— Six firefighters and three police officers are rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center.

— Pope John Paul II condemns Tuesday’s attacks, saying “evil and death will not have the last word.”

— House and Senate leaders plan to vote on the amount of emergency spending today. Some estimates say $20 billion.

— A giant U.S. flag was draped over the damaged part of the Pentagon building.

— Attorney General John Ashcroft confirmed the planes used in Tuesday’s attacks may have been headed for the White House or Air Force One.

— Part of the nearby One Liberty Plaza collapses shortly after 5 p.m. The 54-story building houses the NASDAQ stock market’s new headquarters.

— The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq are not expected to open before Friday.

— NATO ambassadors approve the invocation of its self-defense charter if the attacks prove to have been directed from abroad. An armed attack is considered an attack against the entire organization. This is the first time it has been invoked in the 52-year history of the alliance.

— Ashcroft also confirms that the four hijacked planes were commandeered by between three and six people per plane, armed with knives and box cutters. Some were pilots trained in America.

— Airline flights grounded after Tuesday’s attacks were authorized to finish their flights, but all other planes remained grounded.

— Several people are taken into custody for questioning in Boston, Mass. and Florida.

— The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring all U.S. airports to ban the sale or use of knives, even plastic ones, at airports, evacuate and sweep all terminals with K-9 teams and discontinue curbside check-in.

— Relatives of Jeremy Glick, a passenger on the plane that crashed in rural Pennslyvannia, say he called from a cell phone aboard the plane, relaying that he and other passengers were trying to overpower three hijackers. Shortly after the call ended, the plane went down.

— About 300 people were stopped by police Wednesday night after gathering in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview and trying to march to a mosque “to demonstrate against the Arab population,” police say.

— Following reports that gas prices doubled and even tripled in Illinois after Tuesday’s terrorist attack, Attorney General Jim Ryan on Wednesday sued the owner of 13 Illinois service stations.

The Associated Press and CNN contributed to this report.