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41 Sept. iiaooi Terror on American Soil Buildings, amusement arks closed (issoclated Press I Davis sends workers home Associated Press ir; ,) 1' I Ml Andy Card whispers into the ear of the President to give him word of the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Tuesday. plane crashes into the World takes Closures and security measures taken in Southern California due to te'rrorist attacks on the East Coast: Key government and office buildings in Los Angeles have been closed or evacuated, including City Hall and the Library Jbwer, which, at 1 ,700 feet, is the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. Los Angeles International airport is closed.

All area amusement parks, including Disneyland, Six Flags Magic Mountain and Knott's IBerry Farm, are closed. ft Major movie studios, Including Sony Pictures and jWamer are closed, including tours and production of television and motion pictures. The Second Annual Latin Grammy Awards, scheduled to broadcast live Tuesday night Jrom The Staples center, have postponed. it Tapings for the Tonight $how with Jay Leno on Tuesday and Wednesday have been canceled. i' Los -Angeles County Fair, the nation's largest county fair, canceled all events Tuesday.

I Baseball postpones entire Major League Baseball schedule for Tuesday. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest, kept classrooms Tuesday and urged teachers and students to continue with 'their normal routine. The U.S border Crossing between San Diego and rfijuana remained open, although rfederal agents were put on high Security alert looking for any Signs of terrorist activity, jj MTA subways were scheduled to be closed for one hour parting at 1 p.m. so police can check the tunnels. i The Emmy Awards, scheduled to be broadcast live Sunday 4ight, have been postponed at Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash.

-Operators of hydroelectric dams across the West closed visitor centers and 'limited access as a precaution After terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., Tuesday. The Grand Coulee Dam and powerhouse in central 'Washington state were locked tours were canceled and visitor center was closed, Craig Sprankle, a spokesman jwith the Bureau of Reclamation 'said. The bureau also was limiting 'access to its Hungry Horse in Montana, he said. i Security heightened dams precautions attacks of terrorist It PreSlSlSnt BlISll'S Chief Of Staff Trade Center, during a visit to the in Associated Cress Airports, government buildings even casinos on the Las -Vegas Strip shut down or stepped up security Tuesday as terror gripped the western United States in the wake of a series of terrorist attacks on the East Coast. "I'm sure I'm thinking the same thing every city and government employee in the country is thinking.

Who's next?" said Jim Fftzpatrick, a programmer for the city of Phoenix, where some doorways into the state Capitol and City Hall were locked to limit the number of entry points. As flights nationwide were grounded, shocked passengers inside Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport while outside security towed all vehicles parked at terminal curbs. In Denver, the entire airport Western wake was evacuated. "I'm absolutely terrified and frightened. I'm worried about everyone," said Jerry D'Amato, a New York City accountant attending a court hearing in Colorado.

Two American Airlines jets, both headed for Los Angeles, slammed into the World Trade Center Tuesday morning, sending the twin towers crashing to the ground. 'Another plane crashed into the Pentagon, leaving a giant, smoke-filled hole in the building that houses the nation's military. Two other flights also headed for California and apparently connected to the coordinated attack also crashed. A United Airlines flight bound for San Francisco went down near Pittsburgh, while another United flight headed for Los Angeles crashed at an undisclosed location. With four of the targeted SACRAMENTO Gov.

Gray Davis Ordered all state buildings to close "until further notice" and all nonessential state employees to go home today after two disasters rocked the nation's capital and New York Titv The state's Emergency Council convened early today as Davis requested heightened security at all state buildings, said Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio. "Due to concerns raised in today's attacks in the nation's capital and New York City, I direct that all state office buildings and facilities closed until further notice." Davis said in a statement. The order doesn't affect buildings that provide critical functions, he said. The state Strategic Task Force on Terrorism has been meeting since early Tuesday morning and would brief the governor, Maviglio said. That task force is made up of representatives of the Department of Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Governor's Office of Emergency Services and local law enforcement.

