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Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook.

A nation is in mourning tonight, as the grim process of counting the dead and searching for answers gets underway in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack in American history.

CNN's correspondent Candy Crowley brings us up to date.

At daybreak, the nightmare was still there, smoldering and burning, defying the imagination, thwarting rescue efforts, and testing an untested president.

The United States of America, we use all our resources to conquer this enemy.

We will rally the world.

We will be patient, we'll be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination.

This battle will take time and resolve.

But make no mistake about it, we will win.

Today, in both New York and Washington, the precarious nature of the rubble and the hellish heat of the fire frustrated attempts to reach the wounded, the dying, or the dead.

Still, in Manhattan, they rescued alive and reasonably well nine firefighters and police officers who had been buried beneath the debris.

Their recovery fueled around-the-clock search that runs mostly on adrenaline and hope.

I think once the cranes and the ironworkers start getting the big, big stuff out of the way, we can get in there and do some nit picking and maybe find some guys.

There's a lot of (inaudible) down there, so maybe there are some guys available.

But at the Pentagon, hope is gone.

Officials say whoever might have survived the concussion of the plane's impact could not have lived through the fires that came after.

There is no official estimate of how many lives were lost at the Pentagon or the World Trade Center.

Authorities say they don't know, but everybody knows it will be awful.

The FBI says it's identified most of the suicidal terrorists on the planes.

Now they search for those behind the mayhem.

We also have identified through a number of leads, principally at the cities of origin, a number of individuals whom we believe may have had something to do with the hijackings.

And we are pursuing those leads aggressively.

Authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, halted and boarded a Washington-bound Amtrak train, detaining at least one passenger.

A SWAT team descended on a Boston hotel in search of suspects.

No arrests were made.

Authorities also searched a Vero Beach, Florida, home and questioned others in the southern Florida area.

The visibility of the efforts backs up the clear message from all arms of the federal government.

We will find out who is responsible for this and they will pay for it.

Terrorism’s reach goes far beyond the areas of immediate destruction.

The nation's airliners still aren't flying, as the FAA institutes new security requirements and carriers search for ways to comply.

Wall Street remains closed, and for a second evening, there'll be no Major League Baseball, the all-American pastime canceled by this un-American horror.

symbolically, personally, financially, the country is so wounded, the totality of the losses incomprehensible.

But the details are unbearable.

Someone on the 104th floor worked for the good firm of Cantor and Fitzgerald, we can't find hardly anybody from that firm, who called his parents, told them he loved them, and they haven't heard from him since.

There are stories like it everywhere.

People, knowing they are about to die, calling home to say I love you.

People running for their lives and then stopping to carry a stranger to safety.

The story here is that what prevailed in the final moment in the face of death is not fear or hate, but love and courage.

Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.

As we learn more today about how many died, we also learned who some of those victims were.

From Maine to Massachusetts, all over New England, this day became an outpouring of emotion and tributes.

Throughout New Hampshire, churches held special services, volunteer donors overwhelmed blood banks, and ordinary citizens looked for something they could do to express their desire to help.

Producer Richard Ager visited Rochester, where a local firefighter saluted their fallen colleagues of New York.

Now we ask that you unite this great nation so that we may rise from the ashes and bring to justice those responsible for this despicable act.

Across the state, as across the nation, people search for meaning and hope in the face of catastrophe.

In Rochester, firefighters and other emergency workers honor the hundreds of New York firefighters feared dead in rescue attempts.

They knew how dangerous it was and that was their job, just like it was with the police officers who lost their lives and the other ambulance people that lost their lives.

That's why we were there.

People don't get into public safety for money or fame.

People get into public safety to serve a greater good.

That's what they were doing.

You know, on ordinary days, our job requires sacrifice.

And on extraordinary days, our job requires extraordinary sacrifice.

Unfortunately, that's what we saw yesterday.

All Americans have mourned the victims with special thoughts for those who were closest.

So far, eight New Hampshire residents have been identified as being among the victims.

