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Updated: 4:00 p.m. EDT -- 11 September 2001
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At 8:45 a.m. EDT, the first of two airliners crashed into the World Trade Center, opening a horrifying and apparently coordinated terrorist attack on the United States, which saw the collapse of the two 110-story towers into surrounding Manhattan streets and a later attack on the Pentagon.

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 COMPLETE COVERAGE
  • Chronology of terror
  • World Trade Center towers collapse after planes hit, 10,000 emergency workers head to scene
  • Part of Pentagon collapses after plane crashes into it; White House, Capitol evacuated
  • American, United both confirm losing two planes each. The American planes alone held about 150 people.
  • President Bush: U.S. will "punish those responsible" | Statement
  • Video: Plane crashes into World Trade Center
  •  U.S. SCENE:
  • FAA grounds all U.S. flights until noon Wednesday
  • Sen. John McCain calls attacks 'act of war'
  • U.S. Navy vessels deploy off East Coast
  • Kennedy Space Center, LAX, Disney Florida parks closed
  •  WORLD SCENE
  • Israel evacuates embassies
  • Taliban issues statement to tell U.S. 'Afghanistan feels your pain'
  • World shock over U.S. attacks
  • Evacuations amid world chaos
  • Middle East, Asia condemn attacks
  • Non-essential NATO employees asked to leave Brussels HQ
  •  RESCUE AND AFTERMATH:
  • Giuliani: 1,500 'walking wounded' in New York City
  • Washington, D.C., hospitals report 53 casualties, no fatalities as rescue efforts continue