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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE, OCTOBER 2, 2001 hattaii streets east of Broadway — but not including Broadway — ) were opened to residents, delivery trucks and taxis. Perries to Bat­ tery Park City were due to resume service today, with bus connec­ tions. Streets surrounding the disaster site, such as Broadway, are still a concern because of debris, air quality and proximity to Ground Zero, said city officials. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani aw called on the various charities raising money for the relief effort waWBBWWjBWB to coordinate efforts, so the maxi­ mum amount of money ends up ISS with the victims. Between memorial services, ‘ Giuliani toured Ground Zero with lOe' House of Representative members yesterday, Rep. Vito Fossella (R-Staten Island) at his side. I They found a scene that was : much more orderly and less dusty three weeks after the disaster. Iso­ lated fires are still causing smoke in the rubble, but the heartbreak­ ing bucket brigades are long gone, replaced by 1,000-ton cranes hoist­ ing steel. As the members of congress looked on, Giuliani explained to Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Missouri) what they, were seeing: the pan­ frStA- caked interior and broken skele­ ton of two 110-story towers, rising no more than'four stories now, and ringed by pocked, ripped and bro­ ken skyscrapers. ; , ASSOCIATED PRES^4 “Unspeakable,” whispered Skel­ ton. Gov. George Pataki, center, points out areas of devastation to ’’ Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Queens) members of Congress during a four by more than WO I looked at the smoldering rubble congressional members of the. site of the World Trade .Center' ir?^' and crossed himself, as the group Manhattan. stood at what used to be the cor- . .3 I nerof Liberty and West streets. gress” and adding that he ex-.: In a preliminary estimate I a^ ‘Roads' have been cut into the pected more would be forthcom- week. Senate aides said it wou/iH [ rubble to divide the disaster scene 'ng- ' . cost about $39 billion to clean up *°“LA»adrants. each with its -They were asking what we take. Sept. ■ 11 attack and r^-^ ownOEMcommander. <„rgra„t.d, I he s.ld of lb. Shaker Dennis A piece of steel ripped from the legislators, before greeting base­ following the tour with othe^ ; south tower’s frame drifted at the ball Hall of Famer Reggie Jack- members of Congress, said no oiwT end of a cable toward three work- son, a surprise afternoon guest at can know how much the recovel ers, who steadied it to the ground, the central command center. effort will cost. “We don'l kiioW Part pf the building’s frame jutted. yesterday, the city offered that's the iceberg or the lip.of,thoj out, like _a door wrenched off .its „ yniJn ^onds for' sale to start iceberg,” he said. . ‘ , paying for the aftermath of a ter­ House Democratic leader Dlclt j Fossella, who has visited the rorist attack' Giuliani branded , Gephardt, also on Monday’s to4'^ .... site several times, played tour “maniacal” during his address to , called the-damage "incomprehem guide, answering out-of-town the United Nations. Tlje short­ sible.” “It is the face of evii,,ann^ members’ questions about the sta- term bond offering will pay for it's hard to understand how peop/i'’] bility of buildings and the location such things as debris removal and can hate other people,as much of streets. He also praised a quick unemployment insurance’for peo- obviously has happened here,” he allocation of ?20 billion in emer- pie who have been put out of work gency aid from Congress, calling by the World . Trade Center col- (Associated Press . the cash infusion a “work in pro- lapse. was used in this report.) ''I'

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