Six were on American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, and the other two were on United Flight 175, also out of Boston.

They are Michael and Kathleen Schearer of Dover, both in their 60s.

Thelma Cuccinello of Wilmot.

Age 71.

Douglas Stone of Dover, age 54.

He was co-owner of Odyssey Press in Dover.

Carol Flyzik of Plaistow, age 40.

A former emergency room nurse, she flew around the country demonstrating medical equipment.

Tom McGuiness of Portsmouth, age 42.

He was copilot of the aircraft that struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Louis Neil Mariani of Derry, age 59, he retired a year ago from H.P.

Hood.

He was flying to his stepdaughter’s wedding in Lo Angeles.

And Robert Leblanc of Lee, age 70.

A professor emeritus of geography at the University of New Hampshire.

God Bless America In times like these, there can be comfort in a common voice, an expression of faith in the past and in the future.

(applause) There are community and religious services scheduled all over the state.

You can contact your local church or town hall for more information.

Governor Shaheen was in the nation's capital yesterday when the terrorists struck.

She drove home last night.

This afternoon, she held a news conference at the state Capitol.

We're lining up volunteers, inventory, and equipment that may be needed and will make those available as soon as it's requested.

We have our Civil Air Patrol standing by, ready to fly blood supplies to New York as needed.

The New Hampshire Air National Guard continues to be on standby, as it was yesterday, to provide assistance to New York.

The citizens of New Hampshire also stand ready to help.

There's been an outpouring of support, with hundreds of people volunteering to go to New York to assist in rescue and treatment efforts, to participate in blood drives, donating to the Red Cross, attending prayer services for the victims and their families.

Today was the second day that U.S.

financial markets were closed after the World Trade Center was leveled by terrorist attacks.

Earlier, we were joined by Tom Sedoric of A.G.

Edwards and Sons, Jerry Little of the New Hampshire Bankers Association, and by phone by PSNH senior economist Dennis Delay.

We began by looking at the immediate impact on financial markets.

Well, there's no such thing as business as usual anymore.

But business did go on yesterday.

The Federal Reserve was still open and operating, although many other federal agencies were closed yesterday.

They contacted all of the banks, let them know that they were there, that they were working, that they had adequate liquidity to meet anybody's needs.

The scene was monitored very closely.

There was some high activity in some areas around New York City today.

Nothing that came near a run and just normal business in New Hampshire.

Did we notice any kind of impact after yesterday's events here in New Hampshire?

As far as the banking industry goes, or?

No, things were actually a bit quiet yesterday.

I think folks were staying around a television set trying to keep up to date on on the issues.

There were no major problems yesterday at all.

I think as it goes on, we're going to discover some issues, certainly as long as there's a ban on air traffic, that's a problem for us.

Checks are batched and brought to processing centers generally by air.

Certainly the telecommunication structure in New York being damaged could be an issue.

But the good news, I think, is that regulatorily, the banking industry, the financial services industry is required to do a lot of disaster recovery planning, and those systems appear to be working.

There are backup sites for storing data.

Redundancies on top of redundancies for hardware and other systems, and that prior planning seems to be helping out dramatically.

Tom, Wall Street wasn't open today.

At the time that we're taping this late this afternoon, we don't have word on tomorrow yet.

What are you hearing as far as concerns from investors, and what kind of impact is this having on Wall Street?

It's a good question.

I spent most of the day out of the office.

I had meetings out of the office, but when I came in, I thought I'd come into a stack of messages this thick, and instead I came into a stack of messages this thick.

I don't see any anxiety so far.

I've seen a few people that want to do something, but they can't.

And I think, quite frankly, that's probably a good thing.

Generally speaking, if emotions are dictating people's investment policy, they're usually making a bad decision.

I think our investments need to be like our government officials.

We're taking a very measured approach in how we're going to respond to this tragedy and how we're going to react.

And I think people should do the same thing with their money.

It, has information been irretrievably lost?

I mean, we had some firms there that 50 floors worth for, say, a Morgan Stanley or is there a backup for all of this information?

