♪ ♪ ♪ >> bill: one of the dumbest songs ever recorded. it was just dumb sold millions. >> simpler time. >> bill: very very simple. you lose again. it is okay you gave a spirited defense. that is it for this special edition of the factor. as always thank you for watching. i'm bill o'reilly remember the spin stops right here because we are definitely looking out >> announcer: now a two hour fox news special event. it was a towering landmark that said new york. >> i think the city of new york came to love 'em. i certainly did. >> announcer: a symbol of economic might. >> world trade center was not appreciated as architect . >> announcer: a target to the enemies of freedom. >> it was like being in a horror film.

>> gathered by 9/11, america vowed to fight back. >> get out there and kick some ass. >> and rebuild. >> and not to rebuild these billings would be to give the terrorists what they were looking for. >> announcer: a decade later, a story of rebirth. >> we wanted to find a way to reflect the fact that so many people died together. >> announcer: remembrance. >> in the museum it is going to tackle difficult things. >> and res -- resurrection. >> two now we are 7 at the new world trade center in lower manhattan, here's shepard smith. >> shepard: behind me ground zero. 10 years ago it was a hole filled with rub. a mass graveyard many soon on the 10th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11, there will be a dedication. the rising buildings are already changing the skyline. an awe inspiring sight symbolizing america's freedom

and hope one thing the terrorists didn't count on. they only know they caused destruction. america is about creation. for the next two hours we will look closer into what is going on. what it was. what it will be. and how americans are not only climbing back up, but reaching even higher. ♪ ♪ a century ago new york city was the focus of a competition to build taller buildings. skyscrapers. the flat iron building 285 feet, completed 1902. the woolworth building, 792 feet, completed in 1913. the chrysler building, 1050 feet completed in 1930. the empire state building, 1250 feet completed 1931. >> the competition for the worldest tallest building is really a part and parcel of history of the skyscraper, especially the romance of the

skyscraper. >> shepard: carol willis is the curator of the museum. >> the sky scrape an urban building that contains the commodity of space that can be used for businesses or residents or hotels and tourism in the economic mix of a city, a great city like new york. >> shepard: when the great depression struck companies and the architects they hired scaled back their more grandiose plans. empire state remained the tallest >> i scraper in the new york, not to mention the world for more than 40 years many by mid century people were thinking to build big again. there had been plans to develop some sort of trade center in lower manhattan since the 40s. it wasn't until the 60s that the location was agreed upon. >> it was the electronics district for new york city called radio row. that's what had to be displaced to create the world trade center.

>> dr. henry your kay record of the museum of the city of new york. >> it was extremely disruptive and there was a lot of kicking and screaming from the people whose businesses were there. >> i used to go shopping there. >> former mayor ed koch. >> people who operated those businesses, said this is not a depressed economic area we do very well. the reverse argument was that there will be tens of thousands of new jobs compared to the hundreds that are there as a result of the redevelopment of the area. >> also unhappy was lawrence wein owner of the empire state. the world trade center was to top it by more than 400 feet. he knew if that happened his property would lose prestige. so he got together with other developers to lobby to make the twin towers shorter. >> there were a lot of people affectionately connected to

the empire state building. the image of the skyline with new york state was the central mast. >> the world trade center plan, back by among others the new york governor rockefeller and his brother david gathered too much momentum to be stopped. it was overseen by the port authority of new york and new jersey. inner state agency assembled a parcel of land using the pow we we are -- using the power of eminnocent dough -- eminent domain. >> the excavation of two world record breaking towers with deep foundations and so they are now excavating for the creation of the world trade center. they used that excavated material to create battery park city. >> world trade center was designed as a complex of highrise buildings with the centerpiece being the twin towers. when the north tower was completed in 1972 it stood

1368 feet not including the antenna. replacing the empire state building as the tallest sky scraper in the world. south tower six feet shorter completed in 1973. the main architect drew up more than 100 conceptions before his plans were accepted. >> it is interesting to trace the critical opinion of the world trade center which started out excited at the ambition and the scope and the minimalist expression of modernism. once the complex was completed it was rather negative. the architectural community began to just simply ignore the towers rather than to appreciate them for their great moment in american history. >> donald trump agrees. >> the world trade center was not appreciated as architect . but in my opinion, it was

appreciated as substance. it was big, powerful, bold. it really represented a stronger time for the country. >> there were people who thought they were too stark. nothing ornamental about them. but i think the city of new york came to love 'em. i certainly did. >> going to the top of the trade center became a part of the experience of new york. the idea of seeing out to infinity had a popular reception so the idea of tourism and going to the top of the trade center[ ws, was -- became part of the experience of new york. >> early in the morning of august 7th, 1974, a french tightrope walker took that new york experience one step further. he managed to stretch a wire from one tower to the other and stayed up there for, 45 minutes making eight crossings between the towers before being arrested when he

