Recovery Effort Is Left to State and City
The last federal rescue crew left the World Trade Center, leaving New York officials to continue the nearly month-old effort to locate nearly 5,000 bodies buried in the rubble.
The Urban Search and Rescue Task Force was the last of 20 Federal Emergency Management Agency teams sent in after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that collapsed the twin towers.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said the withdrawal of the federal team would have no effect on the operation at the site.
The mayor also said that vehicular traffic will be permitted today into lower Manhattan east of Broadway. Depending on its success, the area may be opened to vehicles during the week, he said.
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