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Ceremony Held at New York Landfill Yesterday

Aired July 16, 2002 - 06:02   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: It was a somber ceremony yesterday in New York at the Fresh Kills Landfill. That's where rubble from the World Trade Center was taken to be searched for remains and personal items.

Here is the story now from Jennifer Cogiola (ph).

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JENNIFER COGIOLA (ph), CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Wedding rings, wallets, photographs of daughters, husbands, personal reminders of the victims of September 11 found over 10 months of sifting through rubble. The landfill receives 7,000 tons of debris each day, all of it sifted, first by hand, then with conveyor belts for personal property and remains of any criminal evidence. But that chapter closed Monday.

GOV. GEORGE PATAKI, NEW YORK: And the prayers and the love of New Yorkers and Americans of goodwill will never end. We will never forget those heroes. We will never forget you.

COGIOLA (ph): Families and friends of those heroes joined workers and New York politicians to commemorate the emotional and difficult work done here.

COMM. RAY KELLY, NEW YORK POLICE: Workers here have helped family members of the victims obtain some sense of closure on the loss of their loved ones.

COGIOLA (ph): An emotional ending to an emotional job.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light...

COGIOLA (ph): Fewer than half of the 2,823 victims have been identified, but medical examiners are hopeful that number will climb to 2,000. This landfill had been closed for six months before September 11. It was reopened to help with the tragedy. Today's closing ceremonies also mean the end of this investigation into the terrorist attack that changed America.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): ... and the home of the brave.

COGIOLA (ph): Jennifer Cogiola (ph) reporting. (END VIDEOTAPE)

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