Timelines:
Thursday, September 13, 2001
10:35 A.M. - Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta
announces that airspace will reopen at 11:00 A.M.
11:00 A.M. - FAA reopens national airspace to commercial flights.
11:02 A.M. - President George W. Bush
speaks with New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani.
11:15 A.M. - The NFL calls off its entire schedule for the upcoming weekend.
12:20 P.M. - President George W. Bush makes
remarks while visiting Washington Hospital Center.
12:27 P.M. -
Department of Defense Briefing
1:00 P.M. -
Briefing by Secretary of State Colin Powell
1:46 P.M. - NASCAR postpones its Sunday race.
2:00 P.M. -
Department of Defense Briefing
3:15 P.M. -
Briefing by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer
3:22 P.M. - President George W. Bush
declares Friday, September 14, 2001, a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance.
3:23 P.M. - The NY Stock Exchange will resume trading on Monday.
3:30 P.M. - Major League Baseball postpones all its games through Sunday.
4:20 P.M. -
Black Box found at Pennsylvania
crash site.
5:00 P.M. - New York City-area airports (Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark) are closed.
5:50 P.M. - Vice-President Dick Chaney is moved to Camp David, Maryland to keep the President and Vice-President in separate locations.
@6:30 P.M. - Dartmouth at Colgate and Lehigh at Penn college football games cancelled; all NCAA Division I college football games now postponed; all major sporting events now postponed through Sunday.