Construction begins...

...Even as they continue to discover more body parts in the area. They found two bones today on a service road at Ground Zero. It's creepy to be down there while construction is going on and look around and think, "There could be body parts under my feet right now."



AP story totally illegally posted below:



(AP) NEW YORK Workers digging up a road at the World Trade Center site in a search for remains of Sept. 11 victims found two more bones on Tuesday.

The remains, about 1 to 2 inches long, were found during excavation of the street-level service road on the west end of the lower Manhattan site, said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner's office.

The bones, along with four recovered last week, were the first to be found in the dirt and debris that make up the road, which carries dozens of construction trucks a day into ground zero. More than 200 other remains have been found in several manholes beneath the road since October.

City officials overseeing the search announced on Friday they would dig up three-quarters of the road, which runs about four blocks, to locate additional human remains from victims of the 2001 terrorist attack.

They also said they would partially search other sections of the road located closer to the site of a planned 1,776-foot skyscraper to replace the twin towers. Heavy construction of the Freedom Tower has been under way for months.

The medical examiner's office said it hopes to match DNA profiles to some of the bones that are being recovered, perhaps to identify some 40 percent of the 2,749 people killed in the Sept. 11 attack, whose families have never received remains.

Borakove said Tuesday that none of the remains located at ground zero since October -- and none of the more than 700 remains found in the past year at a nearby skyscraper -- has been positively identified.

Officials overseeing ground zero have said they will keep one lane of traffic open on the road during the excavation to prevent construction delays. A transit hub and a Sept. 11 memorial also are under construction.