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Faithful fans are sure to enjoy this film-about-a-film romp, but those unfamiliar with the series might find it less engaging.
Faithful fans are sure to enjoy this film-about-a-film romp, but those unfamiliar with the series might find it less engaging.
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13 minutes
(The Center Square) – Some Americans only know what it’s like to travel in airports with post-9/11 security, but there are many who still remember what it was like to fly 25 years ago. Air travel remains much changed since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and most of the lasting changes have made flying safer for Americans, according to aviation security specialist Jeff Price. 9/11 findings After 19 men hijacked four planes 25 years ago Friday, the nation's aviation security system needed to respond. The 9/11 Commission concluded that multiple “layers” of security failed leading up to the attack. “The FAA set and enforced aviation security rules, which airlines and airports were required to implement. The rules were supposed to produce a ‘layered’ system of defense,” the report reads. “But each layer relevant to the hijackings — intelligence, passenger prescreening, checkpoint screening, and onboard security — was seriously flawed prior to 9/11.” The report included evidence that the hijackers likely used knives to gain control of passengers and crew, and federal policy at the time permitted knives with blades shorter than four inches on flights. Box cutters, which were also believed to have been carried aboard, were prohibited under an FAA-approved checkpoint operations guide. The commission found, however, that the guide provided no further guidance to screeners on how to distinguish between prohibited box cutters and permitted pocket utility knives. “Pre-9-11, airline contractors or airline personnel themselves were doing the screening to the level the government required,” Price said. “The airlines were meeting the standards, by and large, but the standards were very, very low.” Though the report concluded that airport screening was weak, Price, a metropolitan airport manager on 9/11 and former assistant security director at Denver International Airport, said its findings showed that the greater failure was in the policies governing screening rather than their implementation. Price is now a professor and has also authored Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, among other books critical to his field. "To say that screening was a joke prior to 9/11 would be giving credit to a joke. It was virtually non-existent,” Price told The Center Square. The advent of TSA In November 2001, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which created the Transportation Security Administration and ultimately transferred airport screening from airlines to the agency. Prior to 9/11, airlines typically contracted with private security companies to meet basic passenger and carry-on baggage screening requirements set by the Federal Aviation Administration. Occasionally, screeners were employees of the airlines themselves. Screeners were typically paid at or near minimum wage. Screeners at almost all U.S. commercial airports today are employed directly by TSA. A small group of airports still contracts with private companies for screening but under the authority and oversight of TSA. Today, TSA employs about 60,000 people and screeners’ starting pay is generally around $20 an hour or more, depending on location, along with federal benefits and scheduled opportunities for pay increases. A new security landscape In addition to the TSA, many other things changed about flying. Before 9/11, passengers faced far fewer restrictions on access to the cockpit, and pilots sometimes welcomed children and other passengers inside before takeoff. “Pretty much anybody could [say], ‘Hey, can I meet the captain’ or something like that before you took off. Sure, no big deal,” Price said. “‘Can my kid come up there and sit for a few minutes?’ That kind of stuff happened. Not anymore. That all goes out the window.” Over time, cockpit doors were reinforced and fitted with stronger locks. No-fly lists existed before 9/11, but they were greatly expanded afterward, leading to today’s watch-listing and passenger-vetting system. Prior to 9/11, airports were much more accessible to the general public. Friends and family could greet loved ones or see them off at their gate. “You just walked through the checkpoint. They didn’t care if you were a passenger, a meeter, a greeter, dropping people off, or just going to the airport to have dinner at a restaurant out there by the gate,” Price said. “Anybody could go through a checkpoint.” But that all stopped after Sept. 11. Identification and travel documents also became part of the screening process, so that only passengers and authorized personnel could access the airport beyond the security checkpoint. Post-9/11 incidents like what happened with the “shoe bomber” in December 2001 led to shoe removal often being incorporated into the screening process, and a plot deterred by British authorities in 2006 to blow up multiple transatlantic planes using liquid explosives led to TSA banning liquids from carry-ons. The agency later relaxed that rule to liquids not exceeding 3.4 oz fitting in a quart-sized bag. Airport technology also got a huge upgrade. “The technology in use at the time… it was basically 1970s technology that really had not advanced that far over the course of time. Not what you see today, with these multi-view X-ray machines and computer tomography, imaging devices, and body imagers,” Price said. “We didn’t have any of that.” TSA also coordinates with airports today on the size of the law enforcement presence at each facility. "If you want 100% security in flying, quit flying" The threats to commercial aviation continue to evolve, according to Price, who expressed concern over drone technology. As relatively inexpensive attack drones have become an integral part of the Russia-Ukraine war and more recently, in the conflict involving Iran and the U.S. in the Middle East, they’ve also become a concern for aviation security. On Aug. 4, a drone carrying explosives was discovered at a German airport, reportedly near Ukrainian cargo aircraft. “Drones worry me,” Price told The Center Square. “We need drone detection systems deployed to airports, and some have them. I think that needs to be more robust. In fact, I think it needs to be mandated.” With airports also deploying drones for their own purposes, Price said the drone issue goes beyond an “easy fix.” “We [also] need to continue the research into how to safely bring a drone down that is interfering with U.S. airspace or airport operations,” Price said. Price is also concerned about cybersecurity threats. “Cybersecurity worries me tremendously,” Price said, calling the attacks both “endless” and “innovative.” Price also said those concerns were just “the tip of the iceberg,” among insider threats — threats from those working at airports — and weaknesses in perimeter security. However, Price still maintains that overall, flying today is much safer than it was in the pre-9/11 world. “We’re a hell of a lot more safer. You’ll get your critics, your pundits, that will love disagreeing with that. They either, A, weren’t in the system prior to 9/11, or two, are just enjoying the publicity of being able to say stuff like that,” Price said. “We'll never reach 100% security. The system will never be perfect. We want to provide reasonable levels of security that make the system safe enough,” Price said. “We're in the business of risk management. We're in the business of deterrence.”
