OK, here's what's going on ... in NYC: two separate planes collided into each of the WTC towers @8:30 this morning. Each tower eventually collapsed. Seems very few people made it out from the top 40 floors of each building. It turned out that the planes where hijacked ... in DC: a plane crashed into or next to the Pentagon. a bomb of some sort went of next to the Old Executive part of the White House, and it now seems another bomb went off at the State Department. They have locked down NYC (no in-no out), evacuated the UN and subways are closed. In DC they are evacuating all Federal buildings (in NY, most where in the WTC), the pentagon, etc. and they are trying to get people to leave the Mall. At present they have also stopped all airline traffic in the US, however there are anywhere from 5-to-8 planes that are unaccounted for and there is a standby concerning whether they are looking for targets or simply mid-flight and need a place to land. There was just a crash in Pennsylvania and no one knows whether it was related to the attacks or not. That's about all I know ... hope this helps, elyn
Bill Stewart wrote:
At 10:22 AM 09/11/2001 -0400, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
"Warren E. Agin"
I've been trying to get on a newsite, but abc.com, abcnews.com, nbc.com, msnbc.com, cbs.com, foxnews.com and boston.com are all
having
problems. Yahoo and MSN are up.
I can attest that boston.com is functioning in Boston. Can't say if you could reach it from another part of the country.
I wonder if the problem is just server overload, or something else.
There seems to be some major links out of action. I can't traceroute to cnn.com, for example. I *speculate* it's collateral damage from the explosions in Manhattan. That is, I sure wouldn't hang around to keep computer working in this situation.
Highly unlikely to be physical damage; it's just slashdotted because everybody with an internet connection tried it first. The San Francisco Chronicle is still working because it's early morning on the West Coast; they're sfgate.com, picture on the front page, and the AP story is at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2001/09/11/nationa l0920EDT0530.DTL
Yep, just a flash crowd. The BBC web site is all but unobtainable. Transatlantic data traffic is slow, but flowing.
If you are in Manhattan YMMV.
Ken