performed his stun the twin towers had only been fang for one year. construction was still going on in the rest of the complex. the last building finished 7 world trade center was completed in 1987 developed by larry silverstein. he had a bigger prize in mine. >> i remember looking up to the twin towers saying wouldn't it be fantastic some day to own those buildings? >> one day he would get his wish and learn to be careful what you wish for. meantime, the towers assumed the iconic status. >> this is new york when you fly over, and you see these two towers coming up out of the ground, so to speak. you know you're home. >> hollywood recognized that too. as was made clear in the 1976 remake of king kong in the original the great ape climbed the empire state building. in the new version it would

scale the world trade center. it was quick cut to the world trade center that most clearly shouted new york. towers were featured prominently in working girl, home alone 2 and many others. even the simpsons got into the act. >> once the sun goes down, all the weirdoes turn crazy. >> it was pulled from the syndication rotation after 9/11. >> the show's executive producer. >> people thought the sight of the towers would be unpleasant. >> there's one simpson's moment that is especially spooky today. >> there's a visual in it where, visit new york $9 a day and the numeral nine is next to the picture of the towers that look like an 11. it looks like we are predicting 9/11. it is an amazing test men to the powergf of coincidence.

>> it became a symbol of america's massive economic power. this made it a target. that's next.

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group of muslim extremists tried to destroy the skyscrapers by detonating a truck bomb beneath the north tower. the plan make the north tower collapse and bring down the south tower with it. that plot failed. six died, more than a thousand injured. cleanup and rebuilding cost half a billion dollars. >> attack of '93 was an eye-opener. it staggered everybody. after measures were taken that were extraordinary. >> the port authority rethought and revamped security at the towers and life returned to normal. workers went back to their jobs, the terrorists went back to the drawing board. in 1996, bin ladenish you'd a fatwa declaring war on america no one knew where he would

strike. >> the '93 bombing was indicative of what was to come. that was not a success relatively speaking for them. and i guess that just gave them an inspiration to go further. >> meanwhile, the new york governor pataki and new jersey governor whitman decided to privatize the world trade center. port authority offered a 99 year lease to the highest bidder. larry silverstein who dreamed of owning the towers almost missed the 2001 deadline. >> i got hit by a car, broken pelvis, i woke up on the 27th or 28th day of january. i said oh my god, turn off the morphine get my guys in here we have to get the bid in. >> his bid 3.2 billion dollars. that did the trick. >> 26th day of july of 2001,

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at 8:46 a.m. flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the world trade center. >> it believed the 737 that crashed into the side of the building, three floors taken out. >> news spread quickly. >> it looks like something out of a movie huge hole on the side of tower one. >> 9:03 a.m. with the world watching flight 175 crashed into the south tower. >> we just saw another one, another plane just flew into the second tower. >> at 10:30 a.m., both towers were on the ground. >> there it goes! we do need to put it down now. >> here we go! >> america offer a prayer. >> a few thousand died. early fears were the number could be in the tens of thousands. >> the loss of life is going to be enormous.

>> a lot of people dodged death that day. one of the most amazing survival stories comes from the man trying to rebill the tower. >> you were to have been in windows on the world that morning. >> every morning i spent at the trade center meeting with tenants. usually having breakfast meetings at windows. >> what a place to have discussions like that. >> that morning the morning of 9/11, my wife made appointment for me with the dermatologist -- i'm saying cancel, i have so much to do, i'm going down to the trade center. she got angry, upset. i said don't get angry, yes dear. your wife gets upset, you can let that happen. i said whatever you want me to do, i'll do. >> his wife's stubbornness saved i had life. he was far away from the site of the biggest mass murder ever committed in this country.

[ sirens ] >> 2 753 died, another 244 at the pentagon aboard flight 93, all together, 2,977 died. the images and the events of that day still have the power to shock and anger. it was the end of the world trade are and the beginning of war on terror. also the beginning of something else. a growing determination that this city and this nation would not let in attack stand. >> this is an attack on america. an attack on american values. an attack on everything we stand for in this country. and not to rebuild these buildings would be to give the terrorists what they were looking for.