(The Center Square) – Some Americans only know what it’s like to travel in airports with post-9/11 security, but there are many who still remember what it was like to fly 25 years ago. Air travel remains much changed since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and most of the lasting changes have made flying safer for Americans, according to aviation security specialist Jeff Price. 9/11 findings After 19 men hijacked four planes 25 years ago Friday, the nation's aviation security system needed to respond. The 9/11 Commission concluded that multiple “layers” of security failed leading up to the attack. “The FAA set and enforced aviation security rules, which airlines and airports were required to implement. The rules were supposed to produce a ‘layered’ system of defense,” the report reads. “But each layer relevant to the hijackings — intelligence, passenger prescreening, checkpoint screening, and onboard security — was seriously flawed prior to 9/11.” The report included evidence that the hijackers likely used knives to gain control of passengers and crew, and federal policy at the time permitted knives with blades shorter than four inches on flights. Box cutters, which were also believed to have been carried aboard, were prohibited under an FAA-approved checkpoint operations guide. The commission found, however, that the guide provided no further guidance to screeners on how to distinguish between prohibited box cutters and permitted pocket utility knives. “Pre-9-11, airline contractors or airline personnel themselves were doing the screening to the level the government required,” Price said. “The airlines were meeting the standards, by and large, but the standards were very, very low.” Though the report concluded that airport screening was weak, Price, a metropolitan airport manager on 9/11 and former assistant security director at Denver International Airport, said its findings showed that the greater failure was in the policies governing screening rather than their implementation. Price is now a professor and has also authored Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, among other books critical to his field. "To say that screening was a joke prior to 9/11 would be giving credit to a joke. It was virtually non-existent,” Price told The Center Square. The advent of TSA In November 2001, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which created the Transportation Security Administration and ultimately transferred airport screening from airlines to the agency. Prior to 9/11, airlines typically contracted with private security companies to meet basic passenger and carry-on baggage screening requirements set by the Federal Aviation Administration. Occasionally, screeners were employees of the airlines themselves. Screeners were typically paid at or near minimum wage. Screeners at almost all U.S. commercial airports today are employed directly by TSA. A small group of airports still contracts with private companies for screening but under the authority and oversight of TSA. Today, TSA employs about 60,000 people and screeners’ starting pay is generally around $20 an hour or more, depending on location, along with federal benefits and scheduled opportunities for pay increases. A new security landscape In addition to the TSA, many other things changed about flying. Before 9/11, passengers faced far fewer restrictions on access to the cockpit, and pilots sometimes welcomed children and other passengers inside before takeoff. “Pretty much anybody could [say], ‘Hey, can I meet the captain’ or something like that before you took off. Sure, no big deal,” Price said. “‘Can my kid come up there and sit for a few minutes?’ That kind of stuff happened. Not anymore. That all goes out the window.” Over time, cockpit doors were reinforced and fitted with stronger locks. No-fly lists existed before 9/11, but they were greatly expanded afterward, leading to today’s watch-listing and passenger-vetting system. Prior to 9/11, airports were much more accessible to the general public. Friends and family could greet loved ones or see them off at their gate. “You just walked through the checkpoint. They didn’t care if you were a passenger, a meeter, a greeter, dropping people off, or just going to the airport to have dinner at a restaurant out there by the gate,” Price said. “Anybody could go through a checkpoint.” But that all stopped after Sept. 11. Identification and travel documents also became part of the screening process, so that only passengers and authorized personnel could access the airport beyond the security checkpoint. Post-9/11 incidents like what happened with the “shoe bomber” in December 2001 led to shoe removal often being incorporated into the screening process, and a plot deterred by British authorities in 2006 to blow up multiple transatlantic planes using liquid explosives led to TSA banning liquids from carry-ons. The agency later relaxed that rule to liquids not exceeding 3.4 oz fitting in a quart-sized bag. Airport technology also got a huge upgrade. “The technology in use at the time… it was basically 1970s technology that really had not advanced that far over the course of time. Not what you see today, with these multi-view X-ray machines and computer tomography, imaging devices, and body imagers,” Price said. “We didn’t have any of that.” TSA also coordinates with airports today on the size of the law enforcement presence at each facility. "If you want 100% security in flying, quit flying" The threats to commercial aviation continue to evolve, according to Price, who expressed concern over drone technology. As relatively inexpensive attack drones have become an integral part of the Russia-Ukraine war and more recently, in the conflict involving Iran and the U.S. in the Middle East, they’ve also become a concern for aviation security. On Aug. 4, a drone carrying explosives was discovered at a German airport, reportedly near Ukrainian cargo aircraft. “Drones worry me,” Price told The Center Square. “We need drone detection systems deployed to airports, and some have them. I think that needs to be more robust. In fact, I think it needs to be mandated.” With airports also deploying drones for their own purposes, Price said the drone issue goes beyond an “easy fix.” “We [also] need to continue the research into how to safely bring a drone down that is interfering with U.S. airspace or airport operations,” Price said. Price is also concerned about cybersecurity threats. “Cybersecurity worries me tremendously,” Price said, calling the attacks both “endless” and “innovative.” Price also said those concerns were just “the tip of the iceberg,” among insider threats — threats from those working at airports — and weaknesses in perimeter security. However, Price still maintains that overall, flying today is much safer than it was in the pre-9/11 world. “We’re a hell of a lot more safer. You’ll get your critics, your pundits, that will love disagreeing with that. They either, A, weren’t in the system prior to 9/11, or two, are just enjoying the publicity of being able to say stuff like that,” Price said. “We'll never reach 100% security. The system will never be perfect. We want to provide reasonable levels of security that make the system safe enough,” Price said. “We're in the business of risk management. We're in the business of deterrence.”
14 minutes
Au moins 1 900 vols ont été retardés ou annulés depuis le 8 septembre, au départ et à destination de 15 aéroports, dont Londres, Birmingham, Manchester ou Édimbourg, ainsi que Dublin, en raison d’un problème technique au sein du système national de contrôle du trafic aérien. Le patron de l’organisme a été convoqué mercredi 9 septembre. L'organisme chargé du contrôle aérien exclut l'hypothèse d'une cyberattaque.
