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super bowl? >> that's a great way to describe it. it is the super bowl. everything comes together. by the time voting ends on november 5th, they'll good through about 1.5 million ballots a day. so many ballots they weigh about the same as two 747s. >> we don't overprint anything. so every step as we go through, we print exactly what the counties ask for. >> reporter: and every single ballot is tracked throughout the process. >> and it's also taking a picture of each envelope and checking the thickness. so we can make sure we have all the pieces accounted for. >> reporter: what's to stop someone from copying one of your ballots? >> it's got to be on the right paper. the tolerances to cut a ballot are shockingly tight. there are three decimal places. and it's not 8 1/2 by 11 sheets of paper. >> reporter: the kind, thickness and color of the paper can vary by the machine tabulating the ballot which varies by county. so does the design and layout of the ballot itself. states all across the country have paper ballots.
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95% of all voters including all of the voters in all of the swing states will vote on paper ballots. those paper ballots are auditable. they're verifiable. >> we recently started selling panic buttons to counties because of all the threats to poll workers. counties say we're trying to find a way to solve this problem. >> reporter: how many panic buttons have you sold? >> right around a thousand to different counties. >> reporter: that's a lot of panic buttons. >> there is a lot of concern. >> reporter: it really is crunchtime inside this facility right now. they're running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, printing, sorting, packing these ballots. they want the get them out the door, in the mail and to you when you need them. one of those ballots found its way to georgina caruso in buckeye, arizona. did you know the ballot is printed here in arizona? >> i would hope so. >> reporter: we met her. she was about to drop her ballot off at a polling place. didn't want to risk it getting lost in the mail.
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>> i mean, i did it for myself. i chose what i thought was good for me. >> reporter: and while election day means the end of runback's busiest stretch, it also marks the start of runoff season and the need to crank up those sounds of democracy to ready new ballots all over again. i'm kris van cleave in phoenix. more than a month after hurricane helene devastated parts of western north carolina, some towns remain cut off by washed out roads and bridges. and thousands of residents are still without clean water to drink, bathe, or cook with. skyler henry played a visit to asheville, north carolina the day before the storm hit for a story on a famous local chef. she has now been forced to find a new way to feed her community. ♪ >> reporter: when floodwaters receded in asheville, north carolina, chef ashleigh shanti was here to help her community
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rise, hosting these fish fries. there is a lot of community around fish fry. >> you know, that's something i grew up. with my parents' first date was at a fry spot call chic a sea. >> reporter: and from her parents, shanti learned her love of cooking. >> i still have my first burn mark on my arm from grabbing that cornbread out of the oven. >> reporter: while still in her 20, she earned a star turn on "top chef" and one of the 16 black chef changing food in america. all before even opening her own restaurant, good hot fish earlier this year. >> very diy. my partner and i calking until 3:00 in the morning so we could pass inspection. >> reporter: shanti's wife megan also made the art on the walls of the restaurant here in their adopted hometown of asheville. has it always been welcoming? >> of course not, you know. i check a lot of boxes. i'm gay, i'm black, i'm a woman,
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and i exist in a kitchen. >> reporter: and shortly after opening, someone cut the power to the restaurant while customers were inside and left a sticker on the door. >> and the sticker said "how to ruin a white city." and it had a hand above this building with a swastika on the hand, and it was like a pepper shaker. and it was shake out the word -- i was pretty shocked. i was pretty shocked. i knew that the community of asheville was going to -- >> reporter: had your back? >> yeah, they had my back. that's something even through the fear, i remember i have some really good people here. >> reporter: but what a racist vandal couldn't take away, the forces of nature almost did. rain was already soaking asheville when we visited. the same week shanti's eatery earned an elite spot among "the new york times'" 50 best restaurants in america,
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hurricane helene nearly destroyed her dream. ironically, it's a lack of running water that kept good hot fish closed for nearly a month. but the faucets are turning back on. >> thank you. >> reporter: so now with these outdoor fish fries and in a new book cookbook, shanti is sharing her unique culinary approach. afro-lacchian. i'm tired of being called a southern chef. what does that mean? the south is so vast. my food is not the same as what they cook in the delta region or the food that we cook here in southern appalachia is far different from the food i low country. when we're talking about cooking locally, it's about what grows in this region. and that's what's important. and typically meat is -- >> the supporting character. >> it's the supporting character, exactly. >> reporter: in her new cookbook, shanti shares the recipe for one of her best-sellers. >> our good hot fish sweet
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potato cabbage pancak. >> so what is all this? >> we have rice flour. we want a nice fluffy pancake. corn meal, a nod to the south, of course. >> all right. let's put it together. ♪ get all the lumps out. >> you know. you know something about cooking. >> reporter: i try. >> time for the flip. >> reporter: but she was about to turn up the heat. >> i have a job for you. >> reporter: talk to me. >> toast some nori sheets for us. it's going to be easy. >> reporter: easy for her, maybe. >> all right. blow it out. it's your first time. let's do another one. >> reporter: but once we got it right -- -- that's really good! >> thanks. i mean, i told you. >> reporter: but that was the last meal cooked in the kitchen at good hot fish until it's slated to reopen next week. for now shanti is focused on these fish fries. >> how y'all doing? >> reporter: finding a more filling way to serve her community. i'm skyler henry in asheville, north carolina.
