Families of victims to get urns

NEW YORK -- The families of the more than 5,000 victims of the World Trade Center attack will each receive a wooden urn with dirt from the mass graveyard, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Tuesday as a court cleared the way for the first death certificates to be issued for the missing.

The mayor said the city settled on the idea after reports that con men were peddling phony mementos from ground zero to family members.

"We are going to give the families soil from the World Trade Center," Giuliani said.