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BEIJING (Reuters) - American tourist Nicholas Burkhead said he'd be happy to return to his latest holiday destination, with its beautiful scenery, great food and friendly people.

The problem is, the destination was North Korea and a U.S. State Department ban on travel to the isolated country takes effect on Friday.

Burkhead, a 35-year-old from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was among the last American tourists to leave North Korea, landing on Thursday in Beijing.

"I was surprised at how friendly everyone was," Burkhead said after stepping off the last scheduled flight to Beijing from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, before the U.S. travel ban kicks in.

"It was very relaxing - beautiful scenery and they fed us very well in the restaurants there, but the exchange rate wasn't too good for the local won," he told a waiting scrum of reporters.

Burkhead arrived in Beijing on North Korea's state-owned Air Koryo after visiting Pyongyang as well as the city of Kaesong near the heavily armed border with South Korea. His five-day tour cost 1,850 euros ($2,200).

Other Americans on the flight included two aid workers as well as Jamie Banfill, 32, who had led tours to North Korea but was visiting this time as a tourist.

Banfill, who had made the trip to say goodbyes after regularly traveling to the North for a decade, said the travel ban short-sighted.

"It's an extremely complex situation on the Korean peninsula and they oversimplified it," he said.

The United States last month announced a ban on U.S. passport holders from traveling to North Korea, effective Sept. 1. Journalists and humanitarian workers are allowed to apply for exemptions under the ban, which is similar to previous U.S. restrictions on travel to Iraq and Libya.

Heidi Linton, director of Christian Friends of Korea, who has been working in North Korea for more than 20 years, told reporters she worried about the people her aid group helped, if her exemption was not granted soon.

"We started a hepatitis B program and we have 705 patients that have been started on life-saving medicine, that if they go off that medicine then their lives are in danger," she said.

It was not immediately clear how many Americans had sought, or been granted, exemptions or how many were still in North Korea. An official at the state department said it was not able to give an estimate on the number of U.S. citizens there.

PRESSURE GROWS

North Korea is under growing international pressure over its nuclear tests and repeated ballistic missile launches, including one this week that flew over northern Japan.

The U.S. ban on travel to North Korea followed the death of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier, who was jailed during a tour last year.

Warmbier, who was sentenced to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal a propaganda sign, was returned to the United States in a coma in June and died six days later. The circumstances surrounding his death are not clear, including why he fell into a coma.

Warmbier had been detained leaving the airport in Pyongyang.

"I was expecting a strict security check on exit but there was nothing like that," Burkhead said.

The State Department declared U.S. passports invalid for travel to, in or through North Korea. The restriction applies for one year unless extended or revoked by the secretary of state.

North Korean state media has described the ban as a "sordid" attempt to limit human exchanges.

North Korea is currently holding two Korean-American academics and a missionary, as well as three South Korean nationals who were doing missionary work.

This month, North Korea released a Canadian pastor who had been imprisoned there for more than two years.

Hundreds of Americans are among the 4,000 to 5,000 Western tourists who visit North Korea annually, according to U.S. lawmaker Joe Wilson.

For a graphic on Americans detained in North Korea, click: here

Additional reporting by James Pearson in SEOUL and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Editing by Lincoln Feast, Robert Birsel

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BEIJING (Reuters) - American tourist Nicholas Burkhead said he'd be happy to return to his latest holiday destination, with its beautiful scenery, great food and friendly people. The problem is, the destination was North Korea and a U.S. State Department ban on travel to the isolated country takes effect on Friday.

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In Peru, they are releasing 500,000 new born turtles into the Amazon River. The article talks about how this will help the environment and how these turtle will help.

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The yellow-spotted Amazon River turtles -- known by their local name, Taricaya -- are protected by Peruvian authorities and are considered a vulnerable species.

Over the weekend, 17,000 baby turtles were released, the first in the series of three releases in a protected area in northeastern Peru's Amazon River Basin.

Many local residents came out to watch and help release the turtles back into their natural habitat.

Authorities hope the program will help conserve the vulnerable species for many years to come. Volunteers and employees from Peru's National Service of Protected Natural Areas by the State (SERNANP) collected the turtle eggs throughout the month of August and cared for them in makeshift habitats during the 70 days they take to hatch.

