President George W. Bush will travel to New York today to survey the damage done by Tuesday’s attacks on the World Trade Center, calling on Americans across the country to pray for victims and their families in a day of “national prayer and rememberance.”

“I can’t tell you how sad I am, and America is, for the people of New York City,” President Bush said in a televised conference call with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Governor George Pataki yesterday morning. “I weep and mourn with America.”

After a late-morning memorial service at Washingon’s National Cathedral, Bush will travel to New York, where rescue efforts are still underway to recover the thousands trapped inside the wreckage of the collapsed World Trade Center towers that were destroyed by two hijacked passenger jets Tuesday morning.

New York officials said yesterday that 4,763 people are unaccounted for, and many fear that no one else will be found alive in the rubble. Rescue workers continuing to sift through the debris from the 110-story twin towers yester day, but found no survivors.

Brief hopes of a miraculous rescue were dashed when reports that five New York City firefighters had been rescued from a trapped vehicle yesterday afternoon were discovered to be false. The five recovered men had actually been part of the day’s search efforts, and were rescued themselves after falling underneath a pile of debris.