At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors.
At the Pentagon, people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building. On Flight 93 , 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. Bush , who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
In a reference to the eventual U. Within two months, U. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, remained at large until May 2, , when he was finally tracked down and killed by U. In June , then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan; it took until August for all U. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 25, Today, the Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet responsible for preventing terror attacks, border security, immigrations and customs and disaster relief and prevention.
Mohammed led propaganda operations for al Qaeda from In August , a U. On the first day of trading after the attacks, the market fell 7. The heaviest losses were in finance and air transportation, which accounted for 60 percent of lost jobs.
Thousands of first responders and people working and living in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero were exposed to toxic fumes and particles emanating from the towers as they burned and fell.
The Victim Compensation Fund was set to stop accepting claims in December The first memorials to September 11 came in the immediate wake of the attacks, with candlelight vigils and flower tributes at U. Another flight attendant in a phone call to American's office in Boston says: "Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent. United Airlines Flight It is the flight's last communication with the ground.
Two minutes later transponder is turned off. All American Airlines flights in Northeast that have not yet taken off are ordered to remain on the ground. American makes the ground stop nationwide after learning a United Airlines plane is missing. Between a. After takeoff, all four planes are hijacked by terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda.
The second plane crash made it apparent that this was a planned attack, not an accident. The South Tower collapses. For the first time in known history, the White House requests the implementation of continuity of government measures.
The South Tower crashed to the ground at am after fire ripped through it for 56 minutes. The North Tower collapsed at am after burning for minutes. Debris from the collapsing North Tower hit the nearby, smaller 7 World Trade Center building, starting fires that eventually caused the building also to collapse. As well as sending toxic dust throughout Lower Manhattan, the collapse of the three buildings left hundreds of thousands of tons of debris at the site.
Workers transported the ruins from Ground Zero to the Fresh Kills Landfill site in Staten Island in a colossal cleanup operation that lasted until May This installation of 88 searchlights projected into the sky in two blue columns representing the Twin Towers started as a temporary act of remembrance in — but has now become an annual event to mark the anniversary.
The beams of light can be seen throughout New York City and in most of the suburbs of Long Island and northern New Jersey on clear nights. Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning.
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