Preserving 9/11 at Ground Zero
By Tim Sumner
In the Washington Times:. Saving all things September 11 was a mission embraced from the time of the attacks by professional archivists and grass-roots collectors. Archivists immediately set out to compile the most complete picture ever
Yesterday no potential human remains were recovered.
Totals through 4/29 1374
785 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
371- Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)
8 - Liberty Street
1 - West Street
NEW SEARCH
Remains recovered 1374
Remains sent for testing 0
DNA extracted 0
Matches 0
WTC Items Recovered 0
ORIGINAL SEARCH
Remains Recovered Over 20,000
Remains sent for testing NA
DNA extracted NA
Matches 1598
Remains tested with new process NA
DNA Extracted NA
Matches 11
WTC Items Recovered NA
(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)
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Yesterday no potential human remains were recovered. Totals through 4/281374
785 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
371- Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)
8 - Liberty Street
1 - West Street
NEW SEARCH
Remains recovered 1374
Remains sent for testing 0
DNA extracted 0
Matches 0
WTC Items Recovered 0
ORIGINAL SEARCH
Remains Recovered Over 20,000
Remains sent for testing NA
DNA extracted NA
Matches 1598
Remains tested with new process NA
DNA Extracted NA
Matches 11
WTC Items Recovered NA
(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)
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Yesterday 3 potential human remains were recovered from the Haul Road.
Totals through 4/27
1374
785 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
371- Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)
8 - Liberty Street
1 - West Street
NEW SEARCH
Remains recovered 1374
Remains sent for testing 0
DNA extracted 0
Matches 0
WTC Items Recovered 0
ORIGINAL SEARCH
Remains Recovered Over 20,000
Remains sent for testing NA
DNA extracted NA
Matches 1598
Remains tested with new process NA
DNA Extracted NA
Matches 11
WTC Items Recovered NA
(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 2007
CONTACT: Shin Inouye
202-225-5635
Nadler Rallies 22 Reps. To Push For 9/11 Health Funding
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-0
today rallied 22 Representatives, most from the New York City metro region, to ask the Chairman and Ranking Member of a key House Appropriations Subcommittee to commit more than $282 million for the World Trade Center Monitoring and Treatment Program in their 2008 appropriations bill. In their letter, the members also encourage the development of a comprehensive approach to 9/11 health that would include residents, non-first responder workers and school children. This request is a follow up to a similar request made by Rep. Nadler earlier this year.
“We have an obligation to provide for the monitoring and treatment for those brave first responders who were exposed to toxins at the World Trade Center,” said Rep. Nadler. “The President’s $25 million ‘placeholder’ in the budget is simply not enough. In the days after 9/11, first-responders came to New York from around the country to help in any way they could. The least we must do now is help those that have since become sick and need treatment. Furthermore, we still need to fund the health needs of residents, non-first responder workers and school children.”
A copy of the letter is available at: http://www.house.gov/nadler/pdf/20070427072945350.pdf
The Members of Congress who signed the letter are:
1. Rep. Jerrold Nadler
2. Rep. Gary L. Ackerman
3. Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez
4. Rep. Michael R. McNulty
5. Rep. Edolphus Towns
6. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy
7. Rep. Eliot L. Engel
8. Rep. Gregory W. Meeks
9. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke
10. Rep. Joseph Crowley
11. Rep. Nita M. Lowey
12. Rep. Anthony D. Weiner
13. Rep. Michael A. Arcuri
14. Rep. Kristen E. Gillibrand
15. Rep. Charles B. Rangel
16. Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter
17. Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey
18. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr.
19. Rep. Steve Israel
20. Rep. Timothy H. Bishop
21. Rep. John J. Hall
22. Rep. Phil Hare
23. Rep. Brian Higgins
For Immediate Release
April 27, 2007
Contact:
Meghan O’Shaughnessy (Maloney), 202-225-7944
Craig Donner (Fossella), 718-356-8400
Andrew Koneschusky (Schumer), 202-224-7433
Nina Blackwell (Clinton), 212-688-9559
Denise Mixon (Towns), 202-226-4045
Shin Inouye (Nadler), 202-225-5635
John Cardarelli (Shays), 202-225-5541
NY Area Senators, Reps Demand 9/11 Health Plan
Answers from Bush Administration
WASHINGTON - Today, members of the New York-area Congressional delegation again pressed the Bush Administration to provide details on its plan to medically monitor and treat all those impacted by exposure to hazards related to the 9/11 attacks. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Vito Fossella (R-NY), Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY), along with Reps. Edolphus Towns (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) sent a joint letter [text of letter] to Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt after the Administration’s top 9/11 health official, Dr. John Agwunobi, refused in both testimony and correspondence to provide further information on the Administration’s plan.
“Those suffering from 9/11 health-related problems deserve immediate answers and action - not more needless delays from the Administration,” said Maloney. “The New York area delegation will not rest until a comprehensive 9/11 health plan is realized.”
Fossella said, “The unsung heroes of 9/11 need access to medical monitoring and treatment. The federal government needs to move forward without delay in releasing a comprehensive plan of action and also funding needs for next year.”
“Six years of empty promises is unacceptable - our sick 9/11 workers needed treatment yesterday. Despite repeated congressional efforts to fund adequate testing and treatment, this Administration has been long on promises and short on delivering vital funds for the heroes of 9-11. Everyday that they continue to delay, more heroes are denied the first-rate care that their sacrifice demands,” said Schumer.
