Updated 9/12/01 5:40 p.m. EDT
News digest: Sept. 12, 2001
Washington | New York | Losses | Reaction
WASHINGTON, D.C.
- The FAA announces that all flights diverted after Tuesday's terrorist attacks will continue on to their final destinations Wednesday. All other commercial traffic will remain grounded until Thursday.
- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft calls the investigation of Tuesday's attacks the most massive one ever undertaken in U.S. history.
- White House officials say the White House and Air Force One were targets yesterday.
- Colin Powell speaks from the State Department: "We will find out who is responsible and they will pay for it." Announces efforts to build a "worldwide coalition against terrorism."
- President Bush speaks from the White House Cabinet Room: "We are facing a different enemy than we have ever faced." Announces he is sending a request to Congress for emergency funding authority to further relief efforts and "protect our national security."
- Pentagon officials say they expect to find no more survivors. Number of dead and missing at the Pentagon is estimated at 200.
NEW YORK
- Rescue workers pull nine people from the debris. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he is hopeful more survivors will be found.
- Giuliani says between 1,000 and 2,000 rescue workers are involved in the search for survivors. He says 259 New York police officers and firefighters remain missing.
LOSSES
- Giuliani says that so far there have been 55 deaths. Number of casualties is expected to rise, as many of the dead remain trapped in the rubble.
- Number of dead and missing at the Pentagon is estimated at 200.
- Giuliani says 259 New York police officers and firefighters remain unaccounted for
- 266 people were aboard the four airliners that were hijacked and crashed
REACTION
- U.S. financial markets will remain closed on Thursday.
- NATO members approve the alliance's mutual defense clause–a provision of its charter that declares that an attack on one NATO nation is an attack on all.
- Federal agents in Massachusetts, Florida, and Rhode Island take several men into custody as part of their investigation of Tuesday's attacks.
- U.S. military remains on high alert in response to the deadly terrorist strikes.
- U.S. intelligence officials say evidence indicates that the terrorists who carried out yesterday's attacks in New York and Washington are connected to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden.