Au moins 1 900 vols ont été retardés ou annulés depuis le 8 septembre, au départ et à destination de 15 aéroports, dont Londres, Birmingham, Manchester ou Édimbourg, ainsi que Dublin, en raison d’un problème technique au sein du système national de contrôle du trafic aérien. Le patron de l’organisme a été convoqué mercredi 9 septembre. L'organisme chargé du contrôle aérien exclut l'hypothèse d'une cyberattaque.
15 minutes
Idén tavasszal úgy döntöttünk: pályázunk a Communitas Alapítvány Sajtó Szaktestületéhez. A döntést hosszas dilemmázás, több szerkesztőségi beszélgetés előzte meg, munkatársaink körében nem alakult ki konszenzus arról, hogy pályázzunk-e vagy sem. A legerősebb ellenérv az volt, hogy egyik alapelvünk, hogy az Átlátszó Erdély nem pályázik olyan szervezet által nyújtott támogatásra, amelynek tevékenységét a múltban követtük, vagy […] The post Miért nem fogadtuk el a Communitas Alapítvány támogatását? appeared first on Átlátszó Erdély.
Idén tavasszal úgy döntöttünk: pályázunk a Communitas Alapítvány Sajtó Szaktestületéhez. A döntést hosszas dilemmázás, több szerkesztőségi beszélgetés előzte meg, munkatársaink körében nem alakult ki konszenzus arról, hogy pályázzunk-e vagy sem. A legerősebb ellenérv az volt, hogy egyik alapelvünk, hogy az Átlátszó Erdély nem pályázik olyan szervezet által nyújtott támogatásra, amelynek tevékenységét a múltban követtük, vagy […] The post Miért nem fogadtuk el a Communitas Alapítvány támogatását? appeared first on Átlátszó Erdély.
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(The Center Square) – The Lake County board has approved an eight-month moratorium on data centers in unincorporated areas. The measure puts any potential data center applications in unincorporated Lake County on hold until May 2027. The Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition applauded the move and called on the General Assembly to pass statewide data center regulation this fall. CWB REPORT REVEALS POLICE OVERSIGHT COMMISSION DISPUTE Members of Chicago’s primary police oversight commission tried to push one of its own members off the workgroup searching for the city’s next police superintendent and then fought to keep the paper trail hidden from the public. CWB Chicago reported on Tuesday that the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability released an 86-page email chain less than 48 hours after the Illinois Attorney General’s Office opened an inquiry into its handling of CWB’s FOIA request. The chain showed four commissioners working to remove Sandra Wortham from the Superintendent Search Work Group, despite the commission president warning that the effort lacked a clear basis and could look like an attempt to settle an interpersonal or philosophical disagreement through a procedural maneuver. VETERANS HONORED WITH BIPLANE FLIGHTS Nonprofit Dream Flights and the Health Care Council of Illinois honored six Illinois veterans with flights in a restored open-cockpit biplane on Tuesday. The event took place at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport as part of the 2026 Dream Flights Tour, which is expected to honor nearly 800 senior veterans nationwide. CONSUMER CREDIT RISES According to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, total U.S. consumer credit increased $18.1 billion in July after rising $14.6 billion in June.
(The Center Square) – The Lake County board has approved an eight-month moratorium on data centers in unincorporated areas. The measure puts any potential data center applications in unincorporated Lake County on hold until May 2027. The Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition applauded the move and called on the General Assembly to pass statewide data center regulation this fall. CWB REPORT REVEALS POLICE OVERSIGHT COMMISSION DISPUTE Members of Chicago’s primary police oversight commission tried to push one of its own members off the workgroup searching for the city’s next police superintendent and then fought to keep the paper trail hidden from the public. CWB Chicago reported on Tuesday that the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability released an 86-page email chain less than 48 hours after the Illinois Attorney General’s Office opened an inquiry into its handling of CWB’s FOIA request. The chain showed four commissioners working to remove Sandra Wortham from the Superintendent Search Work Group, despite the commission president warning that the effort lacked a clear basis and could look like an attempt to settle an interpersonal or philosophical disagreement through a procedural maneuver. VETERANS HONORED WITH BIPLANE FLIGHTS Nonprofit Dream Flights and the Health Care Council of Illinois honored six Illinois veterans with flights in a restored open-cockpit biplane on Tuesday. The event took place at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport as part of the 2026 Dream Flights Tour, which is expected to honor nearly 800 senior veterans nationwide. CONSUMER CREDIT RISES According to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, total U.S. consumer credit increased $18.1 billion in July after rising $14.6 billion in June.