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behind the numbers, researchers also say they found an alarming rise in diagnoses among asian american women. elizabeth cook reports on what may be behind this troubling trend. >> reporter: for five years, vicky ni has been battling lung cancer, a diagnosis that came out of the blue after she went to a doctor for pain in her shoulder. >> he was taking x-rays of my neck, and it was only by chance that the bottom corner of the x-ray showed a raised diaphragm. >> reporter: what were you thinking when they said you have lung cancer? >> i was stunned beyond words. >> reporter: the 54-year-old lawyer and mother of two is now part of a medical mystery. lung cancer in nonsmoking adult asian americans had been rising an average of 2% a year for more than a decade before ni received her diagnosis. >> i assumed that i would get chemo and beat it.
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it was only later when i met with an oncologist that i learned that i was stage 4, and therefore incurrable. >> reporter: a study by leading california medical centers found that 57% of asian women diagnosed with lung cancer are nonsmokers. for all others, only 15% of the women diagnosed had no history of smoking. you didn't grow up in an area that there was a lot of air pollution? >> no. >> reporter: you weren't exposed to any cancer-causing chemicals? >> not to my knowledge. >> reporter: and as a nonsmoker, she wasn't eligible to be screened for lung cancer. >> currently screening guidelines drive what's covered under insurance. >> reporter: scarlet gomez and iona chang, epidemiologists at the university of san francisco were awarded a nearly $12.5 million grant from the national cancer institute.
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>> some of the factors we're looking at include exposure to secondhand smoke, high exposure to cooking oil fumes is an established risk factor. >> reporter: and why asian american women specifically? why not asian men? is there a hormonal component to this? >> there is some suggestion based on cellular studies, just in the past year showing that a particular genetic mutation may predispose people to be more vulnerable to levels of air pollution. >> reporter: at the heart of the mystery is the fact that we are but why are women like vicky ni getting sick while others are not. >> we always wondered is there something we can do to diagnosis them earlier. >> reporter: at new york university's perlmutter cancer center, dr. elaine schumm is randomly screening one thousand asian women for free. >> we are definitely going to need a much larger study to really provide the evidence to try to change the guidelines one day so that other populations
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can be offered low-dose ct scans by insurance companies. >> reporter: detection that will come too late for vicky ni and her husband david to prevent advanced cancer. >> like any cancer, it affects the whole family. i'm sorry. >> reporter: but could offer hope to spare other families that same pain. for "eye on america," i'm elizabeth cook in san francisco. >> stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.
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♪ >> reporter: in the nation's oldest opera house, seats for this performance cost less than a movie ticket. opera philadelphia is launching a pick your price model with tickets starting at just $11 as they try to lure more diverse and younger audiences. >> elitism has for too long been associated with opera. >> if it's your first time, will you make some noise for me? [ applause ] >> reporter: anthony castanzo, a legendary vocalist who is the new philadelphia opera director. >> most people don't like opera. we have to be honest about the fact that our culture has no relationship in opera in general. before pick your price launched, only 30% of our opera house is full for the entire season to our entire season being almost sold out. we sold over 10,000 tickets in three and a half weeks. >> reporter: though the biggest indicator of success, he says, 68% of the ticket sales were by first time opera goers, like desi miles. >> i expect to be mind blown.