Once they hatch, they get released back into the basins.

Authorities and volunteers started releasing the baby turtles on October 15 and will continue until November 15.

The yellow-spotted Amazon River turtle can live up to 70 years, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Adult females can weigh more than 6 pounds and measure 27 inches long.

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The yellow-spotted Amazon River turtles -- known by their local name, Taricaya -- are protected by Peruvian authorities and are considered a vulnerable species. Over the weekend, 17,000 baby turtles were released, the first in the series of three releases in a protected area in northeastern Peru's Amazon River Basin.

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Trump is trying to pass and fix bills and laws, but some republicans denying the change. The article talks about the conflicts that the US is having in it's government.

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More Trump may not be the answer to Republican disagreement in Congress

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As President Trump prepares to speak to a joint session of Congress tonight, his fellow party members are, according to media reports, hoping that he "grab[s] the bully pulpit" and "sketch[es] a cl...

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North Korea is launching missile trying to show the US that they are a threat. The article says that North Korea is trying to make a point and scare countries.

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In Ohio heroin is becoming a very big and increasing topic. Heroin deaths are on the rise according to the article.

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Heroin-themed plays have surfaced elsewhere recently, too: at a high school in New Market, Md.; a community theater in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; and a children's theater in Roanoke, Va. And on Broadway this spring, the new play "Sweat" - which won the Pulitzer Prize in drama in April - featured two characters who abuse heroin in working-class Reading, Pa.

The author, Lynn Nottage, spent time there, doing research for the play and learning more about the opioid menace. She said similarities between the theatrical responses to the heroin and AIDS crises were striking.

"It was true of AIDS that a lot of breakthrough conversations surfaced when the AIDS crisis was put onstage," said Ms. Nottage, who said her uncle had died of a heroin overdose. "It gave people an outlet and permitted them to sit in the theater spaces and have catharsis. I think it's going to be true of the heroin epidemic."

For Emelia Sherin of Warren, Ohio, it was after the eighth person from her high school died that she and a friend, Zach Manthey, 22, decided to write a play. In working-class Trumbull County, where Warren is, there were 82 overdoses, 10 of them fatal, in two weeks this year.

Onstage, "when you have someone in front of you, showing you the effect that this epidemic has, it opens your eyes," said Ms. Sherin, 20. "Confrontation is key to communication."

The result is "(In)dependent: The Heroin Project," a drama based on some 50 interviews with heroin users, counselors, family members and others that runs through Saturday at the Akron Civic Theater. The Akron area has been particularly hard hit, with the Akron Board of Education's recently voting to stock the anti-overdose drug Narcan in middle and high schools this fall.

Ms. Sherin and Mr. Manthey's play is a docu-theater piece - similar in style to "The Laramie Project," about the murder of Matthew Shepard - with characters that include a Mormon convert, a drag queen and a father in Narcotics Anonymous. Heroin itself takes the stage as a female character, "like a Siren," Mr. Manthey said.

"When I talked to current or recovering addicts, they would compare heroin to a girl or a relationship," said Ms. Sherin, a young woman with inquiring eyes who, seated next to the towering Mr. Manthey at Scribbles coffee shop here recently, talked about their play with seriousness and passion. "They would always refer to her as her. I asked them, 'Why do you keep saying her?' And they say would say, 'Because she's so beautiful.'"

At the Dobama Theater, Mr. Motta recently directed "How to Be a Respectable Junkie," a one-man show based on interviews by the playwright, Greg Vovos, with a recovering heroin user. The Cleveland Plain Dealer called it "raw, eloquent and deeply moving."

Although "How to Be a Respectable Junkie" closed in July, Mr. Vovos, 45, said that he hoped future productions would "put a real face on the people who are struggling."

"If you arm people with understanding, that's a good thing," said Mr. Vovos, the author of two other heroin-themed plays that have been mounted in Cleveland. "Before you solve a problem, you have to wrap your mind around it."

Portrayals of heroin frequently appear in pop culture. Heroin addicts have jolted through films like "The Panic in Needle Park" and "Trainspotting"; TV shows like "Girls" and "Orange Is the New Black"; and the Broadway musicals "Rent" (which also features H.I.V.-positive characters) and "American Idiot."