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(The Center Square) – Georgia child protective services has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on technologies that secretly track cell phone movements and surveil web activity—tools the agency might be prohibited from using, records obtained by The Center Square show. Four police-grade investigative products have cost taxpayers at least $639,000 over the past two years, according to a stack of invoices and purchase orders, all while debate rages on whether the department is even legally authorized to use such surveillance techniques. "It just appears to me that the commissioner is proceeding with her own interpretation of the law," state Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, a Decatur Democrat and a member of the House Judiciary Juvenile and Appropriations committees, told The Center Square. "It's simply not clear to me that she has the legal authority to use law enforcement, invasive monitoring technology, or to have an independent law enforcement agency doing criminal investigations." Department of Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce declined an interview request. But an internal email obtained by The Center Square, as well as public statements by Broce, strongly suggest the technologies are being used to track down runaway foster children and rescue them from sex traffickers. The revelation that child welfare wields some of the same high-tech tools used by police and federal agents caught some lawmakers by surprise. Republican state Rep. Beth Camp, who chairs the Judiciary Juvenile Committee, said she is "100% not OK with that," and after speaking with The Center Square announced she's drafting new legislation to beef up transparency in how Human Services spends funds. "I am shocked," Camp said in an interview. "I hope to goodness it's not being used for anybody else. I have a public office at the Capitol. What's stopping anyone from using any of this software against me—who's sitting in my office, what we're talking about, emails that have gone back and forth?" Human Services oversees the Division of Family and Children Services, or DFCS, which is a social services agency under Georgia law, not law enforcement. Most of the division's investigative work is shielded from public view by state and federal laws protecting children’s and families' privacy. So if any abuses did occur with monitoring tech, whether the public would ever find out is "in a murky area," Rep. Oliver said. Under Georgia law, DFCS case files are typically only released when a child dies in state custody, and only in highly-redacted form. It's also not clear if the department legally needs a judge to issue a search warrant before it can track a juvenile's phone or online activity, or track an adult suspected of abusing them. Melissa Carter, a professor at Emory University School of Law, said such sophisticated surveillance conducted by child welfare could run up against the Fourth Amendment—the constitutional protection against illegal search and seizures. "Can a youth refuse? Is consent required? Is a warrant required?" Carter, the executive director of Emory’s Barton Child Law and Policy Center, which protects the rights of children involved in the state legal system, said in an interview. "Who's seeing this data that's being collected and how long is it retained? It just opens up this just endless set of unanswered questions, all of which have legal implications for the privacy of that child or that family." But not everyone is necessarily opposed to child welfare using technology to track down runaways. "If that is a necessary part of finding missing kids that are in state custody, I personally don't have a big problem with that," State Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, who chairs the Senate Children and Families Committee, told The Center Square, "provided it's operating within the legal framework of all state and federal laws." The SVU mission Commissioner Broce told lawmakers during a February 2025 Juvenile Judiciary hearing that she formed a Special Victims Unit within her department "to work with Georgia law enforcement to better serve Georgia's most marginalized children." She spoke of a girl who'd been trafficked across state lines by a truck driver and gang raped at gunpoint. She told of teens working as strippers in adult entertainment, being sexually exploited at underground house parties, or showing up in online ads for sex services. Manipulated and controlled through drugs, many of them don’t want to be rescued, the commissioner explained. "Many children do not identify as trafficking victims ever," Broce told the committee. "Many leave their placements and return to their abusers, and they do not view them as abusers." Broce described investigators in her department using social media handles, cell phone numbers, email addresses, known associates, and links to online sex ads to conduct sting operations and recoveries that—in cooperation with law enforcement—located dozens of children, some of whom hadn't previously been in state custody. Broce also pointed out that two SVU team members are deputized. The Center Square verified that two Human Services employees have been deputized by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, north of Atlanta. A third, the unit's director, Hunter Llewellyn, had his deputization revoked after a DUI arrest in another county, Cherokee Sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker said in an email. Llewellyn did not respond to a message from The Center Square. Law enforcement powers? The day after that 2025 hearing, the General Assembly's Office of Legislative Counsel handed Rep. Oliver a legal opinion that raised doubts about whether child welfare can take on such police duties as "executing exigency warrants for IP addresses, social media handles, and electronic devices; pinging cellphones; and conducting forensic interviews." The purchased technologies discovered by The Center Square are capable of going further, according to descriptions on the companies' websites and information provided by Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and technologist with Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit concerned with civil liberties and privacy in the digital world. The technologies are: • ShadowDragon, at a cost to taxpayers of $219,195 according to records obtained by The Center Square, scans social media, web forums, gaming platforms, the dark web and other online sources to link social media identities together, establish networks and monitor online activity. • Anomaly Six, which was bundled into the $219,195 in invoices for ShadowDragon, sells bulk smartphone geolocation data, using pings from smartphone apps to follow phone movements in near real-time. • Cellebrite, costing the state at least $75,738, can forensically extract the contents of a locked cell phone by physically plugging into it, then copying text messages, app messages, call histories, location history, contacts, photos and other files. • Traffic Jam, accounting for $344,074 of the spending records, scans and analyzes online commercial sex advertisements, using facial recognition to match images against photos of missing persons and mapping criminal networks through shared phone numbers and emails. The invoices include purchases, renewals and training. Fourth Amendment concerns Quintin said while everyone wants to save trafficked children, there's a potential for abuse. The Anomaly Six geolocation tool, for example, could conceivably track the patterns of people who are only in the vicinity of suspected sex trafficking, such as someone staying in the same hotel, he said. This year's Chatrie decision by the U.S. Supreme Court held people have a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to cell phone movements, and acquiring location history from a third-party company constitutes a Fourth Amendment search. "My concern is that there's no oversight for this organization," he said. "This is as close as you can get to being able to read someone's mind, and to do that without a warrant is something that most people would think is unconstitutional." The legal opinion, by Assistant Legislative Counsel Kristin Harripaul, said "we have found no express statutory authorization for DFCS to exercise police powers," but cautioned that the department could find justification in other language that broadly defines law enforcement as any agency involved in preserving public order or "prevention, detection or investigation of a crime." "Throughout the code, references to DFCS and law enforcement generally employ language describing DFCS as assisting, collaborating with, or bringing problems to the attention of law enforcement, as opposed to directing or controlling law enforcement activities," the opinion said. An internal Human Services email, obtained by The Center Square through an Open Records Act request, shows Llewellyn, the SVU's chief, announcing more aggressive law enforcement tactics in missing child cases. "Effective immediately," the August 2025 email says. "If there is any investigation requiring a forensic interview and local agencies are not willing to take the case, then we will be the primary investigating agency for the purposes of (a forensic interview)/phone dump/evidence gathering." The email is addressed to "SVU Team." Llewellyn's title in the signature is "Director, Law Enforcement Investigations." Llewellyn also said, "The phones we collect will be able to be dumped in house within the next few weeks … Once (a forensic interview) is conducted or evidence (text messages/ads/social media exchanges) is collected showing a crime, the appropriate jurisdiction will be notified and a case file containing everything that we have will be packaged and given to them." Lawmakers react For lawmakers, the news that Human Services purchased $639,000 in surveillance and monitoring technology comes after years of debate over whether child welfare can legally take on law enforcement functions. And it came six months after the state legislature plugged a massive budget shortfall in the department with $81 million. Rep. Camp, who's drafting the transparency legislation, said that before speaking with a reporter she had already caught wind of the ShadowDragon purchase but had difficulty getting answers out of the department. "I can't even get an invoice, so do you honestly think I'm going to know if they're appropriately using surveillance equipment?" she told The Center Square. Rep. Charlice Byrd, a Republican from Woodstock, said she supports Human Services SVU using the high-tech tools, but cautiously. She said she's concerned about Flock cameras, but when it comes to DFCS, she has a nuanced view from sitting on the board of North Georgia Angel House, a Cherokee County transitional home for girls in the foster system. Byrd said she’s well aware they can be lured away by sex traffickers, as well as the need for supervising adults to sometimes go through teenagers' phones. So she's on board with the technology "if it has to do with strictly foster children." "Not where they are doing this to any and everybody's telephones across the state of Georgia," Byrd said. "No, definitely not."