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>> reporter: miles, a philly native enjoys pop, jazz, and classical music and is an aspiring opera aficionado. >> just knowing i got great deal, great seat, a great show for $11 makes me excited roar to win over a new audience, the opera is featuring a show that is quite at home in this battleground election state. composer missy mazoli's the listeners about the impact of charismatic leaders and how they corral people who seek a group or a place to belong. >> whatever side of the political spectrum you're on, we're lost a sense of community as a nation an as individuals. that's core of this opera, wanting to explore that, not from any perspective, showing the good and the bad of being part of an insular extreme community. >> reporter: this production is a homecoming for mizzoli, who grew up in the disturbance outside of philadelphia. she hopes the pricing model and an opera in english will be the perfect duet to make opera more
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accessible. >> my job as composer is to make this understandable and make this work, and make this moving for people coming from any sort of musical background. >> reporter: and now in philadelphia, the highest barriers to entry cost, and intimidation are coming down. >> you will be welcomed whether you are glamorous and dressed up in your best outfit, or whether you came in your jeans and your flip-flops. and we want everybody to feel welcome. that's the fun of it. >> reporter: i'm scott macfarlane in philadelphia. and that's today's cbs news roundup. reporting from new york city, i'm shanelle kaul.
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hello, and thank you so much for staying up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are the top storie on "cbs news roundup." final push. former president donald trump and vice president kamala harris make their arguments to voters in a presidential race that's dead even in the polls. trump's close ally steve allan is back on the scene after spending four months in prison. and israeli air strikes in israel kill dozens, many of them women and children. with just weeks to go before election day, vice president harris delivered her campaign's closing argument in washington, d.c. on tuesday night. while former president donald trump was in florida and pennsylvania on damage control following his controversial rally over the weekend. cbs' natalie brand has more on this from washington.
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>> reporter: vice president kamala harris promised to put country above party as she spoke to tens of thousands of her supporters on the national mall, with a backdrop of the white house. >> it is time for a new generation of leadership in america. >> reporter: this is the same spot where former president donald trump spoke on january 6th, 2021 before a group of his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol. the harris campaign says it chose the location for the symbolism and to strike a contrast. >> donald trump has spent a decade trying to keep the american people divided and afraid of each other. that is who he is, but america, i am here tonight to say that is not who we are. >> reporter: tuesday, her campaign also took over the las vegas sphere in battleground nevada, and she sat for interviews with local tv stations in pennsylvania. the keystone state offers the biggest electoral prize of the
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battlegrounds, and a new cbs news ugov poll shows the race was tied. the poll was taken sunday before racist overtones of a comedian speaking at his event. >> it was a lovefest, and it was my honor to be involved. >> trump defended the madison square garden rally and said in an interview he didn't know the comedian. tuesday night he rallied in allentown, pennsylvania, a majority latino city where puerto ricans make up nearly a third of the population. >> kamala, you're fired. get out, get out of here. you're fired. >> reporter: several latino speakers made direct appeals to puerto rican voters. [ speaking in spanish ] >> reporter: more than 50 million americans have now voted early, including a record-shattering 3 million in georgia. natalie brand, cbs news, washington. just in time before election
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day, steve bannon, a key trump ally is free from prison. bannon reported to a federal prison in connecticut in july to serve a four-month sentence for contempt of congress after refusing to cooperate with the house january 6th committee. after release on tuesday, he immediately began pushing unfounded conspiracy theories. cbs' scott macfarlane reports. >> reporter: with just days remaining in a viciously fought election, former president donald trump just got one of his most bare knuckled fighters back. >> steve very committed. he is a friend of mine. >> reporter: former trump white house aide steve ballmer, seen in this blurry photo during his early morning release from the danbury, connecticut federal prison. and bannon picked up right where he left off, immediately returning to his audience of tens of thousand of viewers and listeners and began planting seeds to challenge the 2024 results. >> they want to at least delegitimize his victory. >> reporter: bannon said he is going the urge trump to address the nation on election night, even if results aren't clear or
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final. >> at 11:00 at night, not at 2:30 in the morn and explain to the american people where the voting is, right? where the voting is, and what's to come, what is still outstanding. the american people, quite frankly, were quite confused in 2020. >> reporter: that has echos of the chaos of four years ago. the house january 6th committee accused bannon of urging trump to declare victory before that election as heard in this leaked audio. >> what trump is going to do is he is going to declare victory. he is going declare victory. >> reporter: january 6th comittee member zoe lofgren. >> he is not a patriot. he is someone who is against america, and our american system of government. >> reporter: bannon says he taught civics and government to the other inmates in federal prison in connecticut during the four months, and he did not say if he is willing to or has been asked to appear at trump rallies over this final week. scott macfarlane, cbs news, new york. it was a terrifying evening