But unlike New York or Hollywood, Ohio has a relatively low bar for those seeking to make art: Grab a script and a stage, and it's cheap to put on a show. Community theater and college drama groups offer an expeditious outlet for artists, many of them novices. Ms. Sherin and Mr. Manthey are students at Kent State University; Mr. Vovos studied playwriting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and works at American Greetings in suburban Cleveland.

There are important differences between the AIDS and heroin plays, of course. AIDS devastated gay New York, at the center of the theater world, and hit people in that industry particularly hard. AIDS claimed the lives of many theater artists, like the playwright Scott McPherson, who died at 33 and whose black comedy "Marvin's Room" is now on Broadway. Many AIDS-themed plays were set in cities, while many of today's heroin plays are about local communities and, for the most part, have not received wide exposure.

What the genres share are calls to action and awareness. The Living Theater in New York sounded an alarm about heroin abuse in 1959 when it mounted "The Connection," Jack Gelber's experimental and incendiary portrayal of heroin users that shocked audiences. A doctor in "The Normal Heart" says, "You've got to warn the living, protect the healthy, help them keep on living."

"If you're trying to write about the world we live in, you ignore what's going on at your peril," said the playwright Jonathan Tolins ("Buyer & Cellar"), who has written several plays with characters coping with AIDS and its footprint.

It's too soon to know if heroin plays will have the lasting power of award-winning works like "Angels in America," which is currently being revived in London with a starry cast that includes Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane. "The Normal Heart," like "Angels," was made into an HBO movie. The recent Broadway revival of William Finn's musical "Falsettos," written during the height of the AIDS crisis, received five Tony Award nominations.

In Akron, Howard Parr, the executive director of the Civic Theater, doesn't have time to think about Tonys. He knows he's taking a risk mounting Ms. Sherin and Mr. Manthey's play as part of a theater project featuring topical works by local millennial writers. He's paying the bills with escapist shows like "The Rocky Horror Show" and "The Luther Vandross Experience."

But many members of his ticket-buying base are reeling because of heroin. Some Buckeye State businesses are having a hard time finding workers who can pass drug tests. The situation has been likened to "an ongoing terrorist attack," as one Ohio newspaper editor recently put it.

What Mr. Parr can offer, as AIDS plays did for so many theatergoers in pain, is a kind of safe house.

"Our job as a theater is to reflect the community," he said. "There are many things that are happy, and we will keep doing those things. But some things in the community are not happy. This is one of them."

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This news article shows the recent news from Houston. It says that families are starting to go back into their homes.

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"Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God," Ms. Cade, 62, softly repeated as she again walked the perimeter of the house. "This is overwhelming. Everything is thrown everywhere."

It was uncertain how many of this region's residents have tried to return home since the storm, but Houston officials said the numbers in shelters were dropping. The George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston's main shelter, was housing fewer than 8,000 evacuees by late Thursday, down from about 10,000.

"I do want people to exercise caution if they are leaving the shelters and returning home," Mayor Sylvester Turner said late Thursday, "or if they sought lodging someplace else and are returning home. They just need to be extra careful when they are returning."

The process of going home had its own complications, given all that this city has been through. Local and state authorities issued an array of cautions: Do not eating anything that had come into contact with floodwaters; check for wildlife, including snakes; and visit homes in daylight.

And they have been passing around advice for disinfecting soaked furniture: one cup of bleach to five gallons of water.

"It's dirty water," said Dr. David E. Persse, the public health authority for the City of Houston.

State Senator John Whitmire, who represents part of Houston, said residents were eager to see their homes.

"Every human emotion ever found in a society is being experienced," Mr. Whitmire said. "They realize how lucky they are to be alive, in many instances. You've got to have priorities: Their priority was one of survival and breathing. Now they want to get back to normal as much as possible."

Some went home and moved back in. Others made calls to contractors and landlords, planning repairs. Still others carried out wedding photographs or clothes, then headed back to shelters or the homes of relatives for what may be months. In many cases, the homes are not livable.

"We could only go in and get some clothing and food," said Marisela Arevalo, 25, who returned to her house in northeast Houston, but only briefly.

Standing on a flooded highway not far from her home, Ms. Arevalo said the water line in the house came up to her knees.

