At least six rescue workers were feared trapped in the debris, a rescue service official said.
"At no time was the missile or the resultant debris a threat to North America".
The tree box was now eight straight days without debris, a record.
He said that there was "a sea of debris, a sea of destruction and bodies everywhere".
Down the beach, Ms. Doxey hefted an odd piece of debris, a long bamboo pole topped with a hook.
To achieve this, Mr. Medvedev said, Russia would continue "cleaning up its historical debris," a reference to Katyn.
There are piles of construction debris, a flooded parking lot and street lights that do not work.
"The only thing left was a charred ivy brush, minor residual debris, a knocked down pole and tree.
Yesterday, Texas authorities announced that they were granting a temporary amnesty to give anyone who plundered space shuttle debris a chance to bring it back.
Mr. Walit and Mr. Cochran died from explosion burns and the crushing weight of debris, a spokeswoman for the New York City Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday.
Although most larvae feed on aquatic plants, algae, diatoms, or plant debris, a few are predatory on other aquatic insects, crustaceans, and mollusks, and a few are omnivorous.