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in midtown atlanta on tuesday as multiple rounds of gunfire erupted from the upper floors of a luxury hotel. a man barricaded himself inside his room and began firing from the balcony. cbs' dave malkoff was outside the scene atlanta's four seasons hotel. >> reporter: locked down in midtown atlanta. police issuing a shelter in place warning after an armed man believed to be having a mental health emergency had an argument with a staff member at the four seasons residences. he then barricaded himself inside his apartment on the 33rd floor and opened fire. >> while the efforts were under way to negotiate a peaceful surrender, he began firing a weapon. we believe at this time at least three different weapons were fired during the course of this event. >> reporter: one officer was taken to a local hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. the man has been identified as
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70-year-old jay steven burger. at one point, he could be seen throwing objects over his balcony, including one of his weapons. eventually, police observed him raising his hands to surrender. >> medical assistance was prepped, and then our s.w.a.t. team did breach the door, did enter the apartment and was able to take the individual into custody. >> reporter: former michelle obama who was speaking here in the metro thursday night was scheduled to stay in this very hotel, but according to sources at cbs, it's now being told secret service has made alternate plans. in midtown atlanta, i'm dave malkoff, cbs news. another bloody day in the middle east. gaza's hamas-run health ministry says at least 88 palestinians are dead following a pair of israeli air strikes in northern gaza on tuesday. palestinian civil services says
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at least 60 people were killed in a strike on this five-story residential building alone. more than half of them women and children. a state department spokesman describes the strikes as ho horrifying. israel has escalated air strikes claiming it's rooting out hamas. the intense fighting is raising alarms about deteriorating humanitarian conditions in gaza for hundreds of thousands of palestinians caught in the conflict. when "cbs news roundup" continues, we'll take you to the battleground state of pennsylvania to talk with puerto rican voters about the controversial comments that former president donald trump's new york city rally. stay with us. hall of fame defensive back, darrell green, for health playbook. i'm with 2018 lacrosse national champion kristen gaudian, for the fda's don't get burned sunscreen challenge. ready for a little one on one? bring it, darrell! hey, she's tough, but i won't get burned today.
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i'm shanelle kaul in new york. one week from the presidential election, and polls now show the battle for the white house remains neck and neck. the election will likely be decided in seven battleground states. one of them is pennsylvania. the state has the largest concentration of puerto rican voters outside new york, and recent comments at a trump rally are not helping the former president. a nationwide poll taken before that rally showed 62% of latino voters backing vice president kamala harris, while 36% support former president donald trump. so how will those jokes on a stage in madison square garden impact this key group of voters? lilia luciano went to pennsylvania to find out. >> reporter: philadelphia has the second largest puerto rican population outside of the island itself. so when comic tony hinchcliffe made this joke at a donald trump rally in new york sunday night -- >> there is literally a floating island of garbage in the middle
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of the ocean right now. yeah. i think it's called puerto rico. >> reporter: it left many locals livid. >> the island mean a lot to me, and not only to me, to all us puerto ricans that live here in the mainland. >> reporter: janine has lived in philadelphia for 20 years. she says she was leaning voting for trump until now. >> it was a day that changed everything. i finally said no. i have to be on the right side of history. >> we will not stand for that type of rhetoric. >> reporter: michael toledo is the president and ceo of a century hispano in redding, a nonprofit that gets latinos to the polls. >> in redding, latinos make up the majority of the city. they're appalled. they've expressed anger, and, you know, again, i believe a sleeping giant has been awoken. >> reporter: in a statement, a trump very adviser says this joke does not reflect the views of president trump or the campaign. inside this local shop, we met
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business owner arturo mariscal. he voted for trump twice, and said when he heard about the comment, he was ready to change his vote to harris until he learned it wasn't trump himself who said it. >> translator: he should have come out and said yo, stop this. stop it. we're not doing it. >> if it happen like, he should have came right then. he was there. he was there. >> he should come right out and say no, that's not true. >> exactly. >> he didn't. >> reporter: for puerto ricans who are not u.s. citizens living on the island do not get to vote for the president. but that doesn't mean their voices are not heard. they have many relatives in communities living in the 50 states. in fact, there are more puerto ricans living on the continental u.s. than on the island of puerto rico, and they have their families in mind. lilia luciano, cbs news,