Tequoya Stewart-Miller, 30, saw her home for the first time since the flood on Thursday, rolling up to the peach-colored two-story house that she shares with her grandmother and other relatives in the Cypress Creek neighborhood, northwest of downtown.

The water had inundated the first story. Her strongest memory of the visit, she said, was the smell of the place: "mildew and death."

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Houston Residents, Heading Home, Find Scent of 'Mildew and Death'

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"Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God," Ms. Cade, 62, softly repeated as she again walked the perimeter of the house. "This is overwhelming. Everything is thrown everywhere." It was uncertain how many of this region's residents have tried to return home since the storm, but Houston officials said the numbers in shelters were dropping.

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9/11 was a serious event that affected many Americans. This was the worst terrorist attack in history.

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It sounded like a missile at first, the air above Washington filled with the terrifying roar of displaced air. Then the Pentagon was rocked by the thud of an explosion, and staff inside its fortified walls, who had been watching in horror the terrible images from New York, realised that the epicentre of US military might was also under attack.

The medium-sized jet had come in low over Arlington and the Navy Annexe, before screaming into the south-west face of the Pentagon around 9.30am.

"There was a huge noise and I got out of the car as the plane came over," said Afework Hagos, who was on his way to work but was stuck in a traffic jam near the Pentagon when the plane flew over.

"Everybody was running away in different directions. It was tilting its wings up and down like it was trying to balance. It hit some lampposts on the way in."

Omar Campo, who had been cutting the grass on the other side of the road when the plane flew over his head, said: "The whole ground shook and the whole area was full of fire. I could never imagine I would see anything like that here."

Barely 30 minutes after two other passenger jets had ploughed into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, the Washington attack tipped the US into a panic-fuelled state of siege. In that moment, what initially appeared to be a catastrophic but isolated terrorist outrage was transformed into an unprecedented full-frontal assault on America and its people.

From start to finish, the terrorist operation took barely three hours. In that time, those responsible managed to hijack four US airliners inside the supposedly well-guarded confines of US airspace and use them to reduce the country's two most important cities to war zone-like scenes of carnage.

By the time most east coast Americans had turned up at their desks, the operation was already well under way. Just after 8am, the terrorists had seized control of two airliners minutes after take-off from Logan airport in Boston. Another flight was hijacked shortly after leaving Washington Dulles, while the fourth had just left Newark, New Jersey.

But even after two of the jets had ploughed into the World Trade Centre less than an hour later, Americans still had no idea of the scale of devastation that was yet to unfold upon them. President George Bush was in Florida, visiting an elementary school where he had been reading stories with some of the pupils. As the scale of the carnage in New York became apparent, he cut the visit short and in a hastily convened news conference, announced that he was returning to Washington immediately.

But just as Mr Bush was appearing before the cameras, reports were emerging that another passenger plane had been hijacked. Military officials in Washington had been informed that the aircraft was heading in their direction from New York. Minutes later, the capital was thrown into chaos.

Tim Tinnerman, a pilot, watched as the airliner - which he said was an American Airlines Boeing 757 - hit the Pentagon. "It added power on its way in," he said. "The nose hit, and the wings came forward and it went up in a fireball."

"It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball," said Paul Begala, a consultant with the Democratic party. Another wit ness also claimed the blast had blown up a helicopter circling overhead.

Inside the building, there was pandemonium. Terrified civilian and military staff were screaming as a serious fire took hold.

Smoke and flames poured out of a large hole punched into the side of the Pentagon. Emergency crews rushed fire engines to the scene and ambulancemen ran towards the flames holding wooden pallets to carry bodies out. A few of the lightly injured, bleeding and covered in dust, were recovering on the lawn outside, some in civilian clothes, some in uniform. A piece of twisted aircraft fuselage lay nearby. No one knew how many people had been killed.

Red, yellow and green sectors had been established on a nearby road, prepared to handle the different degrees of casualties once victims were brought out, but rescue workers were finding it nearly impossible to get to people trapped inside, beaten back by the flames and falling debris.

"The fire was intense," Rear Admiral Craig Quigley, the Pentagon spokesman, told reporters in a makeshift briefing at a gasoline station across the street from the building.

"It's terrible in there," said one firefighter, Derek Spector, who was with one of the first units to arrive at the scene. "But we didn't come across any casualties."