(The Center Square) – Georgia child protective services has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on technologies that secretly track cell phone movements and surveil web activity—tools the agency might be prohibited from using, records obtained by The Center Square show. Four police-grade investigative products have cost taxpayers at least $639,000 over the past two years, according to a stack of invoices and purchase orders, all while debate rages on whether the department is even legally authorized to use such surveillance techniques. "It just appears to me that the commissioner is proceeding with her own interpretation of the law," state Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, a Decatur Democrat and a member of the House Judiciary Juvenile and Appropriations committees, told The Center Square. "It's simply not clear to me that she has the legal authority to use law enforcement, invasive monitoring technology, or to have an independent law enforcement agency doing criminal investigations." Department of Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce declined an interview request. But an internal email obtained by The Center Square, as well as public statements by Broce, strongly suggest the technologies are being used to track down runaway foster children and rescue them from sex traffickers. The revelation that child welfare wields some of the same high-tech tools used by police and federal agents caught some lawmakers by surprise. Republican state Rep. Beth Camp, who chairs the Judiciary Juvenile Committee, said she is "100% not OK with that," and after speaking with The Center Square announced she's drafting new legislation to beef up transparency in how Human Services spends funds. "I am shocked," Camp said in an interview. "I hope to goodness it's not being used for anybody else. I have a public office at the Capitol. What's stopping anyone from using any of this software against me—who's sitting in my office, what we're talking about, emails that have gone back and forth?" Human Services oversees the Division of Family and Children Services, or DFCS, which is a social services agency under Georgia law, not law enforcement. Most of the division's investigative work is shielded from public view by state and federal laws protecting children’s and families' privacy. So if any abuses did occur with monitoring tech, whether the public would ever find out is "in a murky area," Rep. Oliver said. Under Georgia law, DFCS case files are typically only released when a child dies in state custody, and only in highly-redacted form. It's also not clear if the department legally needs a judge to issue a search warrant before it can track a juvenile's phone or online activity, or track an adult suspected of abusing them. Melissa Carter, a professor at Emory University School of Law, said such sophisticated surveillance conducted by child welfare could run up against the Fourth Amendment—the constitutional protection against illegal search and seizures. "Can a youth refuse? Is consent required? Is a warrant required?" Carter, the executive director of Emory’s Barton Child Law and Policy Center, which protects the rights of children involved in the state legal system, said in an interview. "Who's seeing this data that's being collected and how long is it retained? It just opens up this just endless set of unanswered questions, all of which have legal implications for the privacy of that child or that family." But not everyone is necessarily opposed to child welfare using technology to track down runaways. "If that is a necessary part of finding missing kids that are in state custody, I personally don't have a big problem with that," State Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, who chairs the Senate Children and Families Committee, told The Center Square, "provided it's operating within the legal framework of all state and federal laws." The SVU mission Commissioner Broce told lawmakers during a February 2025 Juvenile Judiciary hearing that she formed a Special Victims Unit within her department "to work with Georgia law enforcement to better serve Georgia's most marginalized children." She spoke of a girl who'd been trafficked across state lines by a truck driver and gang raped at gunpoint. She told of teens working as strippers in adult entertainment, being sexually exploited at underground house parties, or showing up in online ads for sex services. Manipulated and controlled through drugs, many of them don’t want to be rescued, the commissioner explained. "Many children do not identify as trafficking victims ever," Broce told the committee. "Many leave their placements and return to their abusers, and they do not view them as abusers." Broce described investigators in her department using social media handles, cell phone numbers, email addresses, known associates, and links to online sex ads to conduct sting operations and recoveries that—in cooperation with law enforcement—located dozens of children, some of whom hadn't previously been in state custody. Broce also pointed out that two SVU team members are deputized. The Center Square verified that two Human Services employees have been deputized by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, north of Atlanta. A third, the unit's director, Hunter Llewellyn, had his deputization revoked after a DUI arrest in another county, Cherokee Sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker said in an email. Llewellyn did not respond to a message from The Center Square. Law enforcement powers? The day after that 2025 hearing, the General Assembly's Office of Legislative Counsel handed Rep. Oliver a legal opinion that raised doubts about whether child welfare can take on such police duties as "executing exigency warrants for IP addresses, social media handles, and electronic devices; pinging cellphones; and conducting forensic interviews." The purchased technologies discovered by The Center Square are capable of going further, according to descriptions on the companies' websites and information provided by Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and technologist with Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit concerned with civil liberties and privacy in the digital world. The technologies are: • ShadowDragon, at a cost to taxpayers of $219,195 according to records obtained by The Center Square, scans social media, web forums, gaming platforms, the dark web and other online sources to link social media identities together, establish networks and monitor online activity. • Anomaly Six, which was bundled into the $219,195 in invoices for ShadowDragon, sells bulk smartphone geolocation data, using pings from smartphone apps to follow phone movements in near real-time. • Cellebrite, costing the state at least $75,738, can forensically extract the contents of a locked cell phone by physically plugging