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Rescue and Recovery

In total, 94 bodies have been recovered, with the city of New York ordering 11,000 more body bags for the efforts.

In Washington, officials estimated that 190 people died in the Pentagon crash, including the 64 passengers and crew members aboard the crashed American Airlines Flight 77.

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Despite moves toward normal operations, much of the country remained tense two days after the initial attacks. In Washington, D.C., the Capitol building was briefly evacuated after a bomb scare, sending members of Congress and thier aids scurrying down the Capitol steps. Near the same time, Vice President Dick Cheney was moved to Camp David in what administration officials called a “precautionary measure.”

And while air travel resumed in the U.S. at 11 a.m. yesterday following stricter safety guidelines, federal authorities ordered all three New York City-area airports shut down yesterday after detaining ten suspicious passengers.

The passengers were carrying tickets for flights dated Sept. 11—the date of Tuesday’s attacks—as well as multiple fake IDs, knives and flight certificates from Flight Safety International in Vero Beach, Fla., one of the schools where the suspected terrorists in Tuesday’s attacks were allegedly trained. The ten are being held tonight for questioning.

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