“I am very disturbed by the lack of action on the part of the Department of Health and Human Services on this critical issue. The absence of an appropriate federal plan for 9/11 healthcare funding and the Administration’s refusal to communicate with Congress is a real cause for concern. We certainly hope that their apparent silence on how they intend to allocate future 9/11 funding is not an indicator that they plan to withdraw support for the important and necessary Centers of Excellence,” Clinton said.
“The Administration is clearly hoping the challenges related to the health of 9/11 responders and community residents will simply go away without really dealing with them. HHS needs to come clean and make up for almost six years of very limited action to help the heroes and the victims of 9/11,” Towns said.
“The Bush administration must come up with more than $25 million to monitor and treat all those who were exposed to environmental toxins following the events of 9/11,” said Nadler. “In addition, in order to ensure that the Federal government properly pays its debt, ultimately the Administration must work with Congress to devise a long-term, comprehensive solution that will allow for ongoing medical monitoring and treatment that is not subject to these annual budget battles. These 9/11 heroes need help, and thus far the Bush administration has yet to support a comprehensive strategy to help them.”
Added Shays, “Firefighters, police, emergency medical personnel, transit workers, construction crews and other first responders as well as volunteers came to Ground Zero knowing there would be risks, but confident their community would sustain them. It is clearly evident from the hearings my subcommittee held on this subject that diverse and delayed health problems continue to emerge in those exposed to the contaminants and psychological stressors unleashed on September 11, 2001. These people require help; they require answers; and they require a plan.”
The Administration had previously indicated that it would finalize its plan by February 2007, but to date no such plan has been shared with Congress or the public. In January, the Administration notified Congress that it would include $25 million for 9/11 health treatment in the president’s FY08 budget, and that this funding would serve as a “placeholder” until the release of its comprehensive funding plan for FY08 the following month. With the appropriations process for FY08 well under way in Congress, the delegation members expressed their concern that the Administration’s delays could force federally-funded health clinics such as those operated by Mt. Sinai Hospital and the FDNY to shut their doors.
Background
04/05/07- Response Letter from Dr. John Agwunobi to NY-area Delegation
03/06/07 - Administration’s Top 9/11 Health Official’s Testimony Draws Concern from NY-area Delegation
01/31/07 - 9/11 HEALTH BREAKTHROUGH: Reps. Fossella & Maloney Confirm White House Will Include Funding for 9/11 Health Treatment in Budget Proposal
Yesterday 5 potential human remains were recovered from the Haul Road.
Totals through 4/26
1371
785 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
368- Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)
8 - Liberty Street
1 - West Street
NEW SEARCH
Remains recovered 1371
Remains sent for testing 0
DNA extracted 0
Matches 0
WTC Items Recovered 0
ORIGINAL SEARCH
Remains Recovered Over 20,000
Remains sent for testing NA
DNA extracted NA
Matches 1598
Remains tested with new process NA
DNA Extracted NA
Matches 11
WTC Items Recovered NA
(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)
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We have contacted the Mayor’s Office and asked the following questions.
Can you please let us know how many samples from the new search were sent for testing as we would like to track the recovery separately?
Also we have been asked if all the 209 remains from the manhole have been sent as we would like to dispute the rumor that all of these remains came from one victim.
Dennis
Attached is a copy of the results of the new DNA extraction techniques. Please note that we have made 2 new World Trade Center identifications. The release of the names is pending family instructions. Thank you.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
OFFICE OF CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER
520 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016
CHARLES S. HIRSCH, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner
T:212 447-2041 / TTY: 212 447-2086 / F:212 447-2755
April 26, 2007
Until now, reports released by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner on the progress of identifying victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks have focused on new identifications. This is the first of what will be monthly updates on the results of all DNA testing of remains recovered from the ongoing operations at the World Trade Center site and surrounding area.
The Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) is working with Bode Technology Group, a renowned DNA testing laboratory, to identify as many victims of the 9/11 attacks as possible. Bode has patented a new methodology of DNA extraction that enables the creation of a DNA profile from much less sample material than was required only five years ago.
Since January 2006, OCME has sent 1919 samples to Bode, all of which were recovered prior to July 2002, or from remains discovered in Con Edison manholes and 130 Liberty Street (Deutche Bank) between April 2006 and October 2006. We continue to send additional samples to Bode as they are recovered.
To date, Bode has tested 1551 samples, 937 samples (60.4%) of which have yielded usable DNA profiles. The remaining 614 samples yielded incomplete profiles or were insufficient, based on current technology, to generate any profile. Any samples that did not generate a usable profile will be stored and tested again if and when technological advances are made that increase the chance that these samples could yield a DNA profile that would make an identification possible. Our goal is to someday be able to identify all of the recovered remains of the victims of 9/11.
The 937 usable profiles were compared against the 11,819 reference samples and 40,557 other victim samples maintained by OCME. We were able to make 8 new identifications from 10 of the 937 usable profiles compiled by Bode. A full summary if the DNA testing results appears below:
Usable Profiles
Disposition
10
Yielded 8 new identifications.
842
Matched to previously identified victims.
62
Linked to previously recovered bone, but not linked to an identified victim.
16
New Profiles not linked to an identified victim or to previously recovered bone.
7
Profiles still under review.
937
Total usable profiles.