into it, then copying text messages, app messages, call histories, location history, contacts, photos and other files. • Traffic Jam, accounting for $344,074 of the spending records, scans and analyzes online commercial sex advertisements, using facial recognition to match images against photos of missing persons and mapping criminal networks through shared phone numbers and emails. The invoices include purchases, renewals and training. Fourth Amendment concerns Quintin said while everyone wants to save trafficked children, there's a potential for abuse. The Anomaly Six geolocation tool, for example, could conceivably track the patterns of people who are only in the vicinity of suspected sex trafficking, such as someone staying in the same hotel, he said. This year's Chatrie decision by the U.S. Supreme Court held people have a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to cell phone movements, and acquiring location history from a third-party company constitutes a Fourth Amendment search. "My concern is that there's no oversight for this organization," he said. "This is as close as you can get to being able to read someone's mind, and to do that without a warrant is something that most people would think is unconstitutional." The legal opinion, by Assistant Legislative Counsel Kristin Harripaul, said "we have found no express statutory authorization for DFCS to exercise police powers," but cautioned that the department could find justification in other language that broadly defines law enforcement as any agency involved in preserving public order or "prevention, detection or investigation of a crime." "Throughout the code, references to DFCS and law enforcement generally employ language describing DFCS as assisting, collaborating with, or bringing problems to the attention of law enforcement, as opposed to directing or controlling law enforcement activities," the opinion said. An internal Human Services email, obtained by The Center Square through an Open Records Act request, shows Llewellyn, the SVU's chief, announcing more aggressive law enforcement tactics in missing child cases. "Effective immediately," the August 2025 email says. "If there is any investigation requiring a forensic interview and local agencies are not willing to take the case, then we will be the primary investigating agency for the purposes of (a forensic interview)/phone dump/evidence gathering." The email is addressed to "SVU Team." Llewellyn's title in the signature is "Director, Law Enforcement Investigations." Llewellyn also said, "The phones we collect will be able to be dumped in house within the next few weeks … Once (a forensic interview) is conducted or evidence (text messages/ads/social media exchanges) is collected showing a crime, the appropriate jurisdiction will be notified and a case file containing everything that we have will be packaged and given to them." Lawmakers react For lawmakers, the news that Human Services purchased $639,000 in surveillance and monitoring technology comes after years of debate over whether child welfare can legally take on law enforcement functions. And it came six months after the state legislature plugged a massive budget shortfall in the department with $81 million. Rep. Camp, who's drafting the transparency legislation, said that before speaking with a reporter she had already caught wind of the ShadowDragon purchase but had difficulty getting answers out of the department. "I can't even get an invoice, so do you honestly think I'm going to know if they're appropriately using surveillance equipment?" she told The Center Square. Rep. Charlice Byrd, a Republican from Woodstock, said she supports Human Services SVU using the high-tech tools, but cautiously. She said she's concerned about Flock cameras, but when it comes to DFCS, she has a nuanced view from sitting on the board of North Georgia Angel House, a Cherokee County transitional home for girls in the foster system. Byrd said she’s well aware they can be lured away by sex traffickers, as well as the need for supervising adults to sometimes go through teenagers' phones. So she's on board with the technology "if it has to do with strictly foster children." "Not where they are doing this to any and everybody's telephones across the state of Georgia," Byrd said. "No, definitely not."
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(The Center Square) - Terror struck America on Sept. 11, 2001, when 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four Boeing jets and turned them into missiles, killing almost 3,000 people. The hijackers arrived in the U.S. on tourist visas with cash and travelers checks they got in the Middle East. They enrolled in flight schools. Here’s what happened on that morning of 9/11, minute by minute. Details are from sources such as the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the Miller Center, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. the World Economic Forum and the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks. 5:45 a.m. Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al-Omari pass through a security screening at Portland International Airport in Maine and take a commuter flight to Boston Logan International Airport. 6 a.m. Polls open in New York City for the primary election. 6:45 a.m. Atta and Omari arrive at the Boston airport. Atta, Omari, Satam al Suqami, Wail al Shehri and Waleed al Shehri board American Airlines Flight 11. At another terminal at the airport, Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohand al Shehri, Ahmed al Ghamdi, and Hamza al Ghamdi board United Airlines Flight 175, on a Boeing 767 piloted by Captain Victor Saracini and First Officer Michael Horrocks. 7:15 a.m. Khalid al Mihdhar and Majed Moqed checked in at the American Airlines ticket counter for Flight 77 at Dulles International Airport in the Washington, D.C. area. The plane was a Boeing 757, and the pilots were Capt. Charles F. Burlingame and First Officer David Charlebois. 7:35 a.m. Hani Hanjour and two brothers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Salem al Hazmi, came to the same counter. 7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, which was on a Boeing 767 piloted by Capt. John Ogonowski and First Officer Thomas McGuinnes, leaves Boston for Los Angeles. Aboard are 76 passengers, 11 crew members and five hijackers. 8:14 a.m. Terrorists hijack Flight 11 over Massachusetts, using knives, Mace and the threat of a bomb. 8:15 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 leaves Boston for Los Angeles with 51 passengers, nine crew members and five men who hijack the plane during its takeoff. The flight is on a Boeing 767 piloted by Capt. Victor Saracini and First Officer Michael Horrocks. 