The regular Pentagon helicopter pad was not usable, scattered with debris from the plane and the explosion. But helicopters were landing and taking off from a cordoned-off area nearby. Within minutes, ambulances and a busload of trauma experts arrived from the army's Walter Reed hospital in Washington.

Law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the plane that struck the Pentagon was the American Airlines jetliner that had taken off from Dulles on a scheduled flight to Los Angeles. Among the passengers was Barbara Olson, the wife of solicitor general Theodore Olson. Mrs Olson, a CNN commentator, had frantically called from her mobile phone to say her plane had been hijacked.

A spokesman for her husband later revealed she had not even been due to fly on the flight. "She flew a day early to make sure she could be at Ted's birthday," he said. "She called and said she was locked in the toilet and the plane had been hijacked. She said they had box-cutters and knives. They had rounded up the passengers at the back of the plane.

She referred to them as more than one. There was nothing she could do. She said to her husband: 'What do I do?'" The call ended seconds before the crash. Her husband, who had been George Bush's lawyer during the legal battle over the disputed presidential election, was said to be distraught.

The brunt of the impact had been taken by the third and fourth floors of the Pentagon's outer ring, which housed senior navy personnel, including three-star officers and vice admirals. There were also offices used by secretaries of the different armed services and the assistant secretaries. A Pentagon spokeswoman said the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, escaped unharmed.

High alert
Across the country, America began pulling up the drawbridges within minutes of the Pentagon attack. President Bush ordered US forces worldwide on to high alert status - force protection condition Delta - and the authorities immediately began deploying troops, including a regiment of light infantry, in Washington.

As the aviation authorities worked frantically to account for the safety of all airliners in domestic air space, every airport was closed down and all flights in US airspace were ordered to land. International flights en route to the US were diverted to Canada.

In Washington, all government buildings, including the state department, the Capitol building and the White House, had been evacuated after the New York attacks and the nine top leaders of the house and senate taken into federal protection. But as fears of further attacks spread, public buildings across the country were also evacuated as the government began shutting down national landmarks, including the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty and the St Louis Gateway Arch. Even Disneyworld in Orlando closed its doors.

On the streets of Washington, panic set in. People rushed from buildings and desperately tried to get to their children in schools and daycare centres to make sure they were safe. Drivers ran red lights and sped across intersections, sending pedestrians scattering in a bid to get out of the city. Police near the White House tried to direct traffic, but a few blocks away chaos reigned, thwarting the efforts of emergency vehicles.

Wailing sirens from fire engines, police patrols and ambulances mingled with car horns, whistles and human cries.

"We are all sitting ducks here. We can't get out of the city. If they want to bomb the city we are all just waiting," one federal employee said.

"I feel like they are getting closer and closer with every minute," said Leroy Hall, a World Bank worker.

Just after 10am, the situation worsened again. Five minutes after the first World Trade Centre tower collapsed in New York, masonry started falling from the Pentagon. Then, without warning, a 40-yard section collapsed leaving a yawning gap from which flames continued to shoot. Stanley St Clair stumbled along the road away from the vast building, covered in dust. He had been working on renovations on the first floor of the section which was struck by the plane.

"It shook the whole building and hurt our ears. Papers and furniture and debris just went flying through the hallway and I thought it was a bomb or something. Then someone started shouting get out, get out."

Renovation work on the upper floors had just been completed and they had been handed back to the defence department. "This is the second Pearl Harbour. I don't think that I overstate it," Senator Chuck Hagel told reporters.

At 10.15am, another alert was sounded in Washington. "Get them out of here. We've got another threat coming," a policemen yelled, pushing survivors back from the building. Another officer said a report had come in saying another plane was on its way into Washington.

US air force F-16 fighter jets were scrambled, one of them banking steeply around the Pentagon, as the air around the defence department began to buzz with military and police helicopters.

At 10.27am in New York, the second tower of the World Trade Centre came tumbling down.

Minutes later, news broke of another crash, this time around 80 miles south-east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At 9.58am, an emergency dispatcher had answered a telephone call from a man who said he was a passenger locked in a bathroom on United Airlines flight 93. "We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked," he told the dispatcher, while repeatedly insisting that the call was not a hoax. The plane was "going down", he said. He had heard some sort of explosion and said there was white smoke coming from the aircraft. Then the dispatcher lost him.

