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Complete 911 Timeline

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  1. 2001-09-11 10:28 a.m. September 11, 2001: WTC North Tower Collapses
  2. 2001-09-11 After 10:28 a.m. September 11, 2001: FBI Establishes a Temporary Field Office in Manhattan
  3. 2001-09-11 (After 10:28 a.m.-12:00 pm.) September 11, 2001: Mayor Giuliani Establishes Temporary Headquarters
  4. 2001-09-11 10:28 a.m. September 11, 2001: WTC 7 Damaged When North Tower Collapses
  5. 2001-09-11 (10:28 a.m.-5:20 p.m.) September 11, 2001: WTC 7 Suffers Fires ‘on at Least 10 Floors’
  6. 2001-09-11 (1:02 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Mayor Giuliani Orders Evacuation of Southern Manhattan
  7. 2001-09-11 1:02 p.m. September 11, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Calls for War; President Bush Says There Will be a Counterattack
  8. 2001-09-11 (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Medevac Helicopter Provides Scare for Bunkered Vice President Cheney and Others
  9. 2001-09-11 After 10:30 a.m. September 11, 2001: Suspicious Man Found in the WTC Is Passed on to the FBI, but the Detective Who Arrested Him Is Told to Keep Quiet
  10. 2001-09-11 (After 10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Situation Room Staffers Are Alerted to a Supposed Hijacked Plane that Turns Out Not to Exist
  11. 2001-09-11 (Between 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Condoleezza Rice Speaks to British Ambassador; Wonders If Iraq Involved in 9/11
  12. 2001-09-11 (10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Works on Rules of Engagement for Fighter Pilots, Too Late to Be of Any Use
  13. 2001-09-11 (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Missing Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Finally Enters NMCC
  14. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Second Pair of Non-Alert Fighters Takes Off from Otis Air Base
  15. 2001-09-11 (After 10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Some White House Staffers Are Unaware of the Terrorist Attacks and Have Not Evacuated
  16. 2001-09-11 (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Park Police Helicopter Responds to Flood of Reported Emergencies around Washington
  17. 2001-09-11 (10:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: First FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Teams Arrive in New York
  18. 2001-09-11 (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Receives Phone Call in Which Caller Threatens Air Force One
  19. 2001-09-11 (After 10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Gate Agent Has Singled Out Boarding Passes of Suspicious Flight 93 Passengers
  20. 2001-09-11 10:30 p.m. September 11, 2001: Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Myers Holds a ‘War Council’ with the Senior Directors of the Joint Staff
  21. 2001-09-11 (Between 9:55 a.m. and 10:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Acting Joint Chiefs Chairman Myers Finally Enters NMCC; Prior Whereabouts Disputed
  22. 2001-09-11 (10:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Commander Wants Fighters Launched in Response to Aircraft Approaching Washington, Supposedly Flight 93
  23. 2001-09-11 (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Director Finally Takes Over from Stand-In
  24. 2001-09-11 September 11, 2001 and After: Bush Administration Misses Dozens of Counterterrorism Deadlines Set by Congress
  25. 2001-09-11 (10:31 a.m.-10:47 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NEADS Concerned about Convoy of Military Aircraft Approaching US
  26. 2001-09-11 (Between 10:31 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Counselor Hughes Is Unable to Reach President Bush on Air Force One
  27. 2001-09-11 10:31 a.m. September 11, 2001: Military and Law Enforcement Flights Resume
  28. 2001-09-11 10:31 a.m. September 11, 2001: NORAD Passes on Shootdown Order to Its Air Defense Sectors
  29. 2001-09-11 10:32 a.m. September 11, 2001: Cheney Warns Bush of Apparent Threat to Air Force One; Official Account Murky, Disbelieved by Many
  30. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 10:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001: CIA’s Counterterrorist Center Director Is Unable to Provide Much Information about the Attacks
  31. 2001-09-11 (10:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Asks about the Palestinian Group that Supposedly Claimed Responsibility for the Terrorist Attacks
  32. 2001-09-11 (Shortly After 10:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001: FAA Controller Passes on Shootdown Authorization to Toledo Fighters, Because NEADS Cannot Reach Them
  33. 2001-09-11 10:32 a.m. September 11, 2001: NEADS Personnel Confused over Meaning of Shootdown Order, Do Not Pass It on to Fighters
  34. 2001-09-11 Between 10:32 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001: Russian President Calls the White House
  35. 2001-09-11 (10:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Again Calls DC Air National Guard and Requests Fighters
  36. 2001-09-11 (10:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Heads for Louisiana on Air Force One, Following Warning from Cheney and Rice
  37. 2001-09-11 (After 10:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Otis Fighters Intercept Military Cargo Plane Returning from England
  38. 2001-09-11 (11:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Unarmed Fighters Intercept US Military Aircraft Returning from Europe
  39. 2001-09-11 (10:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Possibly Hijacked Aircraft Flying toward Air Force One
  40. 2001-09-11 (10:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Permitted to Shoot Down Threatening Planes over Washington
  41. 2001-09-11 (10:37 a.m.-11:09 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Plane Incorrectly Reported to Have Crashed at Camp David
  42. 2001-09-11 (10:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Notified that His Wife and Daughters Are at Safe Locations
  43. 2001-09-11 (10:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Fighter Recalled from Training Takes Off to Defend Washington
  44. 2001-09-11 10:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: FAA Closes All US Airports
  45. 2001-09-11 10:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Brings Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Up to Date, but Errs about Pilot Knowledge of Shootdown Order
  46. 2001-09-11 10:39 a.m.-10:45 a.m. September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Jet Searches Unsuccessfully for Approaching Aircraft, then Inspects Pentagon
  47. 2001-09-11 10:40 a.m. September 11, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft Ignores FAA Order for His Plane to Land
  48. 2001-09-11 (10:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: First Fighter Seen Arriving over the Pentagon
  49. 2001-09-11 (10:40 a.m.-11:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Refuses to Leave Military Command Center, against Established Emergency Plan
  50. 2001-09-11 10:41 a.m. September 11, 2001: Cheney Calls Bush, Warns Him against Returning to Washington