Facts and Figures on the Terrorst Attack

N E W Y O R K, Sept. 14, 2001 -- 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.

30 Hours of Fire — The fires at the Pentagon burned well into the day after the attack, complicating the search for survivors and recovery of the dead. 190 people are believed to be dead there.

120 Truckloads of Debris — Hauled out of the disaster area around the World Trade Center a day after the blast.

2000 Degrees Fahrenheit — The temperatures in the Twin Towers may have reached 2000 degrees. Steel loses more than half its strength at 1,500 degrees.

90 Minutes Before the Fall — The North Tower of the World Trade Center stood for an hour and a half before it collapsed. Hailed as an architectural wonder, the tower temporarily withstood the impact of a 400,000 pound Boeing 767 crashing into it at an estimated 300 miles an hour. The South Tower stood nearly an hour after it was hit.

50,000 Work in the World Trade Center — It's unclear how many were inside at the time of the attack, or how many made it out before the buildings fell.

300 Businesses — Some 300 businesses have offices in the World Trade Center. Among the largest employers: Bank of America, Kemper Insurance, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Credit Suisse First Boston and Sun Microsystems. The World Trade Center houses 15 million square feet of office space —about as much commercial office space as the entire city of Nashville.

Two Thousand "Walking Wounded" Hospitalized in New Jersey — Giuliani asked those in lower Manhattan to flee on foot and dubbed them the "walking wounded." Covered in soot, with reddened eyes, many of them were evacuated to New Jersey, where some 2,000 of them were hospitalized. Another 1,100 were hospitalized in New York.

12 Shelters — The American Red Cross opened makeshift shelters in churches and high school gyms and elsewhere around the New York area to accommodate those who live in Battery Park City, Tribeca and the Financial District. Homes were left without electricity, gas, water and phone service. About 100 displaced Manhattanites were sleeping on cots in the gym and hallways at the James Ferris High School in Jersey City, N.J.

19 Hijackers — The Justice Department has released the namesof 19 people it identifies as the hijackers involved in Tuesday's attacks. All have Middle Eastern names, and some are believed to have had pilot's training.Law enforcement officials told ABCNEWS as many as 50 people were involved in the execution of the terrorist hijacking.

Article 5 — On the day following the attack, 19 NATO ambassadors invoked Article 5 of the alliance charter for the first time. It means, the United States can count on military support from its NATO partners. "An attack on one is an attack on all," NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson said.

4,000 FBI Agents — This will likely be the largest investigation ever, with 4,000 special agents and 3,000 support employees investigating some thousands of leads. Some 400 lab specialists are studying the evidence, with 600 more standing by.

$40 Billion — Congress moved quickly to approve $40 billion to combat terrorism and recover from attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was twice as much as President Bush had requested earlier

$30 Billion — Insurance companies say the World Trade Center disaster could be the biggest insurance loss in history, with estimates up to $30 billion, twice the previous biggest loss — Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which cost $16 billion in claims.

12 Tons of Gold — Nearly 12 tons of gold appears to be buried under the remains of the World Trade Center. The bars were stored in an underground warehouse and held on behalf of the COMEX metals trading division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.

90 Percent Fear Factor — Nearly nine in 10 Americans say their worried about the possibility of more major terrorist attacks in the country, according to an ABCNEWS/Washington Post. Half say they're very worried about it. And nearly half worry that they themselves or someone close to them may be victimized, a higher sense of personal risk than in previous terror attacks.

86 Percent Would Support War — More than nine in 10 support military action against any groups or nations found to be responsible; 86 percent support military reprisals even if that means war, according to an ABCNEWS/Washington Post poll.

91 Percent Prayed — An overwhelming 99 percent of Americans say they watched or listened to broadcast news reports about the destruction, and 91 percent prayed for the victims and their families.

40 Percent Stay Home — Four in 10 employed people stayed home from work or left work early a day after the attack. 28 percent of adults — more than 50 million — called or e-mailed a friend or relative in New York or Washington to see how they were.