The governor and his staff moved operations to the CHP command center in West Sacramento. Employees at the state Capitol were told to leave the building just before 9 a.m. California Highway Patrol officers earlier had been checking identification cards and searching bags of those entering the Capitol. "I just want to go home because I don't feel safe here," Elaine Galicia, office assistant for State Sen. Martha Escutia, D-Commerce, said as officer workers filed out of the building.

Elizabeth Gonzalez, an office assistant for Assemblyman Dean Florez, D-Shafter, said she was "pretty scared. I just want to get home to my daughter." A planned Senate floor session was postponed until 10 a.m. Wednesday, said Dave Sebeck, spokesman for Senate Leader John Burton, D-San Francisco. The federal courthouse's in Sacramento and Fresno were closed for the day at the request of the chief judge there, for purely precautionary reasons, said Assistant Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Tom Figmik.

Northern California's Beale Airforce Base and the Coast Guard's Air Station Sacramento have been placed on their second highest state of alert short of war, spokesmen there said. The bases are on fourth level of alert, one be used in an imminent threat of attack, they said. A large number of military bases across the nation, from several branches of the armed services had been on a heightened state of alert as part of a drill that started last week, said Beale Staff Sgt. Katherine Garcia. "It was not real world," she said.

"It was not foreshadow ing, it was not related to today's events. This was something that was planned a year ago." The drill did not mean the military had any warning of a possible terrorist attack, Garcia said. "We're as taken aback as evervhnrfv Travis Air Force Base was also placed on a high state of alert about 7:30 am, just after this morning's attacks, said Staff Sgt. Mark Diamond, Only "mission-essential on base, and identification is being checked at each base planes headed to California, officials there took no chances. Government workers were sent home as landmarks across the state closed down, including Knott's Berry Farm in Orange County, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the city's 74-story Library Tower, at 1 ,700 feet the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.

At Los Angeles International Airport, people gathered at ticket counters in search of information." Ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and California remained open, although federal officials were on high security alert looking for any signs of terrorist activity. "It's chaos," said Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Mack said local INS officials made the naiTiG call to keep the border open because they were unable to reach officials in Washington, DC. Iii Utah, officials were reviewing security plans for the 2002 Winter Olympics, although Gov.

Mike Leavitt vowed the games would go forward as scheduled. "We have a strategic plan in place and we will continue to strengthen it. Today's, event only strengthens that resolve," Leavitt said. Elsewhere, others also refused to give in to the fear. In Washington state, Gov.

Gary Locke ordered the state Capitol building closed to the public but refused to evacuate the building and said it would reopen as soon as possible. "We are not going to. down the government," he vowed. "The last thing we want to do is give the terrorists any satisfaction." Prm. J', 1 I sr sr-- I 1 i V-' While Misty Walters looks up, left, Parti Dougherty lowers the American flag to half staff this morning outside the Boy 'Scouts of America's Trading Post near the Santa Maria Public Airport.

Above, officials from Lindbergh Field in San Diego, stand on the tarmac, behind them are grounded Federal Express planes today. Airports across California were closed and law enforcement agencies went on high alert after four planes bound for the state crashed on the East Coast. i All of the dams continued to jproduce electricity. The U.S. Army Corps of 'Engineers-stepped up security at jscores of dams, including 54 ifrom St.

Louis to Seattle in its iNorthwest Division, spokesman Paul Johnston said from Omaha, Neb. have gone to a higher ievel of security. We are closing visitor centers and limiting access to visitors," Nola Cpnway, a Spokeswoman for the Corps' $Valla Walla office said. The office operates eight dams in the Pacific Northwest, including four fti the Snake River in southeastern Washington state. "We don't normally talk about security.

We're limiting access to a lot of projects, canceling tours, closing gates and that sort of thing," Johnston said, adding that friost of the dams are topped with state highways. "Closing off those roads at a Considerable distance from, a project can put a real crimp in the normal way of doing business" he said. "It's something we could do, but we have not done." Smzi. ml fmdtM building, he said.