[ gunfire ] >> while america attacked al-qaeda within weeks and repaired the pentagon within months, it took a lot longer to start rebuilding at ground zero. it seemed everyone affected by the attacks wanted a say on what would replace the terrible scar left in lower manhattan. how to revitalize and rebuild the area while remembering the victims. >> first of all, the most important thing that took some time that needed to happen, there needsed -- needed to be an open debate about what ought to be rebuilt. people need add opportunity to get out their views and for people to come together. that is what happened after a three, four year period. >> the world trade center project director. >> it was tricky, as it always is, dealing with so many different governments, with governments changing. i think you dealt with four governors on one side of the river and four on the other side of the river. >> state government in

new york, new jersey, city government in new york. changes at the port authority. ultimately, as i said, people did come together in support of this great plan for a new world trade center. >> one world trade center, the freedom tower will be the centerpiece of the rebuilt complex. it is to reach just as high as the original north tower the antenna, it will be taller. a glorious and symbolic 1776 feet. nearby tower two will be 1349 feet. tower three, 1170. tower four, 977. the first buildings, including tower one should open in 2013, they tell us many twin towers and victims who died in them will not be forgotten. as you will see the rebuilt complex will include memorial plaza and museum. the whole site buildings and all will take up 16 acres of

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reports of toxic chemicals at the scene. the building was evacuated and no word on a cause, reports say methane gas could be behind the explosion. and now back to our special fox news reporting freedom rising for your latest headlines log on to fox news.com. rising." ♪ ♪ ♪ across the hudson in new jersey you can watch the manhattan skyline change everyday as the new world trade center guess up. in hoboken there's a company helping everybody see what the site will become. >> this is a solid big chunk of acrylic. >> thousands are working onsite to get the world trade center completed. offsite two guys are trying to

make it easy to visualize the end product. >> if a picture is worth a thousand words a model is worth a million is like -- is what we like to say. >> they are a model making firm. their work is extremely precise. holding up to close scrutiny. >> a scale model, one we make doesn't get clunky or heavy when it is reduced to a smaller scale. >> they start with architectural plans, put them on a computer and shrink them down to a scale to fit a tabletop. they use tools that you probably have and others that are fancier. such as this laser with a beam as fine as 6/one000 of an inch. the width of a human hair. wood says physical models give

the client a clear view of size and layout as well as any possible architectural problems. >> there's maybe a dishahn -- dishonesty we feel about a flat tkraurg or rendering, a physical model there's an honesty, there's a connection with something real. there's a reality to it. >> in press conferences the models are what always draw in the cameras. >> it allows the viewer to choose their own view. to look from above, below, walk around 360. it is a physical object that can be held in the hand and can't be replaced with a rendering or a beautiful animation. >> they build models. back the site workers are con stucking the real thing. they all know, you can build something this big without a solid foundation. >> people don't realize it is

a very perishable item. because of the way it broke. >> he isn't talking about mangos and pineapples. he's talking about concrete many which simply put, is manmade rock. >> once the materials are combined together, it has a short window from when it is in the liquid state until it really begins to set. >> he said he's delivering concrete to the site, one world trade center will need 200,000 cubic yards of concrete. and it will be some of the strongest ever produced. >> there's a lot of pride in that job. >> john is the president of the concrete company. >> the challenges that it poses the level of quality control is unlike any building has had before. >> the perishable nature of concrete means the place where they need it can't be far from the place where they produce it.

>> there's a rule called the 90 minute rule, which is the time that the concrete is mixed at the batch plant. until it is dispensed from the truck. >> the plant is less than five miles from the world trade center. throw in new york city traffic, a tunnel, toll, and the crowded streets of lower manhattan and there's a lot that can go wrong. >> oh come on! >> at the world trade center this day things got messy. >> i have to check my chute, i had a problem with it. >> i don't think there will be any project that can parallel this job. this is a once in a lifetime project. >> along with the cement naturally comes the steel. >> everybody knows what is happening.

surveying, make sure they are replaced properly so this column slides right down. >> what we saw working today they are called a raising gang. >> we caught up with construction crews last winter as tphraoeped to raise the first vertical piece of tower two one of thousands of pieces of steel part of rebuilding at ground zero. >> huge milestone. any time the site makes a drastic change. there is a great deal of preparation that goes into the communication with everyone working in the area. they got to be exact. there is very little tolerance with respect to the alignment. >> after arriving by truck, workers lift and led this steel about 100,000 pounds told, into an area they

describe as the world trade center's east bathtub. which won't be a hole in the ground for much longer. while new yorkers watch the new buildings go up, a group of painters captures the progress from a unique perspective. >> it is like being in a horror film. i was painting and drawing the entire day. >> i started crying immediately. i guess everybody had that first moment where you got oh my god. >> more on that, when we return. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the most legroom per dollar of any car in america. the all-new nissan versa sedan from $10,990. innovation sized. innovation for all.

