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The Toif 1 AP PhnUi 5,000 and counting TIME OUT. A rescue worker takes a much-needed break Thursday morning at Two Financial Center after hours of working at what's Estimated deaths nationally left of the World Trade Center. Work crews bravely endured thoughts of unsteady buildings, and conflicting word of possible collapses. World Trade Center 111 Bodies recovered Tests: Dust Not a Danger Here 59 Dead identified 184 Official Death Toll • Air-quality concerns were focused ' *back on the immediate area sur­ fi under the federal Superfund pro­ gram;-has launched an elaborate 4,300 People injured rounding the World Trade Center air testing program that includes six new monitoring stations and a The Missing at World Trade Center: blast site Friday as tests showed no high-tech portable unit that will be health hazard from the foul-smell­ ing smoke plume that at times this parked close to the blast site. 4,717 Dust samples taken at the site Names on the missing persons list week has extended as far away as central Suffolk County. have shown relatively high levels of including: j asbestos, a carcinogen. I Heavy rains and shifting winds Friday reduced the smoke and burn­ EPA spokeswoman Bonnie Bel­ low said Friday that air tests Thurs­ 202 Firefighters J I to ing odors that had plagued large 54 Police/Port Authority . c portions of the metropolitan area day in two federal buildings in UJ lower.Manhattan — 290 Broadway Officers i co this week, and on Friday officials re­ Z leased the results of air tests con­ and 26 Federal Plaza — did find air­ 157 Airline passengers/crew | E ducted Thursday that showed no ev­ borne, asbestos, but that none of the s idence of any airborne asbestos or, samples exceeded one-tenth of the maximum level allowed in work­ other Dead other harmful contaminants out- \ AP l*hoto side of lower Manhattan. People use lowels and masks Tuesday places- by the Occupational Safety 126 at the Pentagon

I Trom a health perspective, to block smoke alter lowers collapsed. and Health Administration. there's no reason at all to tell people “There’s nothing at this point 109 Airline passengers/crew to avoid being outside,” said Suffolk that indicates that business can’t re­ County Health Commissioner Clare . ’o^er Manhattan, the U.S, En- sume" in the Wall Street area on Ftgiir»sasol9:30p m last night Bradley. Test results were similarly vironmental Protection Agency, Monday as scheduled, she added. Ni-uxtiav z comforting in Nassau and Queens. taPP’ng emergency cleanup funds — Dan Fagin

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