The plane, a Boeing 757, which had left Newark, New Jersey, at 8.01am with 45 passengers and crew on board bound for San Francisco, had crashed into fields north of Somerset County airport. There were no survivors. "There's a crater gorged in the earth, the plane is pretty much disintegrated. There's nothing left but scorched trees," said one local, Mark Stahl.

There was immediate speculation that the plane had been heading for another high-profile target: Camp David, the US presidential retreat, which lies in the Maryland mountains 85 miles south-east of the crash site.

By mid-morning, the wide and normally crowded bridges across the Potomac were deserted and the scene resembled a city at war: deserted streets, billowing smoke and warplanes circling above. An elderly man, Tom O'Riordan standing in the shade of a tree near the Jefferson Memorial said he had not seen anything like it since Pearl Harbour.

A mobile secret service command center raced west on H Street, with sirens blaring, shortly after 11am as police drew a growing perimeter around the White House. Metal gates and yellow tape blocked access to streets and alleys. People scrambled to find working pay phones or reach friends or family on cell phones.

At 11.30, police cars again screamed up and down the roads around the Pentagon ordering passers-by off the street. One officer said there had been another report of an incoming plane heading down the Potomac river at high speed.

By midday, local hospitals reported receiving 40 victims of the attack, with seven patients in critical condition admitted to one facility for treatment of burns. Long lines of blood donors queued up outside area hospitals. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the city's Roman Catholic leader, said an unusually large number of worshippers, between 3,000 and 4,000, attended Mass at the downtown cathedral as the enormity of the destruction began to sink in.

By then, America had virtually ground to a halt. Almost every aspect of life, from sports occasions to family events, had been put on hold as the nation struggled to come to terms with what had happened. For several hours, the volume of people using the telephone service had made it impossible for anyone outside the US to phone in, and with international flights diverted away from the country, it had closed itself off to the outside world.

It was mid-afternoon before details of the hijacked planes started to emerge. The first announcement came from American Airlines, which confirmed that it had lost flight 11 from Boston to LA with 92 passengers and crew and flight 77 from Washington Dulles to LA with 64 people on board. Shortly after, United announced that the plane which had crashed in Pennsylvania was its flight 93, a Boeing 757 which had been en route to San Francisco from Newark, New Jersey. It had also lost another plane, flight 175, a Boeing 767 from Boston to LA.

Dismay
Across the US, passengers queuing for flights and relatives waiting to meet arriving planes stood in airport lobbies staring at the arrival and departure monitors and listening with a growing sense of bewilderment and dismay to the announcements over the loudspeakers. Every major airport has had its rehearsals for disaster but not since Pearl Harbour had the country experienced such a widespread series of attacks.

Los Angeles International airport, the destination for three of the four hijacked flights, announced a suspension of operations as soon as it became clear what had happened. Worried callers were diverted to the lines of American Airlines and United, which were trying to supply information of who had been on the flights.

The airport itself was closed to the public and its operations suspended with only key staff allowed to remain. California governor Gray Davis made the National Guard available to assist.

Grief counsellors were called in by American Airlines and United to be ready to meet the friends and relatives of those on the flights. Switchboards were jammed as people tried to get information from the airport.

Lieutenant Howard Whitehead of the Los Angeles police said: "We are working with all the other agencies and a total evacuation of the airport has been ordered for precautionary reasons. Right now everything is fluid."
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It sounded like a missile at first, the air above Washington filled with the terrifying roar of displaced air. Then the Pentagon was rocked by the thud of an explosion, and staff inside its fortified walls, who had been watching in horror the terrible images from New York, realised that the epicentre of US military might was also under attack.

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This an impact article because the hurricane is costing people millions. In the article it talks about how the hurricane impacted people physically and financially.

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On the other hand, crude oil prices fell as traders anticipated that demand would fall, with fewer refineries open and able to take delivery of the crude.

"It may take weeks for refineries to repair and replace damaged equipment," Mr. Dye said. "Port facilities have also been damaged, and this may result in an export bottleneck."