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a sprinkler system designed to work under any circumstance. walls that are at least two feet in thickness. makes the core of this building impression able. >> so much of this project you had to be able to convince people you are going to be safe. -- the safety measures are under par from everything that i've read. >> standards that we developed from the construction of this building which is totally beyond code are inherent now in the design of each of the buildings. these buildings all built to the gold standard. >> i was doing work in the office, helping to create a structural design for this tower. >> megan is a structural engineer who works on tower four. she one of many who makes sure the buildings meet their high standards. >> my responsibility has schiffed to the field now, now that -- has shifted to the field, now that it is under

construction. >> she reviews the reinforced concrete every step of the way. making sure it is done according to special cases. a project like this -- specifications. a project like this stretches the capabilites of engineers. >> the hours i've spent in the the depth to which i've been involved the insides and outsides of what went in the building. you can't come out at the other end without having that be, feel like a piece of you. people from different fields are coming to the to see this happen. and see the rebuilding take place. >> others are looking at the project in a different way. larry silverstein has set up an artist colony tower 7 overlooking ground zero so a group can paint their vision

of freedom rising. these are part of what will be the memorial. >> right. diana spent 15 years painting the twin towers before the terrorists struck. online 9/11 diana was home in , -- in brooklyn. from there she watched the attacks. >> i started crying immediately. >> almost 10 years later, she is committing to canvass the resurrection of the site. >> i want to capture some of what is going on there. some of the change. everyday i come up, it is different. >> ground zero is changing so quickly, that it is hard for diana to keep her paintings up-to-date. >> this is a painting i've been working on for a month or so. >> painter todd stone saw the attacks unfold from his tribeca studio, blocks from the world trade center. >> i painted the world trade center for 15, 20 years.

i was in my studio that day, during the attack. the jet came over my head. i hit the floor, because i thought it was a guided missile. i witnessed the second attack in the lens finder of my camera. >> he snapped this picture from his window. >> it was like being in a horror film. i was painting and drawing the entire day. >> he felt the need to paint, even through the pain. >> i knew what i had seen that day. i felt a tremendous burden to try and get that work out. it was sickening work to do, to paint the murder of all those people that i had witnessed. where my heart broke was watching the people on the roof of the trade center starting to jump. knowing that we were powerless to help them. i think about those people. they haunt me. the people who died, i try to make them as beautiful as i can.

>> he has gone to painting a site filled only with loss to a landscape bursting with hope. >> i've been painting what is not there. now, for the first time, they are the footprints watch is not there. it has been memorialized. to me, i feel like we've turned a corner. >> what is going on down there is so amazing. it is so mind-boggling. how all of those projects can come together. it seems very uplifting at this point. >> artists aren't the only ones to get these bird's-eye views. september 10th, 2010, silverstein invaded wounded warriors to view the site as part of a weekend of heroes. 20 3-year-old corporal from georgia had -- 23-year-old corporal from georgia had never seen the twin to you first. >> to be here is moving. when i look at that, -- it reminds you who and what we are fighting for. because they took our twin

towers and killed thousands of our people brothers, sisters, moms, dads. >> she joined up in 2007 as military police paratrooper. last year she lost a leg to an ied in afghanistan. she bounded back quickly. >> the real me is to get out there and kick some ass. i want to go back. i'm trying to set that up now. i wasn't supposed to leave like that. >> then there is a lieutenant simpson from florida. taliban fighters shot him during a battle near the pakistan border. >> since pearl harbor, the first attack on our country, i guess join the military and doing a good job meant that in some small way i would contribute to that never happening again. then it would be worth it. i've been a lot of places in the united states. lived in a lot of places. this is probably the first time in a long time that i've really been amazed.

i guess it was mostly because there's so much damage inflicted upon america. america just kind of shrugs and has all these resources that it pulls together and keeps living and breathing and being happy and doing what we have to do to have a good life. >> as wounded warriors watched the buildings rise, workers say what they are creating is not just a memorial to the dead, but a tribute to all the soldiers who fight to keep us safe. ♪ from the mountains to the prairies ♪ >> pilgrims don't have to visit new york to get a glimpse of the wounds the country suffered on 9/11. new york says thank you, is a traveling exhibit featuring the largest flag recovered after the attack. jeff pare -- parness is founder.

