61. Major buildings remained shuttered and buckled roads were blocked off. 62. Meantime, congressional leaders planned to reopen the Capitol on Monday, although House and Senate office buildings will remain closed until results from environmental testing are complete. 63. On the House side, the Ford and Longworth office buildings remained closed Monday. 64. Only a few smaller buildings remained standing. 65. Other airport buildings remained open for arrivals and departures during the emergency. 66. Russian rescue workers pulled out seven bodies but later called off the search for the eighth, declaring that the building remained too precarious. 67. Still, government buildings remained under heavy police guard. 68. Some walls collapsed, but the buildings remained standing and nobody was trapped. 69. Staff at Israeli embassies and consulates was reduced to the bare minimum, but the buildings would remain open, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Yaffa Ben-Ari. 70. The court building remained closed to the public as it has been since a small amount of anthrax was found in the basement mailroom. |