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Workers knock dangerous glass shards from window frames in the World Financial Center building near the World Trade Center. (ROBERT GAUTHIER / Los Angeles Times)
At the KCBS-TV Channel 2 studio in Los Angeles, a security gaurd asks visitors to show identification before entering. Media centers around L.A. are beefing up their security after a warning from the FBI. (CLARENCE WILLIAMS / Los Angeles Times)
Kinzi, a member of the Salt Lake City search and rescue team, works in the rubble of the World Trade Center buildings. (ROBERT GAUTHIER / Los Angeles Times)
NYPD officers use a dusty but still living tree as shade while standing guard at the site of the World Trade Center, Friday, September 21, 2001. (ROBERT GAUTHIER / Los Angeles Times)
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Tired New York firefighters take a break from rescue efforts at the World Trade Center in New York, Friday, Sept. 21, 2001. The number of people missing and feared dead at the Trade Center is 6,333. Of the 241 bodies recovered so far, the coroner’s office has identified 170. (ROBERT GAUTHIER / Los Angeles Times)
Steel workers cut into the fallen facade of the World Trade Center as efforts continue to clean up the massive piles of debris, September 21, 2001. As the United States pushed ahead with war preparations, the White House on Friday rejected requests from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to provide proof Osama bin Laden was responsible for the deadly September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. (ROBERT GAUTHIER / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighter Lieutenant Dennis Mojica of Rescue is laid to rest during a service at St. Patricks Cathedral in Manhattan friday 9/21. Mojica has been with the NYFD for ove 20 years. (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)