8:19 a.m. Betty Ann Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, uses an inflight phone to contact the airlines’ ground personnel and report the hijacking. She tells them the cockpit can’t be reached and that two flight attendants were stabbed. The call happens shortly after a hijacker stabs passenger Daniel Lewin, who's sitting in front of the hijacker in first class, where two hijackers are also sitting. Lewin is believed to be the first person killed on 9/11. 8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 leaves Washington Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew members. The hijacking happens as the plane takes off. 8:21 a.m. Hijackers turn off an American Airlines Flight transponder, which is what permits traffic control to identify a plane and its flight path. 8:24 a.m. Hijacker Mohamed Atta tries to communicate with the passengers and crew on American Airlines Flight 11, but presses the wrong number and unknowingly gives information about the attacks to air traffic control. Minutes later, Atta inadvertently contacts ground control again. 8:30 a.m. About 80 people come to the World Trade Center to attend a financial technology conference on the North Tower’s 106th floor. There are also 72 restaurant staff members preparing for the conference and breakfast service. 8:32 a.m. Flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney, who’s on Flight 11, reports the hijacking to a friend on the ground - a manager of Boston Logan International Airport. During the last minutes of her life, Sweeney provides her friend with details about the hijackers. 8:37 a.m. The U.S. Air Force’s Northeast Air Defense Sector gets an alert from the Boston Air Traffic Control Center, which hears hijacker Mohamed Atta’s transmissions. 8:42 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, leaves Newark International Airport in New Jersey for San Francisco with seven crew members, 33 passengers and four hijackers. The pilots are Capt. Jason Dahl and First Officer LeRoy Homer Jr. 8:46 a.m. Terrorists controlling Flight 11 crash the American Airlines jet into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Everyone on the plane and hundreds inside the tower die instantly. At the same time, firefighters, police and paramedics rush to the tower, where an evacuation of survivors has begun. 8:50 a.m. Before President George W. Bush enters a second-grade classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., he's told about a plane crashing into the North Tower. Bush and his advisers assume the crash is an accident. 8:50-8:54 a.m. Five hijackers take control of Flight 77 above southern Ohio. 8:51 a.m. Hijackers take control of United Airlines Flight 175. 8:52 a.m. A flight attendant, believed to be Robert John Fangman, is on Flight 175. Fangman reaches a United Airlines operator in San Francisco and reports the hijacking. 8:55 a.m. The South Tower at the World Trade Center is declared secure. A Port Authority fire safety employee goes on the public address system and tells people there is no need to evacuate. 8:59 a.m. Port Authority Police Department Sgt. Al DeVona orders both towers evacuated. 9:03 a.m. Terrorists controlling Flight 175 crash the United Airlines jet into the South Tower. As that happens, the New York City Police Department increases its deployment to almost 2,000 officers, and the New York City Fire Department deploys several hundred additional firefighters to the World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at the police department’s command post near the World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. At the school in Florida, second-graders are reading aloud from the book "The Pet Goat" as President George Bush sits and listens. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card walks over, leans down and whispers to Bush, "A second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack." Bush stays in his seat and continues to listen to the children read for several minutes. After the reading ends, Bush walks into another room to make phone calls and brief staff. He later explains he didn't want to create a panic among the students and media in the classroom. 9:28 a.m. Four hijackers take control of United Airlines Flight 93 above northern Ohio. 9:30 a.m. A Secret Service agent’s report of possible additional hijacked planes leads to the evacuation of the U.S. Office of Emergency Management’s headquarters at 7 World Trade Center. 9:30 a.m. At the school in Sarasota, Fla., President Bush delivers televised remarks and calls the attacks a "national tragedy." He reports he spoke with Vice President Dick Cheney, New York Gov. George Pataki, FBI Director Robert Mueller III and other officials. 9:35 a.m. Bush and his staff leave the elementary school for the drive to Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. 9:36 a.m. Vice President Dick Cheney is brought by Secret Service agents to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center below the White House. 9:37 a.m. Hijackers crash American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. All 64 people on the plane are killed. The crash and a fire it caused cost the lives of 125 military and civilian personnel on the ground. 9:42 a.m. All civilian flights in U.S. airspace are grounded by the FAA. 9:45 a.m. Evacuations are started at the U.S. Capitol, where both houses are in session. 9:54 a.m. Air Force One departs with President Bush and his advisers from Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. The president prefers to return to Washington, D.C., but his staff suggests Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana as a secure location. 9:59 a.m. As Americans across the nation watch in horror on TV, the World Trade Center’s South Tower collapses within 10 seconds after burning for 56 minutes. More than 800 civilians and first responders die. 10:03 a.m. Passengers and flight crew fight hijackers and take control of the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93. During the struggle, the Boeing jet crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pa., instead of what is believed to have been the hijackers' target: the Capitol. At the moment of the crash, the plane was 20 minutes away by air from Washington, D.C. 10:28 a.m. The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, after burning for 1 hour and 42 minutes. Also destroyed is the Marriott hotel at the base of the towers. More than 1,600 people are killed. 10:50 a.m. At the Pentagon, a fire caused by the jet crash causes five stories on the western side to collapse. 11:02 a.m. Mayor Giuliani orders evacuation of lower Manhattan. 11:45 a.m. Air Force Once lands at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. 12:16 p.m. The last commercial plane above the continental U.S. lands. Airspace is now completely closed. 2:50 p.m. Air Force One lands at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. That evening, Air Force One lands at Andrews Air Force Base, and Bush and his advisers leave by helicopter to the White House.
