normal day for President Bush. He began his day in Sarasota,

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[-1:43.00]Florida at an education event a fairly routine event for the President when he first got word on the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center.

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[-1:44.00]And then when the second plane went into the World Trade Center buildings it became clear to everyone that this was no accident.

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[-1:45.00]This was a terrorist attack and then of course word of the attack on the Pentagon,

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[-1:46.00]and the other plane going down. The President spent the day hopscotching,

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[-1:47.00]going around the country. Very, very unusual, he took off from Sarasota,

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[-1:48.00]Florida after making a few, brief remarks flew to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana,

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[-1:49.00]was there for some time, had a meeting, had a conference call from the General’s quarters there at Barksdale Air Force Base.

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[-1:50.00]Then got back on Air Force One under very tight security and flew on from there to Nebraska,

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[-1:51.00]Offed Air Force base in Nebraska, which was intened for use in the Cold War as a hidenout base in the case of a nuclear doomsday.

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[-1:52.00]He landed at Offed Air Force Base and went into a very small building, which were told allowed him to descend into an underground bunker where he held a full national security meeting with officials back here in Washington and then,

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[-1:53.00]at that point then, he returned, flew back to Washington.

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[-1:54.00]His advisors very eager to get him back here to show that the government was trying to return to normal.

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[-1:55.00]And, indeed this evening things returned somewhat to normal.

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[-3:15.00]as we’ve been hearing from our reporters on the scene. Even at the Pentagon itself,

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[-3:16.00]even though as its on fire and the search for victims goes on, the Pentagon will,

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[-3:17.00]in fact, be open for business. However, the stock markets will be closed and there will only be limited postal deliveries nationwide.

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[-3:18.00]Schools in both Washington and New York City have both canceled classes for today and all airline flights remain canceled until at least noon eastern time.

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[-3:19.00]The FAA apparently shutting everything down once it became clear that there was this orchestrated terrorist attack happening involving four jetliners all in the span of about an hour yesterday morning.

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[-3:20.00]Shutting down, something it’s never done, shutting down the entire country’s airspace.

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[-3:21.00]For anyone seeking information on family members who may have been victims,

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[-3:22.00]a hotline has been set up, that number is 18003310075.

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[-3:23.00]You can call that to find out if anyone you care about has been involved in this attack,

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[-3:24.00]and if you have any information on this terrorist activity,