(Undated-AP) -- The F-B-I is questioning five people in New
Jersey following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
They were in a car that matched the description of one that was
seen in Liberty State Park at the time of the attacks. The people
in the car were seen celebrating and acting suspiciously.
Officials say the car was searched but no explosives were found.
The five are being questioned to determine their immigration
status.


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(Pentagon-AP) -- The Pentagon is open for business, but on a
limited scale.
Officials say about half of the massive structure is without
power. So, many of the 24-thousand who normally work in the
building are being asked to stay home.
Still, many workers streamed into the building -- not knowing
the full extent of the damage.
The stench of smoke remains in the corridors that are open.
The western section that was hit by the hijacked airliner
remains off-limits. Officials say the inside area remains extremely
dangerous because the debris is at an angle and could produce a
landslide.
The stubborn fire continues to smolder, and that continues to
interfere with rescue efforts.
So far, rescue workers have found no signs of life, but they
remain hopeful.
Officials say they have located many bodies, but there's no
official count.

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WASHINGTON - Pentagon says no more survivors expected; 80 bodies retrieved so far.

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(Boston-AP) -- The governor of Maine says two hijack suspects in
the U-S terror attacks left behind a rental car in the Portland
area.
Angus King says the suspects had flown from Portland to Boston's
Logan airport, where authorities believe they boarded two jetliners
-- the two that slammed into the World Trade Center yesterday.
King was briefed by state police. He says the men apparently
used New Jersey driver licenses, but little else is known about
them.
Police say cigarette butts were found next to the blue Nissan
Altima rental -- and they'll be tested for D-N-A.
The Boston Herald is reporting that another rental car that had
Arabic-language flight training manuals inside was seized at Logan.
Five Arab men reportedly have been identified as suspects. One was
a trained pilot.

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VANCOUVER -- There's a report three unidentified aircraft
approaching Vancouver are part of a humanitarian mission.
C-T-V Newsnet made the statement moments ago.
Military planes had been tracking the planes as a precaution in
the wake of yesterday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre
and the Pentagon.
CF-18 fighter jets had been scrambled to check out the three
planes off the coast.
There's been no comment from National Defence in Ottawa.
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WASHINGTON -- The U-S Federal Aviation Administration expects to
reopen the country's airports at noon Eastern time.
But F-A-A spokesman Les Dorr says he doesn't know if that will
include airports in New York and Washington.
Dorr adds that people should not expect all flights to resume
normal travel, since many planes are at the wrong airports.
U-S officials are planning to beef up airport security,with
passengers not allowed to check their bags at the curb.
Passengers will also be subjected to random checks, and will see
more uniformed security.
Yesterday's terrorist hijackings caused about 200 U-S flights to
be diverted to Canada.
There's no word on when Transport Canada will reopen Canadian
airports to regular traffic. (AP,BN) MRL (from Broadcast News Ltd.)


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(Albany-AP) -- The head of three agencies in the administration
of Governor Pataki is among the missing in the collapse of the
World Trade Center towers.
That's according to state officials and relatives of Neil Levin.
Levin had been selected by Pataki and New Jersey's Acting
Governor Donald DiFrancesco earlier this year as executive director
of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The bi-state authority had its headquarters in One World Trade
Center, which was the first of the two skyscrapers to fall down
after being hit by aircraft hijacked by terrorists.
Levin's office was on the 68th floor.
He has served as superintendent of the state banking and
insurance departments under Pataki.

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(New York-AP) -- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says city
officials estimate "a few thousand" people have yet to be found
in the remains of the World Trade Center towers.
Authorities have accounted for 45 bodies so far.
Giuliani says 120 dump truckloads of debris were moved out of
the city last night. He says crews removed structural debris that
was blocking streets.
Today's efforts will focus on rescuing people who may still be
alive.
Eighteen search and rescue teams are on the scene -- and
officials are expecting more -- including one from from Puerto
Rico.
Asked if the city's famed skyline will ever be restored,
Giuliani said "it will be whole again" -- but he doesn't know
exactly what it will look like.


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(Geneva-AP) -- International insurers are bracing for billions
of dollars in claims from the terrorist attacks in the U-S, but the
overall impact on the industry was still being assessed.
A spokeswoman for the International Underwriting Association in
London says only that claims will run into the billions, not
millions of dollars.
Switzerland's reinsurance giant Swiss Re says it alone expects
to cover 730 (m) million in losses. German reinsurer Munich Re,
another industry leader, estimates its exposure at up to 903 (m)
million.
Swiss Re and Munich Re are among the world's largest
re-insurers, meaning they insure insurance companies against major
losses.
Other major insurers say they have yet to make a guess.
Some analysts estimate the cost at more than 40 billion dollars.
They note that terrorist acts were likely to be excluded from many
policies, which could considerably reduce the bill faced by
insurers.


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(White House-AP) -- President Bush is declaring the attacks on
the United States "acts of war."
The president said, "this will be a monumental struggle of good
versus evil but good will prevail."
At the White House today, Bush said he will ask Congress for
emergency authority to spend whatever it takes to rescue victims,
help people in New York and Washington and protect national
security.
The president says government is conducting business today but
it's not business as usual.


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WASHINGTON - Pentagon evacuating building due to threat of
spreading fire.

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WASHINGTON - Pentagon recalls evacuation order.

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(Boston-AP) -- W-H-D-H-T-V is reporting one suspect has been
taken into police custody at a Boston hotel.
A heavily armed F-B-I team that's searching for suspects in the
terrorism attacks in New York and Washington has stormed a hotel in
downtown Boston.
Dozens of officers in bulletproof vests and carrying shields
could be seen running into the Westin Hotel in the city's Back Bay
section.
They were also carrying fiber-optic equipment into the hotel.
A local T-V station (W-H-D-H) says the officers were using the
equipment to check under hotel room doors on hotel's 16th floor. It
quoted a person who was inside the hotel.
Two of the planes that were hijacked and used in yesterday's
attacks originated in Boston.
A witness says one person taken away in a silver van.

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(New York-AP) -- Some gas stations are sheepishly lowering their
prices today -- a day after jacking them up in response to the
terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
State and federal officials are threatening action against price
gougers.
Several stations, particularly in the Midwest, raised prices out
of fears that supplies would be cut off. Motorists fearful of
shortages rushed to fill up their tanks, and some got into fights.
But by this morning prices were falling. The R and L Texaco in
Oklahoma City increased the price of unleaded gasoline to five
dollars a gallon yesterday. But the owner now says he realizes he
overcharged customers and will be offering refunds.
Authorities in Oklahoma and Mississippi say they're
investigating instances of price-gouging and may prosecute.
The American Petroleum Institute says there is no threat of a
fuel shortage, and OPEC has pledged to maintain stability.

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OTTAWA -- It has been confirmed three Canadians were on the
planes used in terrorist attacks in the U-S.
That today from Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley.
The minister was questioned in Ottawa, at a centre where he had
gone to give blood.
Manley adds it is likely Canadians were in the two World Trade
Center buildings that collapsed in New York after planes flew into
them. (BN) bp (from Broadcast News Ltd.)

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(New York-AP) -- Major league baseball is calling off Thursday's
games.
Following previous postponements yesterday and today, the count
of postponed games rises to 45.
It is not clear when the growing list of sports postponements
will end and when normal schedules will resume.
Baseball hasn't made such a decision since 1918, when the season
was cut short by almost a month because of World War One.
During World War Two, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered
games to be played to boost the country's morale.

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