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♪ ♪ this ain't texas, ain't no hold 'em ♪ >> reporter: out in the lone star state, author john steinbeck famously said "texas is a state of mind, it's proud, pioneering and just plain big." like the generous breakfast servings here at honor cafe just outside of houston in montgomery county. one of the more reliably red counties in the state. the restaurant is a community staple, serving and saluting veterans and their families, owned by retired marine chris sadler. what is the biggest issue for you? and who you voting for? >> well, i'm a conservative. i've been a republican since i was young, and i'll vote that way. i'm a businessman. i have a business in the united states of america. we've seen detriment to our monthly revenue here because families are hurting because of the economy. and that first notch in the belt is restaurants and movie theaters. >> have you noticed your food
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prices? are they going up? are they fluctuating? >> so when we opened this place four years ago, we used up 30-pound case of chicken breasts that case cost $48. that case today costs me about $170 a case. >> reporter: higher menu prices haven't stopped diana and her friends from dining in. >> i am voting republican. and the big issue is immigration. they come in. they get money. they get health care. they get cell phones. they get housing. they get food. our crime has gone up. you know what? come to this country, fine and dandy, but do it legally. >> reporter: sitting nearby was vietnam navy veteran james hopper, a regular whose voting for trump and likes his coffee likes he likes his leaders. >> strong. >> i think the big issue is to get our country back to the way it used to be where there was trust between people, trust
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between our elected officials. >> reporter: ronald reagan and tip o'neill used to go at it. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: but afterwards, they'd share a drink together. >> that's right. >> reporter: do you think we'll ever go back to that where the loyal opposition won't be mortal enemies? >> i think if we don't, we're in a world of hurt. and i'd use a different word if we weren't on tv. >> reporter: a sailor word? >> it's a sailor word. >> reporter: we are all wrapped up here in conroe. we are now headed to college station, texas, a little bit more than an hour away, home of texas a&m university, the fighting a guys. a lot of maroon there, and that county is turning purple. ♪ so we stop by the famous dixie chicken in college station. the late-night spot knows how to serve up a good time, bringing in college students like braden
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baylor and joshua hutchens, who just got back from preparing for the aggie bonfire. so this is your first election. who are you going to vote for? >> as of right now i'm voting for trump. and i'll be the first one to admit i am not a fan of trump as man. >> i agree. i think trump opens his mouth too much. but he stands for a lot of the values i have. >> reporter: we are full here in college station, and our next stop, austin and the home of the university of texas at austin. but first, a quick stop at bucee's for a snack. beef jerky and a t-shirt. two hours later, we made to it hu hu hueros taco bar. after a few too many tacos, i
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sat down. is there an issue that motives you to vote? >> i don't want to be in a country of hate and division and retribution. i feel like the country has been so divided that another trump term would ruin this country. >> reporter: do you think texas could ever be a battleground state? >> i think it's getting there. i think the issue of abortion is helping that. >> reporter: it was the deciding factor for voter natalie nicholas. >> i'll be voting for kamala for sure. >> reporter: what would it mean for you to have the first female president? >> for me it kind of feels like it's about time that you have somebody who represents half the country leading. >> reporter: but some leaders like dellroy perrin are still on the fence, even with days to go. have you made up your mind who you're going to vote for? >> no. >> reporter: not at all? are you leaning one way or the other? or are you -- what are your options here? >> not voting at all. >> reporter: what's your biggest hope that happens for the country after this election? >> i mean, i feel like whoever is elected, i mean, i think we
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all need to stand behind them, whatever that outcome is. it needs to be a sense of unity. >> reporter: a little perspective here. donald trump won texas in 2016 by nine points. in 2020, that was 6 1/2 points. we're expecting that trend to continue, but we don't know what the margin is, but we do know the stakes will be higher because texas went from 38 to 40 electoral votes, and we all know that electoral tally is important during election time. >> that was our omar villafranca in texas. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" w
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all right. in rome, one of the wonders of the ancient world has been returned to its former watery glory after more than a thousand years. cbs' chris livesay has more. >> reporter: it span morse than a million square feet and soars 13 stories into the sky. the baths of carcala were one of the most luxurious spas the world has ever known. and now, for the first time in some 1500 years, water is back. visitors can see and hear it flowing like it did in ancient times, says director marella sur lorenzi. there is even mist of steam that filled the heats rooms. the baths could house 8,000 romans with plumbing unmatched in the ancient world. amy schroeder and matthew are
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tourists and engineers from idaho. >> it's still standing today. i'd be god enough to make something still standing 2,000 years later. >> reporter: at its peak, it can hold two million gallons of water making it the biggest standing monument in roam and inspiring some of the biggest and finest works of architecture in the united states. union station in chicago, grand central in new york, each inherited the grand arches, vaulted ceilings and lavish spaces of rome's public baths. it even boasted two libraries and spaces for performing arts. ♪ today there is ballet. and in the summer, opera. but for the first time since the
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