(The Center Square) - Terror struck America on Sept. 11, 2001, when 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four Boeing jets and turned them into missiles, killing almost 3,000 people. The hijackers arrived in the U.S. on tourist visas with cash and travelers checks they got in the Middle East. They enrolled in flight schools. Here’s what happened on that morning of 9/11, minute by minute. Details are from sources such as the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the Miller Center, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. the World Economic Forum and the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks. 5:45 a.m. Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al-Omari pass through a security screening at Portland International Airport in Maine and take a commuter flight to Boston Logan International Airport. 6 a.m. Polls open in New York City for the primary election. 6:45 a.m. Atta and Omari arrive at the Boston airport. Atta, Omari, Satam al Suqami, Wail al Shehri and Waleed al Shehri board American Airlines Flight 11. At another terminal at the airport, Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohand al Shehri, Ahmed al Ghamdi, and Hamza al Ghamdi board United Airlines Flight 175, on a Boeing 767 piloted by Captain Victor Saracini and First Officer Michael Horrocks. 7:15 a.m. Khalid al Mihdhar and Majed Moqed checked in at the American Airlines ticket counter for Flight 77 at Dulles International Airport in the Washington, D.C. area. The plane was a Boeing 757, and the pilots were Capt. Charles F. Burlingame and First Officer David Charlebois. 7:35 a.m. Hani Hanjour and two brothers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Salem al Hazmi, came to the same counter. 7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, which was on a Boeing 767 piloted by Capt. John Ogonowski and First Officer Thomas McGuinnes, leaves Boston for Los Angeles. Aboard are 76 passengers, 11 crew members and five hijackers. 8:14 a.m. Terrorists hijack Flight 11 over Massachusetts, using knives, Mace and the threat of a bomb. 8:15 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 leaves Boston for Los Angeles with 51 passengers, nine crew members and five men who hijack the plane during its takeoff. The flight is on a Boeing 767 piloted by Capt. Victor Saracini and First Officer Michael Horrocks. 8:19 a.m. Betty Ann Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, uses an inflight phone to contact the airlines’ ground personnel and report the hijacking. She tells them the cockpit can’t be reached and that two flight attendants were stabbed. The call happens shortly after a hijacker stabs passenger Daniel Lewin, who's sitting in front of the hijacker in first class, where two hijackers are also sitting. Lewin is believed to be the first person killed on 9/11. 8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 leaves Washington Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew members. The hijacking happens as the plane takes off. 8:21 a.m. Hijackers turn off an American Airlines Flight transponder, which is what permits traffic control to identify a plane and its flight path. 8:24 a.m. Hijacker Mohamed Atta tries to communicate with the passengers and crew on American Airlines Flight 11, but presses the wrong number and unknowingly gives information about the attacks to air traffic control. Minutes later, Atta inadvertently contacts ground control again. 8:30 a.m. About 80 people come to the World Trade Center to attend a financial technology conference on the North Tower’s 106th floor. There are also 72 restaurant staff members preparing for the conference and breakfast service. 8:32 a.m. Flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney, who’s on Flight 11, reports the hijacking to a friend on the ground - a manager of Boston Logan International Airport. During the last minutes of her life, Sweeney provides her friend with details about the hijackers. 8:37 a.m. The U.S. Air Force’s Northeast Air Defense Sector gets an alert from the Boston Air Traffic Control Center, which hears hijacker Mohamed Atta’s transmissions. 8:42 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, leaves Newark International Airport in New Jersey for San Francisco with seven crew members, 33 passengers and four hijackers. The pilots are Capt. Jason Dahl and First Officer LeRoy Homer Jr. 8:46 a.m. Terrorists controlling Flight 11 crash the American Airlines jet into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Everyone on the plane and hundreds inside the tower die instantly. At the same time, firefighters, police and paramedics rush to the tower, where an evacuation of survivors has begun. 8:50 a.m. Before President George W. Bush enters a second-grade classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., he's told about a plane crashing into the North Tower. Bush and his advisers assume the crash is an accident. 8:50-8:54 a.m. Five hijackers take control of Flight 77 above southern Ohio. 8:51 a.m. Hijackers take control of United Airlines Flight 175. 8:52 a.m. A flight attendant, believed to be Robert John Fangman, is on Flight 175. Fangman reaches a United Airlines operator in San Francisco and reports the hijacking. 8:55 a.m. The South Tower at the World Trade Center is declared secure. A Port Authority fire safety employee goes on the public address system and tells people there is no need to evacuate. 8:59 a.m. Port Authority Police Department Sgt. Al DeVona orders both towers evacuated. 9:03 a.m. Terrorists controlling Flight 175 crash the United Airlines jet into the South Tower. As that happens, the New York City Police Department increases its deployment to almost 2,000 officers, and the New York City Fire Department deploys several hundred additional firefighters to the World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at the police department’s command post near the World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. At the school in Florida, second-graders are reading aloud from the book "The Pet Goat" as President George Bush sits and listens. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card walks over, leans down and whispers to Bush, "A second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack." Bush stays in his seat and continues to listen to the children read for several minutes. After the reading ends, Bush walks into another room to make phone calls and brief staff. He later explains he didn't want to create a panic among the students and media in the classroom. 9:28 a.m. Four hijackers take control of United Airlines Flight 93 above northern Ohio. 9:30 a.m. A Secret Service agent’s report of possible additional hijacked planes leads to the evacuation of the U.S. Office of Emergency Management’s headquarters at 7 World Trade Center. 9:30 a.m. At the school in Sarasota, Fla., President Bush delivers televised remarks and calls the attacks a "national tragedy." He reports he spoke with Vice President Dick Cheney, New York Gov. George Pataki, FBI Director Robert Mueller III and other officials. 9:35 a.m. Bush and his staff leave the elementary school for the drive to Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. 9:36 a.m. Vice President Dick Cheney is brought by Secret Service agents to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center below the White House. 9:37 a.m. Hijackers crash American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. All 64 people on the plane are killed. The crash and a fire it caused cost the lives of 125 military and civilian personnel on the ground. 9:42 a.m. All civilian flights in U.S. airspace are grounded by the FAA. 9:45 a.m. Evacuations are started at the U.S. Capitol, where both houses are in session. 9:54 a.m. Air Force One departs with President Bush and his advisers from Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. The president prefers to return to Washington, D.C., but his staff suggests Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana as a secure location. 9:59 a.m. As Americans across the nation watch in horror on TV, the World Trade Center’s South Tower collapses within 10 seconds after burning for 56 minutes. More than 800 civilians and first responders die. 10:03 a.m. Passengers and flight crew fight hijackers and take control of the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93. During the struggle, the Boeing jet crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pa., instead of what is believed to have been the hijackers' target: the Capitol. At the moment of the crash, the plane was 20 minutes away by air from Washington, D.C. 10:28 a.m. The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, after burning for 1 hour and 42 minutes. Also destroyed is the Marriott hotel at the base of the towers. More than 1,600 people are killed. 10:50 a.m. At the Pentagon, a fire caused by the jet crash causes five stories on the western side to collapse. 11:02 a.m. Mayor Giuliani orders evacuation of lower Manhattan. 11:45 a.m. Air Force Once lands at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. 12:16 p.m. The last commercial plane above the continental U.S. lands. Airspace is now completely closed. 2:50 p.m. Air Force One lands at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. That evening, Air Force One lands at Andrews Air Force Base, and Bush and his advisers leave by helicopter to the White House.
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