Hello, guys walking back to the most amazing top 10. My name is jasmine clark. And today is the 15th anniversary of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America which almost 3000 people lost their lives. Now some of you might have been too young to remember that. Some of you might not even have been born yet, and some of you might be very familiar with the events of that day were coordinated terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center structures in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington D.C. Now it is a perfect chance that you guys are going to be seeing a lot about it on TV or online today. It was a huge event that shaped the world in many ways. So without further ado here are the top ten shocking facts about a 9 11 style attack. 1115. Victims of the attacks are still unaccounted for, and their remains have never been identified. Forensic teams have worked tirelessly over the years to examine the 9000 fragments of human remains. Now despite this, about 37 percent of 9/11 victims have never been positively identified. That is still not this hard and the forensic team who continue to find and examine any human remains that are being found every single year in the hopes of giving some closure to the victim's families. At number nine the hijackers used a secret code to communicate in the weeks leading up to the attack. They use an internet chat room where one of them sent this coded love note to his so-called German girlfriend. It said the first semester commences in three weeks.
Two high schools and two universities this summer will surely be hot. 19 documents for private education and four exams. Regards to the professor. Goodbye. Now the high schools that were a reference to the two Twin Towers the universities where the two Washington D.C. targets the 19 stiffer kits meant the 19 hijackers and the four exams or the number of planes they used means No. 8 four planes were hijacked that day. Now two of them hit the Twin Towers one of them hit the Pentagon, but the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. Now it's thought the target was going to be the White House or the Capitol building, but it was brought down when the passengers on board had already heard through phone calls about the New York attacks selected to fight back. The terrorists then deliberately crashed a plane into a Pennsylvanian field rather than give control to them next of another seven by the time the second plane hit the South Tower in New York. Hundreds of cameras caught it live. Millions of people watching around the world as the first plane. Nobody was expecting it to happen obviously. So there was only one piece of life footage taken. It was taking my filmmakers Jules and get a warning that we were making a documentary about New York firefighters. They were responding to reports of a gas leak when they heard the first plane go overhead. Joe's instinctively turned his camera and caught history growing in number six. Now after tragedy strikes, people tend to turn to something for comfort. And some statistics reflect what people in New York seem to choose.
And the week after 9/11 in Manhattan saw a 25 percent increase in alcohol consumption on the year before. And also a 10 percent rise in tobacco consumption and local churches and synagogues. So a 20 percent increase in attendance. Millions of them are fine. The effects of 9/11 continue to affect people's health and even kill. To this day an estimated 410 thousand people were exposed to a toxic cloud of the best us on that date in 2015. There were over 70000 people in robes and the 9/11 health program with 21000 being conditions caused by inhaling that toxic air. Now it's thought that all the cases of lung cancer that starts happening wouldn't even peak until 2041 a full 40 years after the event Next been before the search and rescue team use sniffer dogs to try and find people trapped in the rubble of the time was when they collapsed. But after all the searching just 18 people were rescued alive, and the dogs found so few living people that they began to get upset and stressed because they thought they were failing at their job. So the candidates from time to time the handlers get people to hide in the rubble so that dogs would find them and their spirits will be kept up in the search for real survivors. Munoz number three it took 100 days for the firefighters to put out the fires at Ground Zero. They were still burning all the way up to the 25th of December 2000 and one moment's thought they kept burning because of the tons and tons of flammable office equipment that sat in the rubble.
And it needed a constant jet of water sprayed on it to eventually put the fire out. The new apartment considered it an active fire scene that whole time and kept the fire truck on standby every single day. At number three now the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald was based in the Twin Towers and they lost an astonishing 658 of their employees that day. The most of any company. That number made it two-thirds of their entire workforce. Chairman how would look it could have closed it right there and then but he said to his employees we can either shut the firm and go to 20 funerals in 35 days in a row or work harder than we ever have for families. The company ended up giving the victims families 118 million dollars over the next five years. And funny little one We had the miracle of stairwell Bay when the North Tower collapsed the last few steps of one staircase in the middle of the building called Stanwell bay somehow remained intact. The only piece of the building left standing incredibly 16 people including firefighters and civilians happened to be on that staircase when the building collapsed, and they all survived. Now, are they any higher on the staircase or already left at that point. They would probably have not survived. Now somehow the concrete walls survived the force of 110 stories crashing down upon them. Many of the survivors went through years of counselling after this event to deal with survivor's guilt. I find it difficult to understand the fact that they had survived when so many others didn't.
Well guys I do hope you learn something that I found interesting old just gave you something to reflect about on this day. I figured it was amazing