There's considerable backup, I don't know specifically relating some of the firms in the World Trade Center, but I will say that one of the one of the good things out of Y2K that happened is that we built huge systems upgrades, huge redundancies into the system, and I suspect that many of the firms that were damaged yesterday could probably function reasonably well as soon as the markets do open.

Dennis Delay, I want to go to you now on the phone and ask you, looking at the economy, we have airplanes that aren't flying, stock market not open.

You know, this this hit the financial center, really, of the nation and you know globally.

So what impact is this going to have on the economy?

Well, again, the the obviously is as we were talking about the it's the insurance, banking, financial, and airline sectors that are being hit hardest by this.

As far as the rest of the world goes, it looks like financial markets around the world are suffering some loss of confidence.

There's been certainly not a run on the banks, but there seems to be a flight away from the U.S.

dollar and away from capital and towards things like gold and oil futures and stable products like treasury bills and certain bonds.

All of that just reflects the fact that investors are very nervous about things.

I think there's, as I think there are two ways that this this whole scenario could go as far as its overall economic impact.

And that really hinges on how consumers and really how policymakers handle the situation.

And sort of the two scenarios could be illustrated by the way the public and policymakers reacted to the Gulf War several years ago.

In that situation, people spend a lot of time watching television and not doing much else and, frankly, worrying about the future.

And that as much as anything else and that kind of uncertainty precipitated a recession.

The other scenario that could happen is if this tragic and terrible situation is treated more like a natural disaster, as if a hurricane or a tornado hit New York, in those situations, the economy rebounds fairly quickly because you get a lot of investment to try to rebuild what's been taken away.

I want to let everyone know I just heard via word through my producer, markets are going to be closed, Tom Sedoric, through Friday.

You think that's a good thing or?

I do think it's a good thing.

I think it lets people take time, take a breath, recover both emotionally and and to look around and say, the sun did come up.

I can still go to my bank and get money out.

I can still talk to my financial advisor.

I can still get fuel at the gas pump, that the world didn't come to an end, and therefore I shouldn't do anything damaging with my with my portfolio.

I think after President Kennedy was assassinated, the markets were closed for three days and after, I don't know if this is any indication on political sentiment, but it was after his assassination the markets actually went up.

And if you look back at a number of historical tragedies, the markets in many cases have actually been higher six and 12 months later.

Well, gentlemen, I want to thank you all for joining us with your perspectives.

Tom Sedoric, thanks so much.

Jerry Little, great to have you in with us.

And Dennis Delay via the phone.

Thanks so much.

My pleasure.

In the wake of yesterday's events, there comes the inevitable question.

Could we, as a country, have done anything differently to prevent yesterday's tragedy?

Earlier today, we spoke with intelligence and terrorism expert Thomas Trout, who weighed in with his opinion.

We haven't learned a lot more than we knew yesterday.

We're still reeling from the reality of this event and what it's done to us.

We've learned a little bit more about what happened before those airplanes took off, and we know a little bit more about what happened from the ground to the point of attack.

But we have a lot more to learn, and we have a lot, a lot of leads to follow back to, to find out the root of this assault.

We have heard from Warren Rudman, there have been studies done that said, hey, we've got to tighten the ship up here, we've got to be more careful.

And now, in light of what happened yesterday, is this something, do you feel, that could have been prevented?

Well, yes, it could have been prevented if we knew what we know now.

It obviously could have been prevented.

Senator Rudman is talking about a series of reports that have come out, and they've looked at terrorism.

Terrorism has been highlighted.

People have tried to call attention to terrorism, but terrorism is not as attractive.

And it's the difference in terrorism is that terrorism has always been over there, not over here.

And that's a dramatic change.

That's one of the one of the impacts that this will have on us.

We will never, ever think about terrorism as over there.

You know, the the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, you know, that was explicable in a way.

We could understand McVeigh and, you know, this is a sort of a lone guy out there.

This is very different.

And it's an assault that we’ll we'll never get beyond.

Looking at yesterday's events, you yourself, did you watch them on TV?

