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Show Tuesday. September II. 2001. THE DAILY HERALD, (www HarkThcHerald.com). Provo. Utah Page A7 UNDER ATTACK: A NATION IN CRISIS Most of the world watetues in horror r. f, i f 1 ; By BETH GARDINER 1 Associated Press Writer i i LONDON Astonishing terrorist strikes in the United Unit-ed States quickly reached a global audience Tuesday, with many around the w.orld watching live coverage cover-age as both World Trade Center towers collapsed. Audiences were transfixed trans-fixed by the awful images from New York and Washington. Wash-ington. ; Key indexes sank on world stock markets and some European airlines canceled flights to the United Unit-ed States and recalled planes already in the air. ; Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hjs condolences to the American people over the terrorist attacks, calling them "terrible tragedies," tbe Kremlin press service said. ; "This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today," said Prime Minister Tony Blair, who canceled a speech at a trade union conference. con-ference. "It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together." togeth-er." President Jacques Chirac of France, in a nationally talevised statement, called tfc attacks in the United Sfctes "monstrous" and e&ressed his solidarity wjth the American people. France has just learned of these monstrous attacks, there is no other word for it, that have hit America," Chirac said from Rennes, in the western region of Brittany. Brit-tany. ' THE PLANES i i i i ! 'American Airlines Right 11: A Boeing 767 en route from Boston to Los Angeles crashed into tfte World Trade Center. TEfe plane was carrying 83 passengers, nine flight attendants and two pilots. American Airlines Flight 77: A Boeing 757 en route from Dulles Airport Air-port near Washington to Los Angeles crashed into the World Trade Center. The plane was carrying 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots. United Airlines Right 93: A Boeing 757, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh while en route from Newark, N J. to San Francisco. The plane was carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants. United Airlines Right 175: A Boeing 767. The flight was bound from Boston to Los Angeles. It was carrying 56 passengers, passen-gers, two pilots and seven flight attendants. The airline would not say where that plane crashed. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his top aides followed fol-lowed the events at his seaside sea-side office in Gaza City, gathered around a TV set. "I send my condolences to the president, the government govern-ment and the people for this terrible incident," said Arafat said. "We are completely com-pletely shocked. It's unbelievable." unbe-lievable." In Berlin, Foreign Ministry Min-istry officials huddled in a crisis meeting. Virtually all German TV channels switched to live coverage. "This is pure mass High alert, evacuations, closures nationwide By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK Authorities Authori-ties went on alert from coast to coast Tuesday, halting halt-ing all air traffic, evacuating evacuat-ing high-profile buildings and tightening security at strategic facilities following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Pen-tagon. Many federal and state office buildings were closed, as well as prominent tourist attractions Disney. World in Florida, Seattle's Space Needle, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and Knott's Berry Farm in southern California. Even the Museum Muse-um of Tolerance in Los Angeles was shut down. Evacuations were ordered at the United Nations building in New York, and the tallest skyscrapers sky-scrapers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Cleveland and Minneapolis. In Massachusetts and Maine, most state employees employ-ees were sent home, and state buildings shut down. Military bases across the country went on alert. Extra security was added at the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons and research complex in Oak STATES' REACTION Precautions taken in various U.S. states in the wake of the terrorist attacks: The Federal Aviation Administration shut down airports nationwide. CALIFORNIA: State put on high alert State's Emergency Council convened as Gov. Gray Davis requested heightened security at all state buildings. -COLORADO: City and state officials stepped up security around government buildings. City opened an emergency preparedness office in the basement of City Hall, where representatives of police, fire and health agencies, public transportation trans-portation officials, Denver International Airport and utilities were gathering. FLORIDA: Security heightened at federal courts. Walt Disney World evacuated and closed its parks and shopping and entertainment complex. com-plex. GEORGIA: All flights at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, the nation's busiest, stopped. The CNN Center, world headquarters of Cable News Network, closed to the public, although journalists at CNN and The Associated Press remained. ILLINOIS: Sears Tower shut down, state gov 1 0 U murder," one commentator said. "My government condemns con-demns these terrorist attacks to the utmost," said German Chancellor Gerhard Ger-hard Schroeder. "Italy is at the side of the United States," Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi told Bush in a telegram. "The international internation-al community must respond together to this abhorrent act." Czech president Vaclav Havel said in a statement that he was shocked by the Help: Officials in Washington, Ridge, Tenn., the Los Alamos Alam-os National Laboratory in New Mexico, and at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., home to the Army's main germ warfare defense laboratory. labo-ratory. The Kennedy Space Center Cen-ter in Florida was under an l r ; x - 7? - r- 7:' ernment buildings in Chicago and Springfield closed. National Guard on state of heightened alert in Illinois. -KENTUCKY: Southern Governors' Association Associa-tion canceled annual fall meeting so governors of Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ten-nessee, Kentucky and West Virginia could head back to their states. -MARYLAND: Officials tightening security throughout the state. Security heightened at Andrews Air Force Base. Baltimore-Washington International Airport taking arrivals not departing