Facts and Figures on the Terrorst Attack
N E W Y O R K, Sept. 14 -- How much blood was spilled? Americans wait in horror as the corpses count just begins. Most every sign is grim, and the final figures may not come for days, or even weeks.
"When we get the final number, it will be more than we can bear," New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said just hours after two hijacked airliners slammed into what were New York's Twin Towers.
To just begin to grasp the enormity of the carnage, physical loss and impact of the devastating terrorist attack, here are some sobering facts and figures.
100 Feet of Rubble — The Twin Towers was the tallest buildings in the world in 1973 when they first opened, standing 1362 feet high. It has been reduced to a pile of rubble. At it's highest point, its now about 100 feet above street level.
4,763 Missing People — This list was compiled Thursday morning from flight manifests and missing person reports. Included in the missing are some 300 New York City firefighters, 30 city police officers and 30 Port Authority police officers.
30,000 Body Bags — These orange bags were sent to New York City to recover corpses. In many cases, bags will contain individual body parts. In the grisly job of counting the dead, medical examiners will have to be pieced together like genetic jigsaw puzzles.
70 Square Feet of Human Skin — The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center sent 70 square feet of skin from it's tissue bank to help burn victims injured in the Pentagon attack. The skin came from cadavers.
Two 16-wheel Trucks — Among the rescue vehicles are two trucks backed up to the World Financial Center, ready to serve as a makeshift morgue. Another temporary morgue: the former men's shirt department at the Brooks Brothers clothing store at the World Financial Center.
Two Cell Phone Calls Answered — New York rescue workers received reports of survivors in the rubble calling for help on their cell phones, but only two people have been found based on those reports.
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