>> we the south tower collapsed the flag was shredded to pieces. >> like the original star spangled banner our tattered flag is still there. now the official 9/11 flag stitched up across the nation using material from flags damaged in other disasters. >> we are part of american history. it is good. >> i think it is like a pleasure to be here. we are only a young age. usually older people would be doing this stuff. we are part of history at a young age. >> firefighter john wallace oversees the exhibit. >> the 343 guys that we lost is one of the reasons why i do this. just helping and never for getting about those guys. and their families and their kids. this is a wonderful thing to keep their memory alive, if you will, for me. and everybody else who helped

us after 9/11, all the support that new york got. >> good job. great, thank you. >> they created a scenic piece of american history that was destroyed on the worst day in modern history and brought back to life. it is about connecting us all. ♪ my home sweet home ♪ >> americans came to know the world trade center as a collection of skyscrapers where thousands worked and visited. for new yorkers it was a major transportation hub with 15 train lines running underneath those towers. when we return the magnificent new hub under construction. it is an architectural marvel designed to send our

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the world trade center want just a business hub. i was a commuter hub. one of the busiest in all of the country. before the attacks 15 new york city subway lines and new jersey's rail connection to manhattan ran under the complex. when the towers collapsed 80,000 commuters had to find new ways to get in, out and around the city. while it took years to start the rebidding of the towers a temporary train station opened in 16 months. the port authority wanted its permanent station to become a city landmark. that's where the world renowned spanish architect santiago comes in. >> we have to think it is not only a station but circulation. >> he is talking about his design. the 3.4 billion dollar transportation hub at the new world trade center. >> it will be very much a place of welcoming.

>> a place of gathering not just of movement from one place to another but a place to come together. >> yes, a place where you arrive to the city or you go out of the city, normal symbol. >> one of the main goals to bring new business to the lower manhattan area. 9/11 and the proliferation of terrorist attacks around the globe have made him think about possible future attacks. >> after september 11th, there was a madrid. everybody realized that public transportation was also a possible target. >> he isn't allowed to reveal what security will be in place at the new station. at his home, he did show us a model of the hub. revealing some of the smaller yet significant details of the project. it appears as if all of your

senses have been taken into consideration as this structure is coming to the. what it feels like what it smells like. how it looks, how it sounds. >> even the sound. imagine the sound when you work in a place and you hear your own steps. >> he's using natural light as a structural element in the look and feel of the building. he said the use of light is also a powerful symbol to bring hope and vitality to a place that was once covered in darkness. he showed us more in a 3-d virtual video. >> you hear, these are real studies of the movement of the sun around the building in the ribs of the building, which i think is very important. here you see the main hub. >> this is overwhelming, almost. >> look at how the roof open. it is very important to see that. in order to avoid the greenhouse effect, we have to dispose -- the whole building from one side to the other

becomes open to the sky of new york. >> the upper level of the station will be a thoroughfare of half a million square feet of commercial and retail space. the plan calls for the underground to be column-free for more light, visibility and openness. even though the station is huge, he -- his design is people-friendly. you can find your way around without signs? >> yeah that is very important. in a natural way you understand getting down, going towards the train, getting up towards the city. we tried to take away as much hindrances as possible. >> from street level the station will look like a dove taking flight. >> this is a view in the night. like a lantern in the middle of the city. >> part of that is we're still free here. here's a symbol of our freedom. >> yes. as i say, it is a sign of hope. >> one family that believes in

this hope is the commage family, they are very much looking for.com plea of the buildings. before the attacks window washer rocco from eastern europe was a be loved figure at the world trade center. >> these windows we do by hand. and observation deck building two. >> a lot of people like to do golf or something to relax and take their mine off things. my father's hobby was his job -- take their mind off things. my father's hobby was his job. >> his son vincent remembers how he loved being up there. >> good morning! >> there was times he threw his hands up in the air and said i'm the king of the world trade center. because he felt like he was always on top of it was like his, like he owned it. >> i can see upstate new york from here, look connecticut!

>> then came the horror of 9/11. >> i turn on the radio and every radio station was talking about it. and they said it hit tower one. i know my father was in tower two. right away i started calling my mother and kept driving to work. my mom said don't worry he's in the other tower he's going to be fine. 15, 20 minutes later, i found out the second tower got hit. called my mom again. she was on the line with my dad and didn't pick up. i called again and she picked up because they got disconnected. she said daddy is okay. daddy i just got off the phone he said he's on the 105th floor. >> rocco couldn't get down. >> he's gone but not forgotten and he won't be forgotten, not by any of us that knew him and loved him. i'm looking forward myself to when they finish it. >> the family will always

think of their father when they see the gleaning towers of the new world trade center. in a way the centerpiece of this site, its heart and soul will be the memorial plaza and museum. what they will look like, what will be on display and yes, the controversy surrounding them, when we return. (waterfall) kevin are you sure this is okay? in the distance: hey, yall! run! go! i was just going to ask what they were biting on. right now bass pro shops gives you three chances to win plus $3 shipping at basspro.com.

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