flights. -MINNEAPOLIS: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Inter-national Airport shut down. IDS Center in downtown down-town Minneapolis, the tallest building in the state, evacuated. -NEVADA: Security increased at casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, at federal buildings across the state and Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas. Rights suspended. NEW JERSEY: Airports and river crossings to New York City closed. Traffic reported snarled on the New Jersey Turnpike. PATH commuter trains canceled. At Newark International Airport, officers with shotguns blocked the road leading to Port Authority offices and the air uriffic control tower. -NEW YORK: Security clamped down across ? .4L. c attacks and was closely watching news from the United States. Airlines including British Airways, Scandinavia's Scandi-navia's SAS and Belgium's Sabena canceled flights across the Atlantic and recalled planes that were already in the air. In Puerto Rico, people scrambled for news of relatives rela-tives and friends in New York, where an estimated 2 million Puerto Ricans live. Groups gathered on the corners of cobble-stoned streets in the colonial city of D.C., direct people to safety after "enhanced security awareness." aware-ness." In Louisiana, the state police urged petrochemical and pipeline companies to be on alert. Louisiana Offshore Off-shore Oil Port, which handles han-dles supertankers in the Gulf of Mexico south of New the state. Security increased at border points. Gov. George Pataki canceled his New York City events. NEW YORK CnY: Elections called off. Airports Air-ports closed. Trading on Wall Street suspended. United Nations building evacuated. Offices throughout Manhattan closed. Children in Manhattan Man-hattan kept in schools because their parents could not get to them. Subway lines shut down. Cellular phone service crippled. Regular phone service congested. Evacuations from Wall Street to the United Nations. Lower Manhattan closed to all but emergency vehicles. Bridges and tunnels tun-nels into Manhattan closed. Rockefeller Center property managers urged tenants to go home. -NORTH CAROLINA: Military bases prepared for possible change in status. At Raleigh-Durham International Airport, spokeswoman Mirinda Kos-soff Kos-soff said a strategy meeting was planned with the Federal Aviation Administration. PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia International Airport closed. National Park Service officials meeting to determine whether the city's high-profile tourist attractions like the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall would be closed. SOUTH DAKOTA: Commercial flights from Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Pierre and other South Dakota cities grounded. TENNESSEE: Department of Energy's I V' 1 San Juan, clinging to strangers in search of more details. "Dios mio, have mercy!" exclaimed a whited-haired man, making the sign of the cross as he watched the second sec-ond tower explode on TV. In Thailand, Suranand Vejj'ajiva, a spokesman for the office of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said they were watching the news in disbelief. A spokesman for Philippine Philip-pine President Gloria Maca-pagal Maca-pagal Arroyo said: "The president has been monitor- The Associated Prcvs the terrorist attacks. Orleans, suspended operations. opera-tions. In California, Gov. Gray Davis convened a meeting of the State Emergency Council and requested heightened security in all state buildings. In Los Angeles, the police Anti-American sentiment: Children in Jerusalem's Old City celebrate when they hear of the attack in the United States. The Aswcialcd Previ ing the events since an hour ago and she condemns what is obviously the worst terrorist ter-rorist attack on a leader of civilized society." Broadcasters around the world broke into programming program-ming to show images of the disaster. "It's incredible. I thought I was watching a Hollywood movie," said Hong Kong school teacher Doris Tang. London's Evening Standard, Stan-dard, already out of date when it hit the streets, carried car-ried a front-page photo of the burning World Trade Center and the headline "Planes Hit Skyscraper." went on tactical alert, and mobilized an anti-terrorist division. A tactical alert means officers are held over from the earlier shift to bolster bol-ster the day shift and police only respond to priority calls. In Virginia, authorities ordered intensified security at the naval complex in Hampton Roads and imposed a lockdown of offices at the state Capitol. The horrific attacks prompted Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah to meet with law enforcement officials to reviewing security planning for the 2002 Winter Olympics. "It's a reminder the entire world is vulnerable to lunacy," Leavitt said. He said he was more determined deter-mined than ever to have "the world's most sophisticated sophisti-cated security" for the Olympics. Under orders from the Federal Aviation Administration, Adminis-tration, airports nationwide halted all outbound flights, while keeping their runways run-ways open for incoming plans. "We're like everyone else, in shock," said Carol Windham, Wind-ham, spokesman at Birmingham Birm-ingham International Airport Air-port in Alabama. nuclear weapons and research complex in Oak Ridge put under heightened security. All flights from Tennessee's major airports grounded. Planes were allowed to land. TEXAS: Some office buildings evacuated. Rights out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Air-port canceled and Austin-Bergstrom International closed. City Hall in El Paso closed. VERMONT: Federal buildings in Montpelier and Burlington open. State's lone atomic plant placed on heightened security. -VIRGINIA: Navy installations throughout Hampton Roads, home of the world's largest Navy base, placed under an increased security condition called Threatcon Charlie. Threatcon Charlie is implemented when an incident occurs or when intelligence is received that some form of terrorist 3Ction is imminent. -WASHINGTON: Airports and military bases throughout the state boosted security. Outgoing flights canceled at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, but planes allowed to land. Federal Court House in downtown Seattle on high alert. -WEST VIRGINIA: Chemical plant security heightened. Rights out of Charleston's Yeager Airport. Air-port. West Virginia's largest, suspended. - The Associated Press COPY |