Well, unfortunately I was working and I didn't have access to a TV When I got home, I certainly did.

I competed with my children for cartoons, but but I did watch and I certainly watched the evening into the late hours when things had sort of tapered off but could reconstruct those events.

And, you know, it was just a reinforcement of the of what you felt during the day when you learned about this.

People will say, gee, we need to balance having access, being an open society with maybe putting some more controls in place.

What are your thoughts on that?

Well, one of the victims down the road of this assault will be, you know, our sense of security and our ability to move as freely as we like to move.

You know, as a as a culture and as a people, we don't like restrictions and we don't, we don't, nobody likes going through those checkpoints and having their luggage, you know, if you've been stopped and had your luggage open, ah, come on.

You know, I'm, what are you doing that for?

You know, that sense is going to be gone.

We're going to have to live as a society in a very different way than than we have.

And that's going to be an adjustment to us.

It's something we need to resist at some point, but we also have to recognize that we can't be complacent about our sense of security.

Is it encouraging, do you think, that we have heard of people being arrested in connection with yesterday's events, that they do have some suspects in mind?

Well, I think it's encouraging.

I think it's it's it's encouraging insofar as these are genuine leads and those leads will expand our knowledge of the whole operation.

Not not specific elements of it.

We always need to be cautious in these kinds of things that we're, that we've got the right people.

And I don't want to pass judgment on what's happening now.

But remember, the first reaction of the Oklahoma City bombing was to arrest a Jordanian citizen and to interrogate him, and it proved to be wrong.

There seems to be, from what I've seen on on this, in this event, there seems to be a lot more credible connection between these individuals and the the assault.

Will you get on an airplane anytime soon?

Oh, yeah, I mean, yes.

I mean, I don't feel, you know, I do feel that we certainly need to be more attentive to security.

We need to we need to have professionally trained people at a different level than I think we experience here in the United States.

We always, again, it's the same thing.

We've always thought that international terrorism was something that happened overseas, not something that happened in Philadelphia or Newark or Boston or Washington or wherever.

Well, Professor Trout, I want to thank you for joining us on outlook.

Oh you're welcome.

After catastrophic events, there are always the stories from people who somehow have narrowly escaped disaster.

Tonight, a person with one of those stories joins us here on Outlook.

He is Ken Wyler, a retired American Airlines pilot.

Ken used to fly American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles.

And Ken, you retired just a short while ago, back in May.

It was early retirement, wasn't it?

It was six months early.

Normally, I wouldn't have retired until October, when I'd be 60 years old and it'd be compulsory.

This was a flight, American Flight 11, that ended up crashing into the Trade Center?

As soon as I heard the number, I knew the itinerary.

That flight for 30 years, it's always been the Boston to Los Angeles Flight was was Flight 11.

And I knew that the people that were going to be the crew would likely be people I knew.

And you did know the pilot?

I knew the knew the captain.

I'd known him for 25 years.

I didn't know the the copilot very well.

I'd heard the name.

And the flight attendants have, names haven't been released yet, but I'm sure I'll know some of them as well.

What did you feel?

It was shock.

I never expected this sort of scenario in a hijacking.

You say you didn't expect it.

You were trained as a pilot to deal with terrorism.

Were you ever trained in an incident such as this?

This is a brand new threat.

This has never been done before.

All the other hijackings, someone takes control of the airplane by holding hostages or holding a weapon to the pilot.

They usually want to keep the pilot alive because he knows how to fly the airplane.

I'm pretty certain the pilots were killed because this was very new.

We had hijackers who knew how to fly the airplane.

We have heard scenarios that have been played out as far as what could have happened, one of them being that these hijackers on board went after the flight attendants and possibly the pilot came out, and maybe that's when things happened.

Knowing you, if we understand the cockpits are locked, if you knew you had flight attendants in trouble, would you have gone out to see what was going on?

I probably would have if I thought they were under a threat of harm.

There is a weapon in the in the cockpit called a Crash Axe.

I probably would have taken that.

