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• Authorities execute warrants for bin Laden supporters in Florida
• AP: Victims alive in rubble use cell phones to call for help
• Reports: At least 800 dead in Pentagon attack
• All U.S. airports closed until at least noon Wednesday

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Emergency personnel gather at the site of the World Trade Center in New York.

In one of the most horrifying attacks ever against the United States, terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows today that brought down the twin 110-story towers. A third tower in the same office complex also collapsed shortly after 5 p.m. A firefighters' union in New York said more than 200 firefighters are unaccounted for and may have perished in the tragedy.

A plane also slammed into the Pentagon as the government itself came under attack. Thousands could be dead or injured, a high-ranking New York City police official said. President Bush ordered a full-scale investigation to "hunt down the folks who committed this act." Within the hour, the Pentagon took a direct, devastating hit from a plane. The fiery crash collapsed one side of the five-sided structure. The White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol were evacuated along with other federal buildings in Washington and New York. Main story

Latest stories • Text of Bush's national address • Bush addresses nation on terrorist attacks • U.S. suspects Osama bin Laden • Explosions shake Afghanistan capital • Florida bases heighten alert More coverage • Plane crashes into Pentagon • ‘I just saw the top of Trade Two come down’ • How it happened: the day the Trade Center came down • Day of horror: a nation in shock • United jetliner crashes in western Pa.; passenger reported hijacking in cell phone call • High alert, evacuations, closures nationwide after attacks • Patients stream to Manhattan hospitals, blood donors line up • President Bush’s statement on terroristic attacks • Chaotic scene of devastation unfolds on national television • State Capitol, Disney World closed; local officials on alert • World watches in horror as terror unfolds in New York • Powell cuts short trip to South America • Palestinians celebrate in streets • New attacks recall 1993 Trade Center bombing • Wall Street comes to halt on World Trade Center tragedy
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People in front of New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral react with horror as they look down Fifth Ave toward the World Trade Center towers.	People run from the collapse of World Trade Center Tower. [AP photos]

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What's closed or canceled
• All airports nationwide
• Tonight's Janet Jackson concert at the Tampa Ice Palace postponed until Wednesday
• All federal buildings and monuments
• Washington D.C., Virginia and Maryland under state of emergency
• Amtrak services in the northeastern U.S.
• All Major League Baseball games
• All Florida theme parks and Kennedy Space Center
• All state universities and colleges in Florida and college sporting events
• Brandon TownCenter, Citrus Park TownCenter and Countryside Mall
• Report a closing

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Florida Blood Services is currently collecting blood from the Home Depot parking lot located on South Dale Mabry Blvd. Blood donations will be taken at Legends Field and Tropicana Field on Wednesday.