Cost in Lives Lost:

                            Pentagon     New York City*
 Persons Injured       ~88                     8786
 Bodies Recovered  119                       478
 Persons Missing     125                       4339

*This information is available as of October 24th, 2001 from the FEMA website: www.fema.gov 

 Number of passengers and crew on the airplanes involved in the attack:

 Airline Flight           # People Lost          Crash Location
 United 93                           44                Pennsylvania
 American 11                      92                New York City
 United 175                         65                New York City
 American 77                      64                Pentagon

 Response and Recovery Costs**

     On October 23, an additional $145.5 million was released by FEMA for New York City to help with debris removal and other infrastructure recovery costs.  This brings the total amount obligated for Public Assistance in New York City to more than $270 million.  The funds are for costs associated with immediate response and recovery activities and the removal, transport, and sorting of debris.

  Response and Recovery efforts as of October 25th:

      l 31,120 people have called the FEMA registration number to apply for state and federal disaster assistance   l More than $82.5 million in Individual Assistance has been approved.  FEMA approved over $14 million in disaster housing assistance for individuals and families to obtain alternate rental housing or to clean up residences madeuninhabitable by the attack.  $2.75 million in disaster food stamps has been distributed to individuals who lost food, income or resources because of the attacks. 
          The State of New York approved more than $310,506 for individual and family grants for disaster vicums to meet serious disaster-related needs not covered by other disaster assistance programs  or insurance. 
           SBA approved more than $65 million in low-interest loans to 668 applicants for home repairs, business loans, and loans to assist small businesses suffering
economic injury as a result of  losses caused by the disaster. 
            More than $22.7 million has been granted in New York State to support “Project Liberty”, which provides mental health assistance for the victims of the attack and their families. 
           $2 million dollars were allocated for immediate crisis counseling needs resulting from the Pentagon attack.  An additional $3.3 million was allocated foron-going services that will be  provided through the National Institute of Mental Health. 
        FEMA allocated $1 million in disaster unemployment assistance for self-employed individuals at Reagan National Airport affected by the closing of the airport and reduced operations. 
        FEMA has assigned more than $136 million in mission assignments to other federal agencies including U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Department of Health
and Human Services, and the Department of Defense to assist in the response effort. 

**This information is available from the FEMA website: www.fema.gov 
 

Charitable Donations: 

     Two weeks after the disaster more than $676 million was donated to relief efforts, which is a quarter of the amount raised by relief charities in all of 2000. 
     Most of the donations have been concentrated in a small number of charities, which has decreased the amount of donations available for other everyday
     charitable programs.  This is especially of concern now, since the November-December timeframe is usually the most lucrative period for fund-raising.

     As of October 26th the Red Cross had received close to $500 million in contributions for the Liberty Relief Fund, a special fund set up by the Red Cross
     for donations given in response to the terrorist attacks. The donations will be used for ongoing disaster response efforts nationwide, including tax-free gifts
     to families and individuals who lost loved ones in the attacks, a strategic blood reserve, nationwide grief counseling and other emerging human needs that
     result from the disaster. The Red Cross announced that it would also pull resources from the Liberty Relief Fund to prepare and mitigate in the event of
     more attacks.  More information is available from: http://www.redcross.org.

     The American Liberty Partnership website: http://www.libertyunited.org/ was formed by a partnership of six organizations: Amazon.Com, AOL Time
     Warner, Cisco Systems, eBay, Microsoft and Yahoo!  It provides an online medium for people to donate to charitable organizations that are providing help
     in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.  As of October 24th, over $105 million had been collected for disaster relief efforts.

     As of October 15, the September 11th Fund: http://www.uwnyc.org/sep11/, created by the United Way of New York City and the New York Community
     Trust, had raised nearly $320 million in pledges. Included in this amount is $150 million in pledges generated by the Tribute to Heroes September 11th
     Telethon Fund, which featured Hollywood and recording stars and was simulcast on 35 television channels. The September 11th Fund makes grants to
     established nonprofit agencies that work at the frontlines, providing support and services to victims, their families, and others affected by the September
     11th tragedy.

     On October 20th, federal, state and city officials requested that no more donated goods be sent to New York City.  New York City, New York State and
     the federal government had designed an extensive donations management system with five warehouses and nearly 2.5 million square feet of space.  The
     operation has now been consolidated to three warehouses with more than one million square feet of space.  The Director of the New York City Mayor’s
     Office of Emergency Management stated that they had all the donations they could possibly use right now, and asked that people wishing to contribute
     make a financial donation to New York City’s Twin Towers Fund: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/em/twintowersfund.html.

     Note:  These are just a few of the charitable organizations that are raising funds to support disaster relief efforts for the September 11th attacks, and this
     article in no way represents an endorsement of these charities.