It's the only weapon you have, really, and I would have gone back to try to do something.

What about as far as the fact that people, the locators as far as these planes have been turned off, rather, there was no signal from the pilots that they were being hijacked.

What does that lead you to possibly conclude?

They knew something about the operation of the airplane.

They knew that this transponder that that you speak of would have given them information like the altitude that would have been handy for them to realize what was going on.

They would have known that they were descending from probably 35,000ft or so down towards sea level, and it would have tipped them off that something was going on.

Can you say that a pilot would have flown a plane into a building like the World Trade Center?

I would say that that would never happen with an American pilot or a United pilot.

It's just not something you would do.

Even if you knew you were going to die, he would take it in the river or something, knowing there were 63 of us that were doomed.

Why doom any more?

You mentioned what you might have done.

You mentioned there was training for for dealing with terrorists on board.

Do you think pilots should have more resources as far as ways to combat terrorism, if you've got somebody on board like this, and what might you think would work?

It's been a lot of ideas that have been thrown around, arming the pilots, having an armed marshal on board.

One idea I heard today was to have some sort of gas that would put everybody to sleep, except the pilots who would go on oxygen masks before they'd release it.

Sounded a little crazy at first, but it would certainly be the most peaceful way to to settle this thing without without too much violence.

Two of the planes came out of Logan where you flew out of.

Do you think it's an issue of not enough security at Logan?

I think this thing was was really strategized.

They were looking for an airplane that had a big fuel load, but was coming out fairly close to New York.

And so you draw a circle around it and you pick the most likely places, and there's not that many airports that would meet the criteria, both of being within a reasonable distance, where they could be certain they would have enough time to take control of the airplane, and yet have enough fuel to bring a lot of fuel to the fire they were planning on.

Final thought from you tonight, Ken?

This is a whole new threat.

As I said, it'll change everything in the way we we do our anti-terrorist training.

Hopefully, we'll we'll learn to deal with things like knife fights.

And as the threats evolve, so does the training.

It's unfortunate that this was so costly as we discovered this new threat.

Ken Weiler, I want to thank you for joining us tonight on Outlook.

Some Muslim and Arab Americans around the country say they're beginning to feel the backlash, as they feared the results of yesterday's attacks.

The International Institute in Manchester helps resettle refugees for many countries around the world.

Today, the director of the Institute told us that she's hearing words of sympathy and sadness about what has happened in their new home.

Well, I think that the first thing is they're experiencing a great sadness for us, and they've all told us how sorry they are that terrorism is in Americ now.

These people have fled terrorism.

Actually, the American refugee policy is a rescue mission to rescue people from terrorism.

So these people have been fleeing terrorism most of their life.

They're very sad.

They are new Americans.

They're happy to be here.

They're part of who we are.

So they share the sadness that you and I feel.

And I think at this moment, there’s, there’s fear within all of us.

This morning we met with about 70 refugees here at the Institute, and we tried to let them know what's happening, what did happen yesterday.

We tried to help them understand that we have a very strong government and that as Americans, we trust in our government to keep us safe and protect us, and that it was a terrible thing that happened.

However, our government is at hard work, worked all night, and will continue to work until they find the perpetrators and are able to punish them.

And I think that gave them quite a bit of confidence in their new country.

The Red Cross says within the first six hours of yesterday's disaster, 700,000 people called offering to give blood.

Tonight, the Red Cross is asking people to spread their donations out over the next 1 to 4 weeks.

They ask that you be patient when trying to schedule a time to give.

You can call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE to make an appointment.

There are also working on scheduling blood drives all over the state.

That's it for this edition of New Hampshire Outlook.

We want to thank you for watching.

Please stay tuned.

We have a special Outlook presentation, New Hampshire Speaks: Coming to Terms with Terror.

We'll have a panel of experts.

They're going to be taking your phone calls at 1-800-545-0744.

Then at 9:00 tonight, America Responds with Gwen Ifill and Bill Moyers, followed by a special edition of the NewsHour at 10:00.

We'll be right back.

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