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The Underground Pentagon has been activated. Command, control and communications with US forces worldwide remain intact. At present, all aircraft in Continental US airspace are on the ground. A handful of flights are still approaching the West Coast from abroad. The Mexican border is closed and there is heightened security both on the Canadian border and at Canadian airports. The security and military forces of both countries are co-operating fully and engaged in preplanned activities.
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Air Force One landed at Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska a few moments ago. The old US Strategic Air Command Headquarters is located at Offut., and extensive communications facilities remain available there. The president then continued on to Washington, D.C.

Opinion: the movements of the President and his presence at Offut suggest that this crisis is still ongoing.

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The Euro shot from 89 to 91 cents, oil rose three dollars a barrel, and European stocks were set back sharply. London’s FTSE Index closed down 5.72%, the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 7.39% and Frankfurt’s DAX fell 9.1%. These are astonishing drops for these exchanges, where a change of one or two percent marks a day of substantial change.

A Paris trader said, “People are selling massively.” Across Europe, airline and insurance stocks led the decline. Meanwhile, prices of oil company shares shot up. Gold rose $20 per ounce on the day.
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At 5:22, Building 7, a 25 story building in the World Trade Center complex collapsed.

As of 5:20PM EST, it was believed that as many as twenty thousand people may have been in the World Trade Center when the twin towers were struck by hijacked aircraft between ten and ten thirty this morning. Many of these people would have been able to leave the towers, but it is believed that there have been heavy casualties.

There continues to be concern that other buildings in the area may collapse, and despite earlier hopes, area fires continue to spread.
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