Parts of New York’s World Trade Centre site will be searched again for remains of the September 11 dead after several bones were pulled out of an abandoned manhole this week.

ROAD crews scrambled to clear highways for commuters yesterday and thousands of travellers stranded at airports still waited to get home as the north-eastern states dug out from a record-breaking storm that dumped 60cm or more of snow.

Hundreds of salt-spreading trucks fanned out across New York City today as the region’s first major winter storm of the season threatened to drop up to 18 inches of snow, blanketing a wide swath of the Northeast US and New England.

A man who shot himself at the World Trade Center site was apparently distraught over President George W. Bush’s re-election, a newspaper reported today.

A US judge has opened the door to scores of September 11 legal actions against the aviation industry by ruling that the hijacking and crashing of the planes was a ”foreseeable risk”.