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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: RE: STOP THE PRESS!!
Oh, my god. Racheal is in NY!! Anybody know where the building she works in is located?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [mailto:dgoulet_at_vicr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re:RE: STOP THE PRESS!!
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> For those who have not heard, one of the towers, I believe
> the south one, has
> collapsed. I dare to say that someone else's skyline will be
> different in the
> next 48 hours as well. Guess the members of the list who are
> based in New York
> will be silent for a couple of days.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
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> Author: "Boivin; Patrice J" <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
> Date: 9/11/2001 6:55 AM
>
> The BBC seems to have more info than the U.S. web sites.
>
> Tuesday, 11 September, 2001, 13:35 GMT 14:35
> UK > Planes 'attack' World Trade Center > > A huge explosion rocks one of towers > Two planes have crashed into the World Trade Center > in New York City while an explosion has rocked the > Pentagon in Washington DC.
> The White House is reportedly being evacuated.
> One report says six people have been killed in the > New York incident while hundreds have been injured.
> Smoke is pouring from the upper storeys of both > towers of the World Trade Center.
> The building, one of the world's tallest, has been badly > damaged in what President George W Bush has > described as "an apparent terrorist attack".
> He said: "We will find those who committed this > attack."
> New York police have been > quoted as saying that both > planes were hijacked from > Boston.
> A few minutes after the > first tower was hit by a > passenger plane, a > second, similar plane was > seen flying into the second > tower. A huge explosion > was seen.
> Eyewitnesses say the first > plane crashed into the West Tower after flying > unusually low over Manhattan Island.
> A BBC correspondent says 10 to 15 floors have been > affected by the crash.
> Briton James Winter, 30, living in an apartment close > to the centre, said he was woken a huge bang at > around 0800 local time.
> "I was in bed and there was a huge explosion. The > whole building rattled and shook," he said.
> "I ran to the window and there was smoke billowing > from the south side of one of the towers. Everyone in > my building was panicking and running around."
> The World Trade Center consists of two 110-story > skyscrapers, New York's tallest buildings. One of the > towers is just six feet (two metres) taller than the > other.
> About 40,000 people work inside the two-building > centre, and more than 150,000 people enter the > complex every day.
> On 26 February, 1993, a terrorist bomb exploded in > building number one's lower level.
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