Indeed, with the Port of Houston and Corpus Christi's smaller port directly in the storm's path, a key logistics hub for the south-central United States is set to be out of commission for days, if not weeks.

Nearly half of the exports from Houston consist of resins, plastics, chemicals and minerals, reflecting the concentration of the nation's petrochemical industry on the Gulf Coast. Major imports flowing through the port include food, construction materials, machinery and retail consumer goods.

Ellen Zentner, chief United States economist at Morgan Stanley, said that although Hurricane Harvey's impact on national gross domestic product in the third quarter might be fairly neutral, "the lagged effects of rebuilding homes and replacing motor vehicles can lost longer," providing a lift to gross domestic product in the fourth quarter and beyond.

On the other hand, an extended rise in gasoline prices could have a more immediate effect. Each 10-cent rise in the price of gasoline is equivalent to a $10 billion tax on consumers, Ms. Zentner said, so "should higher prices be sustained, it would rob other categories of spending as dollars are diverted to filling tanks."

Similarly, a lengthy outage at petrochemical facilities that produce the raw materials for plastic, like polyethylene, could also raise prices for a range of goods, including toys, garbage bags and PVC pipe.

"It's definitely going to cause some dislocations in the wholesale market for plastics components," said Chris Lafakis, director at Moody's Analytics. "This is a huge hub for petrochemicals."

The economic impact of the storm will not be clear with any degree of accuracy for a while. But given Houston's commercial importance - and its perch along a well-trod hurricane zone - economists and others have long taken it for granted that an epic storm would hit the region eventually, so have a head start on the numbers.

About two years ago, Ray Perryman, the head of an economic analysis firm, looked at the hypothetical economic damage that would be wrought if storms of various sizes and magnitudes hit coastal Texas. The estimates ranged from around $11 billion to $80 billion - and the earliest estimates suggest this disaster will be on the upper end of that range.

Moody's Analytics estimates that the damage will be $40 billion to $50 billion. The first and smaller set of losses - less than $10 billion - will come from things that do not happen: homes not purchased, sales not closed, gas not bought or shipped. The second and larger set of losses, totaling tens of billions, will come from property damage.

"Things are too preliminary to know at this point, but I would expect Harvey to be one of the two most costly in history when all is said and done," said Mr. Perryman, chief executive of the Perryman Group of Waco, Tex.

The damage, while serious and expensive, is likely to be a fraction of the $130 billion in damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. Katrina was one of the worst disasters in American history, and the final toll, human and economic, was staggering. When the levees broke, flooding was sudden and immediate and eventually killed close to 2,000 people.

The flooding from Harvey appears to be spread over a bigger area that had more time to mobilize, suggesting that the number of deaths will be far lower, Mr. Perryman said. Hurricane Katrina appeared to have had a greater impact on oil production and refining.

The Gulf Coast of Texas is also more prosperous and populous than New Orleans. And despite wobbly oil prices, local job growth has accelerated, along with continued improvement in home sales and construction. The number of Texas oil rigs has been rising over the past year, giving a big lift to exploration and chemical manufacturing jobs.

So far, the storm seems to have damaged things that can be replenished or replaced relatively quickly. Houston has huge amounts of economic assets that appear to be largely undamaged and are unlikely to be offline for much time.

Moreover, factories and refineries are rarely running at full capacity, and as they come back online, they can ramp up production to meet the backlogs that accrue. "Businesses have stockpiles and the ability to catch up," said Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of Beacon Economics, a consulting firm.

As the floodwaters drain away and Texas shifts to clean-up mode, followed by a mammoth effort to replace what was lost, the daily modes of commerce will shift but not stop. Disruptions, displacement and property damage are quickly followed by federal aid and insurance checks.

"This is going to be disruptive, but the Houston economy will overcome it very quickly, just like other regions," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

In fact, when natural disasters do show up in economic data, it is usually as a small growth bump a few months after the storm, when rebuilding accelerates and insurance checks are cut.

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Hurricane to Cost Tens of Billions, but a Quick Recovery Is Expected

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On the other hand, crude oil prices fell as traders anticipated that demand would fall, with fewer refineries open and able to take delivery of the crude. "It may take weeks for refineries to repair and replace damaged equipment," Mr. Dye said. "Port facilities have also been damaged, and this may result in an export bottleneck."